occasionally just me singing, playing guitar and kicking a sampler into life - but mostly also featuring some of the following:
Radio Operator Kevin Brew (samples, synth, backing vocals);
Air Commodore Fiachra Lennon (bass; percussion 2007-);
Armoured Car Division Head Brian Mooney (guitar, backing vocals);
Battery Sergeant Bryan O'Connell (drums, percussion, backing vocals);
and lately introducing young footsoldier Neil O'Connor AKA Somadrone (percussion, backing vocals). Trainee John Lambert AKA Chequerboard also steps in occasionally on guitar duties.
Past alumni of the SchroederArkestra have included:
Master Ciaran Eaton (bass, retired 2006)
Dr Jimmy Eadie (bass, retired 2006)
Sir Joss Moorkens (drums, 2005)
Influences
Seamus Ennis; Bruce Nauman; Paul Simon; Audrey Hepburn; Dimitri Shostakovich; Stanley Kubrick; Lee Ranaldo; Thomas Mann; Pablo Casals; Patrick Troughton; Brian Mooney; Karl Popper; Laurie Anderson; Yevgeny Yerofeev; Ciaran Eaton; Mark Rothko; Henryk Gorecki; Andrew Warhola; Bjork Gudmunsdottir; James Coleman; Krysztof Penderecki; Aifric ní Bhraonáin; Vladimir Nabokov; Beniamino Gigli; Kate Middleton; John Cale; Joseph Beuys; Alexander Brailowsky; Saul Bellow; John Lennon; Meister Eckhart; Bryan O'Connell; George Gershwin; Victor Pelevin; John Lambert; Marisa Berenson; Richard D James; Andre Kertesz; Steve Albini; Stan Douglas; Lafcadio Hearn; Neil O'Connor; Peter Ustinov; Fiachra Lennon; Walter Gropius; David Bowie; Matthew Barney; Darragh O'Grady; Hal Ashby; John Burton; Erich Fromm; Thurston Moore; Samuel Beckett; Daragh Dukes; The Artist Formerly Known as Gary Phelan; Enrico Caruso; Jacques Lacan; Morgan Hart; Emile Nolde; Paul Hewson; Junichiro Tanizaki; James Eadie; Lauren Bacall; Peter Buck; Anna Politkovskaya; Johann Sebastian Bach; Immanuel Kant; Matt Elliott; Yaujiro Ozu; Brian Eno; HP; Delia Derbyshire; Niall Browne; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; James Jewel Osterberg; Allen Konigsberg; Robert Zimmerman; David Cornwell; Asterix; Kevin O Brew; Laphroaig; W G Sebald; Thom Yorke; Tom Baker; John E McMahon; e e cummings; Ingrid Bergman; Kevin Shields; Michel Houllebecq; Tom Jennings; Peter Sellers; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Andrew Osborn; Charles M Schultz; John Cale; Slavoj Zizek; Jan St Werner; Sean Booth; Wassily Kandinsky; Leo Fender; Wim Wenders; Erik Satie; Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy; Dave Liebman; Gerhard Richter; Dave LaRousse; George Orwell; Cecile Schott; Lucy Van Pelt; Ciaran Eaton; Albert Camus; Alvin Curran; Hannah Arendt; Akira Kurosawa; David Byrne; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Gyorgy Ligeti; Egon Schiele; Mark Hayes; Aldous Huxley; Hoagy Carmichael; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Nigel Godrich; Richard Nixon; Gustav Mahler; Joseph Roth; Piet Mondrian; Edwin Fischer; John E McMahon; Lindsay Anderson; Lou Reed; Jackson Pollock; Ira Gershwin; J Sheridan Le Fanu; Dave Evans; Greta Garbo; TS Eliot; Steve Reich; Gerrit Rietveld; Rob Brown; Trond Arne Vangen; Alvin Lucier; The Man on the Clapham Omnibus; Michael Stipe; Bob; Joni Mitchell; Gitta Sereny; Dan Deacon; Ravenswood; 'the opposition'
Sounds Like
"A Little More"
video by some derd niffer
"Eyes Wide"
live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2008
"The Reluctant Aviator"
live at EUROSONIC@Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland, January 2008
’Eyes Wide’
live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007
’Duck!’
live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007
’A Little More’
live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2007
’Lido’
live at vibrator@Globe, Dublin, February 2005
Si Schroeder is a six-foot hairy male who makes 'music'. This 'music' has generally sounded like the combined contents of his record collection (mostly classic sixties pop, scratchy old ethnic recordings and the odd bleep or two), on top of which he layers ruminative, whispered vocals about the tough times we all live in and go through. His adventures have lately brought him into the arms of Dublin tastemakers Foggy Notions (***** Best Album of 2006 for his debut COPING MECHANISMS); nomination for the 2nd Choice Music Awards (the Irish Mercurys); and National radio and TV appearances. An argumentative sophomore album is currently in the works. His current live shows attempt to find a bridge between live electronics, guitars, drums, percussion, and the combined singing of men, women, children and machines. In various guises Si Schroeder has blown the PA systems of Dublin, London's influential Kosmische club, PopKomm Berlin, EUROSONIC in Groningen, Oslo, New York's IntelFest, and Chicago. Expect toy pianos and toy planes, bleeps and beats (and bleats...) bells and chimes, drones and choirs...
Hey Si, hope you are well. 'Coping Mechanisms' is great, any new stuff in the pipeline?
We have a new song up, "Dogs" - a chilling tale of canine revenge. Unusually for a My Pilot song it is quite uptempo and even features a discernible tune. Check it out if you have a spare 3 mnutes 40 seconds.
Hey there, Excellent gig last night - loved it. Quite the Spirtualized/Polyphonic Spree atmosphere by the end - but still highly orginal. I'm a new big fan!
Not about you but the 'Power of Sam'...check this out following Sam's talk in UCD the other eve 'Hilary is a Monster' and the narrator is a robot, thats me off the record :) is a shame re sam!
Hi Si, I did your 'David Lynch' lighting at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen. I love the CD.. thanks again (o: I was also wondering if your guitar was found and if it made it safely back home? Best wishes Alicia (O yeah... one of you also left a grey vest-like sweater behind in the dressingroom...should it be sent?)
Many thanks Si S for adding me. Looking forward to catch you on live again, also I really envy you for your wide guitar-collection eheh... Have a great 2008 Si Shroeder and take care! MxW
I caught the gig in Whelans with Chequerbaord and Somadrome recently. Deadly gig and deadly music. It's a shame, I won't be able to make New Years Eve, I'll look out for the next gig. ais
Ah Jaysus. I didn't know you wre playing last night, with new songs and all! And Chequerboard and Somadrone to boot. Bah Humbug. These Redneck fellows better cheer me up.
Just dropping a line to thank you for joining us at The Digital Hub last night for 'A Small Hours Picture Show' - as ever your were amazing and really made the night! Thanks Si,
Looking forward to seeing you in Whelans on December 18th. Should be good!
Given that current technological difficulties dictate that we can record no new music, a “new” old song has been posted. Just a demo really but if you like seven minute long, funereal slowcore dirges then you may just dig it. It’s called ‘This Desert Life’.
