Euro festival?

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

The recent Bent 2006 has left me craving a European festival of a similiar nature... anyone know if it exists this side of the atlantic?

dnny · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject:

if not, we should organise one in Scandinavia.

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

Yes, good idea. Do you think there are other circuit-benders out there!?! I guess there are, but I havn't managed to find where they are hiding.

dnny · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:41 am Post subject:

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

That link was awesome, wonderful pics!!!

I live in Norrköping, its about two hours train ride from Stockholm. I don't think I can afford to travel further than that, unfortunately.

I'll try surfing around some swedish internet (my swedish sucks) and see if some circuit benders exist anywhere!

Pehr · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

Hejsan!
it's nice to see that there are some swedes into this sort of thing! I can't really offer much advice for those keyboards, apart from just open them up and start exploring Smile

This wikipedia article has a couple of tips to get started, and you should check out [url]this[/url] very complete guide (probably too much information!) It really is as simple as just touching things with a piece of wire!

As there doesn't appear to be many circuit benders in sweden, it might be useful to have a workshop where people bend some things and can get advice and tips.

Do you know anyone else who might be interested in some circuit bending, DIY stuff and experimental electronic instruments? Links to any swedish websites would be cool, I find it hard to surf to those as my swedish is kinda sucky.

dnny · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

Pehr · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

http://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article108943.ece

http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/naringsliv/did_9661975.asp

I know that there has been a circuit bending workshop at lava in kulturhuset in stockholm about a year ago, so there must be some circuit benders here in sweden... Rolling Eyes

A bending meeting in sthlm would be great! Very Happy

I'll come. But I have no idea where Razz

Pehr · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject:

Mikmo · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:

I'm in Copenhagen.

There are a few benderes / experimenters in Denmark.

From june 1. to 11. there's is the Halfmachine event in Copenhagen

http://halfmachine.info/

I will be there some of the time. I't will be like a workshop where the audience is invited to bend stuff. I will also be playing some live sets with a copule of other noise heads.

Lots of other interesting things will be going on.

But it would be nice with a Scandinavian festival.

Mikael

http://www.mikmo.dk

dnny · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:29 am Post subject:

Alexander · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:49 am Post subject:

I like circuitbending and a friend of mine likes it a lot, I guess that if a festival like the Bent one in the US would be organized in Europe, we would be ready to take a car and drive there.

There are plenty more people interested in circuit bending in Holland and aren't the guys from TableHoot/WarrantyVoid from Germany????

http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~windle_c/TableHooters/index.html

They should be interested in organizing or at least helping out for a European bent event!

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

Alexander · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject:

Just do the lot!

- workshop
- performances
- gallery
- drinks, fun, etcetera!

13" · Joined: May 20, 2006 Posts: 17 Location: sthlm sweden

Hi! I´m new around here..
(though I´ve been readin peoples stuff for a while)
It´s an excellent idea to do something in the stockholm area!
I´ve got two ideas about venues for gigs, one is my favourite bar
Ugglan, that regularly perform off the beaten track/freejazz/electronics/odd acts (played there myself..)
The other is the very small club I run myself with a couple of friends, once a month; OBS! Kulturkvarten.
It definately is doable to have a small festival/insane-DIY-noise-weekend around here sometime.
-Martin

blue hell · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

Ah, yes sweden, should have read this one first :D

dnny · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: festival!

Martin

to electro-music forum

i talked to one of the guys from "association of experimental electronics"
and he thought that they could come. he just needs to talk whit the others and we need to still discuss about what we would do and where and when Smile

anttia · Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 8 Location: helsinki

Hi, I am Antti from Association of experimental electronics. First of all, we will love to come to a festival, we do need some time to arrange things, so we need to know the dates well in advance.

We could arrange something in Helsinki as well. Could be nice to arrange something small first, or try to do it in the framework of some existing festivals.

mi_dach · Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Sweden

anttia · Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 8 Location: helsinki

dnny · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:45 am Post subject:

there is also a dorkbot community in sthlm.
have anyone hear of these dorkbot-people?

"people doing strange things with electricity"
sounds good to me - take a look:

dorkbot.org
dorkbot in wikipedia

anttia · Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 8 Location: helsinki

Well, I have been working to start the dorkbot Helsinki, I just have not had the time to do it. Just last week things have started to organize. I know there will be one event on January, it will be organized as a part of katastro.fi monthly events.

Today I talked about arranging something this summer in Happihuone in töölönlahti. It is a funny summercafe near center of Helsinki. We could have some kind of weekend circuitbending workshop there.

And to answer your question, I do not know anybody from the dorkbot thing, I have never been to any event, but I am going to start organizing some events, because I like to do strange things with electricity.

I think different doerbots have quite different things going on, but this Helsinki thing, if I get it workindg, will concentrate on experimental audioelectronics and circuitbening.

dnny · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: