Fata Morgana News | Blog tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2008:/news/3 2008-03-15T18:43:31Z Find out about upcoming gigs and see photos and videos Movable Type 3.2 New Synaesthesia pictures! tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2008:/news//3.52 2008-03-15T18:32:45Z 2008-03-15T18:43:31Z finally, an update on here, its been far too long... Here's some pictures of Chris Tripledot's new software he's been developing: And in this one you can see Chris contolling the software with a joystick! Here are 2 shots showing how we're building Synaesthesia into our analogue show; by projecting it through a tank of water and adding inks etc. to the water. this is then captured by live camera as with our 8mm and oscilloscope stuff... We will have all new videos up soon........ Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk finally, an update on here, its been far too long...
Here's some pictures of Chris Tripledot's new software he's been developing:

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And in this one you can see Chris contolling the software with a joystick!
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Here are 2 shots showing how we're building Synaesthesia into our analogue show; by projecting it through a tank of water and adding inks etc. to the water. this is then captured by live camera as with our 8mm and oscilloscope stuff...
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We will have all new videos up soon.....

]]> Long time no news tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.51 2007-09-08T19:19:42Z 2007-09-08T19:33:15Z well, we've been quiet on here for a while, but we've been busy! will have some pictures of the summer's festivals up soon hopefully, but here's some upcoming parties we'll be doing... We're vjing for Simian Sounds on the 14th september @ Waterman's, falmouth We'll be vjing at an end of fresher's party at Q-bar as the launch of our new regular night there controlling the music and the visuals! special surprise guests and good times for all! And most importantly we're vjing alongside some of the uk's best visual artists at Kernow Klash's first forray in the Stannary: and then on november 10th we're providing visuals for the Wrong Music room at Drop Beats not Bombs @ the custard factory, birmingham We'll get some new material up on the site soon, hopefully....... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk well, we've been quiet on here for a while, but we've been busy!
will have some pictures of the summer's festivals up soon hopefully, but here's some upcoming parties we'll be doing...

We're vjing for Simian Sounds on the 14th september @ Waterman's, falmouth

We'll be vjing at an end of fresher's party at Q-bar as the launch of our new regular night there controlling the music and the visuals! special surprise guests and good times for all!

And most importantly we're vjing alongside some of the uk's best visual artists at Kernow Klash's first forray in the Stannary:

and then on november 10th we're providing visuals for the Wrong Music room at Drop Beats not Bombs @ the custard factory, birmingham


We'll get some new material up on the site soon, hopefully....

]]> Big Chill tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.50 2007-07-26T18:52:09Z 2007-07-26T18:56:16Z god, haven't posted on here in ages, just recovering and removing the last bits of mud from Glade, which was bloody mental. gearing up for the Big Chill now, we will be playing with Gaudi on the Sanctuary stage on Friday night at 23.40, so if your at the festival get yourselves down there and give us some support! for anyone without any plans for the weekend after BC, thats the 10th-12th august, i strongly suggest you get over to the Bloom Festival, its gonna be wicked and they've just been granted a 24hr license which is nice! check out www.bloomfestival.com for more info! we'll be closing the festival alongside Aim on the mainstage and its gonna be a fucking brilliant weekend, miss out at your peril.... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk god, haven't posted on here in ages, just recovering and removing the last bits of mud from Glade, which was bloody mental. gearing up for the Big Chill now, we will be playing with Gaudi on the Sanctuary stage on Friday night at 23.40, so if your at the festival get yourselves down there and give us some support!

for anyone without any plans for the weekend after BC, thats the 10th-12th august, i strongly suggest you get over to the Bloom Festival, its gonna be wicked and they've just been granted a 24hr license which is nice!
check out www.bloomfestival.com for more info!
we'll be closing the festival alongside Aim on the mainstage and its gonna be a fucking brilliant weekend, miss out at your peril.

]]> Beach Breaks Live tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.49 2007-06-22T11:56:17Z 2007-06-22T12:11:05Z a little late, but here's some pictures from the Beach Breaks Live Festival in Polzeath, it went pretty well and a good time was had by all. Big thanks to everyone who helped out with the visuals, namely Mourish and 1000 Errors, their sets looked awesome, but also everyone else who helped out with carrying stuff and rigging and de-rigging, your help is much appreciated! Oh, and Jon Johnson from AVT, couldn't have done it without you, you're a star! It was a big shame that Magenta couldn't make it, but im sure there will be plenty of opportunity to see her perform in the future! right here's a few pictures, hopefully i'll find some more good ones of the screens but these'll do for now... (r-l) Paddy and Giles from Mourish visualising it up while Olly 1000 Errors prepares his set for later. click more for more pictures!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk a little late, but here's some pictures from the Beach Breaks Live Festival in Polzeath, it went pretty well and a good time was had by all.
Big thanks to everyone who helped out with the visuals, namely Mourish and 1000 Errors, their sets looked awesome, but also everyone else who helped out with carrying stuff and rigging and de-rigging, your help is much appreciated!
Oh, and Jon Johnson from AVT, couldn't have done it without you, you're a star!
It was a big shame that Magenta couldn't make it, but im sure there will be plenty of opportunity to see her perform in the future!

right here's a few pictures, hopefully i'll find some more good ones of the screens but these'll do for now...

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(r-l) Paddy and Giles from Mourish visualising it up while Olly 1000 Errors prepares his set for later.

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]]> New AV release on net-lab! tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.48 2007-05-30T12:58:10Z 2007-05-30T13:03:48Z Good news, finally, after months of waiting and the website being down and then re-launched etc.. blah blah, we now have our first video release! woo. Its a live 8mm mix to Tripledot's Das Boot which is an awesome tune. Head on over to www.net-lab.co.uk and go to the video section and then watch our video, its easy and fun, give it a try. On a seperate note Lungefist #3 went off with a bang, big thanks to Hinnom and Jonny3snares for making it what it was, as well as the the other guys that played, Tripledot, FadFad, Ben, etc. Theres a few pictures up on our myspace www.myspace.com/synchomplicity and there'll be a video posted asap, so stay tuned for that.... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk Good news, finally, after months of waiting and the website being down and then re-launched etc.. blah blah, we now have our first video release! woo. Its a live 8mm mix to Tripledot's Das Boot which is an awesome tune.
Head on over to www.net-lab.co.uk and go to the video section and then watch our video, its easy and fun, give it a try.

On a seperate note Lungefist #3 went off with a bang, big thanks to Hinnom and Jonny3snares for making it what it was, as well as the the other guys that played, Tripledot, FadFad, Ben, etc. Theres a few pictures up on our myspace www.myspace.com/synchomplicity and there'll be a video posted asap, so stay tuned for that.

]]> New Gigs! tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.47 2007-05-21T20:01:20Z 2007-05-21T20:04:18Z I can now confirm that we will be playing at the following UK festivals this summer! Beach Breaks Live 11th-13th june The Big Chill 3rd-5th August Bloom 10th - 12th August We cant wait, come and say hello if you're at any of the above!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk I can now confirm that we will be playing at the following UK festivals this summer!
Beach Breaks Live 11th-13th june
The Big Chill 3rd-5th August
Bloom 10th - 12th August

We cant wait, come and say hello if you're at any of the above!

]]> LungeFist #3 is upon us! tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.46 2007-05-11T10:32:48Z 2007-05-11T10:38:57Z LungeFist is moving to The Cutty Sark in falmouth for its next installment on the 26th May check out www.mypsace.com/j0nny35nare5 and www.myspace.com/hinnomuk to hear some of their music... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk LungeFist is moving to The Cutty Sark in falmouth for its next installment on the 26th May

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check out www.mypsace.com/j0nny35nare5
and www.myspace.com/hinnomuk
to hear some of their music

]]> drop beats not bombs tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.45 2007-05-08T15:04:09Z 2007-05-08T15:18:15Z We've just got back from Drop Beats not Bombs in Birmingham and it was bloody awesome, thanks so much to everyone who made the weekend so brilliant, especially Tom, Mat, Ravindra and Barry, you're all stars! Here's some pictures of us playing on the main stage on the sunday night... click more for more pictures... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk We've just got back from Drop Beats not Bombs in Birmingham and it was bloody awesome, thanks so much to everyone who made the weekend so brilliant, especially Tom, Mat, Ravindra and Barry, you're all stars!
Here's some pictures of us playing on the main stage on the sunday night...

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]]> long time no update again tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.44 2007-04-24T19:18:58Z 2007-04-24T19:28:47Z oooo, where to start...loads been going round these parts.... once we'd recovered from the Bloc weekend we've started some experiments with Miranda from Rephlex which will hopefully result in some beautiful AV performances later this summer involving lots of fish tanks on stage... We've also been busy preparing a brand new digital set for Drop Beats not Bombs this bank holiday weekend in Birmingham, check out http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/ for more info. We've now got a myspace page in some kind of convoluted way, so if you'd like to add us please do at www.myspace.com/synchomplicity On top of that we've just been asked to provide the visuals for the Beach Breaks Live festival in june, go have a look at their awesome lineup on http://www.beachbreaklive.co.uk/ and maybe even buy some tickets?!? we'll be visualing away the whole 3 days alongside some other great VJs who'll be announced soon. so come say hello. and last but maybe most.....LungeFist #3 is alive! It will be at The Cutty Sark pub (falmouth) since the poor old Watersports Centre lost its license, featuring a fine blend of horrible metal and lovely glitchybreakcore. Namely: Jonny3Snares providing the electronic noises and Hinnom providing the guitars and shouting its gonna be awesome!!!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk oooo, where to start...loads been going round these parts....
once we'd recovered from the Bloc weekend we've started some experiments with Miranda from Rephlex which will hopefully result in some beautiful AV performances later this summer involving lots of fish tanks on stage...

We've also been busy preparing a brand new digital set for Drop Beats not Bombs this bank holiday weekend in Birmingham, check out http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/ for more info.

We've now got a myspace page in some kind of convoluted way, so if you'd like to add us please do at www.myspace.com/synchomplicity

On top of that we've just been asked to provide the visuals for the Beach Breaks Live festival in june, go have a look at their awesome lineup on http://www.beachbreaklive.co.uk/ and maybe even buy some tickets?!? we'll be visualing away the whole 3 days alongside some other great VJs who'll be announced soon. so come say hello.

and last but maybe most.....LungeFist #3 is alive!
It will be at The Cutty Sark pub (falmouth) since the poor old Watersports Centre lost its license, featuring a fine blend of horrible metal and lovely glitchybreakcore.
Namely: Jonny3Snares providing the electronic noises
and Hinnom providing the guitars and shouting

its gonna be awesome!!!

]]> Lungefist #2 tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.43 2007-03-08T11:41:30Z 2007-03-14T13:25:03Z LungeFist #2 was a huge success, Ebola and Judith Priest took no prisoners with what must have been the heaviest msuci that the watersports centre has ever known! we'll have some pictures up soon but for now here's a video on you tube from the night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBa5f4np6g and don't forget, we're playing Simian Sounds at Waterman's tomorrow night, so come down and get your groove on!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk LungeFist #2 was a huge success, Ebola and Judith Priest took no prisoners with what must have been the heaviest msuci that the watersports centre has ever known!
we'll have some pictures up soon but for now here's a video on you tube from the night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBa5f4np6g

and don't forget, we're playing Simian Sounds at Waterman's tomorrow night, so come down and get your groove on!

]]> LungeFist #2 tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.42 2007-02-24T14:29:26Z 2007-02-24T14:34:55Z its been a busy week, LungeFist#1 was awesome, despite the low turnout Bunglegushcore got the dancefloor moving with his brilliant absurd gabba and a good time was had by all. Last night was yet another packed Simian Sounds, it just keeps getting better and better! and this is the best bit: LungeFist #2 - Fri 2nd March - Falmouth Watersports Centre we've got EBOLA and JUDITH PRIEST both of wrongmusic to come tear it up and in support we've got tirpledot performing a special live analog dubstep set which'll be amazing and a special presentation of god vs. satan from Scottnoskills oooh i can't wait... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk its been a busy week, LungeFist#1 was awesome, despite the low turnout Bunglegushcore got the dancefloor moving with his brilliant absurd gabba and a good time was had by all. Last night was yet another packed Simian Sounds, it just keeps getting better and better!

and this is the best bit:
LungeFist #2 - Fri 2nd March - Falmouth Watersports Centre
we've got EBOLA and JUDITH PRIEST both of wrongmusic to come tear it up
and in support we've got tirpledot performing a special live analog dubstep set which'll be amazing
and a special presentation of god vs. satan from Scottnoskills
oooh i can't wait

]]> LungeFist #1 tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.41 2007-02-12T01:03:27Z 2007-02-12T01:17:47Z Finally, our first wrong music night is upon us! LungeFist #1 @ Falmouth Watersports Centre, Monday the 19th Feb featuring: Bunglegushcore of Wrong Music The Jones Machine falmouth's finest mashup merchant Gerrard a glitch/idm set from cheltnam raised laptop jockey plus our own live visuals all for only £2 be there at 8 to get a free cd!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk Finally, our first wrong music night is upon us!

LungeFist #1 @ Falmouth Watersports Centre, Monday the 19th Feb

featuring:
Bunglegushcore
of Wrong Music
The Jones Machine
falmouth's finest mashup merchant
Gerrard
a glitch/idm set from cheltnam raised laptop jockey

plus our own live visuals
all for only £2
be there at 8 to get a free cd!

]]> Darft Phunk this friday! tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.40 2007-02-06T13:34:32Z 2007-02-06T13:37:20Z Simian Sounds have invited some friends over for this weeks simian friday, the singin/mcin/djin/saxin craziness that is Darft Phunk! we've had em before now they're back with their full lineup, it'll be awesome. So come down to Watermans on friday the 9th for some phunky fun.... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk Simian Sounds have invited some friends over for this weeks simian friday, the singin/mcin/djin/saxin craziness that is Darft Phunk! we've had em before now they're back with their full lineup, it'll be awesome.
So come down to Watermans on friday the 9th for some phunky fun.

]]> featured project on YCN tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.39 2007-01-30T14:09:19Z 2007-01-30T14:18:21Z YCN (Young Creatives Network) are running a feature on our friend Michael Robinson who designed our website, hes brilliant, go read the feature at: http://www.ycnonline.com/featured_view.php?&FeatureID=346 as our website is one of his featured projects! On a seperate note i can confirm that Ebola and Judith Priest will be coming to the Watersports centre on the 2nd march, and we'll be doing some kind of wrong warmup a couple of weeks before that, get yer ravin shoes all greased up!... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk YCN (Young Creatives Network) are running a feature on our friend Michael Robinson who designed our website, hes brilliant, go read the feature at: http://www.ycnonline.com/featured_view.php?&FeatureID=346 as our website is one of his featured projects!


On a seperate note i can confirm that Ebola and Judith Priest will be coming to the Watersports centre on the 2nd march, and we'll be doing some kind of wrong warmup a couple of weeks before that, get yer ravin shoes all greased up!

]]> WHOT Woodlane night tag:www.fatamorgana.org.uk,2007:/news//3.38 2007-01-26T15:42:33Z 2007-01-26T15:49:44Z last night was WHOT at woodlane and it went off with a bang, not the loudest bassiest bang ever, but an awesome night was had by all. here's a couple of pictures, we'll put some better ones up when we get them off iRES. we'll also have some pictures up at some point from the Cuisine in Bristol, but for now you can check out the ones at: http://www.vjforums.com/showthread.php?t=19239 heres some shots of magenta's visuals at WHOT: Simian Sounds tonight the 26th! woop, new speakers, very excited... Alex www.fatamorgana.org.uk last night was WHOT at woodlane and it went off with a bang, not the loudest bassiest bang ever, but an awesome night was had by all.
here's a couple of pictures, we'll put some better ones up when we get them off iRES. we'll also have some pictures up at some point from the Cuisine in Bristol, but for now you can check out the ones at:
http://www.vjforums.com/showthread.php?t=19239

heres some shots of magenta's visuals at WHOT:
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Simian Sounds tonight the 26th! woop, new speakers, very excited

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