Euphiophone has made a new mix up for free download here.
Euphiophone has made a new mix up for free download here.
Redmonk sent us this yesterday, a picture made especially to complement his Tonntracha mix posted here a couple of weeks ago. He used a piece of square cardboard that was originally packaging for vinyl sent in the post as his canvas, and ink, markers and teabags (both metaphorically, literally, and laterally)(actually just how the teabags were used this writer does not know, but to good effect).
Monday-2: Dubreak Live @ SSTN_1
Monday, June 15, 2009
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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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Sunday 28th June @ Twisted Pepper: music line-up
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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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!
Thought we'd point out an interesting web app that we came across on our internet wanderings.Audiotool is a stylishly executed electronic music creation suite with a comprehensive virtual gear list including groove boxes, effects pedals, mixers & synths for jamming out tunes. There are lots of options for wiring your signal chains and you can record out to harddisk when you're finished. What makes it pretty amazing is the fact that it runs on Flash within your web browser, for free.
Anti VJ is a visual label that does visuals experiments, installations, architecture design & live visuals. They seek to 'step away from the usual projections screens and formats, explore projections in 3D spaces and study visual perception'. Below are three examples but check out their blog, their stuff is amazing.
AntiVJ - Nuit Blanche Bruxelles - The content is a mix of 2D / 3D visuals, with mapping and architecture related projections. The second half of the video is especially unbelievable.
AntiVJ - Live Painting: Shackleton from AntiVJ on Vimeo.
Electric Moons is a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound
The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.
The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance."
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.
Kubik is an open air club in Barcelona. Illuminated water tanks are stacked to create the structure, creating a synaesthetic relationship between light/architectural structure and the (dubious) tunes to create what must be a fairly mind blowing club experience.