The Perth Artifactory
Oh yes, we’re turning it up to 11, possibly even 11 and a bit at this NoizeMaschin!! Tuesday 22nd May, 7:30pm. $10 entry for non-members and non-performers. Bar d’Factory drinks & earplugs available.
Lineup: Carcas Sniffer – Looped vocal noise and pedal skullduggery | Craig McElhinney – Winner of the PAWPAW for best Male Artist finally gets to show us why | Chris Cobilis – Will Chris top his much talked about “sausage-fest” performance from 2011? Time will tell… | Lee Yoresh – Harsh noise as only Lee Yoresh can do | I.n0.jaQ – Artist in residency gives us an audio-update of his project | Sam Gillies – Just found a contact mic. Will put it to good use, along with some vocoded feedback | Dr Vellocet – The centre of steam-punk attention returns with some more noisy offerings!
We’re in the process of completing some long planned and awaited major upgrades to the Space: RFID security for the door and more, shifting the heavy tools into the enclosed storage room, and converting the final office into a quiet and AC’ed CAD/CAM/Programming room, with the 3D Up! printer. Lots of rearrangement of the space in general will follow, culminating in a much larger performance / presentation / lecture / social area, larger useable areas, less dead walk way zones, and more. It will feel like a new Space!
Members will be required to get the new RFID tags to gain access to the building after the security system goes online, hopefully tonight!
Once again the Artifactory has its own little secret base above the frolicking weekend masses at the Northbridge Piazza.
We have the arcophones, steam ostrich, the cartesian crane, arduinos and DMX lights to play with, and Nathan Thompson’s Solar Snare – all in a central city location in AC’ed glass-walled comfort. I have my soldering iron and components there, so live hacking is definitely possible.
We’re open to the public from 12-6 Saturday and Sunday. In practice we get a few people every 30 minutes or so – nothing onerous – you can defintely get on with electronics work, and it’s fun building up your show-n-tell skills and patter.
SATURDAY NIGHT is the Bladerunner immersive cinema extravaganza – free! – there will be lots of blade runner themed street theatre as well as the movie; was thinking we can play with the robo-lights and smoke machine and make a replicant security station. Nerf guns are a go!
SUNDAY is the Piazza’s Electric fair – so our gizmos and electric vehicles are in hot demand. SKoT says: “I’ll bring my e-bike down for show and tell, if anyone else feels like it we could have a ride around Northbridge making a nusiance of our electrified selves – We have spare vintage brass squeezy horns to honk obnoxiously as we whizz about…”
For those confused as to what the Northbridge Piazza is: the square with the big TV on Lake and James street, Northbridge. We are in the super modern glass-and-steel box directly looking over the picnicers – instant stage for mad science whackiness.
Oh yeah, we’re hitting double figures for the event-count, but as usual well into triple figures for our dB rating. NoizeMaschin – your Perfect Ten score for a grungy dose of experimental music in an industrial setting, Perth’s very own hackerspace, The Artifactory. $10 entry for non-members and non-performers. Bar d’Factory drinks & earplugs available. Doors open 7:30.
Line up:
Jiah: The Table Guy feat. Adam Brown – A special performance of this compelling performance art set in a longer-than-usual NM slot! See a table created in real time and hear the sounds of this creation put to compelling musical use!
Chris Arnold: The Mystery Producer – Yet more sound poetry from a Noizemaschin favourite!
Stuart James – Laptop experimenter plays with the boundary of noise and ambient sound
Henry Anderson – Plays his Noizemaschin!! #9 set at Noizemaschin!! #10, we all pretend like we don’t notice…
Jack Moriarty – Test driving the latest experiments in sound-object-based music. If symptoms persist see your doctor.
I.n0jaQ – Noizemaschin!! artist in residence makes compelling sound for your listening pleasure!
Cycle~ 440 – Piano and laptop duo make sweet melodious noise for your ears
The Artifactory will be commissioning its new PP3DP UP! Plus 3D Printer this coming Wednesday the 11th of April from 7pm, coinciding with the Arduino U newbies night.
So bring your STL’s and join us for a night of 3D printing, Arduino hacking and Pizza!
Calling all inventive and creative people.
We want to run a workshop (in early autumn 2013) that tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration and we are holding a meeting at 3.30pm this Thursday to talk through the possibilities and gauge interest.
Meeting
Why: To discuss the possibilities for running a workshop (outlined below) and talk about a similar workshop held in 2009.
When: This Thursday 22 March
Time: 5.30pm
Where: The Perth Artifactory: 8/16 Guthrie st, Osborne Park
Workshop Description So Far (for a workshop to be held in Autumn 2013)
Aims:
- To demystify collaborative practice and begin to use it as a potent way of working.
- To scale some of the communication barriers between different disciplines.
- To learn from each other; to learn how to work, play and create in groups.
- To become more confident in our own expression.
Proposed structure:
- It will be about a week long, away from the city and its daily pressures and interruptions. This will allow us to focus on expanding creative processes without rushing.
- This workshop is exploratory and experimental. It is not outcomes-based. It is a chance to develop creatively and professionally in a supportive and generous environment.
- Much of the workshop structure and content will be determined by the participants in preparation for and during the workshop.
If you are interested we will be very excited to hear from you and/or see you on Thursday! For updates, or to contact us, please visit the Facebook events page at http://www.facebook.com/events/318791604842649/.
Michelle Outram and Jenna Downing
Our monthly experimental music and noise show, #9! 7:30-11pm, $10 for non-members. This night will feature performances from Quickquickquick, Ourobonic Plague, Trilby&Co, Henry Andersen, K Wilson, Stewbags, Sam Gillies, and our resident NM artist, Christopher de Groot, who is investigating using our CNC machines to cut up vinyl records and miss-mash them. Be there, be square (or not); jump on ship and be hip; etc etc. Wooo!
Rapture returns to the Artifactory on March 24, in collaboration with RESISTANCE COLLECTIVE and DARK SCIENCES. 8pm till 2pm, 7 DJs playing a broad range of electronica in our industrial warehouse of technical oddities, lit up by Optic Nerve’s fabulous laser show. $10 for non members. Get the more of the low down on the Facebook Page.
Arduino University returns with a MIDI specialization evening – perfect for the budding DIY music interface builder, installation artist, experimental musician or modular synth builder.The format for the evening will be a series of self-paced hands-on examples with guiding notes and sketch-code, with our resident MIDI and Arduino experts on hand for help. You can even get lessons on using our CNC router Swarf-O-Mat to build your own custom MIDI control surface enclosure! $10 for non-members. Limited Arduinos and MIDI shields available, email us to reserve one. Attendees will ideally have a laptop, MIDI interface, USB cable, Arduino, MIDI cable, and possibly a MIDI synth.
Construction of a new CNC machine has begun under the working title “Son Of Swarf-O-Mat”. This will be a 3 axis ‘bot; with a moving X-table, fixed Y-gantry and mobile Z attached to Y. Our existing CNC machine, Swarf-O-Mat (senior), will cut all parts from aluminium, prototyping in MDF first. Last night John started design work on NEMA-17 to NEMA-23 adapter plates to affix steppers to the linear bearings, and Jason & SKoT designed and cut two connector plates which allow us to bolt the Y and Z bearings into a single unit. Prototyping in MDF proved useful – we discovered our initial design made access to some of the bolt holes impractical, so a Mk2 with improved access and wider counter sink recesses resulted in short order. Hurrah for iterative design and rapid robot-assisted prototyping!
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