Lucky Dragons are Los Angeles-based artists Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, most famous for creating live performances where music is produced by human touch.

People connect together to build up sounds until the whole room is one huge fragile and powerful network. Positively smacking of homebuilt kinetic energy, Lucky Dragons blur the lines between the digital and the handspun.

Amidst dozens of psychedelic rhythms there are tropical keyboard drones, recorder ditties, whistles, delay pedal-induced hypnosis and weird melodies. The name Lucky Dragons is borrowed from a Japanese fishing boat caught in the fallout of the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

Produced by PRMNT VIBES.

£7/£6 conc

This event is part of the AV FESTIVAL (5-14 March 2010)

The AV Festival is the biennial international Festival of electronic arts, taking place from 5-14 March 2010.

This year the curatorial theme is energy: a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Exploring energy from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives we present work that resonates across the Festival centres in NewcastleGateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, and beyond.

For a whole programme of the AV festival, you can have a look at their website here

The Star and Shadow Cinema will be the late night hub of the AV Festival, in the middle of a botanical garden...

Whole programme for the AV Fesival at the Star and Shadow Cinema here