Catalonia, Greece.

In a few days, I'll be revisiting the "Playthroughs" setup in Barcelona at Rafael Moneo's exotic L'Auditori on the 18th of May as part of the Sampler Series, followed closely by a pair of "Generators" under the Cicle OUT.SIDE banner in Lleida & Amposta on the 20th & 21st.

From there, I'll make my way to Athens for a fantastic gig as part of Documenta 14 at Romantso where I'll be dovetailing "Redactions" amidst "Electrical Walks" by Christina Kubisch; that's on the 25th. Details for all of these are live on the Events page. First time in Athens, please get in touch if you'd like to meet up on the days leading into the performance there.

Here's a raw, unedited, 30 minute rehearsal take made while updating & extending the "Playthroughs" setup in preparation for the Sampler Series concert; it feels good to revisit this material & I look forward to exploring the new possibilities offered therein:

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver.

I have officially been added to the second day of the incredible Don Buchla Memorial Concert at Gray Area in San Francisco on the 22nd & 23rd of April. Aside from my well-documented affinity for Don's instruments - they're at the center of my "Multiples" album from 2005 - this will be an amazing opportunity to perform an all-Buchla "Redactions" iteration, hinging heavily on recordings made on historical & contemporary Buchla instruments at Harvard's HUSEAC, EMS Stockholm, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and countless other studios around the world over the past two decades.

Details are live on the Events page; incredible lineup featuring Morton Subotnick, Suzanne Ciani, David Rosenboom, Jessica Rylan, Bob Ostertag, Laetitia Sonami performing Eliane Radigue, George Lewis, Alessandro Cortini, Marielle Jakobsons, Peter Blasser, Richard Devine, Curtis Roads, and may others. 

I will be flying in from Melbourne specifically for this, although with a little hustle and the help of Tim Leanse & Constantine Katsiris, I've been invited to Los Angeles and Vancouver during this time abroad, where I will present "Redactions" on the 27th and the 29th of April, respectively. Afterwards, I'll be working on music projects in Vancouver until the 3rd of May. Please get in touch if you'd like to meet up for a coffee, beer, record-shop jaunt, etc. I haven't been to the west coast in over 4 years at this point, we have much to catch up on. 

While rooting through the archives for unreleased material for the "Buchla Redactions" I came across these two, thematically unrelated pieces, recorded during my first session with the San Francisco Tape Music Center's Buchla Music Box 100 at Harvard's HUSEAC in 2003; enjoy!

Update; fantastic trip, as expected. The Buchla memorial was a beautiful thing, all of the performances I caught on the second day were fantastic, and it was great to be able to explore San Francisco for the first time in ages. Had a great recording session there as well that bodes well for the future. The concert in LA was similarly magical, as were the Vancouver session & performance.

Below are a Soundcloud embed of my set at "The Rattle" (especially happy with the polyphonic "Generators" breakdown halfway through) plus a lovely film of my set at the Buchla festival.

Germany.

I'm back at home Australia after a wonderful couple of weeks abroad, but I'll be already be heading back to Europe shortly to attend & perform at the 30-hour "The Long Now" event, programmed by the Berlin Atonal folks as part of the Berliner Festspiele under the MaerzMusik umbrella at the cavernous Kraftwerk space behind Tresor & Ohm.

This starts on the evening of March 25th & heads straight through to midnight on the 26th, with installations & performances of pieces by C. Christer Hennix, Alvin Lucier - both will be in attendence! - Brian Eno & Robert Fripp, Chris Watson, Tim Hecker, Leyland Kirby, William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt, Caterina Barbieri, and many others, including a stacked early program with Andrea Belfi & Francesco Donadello, Kara-Lis Coverdale, and myself right at the opening bell.

I'm planning a special "Kraftwerk Redactions" set incorporating materials gathered in the venue's blighted extremities the night before during sound-checks & room-tunings; I hesitate to the use the word "Industrial" as it'll end up an ecclesiastic wash of 8-second reverb, regardless of the approach taken, but that's where my head is at.

Russia, Scandinavia.

I've just landed in Moscow, where I will be resuming my performance schedule after a year-long break. I'm excited to continue with the geographically-specific "Redactions" in their 2.0 iteration, amidst the "Generators" & "Occlusions" frameworks.

First up are a presentation & quad performance at Mark Fell's incredible "Geometry of Now" festival at the GES-2 on the 23rd & 25th, followed by a performance at Vapaan Taiteen Tila in Helsinki on the 26th. From there I'll take up residency at EMS Stockholm on the 28th, perform another quad concert at Fylkingen on the 2nd of March, then give a presentation at the weekly VEMS meetup at EMS on the 5th.

Update: as predicted, "Geometry of Now", and the concerts & residencies in Finland & Sweden were fantastic. Photo & Audio documentation above.

Don Buchla (1937-2016)Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)

I was asked by The Wire's Deputy Editor Derek Walmsley to write a short piece on the passing of both Don Buchla & Pauline Oliveros; two incredible lives lived to their fullest, linked by their time spent in the greater San Francisco area in the 1960s, both very near & dear to both my heart & my outlook on life, the world, and music.

It was an honor to be able to put my feelings towards these two indelible figures into words, and it's somewhat incredible that, just over a week later you can find the piece in print in the January 2017 "Rewind 2016" issue of The Wire at newsstands globally, indexed over at The Wire's site:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/395

There is also a Digital Edition, courtesy of Exact Editions, available here:

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/54636/spread/1