We at Second Square to None HQ are fascinated by synchronised synaesthetic audio visuals, visual music, and music that suggests visual imagery. The live acts we have booked for 13th September have all worked extensively with either visual music or film soundtracking, so we're looking forward to seeing and hearing what they are going to play.Ebauche:
Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) currently resides in Longford and has been producing music since 2001. Musically his output ranges from dark, beat-driven electronic music, to sublime ambient cascades, to simple piano compositions.
In 2005 Ebauche released his debut album on the Alphabet Set which is available for free download at www.ebauche.net. The album, Incomplete Watch Movement, which has been played by John Kelly on RTE Radio 1's Mystery Train, is an ambient work with layers of sound beautifully interweaving and falling apart. Other releases include 2 EP's, as well as a number of tracks on compilation releases from Invisible Agent, The Alphabet Set and Elusive Recordings.
Recently he has started composing music for film, and has worked on a number of shorts including:
* Two Point Five Billion (premiered at Cork Film Festival 2008),
* The Masterpiece,
* The Boy with the Ever Open Jaw,
* Joyriders (Best Short Film at the Galway Film Fesitval 2006),
* The Dropping Well.
He started out playing live sets with Blue Murder Music in Dublin, and since then has played with notables such as Biosphere, Hrvatski and Ambulance.
Nexus:
Dublin/Berlin-based artist working mainly with electronics. Performed DJ sets and original live sets with homemade electronics alongside Sunken Foal, Creator, Herv, T-woc, Sarsparilla, Cignol, The Last Sound and has had performances at the Project Arts Centre, UCC, NUIM, Mantua Festival, Life Festival and various other venues around Ireland, Berlin and Paris.
"This being my first SSTN gig I'm happy to announce that, in addition to a live set with my homemade devices, it will also be a preview of some new material from my forthcoming release Silicon Poplars due in November on The Centrifuge. The homemade device that I usually play live with consists of a box with a webcam mounted inside which tracks the movement of various objects on a glass surface-top. The device is interesting for me with repeated performances because improvising is the only option, I always forget what the control objects do which makes each performance completely fresh and full of unintentional mistakes which I love having in my music. It was also accidentally destroyed after a gig in Dublin and has been rebuilt, making it the "Mark II"."
Shane McKenna:
Shane Mc Kenna is a music teacher and music maker based in Dublin who has been dabbling in animated graphic notation over the last few years, in a quest to create musical collaborations for all. His work has ranged from live performances to workshops and installations, working with a wide range of performers and musicians from electronic artists and random punters in the Bernard Shaw to the ICC ensemble and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.
Keith Lindsay:
Keith Lindsay is a sound recordist / designer / soundtracker by day and producer of a range of styles from jungle to ambient by night. He'll be presenting an improvised laptop set based upon recorded and designed sounds used in various film sound projects he has worked on over the last year.
In the front bar we'll have the following DJ's:
Noid the Droid, playing a selection of electronic cuts and weirdness from his vast collection of weird electronic music!
Fyodor, playing abstract / esoteric musics from the fringes of the outer rim, with an interesting approach to turntable use.
Steve Cross, playing a selection of ambient / electronica from the heyday, with the possibility of some electro flavours creeping in here and there...
The gig is free in, and on during a more compact time frame, 4-9pm, as we realise that most people enjoy not being awake / doing anything too early on Sunday...
Good.