Today's idea - 'Beyond Practice' Degree Show

We're always banging on with praise about the latest Brighton Photography/Art/Digital production, but today we recommend Sussex's Media Practice and Theory Degree show which finishes Wednesday. It encompasses all the practical media courses (long list) and having seen some of the work, they're all really fantastic and I can't recommend them enough.



Made up of photography, screen drama, radio, digital media, and video documentary; I've had a peek at the trailer for one of the films, which acts as an indicator better than I can say.



I've had the pleasure this year of watching a couple of the projects come together and grow, and it's been a challenging sort of 'journey' and everyone's done fantastically. I've been in classes with a couple of the guys behind the excellent work, and it's sounded harrowing, rewarding and they've got no end of excitement for their projects. Especially Bob who shoots some of our gig photos and whose project sounds fantastically odd and wonderful. (Short plug over)

You can find the Facebook event here. I urge you to go. Sussex's main focus of academia is rooted mostly in books but when they do go practical, they do it brilliantly.

It's running until Wednesday June the 2nd, so I'm popping up to Falmer today before the week properly starts. It's open between 10am-5pm, and it's right by Stamner park which a gorgeous place for a walk.

Map: here

If you're hungering for more art after this, then perhaps check out Brighton's latest offering that we'll be featuring tomorrow (probably).

Today's idea - Resident's gig of the week; Tim Hecker @freebutt

Today a very rare UK show from the Kranky signed sound artist as we've following Resident's gushing about the arrival of Tim Hecker. He's playing tonight at the Freebutt and it's their gig of the week, horray!

The Canadian based sound artist is making a very special appearance in Brighton & it's going to be a real treat - no doubt! His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic colour plates” & “cathedral electronic music”. Essentially, he focuses on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance & melody so if you're a fan of Fennesz, Belong or Loscil, you'll most definitely want to be heading down to the Freebutt on Monday night.

Cost: 7.50 adv
Time: Doors 7.30pm
Last.fm: here

P.S. Today if you're a Sussex student you can catch the Dissertation Dash to Mandella Hall from 12-4pm. You'll notice it from the nervous looking people carrying fluttery bits of paper and there's always that terrifying brave guy who runs it at 3:58. Love Music, Hate Racism music thing will be on campus and Beat and Chips are doing a dancing drinking sort of business later in town as they normally do.