Is going to be a really busy one, two really exciting performances and a bookfair! Exhibiting zines/records/cds and my new zine of birdsong drawings on Friday 12th & Saturday 13th at Manchester Artists Bookfair. Then making music for the performance/installation ‘The Dreaming’ with Bekke Platt and Aliyah Hussain on the Saturday @ 2pm as partContinue reading “next weekend”
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Birchall/Cheetham duo 24th September
from mr shuffleboil
Hunters Moon Festival
Playing at this excellent looking festival over in Ireland in a couple of weeks with Andrew. New stuff being added to the bill all the time. http://huntersmoonfestival.com/
Cymatic experiments
Been working today on making some films showing some of the methods I’ve used recently to make sound visible; technically speaking I’ve discovered this is cymatics. I became interested in it a few years ago when I inherited a broken marshall 1x 12 combo the speaker of which worked but the amp part was broken,Continue reading “Cymatic experiments”
24th September 2012
Another great set of shots by Andy Newcombe from the Ken Vandermark gig on Monday at Kraak. Was as an excellent night all around thanks to the Buried Bones and Noise Upstairs folks for putting it together.
Birchall/Cheetham Duo @ Night & Day
Some classic captures from gig last Thursday by Andy Newcombe many thanks to him for his excellent skills. Me and Andrew opened the evening followed by a set from Motion Detectors (this time was Nick Mitchell, Pascal Nichols and Helmut Lemke) and finally some amazing times from Alan Silva and Roger Turner. You can findContinue reading “Birchall/Cheetham Duo @ Night & Day”
Vital Weekly Review of Acoustic Textures
“On his solo CD Birchall plays acoustic guitar with objects on the strings. The objects are also shown, as drawings, in the enclosed booklet. All of this was recorded straight to tape, although I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a variety of microphones have been used here. Sometimes it sounds close by and sometimesContinue reading “Vital Weekly Review of Acoustic Textures”
Spitting Feathers review from Foxy Digitalis
nice review here of recent cdr with Phil Marks and Olie Brice on Foxy Digitalis from Mike Pursley “On “Spitting Feathers” the talented trio of David Birchall (guitar), Olie Brice (double bass), and Phillip Marks (percussion) produce a clattersome tonal plinking evoking teeming machines con- and de-structing a stone and iron metropolis. These players bearContinue reading “Spitting Feathers review from Foxy Digitalis”
Open Eye 4 July 12
Thanks to Andy Newcombe for these great pics of Open Eye group from St. Margarets gig mid July.
Relay 1 Jack Allett/Kalbakken 7″
A package of these just arrived in the post this morning! Looks and sounds awesome. Track from Jack called ‘Lost’ on A side with a Kalbakken work out of a tune ‘Ulversdalen’ which we were playing around with alot on the last tour we did on the flip side; from Jack’s sleeve notes: “scary, joyous,Continue reading “Relay 1 Jack Allett/Kalbakken 7″”
David Birchall 