I am cool, by association!

As part of my efforts for Supersonic this year I am getting to work and perform with some great people. This is really inspiring, flattering and rather daunting! Here’s a little round-up of who I am working with and why that’s cool, and why that makes me cool by association, maybe.

The Saturday stats with me doing a performance and workshop, featuring myself in the morning and the super cool Dosh, or Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh it seems, in the afternoon. Dosh is a multi-instrumentalist who uses loopers to layer really great tunes live. I’ve never seen him live myself but I’ve admired his work from afar for a while. Cool stuff, check it:

Then, on to my Noise Box workshop. I have been working with the super cool and always enthusiastic Dr. Kate Sugden of Aston Uni on the design of the updated Noise Box. She’s also kindly helping out on the day!

So far, so good…a talented musician and a scientist!

Lastly on the Saturday, I have been asked by Andrew Moscardo-Parker (of Einstellung fame) to be part of the Lash Frenzy Big Band vs KK NULL. I first met Andrew when I supported Melt Banana last year. Lash Frenzy were supporting too. They are noisy bastards and this incarnation will be no different. As well as having a lot of love for Andrew and Einstellung I am also super chuffed to be playing with / against the mighty KK NULL. Here are a couple of videos showing how cool they both are:

Finally, on the Sunday afternoon, when I perform Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music for torch and Optical Theremin I will be joined by the amazing (and cool) percussionist Joe Snape. I only found this out today. Well chuffed! Check his shit out:

Obviously being involved in Supersonic to the degree I am is pretty damn cool in itself but having the opportunity to work and perform with such a lot of cool people is a real honour! Frankly, whether it makes me cool by association or not is of no consequence to me. I am just going to enjoy the experience!

MpFrees

I went on holiday! After relaxing into it I made the rather odd decision for me to listen to some of my old tunes, in fact my entire “back catalogue”. Overall I was pretty pleasantly surprised. They certainly hinted at where I come from musically, so I thought I’d share!

These selected tunes are the better ones but nonetheless they vary like buggery in terms of style, production quality, normalisation etc. So prepare yourself for a mixed bag!

> > It’s a free download < <

These are hastily slung together with very little attention paid to filenames and meta information. I apologise for that but it’s FREE and if I spent ages sorting them properly I’d probably lose interest.

Finally, a quick note on a two of the tunes, to give them some context. The tunes “bye” and “gone” relate to the passing of my grandad about 4 years ago. Bye features a sample of my grandad struggling to breathe on his death bed and was completed bed side on my laptop. Gone was the tune i wrote to be played at his funeral.

Anyways, hope you enjoy listening!

**don’t all download it at once or my ISP will go off on one again ;)