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  • Laptops Meet Musicians Festival 2011 video

    The Laptops Meet Musicians Festival happened just over a year ago (11-12th July 2011), and now a video/documentary has surfaced You can catch the bit about BiLE from 5:10. On a non-laptop-music note, Venice really is a beautiful city. Birmingham may claim to have more canals than Venice, but the canals in Venice are…

  • Something In The Water – Issue 1

    Earlier in the year I produced some illustrations of BiLE, Glitch Lich and Benoît and the Mandelbrots for a mini booklet about Network Music Festival. The whole magazine, which includes the mini booklet, has recently been released as Something In The Water: Something In The Water is a magazine that delves into the past,…

  • Performances at Network Music Festival

    On Thursday 26th January I performed with Freecode at the Network Music Festival pre-festival party. For this set at any one time there were two people doing audio and two doing video. We also had the theme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”. To try and explain further: Something old Video: Antonio…

  • BiLE Business

    The world of BiLE is a busy one recently! On January 3rd we were featured in an article in the Financial Times about Laptop Orchestra’s Read the interview here Thanks to Alex Newman for writing the article. The article also makes reference to Network Music Festival, which is taking place in from 27-29th January…

  • BiLE at SONICpicnic, 29th July 2011

    BiLE will be performing alongside a whole host of musicians at SONICpicnic on 29th July at VIVID. BiLE had their very first performance at the first SOUNDkitchen event – see, we’ve got proof – so we’re really happy to be performing again. We’ll be performing a few pieces including XYZ, which was recently played…

  • BiLE at Laptops Meet Musicians Festival, 11-12 July 2011

    From 10th-13th July I’ll be in Venice (which is in Italy, apparently) with another three-sevenths of BiLE for the Laptops Meet Musicians Festival. We’ll be performing two pieces, Partially Percussive (recording below) and XYZ, which was recently performed when BiLE was in Norway for NIME: XYZ (or ‘Sonic Arm Wrestle’) is a structured improvisation…

  • BiLE at Light House Media Centre, 18th June 2011

    BiLE will be performing alongside Thee Moths and Noise Research at Light House Wolverhampton on the 18th of June As well as performing with BiLE I’ll be doing visualness throughout the whole night. Did I mention it’s all free?

  • BiLE

    Aside from a brief post announcing our performance at SOUNDkitchen a few months back I’ve failed to actually talk about the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble (BiLE). BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) are a collaborative group of composers and performers of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Six artists were brought together through their shared interest in live performance…

  • BiLE at SOUNDkitchen, 17th March 2011

    On Thursday 17th March from 8pm I’ll be providing visuals for BiLE (Birmingham Laptop Ensemble) at SOUNDktichen Balkan Fusion at the Hare and Hounds BiLE are a collaborative group of composers (instrumental and electroacoustic), performers and programmers who are all active members of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). The core group of six artists…