London's Southbank Centre to host festival about death
London’s Southbank Centre will host a festival about death this January. Although there is a musical side to Death: Southbank’s Centre for the Living (to give it its full title), with performances from Petra Jean Phillipson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Paul Gambaccini (spinning the nation’s favourite funeral music in Desert Island Death Discs), some [...]
The Boombox Project comes to London
The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko is a new exhibition presented by London’s Whisper gallery in collaboration with XOYO. The show is comprised of contemporary fine art portraits of, you guessed it, vintage boomboxes. Lyle Owerko is an acclaimed New York-based filmmaker and photographer, whose credits include making music videos for Rufus Wainwright and shooting [...]
Lomography presents cocktails & cameras at The Social
A new collaboration between L.T.D. @ The Social and Lomography brings together cocktails and cameras. Beginning earlier in October 2011, for three months only The Social is playing host to L.T.D., a “bar experiment” where the drinkers’ choices of drink are restricted to just one carefully chosen brand of each key spirit (gin, vodka, rum, [...]
Austra kick off Beck's Green Box Project
Domino-signed synth-poppers Austra are kicking off the Beck’s Green Box Project. According to Beck’s they’ve made “an epic, pulsating choral score entitled ‘Subharmony’ that shapes surreal and abstract bubbles into a sonic sculpture unlike anything else the band have ever visually created”, inspired by video games and the sea. “I’ve always been drawn to the [...]
Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music at Science Museum
An exhibition looking at the birth of electronic music opens this Friday, 29 July, at London’s globally renowned Science Museum. Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music focusses primarily on the work of Daphne Oram, who helped establish the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (the organisation that also featured the likes of Delia Derbyshire and John [...]
Brighton's Outer Church presents Marble Hornets and new project from Old Apparatus
The July 14 edition of Brighton’s The Outer Church will feature the first UK screening of Marble Hornets: Season One. Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage’s immersive web series is based on the viral mythos surrounding the ominous entity known as Slender Man. Highly innovative and grimly compelling, Marble Hornets has already spawned a host of imitators, including the excellent EverymanHYBRID [...]
Simon Reynolds talks Retromania with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Bob Stanley and more
Esteemed music writer and occasional FACT contributor Simon Reynolds is in the UK this week and next to publicise his new book, Retromania. An erudite examination of “pop culture’s addiction to its own past”, it considers such phenomena as the hauntology of Ghost Box and The Caretaker, Ariel Pink and James Ferraro’s hypnagogic pop, the [...]