NEW YOUTUBE VID

I recently logged onto youtube and it advised I make a one minute introduction video, so I did. It was a great excercise and will hopefully get easier. 

Short and Sweet

I thought I would pop up a short example of what I did tonight. As I aparantly have a little bit insomnia at the moment Iam trying to be productive with those hours of the morning. So aside from plotting the next studio make-over I did a quick mix of a track I started a while ago sped up a fair bit.

Today's show at Winter Contempt in Brunswick playing as "modern viking" :)

 Wintercontempt2011 by mwallus01

You may notice some changes to this site

Hi every one. Yes I have been incredibly lazy with this blogging thing and there's no excuse for it. What's going on in my world at the moment is;

1. I have been playing a few Gigs this year using new gear and sounds.
1. this has involved using a Roland s-760 sampler and my MPC 2000
2. I have been using a Fostex VF-16 for a mixer/effects and longer backing sounds
3. In addition to this, for my last Gig I used a Netbook and a program called Moonster, to control video clips through the MPC 2000.

I will upload some video and pictures when I get them.

Another exciting thing I have started doing, is offering audio copies of the performance straight after as an MP3 for anyone interested with some kind of storage on them. This has been a really nice way to talk to people after playing and get some feed back.

I have also been asked to be in a show later in the year. Its a group show and has a theme of "Erasure", which should be fun.

As my practice has evolved since completing university I have gravitated more and more toward a performance based practice and am enjoying myself. This seems like a fairly natural progression and I feel I am still engaging in a lot of the same concepts etc..

I am also heading over to Europe for the first time in July this year to see the Venice Bianalle and generally submerse in some Art culture.

There is going to be a bit more audio content going up in the next couple of days. I look forward to sharing this and assigning these as done as much as they are going to be to make room for new things.

A couple of Images from 2 Gigs Last Year

A colaborative Performance at Loop Bar with Cameron Brew
on the 29th of November 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.



Me Performing at Loop Bar on the 25th of October 2010,
for the Bene Gesserit House Nursery Rhymes.

These are 2 gigs I’ve played recently. I was asked to play a gig on the 25th of October last year which was 1 day after I returned from a trip to Cairns. Just before I left to go, I had been playing around making tape loops and sampling them. What I was using was the high frequencies and hisses from the tape and modulating the sounds using a combination of filters to manipulate the texture of the sounds, creating a howling gale and moaning soundscape. I went from being in the Daintree Rainforest to performing in a bar in Melbourne in a day.

The second performance was a colaborative experiment with Cameron Brew. We had performed earlier in the year at the Library Art Space in North Fitzroy. Cameron had been talking about the ceremonial aspect of performing. For this second performance I had taken several samples from found vinyl records from a Japanese Temple and another of Buddhist Chanting and manipulated them live layering, reversing and filtering them. Cameron played using a feedback loop through a mixer using the mixers Aux sends to add distortion and delay.

I will be uploading the recordings from the gigs and putting them on the music page soon. I would like to thank Shane Reynolds for taking photo's and recording these events!!

Update for another show I had last year

Untitled Time Experiment,
Wax, Video, PSP, Black Spay Paint, Found Wood, Silver Tape,
Dwarft Gallery, November 2010.

This is an image from a show I had in November 2010. The gallery space is called Dwaft and is located outside the Victoria College of the Arts on a brick wall. It was being run by a Friend who was doing their Honours Degree at the time. I was asked to install in the space and little time to make a new work.

Way back in 2005 I believe, I was in the first year of my Fine Arts Degree. I made a work that was supposed to be a kind of shrine to the mundane. I lined up 200 tea light candles along a foot path in front of a brick wall. The work was documented using a video camera. It was a failure, and the resulting video became a kind of homage to this failure and the idleness of "hanging out", with footage of friends trying to light the candles in the wind, snippets of conversation about nothing in particular and jumping around in front of the camera. 

So when I was asked to do a work directly opposite this place; a site, which for me, was loaded with feelings failure and mischief, it seemed logical to try and connect with the past work and make a new resolution. I was thinking about it like a glitch in time, where the past and present collide, invoking Deja Vu.

The candles from the previous work, were in the shed in an old biscuit tin, melted together making one large block of wax, the individual forms of each candle still clearly recognisable. This object had to be used. I had to give this thing meaning.

The video was played on a small screen, which I initially wanted to insert into the wax. I quickly dismissed this as an option, the process of carving out a cavity in this already significant object felt like desecration. It was a complete object that did not need to be altered or added to. So I had to work out how to incorporate this tiny video work. The video needed to be there to help pull the past forward, giving the candles context.

You can see the outcome in the picture although it is fairly low quality. Here are a couple of images to give you a better idea of the video.

It has been far too long!!

It has been far to long since I have written anything for my blog. That being said of course I have an excuse and it's the same excuse I will use to explain why I will keep this one short and write a more in depth article in the near future as I have lots to talk about!!

I have started using a blog that a friend and I started earlier this year that I wish to push out there a bit more called Alien Space Probe. It contains other articles of interest all around the theme of arty stuff. I know there are millions of sites out there like this but this one will be unique in that hopefully it will contain material specific to my piers and self's interests as vast as they are. So book mark it!!!

I have had a few gigs recently as well!!! I look forward to discussing them. the most recent was on Monday and was a collaboration.

And another Big thing has been my purchase of a audio recorder, Zoom H1. Initially just as a Dictaphone and now it has sparked a new project which requires some discussion too.

So I look forward to talking soon and hope you enjoy the journey.

Marcel

Time for August Ambience

This is a New Track I made this evening inspired by some good headphones and being full of Thai food. It was all made using my trusty MPC 2000 classic and 3 short samples.

August Ambient by mwallus01

Infant Website

I know this is getting repetitive, but the website is all consuming at the moment. So just an update. You can see that I have those fairly ugly buttons at the top of the blog, they will navigate you around the rest of my website. Although at this stage it is very much a skeleton of a site, you will begin to see more media being uploaded and it becoming more usable. One thing I'm looking forward to is working out how to implement the search button as it does nothing at the moment.

So to save time and get the ball rolling I have used a free CSS template from Free CSS Templates. I have modified the code a little but not to much at this stage. Its a great way to work as it lays down the structure for you. I will continue working on my own design as well but only use it once its a bit more developed.

Oh, and of course this is a link to the home page just in case those buttons disappear or stop working.

Some Music Talk

I am in the process of making a dedicated music website to house my music and perhaps promote it. The music I have been working on lately would be described as ambient and maybe minimal electronic. Like the rest of my practice it has a quality I would describe as meditative, it does not prescribe an image to the viewer, but encourages there own images and thought (hopefully).

This is an image of the mini CD containing a new track I'm working on called BrownNoise

This is my new track BrownNoise. It is very much a "ruff cut", what I have done is recorded a performance of the track rather than a composition.

First Post

This site is going to be as a way to keep up to date with the projects I'm working on and archive them. It will contain Images and Video's and small pieces of Text. It will be placed within a Sub domain as part of my main site, which has a slightly different purpose, to act as an online CV. This section will be accessible to people from my website, but is more to generate discussion and a space to comment on works. The kind of content you will vary from, Visual Arts to Experimental Music. So perhaps you could think of this as a space for creative peers.