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The Gluts are today concluding a passionate residency at Camden Arts Centre, (part of the Spiral series), where they have been making videos of seven of their eco-electric hits.
3pm performance in the garden,
See Café Carbon for details.
We, The Gluts today begin a ten day residency at Camden Arts Centre to make viral videos of the eco-electric songs we wrote for Café Carbon.
I’m returning to Galloway Forest Park to begin Week Two field research for Am Bothan_The Bothy project with Mandy McIntosh. Tonight we have a meeting with Duncan Lunan, the Scottish astronomer who built the Stone Circle at Sighthill, just out of Glasgow City centre. Tomorrow we go back to the forest for the week. Fabulous. Things move on._the Bothy
So I’ve played in Northampton, Boston and Baltimore over the last three nights. It’s been fabulous. The Flywheel show, small and listening, The Boston show steaming and driving, – Derek produced a 24 channel desk so I could multi-layer a shifting mix making such a rich and dynamic pallet that we flew- there’s still nothing like a knob. Baltimore was a beautiful young and semi-naked crowd (Whartscape Festival) who got so excited they even stopped me in the supermarket and here at the airport to say nice things. Other things discovered was that the Red Room is no longer Red, see above.
I’m leaving New York for a few shows in Northampton MA, Boston and Baltimore. It’s the first time I’ve done this since 2001. In fact the show I go to play now is organized by Dave Gross who I met at the High Zero Festival, Baltimore 2001 where I played a Symphony for dry ice and we all arrived intense and crazed having come through some kind of 9/11 experience. I am so excited to be going off alone to play small places in stereo with LiSa, some contact mics, a biscuit tin and a bunch of tuning forks. My return to this playing place, reminiscent of 1998, is curious and fantastic. DETAILS .
I’m fine tuning Sonic Bed_Marfa for a workshop with eight local composers this afternoon. Yes, the Bed is upstairs overlooking the performance space at ISSUE and has been here since June 2009 playing “yellow”. I’m staying till 20th to enable others to make pieces for it who can then enable others so adding to the library of Worldwide Bed works, shortly to go online. Fantastic. The Bed project can finally move on here with a team of NYC Bed guardians. See music for bodies for details and up to date progress.
New York is steamingly hot. My play with “Where are the wild ones?” has found me reshaping sounds and redrawing their motion for the space. I’m using my live version of the Max based Bed instrument plus LiSa as am reprocessing certain strands as they appear. The twelve channel system sounds much better than in 2008, probably due to addition of a pair of fatter subs. Good decision to play this piece. It’s cool, rushing Northumbrian water is heavenly.
I’m at ISSUE Project Room, New York to perform on Thursday and run a Sonic Bed workshop Sunday through to Tuesday. I arrived last night so am pretty off my head re-working Where are the wild ones for this space all day. Right now, John Butcher is here working out his ideas with Stephan Moore, the curator and energy behind this Floating Point festival. I met Stephan when playing with Merce in 2006. John is sounding fabulous. It’s the first time I’ve been here since Suzanne died and it’s good.
Its hotter than yesterday and I’m still here to play this afternoon with Phil Durrant. We’re both past violinists, have known each other for years and have never made an electronics duo together before. We’re playing outside in the grassy courtyard of a small wooden house. I’m playing with extremely processed sounds and utterly matter of fact sounds drawn through the amplified biscuit tin. I love its directness. I love this playing again. We set up around the edge so the audience have to sit in 80 degrees in the middle. We wear funny sunnies to survive and enjoy it. Evan and Chris Corsano seem to too .
Later that night, those 2 make a truly fabulous trio with Nate Wooley, who is written about as being born a formed musician. Hearing them play I believe it. Its a long time since I’ve felt this.
I am at Kongsberg Jazz Festival to play with Mimeo. Christian and Peter can’t make it so Oren Ambarchi and Peter Behrendsen are stepping in. It’s as hot and sunny as London but the red brick venue we play in is dark and cool. We had an intention to play as a Scratch Orchestra, but online discussion meandered a little and we have agreed to play an interpretation of the 9 minute Christian Wolff piece “Edges” somewhere within a 50 minute set instead. It’s the first Wolff piece I’ve played since meeting him at Headlands, California, November 2008.
We play a little politely. Some moments but not with the same complete focus as in Wigry in November last year. We’ve decided to make a double vinyl release of that concert. Hopefully by September this year. I’ll let you know when.