Tag Archives: David Birchall
Brain Drain
A duo recording from mid October 2014 with myself and Anton Hunter on electric guitars. Rather pleased with this one as it seems to comfortably encompass the completely different ways we approach the instrument as well as the similar points.
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”
Work in Progress at Penthouse
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”
Munster
Wonderful set of photos here by Jen from the Munster date I did with Chakai House early in July. The gig took place inside part of an incredible building on the “B” side of the harbour there. The “A” side has already been redeveloped in to a Salford Quays style thing but for the minuteContinue reading “Munster”
Purrculation
Contact mic cat purring with live processing. Part of some experiments for workshops at the end of the week at Wythenshawe Hall. http://davidbirchall.bandcamp.com/album/purrculation
Huddersfield Bicycle Orchestras!
Been working the last couple of weeks on a really exciting project for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to coincide with the Tour De France’s Grand Depart from Yorkshire in July. You can see various stages of production on one of our newly developed instrumentsContinue reading “Huddersfield Bicycle Orchestras!”
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