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#DrugScience2017 – Party
Presented in partnership with Musik Hackspace Berlin, let us share with you an evening of music & audiovisual arts designed to both stimulate & captivate, with content curated to match the themes of #DrugScience2017 by award-winning digital artist Adam John Williams. Featuring live performances, including music created from the recorded brainwave activity of test subjects in Imperial College London’s pioneering LSD brain imaging study, this will be a conference party like no other, and an invigorating way to blow off some steam in great company.
Schedule
20:00 – Doors open – come for a drink with us & prepare for the evening’s entertainment
20:30 – SINES featuring Henrik von Coler & Adam John Williams:
In March 2017 AXNS Collective, in partnership with Imperial College London and Music Hackspace, hosted SINES, a two-day LSD brain wave and sound art hackathon bringing together sound artists and neuroscientists.
This pioneering project provided the opportunity to think outside of the box about how we can capture someone’s subjective, dynamic and potentially healing mind-altering psychedelic journey. The resulting sound pieces were compiled for release at axnscollective.bandcamp.com
With guest artist Henrik von Coler we will experience ‚Acid Hack’, an electroacoustic composition based on the sonification of MEG data from subjects under the influence of LSD, presented in quadraphonic surround sound.
Adam John Williams will present a mind-melting audiovisual mashup of data sonification, recorded brainwave activity & a psychedelic visual exploration created from scans of their own brain.
21:30 – DJ: Sheldon Drake
Known for his distinctly hypnotic sound both on and off dancefloors, Sheldon Drake will give us a sweeping layered soundscape of shimmers and pulses, made for the liveliest of dreaming. Most weeks can be found DJing live on lsbTV – www.sheldondrake.com
23:00 – Cloud Kinski
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly:
CLOUD KINSKI.
00:00 – Live Electronic Music: Artemis Beats
Irresistible beats designed to get both your brain & body bouncing. Trance-inducing melodic dance music, interwoven with psychoacoustic trickery to funk your brain, and groovy basslines to move your feet – it’s the musical equivalent of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, and will be followed by an Artemis Beats DJ set to keep the party going into the early hours – www.artemisbeats.com
Synaesthetic Action Painting Performance
Synaesthesia, the oft-confused and misattributed neuro-phenomenon, is the unexplained mixing of sensory input in specific individuals. Russian/Latvian fine artist Anna Kolosova is a bonafide synaesthete, experiencing all sensory input (smell, touch, sound, taste) in visual forms – as colours and shapes, and will join us to perform her Synaesthetic Action Painting, interpreting sound and her surroundings live at different points throughout the evening – www.annakolosova.com
