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Shop Spodeoeuvre final evening
This was our last evening in the Shop, we had a packed ‘house’ which created a fantastic vibe. The music and visuals were a combination of collected and donated AV clips which were mashed together for the final performance. On the night we had Bigun on iPad and kaoss pad, Pete on Ableton and Toxic, [...]
Saturday (un)workshop
Had a great session at Shop-Stoke today. Today turned out to be more of a workshop for 2 local artists wishing to look at areas such as sound production and visual mixing (VJ’ing). The interesting point here is the fact they both brought material with them to mix, burn, fx and play with. Rachel had [...]
You are invited..
Ok we’re into the last weekend of the Spode residency, today’s session we will be getting prepared for our end ‘party’ tomorrow, Sunday 19th 6-10pm. The Shop-Stoke venue has provided a great place to meet, create and have fun. We plan to bring together the many friends who have jammed, danced or just enjoyed the [...]
Spodeoeuvre by night
We had a brilliant evening on our third Sunday at the Shop-Stoke residence. We began with a subtle soundscape built from the Spode field recordings which led to a beat inspired finish. Visuals are now playing a huge part with large projections over the Spode factory and creative use of reflections back within the shop. [...]
Spode oeuvre Saturday and dreams of steam punk
What a fab Saturday at Shop-Stoke, great to see Si Waite and “new Matt” (which is bITjAM speak for I forgot the name) joining in. Si has made individual samples out of the original sound files which is a blessing, now we can power up samplers or as we did today, turn Ableton into a [...]
Reflection on first weekend of Spode residency
In the first weekend of the Spodeoeuvre residency we initially started to use the field recordings only, however we started to mix them with some traditional methods of electronic music such as piano, synths and a few beats. The field recordings have such a unique quality and contain some powerful narrative from Alan who is [...]
Longer recordings from Spodeoeuvre day 1
Spode oeuvre 28/8/10 by bitjam
Photo from Spodeoeuvre
Many thanks to Futurilla for the image below
Audioboos from Spodeoeuvre 28/8/10
Here’s the audioboo recordings, the recs are through the mic on the macbook, next time we’ll go straight into the line in!! Listen! Listen!
First day on Spode oeuvre
What a great start to the residency, lots of people being drawn into the shop either via the sonic loveliness, through the fab Spode flyer or jolly friends of Shop-Stoke/bITjAM. We’ve had offers of video and still images taken from the Spode factory, so we’re planning on projecting some interactive VJ material based on the [...]
Shop-Stoke residency
3 weeks to go for the residency at Shop-Stoke, we’re there for 3 weekends (end of aug/early sept) using the sound recordings from the Ghostly Spode works (we were the last to get access) Anyone wanting to come along and create soundscapes using the soundbanks are very welcome. The dates are 28-29 August, 4-5 & [...]
Spode factory field recordings for the Shop residency
We have audio recordings taken from within the Spode factory with thanks to Gemma and Alan for access and the interview. Actually we were privileged as we seem to be the last artists to gain access to the site today. The plan will be to share the sound files with anyone wishing to join us [...]
Visit to the Shop-Stoke HQ
A quick glance at the Shop for the emptyshops project in Stoke Town. Thanks to Gemma, Mark and Alan for allowing me to whisk a flip camera around.
Shop Stoke update
Hello folks, well we’re nearly there for the Shop-Stoke emptyshops project. After a nice chat with Gemma Thomas and Mark Brereton we can confirm some dates for the bITjAM residency and some other ideas floating around. We plan to base our project around the remains of the Spode factory as this seems a central feature [...]