In collaboration with Liverpool Biennial, Summercamp presents The Experimental Music School, a family-friendly programme of music-related workshops, experiments, talks and performances lead by artists, musicians and composers. 

Tokyo-born, Royal College of Art graduate Yuri Suzuki will blend his love of music and technology at a workshop where he will present a small robot called ‘Colour Chaser’. The little device will translate drawings into data, in turn translating that into sound. Suzuki’s sound art pieces have been exhibited around the world and Summercamp marks a chance to be one of them. 

'Colour Chaser' 

The creators of Drawing Paper together with artists from Liverpudlian art collective The Royal Standard will come together for LINE-OUT. In a series of specially commissioned music performances, the artists will lead a durational drawing 'happening' in one of the main spaces of the festival. Providing the music for the performance will be Jennifer John (Sense of Sound), Hannah Peel and Philip Jeck.

'LINE-OUT'

Composer, arranger and performer Leo Chadburn, a.k.a. Simon Bookish will deliver a lecture using live sound and image samples. Leo has released three albums as Simon Bookish, the most recent of which was Everything/Everything (2008), a "big-band song cycle about science and information" for the Cologne-based record label Tomlab. His discography also includes remixes for Owen Pallett, Grizzly Bear and Franz Ferdinand.
 
Artists Juneau Projects will lead a song-writing workshop in which participants create their own music track for a CD. In a special lecture for younger attendees, Vicki Bennett/People Like Us will discuss how the collage of sounds and images that make up her own work can communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. Also, as previously announced, Summercamp will feature luthier Yuri Landman a group of 16 musicians alongside critically acclaimed Liverpool trio Ex-Easter Island Head in a combination of experimental instrument making and performance.
 
All ages are welcome to these drop-in events and each is free to those with a Summercamp ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Music 

Added to the music line up are Eagulls, a Leeds quintet and former NME Radar Band Of The Week pumping out the fuzzier side of jagged indie rock. Somewhat more down beat, singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti, whose tracks have graced soundtracks of US TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill, is also set to take to the Summercamp stage. 
 
With this expanding and unparalleled offering Summercamp will be a festival memory few will forget, one that truly stands out in increasingly homogenised season of events. Standard adult weekend tickets priced at only £55.00 are on sale here