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BeatBearing Outside ISEA
Short performance on the BeatBearing today in a container Outside ISEA, accompanying Robin Price’s installation. Installation will run from 1pm-2pm. Performance will likely happen for about ten minutes towards the end.
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new C3Loops website
Rikard Lindell, creator of C3Loops has put up a new website with details of his C3Loops system here:http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/projects/c3/ A video of C3Loops in action is shown above, and here’s some blurb on…
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Puppet Whispers – Live score improv
I performed yesterday in Chris Chong’s final MA piece “Puppet Whispers”. The performance involved 4 improvisers playing in a physically separated space, with only their shadows and a networked computer as communication.…
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Photos of ICMC’08
A slideshow of the photos I took at ICMC’08 last week.
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ICMC’08 movie excerpts
Two video’s of performances at ICMC’08 last week:Florian Hollerweger – Live Coding at ICMC’08 from Peter Bennett on Vimeo.Kingsley Ash – GoLimp III at ICMC’08 from Peter Bennett on Vimeo.
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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…
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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…
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Luke Vibert
Saw Luke Vibert at the Black Box.
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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…
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Duo Contour
Attended a Duo Contour concert in the Sonic Lab. Here’s some blurb from their website: “duo Contour was formed in 1998 by the American percussionist Lee Ferguson and the English trumpeter Stephen…
Totally going to steal this “swivel reverse instrument swap” for next time I’m playing out. I think Ada’s picking up her new drums I brought back from New Orleans quicker than I’m getting the hang of the pocket trumpet 😅
#swivelreverse #spin #longwayround #drumsolo #drums #glockenspiel #somewhereroundthere
AMBIENT CAFE
Saturday 3pm-6pm (tomorrow!)
@friendlyrecords on North St
Join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (@noodsradio) interwoven with tabletop experiments from guest local ambient artists including @looseforms and Nick Janaway. A tapestry of cascading synths, bleeps & celestial vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, earthy drones, textural trips, ambient & ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment. Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
#ambientcafe #muzakconcrete #tabletopgig #bristollivemusic #friendlyrecords #animation
#madeinlooom #popbyforacoffee #gentlejetlaggedvibes
Had the afternoon free after the CHI’22 conference wrapped up so did the obvious thing and shlepped across town to New Orlean’s brass specialist @neworleanstrumpets to buy a pocket trumpet. Turns out New Orlean’s oldest tree was round the corner so ended up having a first play sat on it’s trunk (with new mute firmly in place) hoping to invoke some kind of jazz skills transfer magic but instead mildly disturbing a dog walker who strayed too close. Did get an album promo shot though 😅
#neworleans #oldesttree #newinstrument #seriousjazzface #trumpet #pockettrumpet
Happy Birthday Ada – one today!
Bonus fist bump superhero pose photo from when she was a few days old this time last year and looked more like a potato. The efforts to recreate the pose more accurately this year were futile 😅
💛 🌸 ✊ 🥳
#happybirthday #cherryblossom
AMBIENT CAFE
@friendlyrecords
Saturday 7th May
3pm-6pm
Come and join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (Noods Radio), interwoven with tabletop sets from guest local ambient artists. Undulating synths, cosmic vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, deep drones, astral jazz, ambient and ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment… Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
@friendlyrecords @noodsradio #ambientcafe #bristolmusic #livemusicbristol #ambientmusic #ambient #muzakconcrete
Triple bill Easter Sunday art crawl. Audio-visual installations and sculpture at the @h.eadless group show in @theislandbristol … a working trebuchet art-flinger at @spikeisland … and piles of salt (sand?) and fresh oil painting at @arnolfiniarts … rounded off with an ice cream in the park while Ada critiques the shows via the medium of stick twirling.
#art #artsunday #audiovisual #sculpture #galleryshow #artcrawl #bristol #sticktwirling
Day trip to Cwmdu to hike in the Black Mountains for @carrie_brassley_yoga’s birthday. Decided to go off piste and take a shortcut up what felt close to a 45° burnt bracken slope. Ada didn’t seem too phased by this 😅
#cwmdu #blackmountains #hiking
Freshwater West 1986 & 2022
Rather satisfying hunting down the same rocks I had a sandwich on 36 years prior age 4. Props to my dad for digging out the old photo and sparking off the rock hunt!
#freshwaterwest #rocks #beach #erosion #oldphoto #thenandnow
Made the most of being on strike last week by heading to Pembrokeshire for a few days. Got lucky with some great sunset surf on Tuesday too!