Rolling Visual Audio

Rob Adlington is a Digital Artist working in Design and Animation and founder of Looking Sound, the live audio/visual night. For this years Collective 98 he goes analog with the Rolling Visual Audio.

Rolling Visual Audio is the latest fusion of art, music, digital visuals and audience participation from Looking Sound. A truly unique experience producing an hour long audio visual recording and a 50m roll of artwork infused with the collective imagination of the Hackney WickED festival community.

The live event happens around a bespoke moving canvas installation that lets artists and musicians collaborate side by side whilst capturing, remixing and projecting their work to an audience who influence the performers by submitting their written response to the performance in person or via twitter.

http://vimeo.com/user7595869

Francesca Ter-Berg

Francesca Ter-Berg, is one of the leading Klezmer cellists of her generation. She has studied klezmer, Roma and Arabic music and Ragas with top international teachers including Ahmed Mukhtar, Tcha Limberger, Dr. Alan Bern and Dr Jyotsna Srikanth. She has collaborated with many of London’s top artists including acclaimed folk singers Sam Lee, Katy Carr and Lisa Knapp, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Riz MC and Talvin Singh. Francesca is currently also Creative Programmer for the Jewish Music Institute at SOAS, London.

Gaelle Berton

A Interaction Designer, Director and live artist. Weaving images out of collaborations with musicians and performers with interactive audiovisual pieces; she has created apps to connect their music, moves and voice to her visual realm, through live interactive stage performances or interactive user driven Augmented Reality apps, in situ or online,  in Paris, Berlin, London and Tokyo. Lately she has taken on Interactive movie making, allying creative coding knowledge and her Photography talent for a unique touch with her first short movie 'Transported' released in 2013, and the Musion commission Antiform 2014

Zentric Bau

Dam Bau & Bioni Samp combine the ancient sounds of nature & ethnic with the electronic sound of the present day to create the present & the presence of nowness. Using sitar, tambura, bass, surmandal, Tibetan prayer bowls, kettle drum, dam bau, synths, drum synths, circuit bent - keyboards, drum machines - handmade devices.

Blind Minded

Blind Minded is a producer and eclectic artist based in London UK. Drum & bass and hard-techno production at raves in Italy provide the back-drop for the progression of Blind Minded to his current calibre of high-energy, melodic and distinctive sound.
Moving to London in 2006 paved the way for his first Techno release, a remix of Italoboyz’s ‘Body and Soul’ on Trapez Ltd, proceeded by various solo releases on Trapez Ltd, Moon Harbour Recordings and My Favourite Robot. He has remixed tracks for various artists including ‘Sex, Drug, Dance’ by BNZO, which was featured on the Circo Loco Compilation ‘The Next Level’ (2011). His collaboration with the Italoboyz has continued and they now jointly own and run the record label Superfiction Recordings (2012). Six dynamic releases later, Superfiction Recordings is going onwards and upwards, running characterful showcase parties in East London and continuing to platform individual music collaboration and facilitation, ‘without the rigidity of pre-determined concepts and corporate agendas’.
The latest Superfiction Recordings release ‘Episode 6’, features Blind Minded’s funky and melodious track Champagne Kisses, which has been received by storm and turned the heads of many DJs and producers, including the likes of Carl Cox who is looking to include the track on a compilation for Space Ibiza, out later in 2014. ‘Sti-Drumsy’ a collaborative work between Blind Minded and the Italoboyz was also featured in Kerri Chandler’s Watergate 15 compilation in early 2014.
For Blind Minded, playing live is what enables a fusion of his creativity, spontaneity, ability to tailor dynamic performance to each crowd, and his own pure enjoyment. Performing live as a resident at Lo*kee, a well-acclaimed underground party in East London and other parties and events on a regular basis has built a platform for Blind Minded to be credited as a unique and spontaneous artist, who “will put a smile on your face”. Over the past few years Blind Minded has played at the world-famous Fabric and Egg clubs in London, Kater-Holzig in Berlin, and held a Superfiction Recordings showcase (at which he played live) at the infamous KoKo in Camden Town with sell-out success.

June 2013 saw Blind Minded feature in the MoonHarbour Recordings showcase at Sonar-Off, and in December 2013 travel to Sri Lanka to play at the 32 Degrees beach festival and Curious Groove party in Colombo. Blind Minded’s next adventure leads him to South America in November 2014, where he will be touring for several months transporting his detailed and quirky influence, and soaking up inspiration from across the ocean.

He also worked as a producer for the theatrical play “All workers goes to heaven” presented by The Romanian Cultural Institute in 2012 and performed live with the theremin at Grad gallery for Russian art and design in 2014.

www.blindminded.com

Charlotte Norwood

Working in video, installation and sound, Charlotte Norwood creates construction sites of metaphorical forms that interrogate the dialogism between aesthetics and language by the experimental use of theory. 

She will be showing her installation Or Degrees (the grafter):

Or Degrees (the grafter)’ is comprised of two videos, designed to sit either next to or opposite one another. Each video begins simultaneously. Being shown on each projector or television screen is the recording of a randomly chosen participant deciphering the written Morse coded text “without enough constraints to make possible, abstractions will always only be what you understand in that time to be” using a wooden boat oar. Without any other given direction, each participant interprets the text differently and takes different lengths of time to do so.
Screening each interpretation simultaneously creates a competitive atmosphere. It’s in this debate, not only of personality and creativity, but of interpretations found in the sound of the multiple layers of banging which, with no authoritative voice creates the democratic realm in which the degrees, or location of “or” is found. A momentary “x” made from the oar hitting the floor and the shadow it casts, marks a point in a process of realisation of the ‘'abstraction’' described in the text spelled out. Through translating the inscription of the text, these variations transform the objective rhythm Morse code is dependant on to reveal language a tool of pure subjectivity, whilst the positioning of each screen opposite one another further troubles the relationship between signal and miscommunication.
As the irregular banging evokes those working in mines, “the grafter” (also referring to the burden of philosophers) highlights our inability to escape the need to constantly resolve or de-code abstractions in order to understand them, whilst the ridiculousness of the oar, which if used to get anywhere will only lead you round in circles, and help of a dead pan face, ridicules any attempt as mere guesswork. Commenting on the fleeting recuperation of our understanding of abstractions and from those to the next, ‘Or degrees (the grafter)’ uses a curiously light humour to question subjectivities derived from incidental communication.

Diarmo & L'Aubaine

Diarmo & L’Aubaine is the live Audio/Visual collaboration project between Diarmuid Slattery and Laurie Bender.
The performance consists of Diarmo playing his own electronic productions live, using Ableton and various midi controlling hardware's and effects, while l'Aubaine is controlling her self produced visuals loaded into modul8 with added effects, all controlled via midi controllers, played in sequence to Diarmo's live electronic music.
Since 2010 they've collaborated on live audiovisual performances, l'Aubaine has produced videos for some ofDiarmo's music, also graphics, artwork/covers for Basilar Records the label setup by Diarmo.

L'Aubaines visuals are evolving compositions, audio-reactive, created live, flowing with the crowd and the music. All elements are self-produced, mixing different techniques, as hand-drawn animation, vectorial design, drawing, typography, photography and video.

Diarmo produces deep electronic music, taking influences from a wide range of styles and influenced heavily by early 90's. His DJ/Live sets blends a mix of deep minimal techno, house and bass. You can catch his DJ sets on his fortnightly radio show "Vibrant Sound" on Shoreditch Radio (London).
Diarmo : www.diarmo.co.uk 
l'Aubaine: www.laubaine.net

Diarmo & L'Aubaine @ LPM 2013 | Rome: vimeo.com/68944462 
Diarmo & l'Aubaine - Live Audiovisuals (promo video): vimeo.com/47963348

Hayden Anyasi

Hayden Anyasi is an interactive media artist from London. He is a founder of V4Wednesday and the producer of this years's Collective 98 show at Grow in Hackney Wick.

Barbora Patkova

Babsical Babs in a local musician who will be singing with Saturday evening's feature act, Heliocentrics.

Petro

Petro is a  graffiti writer with over 25 years of experience behind him, still innovating and experimenting like he did in his youth.

Petro takes over Grow for its launch on Friday the 1st August 2014.

http://theallotment2011.tumblr.com/

Gareth Griffiths

Gareth Griffiths is a digital interactive artist, director of Uberact and a founding member of V4Wednesday.

Térence Baude

Térence Baude is an artist and jewellery from France.

Lu Lyndon

Lu Lyndon is a London based artist who works with illustration, photo media, mixed media, performance and video. Producing still and moving images that aim to engage the viewer with timeless, iconic, minimalist pieces. Playing with strange aesthetics, Lyndon’s work often incorporates elements of surrealism and expressionism.

Collaborating with various members of the performance art world, Lyndon has produced and contributed to a wide ranging body of work in performance, documentation and video art.

Selected Exhibitions


2014 ‘Luminaries’ The Lab @ The V&A, London February 2014

2013 ‘Luminaries’ Lab Film festival, Mother Gallery, London June 2013

2012 ‘Luminaries’ Hackney Wick Film Festival, London 2012

2012 ‘Joy Beyond Life and Death’, ‘East Pop Red’ Red Gallery, London.

2012 An Evening of Artists Films and Performance' Sugarhouse Studios, Stratford, London 2012: Joy Beyond Life and Death (Short film)

2012 Hackney Wicked ‘Retrospex’ an exhibition that reflecting the components that have built the wick collective conscience from 2008 to date:
Joy Beyond Life and Death (Short film)

2012 An Evening of Artists Films and Performance' Sugarhouse Studios, Stratford, London 2012: Joy Beyond Life and Death (Short film)

2010 Video Art commission ‘No Pain No Gain’ with Oriana Fox, shown at Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, London, November 2010.
Funded by Arts Council UK.

2009 Screening of ‘XXXX’ (Short film) ‘Angst’ Film Festival, Star & Shadow Cinema, October 2010, Newcastle.

2008 Beyond Film Festival, Durham: ‘Po Toulouse’ (Short film).

2008 Video loop ‘Ideal Government’ (group show) BALTIC, Gateshead UK.

2008 Film Screening ’July’,
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.