temp0rary is the live electronic A/V project of Lee Chaos, evil mastermind behind JUDDER!, previously of The Chaos Engine & Wasp Factory Recordings, and still occasional knob-twiddler with Xykogen.

Onstage, Lee is sometimes joined by Ben McLees of This Is Radio Silence on guitar drones and feedback. When this doesn’t happen, Lee has a tendency to incorporate audience participation into the performance, which have to date included audio and visual elements triggered by sonar sensor and crowdsourced loop triggering via repurposed PlayStation hardware.

The history of temp0rary streches back as far as initial experiments in performance electronics in the mid-1990′s – whilst The Chaos Engine worked with conventional song formats, what was to become temp0rary evolved alongside it, spawning long-form atmospheric and ambient versions of the same source material released for free as the Not For Sale Ever compilations.

In the mid-2000′s, computer technology caught up with Lee’s vision of creating an entire A/V performance that could be carried in a single suitcase and could be either performed by an artist (not necesarily the same person who programmed the machines) or installed for an audience to interact with. Since then, Lee has continued to collect, build and hack equipment to create an electronic performance rig where music and visuals are perfectly synchronised, and where the sonic and visual elements can be infinitely remixed and manipulated in real-time to ensure that it is impossible for each performance to be anything other than unique.

The first temp0rary live performance happened by accident in February 2009 when Lee was invited to demonstrate an automated music-generating rig at TechAdventure in Bristol and was coerced into performing live. This was followed a year later by a rather more considered show at Abort! Abort! in Croydon with Ben McLees on Guitar and Daniel on visuals. It took Ron Arad’s installation, ‘Curtain Call’ at the Roundhouse in Camden to get temp0rary out of stasis for a third performance. This was the first show with audio and visuals synchronised in real-time and featured a set of six songs performed for almost three hours in total with visuals projected and mixed with other video artists on the giant circular screen.

Ben McLees joined Lee onstage in September 2011, bringing together all of the elements into one unforgettable show which was staged as a benefit for the PIAS warehouse fire which devastated the independent music industry. temp0rary also recorded a special track for a benefit compilation for relif for the japanese tsunami fund later that year.

Although temp0rary question the notion and value of recorded music through infinitely evolving live performances, they have to date released a double-album of recordings and work in progress which is available for free. A live A/V EP entitled ‘v#15130: the only constant is change’, released in April 2012, and a further collection of recordings and video work is rumoured for Autumn / Winter 2012.