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December, 2012 :: Busy year, to say the least ...
First, here's a transcription of my recent 4.4 set at Berlin's Berghain • Panorama Bar (as part of the CTM 13 • The Golden Age Festival ; coupled with Florian Hecker's set from the same event) performed entirely on my current"Live Electronic Music" setup (a.k.a. the "Voight-Kampff Machine) ::
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"Deutschlandradio Kulture Klangkunst • CTM.13 • The Golden Age" ::
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... Second, clicking on the image below transports you to a dedicated page on the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona's RÀDIO WEB MACBA site wherein you can hear an exclusive 78-minute set of "Generative" pieces for the Voight-Kampff recorded specifically for their (Mark Fell & Joe Gilmore-curated) "Composing with Process" series (along with an excellent Carl-Michael Von Hausswolff piece & full documentation including biographies & playlists in the form of a .pdf file) ...
... Third, here are a pair of videos that do a great job at highlighting the recent direction(s) in which I've been heading w/r/t "Live Electronic Music" (both recorded at Melbourne's fantastic Gastro-pub, The Gasometer Hotel, where I'd been living on & off since late-July ... [Melbourne, that is, not the Gaso]) ::
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"Live @ Gasometer Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, July 21st, 2012" ::
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"Live @ Gasometer Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, October 12th, 2012" ::
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Winter, 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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June 20th, 2013, 08:00PM
Non-Event presents ::
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Lee Gamble, Heatsick, Keith Fullerton Whitman
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, United States | | June 21st, 2013, 10:00PM
The Bunker presents ::
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lineup TBC
Venue TBC
Brooklyn, United States | | June 22nd, 2013
Issue Project Room presents ::
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Rashad Becker & Keith Fullerton Whitman in Conversation
Goethe-Institut New York
72 Spring Street
New York, United States | | September 7th, 2013, 01:00PM
The 1st Biennial Festival of Performance Art and Sound Art
Marilyn Arsem, Jeff Huckleberry, Geoffrey Koetsch, Robert Saulnier, Zach Hoffman, Jeffu Warmouth, Ellen Wetmore, Evan Ziporyn, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Reuben Son, Stephan Moore, Flandrew Fleisenberg, Walter Wright, Andrea Pensado, Birdorgan, Viktor Lois,
Contemporary Arts International (CAI)
68 Quarry Road
Acton, United States | |
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