[Live] Holloway Arts Festival

I am playing live as part of the Holloway Arts Festival as part of the Nameless and Unexplained quintet on Saturday 11th June 2011 at 1pm. The address is:

The Old Fire Station

84 Mayton Street

N7 6QT

As far as I can see entry is free.

The quintet is 

Me - probably playing found objects and percussion

Sonia Paco-Rochia - Bassoon

Arthur Swindells - Brass (Arthur is the live sound engineer for Faust)

Daniel Thompson - Guitar

Will Connor - Percussion (and my bicycle as ever)

But we may well be performing as a sextet as Anthony from Vultures Quartet should be making it down to London and I imagine will be playing acoustic bass.

This is an ad hoc quintet or sextet (whatever it turns out to be).  It will be a 50 min totally acoustic set, totally improvised. I haven't even played with Arthur, Sonia or Daniel before, although I am familiar with Arthur's playing and I am recording some electro acoustic improvisations with Daniel and Will today.

[Recording] Mutatorator

Just finished a new piece which I have uploaded to my website called "Mutatorator".

It's basically an experiment in using Pd for realtime processing of sound. It's an amalgam of 11 very short  pieces made using the patch to process a classical guitar. 

It uses a looping samplers and weirdly configured random delay lines and even a bit of Karplus Strong magic. 

Go on, have a listen, you know you want to.

[Recording] Millipede

Just uploaded a new track to my site called Millipede. This was made for Classwar Karaoke survey 0014. CK is a quarterly digest of experimental music run by Anthony from Vultures Quartet and friends of his.

It's a really interesting project and more than worth checking out and keeping an eye on.

The track is another using an actual rhythm (!) along with some glassy sounding algorithmically tuned synths and random delays. I don't know what is going on with this current obsession with using rhythm in Pd, but it's a lot of fun.