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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
"Sounds like a woman. . . Or a monster!" : Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet


Midway through watching the Roger Corman produced space adventure, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965, dir. Curtis Harrington), one develops an increasingly odd sensation: the effects…
7 years ago
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Composition (2011): 'Duet'

For a solo performer


Find a sound that is already audible in the room - the hum of the PA, the swoop of a fan, the noise from the air conditioner, or traffic sounds coming through the window,…
7 years ago
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Forthcoming Live Shows by A Little Orchestra

Nat and Rosie

Sunday 13 February – London
The Loves Retirement Party @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB

7 years ago
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Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris


There is a utopian thread running through Adam McEwen’s Fresh Hell exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. Is this to be understood in spite of its title, or in its spirit? After all, isn’t…
7 years ago
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Composition (2010) No. 6

For a solo performer (any instrument)


Attach as many microphones, pickups, phonographic cartridges, and contact mics to your instrument as possible. Feed these transducers in turn to as many…
7 years ago
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30 Pounds of Bone - Method


In his (1637) Discourse on Method, Rene Descartes established doubt as the fundamental philosophical procedure. There is plenty of doubt to be found in the Method of 30 Pounds of Bone,…
8 years ago
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Rendezvous With Elia: Cronhammar at Herning

Ingvar Cronhammar has implied that his life’s work has been an attempt to get over the trauma of existential angst that struck him upon sneaking into a screening of Bergman’s The Silence
8 years ago
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loveisamerrygomine:

Martin Rushent believed in us more than we believed in ourselves. This was his favourite song of ours. Thank you Martin, it was beyond an honour and a privilege to have known you, xx

(Source: gwennogwenno-blog)

7 years ago
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Monster Bobby's Heart is (also) a Drummer
A few weeks ago, I met up with Allo Darlin’ as they breezed through Paris on their European mega-tour. You can read all about their trip here, on the band’s website. Now, they’re back home in…
7 years ago
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Composition (2011): 'Test'

For a solo performer or a small ensemble

Do as little as possible in order to make the total level of sound in the room as low as possible.

If the volume starts to increase, either due to…
7 years ago
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A January Song: Darren Hayman with Monster Bobby
Throughout January, singer-songwriter Darren Hayman, formerly of Hefner, latterly of The Secondary Modern, has been writing a song a day and charting his progress on a specially constructed
7 years ago
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In C, live at the George Tavern

On December 5th, 2010, A Little Orchestra brought some friends together to perform Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ for a second time, this time at the historic George Tavern in east London. The…
7 years ago
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Getting Festive
The above from David Shrigley.

The below from The Pipettes (can be downloaded free from here).

7 years ago
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Don't Look Up: Impostor and the Future
“There wasn’t always a war with the Centauri, but in my lifetime it’s all I’ve ever known. By the year 2050, six years after the first attack, we’d lost so many things. We’d lost the sky…
8 years ago
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