Really excited about a couple of plays on the Sunday of this great looking festival. I’ll be jamming for an hour form 8pm with others as part of the Gizeh Records epic continuous 50 human 5 hour session on the floor and then at 11pm I’ll be performing on the Tombed Visions stage inContinue reading “Fat Out Festival this weekend in Salford”
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Guitar & Walkman
Result of some experiments earlier in the week working with 2 input signals from guitar and walkman.
Ramallah Mumtaz Power Duo
First release from my duo with long term collaborator Nick Dobson. Featuring 75 minutes of music drawn from a couple of days of sessions that took place on the edge of the snowy North Yorkshire moors in March of 2013 it captures the duo working with small sounds, textures and focused slow evolution of theContinue reading “Ramallah Mumtaz Power Duo”
Thai Rice Solos
Just put the finishing touches to this super small run of handmade books housing recordings I made in May of 2011 in Berlin with Richard Scott. 27 minutes of acoustic guitar music. The hard copies are enclosed in found hardback covers from Hotspur House and with an individual CCCP postcard as cover; all the letteringContinue reading “Thai Rice Solos”
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”
new sounds with Sam Andreae & Andrew Cheetham
Been doing some great playing in last few months with Sam Andreae and this has started developing into a trio with Andrew Cheetham. It’s been a really great meeting point for us all to play, we all have approached the music from very different points of view but seem to have arrived at a pointContinue reading “new sounds with Sam Andreae & Andrew Cheetham”
Highgate Cementery
Last Friday afternoon I had some free time between two moving and fun evenings watching the Instant Composers Pool at the Vortex so I took a trip up to Highgate cemetery. This came to be as part of a long considered mission to see where Karl Marx is buried. Having failed the last time IContinue reading “Highgate Cementery”
13th Feb @ Kraak
Great looking poster made by Edwin for this gig at Kraak in February. Going to be a splendid evening of guitar music.
Perceptions and time
Was set off thinking by doing a bit of research last week into some links provided by the dancer Katie Duck on her webspace centred around exploring scientific research into the brain and perception. Out of this I focused on the idea that our perception of time can be change when involved with work likeContinue reading “Perceptions and time”
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