[Website] Updates

I have finally uploaded the other improvisations from Und to my website. These were performed by me, Seth Guy and Mark Pearce. Mark contributed vocals - some improvised some from texts and some old songs.

Mark also shot a couple of short videos of me and Seth explaining what we were doing and how. I can't say I really like seeing myself talking on film but, it's documentation I suppose.

I've also uploaded two videos of The Miller Test from a recent gig (13/04/11) at Nambucca a brilliant venue on Holloway Road in London. Apparently some of the PA was rescued from the recently demolished Astoria and it really does sound good in there. Turns out it is owned by the same bloke who owns the rehearsal studio we use who very kindly made us a cup of tea when we got there and shouted us a few drinks - not something that happens regularly!

[Acoustic] Und Recordings

I've finally uploaded the Und files to my site - at the moment there is the final performance from 13th February 2011 and a long improvised piece by me and Seth.

Bit disappointed that the Space Bass doesn't really cut through on the handheld Zoom recorder we were using but it's not too bad overall. It was a fairly difficult environment to record in anyway, given the amount of natural reverb.

Personally I thought this was Annette's best performance of the seven we did.

One thing I absolutely love is that you can hear the rain coming down the drainpipes in the building throughout. I don't really like the sound of the bloke going "hmmm" all the way through it.

"Green tin table" indeed. Go for it Mr Barker.

Reviews:

Venue

Aesthetica Magazine

Explanations:

Me and Seth Talking Part I

Me and Seth Talking Part II

[Live] The Miller Test

We're playing at Nambucca on Wednesday night (13th April).

Embarrassingly I have never been there before - even though loads of friends have played there in the past...

[Live] The Miller Test, tonight

The Finsbury

336 Green Lanes, Manor House
London, U.K., N4 1BY UNITED KINGDOM

[Live] Looks like I am in another band

Having a try out for my friend Wayne's new band soon - here - looking forward to having a bash at it. Should be a lot of fun.

Wayne is the other member of renderplant

[Mixing] The Miller Test

We finished and uploaded the best recordings of The Miller Test recordings we did recently. They're on myspace.

Had a few scares doing this stuff, losing files and all sorts of weird things going on but they're as finished as they will ever be. We've got a load of other songs we need to record too.

Note Miller's excellent myspace graphic! Hehe.

[Recording] John Zorn

I am mixing several different recordings of John Zorn's piece Hockey - recorded with Vultures Quartet recently. We used some different instrumentation for these recordings which was fun. I was playing guitar, violin as well as the usual Pd patches and some bits and pieces of percussion. Anthony was on acoustic bass fed through some amazing effects as well as using lots of small percussive stuff and Will used his usual "cymbal tree".

The mixes are not sounding as good as they could at the moment however - a bit thin - so I need to do more work on them.

Stay tuned as they may well end up online, who knows?