Monomatic

was initiated in 2007 as a collaboration, experimental playground and halfway house between the work of Anthony Rowe of squidsoup – art, research and play in creative interaction design using sound, physical and virtual space – and Lewis Sykes of The Sancho Plan – a progressive audiovisual collective who explore the realtime interaction between music and video.  Monomatic has since evolved and the current line up now includes Nick Rothwell a.k.a Cassiel – a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer.

Nick Rothwell

is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer. He has built performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt, Vienna Volksoper and Braunarts, and has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe). He has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban Centre), and has performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

Recent projects include performance systems for Quartet (with director Margie Medlin), interactive video for Troop at the Southbank (with choreographer Jane Turner), surround sound for the media gallery at The Public, interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network and TECHNE (Istanbul), a planetarium gig in Colorado, and a Portable Choreographic Artefact in collaboration with Ricochet Dance Productions. He is currently working in software for Random Dance (Sadler’s Wells), in sound for body>data>space alongside CIANT (Prague) and Kibla (Slovenia), and in audiovisuals for the current Future of Sound tour.

Cassiel: www.cassiel.com
Works: www.cassiel.com/space/Projects
Compositions: soundcloud.com/cassiel

Lewis Sykes

is a musician and music technologist, interaction and graphic designer, digital media producer, experimental visuals enthusiast and an JNC qualified Youth & Community Worker specialising in the Arts. A veteran bass player of the underground dub-dance scene of the 90s he performed and recorded with acts such as Emperor Sly, Original Hi-Fi, Somatik, Pfink and Radical Dance Faction and was a partner in the respected underground dance label Zip Dog Records.

He refocused and honed his interests in mixed media through an MA in Hypermedia Studies at the University of Westminster in 2000 and continues to refine his fusion of music, visualisation and technology through more recent creative collaborations – The iRiealists, Dublab All Stars and now the progressive audiovisual collective The Sancho Plan – creators of fantastical worlds in which animated musical characters are triggered by a variety of musical instruments and interfaces.

Lewis is Director of Cybersonica – London’s annual celebration of music, sound art and technology (now in its eighth year) – and between 2002-2007 was Coordinator of the independent digital arts agency Cybersalon, founding Artists in Residence at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

The Sancho Plan: www.thesanchoplan.com
Cybersonica: www.cybersonica.org
Blog: blog.lewissykes.info