captincaptin

…continue their ongoing series of works exploring an interaction with objects that are not directly visible, but can be felt encroaching upon the viewers space. Stalker Project, Immersion in Fiction is an interactive work created through direct association with a fictitious character. 'Deep, penetrating eyes stayed fixed upon her every move, even as she glided into the kitchen, carefully and graciously moving dishes and cleaning surfaces, they watched and waited'. Turning the viewer away from the work in which they are helping to realize physically places them within the context of the scene as they themselves are stalked by an unseen presence.

Chris Anderson

…also know as Operations is a Manchester based Sound Artist who has developed a piece intended as a eulogy to the cassette format and everything that goes with it, mourning it's loss as less physical digital formats gain a stronger foothold. "Home Recording Kills Music" is a composition created for five portable cassette players playing various tape loops of different lengths (1200, 180, 120, 90 and 60 seconds). The composition was created using guitar, analog synth and percussion. Positioned so to define orientation within its environment the players become an experimental music ensemble involved in the construction of sounds and random operations.

Gary Fisher

…is a sound and visual artist working in a continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focused on instinctive or investigatory responses to sounds, objects, spaces, words and images and exploring ideas of pattern, repetition, technology, interaction and found objects and sounds. This process involves experimentation with making and recording sound, drawing, photography, collecting and archiving and generates many outcomes including sound recording, installation and live performance. The line between research and outcome is blurred and often the two are the same.

Live Tape Loop is a continuous piece of tape that moves around the space in a triangular formation being simultaneously recorded onto, played and erased. Live sound from the room is picked up by the microphone at one tape recorder then transported around the space to another where it is documented and played back, this journey causes a short delay in playback which is further displaced by the positioning of the speaker away from the source. A loop of audio feedback is created by overspill from the speaker to the microphone and captured on the recording.

In his live sound piece the multi layered compositions are improvised and built from live sampling and looping of sounds from a selection of objects, technologies and tapes. This imprecise and ambiguous process explores themes of repetition, pattern and re-appropriation of found objects resulting in a profound, as well as wretched composition. The pace and construction of the work is dictated by choices made in the moment during the performance. These live performances are part of a larger work in progress and can be seen as live experiments or research.

jack of none

…is an artist collaborative currently based in Manchester. Their practice often deals with highlighting possibilities and raising questions about truth and imagination - but first and foremost embracing the activity of searching.

Timmy chase Gazza, Gazza chase Timmy is a playful look at cyclical fashion within the realms of art and music. It is a site-specific installation that uses the history of Outlet as a record shop for its starting point and is composed of found materials. The weight of history can often seem a heavy burden to an artist, so when Timmy Mallet and Gazza break the mold, it makes you realise that it really hasn't 'all been done before'.

At Sandbar, the site-specific installation attempts to engage the viewer by encouraging them to take the risk of walking under a ladder and question their own balance as rational beings. The situation conflates the objects and their ideal purpose, merging our ideas of circumstances. With the doorway blocked, viewers must pass under the ladders (traditionally recognised as bad luck) if they want to progress to the other side. The art work is both a virtue of its logical form and contradictory at the same time, playing upon superstition, Ladders, is a playful attempt to highlight the benefits of putting your 'best foot forward'.

Mark Fell

…'s work for startrunning merges many of his synthetic light and multichannel sound studies into a newly created audiovisual piece. Past installations work by translating colour matrices into the dmx lighting protocol then combining additive synthesis. Previously colour curves were drawn into the matrix by hand, and similarly, the levels of harmonics present in each of the channels were hand drawn curves. Pairs of colour and harmonic curves were then interpolated into one another. This once manual process has been developed for automating his work into an approximation of the original multi speaker instillations. The new Untitled work is a stark architectural version of this bformat ambersonic stream for one algorithm, onscreen colour with two-channel sound.

Mikomikona

…is a Berlinese duo composed of Andreas Eberlein and Birgit Schneider who experimentally investigate the dynamics of cross media interference creating a synaesthetical environment. For startrunning a UK premier of their audiovisual performance, Fourier-Tanzformation I+II will be delivered as a single investigation (Fourier-Tanzformation I) using an overhead projector equipped with home-built analogical devices that read and transform into layers of audio signals. Multiple transparencies with raster patterns are used to create flickering interferences through the shifting of these layers resulting in a strict minimalist aesthetic where the physical transformations of sound to image and vice versa produce rhythmic experimentalism structures. The balance between deepened theoretic consciousness and technologic research can also be seen in their video installation 6 X 7 which is a result of investigation into the interference of image and patterns in ornamental structures. This homage to movie director/choreographer Busby Berkly, who constructed his dancing scenes with the same structures has been developed by increasing and decreasing the number of spatial repetitions and applying a second layer of ornament, allowing the movie to oscillate between a whole image or structural element.

Pete McPartlan

…is currently a Nottingham based artist who explores the potential of old video equipment, making short films and performances with old VHS-C cameras, bits of paper and a broken soldering iron. McPartlan uses analogue equipment because of its inflexibility compared with the limitless possibilities of the universal machine; seeking out some transparency in the way in which audio and image interact. Video Forms is a newly created work for startrunning where his prototype paper video synthesizer and rotating origami structures are used to create visible and audible rhythms on multiple monitors. Designing forms in three dimensions that create patterns in the 2 dimensional world of the image and the 1D world of electronic signals can be perceived by paper waveforms and electric structures all around the space. Where further oscillations around the PAL 50hz hum can be experienced in this structural composition method.

Semiconductor

…are moving image artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Their latest work, entitled Black Rain, is a collection of images taken from the HI (Heliospheric Imager) onboard the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. These are unprocessed, un-cleaned, raw data images of the journey that the STEREO craft pursues, charting the earth's orbit around the sun. The solar winds, comets and planets, set against a multitude of stars, are complete with recording artefacts and evidence of the capturing process – reminding us of our own continual presence as observer.