here is the set up for the gig at Electundra tomorrow with Zac. I have just gone thru moving the modular into the roadcase giving me a full (RU of eurorack modular plus room for a sliding drawer for pedals, audio interface hidden inside and my trusty Korg AM8000R effects unit which is set up as a send effect in Ableton Live.
And here is another sneak peek at some of the images for the performance. Again the visuals are all set up in Quartz Composer and are audio reactive.
See you there!
With the live performance coming up at Loop it is now time to finally release the 3 tracks that were remixed.
All the details and downloads are on the release page: Hillingar – Zac Keiller vs Abre Ojos
It has been too long since an update, but that doesn’t mean there has been nothing happening behind the scenes. There are a few collaborations going on plus a imminent release on Clinical Archives, but before all that there are three gigs coming up in November, two as part of the amazing A/V festival Electundra and an invite back to the Bene Gesserit Nursery, this time at the home of Melbourne experimental toe tapping Horse Bazaar.
So here’s the info:
1. Hillingar – Zac Keiller vs Abre Ojos
HILLINGAR / is the live entity that is Abre Ojos & Zac Keiller.
The shimmering ambient guitar work of the prolific Zac Keiller spans over 10 albums and one of these – Hillingar (nordic for mirage) was put into the hands of Abre Ojos to remix, reinterpret and add layers of sounds from his custom built eurorack modular synthesizer. Three tracks were chosen for treatment and the result is Hillingar – espejismo di yermo- the mirage wasteland (follow this link).
With the tracks resulting in such a perfect marriage of styles, the two musicians have taken it one step further and will be re-creating their ambient drone compositions with a live performance of sound and visuals at the opening day of Electundra ’09.
Hillingar perform on Saturday November 14th @ 3pm sharp. Tickets $12.00.
Be sure to arrive early and catch live performances by Pip Ryan, Jonathon Hutchinson, Benjamin Schmidt and Seb Guzman Ramirez, Nervous Doll Dancing, Max & Isnod, Winduptoys, The Surly Mermaids, AND/OR, Duotone and Psuche.
Details on the festival can be found here:
http://www.electundra.com
http://www.myspace.com/electundrafestival
2. NGC1313 Spiral Galaxy in Reticulum – Abre Ojos
The latest project is based around the amazing astronomy photographs of Marek Dobiecki, artist, teacher and astronomer. Dobiecki has built himself an observatory in his backyard in the Dandenong ranges where he tracks the night sky with his computer controlled f4.5 x 30cm Newtonian Telescope capturing galaxies, nebulae and star fields. The photographs are wonderfully fragile, textured, grayscale images of up to 2 hours exposure time revealing things we can barely see with the naked eye.
These photos have been taken and built into a series of audio reactive animations and match to sounds that have been created drawing on inspiration from space recordings and low frequency atmospheric sounds of the earth.
NGC1313 is on Saturday November 21st @ 3pm sharp. Tickets $12.00.
Electundra is on at Loop Project Art Space & Bar
23 Meyers Place Melbourne CBD
Tickets: $12 day night pass
Festival Pass: $25 (a bargain for 3 days of cutting edge A/V goodness!)
3. Bene Gesserit Nursery – As said above its on at Horse Bazaar on Thursday 26th Nov starting at 8pm. More details to come 
DE:CONstruction
Glitch Bar & Cinema again comes alive to strange sounds on Sat 28th February 2009. DE:CONstruction is performances by Zac Keiller, TJ Milian (LA), Scratchplate, Electronic Shaman, abre ojos and visuals by GID. Sounds will range from circuit bent glitch (appropriate huh?) to modular drone, guitar feedback and ambient journeys.
The 6 artists who have never played together will mix their individual sounds into a rolling snowball of warm fuzzy sonics accompanied by the vision of GID, only for it to melt away into the darkness of Saturday night. Following the tradition of the previous DE:CONstruction the night will begin with a short solo set from each artist and then after a short break will come together in a structured joint performance.
doors open @ 7.30pm performances start at 8pm sharp.
Sat 28th February
entry is $5
Playing times:
Electronic Shaman: 8.00 – 8.20
Scratchplate : 8.25 – 8.45
abre ojos: 8.50 – 9.10
TJ Milian: 9.15 – 9.35
Zac Keiller: 9.40 – 10.00
All in brawl + Visuals from GID: 10.20 – 11.15
Guest DJ’s till late!
Electronic Shaman- strange zombie howls: http://electronicshaman.com/
Scratchplate – from delicate to chainsaw guitar: http://www.myspace.com/scratchplate2
TJ Milian – custom modular synth, guitar and circuit bent toys.: http://www.tjmilian.com http://www.pfuproductions.com
Zac Keiller – sunsets and emotive guitar: http://www.myspace.com/zackeiller http://zackeiller.polydistortion.net/
Abre Ojos – space odyssey modular drones and vision : http://abreojos.net http://myspace.com/abreojos
GID – innovative eyeball baking visuals: http://cpluv.com/GID http://www.vimeo.com/user708689
GLITCH BAR & CINEMA
318 St Georges Rd North Fitzroy 3068
http://www.glitch.com.au
info@glitch.com.au
9489 9799
0423 371 293
After 3 months of collaboration [emptynoises] and abre ojos have just finished an album full of modular synth goodness. On it you will find four tracks each of which followed this process:
seed -> swap -> process -> swap -> process
where each of us would start with 6-7mins of sound, swap it with the other and either process it or create a response using everything from our modular systems to software including ableton live.
All tracks are 192 MP3 files.
Download the full zipped album including cover art here: en_vs_ao.zip 43.3mb
Or individual tracks here:
1. into the sky 11.1mb
2. the reference is to Coma 9.7mb
3. rotating bodies are magnetic 10.9mb
4. utilised for rationalised ends 9.2mb
