Rob Hart (Piano, Compurhythm, Radio Static, Sampler, Clippers, Distortion Pedal, Human Hair, DynaMike, Feedback, Delay Pedal, Conducted Electricity, Super-8 Films, Accordian, Circuit-Bent Tape Decks, Keyboards, Field Recordings, Dictaphone, Guitar)
Influences
Nurse With Wound, Otomo Yoshohide, John Hudak, Merzbow, Volcano The Bear, My Cat Is An Alien, Flying Saucer Attack, John Smith, Amm, Wolf Eyes, Jan Svankmajer, Mimeo, Coil, Ambush Records, Sonic Youth, Farmers Manual, Sylvia Hallett, Smegma, Thomas Lehn, William Burroughs, Len Lye, Charalambides, Steve Beresford, Double Leopards, Christian Marclay, The Bohman Brothers, Heather Leigh, Paul Sharits, Alan Splet, The Fall, Furt, Phil Minton, Cyclo, Stan Brakhage, Matmos, Faust, Dennis Potter, Fuck Off Batman, Throbbing Gristle, London Improvisers Orchestra, Smog, Burning Star Core, Francisco Lopez.
Sounds Like
TRUE STORY: I texted one of those overpriced 'ask any question' services and they responded with "The music of Eaten By Children is like scraping a fork across your fillings whilst watching a man pour salt into his eyes".
BACK IN THE DAY: I began making music in school-boy electronica combo Sobek; trying our damndest to imitate Kraftwerk in front of diehard, 13-year-old Ocean Colour Scene fans. After a few, now-legendary, appearances in scout huts across Dorset, Sobek sadly disbanded and I started work on a solo project, which eventually became Eaten By Children. I stopped using computers for a few years and started making noise with all of the debris left over from the band. This quickly developed into an unhealthy obsession with amplified electricity, harsh feedback loops and heinous sonic accidents
LIVE SHOWS: Brighton: Wrong Music, Spirit of Gravity, Totally Bored__London: The Klinker, The Gluerooms, The Bohman Brothers' Night__Leeds: The Termite Club__Sheffield: FREENOISE
I started playing live in January 2004 with Brighton's Wrong Music collective, mostly downstairs at The Volks. Fully improvised and aggressive stuff; these sets tend to end abruptly as soon as my power gets knocked out. Someone commented that he was less worried about damaging his ears than he was that the bass would rupture an internal organ. Diligence and hard work have allowed me to extend my range from horrendous noise assaults to marginally less horrendous noise assaults with some high-pitched screeching sounds thrown in.
COLLABORATIONS: In Canterbury I played in joke-band-made-good Noise Tsunami with three guitarists - a post-rock without the etiquette kind of a deal. I've also collaborated on a live remix of Sun Ra's Strange Strings with walkman-manipulator SKUT and a good old feedback knees-up with Brighton misfit and Pipettes svengali Monster Bobby.
SUPER-8 WORK: I've recently been using Super-8 projections in my live shows, sometimes with two projectors running simultaneously. The footage has been shot rather erratically in the tube system or in the local beauty spots of Hackney and Dalston. I've also been experimenting with found film and decay - I cast a long shadow over our family Christmas this year by burying a film of Princess Anne's wedding in my parent's garden.
STATE SANCTIONED RECORDINGS: After a lengthy gestation period, Eaten By Children's debut album is finally completed. "The Sword Swallower's Grave" is available from my CD-R label, State Sanctioned Recordings in a limited edition of 200. Read reviews here: The One True Dead Angel / Freenoise. Releases are also scheduled for Bill Thompson and Lessons Around Us. Please check the website (www.statesanctioned.com) for further details.
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
..Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek...
Sat 16th May @ The Soup Kitchen, Spear Street, Manchester.
The Centrifuge @ Futuresonic Festival present Richard Devine, Puzzleweasel, NeuTek vs Boombots, missaw, Guide, Gareth Clarke, Mr Underwood & His MIDI Octopus and Scrubber Fox.
We were being and knowing That two were one, and we were three In twelve sided cosmos, drifting by I wasn’t seeing I was feeling And wasn’t being, doing, two were one And when I looked to it Nothing but the corner of my eye Then we were three, and being Being and doing I hadn’t known that two were one We were that same one, and being When I know, I feel I see that two were one We were three and being Drifted through twelve sides And we were being Knowing that two were one And falling there on clouds like stars We were three and known We were one, I don’t know I was being, doing, but I knew That two were one And clouds flow down Drifting, we know, and see Doing, and knowing we were three And knowing two were one That two were one.
23rd January 12, 2009 : Centrifuge present Braincore! DJ Scotch Egg, Gareth Clarke and other Centrifuge favourites will be destroying the main room of BluePrint, Nottingham.
Rooms 2 & 3 will be manned by the Lobotomy and Strictly Come Rinsing crews, bringing together the biggest names in all out rave mania!
See you down the front!
Latest EP, Mark Swift – Melodynonstop, is available for FREE download now!
a track from the new album 'farang - akträume' is now online.
music for the nude photo exhibition 'akträume' by markus reck and accompanying performances at the e-werk freiburg in january/february 2009
to be released on january the 15th 2009
'for the akträume project, stefan follows the idea of markus reck’s photographs and interprets it in a variety of different ways musically: for his so-called ‘body percussions’, which form the rhythmical and tonal basis of stefan’s compositions, he has recorded and digitally processed the sound of hands slapping human bodies. By use of formal elements such as repetition and variation of a musical theme as well as harmonic and rhythmical symmetry, a further connection to the photographs shown in this exhibition is established.' (quoted from the akträume-website)
the akträume-cd is limited to 350 copies and features photos and artwork by markus reck. it will be available at the e-werk freiburg from january the 15th until february the 15th 2009 or can be ordered at farangnoise@yahoo.de for 10€ + mailing expenses.
OPEN MUSIC ARCHIVE Monday September 29th 2008 ICA, The Mall London, SW1Y 5AH, UK Cost:FREE Doors: 07:30pm DJ Tendraw on stage at 08:45 PM
Another chance to catch DJ Tendraw's live deconstruction of ten copies of the Declose vinyl. for more info: http://www. ica. org. uk/Open%20Music%20Archive+18154. twl
As part of the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, a series of events running up to the start of the 2012 games; DJ Tendraw and The Gypsies Dog along with the Kinetica Gallery present
BICYCLE POWERED AUDIO TAPE ATHLETICS 2008
4 pro-road bikes secured onto turbo-trainer rolling roads are wired directly to the drive system of four cassette decks, which in turn are connected to their own amplification systems. To put it simply the faster you pedal the faster the music plays. Featuring ‘Sprint’, ‘Endurance’, ‘Team’ and ‘Freestyle’ event categories, with open entry for those wishing to take part.
Competitors will not only race to finish the same ‘track’ but will create re-mixes and new compositions using a set of limited edition tapes specially prepared for this event by DJ Tendraw and The Gypsies Dog. You can even bring your own tape! This event along with a whole host of other attractions will be taking place at ‘Spitalfields Opens Up’, at Spitalfields Market (the Bishops Square entrance) this Sunday the 28th September between 11am and 6pm
Hey up, how do you like these apples? A Centrifuge Nottingham double header, first up TIM EXILE and MARK SWIFT on Wednesday 10th Sep, then ROB HALL, RANDOM NUMBER and BROKEBUST on Saturday 13th Sept.
