BW )(: Second Life - Gig + Venue preview tonight!!

Thu Jan 24 22:32:11 GMT 2008

Hi all
As many of you will know Bristol Wireless are partners in the
http://www.xtreamlab.net/ project. On Sat Febuary 23rd we are
running DROID at Trinity. Droid is an experiment in bringing the real and
virtual worlds face to face. (press release below)

1) There is an opportunity to get a sneak preview of the (virtual) venue on
Friday 25th (tonight). Our project partners http://www.moebiussurfing.net/ are
running a live gig at Prados Azules; it runs from 21.30 GMT.
For those of you that have not yet checked out Second life, it is a great
opportunity to take a look around and support our project partners. Sign up and
download the software at www.secondlife.com, then use the search function to
find Prados Azules.

2) We are looking to recruit crew for the event on the 23rd Feb. There are lot's
of opportunities to get involved. Possible roles include;

* Sound Tech.
* Sourcing and setting up 2X second life terminals in the venue.
* Researcher roles
* Decor sourcing and hanging
* logistics
* flyering

Volunteers will get free entry into the event and other fabulous perks. We are
currently finalising the roles so if you would like to get involved then email
xtreamlab at lists.psand.net by 1st Febuary at the latest.

3) Press release.
Flyers; http://www.xtreamlab.net/wiki/index.php/Images_for_DROID_Event

LUKE VIBERT
(Warp / Rephlex)
VARIOUS PRODUCTION DJs
BASS CLEF + VEXKIDDY
+ more acts & DJs & VJs
+ Second Life Interventions

at: D.R.O.I.D

A Cyber-Kinetic Second Life Experience
+ VJs and cyberpunk interfacing

On: SAT 23rd FEB 2008
REAL LIFE VENUE: TRINITY, Old Market, BRISTOL
SECOND LIFE VENUE: Prados Azules
TIME: 8pm till late
PRICE: £6 in advance / more on the door.

WEB:  http://www.xtreamlab.net/droid

D.R.O.I.D is a club: 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. The line up is blistering in the bass end with super
high end tweaks – be it filthy house, dubstep-not-dubstep, mutant breaks,
electro-techno or
of course
Victorian Acid House. Seriously giant screens
transform the club by hijacking the world of Second Life and setting it loose
in a real life environment, with live streams and killer VJ pyrotechnics.

This is where the live computer generation display their wares - trombone
action, crazed techno cabaret shows, filter sweeps and urban music from across
the globe liven up the place. The technology is set loose for future funk, and
hang on in there.

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. The club event will take
place simultaneously in the digitised world of Second Life, and as a
consequence of this, across the known world. The line-up at the Trinity will be
streamed live into Second Life, where avatars will be able to enjoy the sights
and sounds of the night. At the Trinity huge suspended, back-projected screens
will show the audience the virtual world of Second Life.  There will also be
“interaction terminals” in the hall to allow participants to hit the dancefloor
in the virtual domain.

The aim is for the two audiences, the physical and the digital, to get to know
each other, dance the mad dance. 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...
LUKE VIBERT is the ultimate UK dancefloor chameleon, who has spent nearly twenty
years atop the leftfield dance game, 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) along with countless other aliases, remixes and collaborations
with the likes of Aphex Twin, BJ Cole and Jean-Jacques Perry.
No other artist can boast the full set of influential dance labels, either:
that's Mo'Wax, Warp, Ninja Tune, Rephlex and Planet Mu. 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 retro-futurists who released
a album on the phat XL (Radiohead, Dizzee Rascal, The White Stripes), a
nameless, faceless collective of producers and vocalists who have left a trail
of acclaimed and covetable singles in their wake. Their unique sound - noir-ish
folk 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 pop outfits to have emerged in years, they
sit alone with Burial in taking rough-edged dubstep sonics overground by
marrying them with a sweet pop sensibility. They are an act steeped in mystery
who refuse to be pigeon-holed, and this DJ set – their Bristol debut - will
reflect this genre-bucking playfulness. Expect the unexpected.

http://www.various.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/various

SECOND LIFE: Influenced by the cyperpunk literary movement, and most notably by
the Neil Stephenson novel Snow Crash, Second Life is a 3-D virtual world that
can be accessed on-line using a computer program called the Second Life Viewer.
To take part in Second Life, a user must become a Resident by creating their own
virtual counterpart known as an avatar. The Residents are then able to shape the
virtual world itself by creating objects, buildings and even whole landscapes.
The virtual world has its own currency, and the Residents may also buy, sell
and trade items that they create.
Second Life first opened to the public in 2003 by Linden Research, Inc and has
since grown to have millions of Residents from around the globe, tens of
thousands of which can be found to be on-line at any one time. Second Life is
so cutting-edge it defies genre classification. It is a game, a tool, a
playground, a nation, and whole new world for human social interaction and
development.
BASS CLEF live is a blast. With live trombone and pirate flags, he bypasses
laptop/looping and embraces a primitive and banging multi-instrumentalism with
ringing cow-bell, heavy trombone blasts and effects all spicing up his wonky
digidub, electronic dubstep. Ralph (formally RLF) has shared stages with Konono
No 1, Appleblim, Pinch, Kode 9, and Digital Mystikz. 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? Fuck knows, but it
sounds like a 21st century rave or they have been hangin’ too long in Second
Life.
http://www.vexkiddy.com/
http://www.myspace.com/therhomworkshop

D.R.O.I.D crew

Bristol Wireless: http://www.bristolwireless.net
Micro Film: http://www.micro-film.org
Q-Junktions: http://www.qujunktions.com
Psand: http://www.psand.net
First Born Creatives: http://www.firstborn-creatives.co.uk
Blackout Arts: http://www.blackoutarts.co.uk
Moebius Surfing: http://www.moebiussurfing.net (SL)
Mosi - Mosi: http://www.mosi-mosi.com/metaverse (SL)
Pitch Volley: http://www.pitchvolley.com (SL)
Radio Vague: http://www.radiovague.com (SL)

Event production is a collaboration between XtreamLab.Net Ltd and Etherspace
Broadcasting Ltd with the grateful support of South West Screen.

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

CREDIT CARD BOOKINGS:
0870 4444 400 / http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

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