This may some interest some who may still be about a few days after The Barbican gig... Sound Architecture/Rough Trade Shops/Great Eastern Hotel present Culture Jam 2002 Sunday 27th October 2002. Great Eastern Hotel Liverpool St. London EC2M 7QN Info. 020 7289 3385 NEGATIVLAND: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE A 90-minute film/lecture presentation by Mark Hosler, founding member of Negativland. Mark will be in person to present the program, with Q and A to follow. Made by Negativland in collaboration with various other experimental filmmakers, NEGATIVLAND: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE is a presentation of a series of short videos in which Negativland carries its love for found sounds and their critical and humourous re-use of mass culture over into the world of experimental movie making. In the last 22 years, Negativland have released 19 CDs, two books and have been sued twice for copyright infringement,and are interested in unusual noises and images (especially ones that are close at hand), unusual ways to restructure such things and combine them with their own music, and mass media transmissions which have become sources, and subjects, of much of their work. Even if you've never heard of Negativland, if you are interested in these issues you are sure to find this fun and inspiring presentation worth your time and attention. None of the short films shown will ever be seen on MTV. People Like Us is the work of Vicki Bennett. Vicki Bennett is One Funny Lady, with a deadly sense of comic timing. Her CDs and LPs feature her unique plunderphonic styling. Dadaist samplings and her reshuffling of cultural oddities from discarded LPs is a recurrent theme, as is the use of intercepted radio broadcasts gutted and completely recontextualised. There is an air of both humour and impending doom within the work of PLU. From her first release in 1991, to her latest project, People Like Us has created or contributed to more than 25 CDs and records as well as several collaborative releases and numerous compilation tracks. Richard X, as Girls On Top, released a 7" single called 'Being Scrubbed/I Wanna Dance With Numbers' in January 2001. Since then, inspired by the simple combination of an acapella vocal track from TLC and an instrumental from the Human League, hundreds of bedroom bootleggers from all over the world, have cut and pasted their own music, posting on the internet, or pressing onto CD or vinyl themselves. Further combinations of Kraftwerk/Whitney Houston, The Normal/Missy Elliot and Adina Howard/Gary Numan, the latter becoming a No.1 hit in the UK after being re-recorded by The Sugarbabes, have resulted in Richard X securing a deal to record an album, various remixes and the establishment of the label Black Melody, on which unheard early recordings from the Human League will be the next release. GABBA was created by Stig Honda, the eccentric Japanese Professor at the Osaka Rock and Roll High School. In search of the formula for pop perfection, he accidentally fused the raw energy of New York punk music (Ramones) and the pretty melodies and harmonies of Scandinavian pop (Abba) and GABBA was bjorn. Celebrated paranoid genius producer, Phil Smegma, was enlisted to fine tune... er... their tunes and turn them into the discopunk sensation that they are today. http://www.negativland.com/ http://www.peoplelikeus.org/ http://www.blackmelody.com/ http://www.gabba.co.uk/