Tagged: 2013
Earsthetic part 2
Earsthetic was great, all the acts were on top form and it was really nice to play on a top quality pa with a top quality sound engineer (thanks Jem!). I had an attack of nerves beforehand which to my relief disappeared immediately I walked on stage . Our collaboration with Mirei was a success and we’re hoping to work together again.
Earsthetic
Gus and I will be performing as part of the Earsthetic Festival at The Brighton Dome on December 11th. The festival runs all week and features Ryoji Ikeda, Mira Calix and Peaches amongst others, plus the 11th which is being curated by the Spirit of Gravity collective which I’m a member of. We’re really excited about this, not just because it’s such a great venue, but also because we are being joined by dancer Mirei Yazawa.
The festival is an exploration of the ways sound and vision can work together so I’ve made a video of ice melting (I did consider paint drying) to be shown with our set.
Here’s Mirei’s website
And here’s the event on The Dome website
The Long Half Day album launch
This Sunday at 7pm at the Rag Factory in London we’re launching the Long Half Day USB album which Slightly Off Kilter are releasing. Come and take your pick from the different cases we’ve made and have a listen to us doing some free improv.
All the details are on Sound and Music here: http://www.soundandmusic.org/thesampler/event/2013/11/long-half-day-album-launch
We’d love to see you there.
My Long Half Day packaging
Here’s the packaging I made for the Long Half Day USB album which Paul Khimasia Morgan of Slightly Off Kilter is releasing. I’m cutting up old books to put the stick inside and I think I will finish them off with a strip of paper in a plain colour with The Long Half Day printed on to it.
Supernormal
Chris and I travelled to Braziers Park in Oxfordshire once again for Supernormal. We got to play in the Church of Chaos on Saturday afternoon and then for Bang the Bore in the Barn on Sunday. Both good sets and we gave away a few cd’s, got some nice comments and made some new friends. Chris did a blasting set with some Bolide people and I took part in a John Cage percussion piece with a very long title which I have forgotten, organised by Adam Bushell.
I saw plenty great music, performance and art. Plurals, Cosham Community Players, Lama Dalai’s facilitated visual scores interpreted by the Kev Nickells All Stars, a performance in the woods at night, Carousel, Mothers of the Third Reich, and possibly the quietest piece of music I’ve ever heard by Charlie Sdraulig which was almost inaudible above the drone metal sound bleed.
On the radio pt. 2
We went on the radio with Kev which was fun, we had a chat on air about what we’re up to. Talked a bit about the Spirit of Gravity, Safehouse and Fort Process, the all dayer in Newhaven pretty much everyone is now involved in talking about. We played an acoustic set which was ok, not really what we’re used to, but ok.
You can hear it here
On the radio
Me and Gus will be on the Zygotic Episodes radio show this Wednesday the 19th at 7pm. We’re going to have a chat with Kev and then play something. Should be fun. Regular presenter and man about Brighton Graham won’t be there, I think he’s avoiding me.
Here’s the Brighton and Hove Community Radio website
Nil – tre
Chris and I did a Nil thing at Splitting the Atom at the beginning of June. We thought the recording sounded ok so we’ve released it on Bandcamp as a free download. I was only there in the afternoon and everything I saw was inspiring, there was more low key stuff too, although I heard things degenerated as the night wore on.
Here’s the album
A couple of gigs
So Gus and I played as The Static Memories at Club Integral on April 19th and then as part of the SafeGrav Orchestra at Dear Serge at the De La Warr Pavillion on the 20th. Both good gigs, one in London and one in Bexhill which are about as different as places as you could get I guess.
Great gig at Club Integral, we only saw one other band as we had to drive back to Brighton from Stockwell and we were first on. She was Nad Spiro of Barcelona and she was great, there’s a Bandcamp download that’s worth getting. Very nice crowd of people and a great pa. Another great pa at Dear Serge and playing in two quintets with people from Spirit of Gravity and Safehouse and live visuals from Bartosz Dylewski.
Electric Dreams at the Towner Gallery
I’ve been collaborating with video artist Ben Honeyball on a piece for Electric Dreams, an event which responds to the work in Kelly Richardson’s show at Towner Contemporary, Eastbourne.
Full details here
