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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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SSTN_4: Flyer

Friday, June 26, 2009 0 comments



Flyer design by Melissa.

Art for Sunday

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 , 1 comments

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

Barry Quinn is a self-taught artist who paints, draws, sketches, scratches people (almost people) on canvas, paper, wood (example on the right). He has illustrated album/E.P./single covers for bands and has exhibited around the country. He will be creating a large-scale painting on the day.

Joey Walker is an artist from Dallas now based in Dublin who leads graffiti workshops in the city. He will be doing some graffiti pieces on the day.
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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
Laura lives and works in Dublin and is saving to buy an island. For Cignol's Second Square CD Laura laid the 20 cardboard sleeves out in a 4x5 matrix and used a combination of spray paints, acrylics, stencils and photos glued to the surface.


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Visuals for SSTN_4

Monday, June 22, 2009 , , 0 comments

Huzzah, confirmed to do visuals on Sunday are:
Eoghan Kidney
Euphioprojector
Kachanski & iheartbellies
Michael Higgins & Fergal Cunningham

Below are two preliminary screen-grabs of some stuff Euphioprojector has in the works for next Sunday's gig.



Euphiophone has made a new mix up for free download here.

This is a mellow mix, the likes of which one might play on a hungover Sunday afternoon or late at night. It features songs interspersed with instrumentals (lots of mallet and melodic percussion stuff). There is acoustic material from the likes of Nick Drake and Elliott Smith, minimalism from Steve Reich and Philip Glass, bands such as Sonic Youth and Xiu Xiu, and instrumental stuff by everyone from Clark and Machinefabriek to Moondog and Max Roach.

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

Tonntracha artwork by redmonk

Thursday, June 18, 2009 , 2 comments



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).