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Last week I attended the UK leg of the PRSF New Music Incubator, for which I was selected earlier this year. This was held at Brunel University, the Swedish leg takes place in some remote northern Swedish town in April 2012.
Here is a list of the current participants.
I decided [...]
How I made it to the age of 35 without making a tape loop I have no idea. OK, so I do lots of lo-fi looping of one kind or another but tape is a must.
I started small, both in terms of the format (cassette) and the length of the loop. I used [...]
Today I tweeted: “Hmmm, what is it that makes bands miss Birmingham on their tours? I have no idea how it works but I’d like to play a part in changing it..!?”. From the responses it seems there is a lot of interest and frustration surrounding this. I already knew this but my interest was [...]
I don’t know what it says about me as a musician that I have such affection for process music. I have written and performed a number of process pieces over the years but my lust to explore them further has been reawakened through reading Andrew Ford’s “Illegal Harmonies” whilst on holiday. [...]
On Sunday morning I attended the 4am Project / Project Brutal event held at Birmingham’s Central Library.
With the building of Birmingham’s new library underway and with the chance to gain access outside of the normal opening times I felt this opportunity was not to be missed. Despite 4am Project being [...]
Inspired by Elly Clarke’s fantastic Twitter experiment “A-Z of artists I know, like and respect” I will soon be starting the same with musicians. I could probably do this a few times over, maybe I will. For now a few notes:
I will use artist first, second or band names for maximum flexibility [...]
OK, so I have hardly mastered the tuba yet but whilst practicing this evening I just couldn’t supress the urge any longer to explore some tuba hacks. As this also presented a way of trying to master recording the damn thing (which I still failed at but improvements were made) I felt slightly less like [...]
People, I need your advice!
I have made websites for a number of years now but finding the time and “headspace” to make my own great is often hard. I plan to address this though and I welcome any advice.
Firstly, I have this site, which is just a blog with some bits in [...]
Back in September 2009 (!) I briefly mentioned a new project I was involved in called GypScab, with my friends Grinner and Seamus (with Justin doing the artwork – above). As part of that I did a liveset about a year ago as a test. It went well but then I got busy with [...]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Open Sound Group session, run by sound artist and friend, Graham Dunning. Graham has been on residency in Rea Garden for a while now and he was keen to get local experimental musicians together to create compositions based on the space and [...]
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25th February 2012
Ore play Cube Cinema, Bristol23rd February 2012
Ore pop-up performance, Birmingham. Details TBC.19th - 22nd April 2012
Second phase of the New Music Incubator, in Sweden25th April 2012
"One Water" ensemble performance featuring me on specially commissioned "water instruments", StockholmSign-up for news
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