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Live Music Show + PlayAway Party!

Tinderbox Collective

Fri 5 Mar, 19:00 – 21:30 GMT

PlayAway Party + Live Music Show (Zoom Event)

19:00 (GMT) – Tinderbox & Friends:

Jed Milroy
The False Economy
The Jellyman’s Daughter

20:00 (GMT) – Special Guests:

John “Slide20XX” Smith
The Gamba Geek

20:30 (GMT) – PlayAway Party

Music, Games, Open Mic & End of Festival Celebrations!

*Please note, Chipzel was previously advertised as the headline act but sadly has had to cancel performing at the festival due to family reasons. We wish Niamh and her family all the best.

As a result we will now be getting together for the Live Music Show on Zoom (instead of Twitch). Please register for the event and we will send you the Zoom link!

Join us for the closing night of Tinderbox PlayAway Festival with an amazing line-up of live music, games & end of festival celebrations!

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Join us for the closing night of Tinderbox PlayAway Festival with an amazing line up of live music, games & end of festival celebrations!

About this Event

We are gathering an almighty line-up of live musicians to celebrate the end of the Tinderbox PlayAway festival! Join us for the closing night PlayAway Party!

*Please note, Chipzel was previously advertised as the headline act but sadly has had to cancel performing at the festival due to family reasons. We wish Niamh and her family all the best.

As a result we will now be getting together for the Live Music Show on Zoom (instead of Twitch). Please register for the event and we will send you the Zoom link!

Jed Milroy
Adventure Folk pioneer, veteran of legendary ‘Whisky River Boat Band’ and Assistant Director of Tinderbox Collective. Jed toured extensively with psychedelic rockers ‘The Aliens’ before making a dignified escape into the world of Bluegrass to join Scottish 7 piece, ‘Southern Tenant Folk Union’. Expect a foot stomping mix of Americana and Traditional Celtic music. Banjo, guitar, vocals.

Facebook: @jedandjo

The False Economy
Esther Swift has travelled the world extensively with her music making and embraces many different influences in her virtuosic harp playing, composing and song writing. She writes songs about her homeland of Scotland, drawing on her folk roots and taking inspiration from nature and the people she meets along the way. An eclectic blend of jazz, folk, classical and everything in between Esther will share with you her stories and musical experiences from around the world.

An improvising saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Matt Wright is one third of the new music ensemble Sink, whose theatrical live shows and improvisational work continue to inspire audiences and artists alike. Recent achievements include five star reviews for their latest Fringe show and completion of their soon to be released third album ‘Popupocalypse’. Since 2012 Matt has been making his own bespoke tuned percussion, manufactured from discarded gas canisters. Matt is also the co-founding Director and Producer of the Pianodrome, the world’s first amphitheatre made entirely from upcycled pianos.

Website: www.estherswift.co.uk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=esther+swift
Facebook: estherkateswift
Soundcloud: estherswift
Bandcamp: estherswift.bandcamp.com

Website: www.theplughole.org | www.pianodrome.org

The Jellyman’s Daughter
Scottish band The Jellyman’s Daughter lands squarely in the middle of a crossroads between bluegrass, post-rock, folk and soul, managing at the same time to sound not a whole lot like any of those genres. Emily and Graham write their songs together with a focus on doing something new, mixing their intimate vocal harmonies with wild and visceral cello, driving guitar and sweet mandolin, complimented brilliantly by banjo (Jamie Francis) and double bass (Herbie Loening).

In 2018 The Jellyman’s Daughter released their new album, ‘Dead Reckoning’. It represents a marked step forward in maturity, depth and scope for the duo, achieving 5 stars in multiple publications and inclusion in Popmatters’ ‘The 20 Best Folk Albums of 2018’.

The past couple of years have seen the band tour extensively around the globe, playing prestigious festivals from Scotland’s own Celtic Connections to Australia’s Port Fairy Folk Festival.

Website: www.thejellymansdaughter.com
Instagram: @jellymansdaughter
Facebook: @jmdmusic
Youtube: @jellymansdaughter

John “Slide20XX” Smith
John Hamilton Smith V (aka, Slide20XX) is a composer who decided to write music for video games at the age of 13 and hasn’t stopped since. His work has appeared in Against Gravity’s VR title “Rec Room,” a Princeton affiliated massively multiplayer neuroscience game named “EyeWire,” and crowd-controlled music-based video games designed and shown at the Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid, Spain and MIT’s festival of arts and technology, Hacking Arts. His most recent work has included the soundtrack for Calico, a game about magical girls running a cat cafe, and music for a pair of anti-racism PSAs created by Cartoon Network series, Steven Universe. He also works as composer, sound designer, and creative director for his game company, Games Without Words.

Website: http://slide20xx.com
Twitter: @slide20xx
Instagram: @slide20xx

The Gamba Geek
Águeda Macias is a Brazilian viola da gamba player, arranger and composer passionate about fusing modern music, particularly video game music, with Renaissance and Baroque aesthetics. Her main platform is her YouTube channel, where she posts videos of her singing and playing the viola da gamba, luteguitar, recorder and harpsichord under the pseudonym The Gamba Geek. She is a member of video game music collectives Coin Ops. and Gamelark Records, contributing regularly to albums and EPs. Currently she lives in Germany, where she specializes in Early Music at the University of Arts Bremen.

YouTube: @thegambageek

Instagram: @thegambageek

Twitter: @thegambageek

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Games Composer Panel

Tinderbox Collective

Fri 5th Mar, 18:00 – 19:00 (GMT)

Panel Talk (Zoom Event)
Games Composer Panel

Panelists:
Nainita Desai (Telling Lies)
Guy Jackson (Sea of Solitude)
Tess Tyler (PLAYNE: The Meditation Game, LEGO® Worlds, Dead and Buried)

Chaired by: Jenny Nelson (Scala Radio)

Join media composers Nainita Desai, Guy Jackson and Tess Tyler in a discussion with Jenny Nelson on their careers and journeys in game music.

Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson is Programme Manager at Scala Radio, the UK’s newest classical music and entertainment station. She produces a range of specialist music programmes including Mark Kermode’s film music show (Saturday 1-3pm) and The Console with Luci Holland (Tinderbox/Scala Radio), the only weekly show devoted to games music on UK national radio (Saturdays 5-6pm, repeated on Sundays 10-11pm).

Website: jennynelson.co.uk
Twitter: @nelsonjenny

Nainita Desai
Nainita Desai, is an Ivor Novello Awards, BIFA nominee, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, and the IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of 2020.
Her recent projects include Oscar nominated and BAFTA and Cannes winning feature documentary ‘For Sama’, and ‘The Reason I Jump’, the Sundance winning feature. Other recent credits include: BBC drama series, ‘Unprecedented’; Netflix’s most-watched documentary, ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’; the hit Netflix India series ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’; and the acclaimed interactive video game ‘Telling Lies’, released by Annapurna Interactive. She is currently working on games for Half Mermaid and Silver Rain Games / Electronic Arts.

Website: nainitadesai.com
Twitter: @nainitadesai
Facebook: facebook.com/nainita.desai
Instagram: www.instagram.com/nainita_desai
IMDB: imdb.me/nainitadesai
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/soundology

Guy Jackson
Based in London, England, Guy Jackson is a composer who specialises in highly emotional, crafted, layered musical compositions, amalgamating acoustic and electronic sounds and encompassing both classical and ambient genres.

His work is perfectly suited to the silver screen, enhancing and supporting the mood and tone of a broad variety of visual content.

Website: guyjacksonmusic.co.uk
Twitter: @guyjacksonmusic

Tess Tyler
Tess is an award winning Bristol, UK based composer for the screen. She made her orchestral recording debut at Air Lyndhurst Studios in London with her score for the video game Steampunk Riders. This work being one amongst many for orchestra, Tess has recorded her music with the likes of the London Session Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Budapest Art Orchestra, and The Bratislava Symphony. In 2017, a medley of her orchestral scores has been showcased in famous concert halls across the United Kingdom as part of the Heroes and Legends Tour with the Bournemouth Symphony. In October 2018, Tess worked with the composer, songwriter, and musical innovator Imogen Heap. Together they developed a project entitled, The Life of A Song, and as a result Tess composed, performed and produced on the highly successful single, Marble.Tess continues to write music for the screen, as well as a recording artist. In 2020 she debuted her first LP, ‘_fractals’.

Website: tesstyler.com
Instagram: @tesstylermusic
Twitter: @tessmakesmusic

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Our Games Composer Panel is supported by:

Scala Radio is an entertainment radio station playing classical music in the UK. Playing familiar masters from Mozart and Holst to surprising new works from living composers like Karl Jenkins, Rebecca Dale and Thom Yorke, join us as Scala Radio brings classical music into the 21st century. Scala Radio is available on DAB, on our website and on our Scala Radio App.

W: scalaradio.co.uk
T: @ScalaRadio
F: ScalaRadioUK

Game Music Connect was created by James Hannigan and John Broomhall to celebrate and explore the amazing music and sound design of video games and the extraordinary talent behind it via an insightful series of conversations, lectures and case studies from around the world.

W: gamemusicconnect.com
T: @WeAreGameMusic
F: GameMusicConnect

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Zoom Obscura Showcase – Works in Progress

Tinderbox Collective

Fri 5th Mar, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT)

Mini-talks & Demos (Zoom Event):
Zoom Obscura – Works in Progress
Challenging cultures of video-calling through creative intervention

Artists/Speakers:
Ilsa Pouwels, Michael Baldwin, Bea Wijshijer, Paul O’Neill, Martin Disley

Challenging cultures of video-calling through creative intervention: A series of short talks and demos from five artists who have been experimenting with a range of creative and technological ideas to subvert your normal experience of Zoom!

Zoom Obscura is a project that enables us to playfully negotiate our own presence and our own value in the spaces of online video-calling. We bring together artists, academics, hackers, designers and creative technologists to develop critical interventions that make the problematic workings of these technologies legible to wider audiences while empowering users to experiment with, and control how their personal data (visual, audible, text input) manifest in online spaces.

Join us for a preview of the wonderful works in progress that Zoom Obscura has funded, with support of the Human-Data Interaction Network+ and Creative Informatics

Artists/Panelists:

Ilsa Pouwels
Ilse is currently at the Umeå Institute of Design working on her graduate thesis. Focusing on creating interventions that explore and challenge the relation we have with our technologies, undermine through design. Before, she spend time at Tellart and LEGO as an interaction designer. As a designer she is trying to take up challenging problems of merging the physical and digital for societal contexts. With a heart for exploring new technologies through prototyping, approaching them from a different angle to bring a little magic to the world.
http://www.ilsepouwels.nl

Michael Baldwin
I am an American composer whose current work focuses on ways of composing experiences within and through background sociomusical activities. This work has thus far involved audiences and performing musicians listening to audio guides that lead them across discreet sonic, choreographic, and emotional terrains in parallel with musical performances and interpersonal interactions in concert settings.
https://michaelbaldwin.online

Bea Wijshijer
B. Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.
https://www.shrimpychip.net/

Paul O’Neill
Paul is an artist and researcher based in Dublin, Ireland. His practice and research is concerned with the implications of our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. This discourse is reflected in his academic background, he holds an MSc Multimedia from Dublin City University and an MA in Digital Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Paul is currently completing a PhD which focuses on media art practices that critique and subvert techno-solutionist narratives and histories.
https://aswemaysink.com/

Martin Disley
Martin is an artist, researcher and creative technologist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work interrogates computer vision systems by manifesting their internal contradictions in image, video and sound. Martin was recently artist-in-residence at the National Library of Scotland and his work has exhibited at the V&A Museum (Dundee, Scotland), Summerhall (Edinburgh, Scotland), The Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, Scotland), Guterhallen Gallery (Soligen, Germany), Sala Aranyo (Barcelona, Spain) and Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent, Belgium).
http://www.martindisley.co.uk

Foxdog Studios
Foxdog Studios, Lloyd Henning and Peter Sutton, are computer programmers turned live performers. They create comedy shows that put the audience in control of interactive games and DIY gadgets. Their live show, “Robot Chef”, was a sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe and had viewers cook sausage and beans by controlling a robot on their phones (a highlight being firing a hotdog from a cannon).

The pandemic has turned their stage shows into interactive online pieces, streamed live weekly on Twitch, including “Escape The North” which was featured as part of the Guardian’s coverage of comedy streaming.
foxdogstudios.com

Zoom Obscura Team
Zoom Obscura is led by researchers from the University of Edinburgh (Pip Thornton, Chris Elsden and Chris Speed), Durham University (Andrew Dwyer), and Kings College London (Mike Duggan), and is in collaboration with Edinburgh-based art & music collective Tinderbox Collective and curator Hannah Redler-Hawes.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zoom-obscura-works-in-progress-tickets-141494653317&#8243

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4 Mar 2020 2 days to go, Playaway Creative Technology, Playaway Events, PlayAway Games & Music, PlayAway Workshops

Intro to Pure Data & Interactive Sound Workshop with Yann Seznec

Tinderbox Collective

Thu 4th Mar, 18:00 – 20:00 (GMT)

Workshop (Zoom Event)

Intro to Pure Data & Interactive Sound with Yann Seznec

Price £10/£5 (conc)

If you are on low income please get in touch at admin@tinderboxcollective.org to ask about free spaces

In this interactive workshop with sonic artist Yann Seznec, we’ll be introduced to the basics of getting started with visual programming language Pure Data, and its power for interactive audio.

Suitable for anyone interested in creative technology, completely new to design, and experienced designers with an interest in learning new tools.

To take your digital making further, check out our Bitsy One-Day Game Jam on Tues 2nd March too!

For ages 16+

This workshop is held via a Zoom Call and spaces are limited – please register to attend

You’ll need:

A computer or laptop

Access to internet

Pure Data downloaded to your computer: puredata.info

Headphones

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Yann Seznec

Yann Seznec is an artist whose work focuses on sound, music, physical interaction, games, and building new instruments. Recent projects include residencies at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the Floating Cinema in London, Playable City Lagos, and Timespan in the Scottish Highlands. He has performed at The Roundhouse London, Mutek Montreal, Melbourne Recital Hall, Liquid Rooms Tokyo, Köln Philharmonie, Fak’ugesi Johannesburg, and more. Much of his work involves building custom instruments such as musical pigsties, slinky instruments, candle-based sound installations, electromechanical mushroom spore reactors, and more.

He is founder of BAFTA-winning creative studio Lucky Frame. In December 2015 he received the British Composer Award for Sonic Art for his 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival work “Currents”.

Yann has been Game Designer in Residence at the MICA Game Lab in Baltimore, Maryland, since 2019. This residency runs until August 2021.

Website: yannseznec.com
Twitter: @yannseznec

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Games & Empathy Mini-Talks

Tinderbox Collective

Thu 4th Mar, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)

Mini-Talks (Zoom Event)
Games & Empathy

Speakers:
Marina Diez (3 of Cups Games)
Alastair Low (Lowtek Games)
Natalie Schmidt
Nida Ahmad

Series of short talks from specialist game designers about cultivating empathy and improving accessibility in games design.

Marina Diez
Marina Díez is a Spanish award-winning game designer based in London, UK. She’s the CEO and Creative Director at Three of Cups Games, a games studio based in London. Besides, she is the lead game designer of Dordogne at Un Je Ne Sais Quoi Studios and game designer for Me-säätiö in Helsinki, Finland.

Marina will be talking about finding your voice as a professional with special attention to her role as an emotional game designer and how she approached her

work starting there.

Website: marinadiez.carrd.co
Twitter: @ninfa_dp

Alastair Low (Ally)
After working as an artist in the games industry for 7+ years Ally finally took the plunge to start his own indie studio Lowtek Games. His work explores making fun, retro, challenging, dyslexia friendly games.

Ally is on the board of the SGDA (Scottish Games Developers Association) helping to organise game jams and play parties and also used to help run Dundee’s local makerspace.

Lowtek Games has had a strong focus on retro games and is working on tools to help games be more accessible to dyslexic players. Ally is dyslexic himself and wants to help make change happen.

Website: lowtek.games
Twitter: @wallmasterr
Facebook: lowtekgames
Artstation: lowtek

Natalie Schmidt
Natalie is a writer and game designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Having studied both dramaturgy and game design at Carnegie Mellon University, Natalie specializes in narrative design and script development for multi-media storytelling. She’s designed small-scale TTRPGs, and her previous narrative work for Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute explored human-AI decision-making via branching interactive stories.

She is particularly passionate about meaningful representation of BIPOC within the TTRPG space, as well as accessibility of design within interactive entertainment. Natalie is currently working freelance, as well as on several personal projects.

Websites:
natalie-schmidt.wixsite.com/portfolio
medium.com/@s.natalie25

Nida Ahmad

Nida is a UX Designer with a focus on creating playful user experiences with accessibility and psychology in mind. She has worked on Warhammer Combat Cards and currently an upcoming social MMO. She is an advocate for integrating UX processes into game development, having spoken at industry conferences and was nominated for the Game Dev Heroes Awards as a result. She is also a mentor for students studying games, was a reader for the BAFTA Young Game Designer Awards and is on the founding team of POC in Play, who strive to increase the inclusion of POC in the industry.

Twitter: @NidaAhmad_

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