As you may know, Efterklang's new mini-album release Under Giant Trees is limited to an individually numbered edition of 4,500 CDs and 1,200 white vinyl copies for the world.
The Leaf Label had a few problems with the first batch of vinyl, and the whole lot had to be pressed again and repacked into the original numbered sleeves. Unfortunately, somewhere between the factory and Leaf's UK distributor, the first box of vinyl, numbered 1 to 20, was stolen, by someone who obviously appreciates the value of this delicious release. (If you ever see these copies on sale anywhere, do let us know...)
So right now, lurking somewhere, someone thinks they have the 20 most exclusive Efterklang records in their possesion. However a few extra sleeves were printed for the vinyl. The guys at The Leaf Label have taken out 29 of the original, numbered sleeves and made a new HAND-LETTERED edition with the extra sleeves - the whole alphabet is there including the three extra letters in the Danish alphabet, æ, ø and å.
The label and the band have kept some of these for their personal collections, but have decided to cut out the middleman this time, and let you get your hands on one of 10 of the remaining copies direct: they're going to be listed on eBay, one per day for 10 days, from today (April 26). As a special bonus, each of these 10 copies will include a card signed by each member of Efterklang.
In a karma balancing exercise to make good on behalf of the thief of the first 20, they've decided to give all the proceeds from these auctions to charity, and what could be more appropriate for 'Under Giant Trees' than supporting the dying rainforest? The money will be used to buy a piece of untouched rainforest to secure its preservation. The purchase will be made through Nepenthes - a trustworthy Danish organisation that has raised money to buy and preserve areas of the rainforest since 1989.
Of course 'Under Giant Trees' can be found here at PostEverything now and The Leaf Label have already shipped out all the stock their pressing of this release. There won't be any more, so whether you get a CD, one of the 1,171 'regular' numbered vinyl copies, or one of these 29 super limited lettered copies, you'll be sitting on a real collector's item...
The starting price on eBay is 7 GBP with no reserve, and they'll be up for 10 days. You can find the listings here.
Also, for those of you who are struggling with the puzzle cards contained in the CD version of 'Under Giant Trees', you can find clues here, as demonstrated by designer Nan Na Hvass.
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Hello again!
It's been ages since we sent out a newsletter, and we're sorry to have been so slack, but we haven't been just sitting around either!
At last, Dev/Null!!
Yes, after 3 years in the making, Dev/Null has finally delivered his epic master-work/debut album: Lazer Thrash! WOW! It's a bullet-train ride through splatter breakcore with references to grindcore, happy hardcore, rave and splatter films. If you're looking for the edges of what is possible in music- Dev/Null is it!
Here's the link to stream a megamix of the entire album, plus see awesome live videos of the man in action.
Here's an awesome free MP3 as well.
FREE MUSIC
Ok! This is what we like, Free music!!! Cock Rock Disco now has a new section devoted to high-quality free downloadable music. And to properly kick it off in 2007, we have 2 new releases:
DJ Donna Summer - BootyBreakTranceClub-core
60 minutes of party-dynamite! Oh so pumping body-rocking fun!! Inspired very much by the new Japanese Trance-core stuff we found last summer and mixed with an emerging booty/club sensibility, Donna (ok, Jason) slices and dices these tunes up and slaps them upside yo head. 100% free!
Don Augusto - Fun, Love, and Computers
Our first proper online-only free release, this full-length glitch-club record is full of summer time breeziness, and sweaty nights! Somehow he manages to combine chip tunes, Stevie Wonder, and the word "green" into an eco-friendly dancy party for all your fuzzy friends. 100% free!
To get both full-length FREE downloads: www.cockrockdisco.com
FREE VIDEO
Our friends at Landjungen had a nutty idea and made a mash-up of all 15 tracks from last year's free compilation. The result is "Everyone~Everywhere". With more edits in 3 minutes than a whole hour of MTV, this video is sure to give you more information that you really need. What's more, they are up for a "people's choice" award at the renowned Oberhausen film and video festival.
Give them your vote at: www.t-online.de/kurzfilmtage
New Shit!
Yes, finally the Pisstank 12" should be here soon, so that means your chance to finally get the rave-core anthems you've been craving is finally here! What? you want more Drumcorps? SURE THING! The Grist 12" will be about the same time too.
Tours
Ok, this is where we get slack. Yes, there's quite a few of the Cock Rock Disco artists coming to EU and USA on tour this summer, but we don't have all the plans just yet.
Coming to Europe: Food For Animals (July), Terminal 11 (June), Drumcorps (always on tour!)
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Hanne Hukkelberg will be making her first UK appearances following the release of her acclaimed album Rykestrasse 68. Her way with a melody, bewitching voice and unconventional orchestration have seen her embraced by fans of Stina Nordenstam, CocoRosie and Joanna Newsom.
21st May Norwich Arts Centre
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
22nd May Kendal Arts Centre
www.womensartsinternational.co.uk
23rd May London The Luminaire
www.theluminaire.co.uk
26th May Bath Bath Festival
www.bathmusicfest.org.uk
Rykestrasse 68:
“Hanne’s debut was a slow burner that gradually revealed itself as one of the best of the year . Her follow up is more immediate and may be better still: a seductive song suite based around six months in Berlin, all wound around inventive, meandering detailed arrangements and Hukkelberg’s delicately powerful voice, midway between Cat Power and Radka Toneff"
**** Uncut
“All the carefully recorded clicks, ticks and sprongs enhance Hukkelberg’s enchanted sound world. And as for her beautifully judged vocals, ignore those comparisons to Joanna Newsome or Björk. Rykestrasse 68 puts Hukkelberg way ahead of both.”
**** The Guardian
"I was just finishing a sentence saying that Rykestrasse 68 was a good album to fall asleep to – I meant it as a compliment, something about how warm and soothing and restful Hukkelberg’s voice is – when the lyrics of The Pirate finally, after many listens, made themselves clear. It’s a song about a man getting on a boat accompanied only by some alcohol, some little white pills and a firm intention to “dive into infinity, eternity, God’s haven”. So, a good album to fall asleep to, then. Just make sure you wake up. When you do, you can enjoy A Cheater’s Armoury, which swings with the cool sassiness of early Rickie Lee Jones, or Hukkelberg’s masterful, Björk-ish reinterpretation (“cover” hardly does it justice) of the Pixies’ Break My Body. Hukkelberg’s music has toughened up a little since her debut, Little Things, but lost none of its intimate beauty..”
Pop CD of the week
****The Sunday Times
“Found sounds, typewriters, vintage instruments, yodels, scats and proper songs leap across genres like a pianist trying to keep up wth a Keystone Kops movie. Unusually everything creates the illysion of making pop sense. Wierdly thrilling”
****The Independent On Sunday
"'An effortlessly impressive album. A glittering delight"
****The Irish Times
“The whole album is nothing short of brilliant.”
**** Diva
“Worthy of soundtracking a movie like Belleville Rendezvous”
**** Time Out
“A bewitching musical patchwork best experienced after dark”
Monocle
"Hanne’s vocal is the sweetest, most charming and intimate vocal around. Rykestrasse 68 is experimental, a little bit crazy in parts but absolutely stunning. Perfect springtime listening"
The Crack
“There are certain things that take your breath away - jumping into a frozen lake; a last-gasp equalizer in a cup final; being squeezed around the waist by a sumo wrestler; and listening to Rykestrasse 68 is one of those experiences. alebeit a 45-minute long, gradual jaw drop..”
The Stool Pigeon
Hukkelberg’s luxuriant, lazy vocals are like a seductive siren song, compelling you to delve into her world. Trying to grasp Hukkelberg’s intensly personal songs is like following a mischievous child around in a maze of mirrors: illusory, elusive and lots of fun.”
***Jazzwise
“The whole album’s great - eerie, stark, pretty and dark.”
Bizarre
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Having recently released the Circuit Blasting on everyone's favourite label, ADAADAT, Joe Banks gives a free lecture and demonstration at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.
Joe Banks "Rorschach Audio - Art and Illusion for
Sound"
Lectureˆdemonstration
11am Friday 11 May
Broadway Cinema
14 Broad Street
Nottingham NG1 3AL
0115 952 6611
http://rixc.lv/waves/en/17.html
Admission Free
"Circuit Blasting" review from The Wire...
"Using electromagnetic fields strong enough to trigger
responses in such electronic instruments as drum
machines and keyboards, Strange Attractor has
conspired with Disinformation to create a joyful
noise. Derived from hours experimenting, coaxing and
seducing, this selection of 9 tracks ripples and trill
with emergent life, revealing in the process how
little current we actually manage to control with the
push of a button or the flick of a switch. Nicola
Tesla, the scientific visionary responsible for
discovering AC electricity and the rotating magnetic
field, would have loved it, and so will you."
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Ryo Kato, one third of Cacoy and known to many as DJ Klock, or just Klock, is no longer here. On April 10th he decided to leave this life.
Rumraket's Rasmus Stolberg has left a tribute to the Japanese artist on the labels website. Along with Saya and Ueno (from Tenniscoats), Ryo released the album Human Is Music on the Danish label back in 2006.
Anyone wishing to leave a message may do so at the following page.
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We've halved the price on all the sizes and styles of the Check The Water t-shirt that was produced to celebrate The Leaf Label's 10 year anniversary back in 2005..
Theres a variety of colours left, ranging from small to extra large in size. Theres even girls fitted ones too. However we literally only have 1 or 2 of each item left in stock so its a strictly first come, first served deal. So what are you waiting for? Get clicking...
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We now have the very attractive white vinyl version of Efterklang's stunning new mini-album Under Giant Trees in stock.
Due to a manfacturing fault there was a slight defect on the original pressing, but we now have the correct and very limited (1200) individually numbered 12" of this release.
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COLIN NEWMAN & MALKA SPIGEL
swim~ and Githead's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel continue with their monthly radio broadcasts on Tel Aviv student radio network Campus Radio (106 FM & via the internet) in a show on Tuesday 17 April at 8.00 pm local time [6.00 pm GMT (London time) as far as we can work out]. Press the PLAY icon on the right hand side of the Campus Radio website to hear the live stream.
The show series are themed on the contents of swim studio's collective iTunes and tracks alphabetically through it's contents. You can check out the playlist HERE.
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Robert Logan's debut album Cognessence on Slowfoot is still an office favourite here at PE and if you haven't checked him out live yet theres a couple more chances coming up.
May 19th
Robert Logan + label mates Snorkel will be playing at Sonic Boom!, Coventry's first all day electronica and experimental multi-media festival. The day will consist of local and national musicians over eight hours and the line up also includes Bass Clef and Dragon Or Emperor
Location is Taylor Johns house and tickets are on sale now for £6 from Box Office The Tin Angel, Spon Street/02476 559958 online (www.tinangel.co.uk) or through info@ghosttownpresents.co.uk
June 2nd
Venn Festival, Bristol @ Arnolfini. This 4 day festival pulls in "acts of the very highest calibre from divergent musical constellations". Robert plays the Arnolfini auditorium on the Saturday. More information from www.vennfestival.com
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New on PostEverything: Airvent Media Ltd CHILD
We are pleased to welcome Airvent Media to the shelves of PE. They maybe only 3 releases old but already they have gained support and radio play from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs and 1FM.
Keeping it real with 7 inch releases and funky CD sleeves Airvent is recommended to those who like there music dark and crunchy.
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Andy Vaz, head honcho at Background Records was in London recently. While he was here, he dropped off a stack on vinyl treats to fill the gaps in our house and techno section. Along with the new 12" releases, Endings & Beginnings and Way Back When we now have copies of 050, which celebrates the labels 50th release. Also Geoff White's Nevertheless album and Andy's conclusion of the [- - -] series. Check out the Background page on PE for further information.
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Uncomfirmed Reports
The videos for four new AKATOMBO tracks - "Cypher", "SSRI", "Tondo" & "The Sand Collector" - will be shown as part of the 9th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival. The Festival runs from Thursday, April 12th to Sunday, April 15th.
The films, part of a larger work entitled UNCONFIRMED REPORTS will be shown twice in their entirety; firstly on Saturday, April 14th @ 3:30pm, and again on Sunday, April 15th @ 1:15pm. Both screenings will take place at The Frederic March Play Circle Theatre.
For more information regarding venue & tickets, etc., please go HERE.
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A Hawk And A Hacksaw have added new tour dates to the itinerary this Spring/Summer, including some festival dates.
Following the band's tour with The Hun Hangár Ensemble of UK, Spain and Portugal, the duo have announced dates in Austria, Germany and Belgium in May and June. However, AHAAH interrupt this to briefly rejoin the HHE for a slot at The 1000 Year Journey Festival at the Barbican in London on 30 May. Also on the bill are Fanfare Ciocarlia, the Romanian brass band who featured on AHAAH’s 2006 album, The Way The Wind Blows.
On Sunday 3 June, AHAAH and the HHE will play the Venn Festival in Bristol Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Morningstar. July sees the duo play at Sommerscen in Malmo (6 July), Roskilde Festival in Denmark (7 July) and the Glatt und Verkehrt Festival in Krems, Austria.
Ahead of the release of A Hawk And A Hacksaw and The Hun Hangar Ensemble EP, we have put up 'Zozobra' from the 8 track EP on MySpace. The strictly-limited and individually numbered CD/DVD package can be found on PE from May 7.
www.myspace.com/theleaflabel
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Strange Attractor vs Disinformation
"Circuit Blasting"
+ Prof_lofi and Mark Wastell + Jack Keenan
8:30 Friday 13 April
The Flea Pit restaurant and theatre
49 Columbia Road
London E2 7RG
www.thefleapit.com
Donations accepted at the door
Disinformation vs Strange Attractor
"Circuit Blasting" + "National Grid"
+ Bugbrand Audio + Andrew Colmen
9:00 Friday 27 April
The Junction
Clifton Way
Cambridge CB1 7GX
01223 511 511
bad_timing@firmament.demon.co.uk
£5 (£3 concessions)
"Theophany" sound installation by Disinformation is
being exhibited in a tree at Burghley House Sculpture
Garden from 1st April to 28th October 2007
Burghley House
Stamford
Lincolnshire PE9 3JY
01780 752451
www.burghley.co.uk
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Yes, he's still alive and on the 19th of this month Dan Snaith is DJ support for old buddy Four Tet.
This is one off special show from Four Tet at the Farnham Maltings, Surrey.
Doors 7.30pm - 10.30pm (an early event)
TicketsL £7 in advance / £9 on the door.
Box office: 01252 726234
Over 18's only.
Farnham Maltings
Bridge Square
Farnham
Surrey
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Following the announcement of The Leaf Label’s UK tour this spring, featuring Colleen and Triosk , Adrian Klumpes has been confirmed to open the gig at Norwich Arts Centre on Monday 30 April, which is his only live show in the UK. The whole gig in Norwich will be recorded by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction.
A video featuring live footage and an interview of Triosk at Wroclaw in Poland on April 2 from their European tour has been put up on YouTube. You can see i here.
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Havana Guns play a series of London shows in support of their recent release N.Y.C.S / I Want To Die which we are stocking here on PE.
Fri, 6 April
On stage 9.00pm - £5 - flyer
London / Holloway - Nambucca
(The Unhappy Birthday Club night)
596 Holloway Road, London N7 6LB
Thu, 12 April
On stage 10.00pm - £5
Oxford - Old Fire Station
(Watch This Space night)
40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Sat, 14 April
On stage 9.00pm - £5
London / Camden - Proud Galleries
The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AH
Tue, 8 May
On stage 8.00pm - £3
London / Whitechapel - Rhythm Factory
16-18 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1EW
(Nearest tube: Aldgate East)
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Slowfoot Records continue their residency at the Adelaide in Camden, London and they would like to invite you along to the upcoming Snorkel gig on Friday 6th April.
Snorkel will soon be releasing their debut album 'Glass Darkly' on Slowfoot. An avant-whatever collective exploring the nether regions between the groove and free improvisation; sub-aquatic observations of dub, jazz, afro beat, krautrock and electronica.
The current line up features members from Pest, 7-Hurtz and artists/musicians from the Slowfoot stable :
Ben Cowen: synths, samplers, fx
Frank Byng: drums, Dr Sample
Tom Marriott: trombone + fx
Charles Stuart: synths, drum machines, voice
129: MPC, electronics, voice
Lucas Suarez: guitar
+ the beautiful sounds of DJ O'Kill
Upstairs at The Adelaide,
143 Adelaide Rd, Chalk Farm,
London NW3 3NL
[Nearest tube; Chalk Farm]
Tickets £5
Doors 7.30pm
Info: 0207 722 3777
www.helmshine.co.uk
You can get tickets at: www.wegottickets.com
www.slowfoot.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bandsnorkel
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April 2007
The mornings are sunnier, the nights lighter, so summer is coming for Europe. A fine way to by-pass the sudden snow flurries of the UK was to work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, performing and presenting my work at the Hipersonica Festival which featured video-art, interactivity, talks, and an amazing night-long series of shows at the impressive Museum of Modern Art. With some quirky performances in the audience, men covered in light bulbs, girls in short shorts, highlights were performances by London's Kode 9 and Los Angeles' Daedelus, with whom I spent most of my time exploring the city and eating endless pizza, ideal for the traveling vegetarian.
This was quite a contrast to the GRM shows in Paris in March, which presented a wide variety of hits and misses in electronic composition, complete with audiences booing at various acts! Personal highlights were shows by Michèle Bokanowski, Erik M and The Books. Just had enough downtime to check out the dark vision of David Lynch's exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs and notes at the Fondation Cartier before my show.
As always, I do like to keep myself busy and out of trouble so it's been an extremely active month, outside of traveling. The short film Dead Bird premiered in London, which I designed the sound for, and interestingly is available to download and view in full online . The same story is presented three different ways with each edit revealing a little more about the characters personalities, through their relationship with the environment, each other and a dead bird, and you can even vote for your favorite version.
If you fancy a little boogie and a chance to work off a little weight to slip into those skinny jeans then I'd recommend my entertaining new Moskau Disko release on Binemusic. It's a double-sided release, leading with an acidic old school electro song with vocals, balanced against a more atmospheric Krautrock style number. Available digitally on iTunes, PostEverything.com and fine record stores, it's the sound of the summer arriving early. Whilst browsing at iTunes and other digital outlets might I suggest having a glance at my new album with percussionist Pete Lockett, Twisted Artifacts, which features a fine series of rhythm led hearty tracks. It's the follow up to the success of our debut, Autek.
Free things are also ever appealing though, so tune into radio station, WNYC and listen to New Sounds with John Schaefer, and you can hear an hour long session with musician, composer, author and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg and myself in their studio that we recorded on a recent visit to the Big Apple. It was a wonderfully entertaining chance to unite clarinet, laptops with recordings of nightingales, grasshoppers, crickets, Beluga whales and an orgy of copulating animals. Sadly Tonic, the venue we played our live show at, is reluctantly closing its doors on Friday April 13 th forever, as the Lower East Side out prices everyone. A sad loss for musicians and audiences alike.
Another project with American artist Jody Zellen, Seen Death, can be seen over at the site of respected Dutch newspaper Volkskrant. Look down to the bottom right side of the page, scroll through Kunstenaar (artists) until you find Jody's name and click on Seen Death and you can enjoy the fruits of our collaboration.
London visitors and residents can visit the Cybersonica free night at Tate Britain this week, Friday 6th April, from 18.00-22.00 where my work will be played back through the immersive 3D Illustrious Company sound system, alongside of all manner of delights - screenings from the D-Fuse 'VJ: audio visual art and vj culture' publication, and live performances from the extraordinary Modified Toy Orchestra and Sophie Clements.
Illustrious Company will be presenting their final night of their Future of Sound tour in April in London the UK where I'll be showing my work, before we go global and display our ideas across the oceans.
April will be an tremendously international month as I'll also be performing over in Amsterdam for the 10th anniversary for Steamin' Soundworks, then over to Italy for a theatre show, to Paris for the Pixelache Festival, and then to Kitchener Canada for the Open Ears Festival of Music.
So, many more opportunities for curious immigration moments in airports and reasons to catch up on reading this month!
Have a choco-tastic Easter.
Robin Rimbaud
::: listen :::
Glenn Branca: Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (Atavistic)
Wyndham Lewis: The Enemy Speaks (LTM)
Bauhaus: Reviewed 1919-1933 (LTM)
Arve Henriksen: Strjon (Rune Grammofon)
::: read :::
Christian Marclay: Crossfire (White Cube)
Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts (Canongate)
Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved (Sceptre)
Charles Bukowski: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (City Limits)
::: film:::
Inland Empire, David Lynch, USA
13-Tzameti, Gela Babluani, France
Transamerica, Duncan Tucket. USA
Idiocracy, Mike Judge, USA
::: Diary Dates :::
2007
07 April-Sugar Factory, Amsterdam, Holland
10 April-Cie Illico, soundtrack for dance, Roubaix France
12 April-Future of Sound Queen Mary’s College London
13 April-Live Lenz Teatro Parma Italy
21 April- Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris France
28 April-Open Ears Festival, Kitchener Ontario Canada
05 May-Störung Festival Barcelona Spain
12 May-Blindscape at Elektra Festival Montreal Canada
20 May-Light Turned Down with D-Fuse at Wroclaw Poland
24 May-Slomo:100 Minutes show Radiokulturhaus Wien Austria
02 June-Girona Spain
23 June-Riff Ipswich UK
22 August-Duet with DJ Olive Chapelle des Brigittines Brussels
31 August- Duet with David Rothenberg, Kristiansand Norway
26 Oct-Museum of Garden History London
10 Nov-William S Burroughs event Paradiso Amsterdam
2008
16 Feb-Night Haunts, Gothenburg Sweden
Exhibitions
What Sound Does A Color Make?
University of Hawai'i Art Gallery
Honolulu USA
04 March - 13 April 2007
What Sound Does a Color Make? is an exhibition that explores the fusion of vision and sound in electronic media. Artists explore time-based work and manipulate sound with image, and image with sound, in videos and immersive sensory environments. The exhibit connects the recent boom of digital audiovisual art to its pre-digital roots by presenting ten contemporary works by an internationally diverse group of artists and a selection of single channel videos from the 1970s. Heightening awareness of human perception and cognition, these works hold interest for technophiles and general audiences alike. Featuring work by Scott Arford, Jim Campbell, D-Fuse with Scanner, Granular Synthesis, Gary Hill, Atau Tanaka, Stephen Vitiello, Nam June Paik and others.
What Sound Does a Color Make? is a travelling exhibition (2005-2007) organised & circulated by iCi, curated by Kathleen Forde.
www.hawaii.edu/
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
04 February 2006...on-going
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
20 July 2006...on-going
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam presents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. Now featuring remixes of NightJam by Stephen Vitiello, Hakan Lidbo, Troy Barnazi, Si-cut.db and Pete Lockett.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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