New youtube EP showing a first exploration of straight to guitar pickup to metal sounds. Recorded straight into the recorder on headphones; using an extremity of volume and zero overdrive (an unusual feature for me!) to make the small interesting elements audible. This is part of a longer piece of research looking at ways toContinue reading “Playing a pickup…”
Author Archives: davidmbirchall
Plastic Knuckle
New release from one of my favourite quartets to work with. These are takes from an epic session in Stockport last winter with Sam Weaver at the helm.
Sound Holes Release
I still have some copies here of the tape released by Sound Holes of myself, Javier Saso and Nicolas Dobson. Its material drawn from a session at Brazil Studios recorded just outside Madrid on the day before a gig there together in February of this year. Only £3 email to davidmbirchallatgmail.com for a post quote.
4th Floor Recording
Pleased to announce that DRK MATTA have released a digital recording of the new set up I’ve been working with recently; pickups, light sources, motorised fans and objects. Its a binaural recording made by Jason Singh on the top floor of the Hotspur Press building in Manchester.
Flick Flack
A series of improvisations exploring the objects I use as preparations with the guitar and pickups. I was interested to see if there was a way to see the spatial relations between these things giving rise to things that could be developed further as score based systems. Watching back it became clear that in fact thereContinue reading “Flick Flack”
Q02
Very excited to be getting ready to travel to Brussels to do a residency at Q02 with my Noise Orchestra colleague Vicky Clarke! We’re going to be testing out circuits we made earlier in the year on the Arts + Tech programme and working on new assemblages and making some recordings.
50 Steps Halifax performance
Audience eyeview film of the final performance we did for 50 Steps in April this year. “Final performance of a cross-artform dance project celebrating the Pennine Way in its 50th anniversary year. With Stacey Johnstone, Ruth Jones, Natalie Speake (performers), David Birchall (musician) and Simon Warner (videographer) Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax. AprilContinue reading “50 Steps Halifax performance”
MUD WINO
Lucky to have become involved with quite a few new musical combinations and groups this year. Here is a one I’m really excited about. https://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/full-horror-of-mud-wino-revealed
Wire article on Manchester improvisors
Article from the May issue of Wire magazine
Q02 residency August
Really looking forward to mine and Vicky Clarke’s residency at Q02 in Brussels in August. We’ll be developing some ideas with light and circuitry for the next ways to present our noise machines.
David Birchall 