* Tonight I am off to see Silje Nes, HERE is my preview.
* Meanwhile I have been enjoying enormously the 21-albums-in-21-gigs by Sparks. Quite awesome, I have 3 more gigs to go! (ok yes, i sampled Russell Mael when ring me up once, it's true. He didn't mind. For full disclosure click HERE; you'll have scroll down to my name)
recent music listening * Various - Find The Girl! (Abolipop, CD) * Murcof - Cosmos (Leaf, CD) * Simmy Rivers and And Canal (3" CD) * Otomo Yoshihide - Turntable Solo (Alcohol, 3"CD) * Meadow House - Tongue Under A Ton Of Nine Volts (Alcohol, CD)
* This must be my briefest recent blog. Just to say this i am going to see Antonelli Electr tonight, the preview i did of it is HERE.
current listening * Chris Watson & BJ Nilson - Storm (Touch, CD) * Si-cut.db - Live at Rhiz (RealJoker, CD) * Jodi Cave - For Myra (12k, CD) * Pantunes Music - In Search Of The Surface Noise (Pantunes Music/Suburbs of Hell/Sprawl, CD) * Harold Budd - Perhaps (Samadhisound, CD) * Alex Monk (2007 untitled demo CDR).
* Meanwhile on my other blog: some art, a canal trip, intelligent design, and way too much tv (which makes me unintelligent I guess)
* ’Makeshift’, an unreleased exclusive si-cut.db track from the ’From Tears: Beach Archive’ session vaults, is now available for free on Chile’s Epa_sonidos net label, on the ’Epa_toasted’ compilation album.
* Some music by David Toop, Simon Bookish, Blevin Blectum is now on the SonicRecycler page player for your listening delight...and come on May 10th!
the current music listening at home * Spaceheads And Max Eastley - A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else (Bip Hop, CD) * Illuminati & King Dice - Espionage (Lotta Continua, CD) * Marhaug/Asheim - Grand Mutation (Touch, CD) * Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre (Touch, CD)
* I’ll be going to the Saya gig this sunday. I wrote about it HERE.
* I will also be listening to the last show in this series; some great radio sounds (and of course Aleks is at SonicRecycler4, see above): "Small Poolroom (2 cuts)" - vintage sound effects on 78 rpm shellac & vinyl discs + the occasional wax cylinder c. 1900 - 1950. A radio series for Resonance FM presented by Aleks Kolkowski. Friday, 3.30 - 4pm GMT (4.30 - 5pm Central European Time), next show: 11/4/08 (repeated Tues. 15th at 1pm GMT) Pt. 10/10 Last in series: "Test Tones" - includes gliding tones, sweep frequency, radio interference & a home test recording on wax cylinder circa 1910. Listen live via: http://resonancefm.com/listen or on 104.4 FM
Trumpets, some listening, and classic Ray Kurzweil
* I recently finished a short collaborative track with Italian trumpet player Georgio Li Calzi, and you can now hear it on my myspace player. The title is ’Homo Zentropicus’ - a tribute to Lars Von Trier.
music thru’ my CD player lately: * Erdem Helvacioglu - Selected Electronacoustic Works (Cdr) * Erdem Helvacioglu - Altered Realities (Albion, CD) * Organ Eye - Organ Eye (Staubgold, CD) * VitaminsForyou - The Legend of Bird’s Hill (Intr-version CD) * Krater - Harmonic Tremor (Klitekture CD) * Scott Walker - Scott (Fontana, CD) * Various - Qwartz Awards 2007 (Quartz 3xCD) * Various - Jukebox Buddha (Staubgold, CD) * Various - Jarring Effects Home Experience 2 (Jarring Effects, CD) * Various - Otherness (curated by David Cotner) (Sonic Arts Network, CD) * Various - Wire Tapper 17 (Wire magazine, CD) * Various - You Are Hear - Sessions 2002-6 (Hearing Aid Records, CD) * Various - Analog For Architecture (Highpoint Lowlife, DVDr)
* An antique clip of synthesiser pioneer Ray Kurzweil:
* I’ve updated the sonicecycler page now, a fab line up; more things coming to this page and it’s blog
some music on dvd/tv I’ve been listening to and watching. The Scott Walker is the one: * Best of REM - In View 1988-2003 * No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorcese 2005) * Scott Walker: 30th Century Man (Stephen Kijak, 2006) * Caledonian Dreaming (tv/BBC4, 2008) * If It Ain’t Stiff: Stiff Records (tv/BBC4 2007) * Slices Issue 2-06 (2006) * Recording Angels: Mechanical Landscape With Bird (2004)
* Talking of recycling, here’s ’We Are the World’ recycled in Japan:
* I reccommend this Efterklang gig I wrote about. I’ll be going.
* Its very unusual for me to get involved with pop music nowadays, but I was commissioned to work with Rod Thomas - a talented and very hard working young songsmith - to create some works, for performance and a release, at the end of last year. I ’stepped outside my comfort zone’ as my brother put it, and actually sat down at some acoustic instruments with Rod to write these songs, so they don’t really sound like, er, what I’m known for - but i did add some laptop processing too, for texture. We now have four of these tracks release on Itunes (3 songs and one instrumental).
* Rod Thomas & Si-cut.db: ’Playroom’ ep, tracklisting: 1) Hope 2) Two Parter Part Two 3) Plastic Lullaby 4) Summer End
* The rather radio-friendly documentary podcasts linked to the recording and live show are here: PODCAST ONE: click HERE PODCAST TWO ; click HERE ("henrytentpodcast.2") (Both appx 40 mins. They are slick sounding. I mean, Paul MacCartneys even on ’em! Entertaining at least. )
The original small movie, with our music, for last year’s ICA gig, by Matt Collett:
* Meanwhile: on my real world blog; Will Self, Mars, Clay Shirky & Brian Eno, Richmond, artist Rachel Howard's exhibition, my Big Garden Birdwatch results. You know, like, er, stuff.
Currently
watching
:
Zoolander Release date: 12 March, 2002
This saturday I'll be at the Self-Cancellation performances at the Beaconsfield gallery - I wrote about the event here at Kultureflash. Get along if you can, some intriguing music and ideas in a great space.
* ps also listen to this tomorrow / friday:
"Small Poolroom (2 cuts)" - vintage sound effects on 78 rpm shellac discs & the occasional wax cylinder c. 1900 - 1950. A radio series for Resonance FM presented by Aleks Kolkowski Fridays, 3.30 - 4pm, starting 8/2/08 Pt. 1/8: "Radio & Telecommunication" - includes Samuel Morse's first telegraph message reproduced on wax cylinder, morse code instructions, telephones, early test records & a "tuning squealing radio" Listen live via: Resonance FM's live streams or on 104.4 FM in London
Currently
listening
:
Mosquito/See Through
By
The Necks
Release date: 08 February, 2005
I feel I semi-blog on Kultureflash; here's an upcoming gig by the wonderful To Rococo Rot I previewed. Get down to the ICA if you can. And in this months Wire magazine there is a great review of the Saragossa Manuscript live film soundtrack I also previewed...what an amazing film, well worth seeing if you get the chance.
Here's whats been in my CD player lately ('CD player' - sounds old fashioned I know):
* Axiomatic Integration - Off-Time (Fragmented, CD) * Various - Condition of Muzak 2 (Expanding, CD) * Various - D-07 - Domino label sampler 2007 (Wire magazine/Domino, CD) * Ekkehard Ehlers, Franz Hautzinger, Joseph Suchy - Sound Chambers For Fundacao Serraleves (Staubgold, CD) * Various - La Grande Illusion (Staubgold, CD) * Various - Miso Mix Tape 3 (Miso, CD) * Various - VitaminsForYou mix 2007 (promo CDR)
Recents entries on my other blog: a small video, some science and Tarkovsky. The usual.
