This is LIVErpool: BigDog Interactive (www.bigdoginteractive.com) brings you the weird and wonderful from the electronics, computing, performance and art world scene. Interactive installations, digital live art, augmented instruments. With DJ Jazzbo of Liverpool.

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WHEN: September 3rd, 2008
WHERE: Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
OPEN: 8pm - Midnight

FEATURING:

Martyn Ware, MC, Illustrious Company & Future of Sound. Martyn, the founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, is one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples.

Future of Sound - www.futureofsound.org
Future of Sound is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a forum for the discussion of new and convergent art forms. By creating immersive experiences using state of the art sound technology Future of Sound showcases leading practitioners in the fields of music and audio design, collaborating with artists and scientists. Several extrodinary artists from the Future of Sound organisation will be performing at This is LIVErpool throughout the evening.

The Sancho Plan
Our work explores the real-time interaction between music and video and its potential for narrative and storytelling. Through the careful combination of animation, sound, music and interactive technology, we create fantastical worlds in which animated musical characters are triggered by a variety of electronic musical instruments and interfaces. Instantly engaging and universally understandable, our live AV performances and installations invite you to experience their playful interactive adventures. The Sancho Plan is an award-winning collaboration of writers, musicians, animators, designers and computer programmers, whose creative output has been shown in clubs, festivals, cinemas, theatres and on television and computer screens around the world.

Luciana Haill
Neurofeedback artist Luciana has over 15 years experience recording raw brainwaves (EEG) and an obsession with the Human Brain since recovering from Viral Meningitis as a teenager, utilising medical biofeedback technology to make music. Her current work involves a study of Lucid Dreaming in a retreat of Big Island of Hawaii, Brain biofeedback experiments and sonic augmentation through special "Lucy Tuning" techniques. Involving several Bluetooth EEG recordind interfaces particularly IBVA (Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyser) she records brainwaves virtually anywhere and arranges multimedia interactive controls and feedback. The blue headband (often seen on Luciana) contains medical electrodes detecting the EEG at the prefrontal cortex of her brain.

Sarah Nicolls - www.sarahnicolls.com
Recipient of the (re)Actor3 Artist in Residence Grant, sponsored by the Centre for Digital Music. Sarah is a pianist specialising in contemporary music. She has performed concerti with the London Sinfonietta, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, appeared in solo recital over a dozen times on Radio 3, winner of the British Contemporary Piano Competition 2000, shortlisted twice for the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award and received consistent critical acclaim since her South Bank debut in 2001. Sarah also plays with Mira Calix [Warp Records] and David Sheppard [Sound Intermedia] in Alexander's Annexe - a trio exploring the expansion of the grand piano with electronics and pre-recorded sound. Their album Push Door To Exit is available on Warp Records, the first release having sold out in 3 days last year.

Nick Rothwell [a.k.a. CASSIEL]
Nick is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer. He has spent many years working with choreographers and dance companies (Laurie Booth, Ballett Frankfurt, Russell Maliphant, Lea Anderson, Random Dance) and has worked on projects at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), TECHNE (Istanbul) and CIANT (Prague). He is a regular performer at Different Skies (Arcosanti, Arizona) and is currently working with Body>Data>Space in London. CASSIEL plays live sets of pulse-based electronica utilising a combination of vintage and custom-built, cutting edge technology: a Sequentix P3 analogue-style step sequencer trades blows with the highly experimental and unpredictable Shard Sequencer, a software plug- in which samples and fragments audio into layers of sharp-edged rhythmic slices, constantly changing speed and direction. The musical style shifts between Berlin-school electronica, soothing ambient, tribal and glitch, depending on whether the P3, the Shard, or the composer has the upper hand.

(re)Actor3 Hostesses
Detroit, Deb, Cathy & Tiff - Authoritative and informed, approachable and helpful, glamourous and gracious - they are there to help. Perhaps. As true and real to themselves as they can be, yet there is something of everyone in them. Look closely - like a living, breathing mirror they might just reflect back some part of you that you hadn't seen before. With years of experience doing what they do, they have appeared in previous incarnations as maids, air hostesses, catwalk models and even furry animals. But don't worry, this time they won't bite.

Sharewear - Di Susan Mainstone, Stock Stock and Simon de Bakker
A pair of reconfigurable, electronic dresses, Sharewear garments physically slot together to activate dramatic shards of light. Assembled and operated by spectators, the dresses merge the seam between performer and audience.

GoLImp IV - Kingsley Ash
Cellular automata are computer models of evolving life - simple rules of interaction leading to complex behaviour that can be used to model populations, crystal structures and possibly even the nature of the universe itself. A cell with too many neighbours will die of overcrowding; a cell with too few will die of loneliness, while just the right number of neighbours will cause a new cell to be born. These simple processes repeated over and over again for every cell in the space produce strange and beautiful patterns that evolve over time; building up, developing, repeating, or dying away. The performance is a live improvisation using new software consisting of a multi-layered grid of these cellular automata operating under their own rules to generate and process musical events.

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