Eric Lyons - Noise As An Organising Principle for Music
Eric Lyons intro (I missed a bit at the start about his score/software ((Max/Masp for text based improvisation/game commands?))sorry). http://www.mediafire.com/?cfsc6cfday44xa9
I'll be doing a couple of things that you might enjoy. Ecker + guest Submerse - last show at the Menagerie before it stops doing live shows and club nights, I'll be doing visuals at the end of the night, before that though, you can hear me performing a set of popular rhythms at Trans:mission at the Crescent Arts Centre. I'll also be on BBC Radio Ulster 92-95 FM, 1341 MW) doing a live session to promote the show.
I've made some promo cassette tapes as 'merch'. There are two mixes; side a - demos from 2009/2010, and side b - remixes from my archives. Once/if they've sold out, I'll post mp3's of the mixes.
I'll be doing visulas at Pressure's Oneman show too - expect lots of tight digital lines and some primitive live camera work from me and a heap of tasy rhythms and bass from the residents and guest.
Speaking to a co-worker I heard about Live Music Now. He sold it as money for gigs in schools, hospitals and care homes. Preference given to those under 30 years of age. Playing music, and being paid for it is something I'm sure will seem like an amusing concept for some, but apparantly it can happen.
The organisation's website is seriously worth investigating. There is a wealth of information on their outreach programmes with numerous examples of past and future projects.
There's a FAQ section which you'll probably want to read before making any decisions on if it's right for you to be involved, but even if it's not for you it's good to know about and you may want to pass on details to friends or family.
ELECTRONIC CRECHE: B. E. W. / 4 JUL 09 / 2:00 PM / / ULSTER HALL / FREE I learned a lot about Resolume Avenue last weekend. I got my Korg NanoKontrol and QWERTY keyboard mapped up. The shows were a success.
Next on the horizon is a two-hour DJ set in the Ulster Hall as part of the Trans Belfast Festival with a special live show later that night as a fundraiser for this year's Oscillations. ELECTRONIC CRECHE: B. E. W. / 4 JUL 09 / 2:00 PM / / ULSTER HALL / FREE
The evening started at 7 pm, so unfortunately i missed the first part, which featured Slovak noise duo POO. A pity as I've wanted to see them since Sophie bought me one of their CD's for my birthday.
I arrived as the ticket seller was packing up their laptop/till. I was told that I couldn't buy a ticket and my heart sank as I'd raced up to the venue as fast as I could. A large man told me I could go in for free. He seemed to be very happy to see me smile when he said this. I went into the main room; bunged.
As before the stage was absent. The performance was a floor show. Three chairs, three performers. Four stage lights at floor level; two blue, two red.
At the far left and far right were two guitar players. In the centre a saxophone player. The group is Text of Light. Named after a film made by Stan Brakhage. The film was played above the performers.
Although I was working to 8.30, I managed to get down to Fleda to see another performance from the EXPOZICE NOVÉ HUDBY. The group doesn't play songs, they improvise and make noise. It isn't related to jamming in a way that might bring to mind blues and rock wig-outs. Instead they listen to one another, listen carefully to every noise they make and how it fits with what the others make. The end result is a series of waves of sound that you can't really sing along with. Quiet, loud, mutate, repeat.
The group has a pool of musicians, like a collective. They ar flexible in that different members will perform at different times and places. The performance I saw featured Lee Ronaldo (guitar, radio oscillator), Ulrich Kreiger (Saxophone, electronics), Alan Licht (guitars/devices).
I arrived a little late and missed the very begining of the performance. What I did see an hear was a range of tones that moved from sparse drones to harsh explosions to delicate humming with dots of sound back into shards of fuzz with squeeling harmonics.
The trio looked quite relaxed throughout, and they looked quite pleased when they finished. The audience gave them a warm round of applause. I walked home feeling glad I had experienced such wild sounds.
I know the videos are dark. I know it's almost impossible to enjoy them as visual documents of a live musical performance, however, I feel the sound works as a sketch of what you might find if you want to go buy one of their records.
Fridge at The Village Dublin. A carbon neutral show. Fridge are now a five piece. They played a fantastic mix of old and new material and some jams that weren't familiar at all (maybe improvised?). I don't know the name of this laptop player who was the warm-up for Fridge but he played a good range of sounds which I found very enjoyable.Sophie Cocault and Barry Cullen are the Hammock District! We played our first show on Saturday night as part of the Home Made Jam festival. Well it was a BEW gig but I thought it would be nice to try to play some gentle material at the start of the set before going mental with noise. No-one threw any shit at us, so I guess we weren't too bad. The minidisc recording I took from the mixer is amazingly bad though - like someone stuck layers of noise on top of everything...odd, as it sounded quite good to me (I was squatting on the ground with no monitors though...). The Hammock District songs were written for my sister's first daughter. A collection of electronic lullabies.I have become an uncle again. My older sister gave birth to a healthy little boy. Smiles on all the family's faces. hammock district – living room 01
Had a look through some files and folders whilst doing a quick clean up of my computer and found that there was a video clip of Chris "Lotion" Allen and my brother Peter playing with me in the Pavilion Bar at the Birds of Delay show.
The picture is very dark and it's hard to make out any details at all, but it replaces the links to the mp3's from my earlier post about the show, which were on yousendit, and which have now expired.
Had a pleasant suprise last Friday. Recieved a text message from Deja at lunch time asking if I would like to help produce visuals at club Fleda. Once I was finished at the staff dinner I was there.
Quite an impressive set-up in comparison to what we used last time (where we had one projector and two laptops) this time there were three live cameras, two DVD players, four monitors, three mixers, two synched projectors making a large widescreen image (a few other video projectors in other rooms too) two large plasma screens onstage and our laptops to feed into this pro set-up.
Goodtimes.
This was all sponsored by T-Mobile. It was one of their electronic beats nights (their first Czech tour). I was happy to be involved having been happy with the content of their magazine and DVD (slices). If you're not familiar with the electronic beats publications, they are modern slick and full to the brim with cutting-edge artists, designers, writers, and audio-visual producers. In a way it's painfully hip, but that's only if you want to be a cynical git.
Anyway. The team were cool to work with. i would like to work with them again in the future. The show itself was tops. Great live acts, DJs and MCs.
