Artists/musicians Flow Motion (aka Hallucinator) have created an installation based on X-ray emissions from the black hole Cygnus X1. These emissions have shown similar patterns, known as "flicker noise" to musical structures. Flicker noise has been used before in stochastic musical composition by Iannis Xenakis, but not from black holes -- which have produced some of the deepest and oldest sounds ever measured. Flow Motion were assisted in transforming the data recorded from Cygnus X1 into music by researchers from the Jodrell Bank Observatory and Southampton University.

NB: Flow Motion will be perform live on Wed 08/06 (7pm) at the launch event. There will also be a talk on Thu 16/06 (6:30 - 8:30pm) and the exhibition runs till 24/06. For all details click here.

It could be argued that William Eggleston invented colour photography, and that before his seminal work in '76 -- William Eggleston's Guide -- the world existed only in black and white. Eggleston's significant contribution to fine art photography makes him a natural inclusion in the Barbican's current Colour After Klein exhibition. In celebrating the mundane details of life in his native Memphis, Eggleston has captured intimate moments, inviting the viewer into his world as a confidante, and skilfully using colour to construct casual emblems and visual gags. William Eggleston In The Real World, part of the Colour After Klein film programme, is a documentary portrait of Michael Almereyda's, which reveals the connection between the artist's personality and his innovative work. Continuing in Eggleston's tradition, Martin Parr creates saturated colour images recording the banality of contemporary culture. Appropriate then that following the screening, Parr discusses photography, colour and Eggleston's influence.

NB: Martin Parr is joined by Val Williams for the post screening discussion. Parr's latest work is currently on view at Rocket Gallery (till 03/07).

Taking Blake's famous maxim as a raison d'etre, Bobby Conn is 110% pure pleasure seeker. Seemingly arrived onstage directly from a '60s cryogenic deep-freeze, Conn's three albums of glam space-folk paint him as a contemporary Bolan, a 21st-century boy. Channelling the loopiest excesses of the late '60s/early '70s (guitar solos are credited as distinct tracks), Conn's latest -- Live Classics Vol. 1 (Thrill Jockey) -- could be a lost session from T. Rex, a perfomance that is as delightful as it is atavistic. Suitably wigged-out support comes from funk pop combo Hot Chip, husband-and-wife duo Viva Voce and Leeds-based pysch-poppers Duels.

NB: this event is brought to you by Eat Your Own Ears.

Perhaps best known as the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel, multi-instrumentalist/itinerant bohemian Jeremy Barnes embraces a vast array of cross-cultural influences as he revisits his acclaimed side-project. Whilst clearly influenced by European folk music, the highly individualised imprint also displays Middle Eastern, Jewish and Mexican influences -- creating an almost indescribable sound of chaotic beauty. Formerly a one-man performance, for the promotion of his second album, Darkness At Noon, Barnes has drafted in Heather Trost to play violin, glockenspiel and melodica. The live show is distinctive in its spectacle and ambition: Barnes performs accordion, vocals and percussion simultaneously, curiously deconstructing the idea of performance. This format creates an inspiring weirdness, which would be impossible to produce within a conventional band. If you like more obvious things like Yann Tiersen (who composed the Amelie soundtrack) you will love it. Expect amazing melodic themes interspersed with choppy jazz rhythms and an absolutely unique performance.

NB: catch A Hawk And A Hacksaw on 10/07 when they perform at the Folk Archive concert at the Barbican.

With 12 hours of talks over two days, approaching the variety of disciplines that design encompasses, this conference at the Barbican could bog down those with only a lay interest in design. However, the organisers of the event promise that the speakers will shy away from the technical aspects of their work and instead seek to provide an insight into the creativity and enthusiasm that fuels their work. Representatives from some of the most cutting-edge magazines, websites, animation and moving effects houses and even graffiti artists are represented. Highlights include Scott Stewart from The Orphanage agency whose work can be seen all over the silver screen, most recently in the incredible effects integrated throughout Sin City and the designers of much lauded Marmalade magazine. Tickets aren't cheap but do include a nifty book containing background info and examples of all the parcipents' work, a bag from supporters Diesel and other goodies. All who attend are invited to an afterparty at Fabric too!

NB: Semi-Permanent05 runs on both Fri 10/06 and Sat 11/06 (10:30am to 6:30pm).

Is Alain Badiou the "philosopher du jour"? He's certainly not got the media verbage of a Zizek nor the political edge of Hardt and Negri or even the intellectual slippage of Derrida, but this trained mathematician has been quietly and steadily questioning notions of ontology from the position of mathematics. Neither a believer in the analytic position nor the postmodern one, he has been using set theory to bring new rigour to the range of thinking within Continental philosophy. "Mathematics is ontology" forms his starting point in which topics like art, politics, desire and truth can be reconsidered in depth. Here in this series of lectures in commemoration of Jacques Derrida, Badiou will be speaking on "The Passion for Inexistence".

NB: this event has been programmed by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and will take place at the Clore Management Centre (25-27 Torrington Square, WC1). For you deconstructive Flashers into jurisprudence, Drucilla Cornell will be speaking on "Who Bears the Right to Die" the following week on Fri 17/06 at 6pm.

Following Richard Maxwell's unique Showcase for 10 people in a businessman's hotel room, here comes another seminal performance ensemble, the Berlin-based Gob Squad, performing in another hotel. Their Room Service operates very differently however, placing the audience in a large room from where the late-night, time-killing antics of four performers in different hotel rooms are relayed, via CCTV, onto large screens. Exploding the concept of reality TV, Gob Squad allow the audience to decide who visits who and what happens when they do.

NB: Room Service will be performed on Fri 10/06, Sat 11/06, Fri 17/06 and Sat 18/06. Each performance can last in excess of five hours. Get there at 10pm but then stay as long as you like.

Special Offer: For the first two performances only, Flashers can purchase two tickets for the price of one. Quote "Gob Squad two for one offer" when calling for tickets on 0870.730.1407.

Patti Smith has been called the High Priestess of Punk. All that started in '75 with her first album Horses (played in its entirety on Sat 25/06), but with some tracks clocking in at over eight minutes, you'd be a fool to miss her deep connection to the music of the '60s and the idea first articulated by Dylan in six minutes of "Like A Rolling Stone" that rock and roll has the power to define our deepest aspirations. So with Meltdown, the Priestess will conjure the spirit of Jimi Hendrix via William Blake (the last night featuring Flea, Joanna Newsome and Jeff Beck); and through Blake again, she'll call on a real priestess, Sinead O'Connor for a night of protest. Her mid '70s CBGBs roots bring us two nights of Television (Sun 20/06 and Mon 21/06) and with convicted felon Steve Earle (Sun 19/06), the incredible Tuareg revolutionary warriors Tinariwen (Sat 25/06), the incomparable Eels (Sun 12/06) and many more unexpected counterpoints polyphonies and exclamations there's no danger of Smith's sword sleeping at her side. The RFH comes in for a kicking all too often, yet with Meltdown it has produced the most consistently challenging and exciting festival in Europe. When Patti Smith leaves the stage on the last night, the RFH will close for years of refurbishment -- KF urges you to take communion while you can.

NB: Patti Smith's Meltdown runs till 26/06. Tickets are selling fast and many events are already sold out (returns only) so book your tickets asap via the RFH site.

Andreas Slominski comes from a long line of merry pranksters like Duchamp, although he is not to be confused with jokers like Cattalen or existential fools like early Burden. Populating the Serpentine with home-made animal traps, function determines form. Interspersed between photographs of actions, ideas for sculptures and Teutonic styrofoam paintings so ugly that even Schnabel would be jealous, the best way to approach this German artist is with an open, inquisitive mind and sense of fun. Presenting a purple candle as a readymade is both brilliant and very, very cheeky, but it is the idea of touch that pervades his work: the touch of a glider nosecone on a piece of foam or the touch of an animal to release a trap or the scrapped ski wax turned into a candle. Alternatively you could just consider these the most eccentric, hand-made "objects" to have been placed in this gallery.

NB: runs till 12/06 (ie this Sunday!). On Sat 11/06 (3pm) catch artist Annie Davey as she gives a free introduction to Andreas Slominski's work.

Combining folk influences with a delicate splintering of indie rock, David Grubbs has followed an intriguing path. School buddies with Will Oldham (aka Bonny "Prince" Billie ) he cut his teeth on the Chicago music scene as a member of groups Bastro and Squirrel Bait, nurtured Gastr del Sol with hyperactive eccentric Jim O'Rourke, and set up his Blue Chopsticks label to release works by avant garders Derek Bailey, Luc Ferrari and Mats Gustafsson. Busy soundtracking Angela Bulloch's installations, playing with Red Krayola and Palace, London is lucky to have him for a brief moment alongside the shimmering sounds of Tunng and The Eighteenth Day of May. Anticipate a fluttering of melancholia through the air this fair night.

Cafe Lumiere is an extraordinarily restrained and quietly observed look at life in modern day Japan through the story of a young writer called Yoko. Her relationships with her parents, friend and her book research provide a backdrop for what is essentially a film focussed on trains, stations, cafes and a Taiwanese composer called Jiang Wenye, who is the subject of Yoko's book. His tense and dramatic music and life story run intermittently throughout the film, as does Yoko's mysterious relationship with her Taiwanese boyfriend and the real feelings she and her friend have for each other. It does demand a fair deal of patience, as do the films of Yasujiro Ozu, the great Japanese film director to whom the film is dedicated. However, if you enjoy slowly soaking up images of Tokyo skylines, interiors and trains going over bridges and through tunnels then it is an immensely rewarding experience.

NB: Cafe Lumiere screens at the ICA till 30/06. In conjunction with the release of Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cafe Lumiere the ICA has programmed the screening of three of Yasujiro Ozu films: Floating Weeds (Wed 08/06 to Thu 09/06 at 8:30pm), Tokyo Story (Fri 10/06 to Mon 13/06 at 8:30pm) and The End Of Summer (Tue 14/06 to Thu 16/06 at 8:30pm).

Moodymann's (aka Kenny Dixon Jr) productions are legendary. He has been wowing the electronic fraternity with his uncompromising and intentionally underground productions for something approaching a decade, but only recently are we beginning to see his performing instincts manifest themselves. From the start Moodymann wanted to maintain an authentic sound hailing from black soul/jazz music and ensure that it would be a blueprint for the ultra futuristic tech house that he was producing. On this occasion however, Moodymann is taking a more organic approach and the initial surprise is this normally reclusive, inobtrusive producer will be taking to the stage with a bunch of talented cronies to attempt to reproduce the sound of his new album, Black Mahogani II (Peacefrog). A wonderful cast of supporting musicians will be in evidence and ranging from the sublime Paul Randolph on bass and vocals to the ridiculously named Piranahead, creating killer licks on the guitar.

NB: Moodyman performs on both Tue 14/07 and Wed 15/06.

Are you still toying between ballet and contemporary dance? Well, how about the best of both with an added Dutch touch! NDT are back in town with One Of A Kind, a piece by former artistic director Jiri Kylian, inspired by the principle of freedom in the Dutch constitution. The show focuses on the creative dynamism generated by the mix of dance, music, set and lighting. The 24 dancers bring their fantastic ballet technique and mix it with a creative use of contemporary movements. The sets are by Japanese architect Atsushi Kitagawara, and the original score by Brett Dean infused with extracts of music by Benjamin Britten, John Cage and Chiel Meijering. If this sounds appealing to you watch out for the preview of the new Akram Khan/Antony Gormley/Nitin Sawhney on these pages early July.

NB: One Of A Kind runs from Tue 14/06 to Fri 17/06.

In dance, like Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham has been with us for so long that he stands for a certain idea of American dance. But it is not just the abstract, movement-oriented performances that inspire but also his openness to a long line of collaborators that have added the visual dialogue on stage. Most notably Cunningham has collaborated with John Cage on music, but in the '60s Rauschenberg, Johns and Warhol were all important contributors to his schemes. Rauschenberg was even his stage manager, prop master and extra at one point. Today he's scheming with some of London's finest, Scanner, Phil Selway (Radiohead), Richard Hamilton, David Batchelor and Darren Almond among many others, to create six one-of performances each with an artist and musical collaborator. Expect all sorts of visual pyrotechnics!

NB: these six events run from Tue 14/06 to Sun 19/06 and are part of the Barbican's BITE programme.

Who knows what will unfold when in partnership with leading dance critic Donald Hutera, h2dance unprecedently present audiences with an immediate chance to critique and re-choreograph the performed work. Choreographus Interruptus has been commissioned by the Guardians of Doubt, a network established to promote "unencumbered" and "unbound" investigations into possible approaches to dance production. Appropriate to its title the performance will stop at half-time. It will then be placed at the mercy and inspiration of those daring to get their inner critic or artist involved in the tricky business of dance analysis and design. It will be interesting to see how the results of these two excitingly experimental evenings differ.

NB: Choreographus Interruptus is performed on Tue 14/06 and Wed 15/06.

Caribou, tafka Manitoba is playing a one off London gig with full backing band including two drummers. A psychedelic merging of live guitars, keyboards, drums and live electronics headed by Dan Snaith, creator of these goregeous, blurry, tripped out soundscapes. Like Boards of Canada (but Snaith is actually Canadian) he puts together music which sounds like its from the past using modern technology, yet it sounds strangely different and like nothing else. Joining Caribou are the incredible jazz-punk quartet (haven't heard those words together since James Chance) Acoustic Ladyland and guitar band Yuppie Flu.

Having been spawned by the fall-out of acid house, surviving grunge and inspiring yet avoiding the Britpop-Camden scene, there is a sense of resilience in Saint Etienne's existence and commitment to their art. Although primarily a pop band, they have clearly revelled in their diversity; their sound has embraced numerous understated influences over the years, notably French-pop, dub, new wave, hip-hop, soul and disco. Touring in promotion of their recent Sub pop single disc compilation, Travel Edition 1990-2005, expect the poignancy of witnessing the band's 15-year career unravel before your eyes and prepare to be surprised at the consistency and quality within their back catalogue.

NB: on Tue 14/06 and Tue 21/06 catch various British TV documentaries about pop music curated by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley at the Barbican.

Is it that time of year already? Once again Architecture Week is upon us, offering a bumper crop of architastic things to see and do. It's a nationwide event of course, but there's plenty of action in our own fair city (even though sadly there's no Clerkenwell Biennale this year -- the clue's in the name). With so many events, how to decide what to see? Here's our highly subjective and occasionally spurious list of the "top nine":

Wright to Gehry: Drawings from the Collection of Barbara Pine
Fri 17/06 - Sat 25/06 (10am - 5pm)
An exhibition featuring original works by some of the icons of 20th century architecture, drawn from one of the world's finest private collections.

National Theatre Tour
Fri 17/06, Sat 18/06 and Sat 25/06
Technically more than one, but with a theme. If you've never had a really good look round this fabulous piece of concrete, then now is good: architects Mark Foley, Keith Williams and Axel Burrough will be your guides. Linked to a discussion about contemporary theatre design, which includes Keith Williams and Steve Tompkins.

8 Projects: The Evolution of Bennetts Associates
Thu 17/05 - Sat 25/06 (10am - 5pm/6pm)
Understated and underrated (in our opinion). Bennetts Associates' first proper exhibition, and about time too.

Touch Un-sited - Gaby Agis Dance Performance
Fri 17/06 (7:30 - 11pm)
It's rare that dance and architecture are linked (alright, the Laban Centre, good point). Choreographer Gaby Agis' devised this piece over a ten year period working with the Architectural Association, and explores the relationship between the two disciplines, in three performances at three notable buildings.

My Party This Way
Sat 18/06 and Sun 19/06 (2 - 5pm)
Four artists act as your hosts for four radical tours of London: a commentary on celebrity culture by way of three pubs; an artist's shopping spree; a guide to accessibility (not just an issue of ramps) and the end of an affair for a railway enthusiast.

Alphaville
Sat 18/06 (7pm)
Godard's original techno-thriller, about "the alienating, dehumanising effects of contemporary corporate/computer culture". Much like shopping at PC World then, but in black and white.

Oranges & Lemons Pesach
Sun 19/06 (12 - 6pm)
No, we've no idea either. But a "psychogeographic mapping of ALL of the churches in the City of London" just sounds too weird to be missed.

AJ Corus 40 Under 40
Tue 21/06 to Sun 26/06 (10am - 6pm)
40 is young in architects' years, you know. A chance to hear about promising new architects before they make it big. Or vanish completely.

South Bank Architours
Tue 21/06 and Thu 23/06 (7pm)
Alex Lifschutz (Lifschutz Davidson) goes East, while Alex de Rijke (de Rijke Marsh Morgan) and Peter Culley (Rick Mather Architects) head West. All three have had intensive involvement in the area, so know their stuff!

Soane Museum Talk: Design Architecture and Inspiration
Wed 22/06 (6:30pm)
Another linked exhibition and talk -- restaurateur Tom Conran and reliable rent-a-quote designer Stephen Bayley, discussing (presumably) this rare and extensive drawing collection, arguably second only to the RIBA's V&A gallery.

NB: Architecture Week 2005 runs from 17/06 till 26/06.

George Washington and All The Real Girls director David Gordon Green's latest feature is a homage to cliched plots and graphics of '70s adventure novels and film thrillers. Set in a filthy, swampy American deep south, Undertow tells the story of rebellious teenager Chris (played by Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell) and his younger brother Tim who live with their pensive father in a rusty, remote house with their pigs. After half an hour of nothing but grunts, bloody accidents, and vomiting you begin to wonder what it is your watching. Deliberately dull, claustrophobic and unevenly paced, the filmmaker get his audience's backs up, only to suddenly turn the film into a brilliantly fast-paced violent thriller. It's an ingenious trick, playing with our senses and perceptions of genre and narrative. It's also another bold and original film from maverick director Green that makes you impatient to see what he will do next.

NB: Undertow is released in London on 17/06. Another film of interest released on the same date is We Don?t Live Here Anymore and a week earlier Cafe Lumiere (10/06).

Mid-life marriage crises are perhaps the most depressing of love tragedies. Taking partners for granted and being neglected in return, being bogged down in routines we don't remember choosing, plagued by thwarted ambitions, trapped by the responsibilities of parenthood... being a thirtysomething can be a huge disappointment after the thrills of kid-adulthood. The frustrations of suburban family life have long been a staple of American indie film, but as with all good psychological drama, emotional truths are more important than originality of subject matter. We Don't Live Here Anymore is a highly affecting film, from the script -- based on short stories by Andre Dubus -- to the astonishingly powerful acting by a perfect cast (Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern). Unlike its recent counterpart Closer, which also tried to deal with adultery between two couples, this modest film doesn't rely on graphic sex, irony or crass scenarios to make an impact.

NB: We Don't Live Here Anymore is released in London on 17/06. Another film of interest released that same day is Undertow and a week earlier Cafe Lumiere (10/06).

M.I.A., currently riding high on a wave of multiple-audience success, brings her unique brand of ragga-influenced broken beats and smart battle rhymes to Fabric's vaults. she's bridged the all-important genre gap tentatively spanned by the likes of Dizzee Rascal and, with a slew of high-profile followers and the kind of style which guarantees front pages on glossies she can do no wrong. Further demonstrating the real "anything goes, as long as it's good" philosophy that the FabricLive promoters have embraced, she's joined by a slew of drum and bass big hitters -- Fabio, Grooverider, Mampi Swift and Roni Size (recently returning to his harder roots) -- and punk-funk scene-setter Erol Alkan. Breaks fans will delight at the inclusion of the Stanton Warriors (who, like Size, have shrugged off the lighter leanings) and with Meat Katie spinning his uniquely house-style breakbeats. Add to an already stacked bill Krafty Kuts and The Glimmers and you've got an immaculate line-up.

Generally known for his non-representational and care-free re-interpretation of the Modernist vernacular, like his Self-Portrait or interactive Robot (both on view here), Evan Holloway is also offering his more "corporal" and organic face in this show. Kinetic sculptures and organic economies prevail; for example a group of little people, connected from mouth to arse in a tree-like form, hint perhaps at the hierarchical nature of society if not the art world at large. But it is the peregrination of his explorations, from portraiture to society and the environment not to mention plays on scale and material, as opposed to the grander aspirateons of Modernism, that gives his work its va-va-vooom.

NB: runs tills 19/06.

If only images could talk, well those of William Kentridge's move and have sound accompaniment... maybe that's better than talking. Born of Lithuanian Jewish parentage in South Africa, ultimately he's an image-maker that allows stories to be told. These are not cartoons nor comics nor animations, they are moving images, drawings that are in a state of being and unfolded in film, perhaps it's like the way wayang kulit tells tales. The personal is the political they say, and Kentridge certain works from within but joins the world without, maybe travelling in the opposite direction of Leon Golub. Here instead of the usual gallery video projection, Artprojx is presenting an opportunity for us to view his films in their proper filmic context with a live musical accompaniment. Popcorn may not be appropriate!

NB: the screening will be accompanied by a live score performed by the Sontonga Quartet.

Now that the summer winds are blowing, a street party may be just the thing to get us into the Live 8 mood. A sense of community is always the hardest thing to find in a big city, hence the institutions that stretch the length of Exhibition Road, under the guidance of the new Exhibition Road Cultural Group, are conspiring to bring some to South Kensington. From experimental to classical, improvised to ordered, traditional and pop, all forms of music from all over the world will be represented and performed in this day-long event. With films, live music, workshops and even the