Brighton University has free lectures with good arts and media types on Mondays. Generally there's a mix of artists, writers and 'cultural activitists' (a term I suspect extends beyond the criteria of a G20 protester). Today's speaker is Polish/Canadian/English Janek Schaefer who's made a name for himself playing with sounds.
He's essentially a sound 'collager' which sounds slightly like an artsy DJ to me. Perhaps I'm wrong. He first made his name with a sound-activated dictaphone which he sent through the post, gathering sounds and bits and bobs. Since then he's done a host of installations, soundtracks for exhibitions, and concerts using his self built/invented record players. He's given performances, lectures and exhibitions at grand-sounding places include Tate Modern (which seems quite an appropriate home for this sort of thing) and Sydney Opera House, amongst others. There's also grand-sounding awards, like The British Composer of the Year for Sonic Art and some others which are also long in title.
"His concerts and installations explore the spatial and architectural aspect that sound can evoke and the twisting of technology. Hybrid analogue and digital techniques are used to manipulate field recordings with live modified vinyl and found sound to create evocative and involving environments."
Today he's giving a FREE talk that's open to the public. It's a 12noon-1pm presentation, with half an hour of Q&A after. It's at the Salis Benney Theatre - where you can also nose around Emma Stibbon's Stadtlandschaften exhibition that's still going on (and also free). Find it here on Google Maps.
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