london placard headphone festival 2004
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8 hours equals twenty minutes for Placard
Adem Ilhan is busy. He’s been making music for years, most notably with trio Fridge, who have consistently received high acclaim for their work since 1997. Adem is constantly working on new music. Current projects include ‘Adem’, his solo acoustic song-based project signed to Domino Records. The first Adem album, entitled Homesongs, has had glowing reviews across the board. Adem is also about to release the first in a series of recordings of his Assembly projects. Essentially mass improvisation on ‘acoustic instruments’ (anything that makes a sound without electricity). The membership is constantly changing and currently numbers between ten and fifty. The players range from classical virtuoso to people who have never played an instrument before. Adem is currently working on his next Adem album and a string of remixes and production work.
8 Hours is a computer-based project with a simple remit: each project must be completed within eight hours, from start to finish, composition through production to mixing. The performance will involve a little improvisation, but all source music/sounds and arrangements will be conceived, developed and produced in the eight hour period.
Interestingly for a headphone-based event, Adem is completely deaf in his left ear.
photo credit: sam@worklesshard.com
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87 Central has been an individual effort for Jeff Carey since the early
90's. Initially focussed exlusively on no-input mixer, the self titled
debut was released on ERS records in 1999. Since then the processes have
been extended to include field recordings, processing, and computer based
synthesis for the full length releases 'Formation' (Staalplaat) and
'Saxmower' (JDK Productions), but the fundamental sound remains: immanent,
concentrated, laconic.
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Like fallen leaves in the breeze of white fire...
Australian electro-acoustics made with ukulele, Thumb piano and percussives
etc,,
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After breaking the London Placard machine during a performance with Yaxu Paxo last year, Cormac Heron returns again to hopefuly cause further irreparable damage, this time with composer Ed Bennett (a.k.a. Jack Leg - pronounced 'Ledge'). Though Bennett will not be present at the event his aroma will still subsume Heron's growth in a horrendous way. Expect plenty of irreverence and potato gags with a dash of Gaelic crack.
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London 5-piece heavily outnumbered by their own keyboards will attempt Sun-Ra stylings over the top of monolithic versions of their spiritual soul party music, found on current acclaimed album "Coming On Strong".
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Karina ESP formed in 1998 and create slowly-evolving warm dark noise-drones and experimental ambient, occasionally seeping into blissed-out 'space rock'. Since beginning, only minimal equipment has been afforded, with sounds being created from guitar, FX, violin bow, e-bow & remote controls, a few other instruments and environmental samples. Output is usually born from live improvised sessions and results can vary from minimal (a)tonalism to deep hypnotic drift-music. Early long-players were heavily influenced by the idyllic pastoral setting in which they were recorded, but more recent output has been of a darker and more intense sensibility. To date Karina ESP have released four albums as well as other vinyl appearances and have contributed to various split 7"s, 10"s and compilation CDs. Many releases available through Evelyn Records mail order.
Karina ESP will perform a collaborative set with Cheapmachines.
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'If the process of bringing elements of acoustic and environmental sounds into electronic soundscapes is not new, very few musicians manage to blend these elements with perfection. John Chantler, a native from Brisbane who relocated to Japan for two years to teach English and use his spare time to make music, presents, with Monoke, one of the most compelling example of combined acoustic and electronics.
'A beautiful example of deceptive simplicity, Monoke is in fact extremely complex in nature. Yet, thanks to John Chantler’s precise sonic arrangements, this album flows naturally from start to finish and appears raw and detached in the context of contemporary electronic music. Monoke is the work or a man driven by his art, and is without a doubt the first in a series of essential recordings.'
The Milk Factory (www.themilkfactory.co.uk)
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"Vulcan"
Nada is a collaboration between Thor Magnusson and Jacob Kirkegaard
which concentrates on recording and displaying the natural waves of the
world in their multiple forms. Vulkan is one of their projects.
It includes both acoustic and seismetic recordings of earthly vulcanic vibrations
around the area of Krisuvik in Iceland. The recordings have been carried
out using high-sensitive contact microphones stuck into the earth at
various places in the vibrating landscape.
see : http://www.ixi-software.net
and
http://www.fonik.dk
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Dave Griffiths (aka nebogeo) is a tinkerer, open source programmer and artist
residing in London - his placard performance will consist of coaxing melodies
out of various artificial life and evolvable processes, such as l systems and
cellular automata.
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Paris Hair began his career with the Vienna boys choir but was expelled after an incident with a motorbike in the chapel. Now making pictures move for fun and profit, he finds music is a way of escaping the pressures of a purely pictorial path in life.
He lives in south London with two women and two children.
Born near a large area of moving water, Squaljax (a.k.a.
Pete Fowler) moved inland to focus on creating images of a distant island. Having worked alongside musicians for many years he fancies himself as a music buff, hunting sounds and trash to match the pictures in his head.
Squaljax lives in a large blue Tetris block in east London.
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Duncan Whitley studied Music Technology, followed by BA Fine Art at Kingston University, graduating in 1999. He has produced multi-channel sound installations for various gallery and non-gallery spaces, and in 2000 was commissioned as artist in residence to create a temporary work for the nave of St. Peters Church In Brighton.
Since 2001, Duncan collaborates with fellow Kingston graduate, Christian Nold, on their FUELAIR project for which they attempt to record and transmit audio from inside a Molotov Cocktail. This project was shown at the Cubitt Gallery as part of Broad Cast In 2002.
His interest in documentary sound recording and installation art has recently begun to fuse, and Duncan is currently working with documentary sound using multi-speaker systems. Forthcoming projects include a commission at the Old Royal Infirmary in Worcester, working with the oral history archive held at Worcester's Medical Museum.
For Placard, Duncan will show sounds from a current project documenting high-rise demolitions, or "blow-downs", recorded across England.
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Claire is an artist who is currently completing the MA Fine Art at
Chelsea College of Art & Design. She is working with sound, video and
sculptural objects in work which takes our relationship with language as
its focus. Her sound work is voice based and involves different means of
recording and representing the selected language. Claire originates from
North Yorkshire but is now based in London.
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Romuald Wadych first emerged in 1971. Early influences: Pink Floyd, The Rubettes, Smokie, 10cc, BoneyM, Abba, The Beatles.
Musical projects: Patrol V, Insane Corpse, Brujos, Rusty Pudding, Amazing Pudding, Wadych & Dubovtsev, Particles, Wykopaliska, Baking Tray Sessions (with Les7mondes) and a few others.
He'll be playing a duo piece with Michael Rodgers.
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Enrico Glerean (e.g.ø) is a musician and programmer. His artistic research is based on two keywords: "code" and "memory". Using sounds and software developing, he encodes images and feelings into sounds and vice versa.
Has played and took part to exhibitions and festivals in Roma, Bologna, Piacenza, Padova, Venezia, Siracusa, Ginevra, Helsinki, Tallinn, Vilnius, Vienna, New York. He also compose soundtracks for videos, installations and contemporary dance performances.
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Paul Hood was born in London in 1963. Paul has been performing music since the late 1970's, originally working in numerous post-punk/rock bands. Paul started working with vintage record players in the early 1990s and has since continued to use turntables as his primary instrument.
Paul works as a solo musician, in regular groups and in ad-hoc combinations. Paul's collaborators over the years have included a wide range of musicians from the improvising world. He was part of the touring "Turntable Hell" group which included Martin Tetrault, Otomo Yoshide, Martin Ng and others. Paul was recently featured on volume 3 of Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama's "Meeting at Off-Site" cd, and a trio cd with Joel Stern and Anthony Guerra will shortly be released on Paradisc (based in Kyoto).
Paul has also worked as a key organizer in the London improvisation scene, starting the Instant Music Meeting club in 1998 with the intention of bringing improvised and experimental music to new audiences. This club has promoted over 90 concerts and continues to be a regular feature of London's creative music scene.
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Dual is the project of Colin Bradley, who challenges conventional concepts and structures of electronic music while experimenting with the electric guitar as the main source of sound. Dual use previously improvised material as a source to create mutilayered static ambience, metronomic scrapes, clicks and pops and mantric tones. Dual has released many albums and singles on labels such as CEE, Evelyn Records, Coombe Records, Dirter, Discus, Appliance and Drone Records as well as contributing music to various short films. More recently as taken on extensive live shows including a tour of Japan and various European festivals.
For this special Placard London 2004 performance Dual will collaborate with . m u r m e r . on a site specific piece using microphones placed in and around the performance room while manipulating the sound and movement from the area, effectively leaving the audience as the performer and the artists as the constructor of the resulting sound. No computers will be used during this performance
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ck dexter haven have been fighting southpaw for a few years now and have
been elusive on the live front.. now with distractions such as the
retarded improv of the giant tank by the wayside and technology that
shines and glows like pretty things do, ckdh are back and joyfully
failing to catch up with technological advances of the last few years ..
recent shows have been retrograde but fun and have only half emptied
rooms.
with a self released album and tracks on diskono, bip hop , benbecula,
8bitrecs, catmobile and remote induction, things have been done, words
have been said and they have happily been generally nice words.
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Since his set at last year's placard, Leafcutter's live performances have built ever stranger twists and turns. Whether he tells us a folk song or cranks up a couple of his self-made electronic prosthetic sound-glands, he'll have us in the palm of his hand.
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Viv Corringham will be performing with binaural sound artist Dallas Simpson.
Viv is based in London and has performed internationally since the early 1980s, recording eleven albums. She works with improvisation, listening, Mediterranean music and soundscapes. Her solo project, Vocal Strolls, in which she sings live with the London soundscape, has been broadcast on radio and TV - BBC Radio 3's Mixing It, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, weekly on London Resonance fm, and Channel 4's Richard and Judy Show. She is currently studying under American composer Pauline Oliveros for a certificate in "Deep Listening".
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Cheapmachines has been in existence since c. 1997. Recordings and live appearences to date have broadly been (but not limited to) experiments in noise electronics, field recordings, tape music and drones.
CM releases are available on various independent underground labels including Carbon Records, Kabuki Kore, Evelyn Records, Hallogallo, Nidnod and Authorised Version.
Cheapmachines will perform a collaborative set with Karina ESP.
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CYLENS
Cylens is the solo project of Benoît Courribet (founder of N-REC label). His
taste for electroacoustic music combines with intense digital processing to
produce highly synthetic textures and micro-edits.
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Born near London in 1949, David Toop is a musician, composer, writer, musicologist and sound curator. He has published three books: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound and Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Award for 2000). His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure Label in 1975; since 1995 he has released seven solo albums - Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum of Fruit, Hot Pants Idol, 37th Floor At Sunset and most recently Black Chamber (on the Sub Rosa label). He has curated five accalimed compilations for Vrigin Records, including Ocean of Sound and Booming on Pluto - Electro for Droids.
His most recent book, Haunted Weather - Music, Silence and Memory is out now with an accompanying double cd on the Staubgold Label.
For the festival, David will be performing with sound sculptor and phonographer Max Eastley.
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London based Mat Ranson produces crunchy analog synthscapes, utilizing field recordings and his intricate beat programming.
The Wire had this to say about his last release:
"six appealing tracks which weave vaguely Radiophonic analogue synth noises through satisfyingly kinetic crunchy beats. Every track is urged forward by tastily treated breaks and given weighty ballast by generous swathes of cybernetic low end".
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Emanuela De Angelis created the mou, lips! project with Andrea Gabriele in 2001, their first album, Peanuts and shells geometria was released in 2003 by the french label
List. They have been touring europe France, Paris, and the Uk, promoting the cd, and also appeared on various european and american compilation cds, musical projects and web labels.
She also featured independently, as a guest vocalist on Poprekordt an album by Hinterlandt (Dyhana records) and she made contributions to the tu m' 01 album (Cut records), performing live improvisations with modified guitar and prepared objects.
In 2003 she began collaborations with Avatar 41°
artists on the Maurice Soma series of cd s, playing percussion and prepared objects for the first cd, and writing fiction for the cover artwork.
She has recently started her solo music project which can be defined as a combination of dreamy and scratchy loops enveloped in a wide spaced dark sound.
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an american born sound and theatre artist, murmer is a composer and active member of an international community of phonographers and field recordists that has been developing over the past several years. he has performed throughout europe, released works on labels such as ground fault, absurd, s’agita and bake records, and produces framework, a fortnightly field-recording based radio show on london’s resonancefm. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath.
murmer will be performing a collaborative site-specific set at this year’s placard festival with dual.
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Straight outta Crack Village.
N.B. Akira The Don will not be playing as billed due to the unprecedented success of his US tour.
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Glaswegian born, Thorsten Sideb0ard runs the Highpoint Lowlife record label with friend Joseph Hurt, alongside its currently defunct weblabel 8bitrecs.com. For the London Placard he will be assisting Chris Coode in doing a specially prepared live 'Recon : White Label' deconstruction and performance.
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Yellow6 is the project of Leicestershire guitarist Jon Attwood who has, since the mid 90s, been constructing layered guitars and looped beats into dense atmospheric sound fields, often desolate but given a humanity by flowing, improvised melodic lines, drones and reverbed overtones. Over 50 releases since 1998 on labels such as enraptured, ochre, rocket racer, awkward silence, the music fellowship and, more recently on the artist collective label, make mine music, yellow6 has also been involved in tv documentary soundtracks and occasional live appearances.
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Full scale research into the interaction between a Bass Drum, a Snare, a High Hat and generative gabba. [warning - live processes]
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heller is the project of two french musicians, Eddie Ladoire and Sébastien Roux. Their music is based on the confrontation between guitar generated drones and digital processing. Heller combines Sebastien's drones with Eddie's hyper digital manipulations.
He was in charge of development in the room acoustics team at IRCAM for which he built spatialisation and room effect synthesis tools. Now, still at IRCAM, he works as a musical assistant. He creates specific applications required by composers using the graphical programming environment Max/Msp. As a musician, he first explored music as a guitarist in various experimental/post-rock/ambient bands.
Eddie ladoire / e-di lives in Bordeaux. At 5 years old he started piano and stopped at 16 for basse on UNSICH, a group of post rock. After 3 years he starts experimental dj sets. Now the main part of his musical work is to create electronic soundtracks for experimental movies and electro accoustic sound.
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Brighton homeboys Chris 'Same Actor' Cook and Lee 'Rashamon' Hume are
members of the Spirit of Gravity collective furtively helping to promote
experimental electronic music in their city via gigs and also with a
fortnightly internet radio show.
For placard they are hoping to collude their intrinsic musical
differences and come harmoniously together with a semi improvised guitar
and double laptop set looping acoustic textures and scrunched up beats
with delicate resonant bleeps and tones.
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Dallas Simpson is a UK sound artist with releases out in various places, including the cult ambient label T:ME / EM:T Records. He trained as a scientist and worked for nearly 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry and the pathology department of two large hospitals. Dallas' work involves live performance at outdoor locations, creating sounds from found objects at the location and listening to the natural ambience.
He says: 'This year I am privileged to be performing live with vocal virtuoso Viv Corringham. We are doing a live 2 point binaural improvisation using found materials at the State 51 factory. Both Viv and I will be equipped with binaural mic headsets and we will explore and interact with found materials in the semi-derelict "junk" areas of the building. Both binaural live feeds will be mixed to give variable and differing 3D headphone surround perspectives of Dallas' and Viv's personal and intimate sonic and vocal engagements with various found objects in the building.'
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Janek was born in England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970. While studying architecture at the Royal College of Art [RCA annual prize], he recorded the fragmented noises of a sound activated dictaphone travelling overnight through the Post Office. That work, titled 'Recorded Delivery' [1995] was made for the 'Self Storage' exhibition [Time Out critics choice] with one time postman Brian Eno and Artangel. Since then the multiple aspects of sound became his focus, resulting in many releases, installations, soundtracks for exhibitions, and concerts using his self built/invented record players with electroacoutisc collage. The 'Tri-phonic Turntable' [1997] is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the 'World's Most Versatile Record Player'. He has performed and exhibited widely throughout Europe [Sonar, Tate Modern, ICA], USA [The Walker], Canada [Mutek], Japan, and Australia, playing at the Sydney Opera House in 2003.
The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution. His concerts and installations explore the spatial and architectural aspect that sound can evoke and the twisting of technology. Hybrid analogue and digital techniques are used to manipulate field recordings with live modified vinyl and found sound to create evocative and involving environments. His CD 'Above Buildings' [2000] was released on Fat Cat to considerable praise, [The Guardian CD of the week]. He formed 'Comae' the improvisational electroacoustic duo with Robert Hampson [Main] in 1999, and has collaborations in progress with Philip Jeck [CD using Turkish vinyl] and Gino Zardo [NYC photographer]. Janek runs his own label [audiOh!Recordings] and web site [audiOh.com] as well as releasing work with Sub Rosa, Staalplaat, Hot Air, Sirr, Rhiz, Alluvial and Diskono. He now operates as a full time sound artist/sound designer/musician and composer from the audiOh!Room in London.
Janek was selected as the 'Sound Designer of the Year' by Creative Review in 1999, and was awarded the 'McKnight Composer in Residence' for the American Composers Forum, USA 2002/3. He won an 'Honorary Mention' [Above Buildings, 2001] and an 'Award of Distinction' [Skate, 2004] at the Prix Ars Electronica competition.
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London based Chris Coode has released a substantial body of work under the name of Motion, from a split EP with Matmos on Fat Cat records, then a self released album entitled 'Pictures', which led him to be signed on the American minimalist electronic label 12k. This year he has unleashed a whole new persona and sound under the name of Recon - he retains his subtle and immediate control of the music, his trademark balance of controlled noise and texture, but allows through a whole other dirtier and nasty detail to the sound, akin to a broken techno feel of machines in mid-crisis. His London Placard performance will be a live deconstruction and performance of his 'Recon : White Label' album, with the aid of Thorsten Sideb0ard.
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Brighton homeboys Chris 'Same Actor' Cook and Lee 'Rashamon' Hume are members of the Spirit of Gravity collective furtively helping to promote experimental electronic music in their city via gigs and also with a fortnightly internet radio show.
For placard they are hoping to collude their intrinsic musical differences and come harmoniously together with a semi improvised guitar and double laptop set looping acoustic textures and scrunched up beats with delicate resonant bleeps and tones.
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Artist, programmer and musician Tom Betts' work focuses on both a
formalistic
deconstruction of digital form as well as an approach to developing new
methods
of interaction and critique. He has produced numerous software artworks such
as the
Q series - modified game engines, WebTracer - a spatial visualiser for
hypertext,
BitmapSequencer - a graphic synthesis tool and dividebyzero - a generative
website.
Recent audio projects include electronic scores for contemporary dance,
audiovisual
performances, a seven track EP of generative electronic music, a multiplayer
Gameboy
composition using 4 bit sound sythesis and a streaming generative net-radio
station.
He has a publishing deal with EMI for his pop band, Weevil who have released
two
albums and several eps.
Tom's work has been shown internationally at venues such as: Museo Tamyao,
Mexico;
The ICA, London; The New Museum, New York City; The Rotterdam International
Film Festival,
Rotterdam; Games Exhibition, Dortmund and Sonar, Barcelona. He has also
performed at FACT,
Liverpool; Lovebytes, Sheffield; The Laban Centre, London and Brixton
Academy, London.
His output ranges from large-scale installations to downloadable artwork.
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Antenna Farm have been active since late '98, starting out as an improvising turntablist unit, before becoming more involved with their 'own' sound-making programming and recording. Part centred on a use of Max MSP software, their current set-up includes a mixture of powerbooks, guitars, bass, minidiscs, saw, microphones, and assorted found objects.
They have collaborated live with friends like V/Vm, Main, Nish, and Icelandic guitarists Petur Hallgrimsun, Skulli Sverisson and Hilmarr Jensen. In september 2001 they released their first album (titled either 'Fog / Splinter Tracks' or 'Early Mess') on Phthalo, and a few months later released 'AF_M', a collaboration with Main on Staalplaat imprint, Brombron. Other material has been released on FatCat, Lo Recordings, Diskono, RKK, Ooze_Bap, and Hobby Industries.
This will be their first live performance together for nearly 10 months.
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Holkham is Simon Keep, a Suffolk based sound artist/designer. He creates sound design for motion graphics with clients such as Saab, Nike, BBC, Intro, and Why Not Associates. Holkham was also artist in residence and set up an environmental sound project at the Royal London Hospital. During the summer of 2003 he created a sound triptych for an exhibition in Memphis using inaudible electromagnetic sound. He is currently exhibiting an installation, a video piece filming the sound of moths at night. Holkham's up-coming projects: working again with Why Not Associates on a sixteen-channel sound installation at the “Cultural Institute of Macau” in China, and a recording project collecting sound samples from a hot-air balloon and from the UK's least noise polluted spaces. Releases include electronica on Expanding and Sub Rosa.
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Max Eastley began in the late sixties to investigate the relationship of chance to music. Using kinetic sound machines or the environmental forces of wind, streams and sea. As a consequence his career opened out into these various branches of creative and philosophical exploration. He has exhibited his sound installations internationally, and collaborated with a wide range of artists, musicians and filmmakers, including Brian Eno, Peter Greenaway, Evan Parker, Thomas Köner and Eddie Prévost. After a tour of Japan with David Toop the album Buried Dreams was released to critical acclaim.
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Michael Rodgers will be playing in a duo with collaborator Romuald Wadych.
Michael is a multi-instrumentalist who played in punk bands in Memphis before getting involved with free improvisation. Living in London since 2000, he brings a sense of urgency and openness to many musical combinations.
Ongoing projects include Broken Hands (guitar duo with Anthony Guerra), We're Breaking Up (solo electronics), and has collaborated with Paul Hood, Nishide Takehiro, Dion Workman, Barry Weisblat, Margarida Garcia, Pedro Lourenço, and others. Performances include Freedom of the City (London), Musica Ex Machina (Bilbao), and London's first Placard Headphone Festival. Michael's published recordings include cds by the groups Broken Hands, We're Breaking Up and Neutral Density Trio. In November 2003 We're Breaking Up contributed a track entitled 'Receiver 1' for New York-based Antiopic label, as part of their Allegorical Power Series. 'Receiver 2' is included in the Resonant Cities programme of 2004's Drift Festival in Scotland.
Michael is co-founder (with Anthony Guerra) of London-Sydney label TwoThousandAnd, documenting the development of an international community of musicians.
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Exploring the formal conditions of the medium itself and the limits of our attention/inattention, the work of Cédric Pin refers to language, painting and the invention of signs. Born in France, Cédric graduated from Nimes Fine Art School in 1998 and relocated in London the same year. Aside from his solo adventure into sound design, Cédric always remained interested in vocals and live instruments recordings. He has recently joined London based Piano Magic and he’s currently working with the band on new material for up and coming releases. For this headphone’s performance he will make random use of samples taken from his unpublished 2003/2004 works circumstances, in_attention and ideal box.
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Discom is a duo consisting of Lionel Fernandez and Erik Minkkinen which was formed in 1999. Discom's music search to obtain a delicate mixture between their high interest on perverted and extreme digital sound treatments and sweet harmonies or disturbed pop melodies.
Discom are currently collaborating live with others artists as Gel : or Tujiko Noriko as a trio or quartet. The duo has played in several places and festivals around the world in the past 4 years such as Spiral Hall (Tokyo), Sonar festival (Barcelona), PS1 gallery (New York), Silophone/SAT (Montreal), WMF (Berlin), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), ICMC (Podewill, Berlin), Fondation Cartier (Paris), Phonotaktik festival (Vienna), Purple Institute (Paris).
They are running the DECO label and are also founders (with Sylvie AstiŽ and Isabelle Piechaczyk) of the B†RO organization in Paris.
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A.M.P. Studio formed out of the sonic experimental tendencies of Richard from Amp. A workshop of landscapes, drawn in sound, collage, field recordings and tones. The work to be performed is the first piece in a follow-up to Amp's 'Perception', which is currently being written. It is entitled 'stream follows water'. Featuring the dulcet baritone sax tones of Ray Dickaty (ex Spiritualized).
AMP STUDIO Releases
* Heart and Soul Dissolves (CD/12" Darla Records, DRL038, US, 1997)
* Studio EP 7’ Colourful Clouds for Accoustics Records, US 1997
* Slip/tiller 7’ Amberley Records, AMY001, UK 1997
* Misstype Dolittle 7” one sided Earworm Records, WORM8, UK 1997
* Syzygy CD album AAR Recordings AAR001, UK 1998
* Uncounscious Country CD album Fourth Dimension Records FDCD61, UK 2000
* Alien registration Office CD/LP Ochre records OCH017LCD, UK 2000
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Jonathan Coleclough makes music using a wide variety of sound sources and live processing. His releases range from 'Period' (made entirely from decaying piano notes), through unaltered field recordings, to the recent 'Makruna/Minya' in which many of the original sources are transformed beyond recognition.
For this performance he will be using sounds that are normally very quiet, and which would be hidden by feedback if played in a non-headphone environment; using boiling water, cooling metal, a singing bowl and the sounds of longtime collaborator Geoff Sawers writing on the concrete floor.
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Smack Miranda aka Robin Warren is a producer, DJ and video artist from north London. The founding member of renown electro audio-visual collective Liberation Jumpsuit; a part of the Waveswarms group of sonic artists, and also part-time engineer on Resonance FM; he can regularly be found performing all over London and beyond, skilfully juggling his various commitments with a mind-numbingly boring day job. For this event he will be performing a solo laptop set of his own unique brand of dyspeptic illbience, blending feedback, words, loops, and scratches with his own field recordings and antique vinyl crackles to create a disturbing and disorienting whole. A Liberation Jumpsuit EP is planned for later on in the summer, as well as a limited edition solo min-album to be released roughly sometime afterwards. His biggest fear is being swallowed by a python.
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»Along with Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, Robert Hampson and Loop redefined guitar rock in the '80s -- fusing an aggressive, hypnotic, angular guitar edge with a stripped-down, post-punk ethic, but not without healthy references to psych and krautrock. After an influential and groundbreaking string of releases on Beggars Banquet, Hampson's post-Loop Main is back, composing timeless compositions for Fat Cat, Touch, K-raa-k, and Staalplaat. Main's ear-catching ambient/electroacoustic music contains strong references to Stockhausen and Xenakis, but fully enjoys the benefits of modern technology, digital processing and reconstruction. If there is anything left to harvest from the carcass of The Almighty Guitar, Hampson is there to pick the bones clean. As documents of the origins of the guitar-as-centerpiece school (which includes, for example, the ambient and electronic music of Christian Fennesz and Oren Ambarchi), Main records are always studied and well-constructed; Hampson's personal and unparalleled ability allows him to combine concrete and acoustic sounds with manipulated-beyond-belief guitarwork. « tigerbeat6
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