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UPCOMING / CURRENT EVENTS

Date: MARCH 2006  
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What: THE MICROMUSIC INTERNATIONAL PIXEL POPPING FESTIVAL  
  London_hq with Lektrolab, the NFT, Audiolith Records and The Asylum are organising a series of workshops and live music events as part of the node[L] digital arts festival in London during March 2006.
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Workshops: SATURDAY 04 MARCH 2006  
  PIXEL POPPING WORKSHOPS
12.30-2.15: Paul B Davis: Nintendo Entertainment System Hacking and Grafixxx
3.00-4.45: Julian Van Alderen: Amiga Animation and VJ-ing

Cheap, accessible and environmentally sound, obsolete technology is proving to be a source of inspiration for creative practitioners of all types. These workshops (produced by Lektrolab, and supported by the Hayward Gallery) are recommended for artists, VJs, video-makers, and designers who would like to learn to create moving and still images using 'obsolete' 80s computers and game systems.
NFT Green Room
National Film Theatre
South Bank
London SE1 8XT
Online booking: http://www.bfi.org.uk/nft
Telephone booking: 020 7928 3232 [Open 11.30am to 8.30pm]
In person booking: Mon - Thu: 5pm-8.30pm / Fri - Sun & School Holidays: 11.30am- 8.30pm
ALL BOOKINGS MUST GO THROUGH THE NFT!! 		 
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Live events: THURSDAY 23 MARCH 2006
 
london_hq presents AUDIOLITH RECORDS
  
 

Plemo - [audiolith / micromusic] - LIVE
  Miki Mikron - [audiolith / stora] - LIVE
  Frederik - [stora]
  Lektrogirl - [rephlex / micromusic] DJ
  Paul B. Davis - [beige records / wobblyhead] cassette jockey and mobile ring tones
Venue: The Asylum
5 Rathbone Place, London, W1
Corner of Percy and Charlotte Street » map

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ARCHIVE - journals, photodiaries, video & micromusic history

2005
this year london_hq continue with the microset.
check out the 2005 page here.
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2004
this was the year of the 5th anniversay of micromusic.net, a picture disc release on muller records and the start of the microset events - the micro sized party in the biggest city!
check the 2004 page here.
find out about the microset philosophy here.
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2003
this was the year of the boy_playground compilation that featured many micromusic artists was released by french label relaxbeat. lektrolab host a party at the ica [institute of contempory art] featuring these gameboy artists and london_hq threw a bash at public life.
check the 2003 page here.
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2002
this year london_hq organised another brilliant micromusic festival with a gig at 93 feet east and party at public life.
check gwEm's report on the 2002 event here.
find out what exactly a microfestival is here.
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2001
again the trend setters london_hq organised the first microfestival which kick started the rest of the micromusic community to start organising events in their own cities. this was also the year that hq's were made official entities in the micromusic community.
check the 2001 page here.
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2000
micromusic members insigated the first offline micromusic meetings ever in 2000, before hq's were even invented!
check carl's [swiss_hq] photo diary here.
check lektrogirl's written report here.

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ABOUT US - london_hq members

gwEm
as a musician gwEm is known for his heavy metal inspired rave style, appearing on such labels as berlin's shitkatapult, his own label preromanbritain, and of course micromusic.net.

when not otherwise engaged he has provided many technial innovations to the chip music scene, such as vst plugins, dj aids, 8bit mix software and boundary breaking sequencers.

gwEm brings a cool head for solving technical drama to london_hq events, and not forgetting his trademark atari dj sets.

gwEm successful music career sees him performing regularly across europe.

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logic bomb
logic bomb is london_hq's demolition expert, gameboy lover and sandwich connoisseur. he gets hyped about hanging out with animals and playing his yamaha portasound keyboards. ee also has strong views on the statistical breakdown of the recently published marvel top trumps.

if you see this man on the london underground excitedly clutching a gameboy know that he be making rock and roll and not playing tetris, so chuck him a high five.

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tryst
active member of london_hq party organisation and part time microsinger.

tryst also co-ordinates press for our micro_events in london.

in between all that, she is london_hq's hippy life coach.

find her logged in to microtalk
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lektrogirl
she started her career in music with a release on british label rephlex in 1997 and began performing and djing soon after. lektrogirl has further releases on hamburg label nneon and micromusic.net.

her involvement with micromusic.net also includes being a member of the board which steers the website from switzerland and helping other hq's establish themselves across europe. lektrogirl's particular passion in the community is helping artists understand their music contracts and legal position in the music industry.

as a parallel to this activity, lektrogirl also started her own company in the UK, lektrolab which conducts music and sound workshops and producing and promoting numerous events with a focus on promoting LIVE electronic music.

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  now that we have introduced ourselves, if you are interested in reading more about london_hq and how we finance our activites, how we operate, how we connect in the framework of micromusic at large check here to find out

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PRESS AND REVIEWS

2005 02 15 glasswerk london microset review by ferdousur rehman here
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2003 00 00 the times - johan kotlinski and lsdj gig at ica here
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2000 00 00 nme - piers martin reviews first micromusic cd release here
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2000 - official micromusic.net promo pages for entire micromusic community here

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LINKS

micromusic.net - where it all began [all] here
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brussels_hq website - and their microbe events [english] here
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los angeles_hq - and their club microwave events [english] here
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paris_hq website - and their regular microaperos and parties [french/english] here
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stockholm_hq website - and their regular microdisko [swedish] here

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