Digital
Slam 2 - ISDN jam
between London, New York, Cape Town and San Francisco
* The first
ever live link via ISDN between Dingwalls and Cape
Town, New York, San Francisco and Paris.
* Talvin
Singh's Anokha broadcasts live via ISDN for the first
time ever.
* Also
featuring Vernon Reid, A Guy Called Gerald,
Grooverider and Marque Gilmore.
Fusing elements of drum 'n' bass, hip-hop, jungle,
ambient dub and African beats to create abstract
soundscapes, Digital Diaspora will be collaborating
with leading DJ's and musicians to take LIVE
multi-media performance to a new level.
Over three evenings, Dingwalls hosts the first
ever live link between London and three major cities
using ISDN lines carrying video and audio signals to
explore the 'cut and mix' of contemporary urban
culture and on-line collaborations by artists at the
edge of leading multi-media technology performing
simultaneously between London, Cape Town, New York
and San Francisco.
This innovative multi-media event will facilitate
cultural exchanges providing both an exciting and
innovative global forum for artists and audiences
alike to experience a kaleidoscope of images ranging
from photography, film and video to soundscapes
including drum 'n' bass, ambient dub, hip-hop to
jungle, techno and funk. Digital
Slam 2 will also include poetry slams,
scratch-video, on-line art using the World Wide Web
(WWW) as a link for the global community on both
sides of the Atlantic.
And if you can't be there, for the first time ever
you can hook into the 'webcasts' on the on the
Internet during the event and catch images sent from
all five cities. Digital Slam 2
is the second in a major series of new and exciting
projects curated by Digital Diaspora in association
with the Camden Mix.
Digital Slam 2:
SCHEDULE
Sunday 21
September, 3 to 8 pm
Digital Playground Workshop Session
This unique 'hands-on' workshop session will
provide an opportunity for participants to create
their own beats, rhymes and images combining MIDI,
sampling, digital video mixing and DJing.
Participants will be assisted by leading DJ's, poets
and musicians and video artists who will be available
to share skills and advice.
Internet links with chat areas will enable
participants to link up live and direct from London
to meet and converse - along with anyone else in the
world who comes on-line. The workshop session will
climax with a 'jam' session performed by tutors and
students which will be broadcast via the Internet
from Dingwalls.
The main Digital Slam sessions will take
place between:
Monday 22 September,
1am - 4am (GMT)
London to New York
Tuesday 23
September, 10pm - 5am (GMT)
London to Cape Town and San Francisco
Highlights include:
* For the first time ever, Talvin Singh's Anokha
broadcasts 'Soundz of the Asian Underground' live via
ISDN. The event will also include the first ever
'two-way' live jam session between London and Cape
Town.
* Vernon Reid,
leading New York guitar virtuoso and founder of the
highly influential 'Living Colour' and the Black Rock
Coalition will perform a 'live jam' via ISDN from New
York with drummer/percussionist Marque Gilmore
(Project 23/Drum FM) who will provide 'full-on' live
drums with drum 'n' bass breaks and samples live from
London.
* Digital Slam 2
will also host a stunning line-up of some the UK's
finest innovators on the music scene to date, such
as: the legendary drum 'n' bass innovator
Grooverider; melding jungle, techno and hip-hop beats
will be the leading junglist A Guy Called Gerald,
plus Jazz artist Steve Williamson will create a
spellbound concoction of digital beats for the 21st
Century on a jazz tip with his MIDI sax.
* Plus Joburg Streets, a collective of
musicians and dancers from Johannesburg, Cape Town
and London, provide a highly original fusion of
African beats and drum 'n' bass.
More to be confirmed shortly.
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