BW )(: D.R.O.I.D - Only 2 weeks to go!

[sam at bristolwireless.net]

It is now only fourteen short days until the D.R.O.I.D event at Trinity!

If you want to get in for free, then turn up promptly at 5pm on Thursday the
14th at St Werburghs. You will get a ticket once you have completed a couple of
hours flyering duty. http://www.bristolwireless.net/wiki/index.php/ContactUs

Even if you cannot make it please forward this message to your friends and
networks.

There is even a Facebook group that you could use to tell your friends about the
event.

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Press Release
For immediate release

XtreamLab broadcast from Bristol to the world.

On: SAT 23rd FEB 2008
REAL LIFE VENUE: TRINITY, Old Market, BRISTOL
SECOND LIFE VENUE: Prados Azules
TIME: 8pm till late

The Bristol based Xtreamlab partnership will use Multiple cameras to capture the
D.R.O.I.D event from different perspectives. The stream will then be edited live
and streamed live to the world.

Before the signal from Trinity hits the internet, it will first bounce around
one one the largest free to access wireless networks in the country. The video
stream will then be broadcast live on the net to a digital audience in Second
Life, a live audience in Barcelona, and Worldwide.

The project breaks new ground in several ways;

* First time that a community owned wireless network has been used for
production-level digital performance.

* First time that a Second Life / Real Life clubbing experience of this nature
has ever been created.

* First time that DJ's have played live to a Bristol audience from another
country, via a on-line video stream.

The club event D.R.O.I.D; will be big and heavy. An extraordinary occasion
featuring a stellar cast of 21st century dance music from top draw live guests,
DJs and some virtual avatar stars.

- Luke Vibert: (Warp / Rephlex)

- Various Production dj (Deep dub / Spooky beats / Dubstep)

- Bass Clef (Dub / 2-step / Electronica)

- Vexkiddy (Experimental / Acoustic / Electronic)

D.R.O.I.D is an event to challenge our reality, what we perceive to be the here
and now and what we think of as the future-distant.

D.R.O.I.D will take place simultaneously in the digitised world of Second Life,
and as a consequence of this, across the known world. At the Trinity huge
suspended, back-projected screens will show the audience the virtual world of
Second Life.


The aim is for the two audiences, the physical and the digital, to come
together, meet each other, interact, know each other. How many technophobes out
there have never spoken to their virtual brothers and sisters? How many of the
new wired generation have never left the confines of their virtual reality
interfaces to interact with the rest of us? Greater understanding is what we
seek, together we shall stand, shoulder to digitised shoulder.

TICKET OUTLETS
Bristol Ticket Shop / Here Shop (Stokes Croft) / 20th Century Flicks (Clifton) /
Rooted Records

CREDIT CARD BOOKINGS
0870 4444 400

ONLINE
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/basket.cgi?session=421735063&quantity=1&item=080223trilu



=================Notes for editors================================

For further information contact

Sam Rossiter 0117 3250067

Mike Harris 0870 162 4924


==Second Life==

Second Life is an Internet based 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by
its residents where users can explore, build, socialise, and participate in
their own economy.
Second Life came to international attention in mainstream news media in late
2006 and early 2007. A downloadable program enables its users, called
"Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars (virtual
persona's)
Second Life is so cutting-edge it defies genre classification. It is a game, a
tool, a playground, a nation, and nearly everything in it is built by its
residents.
There have been several successful on-line concerts, these have involved the
performers creating 'avatars' to represent themselves. What we plan to do is
different in that we plan to stream real images from live venues into this
emerging virtual space.
http://secondlife.com/whatis/


==XtreamLab==

XtreamLab have been funded under the South West Screen Convergence alliance
scheme.
The XtreamLab partnership provides an on-location video production and live
web-casting service that combines technical expertise with a creative focus.
This enables the live transmission of streams directly from events, offering
viewers the opportunity to experience genuine online television.
http://xtreamlab.net

The XtreamLab production team is comprised of:

Bristol Wireless is a free software and sustainable computing project born out
of the desire to build a high-speed local wireless network. The first stage of
the community network was established in June 2002 and has since grown
significantly to become the largest open access wireless network in the UK.
http://www.bristolwireless.net

Psand is a provider of internet services with considerable focus on the
streaming of audio and video content. Psand has many years experience of
bringing communications and information technology to the environ of live
events. http://www.psand.net

Qu Junktions is a bespoke music event, promotion and tour adventure specialist
eminating from participation of artists from The Cube Microplex in Bristol.
They are heavily involved with the production of Bristol's very own avant-garde
VENN music festival. http://www.qujunktions.com

Micro-film provide video and animation services for delivery over different new
media platforms. There specialist area is in the production of film made
specifically for hand held and mobile devices and the creation of web-based
interfaces for easy access. http://www.micro-film.org/

Project website;
http://xtreamlab.net/droid/


==The Acts==

LUKE VIBERT is the ultimate UK dancefloor chameleon, ceaselessly morphing
identities from his own name (billowing acid house and breakbeat) into Wagon
Christ (kitchen sink cartoon-hop), Plug (quirky drum 'n' bass), Amen Andrews
(junglist tear-out), Spac Hand Luke (grimey goodness), and Kerrier District
(glitterball disco/house)  As a DJ he goes wherever the mood takes him, and the
floor will always follow: multidimensional, freerange fucked-up grooves from the
original Cornish king.
http://www.warprecords.com/lukevibert/

VARIOUS PRODUCTION DJs are a shadowy collective of sublimely different
futurists. Their unique sound - noir-ish vocals over mangled grime, deep dub
and spooky beats - seems to refract the "Bristol sound" of Portishead or
Massive Attack through a hall of mirrors and update it for the 21st century. 
One of the most thrilling electronic crossover/under outfits to have emerged in
years, they sit alone with Burial in taking rough-edged dubstep sonics
overground by marrying them with a sweet vocal sensibility.
http://www.various.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/various

BASS CLEF live is a blast. With live trombone and pirate flags, he bypasses
laptop/looping and embraces a primitive and banging dance experience. A rogue
operator of the bottom end kind. His live show is a heady combination of heavy
bass, dirty high end and killer melodies. Kinda like 'Rahsaan Roland Kirk'
jamming with 'Iration Steppas' on a full moon.
http://www.myspace.com/bassclefbass
http://bass-clef.blogspot.com/

VEXKIDDY are a show and a half. They bang up the place with messed up dance
music via Victorian time travel mixed with an acid house sideshow. Cuthbert &
Strangeways, two serious 'scientists' from the Victorian era, go in search of
Vexkiddy, an interstellar being who has wrought havoc with the time flux
polyphase generator that their assistant 'Trainee' was using.... 'Trainee' is
still lost in future-time... will they ever reach him?
http://www.vexkiddy.com/
http://www.myspace.com/therhomworkshop





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