Author Archives: davidmbirchall

birdsong & guitar

http://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/for-birdsong-guitar Been working away trying to get more birdsong out of the guitar in recent months. Inspired through mainly listening to what goes on in the gardens behind and around our flat, listening and playing along, listening and drawing. Also Gary Smiths work is really interesting here and definitely worth checking out here. There wasContinue reading “birdsong & guitar”

Instrument Building Workshop

Instrument Building In June & July of 2011 I worked with a group of adult learners who attend a weekly group called Art to Life. We built a series of string, percussion and wind instruments from found and reclaimed materials according to several basic designs I had made prototypes for. We then had several musicContinue reading “Instrument Building Workshop”

Spitting Feathers

We got a CDr release together for the tour with thee Birchall/Brice/Marks Trio. Its called “Spitting Feathers” and has 7 tracks on just under an hour long. We recorded it to tape last year with Karl in The Milkroom at Hotspur Press. You can hear the first two tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/reel1-track-1 http://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/reel1-track-2 Thanks to theContinue reading “Spitting Feathers”

Bishop’s Castle feedback

Played a really fun gig on the recent tour with Phil and Olie in Bishop’s Castle a charming little town in deepest Shropshire. So deep its nearly in Wales. Afterwards we were given probably the most detailed audience feedback Ive ever received. Read below: Photos, footage and some live recordings to come soon from theContinue reading “Bishop’s Castle feedback”

Psykick Dancehall 5

A drawing of birdsong and piece of writing about it were published by Psykick Dancehall up in Glasgow at the end of last year. It’s a bit of a meditative memory exercise in response to one of long list of questions posed by Dancehall. See below or here in published context; the text layout andContinue reading “Psykick Dancehall 5”

turntable and guitar strings

Doing some work yesterday with turntable and strings which I’ve had on the go the last few weeks. Trying to work through various ideas to isolate what works and what doesn’t, made a bunch of recordings which are mainly textural, drones and processing those back end of last week which I’m mixing at the moment.Continue reading “turntable and guitar strings”