Second Square To None


Date and Venue Confirmed!!!

Monday, June 08, 2009 • • 1 comments

We've finally gotten our act together and sorted out our venue related teething problems.

We can confirm that the next Second Square to None will be taking place on 28th of June in the Twisted Pepper.

In keeping with the ethos we've laid out from the start its gonna remain a cheap day out with no admission charge and we're assured there'll be some decent discounts at the bar to boot!

So SPREAD THE WORD and check here in the coming days for a completed line-up.

Whoop!

Monday-1: Ed Devane - Live @ SSTN_1

Monday, June 08, 2009 • , , , • 1 comments

Download
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
This was the first liveset to be played at Second Square to None, on a freezing cold Sunday at the end of November 2008. There were no heaters in the Joy Gallery and only a handful of people in attendance (for it was 12.30pm)."

Slideshow has artwork by Redmonk that accompanies this release. Check back tomorrow for hi-res pdf of complete artwork.


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Submissions & collaborative possibilities

Sunday, June 07, 2009 • • 0 comments

Just to say again, anyone who makes music, art or any permutation of those two loose descriptions of creative output, get in touch if you think you're good enough! We are especially interested in meeting folk who make visuals / video art, people who do interesting things with lights / dynamic colour and folk willing to do cover artwork for our mini-label. If you're reading this and don't do any of those things but know someone who might, let them know.

Samples of work/links can be sent here.
Audio can be uploaded to our Drop Box on Soundcloud.

Depending on people's willingness to invest time and effort we'd like to facilitate one-off multimedia projects at our gigs, by allowing artist of different expertise to work together. For instance a music maker teams up with a video artist to create thematically linked music/visuals; instrumentalists ("real" musicians!) work with studio boffins (those of us more comfortable making/performing music with the help of a computer) and lighting artists make a surround sound synaesthetic wonderland in a dingy nightclub; web designers versed in interactive visual software work with sound designers versed in generative audio software to make audience-controlled interactive entities etc. etc. etc.

Unemployed post-grad media students and creative veterans alike we want you.

No jobs, no future, just loads of time that could be spent doing something constructive while you wait for your dole to come through and the combination of swine flu, nuclear war, starvation etc. to really throw salt in the recession wound! Woopee!

Call back here, or check the RSS feed for those of you into that sort of thing.

Cheers,
Team Second Square to None

Redmonk - exclusive Second Square Mix

Sunday, June 07, 2009 • , , • 0 comments

To celebrate the Second Square To None site redesign we have an exclusive mellow set by Redmonk.

Tonntracha mix (21:36)

Tracklist:
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
DJ Spooky - Variation Cybornetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic
Sole - Pure Trash
Meam - Untitled
Porn Sword Tobacco - Charlie Chaplin
Xela - Wet Bones
Svarte Greiner - The Black Dress
Susuma Yokota - Plateau on Plateau

New mix by Euphiophone

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 • , , • 0 comments

New mix of wonky dubstep and industrial beats, featuring the likes of Jamie Vexd, Clark, Four Tet/Burial & Various Production, available for download here.

Haven't forgotten about ye...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 • • 0 comments

Just a quick note to say that plans are afoot for Second Square To None. We are currently looking into new venues for future events, with the intention of having an event before the end of June. This will be preceeded by a relaunch of the blog, which will then be updated weekly with some of the great performances that we've recorded from previous events.

In the meantime, if anybody is up in Belfast on 29 May check out the A4 Sound event featuring Second Square To None's Ed Devane and Kachanski, aswell as other Second Square To None favourites: Ronan Dunne, Rory St John, Scurvy Lass and Jimmy the Hideous Penguin.

Second Square to None First Post!!!

Thursday, February 05, 2009 • • 1 comments

Welcome to the online home of Second Square to None, a regular ambient / electronic / downbeat / drone / experimental audio-visual event held in the various venues around Dublin, Ireland.

In conjunction with the gigs we're running a mini CD-R label. Where permission is given we record all the live sets, make 20 copies of each with cover art created by local artists, and sell them at our shows.

We'll upload the mixes and artwork for free download....so this blog will grow with time to be a snapshot of the diverse selection of music, art and visuals in Ireland at the moment...

This blog won't be solely dedicated to this task however: information about the musicians and visual artists involved with the shows and links to their sites will be up here in the next few days, and if it isn't then I'm lying but there'll be very little you'll be able to do about it.