6-2-2011
Six participants and Alex jamming with the new software yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/6ehnlh6

Two videos from our first sonic event in July 2010.

Monika Dutta and David Mutch - Kindle

Video by Richard Bolam

http://www.youtube.com/embed/sXMs3hydzAs&feature=share

Neal Spowage - Ghetto Bastard

Video by Laurence Alexander

http://player.vimeo.com/video/14420772&feature=share

COMMONSense is a 62 page magazine, launched in 2010, created from submissions to a call for pieces which reflect a theme connecting the activities of Access Space to the wider world, “the commons”. We asked for prose (stories, thoughts, book reviews, bibliographies…), poetry, photographs, cartoons, drawings or graphics. It was edited by Dougald Hine, with art direction by Anne-Marie Culhane.

People sent us material relating to green issues, land ownership, social relations, the internet, copyright, software and a whole host of other subjects.

Download a pdf of COMMONSense here

Please feel free to distribute copies by electronic means.

Hard copies are available from Access Space for GBP 4.00 + GBP 1.50 P&P

Email jake@access-space.org Tel: +44 (0)114 249 5522

ISBN: 9780955009143

The publication is being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/)

A recent binary build of Neil C Smith's Open Source software, Praxis, along with the patch used for the performance at Sonic Event 2 in the video below is available from http://code.google.com/p/praxis/

Alex Mclean will be giving a workshop on his software, Tidal and Text, on 5th Feb.

Nice video by Richard Bolam of the performances by Alex McLean & Scott Hewitt, Neil C Smith and Dan Stowell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZfSWjcWAI&feature=share

In residence throughout January will be sound artist Will Scrimshaw.

His project, Spectral Influence, aims to explore the way in which the noises and lighting of the city we occupy influences our movements and emotional relations with urban space and the others we share this space with, Look out for ways to participate, workshops and other activities nearer the time.

http://willschrimshaw.net

In March and April we will be hosting Xnames's residency project, Noise_Objects in Public Space. Xname (Eleonora Oreggia) describes Noise_Objects as a series of sculptures made of recycled material, simple electronic components and micro circuits (using chip CMOS 4093, among others) which intertwine the hacker's philosophy - diy and intolerance towards closed systems - with the disruptive conceptual provocation of an art piece.

Look out for workshops and other activities in April.

http://xname.cc