Current band line-up includes:- Sigara Dorsalis + Corixa and Micronecta genera of Lesser Water Boatmen; Hornwort; Hull Wind Turbines; Meg and Grahams' Fridge; Andrews' Liver Salts; Tate n' Lyles Golden Syrup; Indoor Sparklers; Hazelnuts on fire; Pumpkin Seeds; Wire Fence at Cley; Aeolian Carpark at Salford Quays; Humber Bridge; ErasmusBrug; Panasonic SL-SX315; E-Bow and The Springrods; Oral-B Cross Action electric toothbrushes; Bottles; Frying Eggs; Wind mashed umbrellas (or parts thereof); Vibro-tron.
Influences
Hugh Davies; Toshiya Tsunoda/WrK; Chris Watson; Jeph Jerman; Stilluppsteypa; Max Eastley; Joe Colley; Bernhard Gunter; M60/M62; starlings; ponds and canals; Akio Suzuki; Thomas Koner; springs; Maplins and cheap piezo transducers; Luigi Russolo/Italian Futurism; Insects; Lionel Marchetti; Joe Devlin; Morton Feldman; NON/Boyd Rice; AMM; John Cage; Morphogenesis; Steve Roden; Surf by Phillip Jeck; Matt Wand; charity shops; Richard Chartier; Onkyo; Alan Lamb; The Hafler Trio; Francisco Lopez; Davide Mosconi; Fluxus; John Barry; Adam and Jonathan Bohman; Stephen P. McGreevy; Nurse With Wound; Scott Duffy; W.T.Statham; John Wall; Ponds and ditches; Alvin Lucier; Charlemagne Palestine; David Lynch; Prehistory/fossils; Metal fences and railings; songbirds; Chas Smith; The Baschet Brothers; Pan(a)Sonic; cooking and washing the pots; quotidian sound; other peoples litter; being skint; general mudgrubbing, scavenging and scrounging; urban bushcraft (for musical purposes); there are many others... -+-+-+-+-+- W.G.Sebald; W.S.Borroughs; A.Solzhenitsyn; Cabinet Magazine; J.G.ballard; P.Auster. +-+-+-+-+-+ Past and present collaborators:- Simon Allen; David Audinet; Ruth Barberan; Deborah and Paul Bartholemew; Gareth Bibby; Adam Bohman; Chris Burn; Lucio Capece; Seth Cluett; Gene Coleman; Matt Davis; Angharad Davies; Rhodri Davies; Michel Doneda; Benedict Drew; Phil Durrant; Barry Esson; Luke Fowler; Jez riley French; Helena Gough; Mariella Greil; Dave Griffiths; Tasos Grivas; Ben Gwilliam; Karen Gwyer; Graham Halliwell; Giusepe Ielasi; Coti K; Tonny Kluften; Tomas Korber; David Lacy; Alastair Leslie; Helmut Lemke; Michael Maierhof; Louisa Martin; Kaffe Matthews; Wade Matthews; Sachiko M; Heiner Metzger; Phil Minton; Werner Moebius; Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Rob Mullender; NVA; Owl Project; Evan Parker; Brian Percival; Keith Rowe; Christine Sehnaoui; Lars Scherzberg; Coryn Smethurst; Akio Suzuki; Simon Swatman; John Tilbury; David Toop; Rafael Toral; Toshiya Tsunoda; Birgit Uhler; Nikos Veliotis; Paul Vogel; Vu D'un Oeuf; Daniel Weaver; Matt Wand; Alex Ward; Ami Yoshida; Ingar Zach.
Ben Drew and myself recording railings in Dundee, photographed by Luke Fowler.
Based in Prestwich (near Manchester) and existing on limited budgets, I spend time foraging for interesting sounds in my immediate surroundings, such as the sound of roadside railings played by passing cars or the secret languages of underwater insects and plants.
I'm fascinated by the sound that exists as a kind of (exotic!?) substratum to the everyday world. Using contact mics or hydrophones, the more I investigate, the more the world opens up in front of my ears.
Like many others before me, I've come to consider the world as an amazingly complex and varied generator of sound, one where hidden sonic treasures may exist within the most mundane or seemingly familiar of environments.
Following on from Cages' 4'33", I've come to realise that both music and noise are entirely context specific and that music arises from a framework of specific listening.
Alongside an array of invented sonic devices and processes, I use some of this recorded material in solo improvisation and installation, as well as with a host of experimental and improvising musicians from around the globe.
During summer 2006, I produced the radio show, Audio Sketchbook, for Resonance FM, London and summer 2007 saw me work with and alongside Toshiya Tsunoda, producing outdoor sound installations for NVA's Half Life, Scotland (see www.arika.org.uk).
Ongoing projects include an improvising trio with Rhodri Davies and David Toop, a duo with Graham Halliwell, a quartet with Angharad Davies, David Lacy and Paul Vogel as well as recent collaborations with Helena Gough, including a trio with Ben Drew.
Also, see:
http.//www.thewire.co.uk - for a recent article by Nick Cain and recordings.
http.//www.bagatellen.com/?p=2128 - for a recent interview with Alan Jones.
Atmogat's "Trigger Event" is finally available, delivering some of the best futuristic electronics and atmospheres; enclosed in a beautiful Digipack CD designed by FKSD .
Xmas Offers : Due to christmas holidays we are making a 30% discount for all our releases. ALSO, the special offer of a bonus V/A: "THESIS"CD for any Trigger Event order , will be continue until the 20th of January !!
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Hi Lee - was fab seeing you at Wiltons on Friday - the DAARS was just AMAZING! I think the food mixer motor is a good threat to the old turntable motor! will be in contact soon about gigs etc.. sure to see you soon!
