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Having ripped apart the sound system in the Cellar with TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS back in April, we’re pleased to announce our next event on June 17th.Just a little something to say thank you for making the parties we’ve had over the year with TEED, Greg Wilson, Floating Points and Alexander Nut. All the links below.
We are elements presents ‘The end of exams jam’
The Cellar, Oxford
17 : 06 : 11
10pm - Late
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Not from here to infinity. They’re OVER. Come and party.
A resident present from us to you. We know you’ve all been working hard over the past 2 months ready for exams and by now it should all be over. Come and join us and celebrate at this special event with some of our favourite residents over the last year.Expect cosmic funk, atomic boogie and particle house from space to your brain as per usual.
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WE ARE ELEMENTS - MAKING MUSIC A SCIENCE
Cosmic Funk ∞ Atomic Boogie ∞ Infinite Beats ∞ Particle House ∞ Antimatter Soul
BI-monthly interstellar club happening featuring all the finest in Groove, Gravity, Boogie, Balance, House, Harmony & left over Cosmic slop.
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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJ SET
TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS (DJ Set)
Limited 5 quid tickets….HERE
With a teary eye and a hand on heart - Its a pleasure to be able to finally invite our extremely good friend TEED along to WAE.
We’ve told him to leave the laptop and sampler at home - and pack a record box for a rare opportunity to hear him slice up the turntables for once.
In case you didn’t know Lando has been making quite the name for himself recently, causing quite a stir on the radiowaves with releases such as ‘Household goods’ and ‘All in one/two sixty dancehalls’ And he’s recently taken his inimitable style across the pond for a US tour.
It’s a honour to have him back on home turf, stumbling distance from home and some vinyl in tow.
To get a vague idea of what you might be hearing in his set, check out the mini mix he did for Annie Mac a couple of months back….
ANNIE MAC MINI MIX
Supporting, as ever, will be Man of Science, Man of Faith - maybe sporting a new hat. We’ll see.
WE ARE ELEMENTS @ THE CELLAR
15TH APRIL, 10-3AM
Doing things our way since the big bang - And making music a science
To keep you busy in the meantime, there’s plenty to keep astronauts among you occupied, such as
THE 700TH EPISODE OF “THE SKY AT NIGHT” - Longest running television show IN THE WORLD
Also - lectures as part of the Oxford science festival….We’ll definitely be at this next week.
And of course PROF BRIAN COX is back on the box with WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Keep your eyes peeled for that on a Sunday night.
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Visions of the Earth
Let’s start with something we’re all vaguely familiar with. Earth from the surface of the moon. “Earthrise is the name given to a photograph of Earth taken by astronaut Willaim Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. In Life’s 100 Photographs that Changed the World, wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” It was taken on 24th December 1968
How about this then? Little bit further away this time - Taken from the surface of Mars. That white dot in the top right is our moon.
Looks like a bright star yes? No. This is the Earth and her close companion the moon taken from The Messenger probe 77 million KM away, which is orbiting Mercury.
And finally - A picture of earth from the furthest point we have managed to get so far.
6,086,176,360 KM to be precise……At Carl Sagan’s suggestion NASA turned their probe “Voyager” around in 1990 once it had completed it’s primary mission and they took this.
Earth is the tiny blue spec just below halfway in the brown streak on the right hand side.
Here’s what Carl Sagan himself made of it
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New Years Eve Jam.
We are elements presents New Years eve.
After two rocking parties with Floating Points and bone-fide legend Greg Wilson, we return with friends and family to keep the New years party rocking till 5. Expect Soul, Disco, Reggae, HipHop, Funky and electronic wobbly bits.
Disco/Funky/Soul
Tickets here > WE GOT TICKETS
Man of Science
A one man musical encycolpedia, Euan’s been trancending sound engineering, nursing training and DJ career in the last year. Time waits for no man and it’s certainly the case for NYE as it’s a very special 4hr set from him. Eyes firmly fixed for the dancefloor and an ear for whats makes you move, you’ll hear anything from Fela Kuti, Talking Heads, Roy Ayers and Wookie. There’s two types of music in the world. Goodmusic. And Badmusic.
This will be the first.
Moe Berrie
Out of retirement for one night only- Moe is no stranger to the 1s &2s having been leading jock in the clubs of the 70s&80s. She hasn’t been behind the decks for a good 20 years, but hasn’t lost the edge for knowing how to rock a party. Expect raw funk, downtown disco and sunshine soul into the new year.
James Norris Keiller
A debut set from Oxfords own new and emerging talent James, we’ve only heard one tune of his and it was enough to convince us he’d know hisway around a set of turntables.
Typo
A dear friend to We are elements, we’ve tried to fit Oli in at our last two parties but we just haven’t had space! He’ll be back with us in the new year, but for now we’ve convinced him to bring himself and his substantial wealth of wax down tot he cellar. Expect funky, party pieces of wax, butted up with some hip hop and some other bits chucked in. (He’ll tell you better than I can on the night)
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NASA to announce life found on Titan?!
“NASA has called a 2 p.m. news conference for Thursday “to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The group includes Pamela Conrad, author of a paper on geology and life on Mars; and James Elser, an Arizona State University professor involved in a NASA-funded program that emphasizes looking at the chemistry of environments where life evolves (and not just looking at water or carbon or oxygen); Felisa Wolfe-Simon (an oceanographer) has written extensively on photosynthesis using arsenic recently (she worked on the team mentioned in this article); Steven Benner (a biologist) is on the “Titan Team” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; they’re looking at Titan (Saturn’s largest moon) as an early-Earth-like chemical environment. This is likely related to the Cassini mission.
The space agency did not release more details, but the list of news conference participants is telling, according to blogger Jason Kottke.
“So, if I had to guess at what NASA is going to reveal on Thursday, I’d say that they’ve discovered arsenic on Titan and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis (by following the elements),” Kottke wrote.
We’ll find out in short order…”
Taken from here >
With more gossip here >
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/11/has-nasa-discov-1.php
Potentially the announcement of century?!
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Astronews
Couple of interesting stories relating to the gas giants reported by the BBC in the last couple of days.
JUPITER’S STRIPE IS RETURNING, SAY SCIENTISTS
SATURN’S MOON HAS THIN ATMOSPHERE
Greg Wilson Tickets are still available by the way…..
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Warning: art that will blow your mind
I am writing this in a state of immense wellbeing. If I was asked to take a happiness survey right now, the results would make Britons look like the most blissful nation on earth. Outside, the London sunshine is cool and the trees finally look wintry, but in here, in my head, it is California. And I did not have to drop acid in the Mojave desert to break on through to this other side. I have just experienced the artist James Turrell’s work Bindu Shards. In the Gagosian Gallery near King’s Cross stands a white-painted metal sphere that looks like a deep-sea submersible. Which, in a sense, it is: both take you on a mind-boggling journey. The technical term for Turrell’s device is a perceptual cell. It is staffed by white-coated attendants who may or may not be medically trained, but who get you to fill out a waiver form declaring you are not epileptic and have not taken drugs that day (“Yesterday is fine, but today this is your drug”) and ask you to choose the soft or hard version of the 15-minute optical voyage. Opting for the hard version, I am placed on a sliding medical bed, counselled some more and locked in the sphere. And it begins. A relaxed ambient expanse of blue is shattered by high-speed flashing that rapidly becomes an ever-changing pattern of flowers, crystals, galaxies, quasars and nebulae. Then I see a cityscape of vertiginous skyscrapers, with no earth below. All these forms and volumes that pulse and metamorphosise are defined by colours that change convulsively – the most intensely saturated greens and reds you can imagine, colours that seem solid, then burst into microscopic patterns of oranges, blacks, gold and misty white; all these colours bubble and whir at breakneck speed, as if you were in a particle accelerator. But the most important part of the experience is that you do not know what is inside and outside your head. I saw a space, or rather an ever-changing succession of spaces, but these were independent of any actual material reality – they existed only in my head. What the perceptual cell does is bombard you with flashing lights to trigger the mind’s eye by exploiting a perceptual phenomenon called the Purkinje effect. The whole of space seems compressed into your skull. But I can see that sceptical readers will be harrumphing at this point. One critic has already claimed he had a mental orgasm in the chamber. It would be nice to scoff but I feel that downplays the power of this mind-expanding work of art. Sessions are fully booked, which means we critics are just fuelling the already large numbers of disappointed visitors. The other works in the exhibition, free for all, are almost equally revelatory. Turrell is the mad scientist of postminimalism, and he’s on a roll. But I don’t know what to say: Bindu Shards is a pleasurably profound work of art and it is a pity to miss it. I suggest you get hold of some powerful drugs. James Turrell is at the Gagosian, 6-24 Britannia Street, London WC1 until 10 Dec. Tel 0207-841 9960 Taken from the Guardian website
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Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
Carl Sagan was just about the perfect scientist. A truly beautiful mind it seems his life quest was to convey the beauty of space to the rest of the world. He certainly did that much, having touched me when I read his Pulitzer prize winning ‘Cosmos’ The book was turned into a TV series for PBS in the states in the early mid 80’s and remains to this day a wonderful insight into Sagan’s mind - and the cosmos.
We’ve (well, maybe not you - but I certainly did) celebrated Carl Sagan day and in celebration here on We are elements - here’s a present from us to you….
The ENTIRE cosmos all compiled in one place.
Enjoy x
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Competition time
The lovely people at WE GOT TICKETS are running a competition on our behalf. We’re giving you the chance to win 2 x tickets to Greg Wilson at We Are Elements on the 17th December.
All you have to do is sign up to their mailing list and there’s a question in their email mailout coming up in the next few days.
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