biTjAM started up in North Staffordshire three years ago after responding to a real need in the creative community for a space in which to explore music, creative ideas, collaborations and soundscape.

bITjAM is the Midlands only improvised electronic orchestra, holding nights monthly across the area where artists and musicians are invited to take part in live audio and visual composition. (Digital and acoustic musicians, animators, painters and dancers attend Nights).

The core idea is to encourage ‘bedroom musicians and the sleeper artist’ to come out and create, collaborate and experiment in the public realm.

Artists who take part in bITjAM want to further develop links and ideas touched on during performances to take the work and their own development to the next level.

Carl Plant and Ben McManus are the main animators of the Bitjam, playing, organising, publicising, delivering workshops and digitally animating spaces.

They are aware that the main aim of biTjAM is about collaborating and sharing ideas, communication through sound and value of experimentation.

Since its inception, biTjAM have been involved in collaborations with visual artists from all over the midlands.

Musicians and sound artists from Stoke to Stockholm have travelled to be a part of the experience and have intern continued some of these creative collaborations.

biTjAM have been a core part of the North Staffordshire’s Pecha Kutcha night, providing reflective soundscapes and visuals to the events as well as coordinating the fist audio visual cross community collaboration for World Community Arts Day which took place in February 2010 and was streamed live to an audience of 100’s.

BiTjAM is something that continues to evolve and embrace change.