A festival of new music, arts, performance and architecture exploring diverse interpretations of psychedelia and ideas of utopia.

Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn near Cambridge, UK, CB23 2TX.
http://www.wysingartscentre.org/


PAST PRESENT FUTURE: SPACE-TIME is programmed in partnership with Bad Timing, Strange Attractor, Electra and Escalator Music.

New: Video interviews and live footage from some of the artists at Past Present Future: Space-Time in 2011 compiled by Simon Mullen.

http://simonmullen.com/band-interviews-from-past-present-future-space-time/

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Images of Past Present Future: Space-Time by possible area.

Images of Past Present Future: Space-Time by possible area.

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Images of Past Present Future: Space-Time by Patrick Widdess.

Images of Past Present Future: Space-Time by Patrick Widdess.

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DJ: bad timing djs Experiments and inventions from the underground.  Custom-made DJ sets and structures.  Now in its tenth year, Bad Timing has been bringing experimental, electronic, radiophonic, noise, ‘obselete’ technology, DIY and other music to Cambridge from across the world and recently constructed and ran a nano-venue Self Assembly. http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

DJ: bad timing djs

Experiments and inventions from the underground.  Custom-made DJ sets and structures.  Now in its tenth year, Bad Timing has been bringing experimental, electronic, radiophonic, noise, ‘obselete’ technology, DIY and other music to Cambridge from across the world and recently constructed and ran a nano-venue Self Assembly.

http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

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DJ: Maria and the Mirrors ‘London band influenced by the likes of Hanatarash and Throbbing Gristle, treating all sounds electronically and fused with whirring concrete tape sounds harvested from around London Town like Pierre Schaeffer on a bad day. These combine with visceral double drum attack and nagging vocal melodies recalling Yoko Ono and Gang Gang Dance.’ ents24.com http://mariamirrors.tumblr.com/ http://www.myspace.com/mariamirrors

DJ: Maria and the Mirrors

‘London band influenced by the likes of Hanatarash and Throbbing Gristle, treating all sounds electronically and fused with whirring concrete tape sounds harvested from around London Town like Pierre Schaeffer on a bad day. These combine with visceral double drum attack and nagging vocal melodies recalling Yoko Ono and Gang Gang Dance.’ ents24.com

http://mariamirrors.tumblr.com/

http://www.myspace.com/mariamirrors

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DJ: Tom Hyena is part of the sprawling B-Music collective - djing alongside Finders Keepers Label man Doug Shipton for their regular night Onomatopoeia in London, he plays a heady mix of psychedelic funk, post punk, early electro and forgotten gems from the far flung corners of the world. http://soundcloud.com/tom-hyena http://www.myspace.com/bmusiccollective http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com

DJ: Tom Hyena is part of the sprawling B-Music collective - djing alongside Finders Keepers Label man Doug Shipton for their regular night Onomatopoeia in London, he plays a heady mix of psychedelic funk, post punk, early electro and forgotten gems from the far flung corners of the world.

http://soundcloud.com/tom-hyena

http://www.myspace.com/bmusiccollective

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com


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DJ set: Andy Holden and Ed Atkins  A B2B DJ set, wallowing in a shared trough of musical swill.  Andy Holden’s  work incorporates a wide variety of media and forms of presentation, from plaster, bronze and ceramic objects, to music, performance and large outdoor sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece for Art Now at Tate Britain and Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. Ed Atkins  lives and works in London. This year he was included in the group exhibition ‘Time Again’ at SculptureCenter, NY; co-organised ‘A Dying Artist’ at The ICA, London; and had a solo show at Cabinet Gallery, London. In October he will present a new commission for Frieze Film, which will be shown on Channel 4, and a solo presentation for Art Now at Tate Britain. In November he will collaborate on a new live event with Haroon Mirza and James Richards in Times Square, NY for Performa 11.

DJ set: Andy Holden and Ed Atkins 

A B2B DJ set, wallowing in a shared trough of musical swill. 

Andy Holden’s  work incorporates a wide variety of media and forms of presentation, from plaster, bronze and ceramic objects, to music, performance and large outdoor sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece for Art Now at Tate Britain and Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.

Ed Atkins  lives and works in London. This year he was included in the group exhibition ‘Time Again’ at SculptureCenter, NY; co-organised ‘A Dying Artist’ at The ICA, London; and had a solo show at Cabinet Gallery, London. In October he will present a new commission for Frieze Film, which will be shown on Channel 4, and a solo presentation for Art Now at Tate Britain. In November he will collaborate on a new live event with Haroon Mirza and James Richards in Times Square, NY for Performa 11.

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Live music/performance: New Noveta  Sonically and physically unconstrained industrial noise performance. http://newnoveta.blogspot.com/ http://soundcloud.com/new-noveta

Live music/performance: New Noveta 

Sonically and physically unconstrained industrial noise performance.

http://newnoveta.blogspot.com/

http://soundcloud.com/new-noveta


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Live music: Transept ‘Formed 3 years ago by accident, Transept unified their loves of Heath Robinson-style bedroom electronics, oscillator drones and sugary melody around a common enthusiasm for distortion and hiss. Their self-released debut L.P. achieved an average mark of 7.2/10 from the UK music press, and the following (google-translated) review in Berlin’s Lodown magazine: “Tears for gifted watercolor painter, are on the cold Sunday art market, where no one wants to buy watercolors, whereupon they trudge home in slow motion, just enter the cold studio apartment and paint more pictures. Then they went to sleep on their pillows and dream of wet stones.’  Based in Norwich they recently supported Godspeed You! Black Emperor on their UK tour. ‘If you can imagine Robert Wyatt, struggling to tune in his wireless, during a robot thunderstorm, whilst trying to relay his newest piano song to his friends from Faust, via the power of thought…’ Breakthru Radio http://trspt.net/ http://soundcloud.com/transept

Live music: Transept ‘Formed 3 years ago by accident, Transept unified their loves of Heath Robinson-style bedroom electronics, oscillator drones and sugary melody around a common enthusiasm for distortion and hiss. Their self-released debut L.P. achieved an average mark of 7.2/10 from the UK music press, and the following (google-translated) review in Berlin’s Lodown magazine: “Tears for gifted watercolor painter, are on the cold Sunday art market, where no one wants to buy watercolors, whereupon they trudge home in slow motion, just enter the cold studio apartment and paint more pictures. Then they went to sleep on their pillows and dream of wet stones.’  Based in Norwich they recently supported Godspeed You! Black Emperor on their UK tour.

‘If you can imagine Robert Wyatt, struggling to tune in his wireless, during a robot thunderstorm, whilst trying to relay his newest piano song to his friends from Faust, via the power of thought…’ Breakthru Radio

http://trspt.net/

http://soundcloud.com/transept

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Live music: Raagnagrok Allstars  Formed in 2005 by Zali Krishna and Mark Pilkington as an improvisational synth and electric sitar duo, Raagnagrok are one of the London underground’s worst-kept secrets, having played everywhere from squats, bunkers and snooker clubs to the ICA. Influences include Popul Vuh, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, Heldon, Hawkwind, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Napalm Death and everything in between. For this performance the duo are joined by phenomenal improv drummer Paul May and Junior Aspirin’s Andy Cooke on bass. ‘Raagnagrok are a synthesizer and electric sitar duo who produce an ecstatic cosmic raga-drone - psychedelic, hypnotic and transcendental. Easy journey to other planets, from 15 minutes to eternity.’  scaledown http://www.raagnagrok.co.uk/ Photo: Alyssa Joye

Live music: Raagnagrok Allstars 

Formed in 2005 by Zali Krishna and Mark Pilkington as an improvisational synth and electric sitar duo, Raagnagrok are one of the London underground’s worst-kept secrets, having played everywhere from squats, bunkers and snooker clubs to the ICA. Influences include Popul Vuh, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, Heldon, Hawkwind, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Napalm Death and everything in between. For this performance the duo are joined by phenomenal improv drummer Paul May and Junior Aspirin’s Andy Cooke on bass.

‘Raagnagrok are a synthesizer and electric sitar duo who produce an ecstatic cosmic raga-drone - psychedelic, hypnotic and transcendental. Easy journey to other planets, from 15 minutes to eternity.’  scaledown

http://www.raagnagrok.co.uk/

Photo: Alyssa Joye

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