Anonymeye is Andrew Tuttle, and sometimes Andrew Tuttle is Anonymeye. Occasionally Anonymeye features Andrew Tuttle and various friends, collaborators and co-conspirators. Live and on record, in alphabetical order, Anonymeye collaborators include Alex Nosek (guitar), Cam Webb (electronics), Daniel Spencer (drum kit), Danni Zuvela (visual), Jimmy Trash (harmonium), Jon Thija (synthesiser, drum kit), Lars Schubert (guitar), Tara Pattenden (visual), Team Attack! (visual), Tim Condon (percussion).
Influences
musical: John Fahey, Matmos, Tony Conrad, Charley Patton, Animal Collective, Fennesz, The Books, DJ Assault, The Carter Family, Morton Feldman, Kraftwerk, Dock Boggs, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Blechdom, Jack Rose, Chad Morgan, the Harry Smith anthology, Greg Davis, Harmonia, likeminded creative communities of Brisbane/Melbourne/beyond.
non-musical: Principality Of Hutt River and other micronation movements, suburbia, highway motels, Australian landscapes/culture, highways, roadside service stations, politics (excluding office), the internet/teh interwebz, road trips, disambiguation, friends and family, attachment, fellow performers, Art Deco, RSS Feeds, free drinks, daylight saving (!!), epherema, artist run spaces, Colonial era architecture, various economies of scale.
Sounds Like
The songs in the player. MP3 downloads available at anonymeye.com and halftheory.com. More to come soon.
Anonymeye is the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle, an experimental musician from Brisbane, Australia who reconfigures various country and folk musics within an abstract sonic framework, utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units. Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and pop, acoustic and electronic, rural landscapes and urban landscapes.
Since 2004, Anonymeye has performed at festivals, clubs and events throughout Australia and Europe including Le Placard/Club Transmediale festivals @ Maria Am Ufer (Berlin, Germany), Electrofringe/This Is Not Art festivals (Newcastle, Australia), ZXZW Festival (Tilburg, Netherlands), Fabrique @ Brisbane Powerhouse (Brisbane, Australia), Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Electundra festival @ LOOP (Melbourne, Australia), Extrapool (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Instants Chavires (Paris, France), The Troubadour (Brisbane, Australia), The Zoo (Brisbane, Australia), Seymour Centre (Sydney, Australia), and Horse Bazaar (Melbourne, Australia).
Anonymeye's music has released music on labels including sound&fury, hellosQuare, Curt, Half/theory, and Feral Media. Anonymeye's second full length album 'The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye' is out now on the sound&fury label.
Selected Press
The Wire - "work[s] up something sublime from the dreary hum of malfunctioning neon lights and off-white plastic balcony railings, finding beauty in their humble everydayness"
Mess & Noise - "there's a singular and unique musical mind at work here."
Terrascope - "wonderful guitar skills"
Scene - "a thicket of processed guitars and minimalist electronics"
Rave - "a lush blend of country-inspired riffs and licks, sampled, stopped and started, shifted and stuttered, stammered and syncopated, or simply left to ring and whisper of wide-open spaces."
Before Hollywood - "Tuttle mixes intricate bluegrass fingerpicking with sound manipulations to create a fairly unique atmosphere, since when the two are combined it creates a strange balance between comfortable familiarity and otherworldiness."
Labyrinth City - "Anonymeye, a local experimental musician has a peculiar sound: An acoustic guitar tuned to almost standard country style chords are fed through his laptop, manipulated, twisted and looped around to a somewhat strange effect and experience upon hearing it live."
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
‘The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye’: CD album, sound&fury, 2009 ‘Anonymeye/Cam Deas’: 3” CDR EP: Curt, 2008 (split with Cam Deas) ‘Silhouettes 3’: CDR EP: hellosQuare, 2008 (split with Part Timer) ‘Phase Two’: 3” CDR EP: sound&fury, 2007
‘Anonymeye Motel’: CD album: Half/theory, 2006
“The Decline Of Modern Civilisation” @ Step Inn (front bar) Saturday 4 July $10, 8pm. Curse Ov Dialect (Melbourne), Purple Duck (Melbourne), The Professional Savage (Melbourne), Joel Saunders, Bloody Roo, DJ Potato Master, DJ Lame.
"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the
music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and
abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands
inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and
lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
The disambiguation arrived yesterday! Only heard it once so far but I really dug it! So uplifting! Acoustic guitar recording is completely delicious too - everything is so lush! Come to Adelaide!
Undecisive God 'A Vinyl Construction' 7" - Recent experiments with multiple turntables and prepared/broken records come to full fruition here with a release that poses questions both to the use of turntables as instruments and vinyl as a format. The music - crunchy multi-layered improvisations/processes that randomly sample small broken chunks from the original vinyl materials - is itself presented on 7" vinyl, in handmade covers reconstructed from old record covers and broken vinyl shards; each cover is different, individually numbered and an interesting one-off creation in itself. Limited edition of fifty copies. Available from Shame File Music, or Missing Link and Sunshine & Grease in Melbourne.
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