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January, 2012 :: Happy New Year !!! There's been an endless whirlwind of activity around here ; almost too much to report, but here it goes ...
First, next month will see a new release on Editions Mego ... I've been friendly with Peter "Pita" Rehberg since asking him (plus Fennesz, Farmers Manual, & Jim O'Rourke) for a remix for the "rkk13cd" back in the late 90's ; I've long held the label in very high regard & I'm excited about the prospects of being in such good company (truth be told, a frighteningly large majority of the new electronic music I've been excited about for the past few years has come to be c/o Emego) ...
Behold, detail of the (Graham Lambkin illustrated) cover for "Generators" ::
This LP (originally slated for release on the Mimaroglu Music Sales in-house "no" label, RIP) consists of the final two performances of the "Generator" piece over two consecutive nights in two different settings (a festival of purely improvised music in Baltimore, MD ... then a festival of through-composed music dedicated to Eliane Radigue in Brooklyn, NY) ; it feels great to put the piece to bed in a such a nice way, especially as these two ended up being the best performances / recordings amongst dozens given over the course of one year ...
It's already up for pre-order on the Editions Mego site & should be available shortly where fine LP records of Psycho-Acoustic Machine-Music are sold (yes, we'll be getting a few copies for MMS ; it'll be up on the site the moment they land & not a moment sooner) ...
Here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite(s) ::
Right around the same time, be on the lookout for a split with Eli Keszler c/o NNA Tapes (an LP - they do those as well) issuing the first (studio) iteration of "Occlusion," a "Rhythm-as-Texture" piece largely realized with digital modules that is at the core of what I'm exploring these days in "Live Performance" settings (i.e. multi-temporal, "Free" Electronic Music) ; It's a blaster & I'm curious to hear what you think about it (here's a taste) ::
Tons of gigs on the horizon ; I'll be back in France next month for a week making my Parisian debut as KFW (I know, hard to believe, right ???) at Instants Chavires on the 17th before heading to Nantes for Will Guthrie's Cable Festival (amazing lineup this year !!!) then to Geneva to reprise my long-dormant duo with Greg Davis for Fernando Sixto's Cave12 series ... Afterwards I'll spend a few days in Paris continuing the Quai Branly residency (my presentation there has been scheduled for July 1st ; mark your calendars !!!) before heading to Amsterdam to give the Dutch premiere of "Rhythmes Naturels" at the Paradiso during Sonic Acts XIV | Traveling Time ... then in March, I'll be giving the US Première of "Rhythmes Naturels" in Chicago (as part of the Lampo series) & I've been hearing rumours of a trip to Spain & Portugal in April (details when they're set in stone) ... I'm going to do my damnedest to get out to the West Coast in the late spring / summer as well (get in touch if you have any ideas or interest) ...
Looking back on 2011 (simultaneously my most & least productive year-on-Earth thusfar :: whereas I recorded a ton of new music & remastered a bunch of older pieces for reissue, the majority was lost in the second big hard drive crash of my life) ; I'm proud of what I managed to accomplish musically, all while busting my ass over @ Mimaroglu (60+ hour workweeks were not uncommon) ...
The composition residency at the INA-GRM visit was a life-long dream come true ; the piece turned out exactly as I had hoped (here's an excerpt, somewhat crudely mixed down from the 40-channel diffusion-session to stereo) ::
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plus one of the games I did music & sound design for ("Deepak Chopra's Leela") hit the shelves (here's but one rendering of the modular musical theme I composed for the seventh level / chakra, mixed linearly into a 20-minute stereo take, along with a selection of the "fx") ::
... that said, my plans for the coming year involve spending more time working on music & art, less on the business (even though we had our best year yet @ mms) ; plus now that I've built up a slightly more portable "live performance" rig, travel suddenly seems both viable & attractive (here's a clip from this week showing off the range of said) ::
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"Live Performance" setup, 01/12/12 (#3) ::
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February 17th, 2012, 9PM
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Marcus Schmickler
Instants Chavires
7, rue Richard-Lenoir
Montreuil (Paris), France |
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February 18th, 2012
Festival Cable #5
Keith Fullerton Whitman, many others TBA
Nantes, France |
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February 19th, 2012, 9:30PM
Greg Davis & Keith Fullerton Whitman (duo), David Watson, Michel Guillet
Cave12
Ilôt 13-14, Rue de Montbrillant
Geneva, Switzerland |
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February 23rd through 26th, 2012
Sonic Acts XIV: Travelling Time
Keith Fullerton Whitman (Dutch Premiere of "Rhythmes Naturels"), many others TBA
Paradiso
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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March 4th, 2012
TEDx Somerville
Keith Fullerton Whitman (Musical Performance), many others TBA (inc. Brian Whitman's talk on "The Future of Music")
Somerville Armory
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA
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March 10th, 2012
Lampo presents
Keith Fullerton Whitman (US Premiere of "Rhythmes Naturels" plus a Quad improvisation)
Graham Foundation
Madlener House • 4 Burton Place
Chicago, IL
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April 15th, 2012
Bigtimers presents Electrónica
en Abril
Keith Fullerton Whitman, many others TBA
La Casa Encendida
Ronda Valencia, 2
Madrid, Spain |
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April 19th, 2012
Bigtimers presents Electrónica
en Abril
Keith Fullerton Whitman, many others TBA
Espai Cultural Obra Social
Plaza de Catalunya, 9
Barcelona, Spain |
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July 1st, 2012
Keith Fullerton Whitman (Live Diffusion of materials from the Quai Branly Mediatheque)
Musée du Quai Branly
37, Quai Branly
Paris, France |
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December 10th, 2011, 8pm
Leisure: Modular Synthesizer Edition
Ben Vida, Keith Fullerton Whitman, James Fei, Philip White & Chuck Johnson
319 Scholes Street
Brooklyn, NY |
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December 2nd, 2012
No Way Back at The Bunker
Cheap & Deep, Ectomorph, BMG, Erika, Patrick Russell, Container, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Outer Space, Mountains, Bee Mask, Ricardo Donoso, Scott Mou, Spinoza, Nihal Ramchandani
Public Assembly
76 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY |
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October 18th, 2011
Upset the Rhythm presents
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Rene Hell, Heatsick, Andre Vida, Bill Kouligas (DJ set)
CAMP Basement
70-74 City Road, Old Street
London, UK |
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October 14th through 16th, 2011
Kontraste Krems
KTL (Peter Rehberg & Stephen O'Malley), Marcus Schmickler & Thomas Lehn, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Hilary Jeffrey, Benjamin Thigpen, Gert-Jan Prins, Gilles Aubry, Yutaka Makino, Daniel Teruggi, Jim O'Rourke, Thomas Köner, many others ...
Klangraum Krems
Minoritenplatz 4
Krems, Austria |
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October 10th through 12th, 2011
Keith Fullerton Whitman Research Residency
Musée du Quai Branly
37, Quai Branly
Paris, France |
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October 3rd through 7th 2011
Keith Fullerton Whitman Composition Residency
INA-GRM
Maison de Radio France
116, Avenue du Présideny Kennedy
Paris, France |
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