Tape Piece For A Large Room
For four performers holding portable tape recorders (with inbuilt speakers). Tapes (containing recordings of sine tones at different frequencies, etc.) can be supplied upon request.
Each performer begins in a different corner of the room.
At a given signal, all four performers press play on their tape deck and begin walking towards the centre of the room.
Upon encountering any obstacle – a chair, a person, etc. – turn around and plot a new course at a roughly forty-five degree angle from previous trajectory, then carry on walking.
When the tapes run silent, stop moving.
Far Rainbow feat. Homodular, live at Zero Wave Club #7, last week at the Fiddler’s, Camden.
The next Zero Wave event will be dedicated to instrumental and vocal compositions written for one or two players.
It will feature music by Cornelius Cardew, John Garner, György Kurtag, Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, Kate Williams, Christian Wolff, and Jonathan Woolgar performed by Héloise Werner, Mainly Two, Ian Mitchell & David Ryan, Jerry Wigens, and Far Rainbow.
It will take place in the basement of the Harrison pub, of the Gray’s Inn Road, on the 4th of November, from 8pm.
Feel free to declare your attendance.
Following this event, the next Zero Wave Club at the Fiddler’s will take place on Tuesday November 17th.
Will feature myself and Emily playing ‘Stones’ by Christian Wolff
TweetTweetCome join us in the very bosom of Camden, for another instalment of our monthly club series at the Fiddler’s Elbow - Camden .
This month’s enthralling edition will feature the many and varies talents of…
Breathing Space – Five piece choral sound art group formed by composer/sculptor Stephen Shiell. Breathing Space have previously performed at the Burlington Arts Festival, Shambala Festival and upon a floating stage beneath a geodesic dome at Cody Dock, East London. For more information check http://cargocollective.com/breathingspace/
Aino Tytti – Influenced equally by Popul Vuh, Alva Noto and Arvo Pärt, electroacoustic composer Aino Tytti produces widescreen dark ambient soundscapes with processed field recordings and homemade synthesizers. Watching Aino Tytti support William Basinski for his Arcadia series last year, The Line Of Best Fit heard “swirling ethereal soundscapes that score the stuff of hallucinogenic dreams.”. http://www.ainotytti.com/
Ripsaw Catfish – Collaborative duo of Cath Roberts (baritone sax) and Anton Hunter (guitar) mixing improvised and pre-composed elements with compelling, beguiling results. Their album ‘For the Benefit of the Tape’ was released last year on Raw Tonk Records. http://cathrobertsmusic.co.uk/ripsaw-catfish/
Far Rainbow – Your hosts and Zero Wave club founders “brings to mind the free-spirited electronic kosmische musik that Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius may have created in their Cluster heyday if they had King Tubby rather than Conny Plank producing it.” (We Need No Swords) https://farrainbow.bandcamp.com/
Interval music from the likes of Ben Zimmerman, Anne Dudley, Bill Nelson, Benge, and more.
8pm. £5. Facebook event page
Next Far Rainbow gig – Monday, 13 June – Amersham Arms, New Cross
+ Frieda Abtan // Neo Fung // Me, Claudius // Norvoir // Pouya Ehsaei // Francesco Perticarari // Leslie Deere
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TweetLAST MINUTE LINE-UP CHANGE!
Due to unavoidable circumstances (he’s really really ill) Leon Michener aka KLAVIKON has had to pull out of tonight’s gig.
However, Graham Dunning has agreed to step in as last minute replacement.
Stage times for tonight, then:
8pm – Doors
8:15 – Far Rainbow feat. John Doran
9pm – Secluded Bronte
9:45 – Leslie Deere
10:30 – Graham Dunning
February’s Zero Wave Club will feature live music from…
KLAVIKON – Leon Michener’s self-titled debut reimagining electronic dance music with a prepared piano drew admiring glances from The Wire and Dummy upon its release through Nonclassical last year. Now, Michener takes things a step further, applying his custom bolts, screws, and toys to the inside of an amplified clavichord, bringing together an instrument from the 17th century with the most advanced processing technologies of the 21st.
LESLIE DEERE – Tennessee-born sculptor and sound artist Leslie Deere will be presenting a work-in-progress she is developing as part of her Music Hackspace / Sound And Music Embedded residency. Using Kinect gesture controlled technology to manipulate sounds handsfree, Deere’s performance looks and sounds like magic.
SECLUDED BRONTE – “Music theatre from hell via Surrey…” A collaboration between Richard Thomas and the Bohman Brothers.
FAR RAINBOW featuring JOHN DORAN – In the second of Far Rainbow’s ‘backing band’ series of one-off collaborations, the cosmic improvising duo are joined by Quietus editor and Jolly Lad author, John Doran.
Advance tIckets available from Billetto https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/zero-wave-club8-klavikon-shadow-biosphere-secluded-bronte-far-rainbow-feat-john-doran
TweetThe next Zero Wave Club will take place on Tuesday 17 November at the Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden.
As usual improvised drums and cosmic electronics from Far Rainbow first on the bill followed by this month’s exciting special guests…
Some Some Unicorn is a large collective of like minded musical magpies under the laid back eye of composer and improviser Shaun Blezard. This will be their third gig and takes membership of the band to over 50 (not bad for 1 CD and 3 gigs!!) For the London show there are members of Hugs Bison, Breathing Space, Blanc Sceol, Murmurists, Roddart, Wire Assembly, Inclusion Principle, World of Fox and Kipple. Big band free drone soundscape united by everyone’s belief in community, both musically and politically.
Charismatic Megafauna is Jenny Moore, Georgia Twigg and Susannah Worth, an all-drum, all-live, all-loud trio. As well as regular gigs at the likes of Biddle Brothers and Open School East, the band has played as part of Supernormal Festival, Wysing’s Space-Time Festival, Conduire for the Art Licks Weekend, and the Art Licks V&A Late. Their debut music video was screened at Doing What Comes Naturally’s Spare Rib event at the Feminist Library in August. In September, they were in residence at Focal Point Gallery in Southend, played live on Resonance FM’s Hello Goodbye Show, and are currently working towards the release of their debut EP. “warped sexual assault statistics are pummelled under stick and foot, with all three members laying their catharsis upon a single drum kit. Yelped voices and vibrant playsuit colours project forth, as the group tip between skeletal punk, thunderous tribe and the brink of total collapse” –Jack Chuter, ATTN Magazine.
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Xylitol has had to pull out of this one at the last minute. However, fear not, for the mighty Noteherder & McCloud have stepped in as last minute replacements.
Noteherder & McCloud promise Whirr and Skronk; a murk of electronics and lo fidelity field recordings run through with free playing soprano sax. “Always compelling and unusual, extemporising compulsively in the long-form way with gloriously generous outpourings of abstract jazz-noise.” – The Sound Projector.
Interval music from the archives of K-Mart instore music service.
Five pounds entry. Declare your attendance
TweetBreathing Space will be performing at the next Zero Wave event, on Tuesday October 20th, with Aino Tytti, Ripsaw Catfish, and Far Rainbow