Sensoria 2012

Uncommon People website launched

sensoria — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:51:35 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Uncommon People has launched complete with a Music Map.

Uncommon People is rapidly becoming the definitive online guide to Sheffield music past and present – the innovative website now has a family tree/connections page, a band A-Z, a timeline – and the map. Hope you enjoy browsing and if you have any memories, photos, footage or new bands do contact us through the Contributions page. The site is shaped by the information people send to us.

www.uncommonpeople.co.uk

Sensoria 2013 dates announced and Call for Submissions

sensoria — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:48:30 +0000

Following a successful 5th year, Sensoria, the UK’s festival of film, music & digital will be back in September 2013. Dates are 26 – 29 September with SensoriaPro Industry Day taking place Friday 27 September. There will also be Sensoria Teaser events taking place in the new year and next Spring so we will be back in touch with more news shortly. Sensoria’s guests so far have included Jarvis Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Nitin Sawhney, British Sea Power, Richard Hawley, Mark Kermode, Billy Bragg, John Robb and many more. Events have taken place across the city and at venues including Sheffield Cathedral, 1960s Grosvenor House Hotel, Sheffield Law Courts, the railway station and an underwater music system in Ponds Forge swimming pool. We hope you can join us next Autumn for our 6th edition which is hotting up already – we’ll be unearthing more unusual venues and host more awe-inspiring experiences from Sheffield’s unique festival.

Call For Entries

Sensoria is now looking for exciting new work in the realms of music, film and digital, submissions that relate to the theme ‘history in the making’ are particularly welcome.

Films we’re looking for include fiction features or short films with an innovative soundtrack or score, music documentary, music related biopics and truly exceptional music video. Films should have been completed after 2010. Please email vimeo links to info@sensoria.org.uk or send DVDs with synopsis and full contact details to the address below.

Music Sensoria is particularly looking for music-related submissions that outline how their proposed project or performance includes an innovative, exciting use of visuals. Please email Soundcloud links/Dropbox links or MP3′s to info@sensoria.org.uk

There is no submission fee.

Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2013 but early submissions /contact very welcome.

Sensoria submissions, Bank Street Arts, 32 – 40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS.

For any enquiries regarding submissions please email info@sensoria.org.uk

Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake

sensoria — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:20:47 +0000

Eccentronic Research Council

featuring Maxine Peake

perform 1612 Underture in a Spiegeltent

The Eccentronic Research Council ft Maxine Peake’ are set to perform their critically acclaimed debut lp ’1612 Underture’ in the unique setting of a 1920′s Spiegeltent as part of Festival of The Mind.

‘The Eccentronic Research Council’ is the brand new spooky electronic collective put together by Sheffield based/Salford born Adrian Flanagan (Kings Have Long Arms/Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw) and Sheffield’s own Dean Honer (I Monster/All Seeing I, producer of Human League) that features the Boltonian tones of Bafta Nominated actress Maxine Peake. Maxine has graced our TV & cinema screens playing diverse lead rolls in everything from Silk, Shameless, Room at the Top, Hancock & Joan through to Dinnerladies, to name but a few.

1612 Underture is described by the Guardian as “a bleeping, buzzing, whirring krautrock tribute to the Pendle witches.” The Pendle Witches were a group of men and women who were rounded up in the villages surrounding Newchurch (Lancashire) and tried for witchcraft in 1612. Nine of them were hung for the crime almost exactly 400 years ago.

The event is part of music, film and digital festival Sensoria and the University of Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.

Critical acclaim for ‘1612 Underture’

“This album is more than an excercise in Northern esoterica-it’s charged politically, sociologially and sexually. Pitch Perfect.”

The Wire.

“One of the most marvelous, bizarre and indisputably British pop records we’ve heard this year.”

The Quietus“I’m about to step in to something weird ere’ that sound’s like the past, the present and the future.”

Ian McMillan (Poet/BBC Radio 3 Broadcaster).

Event details:

THE ERC & MAXINE PEAKE

plus support and DJ’s

play the SPIEGELTENT,

Barkers Pool,

Sheffield,

Saturday 29 September doors 8.30pm till 12.30amTickets £5 pounds

concessions £4.50

Book advance tickets here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4322619070

Tickets are also available from the Harley and the Wick at Both Ends.

Congrats to Ian Dolamore winner of the SensoriaPro Scoring contest.

sensoria — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:26:56 +0000

Congrats to Ian Dolamore winner of the SensoriaPro Scoring contest. As a result Ian has gained work with Create Advertising, London. Continue reading →

Outdoor Screenings

sensoria — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:04:14 +0000

FREE

We are delighted to repeat our outdoor screenings at Sensoria. Screens will be located at the top of Fargate (Friday 27th) and Devonshire Green (Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th) where you can expect a lively programme on a daily basis.

Friday 27th April
Popular Music in British Cinema
4.00pm War on Want
4.30pm A Hard Day’s Night
8pm Slade in Flame

Saturday 28th April
Popular Music in British Cinema
12.30pm Summer Holiday
2.15pm War on Want
3pm A Hard Day’s Night
4.30pm Babybird video by Cuckoo Films
7.45pm Slade in Flame

Sunday 29th April 12.30pm – 9.30pm
Bollywood Day
12:30pm Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
3:15pm Desi Boyz
5:45pm Ra.One

Slade in Flame

sensoria — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:43:42 +0000

Dir. Richard Loncraine / UK / 1975 / 1hr 31mins (12)

Slade In Flame charts the history of Flame, a fictitious group in the early 1970s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith.

Mark Kermode called it the “Citizen Kane of rock musicals” and included its soundtrack among the 50 greatest soundtracks in cinema’s history.

Part of our Pop Music in British Cinema programme strand.

Quadrophenia

sensoria — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:58:58 +0000

Dir. Franc Roddam / UK / 1979 / 1hr 57mins Against the backdrop of riots in 60s Brighton, Quadrophenia perfectly captures the teenage need for belonging and identity. Part of our Pop Music in British Cinema programme strand. Continue reading →

SensoriaPro Scoring Contest

sensoria — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:47:43 +0000

Sensoria are pleased to offer the exciting opportunity for registered SensoriaPro delegates to score music to a new film trailer with the chance to have their submission critiqued on the day by a panel of industry experts and music supervisors.

Create Advertising have kindly supplied the trailer (with dialogue and sound effects but without music) for The Amazing Spider-Man.

This is a current campaign and standout submissions may well be considered for TV spots.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 16th April.

Only registered delegates will be invited to submit, so book now.

Motor City vs. Steel City

sensoria — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:03:32 +0000

Sensoria presents

Motor City vs Steel City

in cahoots with drumro[ll] & Article

DJ Stingray
Ryan Elliott
The Black Dog
Forgemasters

Sheffield and Detroit. Two cities whose industrial decline has been offset by a surge in creativity, pioneering hubs of electronic music that in place of cars and cutlery now export some of the most important records in the world. Sensoria, drumro[ll] and Article Magazine bring together some of the most important acts from each city for an all-night dancing party that showcases each city’s sounds in an old warehouse that used to produce cutlery, and now makes techno. Ace.

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DJ Stingray:

Taught to play records by one Kenny Dixon Jr (aka the marvelous Moodymann), a collaborator with Carl Craig and Antony ‘Shake’ Shakir and the tour DJ for Drexciya, it’s safe to say that Sherard Ingram is one of Detroit’s most exciting exports – a man who’s seen it all and done even more. Whether under his marine moniker or as Urban Tribe, DJ Stingray has taken the 4/4 through some of it most elegiac, elastic and exciting forms, all while masked up in a sweaty balaclava.

Ryan Elliott:

Your don’t get much more Michigan than Ryan Elliott. A former car salesman who traded in a jet-setting life shilling Detroit’s best-known export for a jet-setting life shilling its second. He’s a member of the city’s second wave, coming across the sea with Ritchie, Magda and pals to set up Berlin as the bastion of a machine-driven techno that drips with soul. His sound is deep, dark and dubby, Detroit as imagined through a European prism. As a resident in his adopted continent’s most famous all-night decadence spot, Ryan’s veins flow with a blend of Berghain’s blood and Michigan’s motor oil.

The Black Dog:

As anyone who attended drumro[ll]’s Park Hill shindig last year can attest, The Black Dog are techno in its most thudding and scudding form. True electronic pioneers, they’ve spent two decades putting out genre-defining records from their base in Sheffield’s former industrial district. Their most recent Liber releases showcased a Steel City take on the sounds pounding out of Berlin and has seen them tour through Berghain, Moscow and onwards in a charge of stainless, brutal techno music.

Forgemasters:

Twenty-three years ago, three men from Sheffield distributed 500 copies of the first single from a new Sheffield record label in the back of a borrowed car. The double-sided ‘Track With No Name’ was the humble opening for a record label that has since been the home for the most vital and innovative records ever pressed to wax. Forgemasters and Warp brought Sheffield bleep techno into the public consciousness, and we’re more than a wee bit excited to have them bringing that noise to our warehouse.

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Article Magazine will be filling the CADS complex with an array of visuals, showing the parallels between these two former industrial powerhouses and their respective progression. The venue is as much a part of this event as the artists, and to have not only the best venue in Sheffield but also one that embodies the death of Sheffield’s manufacturing wraps things up rather elegantly, no?

Tickets are available for £9.50 advance and £12 on the door. This is a unique party, so buy early or you’ll be standing out in the cold, lonely and sad. Also available from Bungalows & Bears.

Event devised by Alex Keegan.

Part of Sensoria’s Listening to the City programme strand.

Kunst Kunst Kunst 3

sensoria — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:14:36 +0000

Following on the heels of the hugely successful Kunst Kunst Kunst 1 (April 2011) and Kunst Kunst Kunst 2 (October 2011), the Fine Art and Creative Art Practice students at Sheffield Hallam University bring you their latest fundraiser event.

Following the historical precedent of cutting edge contemporary music being supported and developed via the Art School, the studios at Arundel Gate Court, Sheffield will host a selection of local and art school bands, DJ’s and, of course, Art.

Tickets: £4 in advance from Kuji (Ecclesall Road) or Arundel Gate court Studios, or £5 on the door.

Further details can be found on Facebook.

Bands:

SEIZE THE CHAIR
pure sexual Magnetism with an air of intelligent charm, these are the men to introduce your mother too…if she’s as naughty as mine.
http://www.facebook.com/seizethechair

AVIDA DOLLARS
The sexiest Siblings since the Sweet Valley High Girls will probably find an entertaining way to get you injured during their set. They’re also kind of RAD.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avida-Dollars/23337265466

STANDOUT RIOT
7-piece ska-punk-hardcore-gypsy horde from Manchester, UK since 2004.
Combining the power of 3 horns, a violin and heaps of vocals, neatly balanced on top of a skanky, moshy, punky rhythm section
http://www.facebook.com/standoutriot

URBAN GIRAFFE
Mega Good like.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Giraffe/193084470759679?sk=info

POISONOUS RELATIONSHIP
Modern-day crooner, a treat for the eyes and ears…
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poisonous-Relationship/192301710812562

DJs:
Blánca
Best Friends (Dj set)
Blood Sport (Dj set)
Ash ‘n’ Dave
Double Denim
Death By Shoes

ALSO WE HAVE SOME OTHER TRULY SCRUMPTIOUS STUFF HAPPENING LIKE….

Shite Portraits….a craply drawn version of yourself TO KEEP.

Wongy’s Palm reading….She actually is scarily accurate.

ARTIST PIÑATA…beat the crap out of Andy Warhol’s Head and win all the crap inside!

Photo Booth

AND MORE TO BE CONFIRMED!

Drinks will still be stupidly cheap…£2 for anything really…except for water, that’s free coz we’re nice.