New Media Scotland (http://www.mediascot.org) announces DRIFT - an exploration of sound art and experimental music featuring radio broadcasts, moving image, publications, and live events. DRIFT is a platform for artists from Scotland and beyond, a gateway to these emerging cultural forms.

The accessibility of the Internet together with new tools and methods for digital recording, manipulation, reproduction and distribution has changed forever the way that we think about and interact with sound, giving us new ways to communicate our ideas. An increasing number of artists, producers, DJ's and sonic creators, from a broad spectrum of disciplines and varying modes of practice, are exploring streaming media as a viable format. We want to open up this channel further.

DRIFT will take place throughout 2004. For more information on DRIFT, see the news articles on the New Media Scotland site, or browse through the sections on upcoming activities and events. DRIFT launches on 27th February with live streams from Dialogues 2004 music festival, Edinburgh. Updates and news will appear at this url , so bookmark it for future reference.

For more information on past DRIFT activities, see the Drift 1999 archive.
For details of New Media Scotland's previous experiments with streaming media, see artstream: http://artstream.mediascot.org