On my Rhubarb Radio STRAX show I’ve recently had a couple of artists who are working locally in to interview

First up is the Rea Garden’s resident artist Hannah Hull talking about her work and a memorial she will be holding at the end of November.

And yesterday we had (Captain) Ed Wakefield in to talk about his new maritime novella, Blood & Rorschach and also Cheryl Jones explaining it’s inclusion in the Digbeth based Arts Festival – THE EVENT – which launches tomorrow.

Every month on the First Tuesday we hold 8bit Lounge at the Hare and Hounds Pub in King’s Heath.
Amongst other things we have a lot of multiplayer games going on, and Mario Kart 64 on the projector is v. popular. Here is Antonio Roberts recording of the screen using a gameboy camera which is then digitised using some crazy wires he has.

STRAX Audio Visual proudly presents AV 5!
The Victoria Pub – 5 minutes from new street station in Birmingham will play host to VJ Anyone – Oli Sorenson, founder of the AV Social, previously held at BFI South Bank and TATE Liverpool. He will be performing his DRUG MUSIC MY EYE set on Friday 23rd October. It’s a lovely boozer with great food, ales and cocktails…

This is a unique opportunity to see Oli perform in such an intimate setting.
Support comes from DJ Mark Smallman, STRAX DJs and an AV collaboration between Chromatouch & mashup supremo Sam Redmore. Also, STRAX is delighted to have Joseph Potts from Modulate back at STRAX.
There’ll also be lots of engaging craziness including Tagtool, Wiiwhorld, and 10-player Bomberman!

Facebook event here.

Every Wednesday on Rhubarb Radio I host the STRAX radio show. 5-7pm.

a night i’m involved with at the hare and hounds every month. 8bit lounge on the first tuesday. last night was great fun with a circuit bent kaossilator set from discocyst, 10-player bomberman, great electro tunes from subcitizen and this chiptune set from ash10:

I’ve been playing with TouchOSC on the iphone to great effect recently on the pc using wireless puppetry software Animata. trying it out on the mac has proved even easier with modul8 and now martin thoburn (who has some really nice stuff over at his blog) has released a layout for resolume 3.1, i am in 7th heaven.

“Touch Resolume” is a custom layout for TouchOSC that allows you to control Resolume 3.1 over a wireless network directly with your iphone or ipod touch WITHOUT midi mapping. Touch Resolume controls Resolume 3.1 directly with OSC commands translated with OSCulator.

What do I need to use this?

Resolume 3.1 or higher (mac or pc)

TouchOSC 1.4 for iphone or ipod touch

TouchOSC Editor (used to upload custom layout to iphone/ipod)

OSCulator 2.8 (mac only)

via Touch Resolume 0.8 BETA – Custom TouchOSC Layout at martin-thoburn.com.

Chromatouch visuals had the privilege of sorting visuals for 6 arenas at Global Gathering this year… those rooms included m-nus, polysexual vs htid, bedrock, toolroom knights, spectrum and random concept. This was the brilliantly talented Gabby using the tagtool to great effect.

Thanks to Gabby and also Catarax visuals, TheLab and Jon Harris for making it run so smoothly…

Horse Meat Disco were the guests on the 25th of April, here’s Jim Stanton and James Hillard with fantastic visuals provided by VJ Chromatouch.

this was back in April at the Inside night i’ve mentioned before. was a while ago, but as HMD are flavour of the month i thought i’d mention that they have a new super rare crate dug disco album out.

www.horsemeatdisco-thealbum.com

DSC_0109, originally uploaded by hareandhoundskingsheath.

Horace Andy live at the Hare and Hounds King’s Heath back in April. Visuals by chromatouch.

Me and Rich Batsford from ProjectXPresents took Caroline from Kerrang! Radio news on a tour of the noise abatement affected Digbeth venues we made our ‘Music is not Pollution’ film about. Turned out quite well.

Kerrang! Radio Interview

What do you think? Should pubs be asked to “turn it down” if new flats are built next door? Or is it the residents fault, for not checking out the area properly first?