Enjoy some Recent/Future Sounds this June at The Fleapit on Columbia Road.

This monthly live music event showcases Recent/Future Records artists and features alternative & experimental acts from London and beyond.

Every month will see a different headliner, with The Recent Future in residence.

The next event is taking place on Wednesday June 18th from 7.30pm. Check back for headliner details.

Find out more about events at The Fleapit.

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.

The Flea Pit on Columbia Road will be playing host of an evening of abstract Austrian videos.

The screening program "Digital Auteurs" explores a trajectory of contemporary Austrian filmmaking that could be described as DIY Experimentalism, featuring artists that share a fresh, intimate and individualistic approach to the medium.

The first part of the screening program has been compiled by David Muth, and includes new video works by Lia, Dextro, Annja Krautgasser and others.

The second part consists of the screening program "Sonic Fiction - Synaesthetic Videos from Austria", distributed through the Vienna based organisation Sixpackfilm.

The event is taking place on Wednesday April 9th from 8pm.

Find out more about events at The Fleapit.

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.

British artist Colin Halliday will be opening an exhibition of his work this weekend at StART SPACE on Columbia Road.

Exploring light, the water and some of London's most romantic landmarks; Colin also aims to paint the truth of nature such as the pollution that surround us Londoners amongst the landscape of a great city; a subject that Turner has been the first to explore, portraying the atmospheric effects brought on by the industrial pollution of his own time and creating great masterpieces heavily criticized then, but greatly admired now.

Well over 100 years on, Colin's fearless working methods and technical details together with his selection of materials such as London dirt, swept from the streets and washed over the canvas or photographs with oils and varnish give each image dramatic light, atmospheric and textural effects just as one of old masters but with a contemporary twist.

The exhibition opens on Friday March 7th and runs till Sunday April 13th. The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday from 12pm to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm.

Find out more about events at StART SPACE.

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.

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.