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Noise Of Art... Presents Deep Space Disco
Noise of Art will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket infoFor the last few years, DJ, writer and producer Ben Osborne has been organising electronic cultural interventions under the ‘Noise of Art’, moniker up and down the UK and at several festivals on the continent. Ben regularly delves into the Archive to find old films, digitise them and re score them with a growing band of musicians and DJs. In the past we have presented an array of early silent films with original rescores by a range of artists including Booka Shade, Laurent Garnier, Sebastian and Kavinsky, MANDY, DJ Mehdi, I:Cube, Fred Deakin, Nathan Fake, Chris Coco, A Man Called Adam and many others.
For 2008 Noise of Art has been working on a theme of technological advance and social continuity. And for the Big Chill show we’ve unearthed some other worldly footage from the early Soviet space programme, including the launch of the first sputnik, the first ever space walk, and some amusingly gruelling cosmonaut training. All of which looks more "sci fi" than any episode of Star Trek ever did. This visual footage will be mixed live by club visual artistes Overlap, Funkcutter and Kodek and set to a suitably Spacefunk soundtrack by Vector Lovers, Les Hommes Du Train/ Ben Osborne and a couple of very special guests. Add a battery of special effects and surprise performance artists from the Dress Up collective and we’ll probably go where no man has danced before...
Noise of Art - Biography
Noise of Art celebrates the convergence of musical and visual disciplines brought about by the digital age. A moveable feast, there are Noise of Art events throughout the year in different venues and across different countries. Some Press comments include:
"Turning the National Film Theatre into a riverside club and Tate Britain into a two floor dancefloor music venue indicates just how ambitious the organisers are as they seek to represent the clash and synergy of visuals and electronic music, silent films, live bands and whatever interactive artworks are when they’re not posing on the dancefloor." Time Out.
"Noise of Art... in which silent films provide the inspiration for digitally created music and art..."
The Guardian, Bigger Picture, Friday April 21, 2006.
"Sets out to celebrate the convergence of aural and visual art with a spectacular line-up of performances."
The Telegraph.co.uk
"Dancefloor mayhem with a proper line-up of cutting edge electronic music... live bands and DJs playing with films that range from 19th century reality TV, to mechanical biscuit factories and early horror films. Serious beats. Ridiculous fun."
Virtual Festivals.
Noise of Art will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Written: 6th Mar, 08
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