Experimental music enthusiasts who also enjoy the Suffolk forest in UK will welcome the combined forces of the Faster Than Sound music and arts festival as part of the larger Aldeburgh Arts Festival. The event takes place at Brenwaters Airbase on Saturday June 9th.

MUSIC

Murcof
Muziq
Philip Jeck
Pierre Bastien
Colleen
Dat Politics
Mira Calix & Tansy Davies
Exaudi CHoir
Plaid & Zoe Martlew
Philip Neil Martin
Mayming
Modified Toy Orchestra
Powerplant
James Saunders
Camberwell Composers Collective

Click over to the festival site to read a bio about any of these artists.

INSTALLATIONS

Throbbing Gristle
Jem Finer
Minimaforms
Bathysphere
Loop.ph
Mike Challis
Touch
Davide Quayola
Tom Taylor

MULTICHANNEL PERFORMANCES

Haswell & Hecker
Hildur Gudnadóttir
And pioneering classic electronic music including work by Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis and Luc Ferrari diffused by Sonic Arts Network

The website describes the cross-pollinated interface thus:

Artists from a wide variety of backgrounds will collaborate and explore the worlds of electronic music genres, contemporary classical practice and interactive visual arts. A range of immersive installations, musical collaborations, a wireless walk in the woods, illuminated cold war military buildings and a large dome filled with inspiring sounds…

I might be mistaken, but this looks a lot like DJ Scotch Egg from their gallery of 2006 performers…not sure though since the photos are not labeled:

Then again, who else is going to serenade a gameboy like that?

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