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Flatpack Festival 3

JW picked up this flyer last week at the German Christmas Market... run by 7 Inch Cinema, Flatpack is a film festival in Birmingham, running between 11th-15th March 2009 - glad to see it back.

   
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Flatpack_Festival_3_tag_film_f.zip (364 KB)

Filed under  //   7inchcinema   birmingham   festival   film  
Posted November 30, 2008
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Pram @ 7 inch cinema at the Bablake Old Boys Club in Coventry

I'll write a bit more of this up at the other place shortly, but here's some initial disorganised reporting on the weekend. 

As part of the "A Thing About Machines" art festival, Pram did a show somewhere half-between a DJ and live set with a whole bunch of tape loops and ancient devices.  

There's something about the sound of tape, and the organic quality that it lends to otherwise harsh electronics really came out in Pram's set, which was more textural than beaty or particularly melodic. Being improvised, it dragged here and there, but only occasionally. And for all the use of old techniques and electronics, it seemed much less dated than Mr 90s Drum And Bass Violin Player at Taylor John's later on, brrrr. 

Gear spotting twat that I am, there were a couple of synths, an 8 track tape deck, a Roland Chorus Echo, a glockenspiel and - hope I'm not giving some sort of secret away here - this odd device on the middle right of the pic below, which is a jam jar mounted on a some sort of old industrial electric motor.

The operator takes a tape head (presumably plugged into the mixer) and wipes it along the tape as the jam jar rotates, quite ingenious. I'm not sure what sounds were coming from it, but I'm thinking that you could have a bunch of sustained notes from an organ set across the jam jar and play it like the bastard offspring of a Stylophone and a Mellotron.

Oh and and a celebratory packet of Tooty Frooties or some other retro sweet should go to Scott Johnston of Film Ficciones for providing me and my sister with the retro-thrill of the evening, a tiny clip of Children's Film Foundation film "Glitterball", we recognised it straightaway.


Filed under  //   7inchcinema   athingaboutmachines   coventry   festival   gig   pram  
Posted September 22, 2008
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A thing about machines - audio/visual arts event in Coventry

Just mentioned this over at paper-jam: A Thing About Machines, arts event happening all over Coventry from 19th to 21st September, with lots of good stuff including an all-day event dedicated to Coventry-born electronic music heroine Delia Derbyshire run by 7inch cinema. All we need is Broadcast to turn up and do a cover of "ziweh-ziweh ooo ooo" and I can die happy.

Here's a quick blast of Delia Derbyshire on the wheels of steel:

Filed under  //   7inchcinema   athingaboutmachines   deliaderbyshire   radiophonicworkshop  
Posted August 21, 2008
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Bert and Ernie go brutal at 7 inch



I always love the 7 Inch Cinema events in Birmingham: we popped over on Saturday to their fifth birthday day thing at the Rainbow.

I dug out the few things I could for this post over at paper-jam, shame I couldn't find Professor Balthazar's "Knitting Pretty", which is wonderful, and Jim Henson's freaky "Time Piece", but I'll get 'em eventually...

Anyway, here's some Muppet madness.

Filed under  //   7inchcinema   muppets   video   youtube  
Posted July 2, 2008
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