Some great shots from Helen that capture a little of the Harry Pussy/Charles Bronson inflected madness that ensured when we played last Saturday.
Author Archives: davidmbirchall
New Disconcert Posters
Been working up at Hotbed Press in Salford today on a new Disconcert Poster design. Amazing considering I used to work with the Risograph machine daily it was real slow going with lots of help and consultation from the various excellent people around at Hotbed; I’m pretty pleased with the colour and way designs sitContinue reading “New Disconcert Posters”
Light Theremin
I was working the start of the week trying to find my way around the first few basic Arduino projects… been really fun! Finally got to a point where I’d built up enough knowledge to have a go at this light theremin, great because this kind of interaction with sources in the world and soundContinue reading “Light Theremin”
Rubber Objects
First items from a new way I’m developing of documenting some of the objects I use to play guitar and as preparations. Comb 78 Fragment 1 78 Fragment 2 CD
More drones
I’ve been working today again on developing my self playing drone machines. Had an interesting afternoon of research starting out trying to work with some completely different materials to usual. I’ve usually defaulted to using guitar strings playing against the edges of my two turntables. This creates a workable amount of friction to generate aContinue reading “More drones”
Acoustic Drone Machine
Carrying on exploring the research I’ve done the last couple of years into self playing turntable agitating friction string drone machines! This one was totally acoustic thanks to the piano frame. Sounds below. Planning to develop this into an installation at some point https://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/acoustic-friction-drone-1
Any Day Now Project
Was working on a really fun project in Bury during end of August; made some really fun work with a group of young people. We were working on listening skills, field recording in the Burrs Country Park, exploring/jamming with instruments and objects and finally mixing together all the stuff that had been recorded. See andContinue reading “Any Day Now Project”
Stringless Guitars
Something I developed so I could do the on top of pick up work on tour recently without having to cart an instrument round with me (though admittedly I did also pack a travel guitar) Really fun and compact. Can finally tour with a holdall! The single coil version was first one i developed forContinue reading “Stringless Guitars”
David Birchall 