Celebrating 10 years of experiments from the underground, including DIY, electronics, experimental, lo-fi, noise, radiophonics, weird pop and randomness, Since November 2001 Bad Timing has brought artists from across the world, the UK and Cambridge to as many venues as we could find (or build).

For this special event we return to Aid & Abet artspace to present artists from regular to new who work in the spirit of Bad Timing — obsessive lo-fi electronics made with any and every kind of obsolete technology.
sculpture
(dekorder)

Sculpture are a DIY music/animation duo, using zoetrope projector record deck, tape loops, cassettes, samples, cdj and lo-fi electronic noise to generate a retro-futurist sonic and visual overload. Sculpture create lo-fi beauty manipulating vintage domestic tape machines with handfulls of tapeloops, along the lines of Philip Jeck’s old vinyl loops.
First seen at Bad Timing at our collaborative event with the legendary Kosmische club, we’re very pleased to be able to present them in the context of Aid & Abet’s main warehouse project space with large-scale projections onto decaying industrial walls and metalwork.
hacker farm

‘Make-do and mend. Broken music for a Broken Britain.’

http://hackerfarm.net/

pete um
(gagarin, grist, strange lights, tripel)

http://www.umbusiness.co.uk/

We’ve built our own venue! Aid & Abet invited us to organise a gig and closing party as part of their current show Art As A Full Time Hobby celebrating DIY resourcefulness and self-publication, and we immediately asked if we could build our own small venue within the space. They agreed and the result is a 4-5-capacity allotment-style nano-venue called Self Assembly.

Images of Self Assembly: > www.flickr.com/photos/28890729@N07/sets/72157626934149865/
(Thanks to Lucy Graves, Colin Dewar and all at Reworks for collaboration and other help in building this.)

Events and shows will be taking place at Self Assembly during Aid & Abet opening times — 12-7pm Thu-Sat during July.

This week: Pete UM 2000-song jukebox continues plus other activites. More soon.

Sat 23rd: Pete UM performance in Self Assembly, 3pm tbc.