SG @ ELECTRIC PICNIC: SATURDAY

Science Gallery brings their blockbuster summer show BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body to Electric Picnic 2010 to present BIORHYTHM LIVE. With over 35,000 visitors so far, BIORHYTHM is the hottest ticket in Dublin, so we're taking the show on the road bringing sonically minded festival-goers buzz-worthy, pop performances, acoustic experiments and workshops exploring the natural forces that drive us to sing, strum, drum and dance.

We'll also be bringing Science Gallery favorites IGNITE, Mindball Tournament and Irish Robotics Club along with world record attempts and performing BIORHYTHM scientists. Of course Science Gallery Shop will be at the ready with the best electro-accessories to kit out tech-savvy picnicers.

SCIENCE GALLERY TENT DAILY

 12:00-18:00

SCIENCE GALLERY MAKE AND TAKE WORKSHOPS AND DEMO AREA

Drop in and chose from our Make and Take menu to pimp your T-shirt with LED's or an iron-on visualization of your voice by using 'See Your Voice' software. We'll also go low-tech with Grace Digney's Eidophone where you become an acoustic artist as your voice manipulates grains of sands into different images. Build your own friends with Irish Robotics Club. Open to the robot curious, novice bot builders and tech experts. Share your stories or drop by to ask all your robot questions.

Feeling drained? Charge your body AND phone with Energy Bikes - our sneak preview to Science Gallery's autumn show GREEN MACHINES. Robot guru Pete Redmond's designer bikes let you make sure you body is looking good and you have full bars when your picnic love sends a text.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

12:00-14:00                     Eidophone Grace Digney's voice visualization workshop

13:00-15:00                     Irish Robotics Club

ALL DAY                         Pimp your T-shirt

IRISH ROBOTICS CLUB presents... AN ELECTROLUMINESCENT WIRE WORKSHOP EXTRAVAGANZA! 

Light up your life with the joys electroluminescent wire. Worried that your wellies don't look enough like a boy racers dashboard? We got you sorted. Sick of losing your tent in the dark, make a luminescent flag to safely and hygienically mark your territory. Or just trick out your clobber with an unmistakable glow until people mistake you for a firefly or a member of Daft Punk. 

MINDBALL

Brain fried from the weekend? See how mellow you really are by playing the Mindball Game where you can square off against your mates to control the ball by becoming more relaxed and more focused. The more relaxed you are, the better you will do. 

SG SHOP @ ELECTRIC PICNIC

Shop til you drop at our portable shop on location at EP. We've got gadgets and gizmos a plenty for everyone from eco-friendly campers to fashion conscious ravers. Poi spinning kits, wind-up torches that can charge your phone, T-qualizer t-shirts that light up when the volume is right, SG hoodies and Picnic Survival Kits will all be on offer.

BODY SNATCHER

Ever found it strange to hear your voice played back to you? What does your heart beat sound like remixed? Can the sounds of your body make a hit song? Find out with BODY SNATCHER at Electric Picnic. BODY SNATCHER is an audiovisual installation by artists Alex Dowling and Sinéad Meaney that captures and manipulates sounds that visitors create using their bodies. Have the sounds of your body chopped up, stretched and mangled while immersive visuals shift around the walls of Science Gallery's tent.

CHAIN OF EMOTION

12:00-15:00

Join the Music, Sensors & Emotion (MuSE) team from Queens University's Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), as they turn picnicers into human wires in Chain of Emotion. First, find the metallic contact points hidden throughout the Science Gallery Tent. Next, grab your friends - or any nearby body - to create a human chain and connect the points to complete the sound-generating circuit. Different contact points trigger various sounds throughout the tent, creating an interactive environment of elaborate soundscapes. To explore the sonic options adjust the length of the chain and the people in it then hear how it affects the sound...and just for funsies, adjust your level of flesh on flesh contact to vary the total resistance of the wire and mutate the audio even further!

IGNITE

15:00-17:00

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together IGNITE events to show their answers on science, technology, art and society. Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global-Ignite is all of these and more. Talk titles include: 'Incest and Bestiality' by geneticist Aoife McLysaght, 'Mr Whippy Soundsystem' with Dermot McCabe and lots more!

BIORHTYHM LIVE: Live performances with SG's science serenaders and friends 

19:00-21:00

Forget scientists who moonlight as superheroes (ala Tony Stark/Iron Man) our scientists lead the ultimate double life creating earth changing experiments by day and electro beats by night.

19:00                         DJ 2Bit

2BiT has been a mainstay of the Irish electronic music scene for years, playing bass-driven, richly melodic braindance music. He's played all over Ireland and the UK alongside artists such as Hank Shocklee, The Advent, DJ /rupture, Distance and Digital Mystiks. Following a career as a sound engineer and educator, 2Bit recently became a Master of Sonic Arts and is currently working towards his PhD, examining the potential of biosignals as a performance tool.

20:00                         BP Fallon

'BP Fallon is to rock'n'roll what a stamp is to an envelope.' Music industry legend, Irish DJ, photographer and author BP Fallon will hit the decks in Science Gallery tent on Saturday night. BP has recently worked with U2, My Bloody Valentine, The Kills and his most recent album Fame#9 is a collaboration with Jack White.