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!!

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