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Sound @ The Muse The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road London W11 1LR
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A record
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Friday June 4th 2010 |
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In 1979 Storey
formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:,
remaining a member until 1992. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections of many major galleries. Storey has collaborated widely and has produced albums with artists including Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions) Randy Grief and Russian Folk singer Tatyana Stepchenko aka.Toloka. He has also collaborated in live work with numerous other musicians including Damo Suzuki (Can). As well as producing his own abstract animated films he has also produced work for soundtracks for Independent films including Randy Grief's award winning film “the Three Trials” and award winning film by NY independent artist Nadine Shamounki with her film “Effaced”.
Storey has also
produced two best-selling sound loop libraries for Sony
Media and has had his work used for TV advertising.
Well, I was born in Dorchester on the 9th November 1976, I was premature in birth... we moved to Portsmouth when I was one and a half. My Dad was a Navy Officer my Mum was in the Wrens. I grew up with a love of the sea and I guess the sea front in Portsmouth holds a huge amount of nostalgia. I moved to Exeter for five years and have spent the last six years or so in London. I've been in loads of bands over the years. From the age of 15 with Electric Dissarria to Among The Missing. Since then I have played hundreds of shows and pretty much constantly toured not only the UK but toured in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, USA, Iceland, Austria, switzerland, Germany and France. Touring with some amazing artist, whom I respect and admire including Oldseed (Canada/Germany), Octoberman (Canada), USAISAMONSTER (USA), Veee Dee (Japan) and My summer as a salvation solider, Pog (UK) and many more besides from the UK.
I have also
released several split EPs, a 7" and have not ne but 3
upcoming albums as well as a tape cassette series of
releases. I have a new record "from the dawn chorus..." due
out early 2009.
MICHAEL SANTOS
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Friday May 7th 2010 |
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IRIS
GARRELFS Described as the Diamanda Galas of Glitch, Iris’ training into creating through voice began very early on. Her parents sang in the village choir, and would often practice at home with Iris making up new melodies, 2nd and 3rd voices to whatever was being sung. She got into the attractions of technology as a teenager, stumbling across her dad’s pulp si-fi magazines. Iris is still waiting for an implant that will siphon off her sonic nerve impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around in her body and brain. A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity.
Iris performs solo as well as in
collaboration with other artists, for example Robert Lippok
(To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Si-cut.db and
others. She also performs with the improvising group
Symbiosis Orchestra. Recording collaborations include
si-cut.db and Freeform - the latter has been re-released as
part of the Bernt Friedman compiled and remixed compilation
"Condensed" on Nonplace
ISNAJ DUI
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Friday April 2nd 2010 |
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Thursday December 1st |
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JANEK SCHAEFER Using his custom built 'Twin' turntable to manipulate especially cut vinyl, Janek's improvised concerts are an evocatively woven soundscape combining abstract electro-acoustic source material with long forgotten vinyl alterations. An evolving dense stream of close focus sound textures, pulses and frequencies which conjure images of an architectonic landscape, traversing though Ballard's 'Drowned World'. www.audiOh.com SonVer SonVer tread a post-rock path of layers, loops and atmospherica, fusing electric cello, guitar and disembodied samples with abstract visuals. This is music which ploughs its own furrow, zigging between genres and zagging through pigeon holes; From opressive to reflective, this is perfect soundtrack material. www.sonver.moonfruit.com TIM BURNESS An established guitarist and artist who works in a wide variety of genres, Tim Burness will be performing atmospheric soundscapes on electric guitar.Guitarists such as Robert Fripp and Steve Hillage are possible reference points for the range of sounds covered. www.timburness.com
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SUSAN HAWKINS and OLIVIA PISANI 'subtle tears' Susan and Olivia are diehard pianists with a deep seeded love for the organic sound of the piano. Armed with some attractive laptops they meld subtle electronic sounds with the luscious beauty that is the wooden keys. Visuals: Amanda Kyler THE BURNELL-HUNT DUO Paul Burnell and Karen Hunt will create electro-acoustic landscapes inspired by the mighty oboe, delightful toy instruments and unexpected percussion. Paul is a London-based composer, and together with Karen make up one half of the percussion quartet Brake Drum Assembly. www.musicalsquares.com "khmfn" "Achtung! Future!" is computer music for a laptop performance and video projection. The music may be described as a futuristic kind of "musique concrète", generated from contemporary factory noises, synthesized robot signals and intensely edited historical machine sounds as well as everyday traffic sounds. In its full-length version it comprises a series of sixteen short pieces, none of which being longer than four minutes. The sonic part of "Achtung! Future!" is performed by Frank Niehusmann live on a laptop computer. The video part is compiled and performed by Karl-Heinz Mauermann and comprises five alternating image elements: (1) a live recording showing Frank‘s fingers playing the computer keyboard; (2) a view of the current audience that may be read as representing tomorrow‘s audience, (3) transitory movements through familiar utopian cityscapes, live on stage, (4) close-ups on eyes gazing into the future. The most important image element, however, shows nothing. The picture is black. All pieces of "Achtung! Future!" have titles pointing out single topics, situations or places pertaining to futurity. In between the individual pieces Frank Niehusmann will explain the future. Karl-Heinz Mauermann www.semantic-error.de Frank Niehusmann www.niehusmann.org
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DOUGLASS C. BIELMEIER Slowly Sinking Slower (fall 2003 - spring 2004) ca.10 mins Unlike photographs and old home movies, which can provide an objective view of the past, our memory by nature is subjective. We often remember only our happiest moments and discard the rest. This short film deals with how memories often obscure the perception of ones self, and that which is external. MR SOUTH A sound and visual artist based in London, Mr South is performing using recorded organic and synthesizered sound bites he has collected from around the world. The work airs on the side of chill but accessing action, just like a lazy afternoon in the city. Collaborating v.j. performance by Mark Easton Visuals by Mr South and Pixinc. STONE IDOLS Stone Idols is the creative work of Rob Jenkins. The music is electronic, sometimes ambient, based on the use of synthesizers, guitars and a wide range of other instruments and selected sound sources. Stone Idols does not fit neatly into any one musical genre, nor does it care about genre as clique markets are not good for reaching wider audiences. And with a crumbling music market, times call for more diversity. The aim is for music to be rewarding, functional and achieving longevity for future listening. Rob is just about to complete the second Stone Idols album due for release later this year. The set will feature tracks from the forthcoming CD. Instrumentation for the performance will consist of a Minimoog and a custom made Modular System. www.mp3ambient.com/stone-idols
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BRETT GOWLETT'S HeadSpace A fusion of music poetry and performance art. Music composed with manipulated found sounds that accompany Brett's soulfully expressive and joyously ridiculous vocals. All framed in a world of psychosis, cartoons, sunsets, plasticine and magic mushrooms. SMACK MIRANDA Smack Miranda is a producer, DJ and sound engineer from the north of England, now living in West London. The founding member of three-man electro terrorists Liberation Jumpsuit, when not leading the world's finest Altern-8 tribute band into battle, he can be found engineering and occasionally presenting on Resonance 104.4FM, or performing his unique brand of dyspeptic illbience on his slightly temperamental laptop in venues all over the capital and beyond. His set at the Placard Headphone Festival gained him a favourable review in The Wire, something he hasn't stopped bragging about since. Current projects include work for several theatre companies, collaborations with Japanese poetess Coppe, dominuitive noisenik Spinmaster Plantpot, and a debut Liberation Jumpsuit EP later on this year. www.liberationjumpsuit.co.uk WAJID YASEEN projects : 2nd Gen with releases on Mute, PIAS, Blast First, Quatermass.... Uniform with first album on Ad Noiseam Dirthole.....an 8 piece garage rock outfit with members from tindersticks, headbutt, the membranes..... Installation/Dance involvement : Various pieces with the choreographer Gail Sneddon Various pieces with Athina Valla Also worked with CandoCo as an off-schedule experiment at the GDA Currently working on the new Uniform album with collaborations from Lydia lunch, Barry Adamson, Sleazy from Throbbing Gristle/Coil, Dalek, Justin Broadrick from Jesu/Techno Animal, Germseed and the performance artist Franko B For the Muse performance, I'll be working with Andreas Constantinou and a group of performers he's putting together....and I also might be bringing in Franko B to do vocals over 1 track.... www.2ndGen.net www.Dirthole.org
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MAP 165 Sound artists working in areas between music and noise, concentrating on the suspended moments where forms and patterns stop and texture begins. www.map165.martinasmith.co.uk
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