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"Can I be honest? No one's going to offer you an office job. There's too much competition. Why don't you fight? I read somewhere you're a very good fighter." For an excuse to get out and have some fun Monday 20th December 18:09pm , "Pillow Fight Club" Traverse over to http://www.mobile-clubbing.com/pillow.html for full instructions.

all people interested in experimental use and hacking of turntables are invited to join this event. after a tour through the history of turntablism and plunderphonics - with use of audio-samples - several methods of deriving non-rhythmic music out of common records played with a standard dj-setup are presented. hidden sounds, errors, cuts and dust play an important role in this approach to understand and play records as interface of a stand-alone instrument. another motivation of the 'off-beat'-session is the demystification and a new definition of the dj's role in modern and temporary musical practise. read more or visit http://mattinger.firstfloor.org/offbeat/index.htm for details. http://mattinger.firstfloor.org/wolf.htm has details on Wolfgang Fuchs

Graduate Certificate in Sonic Arts, LCC, University Of The Arts London. Duration: 15 weeks from January 2005. The Graduate Certificate in Sonic Arts gives you an opportunity both to learn new skills and refine and develop your existing techniques, broaden and deepen your practice and extend your critical awareness of trends and issues in contemporary Sonic Arts practice. read more for details on how to apply

Workshops and Demos on Free + Open Source Software for artists by Aymeric Mansoux and Derek Holzer. While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free to use, share and rebuild. This workshop introduces the software combination of Pure Data, GEM and PDP/PiDiP, running on the Linux operating system, as a platform for audio, video and multimedia artists to explore. Full workshop program [actual program varies with venue]: http://electric-boogaloo.goto10.org/pdzilla/ or read more for details

Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment. Stopping over in San Francisco, New York's Times Square, and Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping and Media Tigress Carly Stasko. Culturejam asks: Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? Senseless vandalism? The only form of self defense left?
visit http://www.culturejamthefilm.com/ for details