The Fall,
Son House,
Bo Diddley,
Christian Marclay,
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Prodigy by Herman Hesse, Jean Tinguely, Werner Herzog ,analogue technology, manuals, diagrams, lists, numbers,words, pop art, found objects, instruments, repetition...
Sounds Like
CD releases:
^Metamorphosis (2009)
^Key (2009. 3xCDr box)
^Broken Cymbal Music (2009)
^Live at Womb 25/10/08 (2009)
^Nervous System (2008)
^ CD 1 (2008)
All tracks are improvised and recorded live.
Some scores, instructions and notes:
Contact mics, drumhead, tin tray, screwdriver, plastic bags, sandpaper, hacksaw, cassette tape being unravelled
Pulling appart a wrecked old piano and hitting the strings with the bits of wood, keys etc. Throwing screws and pencils at the strings. MP3 recorder resting on the keyboard.
80s Casio, Loopstation, Jackplugs
Fork wobbling around between guitar strings
Bits of wood, paper, metal, tools
Square wave generator
Snaredrum outside in a hailstorm
Woodblock hitting the floor in a corridor
Cymbal rolling down steps
Book ripped along the spine
Found objects
Sound drawing made while playing with Infinite Birth.
Gary Fisher
Is a Salford based sound and visual artist working within a continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focussed around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words and images. This process includes collecting, archiving, drawing, construction, photography, text, sound recording and generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores. Sometimes the line between research and outcome is not clear and often they are the same. Themes often explored are; found objects, repetition, multiples, ritual, expermentation and documentation. In 2009 the project "found in a skip" was begun with the intention to promote and self-release CDrs and tapes as a recording label.
found in a skip
^ "Twelve Bars" A site specific live performance using contact mics, objects and guitar strings on metal railings at Sandbar, Manchester. Devised and performed for Startrunning, an artist-led event of experimental art and music. Startrunning.net
^Live at Womb, The Britons Protection, Manchester, 25/10/08. Performance with electric guitar, objects, loopstation, contact mics, drumhead, metal tray, German tape and tape recorder. Womb is an event of experimental music from around the UK and a label. myspace.com/wombrecordings
^Untitled (Amplified paper) Interactive sound drawing installation at Openended, Bristol, August 2008. Sheet of paper with contact mic, amplifier, headphones and drawing materials.
^Music book
^Salford Visual Arts 2008. Open studio / interactive exhibition.
^Roominations 2007, Salford Uni. "Amp in Locker" Small amplifier and chorus pedal with jackplug from input stuck to the magnet. Inside a metal locker feeding back for 4 days.
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Hi Gary, hope you'll be bringing some stuff down to a jam night soon! The next one's Thursday 12th November. In the meantime, you should buy tickets for this... ;-)
Excellent free-improv trio Ingrid Laubrock (sax) Tom Rainey (drums) Liam Noble (piano)
feat. Rodrigo Constanzo/Scott Hewitt and "An Anton Hunter Quartet"
DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO Travessia dos Respigadores freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
DIATRIBES on tour: 01.10.2009, with dave kane (doublebass),..., Leeds, UK (TBC) 04.10.2009, with London Improvisor Orchestra, café otto, London, UK (TBC) 05.10.2009, with Hannah Marshall (cello) & Kay Grant (voice), st-leonard church, Shoreditch, London, UK 09.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) & Christian Weber (doublebass),festival Musiques Obscures II, Spoutnik, Genève, CH 20.10.2009, with Emmanuel Scarpa (drums) & Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (sax), Grand-Guignol, Lyon, F 21.10.2009, with Daniel Monforte (doublebass) & Cutter_off (electronic), La Cave, Bourges, F 22.10.2009, with Daniel Monforte (doublebass), The Black Hawk, Tours, F 23.10.2009, with Jean Bordé (doublebass) + DR(DR)ONE, Café de Paris, Paris, F 25.10.2009, with suboku (trio), Molodoï, Strasbourg, F) 26.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) , Tybolin, Bienne, CH 27.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) , FIM, Basel, CH 30.10.2009, with jonas imhof (drums), sonarraum 64, Bern, CH
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
mike forbes/andrew scott young/weasel walter "free american" LP out now on ugEXPLODE Records http://www.ugEXPLODE.com only $10 pp in the US blistering post brotzmann/graves/takayanagi/ayler
free jazz to melt your face off. see the website for
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark,
mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists
such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the
music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The
music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in
our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard."
- Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on
modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody
Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in
neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider
has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's
top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon
Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual
music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise,
producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
^Music book
^Salford Visual Arts 2008. Open studio / interactive exhibition.
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