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Hacking the audience
For a number of years we have been experimenting with technology in the hope to blur the lines between audience and performer at the regular bITjAM sonic events. These events have drawn digital artists and new audiences from around Europe for over 5 years now and brought them together during the events. From each of [...]
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 [...]
Return of the circuit bent wizard
Back from the wilderness known as the far east our long term circuit bending friend Dan is back. Here’s a message from the polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride (bakelight) eating fiend: I am probably mostly known as Danny Rave, although I prefer to perform under the name of Uncle Normal. I have always enjoyed playing with battery powered kiddies [...]
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 [...]
Rewiring the State
We’re currently working with our buddies at B arts (and other loveable geeks) and hope to offer support for young code developers in the Stoke on Trent area via the rewired state project. We hope to work with some Jedi younglins and hack some of the Government datatsets freely available. At present we have the [...]