[spectre] Nullpointer / Slub / Added to lineup

[Tom Holley]

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Ultrasound 2005 / Mon 21 - Sat 26 Nov 2005 /
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http://www.ultrasound.ws
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Two more performances added to the lineup:
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Nullpointer / UK / Fri 25 Nov / 10pm /
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Venue: The Media Centre
Free

Tom Betts is an artist, programmer, composer and
performer living in Penistone, West Yorkshire.
He is amongst the most prolific and versatile
artists practising in the field of digital and
interactive media. He specialises in generative
programming techniques; his creative output
includes interactive music games, computer game
modifications, installations, software, live
music performances, musical composition and his
experimental pop band, Weevil.

Tom has performed at Ultrasound twice before;
a Nullpointer set 'Pixelmap' in 2002 and in
2003 Tom performed several pieces written on
Nintendo Gameboy hardware. All the tracks were
composed and performed using Nanoloop, a
realtime synthesis sequencer for the Gameboy.
As with the majority of Tom's performances he
performed with his collaborater Jonny Pilcher.
In 2004 Ultrasound presented an installation
of the generative net.radio station, rand()%,
a collobaration between Tom Betts and Joe
Gilmore.

Tom is currently part of a research group at
The University of Huddersfield, where he also
teaches on the BA [Hons.] Computer Games Design
and Virtual Reality and Animation courses.

www.nullpointer.co.uk
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Slub / UK / Sat 26 Nov / 10pm /
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Venue: The Media Centre
Free

Ultrasound is delighted to welcome back one of
the most popular and widely acclaimed laptop
performance duo's of recent years. Slub performed
to a rapturous audience in Huddersfield during
the first Ultrasound Festival in 2002.

Slub sound emerges from slub software; melodic
and chordal studies, generative experiments and
beat processes.  Process-based sonic
improvisations; live generative music using hand
crafted and live coded apps and scripts in networked
synchrony.  With roots in UK electronica and tech
culture, slub build their own software
environments for creating music in realtime. Only
custom composition and DSP software is used.

Everything you hear is formed by human minds.

For Ultrasound 2005 slub will improvise a loosely
scored set of bytes, integers, floating point
numbers and other structures using exciting and
largely chaotic technologies that are too tedious
to explain here. Their screens will be projected
so that the audience are able to see their live
software development process, which will not adhere
to industry quality control standards and will not
feature a rigorous testing framework. They will
communicate using OSC over UDP and eyebrow gestures.
The output will range from extra slow gabba,
through intelligent ambient to acid blues glitch.

Slub have performed widely across Europe
including Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Sonar Barcelona,
Club Transmediale Berlin, leplacard London and
Ultrasound Huddersfield.

Alex McLean is a member of slub, Reader in Arts
Computing at Goldsmiths College, London and
programmer for the state51 conspiracy.  He
co-organises the dorkbotlondon meetings of
people doing strange things with electricity,
helps run the runme.org software art repository,
and is a founder member of TOPLAP, the Temporary
Organisation for the Promotion of Live Algorithm
Programming.

Adrian Ward is a member of slub, software artist
and system administrator. He divides his time
between commercial, academic and artistic practices
and has been running his eclectic company Signwave
from London for six years, using it as an excuse
to do whatever he feels, whenever he likes. He
is a member of TOPLAP, did Grade 4 on the trumpet,
and likes weird electronic noises.

http://slub.org
http://yaxu.org
http://www.adeward.com
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