Immersion

Immersion at The Flea Pit on Columbia Road is an experimental music/sound-art event presenting a soundtrack of ambient journeys, electronic atmospheres, noisescapes and tones/drones...oo-er.

Immersion is an arena for new and established international artists performing live experimental electronic music; using laptops, synthesizers, field recordings, circuit-bent electronics and prepared/processed instruments.

All sounds are partnered by stimulating projected visuals processed live and tailored for each performance. As an arena for artists performing live electronic music, you can expect the unexpected, all music is accompanied stimulating projected visuals processed live and tailored for each performance.

The next event will be taking place on Thursday April 3rd, things kick off at 7pm and finish up at 11pm.

Performers include:

0 > 1 is an alias for the miscellaneous musical deluge of London-based electroacoustic composer Lee Fraser. This performance will feature the live sequencing and manipulation of pre-recorded sound objects alongside complex generative micro-rhythmic structuring.

FZV Sound/scape/pattern design using a combination of (frequently obsolete and/or self-modified) analogue and digital hardware, field recordings and non-commercial software. live performance in this instance using object-orientated software and laptop.

Jack Marchment a land of towering analogia, monolithic muzak and fictional electro-acoustic stars, Jack Marchment's forthcoming album 'Corydon and Manjrekar' will be released on Scotland's Benbecula Records in May 2008.

Magnumquilter has been rocking open-minded parties in Wales and the Southwest with a live set that mixes horror-movie ambience and disembodied voices with glitched, 'Autechre-ish' distorted beats.

SS_R experiments with lo-fi electronics, noise and field recordings have been used to produce drones and repetitions - creating minimalist tracks that lie somewhere between machine-noise and 1970's sci-fi horror soundtracks.

The Jones Memorandum is a one man sound project that originally had no intention of going further than the kitchen table. Simplistic beats, velvet chords and the wondrous metronomic melody of various photocopier machines are guaranteed.

Visuals will be provided by pixelpusher (Evan.Raskob), a live video performance artist, or "pixelist". After a few years of pixel-pushing across New York City, he now plies his trade on the mean streets of London.

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How to get there

The nearest tube stations are Old Street and Bethnal Green. If on the bus the 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 55, 67, 78, 149, 242, 245 and the 388 all serve Shoreditch High Street and surrounding areas.