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ICMC 2008

Sonic Arts Reserach Centre, Belfast

Presented poster Cross-Pollination: Towards an Aesthetics of the Real

See publications page for download

 

Rules and Regs

In association with aspace, Southampton
(Performed with Jason Dixon)

A series of Live Art performances 

29th June - 1st July 2008.

 

Cross-Pollination

2nd Outing , 26th - 30th November 2007

Catalyst Arts

Part of FIX 07

 

Radio Streams, 19th- 24th November, Enaction in Arts, Grenoble.

with Sile O'Modhrain.

Premiere of Installation.

Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble. Part of Enaction 2007.

 

Performance Systems: Virtual/Physical Feedback

Thursday 8th November, Norwich Arts Centre

 

Part of Aurora

 

Cross-Polination Thursday 13th September :: 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Opening

Premiere of Installation

SARC Sonic Lab
Admission Free

 

JDTJDJ Thursday 2nd August :: 7.00pm - 11.00pm

Immersion
The Flea Pit
49 Columbia Road
London E2 7RG
Admission Free

 

JDTJDJ Sunday 24th June :: 7.30pm - Late


SAN Expo Late
The White Rabbit
Exeter Street
Plymouth
Admission Free

 

Disparate Bodies - NIME, NYU, 7th June 2007

with Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schroeder, Mark Applebaum, Alain Renau and Tom Davis

 

 

share, NYC, 3rd June 2007

Tom Davis joined the laptop jam at share, ReBoot, New York

 

 

 

JDTJDJ 'DSP Specialists' (Sun 22nd April, 2007)

for a performace of Marc AppleBaum's Plundergraphic

Part of the Sonorities Festival, 2007.

 

 

JDTJDJ Gig. (Sat 21st April, 2007)

Saturday 21st April :: 10pm - Late
Sonorities Club Night

Part of the Sonorities Festival, 2007.

SARC's Sonic Lab

 

JDTJDJ Gig. (Wed 18th April, 2007)

Wednesday 18th April :: 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Wasted Music, Abundant Sonorities
Sonic Laboratory

Part of 'Waste and Abundance'

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attendance at EvoMUSART 2007,Valencia.(11th- 13th April, 2007)

Will present paper 'Environments for Sonic Ecologies'

 

Upcoming JDTJDJ Gig. (Wed 4th March, 2007)

The Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich. 5-8 pm

 

 

Discovering Queens Workshop. (1st March 2007)

Facilitated Improvisation with Alain Renaud.

 

 

Presented Seminar at UEA, Norwich. (26th Feb, 2007)

'Tom, his thought and work'

 

 

 

 

LAM meeting. Goldsmiths College, London. (18th - 19th December, 2006)

Presented talk: Environmental Context in Live Algorithms, 'Excuse Me'.

 

 

‘Hearing the lines you drew and the colours you spread’

A collaborative project by Adinda van't Klooster.

Improvised sound/music produced with Jason Dixon.

A JDTJDJ production.

 

 

 

Discovering Queens Workshop. 14th Nov 2006

48 Speakers, 20 Minutes, 15 Participants, 4 Instruments, 1 Collective Improvisation.

with Alain Renaud.

 

 

THIS IS NOISECORE. 27th Oct

BLISS gig at Catalyst Arts as part of the Bring the Noise Festival and The Belfast Festival at Queens

BLISS on this occasion were represented by Tom Davis, Jason Dixon, Alain Renaud, Pedro Rebleo, Chris McClelland, Miguel Perez, Florian Hollerweger, Kasia Glowicka, Henry Vega, Cavan Fayans and Robyn Price.

 

 

Hardware Hacking workshop II. 27th Oct

Run by Jason Dixon with minimal assistance from Tom Davis

Jason ran the workshop whilst Tom attempted some blind, live hacking with a variety of results!

 

 

 

 

 

Premiere of Cyclesonic. Monday 16th – Sunday 29th October

Bring the Noise

At Catalyst Arts in association with the Belfast Festival at Queens

See installation page for more details

 

 

 

BLISS: Dixon Benefit Gig. Sonic Lab. (25th Sep 2006)

Bye Bye Jason.

 

 

 

 

Sounding Out 3. University of Sunderland 7th - 9th September 2006

Presented paper 'Designing Mimetic Cultures in Sound'

Premiere of 'Excuse Me!' @ ICAD 2006, Queen Mary University, London. 20th - 23rd June 2006

Installation ran for the duration of the conference.

The Electronic Hammer + BLISS, part of Visonic Festival,(29th May, 2006)

The Electronic Hammer are - henry vega , diego espinosa and juan parra.

BLISS on this occasion were represented by:

Jason Dixon(laptop + radio), Tom Davis(laptop + mini marshal), and Chris McCelland(visuals). DOWNLOAD mp3 19.3MB

There was also a performance by BLISS + juan parra showcasing the frequencyilator by Alain Renaud.

 

 

Hardware Hacking Workshop, part of Visonic Festival,(29th May, 2006)

Run by Jason Dixon and Tom Davis

 

 

 

BLISS: The Lagan Boat Tour, part of Sonorities Festival,(28th Arpil, 2006) and Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival 2006

Performers were, Jason Dixon, Jason Geistweidt , Tom Davis, Phillip the Boatman and the Mini Marshall !!

 

BLISS Breakout Gig.(24th March, 2006)

BLISS fist performance outside the walls of the University. Event hosted by the Knights of the Round Table, Belfast based Arts collective.

 

 

Transcontinental Trad (9th March, 2006)

Intercontinental traditional Irish Music between Belfast (SARC), Stanford (CCRMA), and Seattle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAM meeting. Goldsmiths College, London. (19th - 20th December, 2005)

Presented talk: Emergence in Sound.

Abstract

 

 

Generative Arts Conference 2005, Milan, Italy.(15th - 17th December, 2005)

Presented paper: Natural Selection: A Stethoscopic Amphibious Installation, Tom Davis and Pedro Rebelo

 

 

Bliss Gig performance as part of the QUB live at Lunchtime Series. (8th December, 2005)

Premiere of Network performance piece.

Bliss Website

 

 

 

Premiere of Installation 'Natural Selection' at the Música Viva Festival, Portugal(17th - 24th Sept 2005)

Also presented Software 'Sonic Swarm' as part of SARC software demo.

 

 

BLISS performance with The Bent Leather Band (13th Sept 2005)

Participants Joanne Cannon and Stuart Favilla (The Bent Leather Band) as well as Jason Dixon, Chris McCelland and Tom Davis (BLISS).

 

ICMC 2005: Barcelona (Sept 2005)

Presented poster: Hearing Emergence: Towards Sound Based Self Organisation, Tom Davis and Pedro Rebelo.

Demo Session: iLearn: An iTunes Audio Indexing Plug-In for Education, G.McAllister, P.s.Taylor and M.Rogers

   

Electronic Jam Session: Sonorities Festival (1st May 2005)

Participants included Christopher McCelland, Tom Davis, Albert Ortega and Hannes Raffaseder

 

Auto Route#2: The Lagan Boat Tour: Sonorities Festival (29th April 2005)

Auto-Route#2 by Martin Parker (operated by Tom Davis) has been engineered to work with a voice in noisy environments. The system strips silence out of sentences and stores the remaining sound in a database.   These words are then re-sequenced automatically to create a new sentences and new meanings, while the punctuated silences are modified to create a spontaneous, rhythmic background.

 

 

 

Fruit Music @ The Market : Sonorities Festival (29th April 2005)

An improvisation facilitated by Franziska Schroeder with John Kenny and Tom Davis.

 

 

 

XS -XX -XL (Feb 2005)

Collective improvisation facilitated by John Bowers

 

 

 

 

The One Smart Space, Vienna (Nov 2004)

Installation of the Beat Jigsaw at The One Smart Space, Vienna, for a corporate event.

 

Submerge Show, Bristol (July 2004)

Installation of the Beat Jigsaw at Submerge Festival Bristol