Building Transmissions perform as part of the Metapod Festival
(Belguim)

BUILDING TRANSMISSIONS IMAGE/SOUND/ARCHITECTURAL INSTALLATION

Building Transmissions is a multi-media project that is very much focusing on the abstraction of things, both musically and in the images they project during their performances. Focusing on abstraction stimulates the audiences’ interaction concerning their possibilities of interpretation. Conflict and instability in their compositions, deconstruction of sound, experimentation and research for sound and non-sound are important aspects of Building Transmissions art.

Building Transmissions use a wide range of instrumentation, both acoustic/conventional instruments (saxes, guitars, piano, voice.) as well as electronics (MD, turntable, effect & filter banks, synths.) to create a personal and introvert dialogue with the accompanying video-projections. Hereby shaping an ambient-like soundscape with shifting ambiences and fragments from free jazz, noise, drones, high pitched frequencies, field recordings etc. The body and its movement are very strongly present in Building Transmissions video works and architectural installations. Stills and moving images interfere with one another whereby it gets difficult to capture the image, creating a new intersection between time and movement.

Building Transmissions released its first CD + roadmap-sized publication in July 2001, recorded a track for the highly anticipated Hydra Head Noise Industries (Boston, US) label sampler, and is currently working on a re-mix album of their first release (collaborating with several artists world wide) as well as on a re-mix of Clémentine Deliss’ (London, UK) Metronome n°7 ‘The Bastard’ book + CD.

More info on
www.conspiracyrecords.com/Building_Transmissions.html

followed by
Andrew Weatherall is one of the UK’s most versatile and respected players covering all bases – techno, electro, deep house, twisted funk, experimental & downtempo. Recently Weatherall has been collaborating with Keith Tenniswood as ‘Two Lone Swordsmen’ who together have signed with Warp Records.
www.procreationmusic.com

This project features as part of Metapod.expo, a brand new festival which celebrates innovation in the UK’s Creative Industries, Metapod.expo takes place 31st oct – 4th nov 2001, for further details of events visit www.metapod.org.uk

Modified Toy Orchestra, Brian Duffy live performance
Dreams of Tall Buildings
Jeff Spicoli (Stati’k)
Iacon

metapod.expo
The showcase for innovation, new practice, opportunity and discussion for the creative industries
www.metapod.org.uk

9pm – 10pm.
Modified Toy Orchestra, Brian Duffy
Electronic sound toys have been rewired and reconfigured to create a series of musical instruments each creating their own new electronic sounds which oscillate between the familiar function of the toys and new sounds far removed from the original function. As the performer plays and conducts the amplified toy orchestra, the resulting sounds create a stunning effect. The performances of the toy orchestra are unique each time they are played according to the sequencing and the physical state of the performer giving importance back to the live performance and digital sound. During this event Duffy will create his visually and sonically projected Texas Haiku Hidden Poem made using random word generation from Speak & Spell machines.

10.00pm – 1.00am
Iacon dj collective combine their unique blend of visuals with an ecclectic mix of samples played through a distortion pedal. They have played at several capsule events under the name of wonderland, and has included the chicks on speed night as well as being the first sonic visual commission at capsule. Soon to have their first release on Winnebago records.

Dreams of Tall Buildings
were formed at the end of 1999. their sonic venture began by recording sound textures from media, sounds from their environment and surroundings. they have been known to use type writers and super 8 projectors in order to create unearthly rhythms rather than using traditional percussion. they avoid becoming slaves to genre by having a doctrine which is as evolving as their sound constructions themselves. their sound ranges from minimal microwaves, breathing and non notes to hideously distorted trumpets and string loops sounding like miles davis stabbing stan getz in a floatation tank .

capsule vs stati’k:
 2 rooms with
 live performances by
bola (skam records) + gescom (members of autechre)
floach + papa november
lodown magazine exhibition launch (berlin)
ideal 10th birthday > skate ramp + gambling
wax fondling: mr.ben + dj log + satori + jeff spicoli + capsule
girls
 + for your pleasure inflatable sumo wrestlers

LODOWN
discover the blueprint of a specific subculture, who have set their focus on playing with and sampling urban mechanisms and transforming them to their own art of expression, deeply rooted in american pop art, electronic music, skateboarding, or whatever. enjoy more than exploit.< marok 2000 a selection of material from Schizophrenic, the second book by berlin based magazine Lodown, featuring new work from marok commissioned by capsule
28th september – 28th October exhibition curated by capsule

sponsored by Carhartt , west midlands arts, medicine bar

to find out more about lodown magazine check out
www.lodown.de

BOLA
Manchester’s Bola is Darrell Fitton, whose 1995 debut 12-inch for Skam under that name helped shoot the now-collectible label to underground notoriety. His self-titled Skam EP combined vaguely funk-fueled rhythms with harsh, austere synth textures and almost industrial-grade distortion.Soup, Fitton’s LP debut is an impressive synthesis of the machine-beat ambiance of post-techno with warm, wistful analog soul.
Text taken from Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

GESCOM
Gescom, the more dancefloor-friendly identity of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, focuses on the more uptempo tendencies of Autechre paired with a harder, rougher, more driving rhythmic edge, Gescom material remains committed to the more adventurous side of electro/techno even as it gives DJs a bit more backbeat to work with. Text taken from Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

to find out more about gescom and bola check out the skam website
www.skam.co.uk

fly pan am
karamasov
DOTB

Fly Pan Am is a young Montreal-based instrumental rock quartet whose ear for melody, honed in large part through obsessive exposure to the French pop tradition, is combined with a strong forward-looking experimentalism, driven by a deep-rooted faith in the unfulfilled possibilities of minimalism and electronic/tape-based sound in rock composition. Fly Pan Am engage a tradition of art-punk that encompasses the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads and Sonic Youth, maintaining an exuberant innocence tempered by a sense of structural refinement similar in spirit to that of early Stereolab. The straight-up metronomic drumming, with its obstinate refusal to add flourishes or fills, establishes a steady found .ation upon which bass and guitar lines can weave and shift at will. Tape-based experimentation by all the members of the group add drones, transitional accents, and abrupt interruptions to the live band material. The result is a constantly evolving rhythmic entity which recalls the grand instrumental textures of Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the minimal economy of the Velvets and the angular structures of New York’s No-Wave scene.

Montreal, which has also given us Godspeed You Black Emperor! (with whom, in Roger Tellier-Craig, Fly Pan Am share a guitarist), is clearly enamoured of the slow revolution, the minimalist hook, and the glorious chiming climax.
Ralph Parfect – NME, September 30, 1999

To find out more about Fly Pan Am check:
www.cstrecords.com

Karamasov are Satellite records newest signing and are an anglo-german four piece consisting of Adam Stewart (electronics and programming), Berit Immig (drums, percussion, occasional vocals), Harry Rambaut (bass) and Johannes von Weizsacker (guitar and cello).
When Adam and his sampler moved in with Johannes and Harry some musical experimentation led to the idea to form a band. This was cemented when Berit (a classically trained percussionist) came in on drums. After several name changes they settled on Karamasov after the book the Brothers Karamasov by Dostoevsky although the choice was more to do with the sound of the name than any great affiliation to Russian literature. The band were fully formed in December 1997 and have been playing killer live sets ever since.

To find out more about Karamasov check:
www.karamasov.co.uk/

dreams of tall buildings were formed at the end of 1999. their sonic venture began by recording sound textures from media, sounds from their environment and surroundings. they have been known to use type writers and super 8 projectors in order to create unearthly rhythms rather than using traditional percussion. they avoid becoming slaves to genre by having a doctrine which is as evolving as their sound constructions themselves. their sound ranges from minimal microwaves, breathing and non notes to hideously distorted trumpets and string loops sounding like miles davis stabbing stan getz in a floatation tank .

kid606
gold chains
iacon

where to start with kid606? some would say that simple words cannot describe him but seeing as he is too lazy and/or busy to make a quicktime movie of his life story words will have to suffice. When not working on more emo-jungle-digital-indie-trashy-punk-noisy-wicked- electro-techno-hardcore-IDM-soul and fuck hits to follow up his “don’t sweat the technics” full length, in his spare time kid606 likes to do remixes for other people or get other people to do remixes for him.

Kid606 like to namedrop (in no particular order)godflesh, the misfits, swans, sex pistols, throbbing gristle, techno-animal, cramps, napalm death, ice, neurosis, eyehategod, joy division, jesus and mary chain,richard devine, stuff on mego like fennesz and farmers manual, mouse on mars, twisted science, vomit lunchs, autechre/gescom, coil, public enemy, v/vm, ambush, I-sound, christoph de babalon, pole, wutang,mase, chain reaction stuff like porter ricks, sonic subjunkies, lexuanculpt, warsaw, good electro like schematic, romullo and his brother, main, heroin, NWA, scala, merzbow, locust, mark van hoen, the crimson curse, lowfish,solvent, gentle giant, the rapture, david kristian, sensational, Dj pure, to roccoco rot, the jungle brothers, matmos, ken ishi, photek, puppy, somatic responses, minor threat,michael nyman, steve reich and gavin bryars.

to find out more about kid 606 and his record label check:
http://www.tigerbeat6.com/

Everybody is talking about this new rap music,” proclaims Gold Chains (a.k.a. Topher LaFata) over some dubby beats on his self-titled EP, soon to be put out by Kit Clayton’s Orthlorng Musork label. No doubt! The San Francisco mic master garnered a mention in Spin before releasing a single track. Maybe its because they had nothing to else interesting to write about that month. But more likely it’s because once the rapper lets his rhymes loose over his bass-thumping, techno-damaged beats and blends them with hip-hop, dub, and a touch of bittersweet pop, babes start dancing and people start feeling good about themselves. What does Gold Chains have to say about this?

“I’m just a normal cali punk rock kid living one day at a time trying to fill the world with beauty, love and revolution.”

Looks like he is doing a good job so far.

iacon dj collective combine their unique blend of visuals with an ecclectic mix of samples played through a distortion pedal. They have played at several capsule events under the name of wonderland, and has included the chicks on speed night as well as being the first sonic visual commission at capsule.

spirit caravan (ex obsessed + st vitus)
dukes of nothing (ex iron Monkey)
for my brain

Between them, the three members of spirit caravan ruled the us doom rock scene throughout the 80s and 90s, variously serving time in saint vitus, the obsessed, pentagram, iron man, wretched and unorthadox.
If you’re partial to a bit of sabbath this is the band for you!!!

“Formed by the godfather of heavy rock, scott ‘wino’ weinrich’ (ex st. vitus, ex obsessed), spirit caravan’s recent london show was seen by the stoner faithful as gig of the year. The loudest band on the planet, the caravan blend old school rock values with heavy, free jazz interludes, powered by wino’s legendary guitar tone”
NME

for more info about spirit caravan
www.spiritcaravan.com

Already hotly-tipped the mighty Dukes Of Nothing – a band recently cited by the NME as ‘Ones To Watch’ in 2001 and featuring former members of Iron Monkey, Fabric & Acrimony, along with drummer Chris Turner from Orange Goblin, the Dukes have spent the past few months perfecting their ‘Motorhead meets Black Flag’ sonics, and laying plans for a series of seven-inch singles this year (starting with the release the CD ‘Ten Tonnes’ in May on Eccentric Man Records, closely followed by a split 7″ single with the Hookers in June 2001 on the Butchers Hook label).

People naturally expect a continuation of the seismic sludged out doom that the MONKEY were renowned for the world over. However, as they hit the stage for their debut show at London’s Garage in March 2000, it was apparent that these boys had been doing their homework, and what rushed forth from their battered amps was something far scarier: high octane no holds barred full contact rock ‘n’ roll abandon – guns blazing, headstocks pointing to the heavens and speed grimaces a mile wide.

It was the band’s conscious decision to pick up the tempo and look back at the music that inspired them in younger, less cynical days: BLACK FLAG, MOTORHEAD, AC/DC, DISCHARGE, SAINT VITUS, CELTIC FROST and other behemoths of their teens. This ain’t retro baby, just the carrying on of traditions that just aren’t that prevalent these days. Sure, they like a couple of those new fangled bands, but deep down, the shit that REALLY excites them comes from an era when real men wore Denim and Leather, body piercing was unheard of and MTV played nothing but wall to wall Dire Straits.

Fine tuning, finer songs and a smattering of shows later (guest appearances with the likes of HIGH ON FIRE, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, ORANGE GOBLIN, HELLACOPTERS & UK SUBS amongst others), the troops are ready to take on all comers. A handful of 7″s, a mini album on their label, ECCENTRIC MAN, and an upcoming tour with SPIRIT CARAVAN are the band’s first steps towards world domination.

for more info about dukes of nothing:
www.dukesofnothing.com

For my brain are a london four-piece making their debut with a unique brand of twisted rock n’ roll. influences include Pussy galore, Butthole Surfers, Black Sabbath and Trail of Dead.

capsule + fierce! presents
d>generate:a live performance by:
chicks on speed . sand . ravi deepres
luke vibert (dj set) echoboy (live)

adam regan (leftfoot/different drummer) .chris read
(substance)
sir real (house of God) . wonderland dj collective .
 

“Chicks On Speed have an undefinable stance where fine art, graphic design, rock n roll, the avante garde, performance, politics, feminism, electronica, techno and consumerism collide but where the communication of ideas in whatever medium is paramount”
The Face

A unique collaboration between internationally acclaimed Berlin based music and performance trio chicks on speed, Birmingham based musicians sand and visual artist ravi deepres, is set to be the highlight of an evenings entertainment at medicine bar, birmingham.

A poster campaign in and around the city centre will be devised, created and implemented by Chicks on Speed, who will be in residence at Capsule/the Medicine Bar, working on installation material for one week prior to the event.

Chicks take on the Beatles during the week, performing on the roof of the Ikon Gallery. All of the artists have been commissioned to work together, prior to the event, Chick A, Chick M and friends providing text, performance and costume with Sand (Satellite Records) Layering musical elements and Birmingham based artist Ravi Deepres providing visual projections.

Saturday night will see the fruits of a two month collaboration – under the title d>generate. The Custard Factory lake is being transformed to house this one-off sonic/visual performance a piece commissioned specifically for the event.

For more information on chicks on speed check:
www.chicksonspeed.com

“avant jazz collective Sand suffer from a split personality.Their singles for London satelite label exploit vinyls binary system:play one side and you’re presented with an update of Forth World fusionist John Hassel’s mutant ethodelia and EMC’s spartan vistas. Put the needle to the filp and now you’re locked into feral metal freefall, swept up in sensurround of agitated electronic noise.”
SLEAZENATION

For more information about sand check:www.mrsapple.com

luke vibert takes to the decks in the Medicine Bar venue,
“After his many moves and moods and interludes and so on, so forth and thereafter, Mr Vibert, as Mr Wagon Christ, has ended up producing his first album for his spiritual home-buddies, Ninja Tune. Thoughtfully taking us on a Vibert tour of the past 4 years “Musipal” presents a mixture of new tracks and previously unreleased archive material.”
Ninjatune

supported by a host of fine upstanding Birmingham DJ’s:
adam reagan (Leftfoot/Different Drummer), chris read (Substance) and wonderland dj collective

echoboy, having recently toured with the likes of add N To (X), Doves and elastica will be gracing the lake side stage with a live set

“You listen to a Bob Dylan record, listen to a Television record, listen to a Kraftwerk record, listen to a Chemical Brothers record and then put it all together. All these are the best people of their day, so if you put it together then you should have the perfect hybrid,”
Richard Warren, Echoboy

for more info
www.echoboy.com

billy  mahonie
geiger counter
buick 6

Billy Mahonie are an instrumental rock band who have been playing music for the last three years. Their album The Big Dig was released on Too Pure in 1999. Recently they have ditched some of the laid back facets to their music and drifted further into the realms of heavy rock, jazz, and folk, bringing forth a heavier, sharper and more focused sound which will surely foil the pigeon holers and rock intelligensia. They will be playing material from their new album What Becomes Before which is due fro release on Southern Records on August 28th 2001.

For further info on Billy Mahonie check:
www.billymahonie.com

s this Prog Rock or Math Rock taken to the extreme? No over indulgent vocals, no over the top stage antics. Just good hard music, that grabs you by the throat and spits you out onto the floor. These guys seriously rock big time! Jon and Crawford you may recognise from bass wranglers Rothko, but Jon swaps instruments from bass, to more at home guitar. Last release Ekranoplan is a gem. See them live and prepare to be pinned against the wall! Like all your favourite rock bands without the singers.

For info on Geiger Counter check:
www.skippyscage.com/