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);
and lately introducing young footsoldier Neil O'Connor AKA Somadrone (percussion, backing vocals). Cadet John Lambert AKA Chequerboard also steps in occasionally on guitar duties.
Past alumni of the SchroederArkestra have included:
Battery Sgt Bryan O'Connell (drums, percussion, backing vocals, retired 2008)
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; 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; Yasujiro Ozu; Brian Eno; HP; Delia Derbyshire; Niall Browne; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; James Jewel Osterberg; Allen Konigsberg; Robert Zimmerman; David Cornwell; Paul McCartney; Asterix; Kevin O Brew; Laphroaig; W G Sebald; Thom Yorke; Tom Baker; John E McMahon; e e cummings; Richard Starkey; Ingrid Bergman; Kevin Shields; Michel Houllebecq; Tom Jennings; Peter Sellers; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Andrew Osborn; Charles M Schultz; George Harrison; 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; Valpolicella; 'the opposition'
Sounds Like
Buy 'Coping Mechanisms' on iTunes
'Duck!'
footage shot by Deirdre Lynch
'Eyes Wide'
video by PM
"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
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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...
You can buy 'COPING MECHANISMS' from Boomkat http://www. boomkat. com/item. cfm?id=52651 or eMusic http://www. emusic. com/album/Si-Schroeder-Coping-Mechanisms-MP3-Download/11064633. html or from iTunes by following the link across the way under 'sounds like'...
you there.. eh?! did it...!! taken the L from my name too, so call me 'gai' or just 'g' as ya do..yep am losing it, due to a lask of, or even lack of sleep substituted by nerves and images of hump back bridges and broken parallel lines, inland empire style..oh so lost there, but heading up the hills..will get lost there happily x
p.s discovering the joys of bbc radiophonic workshop, supposed to be a x-mas gift from me to u...its april, not too late to offer it i guess & with recommendation by buyer..am thinking of heading over to ether 09? throwing a thought in there just.. for eno & mars..
yeah, I may have been annoying you with the camera. Tried to be discreet but sure ya know yourself! Great show too, headline weren't my cup of tea at all, but your stuff was enjoyable as always.
