I joined the Plexus guys tonight for their latest Club Sporadic. My contribution was the first showing of my 'Not For Sale' Crass audiovisual piece. Despite some recurring technical problems with the PA (!) the set was well received - with various comments on the Plexus blog...

Things are looking promising for a 'Pineapster Communion on Tour' series of gigs to happen latter in the year. More information to follow when we have everything confirmed. See Pineapster for the latest local band news.

Cuttlefish Digital Arts is working with theatre company Metro-Boulot-Dodo on their large-scale interactive garden 'Spring'.

Sean Clark is providing support in creating sensors and Max/MSP programming for the garden which will be on display at various locations, including the Leicester Expo on the 28th/29th August in Leicester's Town Hall Square.

Cuttlefish Digital Arts was lucky enough to be invited by Bathysphere to be involved in their Lo_Tempo_Hi_Fi Arena at the Summer Sundae festival in Leicester on Friday 12th August. See our report on the day for words, pictures and videos.

I took down the Choreographer's Cartography exhibition in the City Gallery today. The exhibition had been up for around ten days and performed well. No major technical problems (always a worry with installations that make use of fairly sophisticated technology!) and generally good feedback from the audience.

I've also uploaded a number of stills from the exhibition to the Choreographer's Cartography Web page, as well as a recording of Raman's poem being read aloud.

If you are interested in putting on the exhibition elsewhere, or want to know more about the work then please get in touch.

I've produced a page Max/MSP/Jitter resources that people might find useful. It includes a page of free patches produced by Cuttlefish (well, there's one patch at the moment!) that I plan to update regularly.

Sean Clark and Raman Mundair's multimedia installation 'A Choreographer's Cartography' had its private view at the City Gallery in Leicester tonight.

A good number of people came along and the work seemed to be well-received.

The installation will be on show at the City Gallery until the 6th of August. It's in the Upstairs Gallery and is free to enter.

We'll be fully documenting the piece on this Web site in the future.

I'm just back from a summer holiday by the Black Sea - hence this site's been a bit quiet recently. It was a great break, however, everything is about to get busy again so stay tuned!

Bathysphere took their Nanoplex cinema-in-a-caravan to the Supersonic festival in Birmingham this evening for it's first outing.

Having had a preview of the venue on Wednesday I have to say I'm impressed with the work they've done on the venue. It's got a great surround sound system and super sharp video screen. It accommodates 6 to 8 people quite comfortably.

Amongst the work being shown in the Nanoplex is the Confluence film I have been working on.

This film combines the photography of George Harris and Candice Moule with music by Steve Gibbs.

The video was generated through aMax/MSP/Jitterpatch that was synchronised with the music.

It's being touted as the Internet's 'next big thing' and it's set to 'revolutionise' how we listen to radio.

OK, this might be yet more Internet hype, but there is still something quite interesting about 'podcasting'.

The idea is that people publish their own radio shows as mp3 files on the Web as 'podcast feeds'. Listeners then subscribe to these feeds have them automatically downloaded to their computers, or portable mp3 players (such as an iPod), whenever the author updates them.

In many ways (including the technology used) this is the audio equivalent of 'blogging' and, like blogs, podcasts put those with something to say directly in touch with those who want to listen.

Our first podcast is, naturally, related to Pineapster. If you have a podcast client (such as Apple's iTunes) you can now subscribe to a feed of the latest music that's been uploaded to Pineapster by clicking on the 'podcast' link on the Pineapster Home Page.