Sunday 22 December 2013

Ryoji Ikeda datamatics [ver.2.0] - Brighton Dome, Brighton.





Many of us, whether in our work or home lives, cannot avoid the presence of data. Even those in the creative or social industries must deal with grades or prices. However data, as a source of beauty, is not something shared by all. We may have surprised ourselves by admiring the beauty of particularly neat spreadsheet, but to consider data as the source of music is a rare and specialist pursuit.

Peaches does herself - Brighton Dome, Corn Exchange.





Elementary school teacher seems like an unlikely first job for gender bending electronic musician and performance artist Peaches. However as is clear from her album The Teaches of Peaches, Peaches still has something of the educator about her.