HELOpg
The Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra postgraduate group has a separate existence to the HELO directed ensemble.
the new HELOpg blog is here (site deleted but content below).
The HELOpg Calendar, est. Nov 2010 is no more.
Album
The HELOpg Album, LPTP, can be found online here (recorded 2011).
Performances
The following list is in addition to occasions when the HELOpg players have performed with or as part of the larger HELO ensemble (such as the HELO/MMU Laptop days).
NoiseBox York
23 September 2011 · 20:00 - 23:30
HELOpg have been booked to play NoiseBox alongside, yaxu and section_9.
The Basement City Screen 13-17 Coney Street York YO1 9QL
31st July 2011 - ii un-conf gig (off ICMC)
http://icmc-unconf.inclusiveimprov.co.uk/doku.php/program#gigs
13th July 2011 - Electrotextur at Frome Festival
25th May - Holmfirth Film festival Music Night
May 25th 2011
Featuring works by Joanna Byrne, Chris Daniels, Charlotte Partt, Luke Reed, Oliver Smith/Ryan Ward, Rozi Fuller, Ashley Dean, HeloPG, and Scott Mc laughlin/Rob Lycett.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118370634912644
20th May - Open Circuit
7pm, 20th May, Lanternhouse, The Ellers, Ulverston UK
featuring HELOpg, Max Stomp, Focal Gaol & OCRA
27th January - Noise Upstairs
Kro Bar Manchester, Thursday 27th January, 8pm
Supporting LOUP
More details here.
14th January - NoiseFloor Festival
Stafford University, Friday 14th January, 1.30pm
More details here.
16th December - Byram Event
Byram Arcade, Thursday 16th December, 8pm\\ with added monotron . . .
More details here.
ii Gig #7 Christmas Special
//Tuesday 7th December, 2010 - 8pm - Sleepers Bar, Huddersfield, HD1 5DL, UK//
More details here.
Silicon Rheino II @ Manchester
//Sunday 24th October, 2010 - 3pm - The Chill Zone, John Dalton Building, MMU, Oxford Rd, Manchester, UK//
More details here.
ii Gig #2 HELO @ Sleepers
//Tuesday 19th January, 2010 - 8pm - Sleepers Huddersfield, HD1 5DL, UK// -> More details here.
HELO.pg @ Any Which Way
//Friday 13th November 7.30pm - CoffeEvolution, Church Street, Huddersfield UK// -> More details here.
Current Players
Samuel Birkhead
Julian Brooks
Sam Freeman
After getting into the technology of music as a full time pursuit in 2000, partly as a way to continue making music without playing live (bass guitar in grungy/metal rock bands), Sam returned to real time performance in 2005 (as a laptopist).
Scott Hewitt
Scott Hewitt plays laptop.
Adam Jansch
Adam Jansch is a sonic artist currently studying for his Ph.D in music composition at the University of Huddersfield. His current research looks at strategies for freeing the record, the primary medium for mass disseminated music, from its fixity. The outcomes of this research involve a range of artistic implementations – conceptual software, hardware-based pop, media installations amongst them.
For more information on his work go to http://www.adamjansch.co.uk/. More on his research is available at http://research.adamjansch.co.uk/.
Upcoming Rehearsals
the practice of documenting rehearsals deceased
Previous Rehearsals
2011-02-25
Booth, Brooks, Freeman, Hewitt, Jansch
Pictures
2011-02-17
no details
2011-02-02
no details
2011-01-20
Booth, Birkhead, Brooks, Hewitt, Jansch
2010-12-01
Booth, Birkhead, Freeman, Hewitt, Jansch
Pictures
2010-11-16
Booth, Birkhead, Brooks, Freeman, Hewitt, Jansch
Pictures
2010-11-03
Booth, Birkhead, Brooks, Freeman, Hewitt, Papadimitriou,
Recording
20101103_helo-pg.mp3 (≈ 30 min)
Pictures
2010-10-20
details lost
2010-10-06
Booth, Brooks, Freeman, Hewitt:\
20101006_HELOpg(nrmlzd).mp3
(16min, 15.5MB)
Pictures
2010-06-10
- Sam Birkhead, Sam Freeman, Sten-Olof Hellström, Adam Jansch, and Scott
- Mc Laughlin \\
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!: uploaded at last! -> 20100610_HELOpg.mp3 (18min, 17.3MB) \\
Number 5
~ 18th January 2010\\
Quick and dirty (low level) audio recordings to download :
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HELOpg-r5a.mp3
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HELOpg-r5b.mp3
Picture
Number 4
14th January 2010
Quick and dirty audio recordings to download :
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HELOpg-r4a.mp3
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HELOpg-r4b.mp3
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HELOpg-r4c.mp3
Picture
Number 3
11th January 2010
Quick and dirty audio recording download .
Picture
Number 2
29th October 2009
testing set up : 4 x stereo out mixed to pair of 360º Omnidirectional speakers, ≈28minutes recorded
Quick and dirty audio recording download .
Pictures
Number
22nd October 2009
first gathering of this quartet, small set of speakers each, banter and blasting, ≈25minutes recorded
Quick and dirty audio recording download .
Pictures