ECHOES

Man, I’m not sure what’s up with my lapsing into irregular bloggery but I’m forcing myself to write up some recent bits and pieces.

First up I’d like to thank everyone that came along to my performance at DCA’s ((echo)) a few weeks ago and of course for having the opportunity to do so. It was actually really nice to summon up Erstlaub and for the first time in a fair old while not feel completely drained and wrong afterwards. I had some very nice feedback including an email from Nikolaj (whose Rendezvous the work was made in response to) who is currently working away on a new project somewhere in Turkey on hearing the piece. You can download or listen to it below.

Frequency=Distance/Time by Erstlaub

In other pretty big/interesting news, I recently made around 45 minutes of visual accompaniment for TVO’s performance at The Freaking Royal Albert Hall for his performance of Red Night Variations at Wire’s Rewind Live event. Horrible Slow Techno clogging up the RAH? Don’t mind if we do. You can see an edited little teaser for it below and it may well be avaialble on DVD at some point via Broken20 although my lawyers have yet to discuss my fee with the label (this isn’t true). Big up to TVO for repping ends so spectacularly.

TVO: Red Night Variations (trailer) from Erstlaub on Vimeo.

In MFA news, I’m slowly being driven more and more mental by the endless succession of terrible and inane pop music leaking through the floor of my studio from the DJCAD canteen which can only be part of some long running experimental torture process. Other than that, I’ve just published a booklet in response to ‘Positioning Paper 1’ in which we were asked to write an 800(ish) word piece on us, our research and development practices. Despite the entirely limiting wordcount, I pretty much just let it happen as a stream of conscious approach, inspired by recent poking and prodding at the I-Ching and then packaged it all up in standard NTC Publishing form in an A5 booklet using 160gsm sturdy card for the cover and 110 gsm vegetable vellum to mirror the whimsy, transience and ephemerality contained within the body of the text. Below are some crummy images taken with my blackberry but at some point I should take some real pics. I’ll probably also post up a .pdf on the NTC site once the dust has settled a little.