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What What gig at Lavery’s Bunker
What What played their debut gig at Lavery’s Bunker last night. WhatWhat consists of Matthew Rodger (guitars/vocals), Matt Green (keyboard/laptop/vocals), and myself (akai-pad/keyboard/kick-pedal). What What played support for Not Squares, who were…
May 3, 2008 -
Poetry Open-Jack
Played ‘no-input’ Kaoss pad in the Poetry Open-Jack last night. After finding that it was too dark to see the screen on the game-boy (running LittleSoundDJ) I worked on using my thumb…
April 27, 2008 -
BLISS concert
Attended a BLISS network performance held in the Sonic Lab, featuring a live linkup to Göteborg. Along with the usual BLISS freeform improvisation, there were two ‘scored’ improvisation pieces by Alain Renaud…
March 13, 2008 -
QUBE concert
Played with QUBE in SARC’s Sonic Lab. My musical setup for this gig was Casiotone MT-100 and Kaoss pad. Among the pieces played were ‘Activities’ by Justin Yang which involved improvisation to…
March 12, 2008 -
Joan La Barbara
Attended the Joan La Barbara Seminar and the Ne(x)tWorks Trio performance. One of the stand-out pieces in the concert was “Solo for Mbira” written and performed by Miguel Frasconi, in which (perhaps…
March 7, 2008 -
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Fuck Buttons
Saw the “Fuck Buttons” play at Auntie Annie’s. Was a good mix of heavy noise and simple slowly evolving melody reminiscent of the Black Dice and at some points Animal Collective. Check…
February 28, 2008 -
Dan Deacon
Saw Dan Deacon play at Crawdaddy’s in Dublin… Strobing skulls and mayhem ensued.
August 18, 2007 -
Bjork + Reactable + Lemur
Bjork is using both a Reactable and a Lemur on her new tour, have a look above for a video of her on Jools Holland. The Reactable is a tangible user interface…
June 18, 2007 -
Birds of Delay
Tonight I saw the Birds of Delay and ToyMonger play at the Pavillion. Birds of delay played a good feedback noise set. Very hypnotic. ToyMonger played a more intense noise set, involving…
June 18, 2007