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It's Monday morning, I am in work tired & slightly hungover with 'What is love?' (yes, the cheesey dance tune) playing on loop in my head. Had a great time at SSTN_4 yesterday. Will do up a more detailed post about the event in the next few days but for now we'll just say thanks a million to all all the acts, ye were incredible, and thanks to everyone who came along on the day.

Anyway, to relieve this Post-SSTN Monday morning malaise we bring the latest installment in the Second Square To None Monday liveset series

This week we have a liveset by Euphiophone from the second Second Square To None that took place on 8 February in the Joy Gallery. This set features lots of fuzzed-out percussion, live bass guitar, subtle harmonies, industrial textures & delicate instrumentation. Chris Flynn & Melissa Conlon collaborated on the artwork, shown below.

Euphiophone
Euphiophone is an electronica artist based in Dublin. He played in a couple of bands in his native Monaghan that set the standards for late-ninties-rock-cover-bands-based-in-Monaghan before becoming a bedroom producer and, consequently, a musical recluse. His music traverses a broad spectrum of influences, with anything from techno to folk to contemporary classical to post-rock to electronica etc etc being featured. He likes trying to reconcile diametrically opposed musical forms within his tunes. He has done a select couple of gigs about town, supporting Black Dog and playing at various Stasis and Second Square To None events. He also does live visuals but thinks that they are often more trouble then they're worth. He enjoys his 9-5 doing design work, and collaborated with Melissa Conlon for the sleeve design of his Second Square To None liveset.

Melissa Conlon
Melissa is a graphic designer based in Dublin. When she's not peddling religious goods she likes design, photography, music and sleeping. She designed the recent SSTN_4 flyer and is currently working on graphics for Magnetize's liveset, to be released in the coming weeks.


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Flyer design by Melissa.

Confirmed to do live art on the Sunday are Barry Quinn and Joey Walker.

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This Monday's liveset features warm electronica courtesy of Cignol, live from the Joy Gallery, November 2008. Reminescent of Boards of Canada and Arovane this set contains lots of lush synthery, loping rhythms and acoustic instrument manipulations. Laura de Burca provides the artwork, shown below.

Cignol
makes warm electronic music on his laptop
likes: melodic electronics, fizzy sweets, blue drinks
dislikes: beard circles, waiting for the bus, running out of disk space
interesting fact: cignol is a government mole (dont tell anyone)

Laura de Burca


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Wrap this mix around you like a blanket and go back to bed, there's no school today.

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The inaugural Second Square to None event was held in the Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place, Dublin 1, on a freezing cold Sunday at the end of November 2008. Despite the frosty conditions it was an all round quality line up of music and visuals. In the second of our Monday downloads we present Dubreak's set, with photography by Aoife de Burca. Biogs and links below.

Dubreak (on myspace):
First influenced by music at an early age, Dara and his older brother used to fabricate their own type of home-made radio shows when they were wee nippers, splicing and resampling snippets off LW radio shows and talking over the recordings. Dara moved on to using two junk-shop HI-FI decks when he was 13, in his bedroom using doubles of records and some piss-poor scratching techniques trying his hand at being a 'superstar' DJ. He soon got sick of that, unlike some people, and has been making his own brand of music since.... He first programmed sequences on an Amstrad CPC464 with a funky 80's 'lightpen', then a Yamaha CX5M music computer (that plugged into the tiny black and white telly in his even smaller rented smelly bedsit), next with ReBirth, then Reason, Cubase, Ableton Live.... Currently he uses a Moog Voyager, ProTools and a rampant collection of other music stuff. Occasionally he gets to gig at a few festivals around ireland, and work at a few 'live-sound' venues around Dublin as a 'Live Sound' Engineer. Best music moment: Either the time he and Diarmo played live (as MonoSum) to a nice sized crowd at Mantua Festival '06, or the time he had a lock-in in AnSeo Dublin with Dr Alex Paterson, drinking brandy and smoking a few fine Jamaican 'cigars'. Dara is currently in his second year of 'Sound Engineering' at Pulse Recording Studios in Dublin. Viva la tunes....

Aoife de Burca:
Aoife is not fond of writing biographies about herself so until she does all you'll have to go on is her work!


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We are pleased to announce that on Sunday 28th June starting from 2pm in Twisted Pepper the following...

In the back room on the ground floor and playing live:

Sunken Foal


Bluefood



Gland & Conduit



Ventolyn & Becotyde


Jimmy the Hideous Penguin

Jimmy is another Galway guest who we're glad to have back at Second Square to None. He's a turntablist who mixes up the idea of DJ'ing and live performance in an entertaining fashion. In Galway Jimmy organises the annual Community Skratch Games and has a similar ethos to Second Square to None regarding how gigs should be run. He'll be playing between and after the live acts in the back room.

And then we have the DJ's, some of whom you may remember destroying dancefloors (in the best possible way!) over the years at !kaboogie gigs and Mantua etc:

thatboytim


redmonk


Prozac


Mully

Mully is a veteran of the Irish drum 'n' bass / jungle scene and a collector of musics old and new. He'll be playing a selection of sounds from his archives from Krautrock to Warp style electronics and older Enotype ambience.

Gonna be gooooooood! And all for free! All we ask is that you come, the earlier the better, or you'll miss it all!

AntiVJ - Live Painting: Shackleton from AntiVJ on Vimeo.



Electric Moons is a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound









Cubatron display at Burning Man 2007 - Pretty lights

For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level. The second level is a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time.

The blending of both levels gives the impression of physical geometry suitable of being transformed. The orverlapping produces a three-dimensional space augmented by a transformable layer suitable to be controlled, resulting in the capacity through the installation of altering multiple dimensions of space-time.

These ideas come to life in an abstract and geometric envelope, enhanced with synesthetic audio elements and establishing a dialogue with the observer." It looks real nice too.

Get hi-res pdf of Redmonk's artwork for Ed Devane Live at the Joy Gallery here.

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Right here is the first of the exclusive Second Square To None Monday downloads.

"Journey through Sprung Land while sipping hot whiskey and wrapped in warm yellow blankets. Occasionally noise blurs and blizzards obstruct your view; sonic squirrels throw rocks but miss. Wooded valleys loom as dusk approaches, and then!

..it's over.

Ingredients:

• #1 toy megaphone
• #1 home-made baritone zither with multiple pick-ups
• #1 Mac laptop running Ableton Live
• #1 dictaphone with a tape I made about 10 years ago - prank phone calls etc.
• #1 distortion effect
• #1 autopan effect
• #1 pitch shifter effect
• #1 loop sampler
• #1 8 channel mixer
• #1 Ed Devane

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