Author Archives: davidmbirchall

Massive Monochord zine and Cdr

Copies are still available of the zine and Cdr documenting the work me and Sam Andreae did at our Penthouse Residency in September – November of this year. There’s photos of the work in progress, an essay, bibliography and over an hour of sound sketches and experiments as well as a  composition that was playedContinue reading “Massive Monochord zine and Cdr”

Gigs in Basel and Zurich

Excited to be playing two gigs in Switzerland next week along with Sam Andreae and Andrew Cheetham. We should also have a new tape out soon on Tombed Visions http://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/ Tuesday 30th September ABC Trio + Dialectica @ Unternehmen mitte, Safe,  Gerbergasse 30, Basel http://www.fimbasel.ch/ Friday 3rd October ABC Trio @ WIM, Magnussstrasse 5, ZurichContinue reading “Gigs in Basel and Zurich”

Penthouse Residency

I started work on an artists residency at the Penthouse in Manchester last week with my colleague Sam Andreae. We’ve been having an interesting time so far learning how to make the circuits for battery powered amps, step up output transformers to drive contact mics and experimenting with various materials as speakers and very longContinue reading “Penthouse Residency”

DB RS

A potent review of the duo tape I did with Rogier Smal earlier in the year from Mr Joe Murray. Still some copies of this one available. “An eye-watering tape cover, all pink vibrations and Mexican skulls houses this crispy duck. Warble-guitar rubberises snazzy drums all over side one with the clitter-clatter meshing like oilbeads. Continue reading “DB RS”