Team Doyobi: Lazy Modem Micro-Festival 1

R Murray Schaeffer opens his book The Tuning of the World with 'The soundscape of the world is changing'.

This event considers the sounds we both embrace and then quickly forget as computer technology evolves over time and then becomes redundant. Personal devices become obsolete every few months, and with them are lost sounds which have previously formed part of our understanding of the environment... Mobile phone ring tones, hand-held computer consoles, dial-up modems, all changing our urban soundscape as technology evolves.

Team Doyobi have been working with sounds generated by both redundant and current technology for over a decade.

You are invited to join our artists in the open Green Room session on level -2, relax and enjoy an informal chat prior to the performance. Team Doyobi, will also be concluding today's event with an interactive jam session between the artists and the audience so don’t forget to bring your own retro devices to take part!

3pm Open Green Room session
4pm Team Doyobi 
5.15pm BYOD interactive session - bring your own retro devices.

Team Doyobi are original experimenters on the UK chip tune scene, due to their early use of obsolete computers as serious musical instruments, taking the chip sound out of the demo and video game scene and presenting it to techno–IDM audiences. Their early compositional techniques exploited the sound, synthesis methods and nuances of the machines themselves and did not use their abilities as sequencers for external hardware devices. Their sound has been influenced by various forms of electronic dance music including techno, electro, acid house, glitch, 8bit as well as progressive rock, krautrock, noise, free jazz, and electro-acoustic and ambient music.

Having grown up during the home computer boom of the 1980s they didn’t have to look far to begin utilizing cheap and accessible technology. Using Commodore Amiga home computers running public domain software they began making collages of beats and melodies with 8-bit samplers. After producing several home made cassette releases under the name 'Doyobi', (picked at random out of a Japanese phrase book) they shifted their focus to performing live. They have appeared on many compilations on labels like Warp (UK), Tigerbeat (USA), Spezialmaterial (Switzerland), Alku (Spain) and Active Suspension (France).

A track submitted for the Japanese noise label ALEIN8 went to press unnoticed using a corrupted audio file of the original piece, the original version was later released. Reworking tracks for Sketch Show, N.W.A, Emilliana Torrini, Laurie Anderson, Goodiepal, Machinedrum, C64 Orchestra, Marco Passarani, Bogger and others. Shortly before the release of their second album Choose Your Own Adventure (SKAM, 2004), Gladwin and Peverett showcased a range of new material at the Autechre-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, although under other guises their ATP performances have since numbered 5 times.

After the bulk of Team Doyobi’s third full length album had been written, Peverett relocated to Japan, and he and Gladwin completed the project by collaborating over the internet. The Kphanapic Fragments: Observing Spacial Anomalies in the Dynaflow, an amateur field guide (Heavy Light Cylinders CSR8-II through to MNN9-78 {vormathrom index}), finally appeared in 2006. They were subsequently invited by BBC Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs to do a special 30 minute session, marking the third BBC Radio 1 show to play their music following repeated airplay from John Peel and a shorter session for the (now defunct) Breezeblock program. The most recent Team Doyobi EP, Digital Music 1, was released last year.

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