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Katie, Don’t Go - MAC, Belfast
Katie, Don’t Go is currently running on the 3rd floor of the MAC, in Belfast.
It is free to visit but you should book a slot online here.
It lasts roughly 15 minutes per person and can be enjoyed alone or in pairs.
Katie, Don't Go
My next interactive installation piece will be on in Belfast, June 14 to 23.
My most recent installation in DL1, it looks like there will be a more developed iteration of this work on in the Work Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor in August/September… more info to come.
My final performance at SARC
TedX UofM - Music for Ideas, Vol. III
A track I made back in the day with Stereofield is the first track of this collection released by TedX UofM. Other tracks from Ann Arbor too.
I played with fthrsn at the conference too, video to come..
People places thoughts
I first heard this song as a demo last year - it was the best song I heard that year. I spent the best few weeks of my life with Rachel over the holidays & we played this a few times at shows… I find it hard to focus on my simple drum part when I get distracted by the beauty of the song. I just want to sit in awe.
Its easy to forget how talented and amazing someone is when you are so close to them.
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My buddy fthrsn just released a new album too.
I see this dude nearly everyday and hes a real friendly, humble guy - so much so that in the same way, its easy to forget that he also happens to create some amazing art through his electronic music. Listening to this album just puts me in a happy mood, which is a priceless gift.
I know I am lucky to be surrounded by wonderful art-makers, but I feel that nearly anyone could look around their friends, their town and find art that will move them more than anything you find on pitchfork or whatever. There are people all around you doing amazing things. Just open eyes and go to a show
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Playing at the netmusic conference in stanford was sweet. Was great to see people connecting all over the world that really care about making the medium of internet based music performance a feasible reality for the future. Stanfords basically got a holiday resort for a campus and the famous CCRMA is an old mansion (not joking).. ridiculous…
At the moment Im working on a nuts art project with electronic lunch to make a hundred LED lanterns that communicate to each other in colour and brightness for a big parade in april
Also putting together some plans for an internet based music performance that toys on the idea of keeping the speed of sound intact over the web… more on that to come.
January
playing a bunch of small shows around Virginia with Rachel Austin… I’ve got two days before our first show to build some sort of drum kit..
Then on the 16th I’ll be pushing some buttons at NetMusic 2013 at Stanford Uni, San Francisco… I presume that a conference on internet based performance will have an online stream of sorts… I’ll link it when I find out where.
Midsummer nights what?
Simon Alexander-Adams and I have put together the soundtrack to a huge production by the UM’s theatre dept. on in the Powers Center, Ann Arbor.
It’s definitely a step up from the odd music thing I used to do for DU Players back in Trinity College Dublin with a large cast of incredibly talented actors, full lighting rigs and an incredible wall of death style set… all in a place that packs in over a thousand people.
It sounds class, looks great, and chuffed to work on it…
A personal favourite snippet of the kind of twisted music we had to write
Rachel Austin on Tour
Ze wonderful Rachel Austin is on tour around Ireland at the moment.
Go to facebook for her gig details
I’m looking forward to drumming for her on her upcoming US tour which is in the works for January. Some very special songs on her new EP, this one being my favourite.
Gypsy Ponds/Electronic Lunches
Last night I managed to blag my way into setting up a network connection to CCRMA Stanford and Universidad Icesi in Colombia with peeps from UM’s School of Music. We’re in the middle of putting together a large scale art installation in a large pond next week and had a chance to try it out alongside instruments by the pond, in California, and in Colombia.
Also Im now running this thing called electronic lunch at UM. Gets a bunch of artists, programmers, engineers, and designers together to make random cool projects…
Lil doc of my installation at SARC last year… I know theres some better video of it out there somewhere… gotta get my hands on it
Change of pace here… been playing around with EastWest / Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra to make some pompous orchestral scores… a lotta fun doin this mini-project
AA - MI - USA
I’m currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.. moved here for a Masters in Media Arts at the University of Michigan.
The buttons came in the briefcase.
Heres just a tiny taste of some of the electronic music bumping around here:
Sons of Caliber ‘The Tundra’
Proud to say this is in the wild.
I recorded this ep with Sons of Caliber at the end of last year and its now available on iTunes & Bandcamp.
This is a single-take-live-extended-mix-version of ‘Kidney’ performed by Pauk & plusbuttons.
Download the full MCRP album and the studio version of this song here.
