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Chris' Blog
Wed, 20 Jan 2010
I”m very happy to have completed the music for Michael Pinchbeck‘s wonderful headphone installation as part of the Selected Memory season at Radar . It’s running from 13-23rd Sept. I’ll post some audio clips when the installation is finished.
Wed, 30 Sep 2009
The next gig on the horizon will be a Threep performance at A Thing About Machines festival in Coventry on Friday 25th September 2009. We’ll be performing in St. John’s Church along with British composer of the year, turntablist and sound artist Janek Schaefer, sonic and visual manipulators Modulate and a unique performance from Ben [...]
Wed, 18 Mar 2009
Last week I attended a great FTM workshop at Bek in Bergen, Norway. Many thanks to Diemo Schwartz, who led expertly. FTM and Co is a set of extensions for MAX MSP, released free through a LGPL licence. It’s a set of objects and externals that handle data management wth matrices, with the Gabor externals [...]
Sat, 04 Oct 2008
I’m recently completed a great pilot project with the choreographer Katie Green and her Greenbean Dance company. I experimented with my new live setup in rehearsals to create the basis for the sound track, which I later refined in the studio. The piece was shown at the Heads Up series at Dancebase as part of [...]
Wed, 30 Jul 2008
i’ve just been on a great workshop with sound recordist Chris Watson. A group of about twenty people from a wide spread of backgrounds, spent time with chris alongside the banks of the river thames. we explored the different sound habitats, natural and man made, whilst chris shared his enthusiasm and experience with us. We [...]
Wed, 18 Jun 2008
Things are pretty busy here at the moment with some great projects ‘Caught Up Soundtrack’ I’m pleased to say we’ll be writing music for choreographer Katie Green‘s new work ‘Caught Up’ which will be performed at Dance Base in Edinburgh 22nd August. Nanoplex at EXPO Brighton Just getting new work ready for the Nanoplex at EXPO, Brighton. We’re working [...]
Thu, 10 Apr 2008
I had the great pleasure to be asked to nominate two people for the BBC’s Urban bursary scheme. I’ve nominated two talented musicians who been working hard to move forward in music. MVP - who’s doing great things with grime and hip hop Jahmarnyah who’s working his magic in the world of reggae good luck guys – [...]
Thu, 03 Apr 2008
I finally have my midi control surface up and running – BIG thanks to my studio partner Stu Smith (ASMO) for finishing off a project i started long ago and ran out of steam with. Its based on a Doepfer pocket Electronic board and housed in an old cutlery case. I sourced the knobs over [...]
Stu's Blog
Mon, 19 Jul 2010
These little puppies are custom modded Gristleisms I’ve recently finished building for Throbbing Gristle, one for each member of the band. They have LFO pitch modulation, auto loop advance and audio out jacks. They’ll be using them at an upcoming performance later this year (details TBC). More pictures on my Flickr page.
Mon, 17 May 2010
Every once in a while something quite special comes along in the crazy sonic world of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble. In the past our leader John Richards has arranged for us to collaborate with some great names in the world of experimental music, including Pauline Oliveros, noise legend Merzbow and Nic Bullen amongst others. Our [...]
Mon, 26 Apr 2010
Pictured here fresh off the workbench is The Dirty Carter Experimental Sound Generating Instrument, designed by Chris Carter from legendary industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle and Dr Noise John Richards. The instrument has been designed for a special performance by Carter and the 25 strong Dirty Electronics Ensemble ( of which I am a member ) [...]
Fri, 02 Apr 2010
These are a couple of custom controllers I’ve recently completed for my Bathysphere and Threep cohort Chris Cousin using the Overtone Labs Create USB Interface. They are housed in old wooden cutlery cases with vintage radio knobs. Flickr photo set here
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Thu 11th March, 2010 – 8:30pm to 11:30pm @ The Art Organisation Leicester Kanta Horio Kanta Horio studied acoustics and sound art at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan. He presents audio performance using physical phenomena with electronic devices, kinetic objects, and assorted self-built gadgets. In recent presentations he has explored installations too. [...]
Thu, 21 Jan 2010
This is a Gristleism, the latest release from Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It is designed by Throbbing Gristle & Christiaan Virant (of FM3 Buddah Machine fame). It contains 13 loops of LoFi gristleized gorgeousness lovingly presented in glorious mono. It comes in 3 colours, black, red and chrome with exquisite die cut spot laminated packaging. [...]
Mon, 19 Oct 2009
Here’s a couple of picture of the finished instrument I’ve designed for a 2 day workshop coming up in November at South Hill Park Digital Media Center. See previous post for more details.
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