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25/10
Around the Bend: Circuit Bending Talk
I
will be giving a talk about circuit bending, live electronics
andc composition as part of the sound
festival of Aberdeen. My talk is at 3:45 pm Saturday
the 25th at the McRoberts Building, University of Aberdeen,
but there are also numerous other workshops and talks
that day starting at 10am. The event is free and open
to the public. More info here.
26/10
The Burning Harpsichord Series #6
The
BH Series returns again as part of the sound
festival here in Aberdeen at its new regular time
and place! The last Sunday of each month, starting roughly
at 7pm, we will feature local and traveling experimental
artists. Cost is a donation of £3 to £5 with
no one turned away for lack of funds.
The
location is Aberdeen's newest venue,
The Music Club, at 52-54 Langstane Place, Aberdeen,
AB11 6EN
For
this event which is part of the sound festival occurring
throughout October and November we are featuring Manchester
based artist Rodrigo Constanzo, Jedburgh sound artist
James Wyness, and myself for three intimate live electronics
sets, followed by a group improvisation to finish the
night.
About the Artists:
Rodrigo
Constanzo was born in Madrid, Spain. He began
playing piano at the age of four. Though he is classically
trained, his primary interest lies in contemporary music.
For the past ten years he has occupied himself by creating
a number of instruments made from modifying electronic
devices, in a process called circuit-bending. As a composer
he is heavily influenced by visual art, and tries to make
each composition self-standing--each idea being a unique
one, and demanding a unique outcome. The one thing that
ties most of his work together is the surrendering of
part of his control as a composer, be it in aleatoric
or arbitrary decisions at the composition level, or through
largely improvised forms at the performance level. For
more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com/
James
Wyness lives in Jedburgh but is active as an
artist across the UK with works performed overseas in
both directions. His main focus compositionally has been
with with acousmatic listening and the unfolding of the
sound object, with the integration of mimetic and more
obviously musical material and with the emergence of narrative.
As a sound artist he mostly explores the phonographic
forms which deal with documentary and archive, and which
broadly address the disciplines of anthropology and ethnography
through the medium of sound. For more info: http://www.wyness.org
Come
out and enjoy the show!
28/09
The Burning Harpsichord Series: Ressurection
The
BH Series is back with a new regular time and place! The
last Sunday of each month, starting roughly at 7pm, we
will feature local and traveling experimental artists.
Cost is a donation of £3 to £5 with no one
turned away for lack of funds.
The
location is Aberdeen's newest venue,
The Music Club, at 52-54 Langstane Place, Aberdeen,
AB11 6EN
This
Sunday we featured myself using some new instruments built
at STEIM and the use of live video from the The Brakanator,
as well as artists
SumiSumi vs Noma,
The
Matricarians, and video artist John Reed.
The
Matricarians (plus) is a relatively new supergroup
taking members for the Kitchen Cynics, Mickel Mass, and
a few other local experimentors mixed in for an avant-garde
swirl of experimental psychedelia.
SUMISUMI
V NOMA,
is a project combining the efforts of Andy Da Kipp (solo
artist, member of Mickel Mass, DJ) and NOMA (well known
experimental improviser and drone artist active in Glasgow)
Both artists have performed in Aberdeen, either solo or
in groups as part of The Burning Harpsichord Series at
the Lemon Tree or at various events at Peacock Visual
Arts, The Tunnels, Drakes and elsewhere. The combined
efforts of these two gentlemen made the evening worth
coming out for in and of itself.
Stay
tuned for audio and video from the night and Join
us next month, October 26th for the next
installment featuring a full set from myself, phonographer,
composer, sound artist James
Wyness, and circuit bender and sound artist Rodrigo
Constanzo. Email for more info HERE.
08/2008
Developing New Guerilla Street Performance (accepting
performance invitiations: Email
for more details.
08/08
Wrote article for Cultural Enterprise Office: Swimming
in Different Waters
08/02-03
Giving Circuit Bending Workshop
Giving
a beginning circuit bending workshop at Peacock Visual
Arts, August 2nd and 3rd.
Pix
and vids HERE.
07/17
New Review of "...of memory and dreams" on GAZ-ETA
I
haven't got a clue what composer/sound-artist Bill Thompson
uses to produce the sound given off on "...Of Memory
and Dreams". Could it be a broken CD that is fed
through a laptop or perhaps prepared guitar that is amplified
and processed through his home-made software? No matter...[more]
07/04
New Review on Touching Extremes
BILL THOMPSON - “…of memory and
dreams” (7hings)
Scarce
advertising kills excellent music. That's why I don't
excessively love downloadable releases, besides living
in a commodity deprived area (no broadband internet).
If the kind soul that belongs to “the artist also known
as Professor LoFi” hadn't suggested him to send me this
on a CDR, I'd have probably missed a great recording.
Because this is great, no questions about it. Lasting
just over half an hour, “...of memory and dreams” was
commissioned by, and realized for, 7hings in the occasion
of the 2007's Huddersfield's Contemporary Music Festival.
As the author himself writes, this performance “blurs
the boundaries between composition, improvisation and
indeterminacy”. Yet, somehow it appears like a preconceived
score, each element masterfully placed in a chain of happenings
whose common denominator is something that could only
be described as “vital flow”.
[more]
05/26
STEIM IN NEED OF SUPPORT!!!
STEIM's
support is being threatened...read this and write an email
to help keep this great institution open!
From
Steim:
Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of
losing our structural funding from the government, based
on a review from the advisor board which called us "closed
and only appealing to a niche audience". The outlook
isn't exactly bleak, but at the moment our future is unclear.
In the meantime we've submitted our response to the Council
for Culture, accompanied by the more than 900 support
letters and emails.
Many thanks to all of you who responded! If you'd still
like to show your support, you can do so
here.
04/27
The
Fog gets a Blog!
Dedicated
to exploring the hazy realms of experimental music, this
2 hour weekly program focuses on sound art and experimental
music from the past, present, and near future. Interviews,
live studio sessions, underground detritus, found recordings,
live electronics, field recordings, and even an occasional
blues track will find themselves blurred together by prof_lofi
into a mixed bag of the bizarre.
Sundays
10pm to Midnight. SHMUFM: http://www.shmu.org.uk/shmufm.m3u
or in Aberdeen on 99.8 FM
05/2008
Wrote Community Report on ElectroAcoustic Music in North
East Scotland for eContact!
05/26
Finished GAVAA Project and created the Brakanator. Click
for more info.
 .
03/13-20
and 04/07-21 STEIM Residency.
Click for more info.
(click
her for the steim project blog)
05/01
New Reviews for of memory
and dreams from Furthernoise
and One
True Dead Angel
05/01
Added Pics to Gallery
of Nexus Project from Aberdeen show (June 2007)...
Nexus
Aberdeen June 2007
Skye show (October 2007)...
Nexus
Skye October 2007
and
small video of Argyll Show (March 2008)...
Nexus
Argyll March 2008
as
well as pics from the STEIM residency...
STEIM
March/April 2008
and
completed GAVAA project.
GAVAA
2007/2008
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