Fragments from Futuresonic 2006

An archive of the full PLAN@Futuresonic programme

Matt Web's talk and slides from the Iterative Architecture panel at Futuresonic 06

Regine Debatty's coverage of Futuresonic (includes some earlier years as well as 2006)

Maria Stuckoff's mobile phone video of Toshio Iwai demonstrating his Tenori-on at Futuresonic 06

Youtube video from the audience of Toshio Iwai keynote at Futuresonic 2006

• Toshio Iwai - part 1
• Toshio Iwai - part 2
• Toshio Iwai - part 3
• Toshio Iwai - part 4
• Toshio Iwai - part 5

Futuresonic 2006 on Flickr

Quotes on Futuresonic 2006

"Futuresonic has broadened from niche event to a fully eclectic urban festival, guided by a genuine thirst for the unexpected, be it audio, visual or an ingenious blending of both. The ethos of the festival is no longer provided solely by the ebb and flow of electronica, but by a reputation for stretching into lonely areas of innovation, where art installations and social issues are both built into the festival's unique framework." The Wire

"No other live show I've been to in years has been as inspiring and entertaining from the perspective of the music played or the use of media ... My friend and myself walked out of that performance at Manchester Academy physically stunned." Posting to TENORI-ON blog

"Futuresonic delivers the most innovative ideas and formats every year ... If this is the future of electronic music, then the future [is] going to be very bright indeed." BBC online

"Futuresonic, a razor-sharp, contemporary, urban alternative, fittingly sited in the heart of Manchester." The North West Enquirer

Social Technologies Summit

Curated by Ben Russell, Drew Hemment

Speakers included:

Masaki Fujihata, Last.fm, Regine Debatty (www.we-make-money-not-art.com), Anthony Dunne (Head of interaction design at the RCA), Tim Cresswell, Steve Coast (openstreetmap.org), Share NYC, Toshio Iwai (Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS), Matt Webb, Richard Peckham (Galileo/Astrium), Inke Arns, Stephen Kovats, Tom Carden, Atau Tanaka, Jose Luis de Vicente, Stanislav Roudavski, Steve Benford, Rob Van Kranenburg, James Wallbank, Ben Russell, Drew Hemment.

A stripped down overview of the Social Technology Summit panels

Toshio Iwai (Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS)

Social Arts

Regine Debatty ( http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com ), Anthony Dunne (Head of interaction design at the RCA & author of Herzian Tales), Jose Luis de Vicente

Iterative Architecture

Matt Webb, Tom Carden, Stanislav Roudavski

Mapping

Steve Coast (openstreetmap.org), Masaki Fujihata, Richard Peckham (Galileo/Astrium)

Social Music

Last.fm, Share NYC ( http://share.dj/share/ )

Build Your Own City

Stephen Kovats, Atau Tanaka, James Wallbank, Bandung Center for New Media Arts [Indonesia], and mimoSa, [Brazil]

Contested Spaces and RFID

Tim Cresswell, Rob Van Kranenburg, Inke Arns

OFF THE MAP

Aa major exhibition called 'Off The Map' ran parallel to conference featuring,

Manchester : Peripheral, Alastair Dant, Tom Davis & David Gunn Satellite Jockey, Rick Silva : Mapchester : OpenStreetMap : Amsterdam RealTime, Ester Polak : Biomapping, Christian Nold : re:draw:III 2006, Rob Lycett : Distance Made Good, Hamilton and Southern : The Catalogue, Chris Oakley : Thousand Points Of Light, Visible Collective : BUMP, Jaygo Bloom : Robotic Feral Public Authoring, Proboscis : Geotracing Futuresonic, Waag Society : Tactical Sound Garden, Mark Shepard : Phone Flora, Anna Dimitriu : Getting To The Point (For Beginners And Experts) : With Michelle Teran, Jen Southern, Pete Gomes, Simon Pope : Virtual Hiker, C5 : Speckled Jewellery, Sarah Kettley : RFID Snakes and Ladders, Blink : Atau Tanaka : Magnetic Migration Music, Zoe Irvine : IMPROVe, Richard Widerberg and Zeenath Hasa with MANTIS