Things Ed Devane Makes

Financial blackhole statistics make vibrating image

2011-02-11T19:06:00.003Z

"Our Statistics"

Take a bunch of statistical graphs showing Ireland's move into financial dystrophy, layer them into an image in photoshop, convert the result into an audio file, then open that audio file in a program that shows an FFT frequency domain view, screen grab the result, bring it back to photoshop and...you end up with something quite unexpectedly beautiful. Considering the sound this image represents is white noise without any redeeming qualities I am pleased with how it eventually turned out.

Interview on RTE Lyric FM - Bernard Clarke's NOVA show

2011-02-03T00:26:00.002Z

I was interviewed by (contemporary music show) NOVA presenter Bernard Clarke in Eason's Cafe on O'Connell St, Dublin early in January. Stop/Run was featured on the show a couple of weeks later, with excerpts from the interview and pieces by Niamh de Barra, Eoin Smith and Brian Conniffe.

The show itself doesn't seem to be archived yet but you can now hear the unedited recording of the interview here, where I em, kinda, eh talk about, em, the...Stop/Run...eh

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2011/pc/pod-v-16011117m15snova.mp3

Room Full of Empty People EP now available

2011-01-07T12:34:00.003Z

My new EP, "Room Full of Empty People" is now available on Takeover Records through Juno Digital. Four tracks of agitated dancefloor music that will warm up amplifiers and eardrums alike!

Stop/Run opening night recordings

2010-12-20T22:04:00.002Z

Stop/Run opening by Stop/Run

Here are the recordings of pieces by Amanda Feery, Shane McKenna, Eoin Smith, Laura Hyland, Niamh de Barra, Brian Conniffe and Ian McDonnell. Enjoy!

Stop/Run jam with Ed Devane, Paul Rowan, Dennis Cassidy, Regan O'Brien and Keith Lindsay

2010-12-20T20:42:00.003Z

Stop Run- jam with Ed, Paul, Regan, Keith, Dennis 17-12-10 by Stop/Run

This recording was made the day before I took down the Stop/Run exhibition. After days of half-heatedly trying to wire up an Arduino board to drive the solenoids in my bar instruments, and generally being exhausted from the work involved in getting the show together, just before this recording was made I finally had energy to set it up to play some music. That was of course the point in making the instruments!

It was good craic playing with Dennis Cassidy (percussionist extraordinaire), Paul Rowan (a.k.a. Bluefood, who did some remixes of the opening night recordings which I will post up soon), free vocalist Regan O'Brien and Severed Head gallery co-curator and sound designer Keith Lindsay. Each player moved from between instruments as they saw fit; I vacillated between playing instruments and working the mixer (which by now is really my main instrument).

Stop/Run videos

2010-12-18T20:09:00.007Z

Pre-show practice of Niamh de Barra's conmposition. Featuring Amanda Feery (tubes), Shane McKenna (holding the mic where and when needed for Niamh to record a loop into Ableton) and Fionn Wallace (middle stringed instrument, percussion).

Brian Conniffe performs his piece at the opening of Stop/Run. Brian's piece features a recording of Simon Morris and "also incorporated is a treatment of material from coil cso 16, used in accordance with the creative commons license of that release".

Ian McDonnell noises it up at the opening

Stop/Run: Ian McDonnell, opening performance from Ed Devane on Vimeo.

Pre-show practice and soldering...

Stop/Run set up / practise from Ed Devane on Vimeo.

Stop/Run photos

2010-12-18T00:03:00.003Z

This post will be followed by video and audio posts very soon. For now check out these photos taken by Aoife de Burca of my Stop/Run instrument ensemble.

Room Full of Empty People EP

2010-11-30T22:35:00.003Z

Ed Devane - Squib by takeover recordings
Ed Devane - 2Cme by takeover recordings

Here's a couple of tracks of my forthcoming 4 track EP on Takeover Recordings, displaying two opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of how the result is achieved. Squib is a live recording essentially: the "white hot" version of my Squib series (a squib being an explosive device). The Squib project / way of playing / sample set has gone through a few different versions, and here's a couple of them. This is the first version I recorded:

Squib (first version) by Ed Devane

The drum sounds are all derived from putting a bass drum sample I'd made previously through the image-audio-image process and editing the result. The sounds that result are gritty and biting. By using a crossfader to cut between versions of a sequence I can create a lot of variation while keeping within the groove. This one is from my Molten Membrane launch liveset, which favours a more zigzagged hip hop sound (you can hear the techno tendency creeping in towards the end though):

Squib live version by Ed Devane

2C-me started life as a stripped-back banger made for an A4 Sounds gig in a skate park in Belfast. The intention was, and usually is, to give the audience the fear: to make them think the walls were melting and that they would wear a hole in the dancefloor...it actually works sometimes if the conditions are right...

2C-me (live version 26-05-09) by Ed Devane

The title "Room Full of Empty People" comes from a mini-rave some friends put on to celebrate a couple of birthdays, in a remote part of Waterford. Floodlights cast shadows of giants dancing in the rain; I was nearly deafened by my own music on my own soundsystem thanks to some ill-advised multiband compression on the master channel, and the title was uttered by me late in the night to someone. I meant to say the room (in actual fact a tent) was empty even though music blared from it, but got it wrong. The phrase stuck though, and is an apt one for this release....

Ed Devane presents Stop/Run

2010-10-20T08:53:00.007+01:00

Stop/Run, 11-18 December 2010, Severed Head

Stop/Run is a show that will combine a number of interests of mine. Before explaining any of them let me first say that I am no expert (at anything)- I'm making efforts to learn as much as I can so that maybe one day I will be pretty good at a few things! Back to these interests, which deserve a short paragraph each:

1. Sound Design

First and foremost, this project is about sound - as a physical thing created as a result of various laws of physics in action, energy vibrating through substrates, be they strings, metal tubes, or air. This project requires me to make several types of instrument that I will then give to the composers to make pieces of music with. Here are a couple of videos I have made demonstrating how two of those will work:

String feedback prototype from Ed Devane on Vimeo.

Wind instrument prototype from Ed Devane on Vimeo.

2. Making things with my brain and hands

First the idea, then the action - I love following an idea through various permutations in my head before trying it out in real life. I'm in a good position to do this at the moment - since making my first zither a couple of years ago, I have steadily been buying hand and power tools. I set up my first workshop in a building without electricity or running water in December last year (the coldest one in living memory or something?), realised after a few days that the cost of running a generator outweighed any benefits and packed it in. Around the same time Lisa Crowne (mainly) and A4 Sounds were talking about renting a building to use as an art studio, so I joined forces with them. Eventually we found the perfect place in Harold's Cross, where I now have access to an ever-improving workshop, desk space to design at, and sound studio to record in.

So it's only really now that I'm able to do this project...

3. Physics / electronics

I'm learning a lot about the physics of sound by making various instrument types, and am thinking logically about how to implement electronics in the project. The plan is to utilise Arduino microcontrollers to control motors, electromagnets and solenoids via computer (most likely Max/MSP or Max for Live). Donal Holland of A4 Sounds is going to help me with that, as I haven't used Arduino before, but am keen to learn!

4. Curation

The Severed Head gallery contacted me / us at Second Square to None to put something on a few months ago. This is more of a solo show than an SSTN show, but a lot of the composers I've invited to compose pieces using the instruments have contributed to SSTN is some way in the past. I chose these composers because they all have open minds, and a fairly diverse range of experience.

In alphabetic order, here's a short biog of each:

Brian Conniffe

Brian Conniffe is a cross-genre, experimental musician who has worked with a long list of collaborators including Nurse With Wound, Suzanne Walsh and United Bible Studies. His work directly states inspiration from such non-musical sources as hypnosis, linguistics and ritual magick, making for a style which fuses the darkest psychedelia with disquieting ambience.

http://brianconniffe.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/brian-conniffe

Niamh de Barra

Niamh de Barra is a Dublin-based composer and musician. She works primarily with cello, voice and electronics. As a solo artist, she recently released her debut EP, "Cusp" on the Second Square to None label.

www.niamhdebarramusic.com

Amanda Feery

Amanda Feery is a musicmaker based in Dublin, working with acoustic and electronic music.Her work has been performed both nationally and internationally in the U.K, U.S, and the Netherlands by groups such as Ensemble ICC, Crash Ensemble, RIAM Percussion Ensemble, Dublin Guitar Quartet, and Orkest de Ereprijs. She was recently selected for a composer residency at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland.

http://www.amandafeery.com/works.html

Laura Hyland

Laura Hyland is a performer-composer. In 2008 she founded the quartet, Clang Sayne to explore the boundary between song and improvisation. Under her direction, the group released their debut album, 'Winterlands' in 2009 to notable critical acclaim. She is currently developing a choral section for the group with fellow composer/singer, Judith Ring, and singer, Laura Murphy. They will make their debut performance as a sextet at Café Oto in London this November.

www.clangsayne.net

Ian McDonnell

Ian McDonnell is a Dublin based composer, producer and DJ. He releases music as Eomac, as Lakker with Dara Smith and he helps run the !Kaboogie label and clubnight. He is also an active member of Bottlenote Music, Spatial Music Collective and the Irish Composers Collective. Currently he is studying towards a PhD in composition with Donnacha Dennehy.

www.myspace.com/ianmcdonnellmusic

www.eomac.net

Shane McKenna

Shane McKenna (has to send me his biog, so I'll write this for now) - Shane is a more than capable musician, but chooses not to make his own music in a standard fashion. Instead he creates animated graphic scores which are projected on a screen. He then invites musicians from all sort of backrounds and abilities to interpret the shapes, colours and durations in his visual composition. The instruments are being designed with the form types and colours consistent with Shane's scores. As I build them Shane will design a score specifically for the show.

http://www.shanemckenna.com/2009/01/about.html

Eoin Smith

Eoin also has to send me a biog but his backround is in producing dancefloor beats under the Taper Jinx alias, and more recently in experimental turntablism. Eoin invited me to play an electro-acoustic piece in Maynooth College recently, where he is conducting a research PhD. As far as I know he intends on sampling the instruments and creating a bank of sounds to perform through his turntable technique.

http://www.myspace.com/303es

Which brings me to...

5. Creative use of limitations

I intend on presenting to the composers a wide range of sound making instruments and ways to control them - direct "playing", automatic control, process points etc., but what is most interesting about giving a group of creative individuals the same brief is how each interprets it. This is something I explored before through the Second Square to None Ten Second Rule last year, where the only restrictions were that an audio file be original, exactly 10 seconds long, and in wav or aif file formats. This project is more complex than that, but comes from the same part of my brain as a way of tying together disparate (and similar) ideologies, approaches and styles.

The instruments will be capable of making sounds, but how the composer uses them is entirely up to them (although I would ask that destructive means are not used - I have not asked for or expect any financial help to make these instruments, and suffice to say on my limited means the parts I've bought have not come cheap!).

6. Visual form / 3-D / Multi-direction audio

As well as make sound these instruments will take a physical form derived in part from the function (strings and pipes = straight lines, speaker cones and soundholes = circles etc.), from space constrictions in the gallery, and aesthetic choice. The colours as mentioned before will be in part based on Shane McKenna's use of the primaries, though I haven't gotten that far yet!

I have long thought of audio in 3-D, visual terms: this show will display some of those ideas, but it's something I will come back to in more depth in future. I will have sound makers placed around the room so how you hear the pieces will vary from where you are standing/ sitting/ walking.

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So there you have a summary of what I'm working at mainly now. I have an ep coming out on Takeover Records in December, am playing gigs with Meljoann and jamming with Fionn Wallace, Laura Hyland and Amanda Feery (FYED, or possibly AMFYEDLA...Amla-Fyed for an Arabic twist?) in the coming weeks and months.

Kaboogie: Rapidfirebuzzer EP

2010-09-20T21:14:00.003+01:00

Yes yes and yes, it's finally here: the third !kaboogie 12" hits the shops today and sounds a bit like this:

KBG003 Rapidfirebuzzer EP by kaboogiemusic

The record features tracks by Mad EP, Sarsparilla, The Banker and myself. My track, "Playtime", had a difficult birth: its conception in May 2009 as the lovechild of an aging Powerbook and an overly demanding version of Ableton Live led to complications in the writing procedure.

Over 10 operations later left Playtime a withered mess. Attempts to inject some life into it through high-tech mastering techniques failed. Thankfully the record was delayed due to a number of reasons beyond my control, giving me time to put the track under the knife again, which involved a tricky Logic -> Live transplant. The high risk involved in this paid off I think, and having played this baby out at a fair few gigs, it gets people hyper. Which would make its parents proud...

Liveset summer 2010

2010-09-20T15:57:00.003+01:00

I've just uploaded a recording of my most current live-set, more or less the same set I played at Rathlin last month and on Saturday last for Test @ Twisted Pepper supporting Anodyne. I've made this set with dancefloor satisfaction in mind...

Ed Devane @ Test 18-09-10 by Ed Devane

Tracklist:
1. Ed Devane - Stony-faced / Cataclysmic
2. Ed Devane - BYM version
3. Ed Devane - Tua
4. Ed Devane - Technoblient version
5. T-Polar - War Stories for Boys (Ed Devane remix)(War Stories Remixes - Takeover Recordings)
6. Ed Devane - Squib (dry) (feat. vox from Amanda Feery + Regan O'Brien "From the Moment You Arrive")
7. Ed Devane - Frozen Backpackers (Trapdoor Material Part 2 v/a/ EP - Mantrap Records 005)
8. Ed Devane - Playtime (Rapidfirebuzzer v/a EP - !kaboogie KBG003)
9. Ed Devane - Melted Membrane (remix of Molten Membrane album, forthcoming Mantrap)
10. Ed Devane - Lissajous Inversion
11. Ed Devane - Money for Beer? (Over the Counter-Culture v/a EP, Spacebar Sentiments SBS002)
12. Ed Devane - Chalktown Bounce Collision (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
13. Ed Devane - (why worry about something that doesn't exist?)Future (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
14. Ed Devane - 2C-me (Room Full of Empty People EP, forthcoming Takeover)
15. Ed Devane - Stand Clear (personal space mix)
16. Anodyne - Haze (Ed Devane remix)

Shouts to Test for being proper promoters: the guestlist places, free beer and fee were much appreciated! Other promoters take note, this is how you keep musicians happy.

Promoters - I am available to play gigs if you are willing to pay me for them. Otherwise I can't justify the time it takes to prepare for them, nor can I afford getting to and from venues with my gear / hanging around / buying beer for want of anything better to do. I've played a lot of gigs this year, and these expenses ,while small, do add up.

DYAD installation in Pallas Studios, Smithfield, 2-4 September

2010-08-31T13:24:00.003+01:00

A while back multidisciplinary artist Dáinne Nic Aoidh got in touch with me about collaborating on an installation. It opens tomorrow in Pallas Contemporary Projects, Smithfield. I've rigged small electronic audio circuits to 2 moving pieces and prepared some bass feedback and zither tones to complement the installation. I'll have video of the results in a couple of days which will give you a better idea of what it is I am talking about...

Gig in Twisted Pepper 18-09-10

2010-08-31T13:10:00.004+01:00

Saturday night in Twisted Pepper...nice line-up, with myself, Anodyne and Redmonk in the ground floor live room, Redshape and Barry Redsettaz downstairs. I'm going to be be playing a fairly wonked up techno set for this one...more details about the other acts playing can be found here.

Gigs

2010-07-09T22:56:00.003+01:00

Two gigs coming up in the next few weeks: on the 24th July at this:

SSTN associates A4 Sounds are putting on a fundraiser gig in The Cavern (The Good Bits, 1 Store St., Dublin 1) on Saturday 24th July. The art group have been asked to fill an empty shop unit in Tuam Shopping Center, Tuam, Co. Galway as part of the Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival in August. Being an artist-run collective, and being that most of the members are forever broke, they are exchanging techno for cash!

Proceeds will go towards making the show something to remember for all at the festival, and the line up promises to deliver heavy and in places off-kilter styles of the people's number one* party music: techno!

I'm working on a more techno-based liveset that should do the job of making people jump around and spill beer all over themselves.

As well as that I was asked to play at the Jigs 'n' Rigs festival on Rathlin Island , which definitely calls for minimal noodling and maximal groove! I might also be playing an ambient/noise set before things get going again one of the days, but we'll see how it goes.

Immediately after that I'll be working with visualist Kavi on an audio-visual project involving a lot of messing around with Open Sound Control, Flash and Max for Live, and immediately after that I'll be off to Tuam to play a gig and be around to help out at the A4 Corp opening. Busy few weeks ahead in other words!

Mantis Radio set available for download

2010-07-08T12:44:00.003+01:00

My set from a couple of weeks ago on darkfloor.co.uk can be downloaded or stream from here: http://darkfloor.co.uk/mantis-064-ed-devane/

Tracklist:

Ed Devane - Arcane (Molten Membrane, Mantrap Records 2010)
Ed Devane - Arcane (Anodyne Remix V. 1- forthcoming Mantrap)
CED- CED Jam #1 (CED=collaboration with Kachanski and Dubreak)
Convolutions # 1 (made for the !kaboogie mash series )

Ed Devane - Predicament (Antimode v/a EP, Stasis Records)
FYED - Fyed Jam excerpt
Ed Devane - Depth Dub mash
Ed Devane - BYM version
Ed Devane - Brain Your Melt (Feat. Scurvy Lass)(Molten Membrane)
Ed Devane - Life and Soul (forthcoming Room Full of Empty People EP, Takeover Recordings)/ Winter Party vocal (Niamh de Barra)
Ed Devane - Pseudo Occident mash
Ed Devane - Plinktronics (unreleased 2002)
Ed Devane - First Date (feat Scurvy Lass) (Molten Membrane)
JMT vs. Ed -Whistle
Ed Devane - Madrugando (feat Susana Peralta) / Frozen Backpackers techno version
Ed Devane -Doomtime (feat Scurvy Lass)(Molten Membrane)
Ed Devane -Playtime (forthcoming "Rapid Fire Buzzer" v/a ep, !kaboogie)
CER jam vs. Ed #1 (edit of jam with Kachanski and Rory St. John)
Ed Devane - Future (space version)(forthcoming in some form on RFoEP EP, Takeover)
CER jam vs. Ed #2 (edit of jam with Kachanski and Rory St. John)
T-Polar - War Stories For Boys (Ed Devane remix)(War Stories Remixes, Takeover Recordings)
Anodyne - Haze (Ed Devane remix)(forthcoming Anodyne - Corrosion remixes, Psychonavigation Records)

See the sound, hear the image

2010-06-30T14:12:00.011+01:00

These are some of the results of a couple of days work with audio-image conversion, editing, reassembling, and reconverting. Where there is a Soundcloud player the image above is what made the sound, or vice versa. I'm working on a way to make pictures that will make "nicer" sounds than these examples, which are pretty hard going. Still though, I'm now in possession of over 3 hour's worth of new audio which will become the basis for more sound design.

More things like this coming soon...

Composition8 by Ed Devane

Splice3 by Ed Devane

Lines7l by Ed Devane

Lines5 by Ed Devane

Lines4 by Ed Devane

Gradients Cut2 by Ed Devane

Denmark japan 2 by Ed Devane

Composition11a by Ed Devane

Composition3 by Ed Devane

Composition2-b by Ed Devane

Composition9 by Ed Devane

Improvised noise over Denmark vs. Japan and Chile vs. Spain

2010-06-28T13:42:00.006+01:00

Amanda Feery and Fyed. pt 1. by FYED
Amanda Feery and Fyed. pt 2 by FYED

Amanda Feery, Ed Devane, Fyodor, Gavin Prior, Niamh De Barra. pt 1 by fyodor

Amanda Feery, Ed Devane, Fyodor, Gavin Prior, Niamh De Barra. pt 2 by fyodor

Amanda Feery, Ed Devane, Fyodor, Gavin Prior, Niamh De Barra. Pt 3 by fyodor

We got the chance to make loads of noise over a couple of World Cup games in The Shed art space in Dublin last week. Here's the second match, where myself, Fionn, Amanda Feery, Niamh de Barra and Gavin Prior were using an assortment of noise making devices. I had made a couple of vuvuzela inspired instruments out of uileann pipe double reeds, plastic pipe and oil funnels, and used 2 box zithers and feedback processes. Niamh was on cello, Amanda on harmonium and clarinet, Gavin on amplified cutlery stands, melodica and feedback, and Fionn used his fancy new mixer, a deck, drum machine, and a load of pedals.

Nobody came the first day except for Niamh and Shane McKenna (whose graphic score we played on Monday), and the next day wasn't much better. It was a lot of fun though, a nice space, plenty of room and with the FYED soundsystem everything was sounding good (and delicious vegan food afterwards). Audio-visuals all the way...

FYED jam 12-06-10

2010-06-16T22:52:00.001+01:00

World Cup Song # 1 by FYED

Something we recorded over the weekend, starts of sparse develops into a sharp noisescape and sounds pretty cool I think!

Welfare Clinic DJ/ Live set 2-06-10

2010-06-10T16:22:00.003+01:00

Ed-devane-welfare-clinic by Ed Devane

This is my set from last week's Welfare Clinic show hosted by DJ Welfare on Radio Na Life. I used a lot of tunes from the archives, making Frankenstein-like mashes from re-purposed basslines or breaks taken from abandoned or obsolete tunes. I have a lot of live jams and unreleased tangents of tunes from over the last couple of years especially, some of which are put to use here.

This mix featured the vocal talents of (in order of appearance) Madja Ratkje (yoink), Laura Sheeran, Niamh de Barra, Susana Peralta, Amanda Feery, and Regan Davis. Also in there are mashes of John Mary Trilogy recordings and recent jams with Kachanski and Dubreak, and remixes I've done in the last few weeks of Anodyne, T-Polar and Swarm Intelligence, and some new tunes coming up for release on Takeover Recordings and !kaboogie, and maybe SSTN. Hope ye like, as ever I am available to play gigs so get in touch if you want to book me.

boop boop (2001)/Convolutions # 1 (!kaboogie Mash Series)/ RT (forthcoming SSTN)
Tekmantics (live 2007)/
Native Reserve (live 2008)
Squib (fortcoming SSTN)
Path Intersection (live 2010)
Bears (live 2008)/ Dubcore Maximus (!kaboogie)/Strip Swap (Molten Membrane, Mantrap 2010)
Ku-Ku (2003)

Depth Dub (2004) / Noisome remix version (Kontakte 2007)
Brain Your Melt (live remix 2010)/ Brain Your Melt (Molten Membrane)
Life and Soul (forthcoming Takeover Records) / Winter Party acappella (Niamh de Barra, Cusp EP, forthcoming SSTN)
Giant Bassmantics (Squirm EP, Touchin Bass 2006)/ Weeping Chickens (2001)/ Jam with Susana Benavente (2005)
From the moment you arrive (vocal: Amanda Feery + Regan O'Brien)/ First Date (Molten Membrane)/ Plinktronics (2002)

JMT vs. ED (John Mary Trilogy recordings / reconditioned breaks from the archive / live ambient jams…possibly forthcoming SSTN)
/ Madrugando (feat. Susana Benavente, 2006) / Frozen Backpackers (live techno version 2010) / Stand Clear (live 2010)
Doomtime! (feat Niamh de Barra/Scurvy Lass, Molten Membrane)
GRND Remix (Swarm Intelligence, forthcoming on Stasis Records)
Playtime (forthcoming !kaboogie) / Frozen Backpackers (version x)
Overflux remix (Magnetize, Mantrap 2007)/ Space jams (Dubreak, Kachanski, Ed Devane live ensemble 2010)/ Future (live 2010, forthcoming Takeover)

Space Mash (Spin (2003)/ Spacejams (live) re-edited / Apulse loop (2007))
War Stories remix ( T-Polar, Takeover Records)/ Blomg (feat Scurvy Lass, 2004) / space noises
Haze remix (Anodyne, forthcoming TBC)
2C-me (Room Full of Empty People, Takeover)

Some music I've been doing recently...

2010-06-06T16:53:00.002+01:00

Withering Zithering - Idle-ising by Ed Devane

A little jam with my zither, a malfunctioning phrase sampler and some reverb, and a seriously malfunctioning 80's Soundcraft mixing desk I recorded last week while trying to write something for the SSTN String Series. This is me just messing around, but it sounds alright. I'll be making something a lot more layered and "composed" this week under the Withering Zithering moniker, which will probably sound very different to this.

JMT vs. ED by Ed Devane

While working on a mix for DJ Welfare's Welfare Clinic show on Radio Na Life a couple of weeks ago I searched the archives for material I could use / re-use. I have hours and hours of recordings of John Mary Trilogy jams for a couple of years ago which alone will never see the light of day due to the overall quality of the recordings (and music).

That said it's a fertile picking ground for interesting textures, rhythms and noises, and the above is an example of what I could throw together in 20 minutes with the addition of some beats taken from a minute long, abandoned attempt at drum 'n' bass made in 2003. The radio mix should be online in the next few days, link on its way.

Fyed-jam-2a 4-06-10 by FYED

Finally got around to jamming with Fyodor for our FYED noise / electro-acoustic / hearing damage project. I used a little motor-powered air fan bought that day in Maplins, a telephone/ magnetic coil pick-up for input and an effect feedback ensemble in Ableton Live, and he used a turntable, loopers and effects. Plans are afoot for gigs and releases over the summer.

While not in Wexford over the last few weeks (supposedly putting the finishing touches to my next release on Takeover Recordings - "Room Full of Empty People" EP) I had a few jams with Kachanski, Rory St. John, Ronan Dunne and Dubreak in the space we started renting recently. Sound samples coming soon.

More noise

2010-04-29T13:54:00.002+01:00

Feed the Sines by Ed Devane

The result of messing around with a new system in Ableton Live, trying to reconcile noise/feedback with rhythm. This is a one-take jam, but some nice sounds in there so I thought I'd share. You will thank me.

"Klatter" video and life update # 7

2010-04-29T01:49:00.004+01:00

Klatter - Ed Devane from Dung Foo on Vimeo.

A video made by Paul Bluefood to a track called "Klatter" off my debut CD album Molten Membrane. Cheers Paul!

I've been busy the last few weeks remixing Anodyne, Swarm Intelligence and T-Polar, and am about to start phase 2 of production (i.e. make rough sketchs into a finished tracks) of an EP for Takeover Records, and another for SSTN. Expect fairly heavy dancefloor material for the former and more dubby headphones music for the latter.

Second Square to None

2010-03-28T17:08:00.003+01:00

http://www.secondsquaretonone.com/

Loads of livesets from Irish producers, a Noise Series, Ten Second Rule and various other bits and bobs. At the moment we're making plans for a couple of one off gigs to launch a label, and have more noise and string music coming soon from a selection of acts based in Ireland. New mixes every Monday, and an exclusive interview and mp3 every Wednesday (approximately) from 'noise' artists.

Withering Zithering

2010-03-23T22:50:00.003Z

Withering Zithering is a side project of mine which so far consists of nothing more than this page:

http://www.myspace.com/witheringzithering

The tunes there are various live recordings I've made over the last 2 or 3 years ("Slipstreams" is one I found on my computer today), but soon I'll be putting time aside to make a proper EP of layered zither music. I got an old Guitar Zither recently and am in the process of making / designing several other instruments with strings to compliment my "breakfast tray" zither. This project will focus on harmony and melody in favour of rhythm and noise so might actually be something you'd want to listen to.

I hope to soon be playing gigs as Withering Zithering, if I can fit them in with my busy gig schedule as Ed Devane (sarcasm meant).

March 2010 Liveset, beats for your feet, noise for your brain

2010-03-08T18:21:00.004Z

Molten Membrane launch liveset by Ed Devane

This is my new liveset, or at least one version of it. As always rough in places, both stylistically and in terms of musicianship. Ahem.

The point of making a liveset is to play it really loud on a big sound system...so gimme gigs!

Tracklist:
1. Arcane (Molten Membrane, Mantrap)
2. Paths (possibly forthcoming on Second Square to None / SSTN)
3. Squib (possibly forthcoming on Second Square to None / SSTN)
4. Brain Your Melt (version) (Molten Membrane)
5. Chalktown Bounce Collision (currently homeless)
6. Get My Way (version) (in another form on Molten Membrane)
7. Playtime (forthcoming on !kaboogie)
8. Frozen Backpackers (Trapdoor Material 2, Mantrap)
9. Doomtime (Molten Membrane)
10. Future (forthcoming on Takeover)
11. 2C-me (forthcoming on Takeover)
12. Stand Clear (currently homeless)
13. Brain Your Melt (another version)(Molten Membrane)

Molten Membrane

2010-03-08T16:53:00.003Z

Finally! My debut album, Molten Membrane, will be available in Dublin from Spindizzy this week. It should be available in other countries from the end of April.

Massive thanks to:
Sunil Sharpe / Mantrap for firstly asking me to make an album, and then releasing it, and for organising the launch gig which took place in Kennedy's on Saturday night.

Niamh de Barra / Scurvy Lass for the typically humourous and catchy vocals

Kev Largey, for the artwork - perfect!

Chris Flynn, for the graphic design / texturing / typography

...and everyone who came to the gig, hope ye like the album!

A recording of my new liveset will be up here soon enough, and yes, I am available to play gigs, so if you're in a position to book me to play, get in touch!

Wrong Music Show set 90210

2010-02-10T14:41:00.003Z

Wrong Music Radio set 9-02-10 by Ed Devane

Here's some noise soup I brewed up over the past few weeks, arranged in the last few days, and played on Sound Art Radio for The Wrong Music Show hosted by Ebola, Judith Priest and Sorry.

The file they tried playing was corrupt somehow so it was a bit wobbly to begin with on the broadcast, but this is the original recording. The piece has a lot going on in it, so listening on headphones or at high volumes would be advised for best results. Sounds combine, collide, ebb, flow, stutter and distort in a constantly shifting soundscape that will make your mind wander, or else really annoy you!

Thanks to the Wrong radio crew for firstly asking me to do a set for them and secondly playing it on the radio, despite the technical difficulties...

Album launch gig March 6th, Dublin

2010-01-27T19:20:00.002Z

New bits in preparation for k-club tomorrow 21-01-10

2010-01-20T16:42:00.004Z

Live Jams with beats by Ed Devane

Some live jams from the last day or two to give anyone who's going to the k-Club tomorrow evening an idea of what's in store...rough and ready, live sampling, repetitive rhythms...on a techno tip!

I've been doing a lot of work on making a live set up in Ableton with controllers the last few weeks, so these live jams will improve the more I practice...

New tune, rough live version

2009-12-29T19:19:00.001Z

Squib (live damp version) by Ed Devane

I just recorded this now and offer it to the mists of the internet as an example of what my new liveset is going to sound like...

New sound design

2009-12-19T18:59:00.003Z

Catch by Ed Devane

Caught by Ed Devane

Reat beepeat by Ed Devane

I'm working on a new liveset, making good use of the power my new laptop gives me. I'm using feedback processes and my zither exclusively to make new sounds, and here are some examples. Ableton has slowly but surely overtaken Logic as my main sound design / composition tool, partly out of necessity (all my recent tunes have grown out of live sets made in Live) and partly because of the ease of the whole process.

I'm not saying these are pieces of music as they were made through somewhat random techniques...but I think they sound nice and who knows, maybe you will too. "Catch" and "Caught" are versions of the same sounds, and Reet BeepEat is some layered loops of distortion feedback (which have since become My Best Rave Sound Ever).

For anyone who might be frustrated by all this noise and want to hear some beats, don't worry...I'm working on new tracks and will be playing gigs again from January onwards, so I'll have a new proper liveset up here soon enough!

!kaboogie feature on spannered.org, mix of my new stuff

2009-12-09T23:15:00.004Z

Check out this feature on Spannered - a while back I was asked by !kaboogie to make a promo mix of my stuff, so I made a selection of tunes that have either just been released or will be released in the coming months.

Making a liveset is much easier than trying to mix mixdowns of my music together. I'm no DJ and maybe that reflects in a lack of DJ-friendliness in my tunes! So I enlisted Redmonk to do it for me. He did a good job considering the diversity in tempo and vibe of the tracks!

Main !kaboogie article is here, there's a liveset by ForceFed and tracks by 16 Hz and Major Grave as part of the feature.

Stasis Antimode v/a net release freetastic

2009-12-09T22:15:00.005Z

The first release of the new Stasis Records label, featuring tracks by myself, Euphiophone, Ventolyn & Becotyde, Swarm Intelligence and David Adams.

There's a really nice flow to this compilation, washes of guitar-like ambient noise and electronic beats. I particularly like the Euphiophone and David Adams tracks the best...

Get it here!

My track is a live take of a tune I spent a good bit of time over-producing...the early live version pleased my ears more than the supposedly new and improved version.

FYED article on Analogue

2009-12-09T22:13:00.002Z

An interview with myself and Fionn, some Second Square to None plugging and impressions on noise, written by Eadaoin O'Sullivan:
Read it here.

I say "like" a lot when I speak it seems!

Thumb piano, bike recyling part 1

2009-11-12T19:49:00.004Z

A few weeks ago I found a small wooden box for sale in a charity shop, which cost me 50 cent. This week I had to buy a new wheel for my bike so used the spokes from the old one as the tines, a couple of bits of dowel and some nuts and bolts and boom! Thumb piano.

This is a recording of me messing around on it with untrained thumbs...

Spoke Kalimba

FYED "remix" through audio-image conversion

2009-11-11T00:16:00.004Z

USER0003 copy by FYED

This is not for the fainthearted, but interesting in the same way car crashes are. I've been interested in the idea of messing with digital audio information ever since a CD of some music I burned turned out very wrong indeed, like the 1's had become 0's, turning what was music into wild cacophony. A couple of weeks ago I was looking for a way to visualise the binary that makes up a digital audio file, and found a way of converting audio into an image format that Photoshop could display.

By processing the image in nearly any way, then transcoding the results to audio, I ended up with the most intense noise I have ever created / facilitated...not perhaps the most listenable noise, but interesting how the same information interpreted through another medium and back again can sound like this!

Little Mix of some wayward tracks and outaken tests

2009-10-27T16:15:00.002Z

Here's a little mix of some tunes I've made over the past few years. Basically I have no more old music left now, so will be making a load of new ones in the coming weeks and months. The tunes on this mix are a mixture of broken beats, beats with vocals, beats with zither, and noise beats. So pretty much a lot of beats. I hope you play this really loud and experience The Fear.

Def Record

2009-10-24T16:47:00.005+01:00

hehehe...this is a shout from below the Irish underground in response to a certain festival (and their compilation CD) on around now.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Associates Ned Deviant(UK/USA) feat TopsyTurvy Girl and DJ Dummy Klips jostle for attention with Sadam Handler, Crywank and Aul Wan in a mega mix of the shits...goodtimes music!!!

New Takeover Recordings release now available!

2009-10-22T16:12:00.005+01:00

Takeover Recordings, the first label I had anything released on (in 2005, a track myself, thatboytim and redmonk produced called "Guilty Feat. Got No Rhythm" on the Lowslung EP), is back in digital form with Response Unit 1, a various artists EP. Techno and electro stylings are the order of the day from T-Polar, Rogue Frequency, The Parallel and Jay Riordan, though I see Juno have been kind not to use either of those words to catagorise the release. I wouldn't call my track electro or techno, so downbeat noise dub will have to do.

It's jiggy stuff that'll get a floor moving, which is exactly what "dance" music should do! Response Unit 1 is available to buy from Juno now. There'll be a Takeover/Nice & Nasty / Static Recordings showcase gig as part of DEAF on Thursday 29th October in Pygmalion, South William Street, Dublin 2 from 6 in the evening until 2.30am, free admission! Alongside everyone on this release (but myself) Rob Glennon, Toirse, thatboytim, Desy Balmer, Defekt, Sean Mac and Daire Delmar will be playing live or DJ'ing. Shapin' up to be a wicked festival!

Trapdoor Material Part Two released this week

2009-10-19T22:21:00.003+01:00

We got our copies of the latest ManTrap Recordings 12" "Trapdoor Material Part 2" a couple of days ago from label boss Sunil Sharpe. It's a four track various artist record featuring Fran Harnett, Uninerves (Rory St. John in dubteker mode), Kachanski and myself, and with artwork by Redmonk (who has also been painting the stage we'll be using for the Second Square to None DEAF gig this week). Good buzz to be on a record with these guys, they're all good mates, and we've been looking forward to this record being out for a while.

Expect techno in pure and dubby form from Fran and Rory on the A, techy electro productions from Kachanski and guaranteed DJ-head-wrecking, tempo-changing, 2 1/2 step bass rumblings from me.

For now the record is only available in Spindizzy Records in George's Arcade, Dublin 2, but will be available from Juno etc. in about a month. Have a listen to the samples on the ManTrap myspace page, and draw your own conclusions (and buy the record).

Second Square to None - Ten Second Rule

2009-10-15T16:56:00.002+01:00

Second Square to None - Ten Second Rule by SSTN
The Ten Second Rule project is the first fully integrated Second Square to None project. The idea is simple: get loads of music makers to submit a ten second long piece of audio, then get other music makers to use these sounds as the basis for larger pieces of music, for example a live set.

I've written about it more here, so won't go on and on about it on this blog.

I have two tracks in the collection : one credited to Ed Devane and one to Withering Zithering. Currently I'm using images generated from highly processed and subsequently transcoded Ten Second Rule audio files as the basis for visuals which I will play on Sunday 25-10-09 while Fyodor makes the noise. You can view a really rough, jerky, and as it has been pointed out to me, 80's-looking, example of this here:

I've a lot of work to do still so don't be surprised if that's a dead link in a few days when I have something better up there...

FYED mix on Second Square to None

2009-10-05T12:16:00.006+01:00

FYED @ SSTN
Here's a set we did for Second Square to None in August. Processes and improvisation combined to make a half hour long blend of sounds and moods. Hope y'all like...

The artwork is a scan of a pencil drawing I did a while back, messed around with a little in PhotoShop.

Balloon Fates

2009-10-04T23:51:00.005+01:00

Soundscapes Noisescapes by Ed Devane

2009-10-02T13:17:00.002+01:00

Soundscapes Noisescapes by Ed Devane

Track on Dublin Electronic Arts Festival CD

2009-10-02T12:32:00.003+01:00

As far as I know the DEAF launch is on this evening in the Sugar Club, and the booklet with CD will be given away on the door.

There'll be 40 acts on the 2 discs apparently, and I'm one of them. I submitted a track called "Klatter" off my forthcoming album on Man Trap Recordings, something that may or may not have been included on the inlay. I had to edit the track to conform to the less than 4 minutes. Fascinating eh.

For those of you who would like to hear more beats by me (as apposed to the "noise annoys" material I like posting up all the time), there'll be a promo mix of new tunes I've made in the last few months mixed by redmonk on www.spannered.org, featuring tunes from my album and upcoming (in the next few weeks) releases on !kaboogie, Takeover Records, Stasis and Man Trap.

That is all! Oh yeh I'll be playing at the !k Club for Kaboogie in 2 weeks time, assuming the currently flooded basement of Thomas House has been restored to its former opulence

FYED

2009-09-30T13:33:00.003+01:00

Myself and Fyodor have a project called FYED we've been doing on and off for the last year or so since the dissolution of John Mary Trilogy, the band we were in together.

We'll be playing on Sunday 25th October at Second Square to None, using material made by a large group of people for a project called the Ten Second Rule. So in order to have something for people to listen to I made yet another SoundCloud account.

Ch-ch-ch-check it out: FYED on SoundCloud

Oh yeh, we mainly do soundscape / noise / drone / improvised sort of stuff, but have plans to do different types of music in the coming months and years...

New music up on SoundCloud

2009-09-30T12:47:00.004+01:00

Hello, I'm uploading some "new" stuff onto my free SoundCloud account. I have a feeling that will mean that you won't directly be able to hear the previous tracks I had on there but no matter.

Since finishing my album I haven't been making much music, at least not with a computer...I did however buy myself a Sonuus G2M Guitar to MIDI translator, a simple device that allows me to play synths or samplers with my zither. I've been playing the instrument a lot of late, and have made a removable fretboard for it, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities previously unavailable to me.

Currently I'm working on a new instrument, which will be a small electric harp / hammered dulcimer type instrument. I'll post pictures in a few weeks when it's done. Other than that I'm amassing a big pile of materials - metal tubes, bells, wire, mechanical components such as motors, springs, solenoids etc. for use in an as yet unthought of kinetic sound sculpture / sculptures.

http://soundcloud.com/ed-devane

SoundCloud

2009-08-18T15:57:00.002+01:00

I've moved to SoundCloud for my music hosting.

All I'll say is that I do not recommend Mocha Hosting. If you like seeing all your files disappear without a trace or any backup then it might be the company for you though...

Anyway, I haven't got much up there yet as it's a free account, and limited to 5 uploads a month, but here it is...
Ed Devane on SoundCloud

FTP compromised

2009-08-14T15:35:00.002+01:00

All the MP3's linked to on this site and www.secondsquaretonone.com got deleted for some reason that the hosting company blithely passed off as being the result of a worm attack. Sounds like an easy answer for them to give...but as far as I know Mac computers don't get viruses / worms?

Anyway until I find another way of hosting them (and spend up to a week uploading them on this sloooooow internet connection) you'll just have to be content with not listening to my music from this page...

What I've been working on this week

2009-07-18T19:29:00.003+01:00

Safety Bubble in Invisibility Mode

This is a live recording of an improvisation I did yesterday with the feedback system I've made using Ableton as a mixer and several effects units and loop samplers. As such there is no input, with amplified line noise from the effects output being fed back through itself, which creates different types of sound depending on the effect in question and EQ settings. If you've got a subwoofer or big speakers things should start rattling all over the place at high volumes.

I've spent the last few days setting this up in such a way that I can control nearly everything without having to touch the computer. The plan is to get really good at controlling the signals, learn to play the effects as instruments, record record record and afterwards arrange and edit the results down to something interesting.

The name refers to a product that surrounds the body, keeping other people at a safe distance, which has a transparency control. As far as I know no such product exists but until one is made available I'm going to make do with my reticence and disinterest skills to achieve the same result!

Finale

2009-07-12T19:16:00.004+01:00

Finale

Just came across this tune I made while living in Spain a few years ago. It's pretty rough, as I never got to do the gig it was supposed to be the closing track of, so gave up working on it .The set was going to be based on different stages of a failed relationship, ranging from upbeat and poppy (initial stages) to harrowing soundscapes (less happy times)...all that kinda stuff. A bit emo in retrospect! Anyway, this tune is a summary of what the different stages of the 45 minute set would have been like. I found 2 singers willing to work with me, Susana Peralta Benevente and Liza Venezuelana, who were going to accompany me live.

I'm not sure what happened to the gig, I think the guy putting it on was more ambitious than he was successful (something I suppose many people are guilty of!!)...I ended up preparing another set of pre-written material, so not really live, but nobody showed up so I didn't bother playing.

I like the sounds that make up the middle section of the tune...I hope some of you like them too.

Finale by Ed Devane is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Some artwork I did for Fyodor's CD-r release

2009-07-03T22:38:00.003+01:00

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

I did this a while back for the Second Square to None mini-label. We record everything played at the gigs, and some of them get put onto 20 cd copies, cased in square, white cardboard sleeves. We commission an artist to do different designs for each of the 20, and so far each artist has taken a different approach to doing this. Fyodor made the mixes on the CD using some unorthodox turntable techniques so I decided to do a bit of "subtractive synthesis" with the artwork and etched / embossed the cardboard with various blades and files.

There are 5 sets of 4, although 2 are missing (one is a mystery, the other was lost through my own stupidity using Photoshop). I had to raise the levels a lot for the patterns to be visible at all - the artwork on the actual copies is only visible when held at an angle to a light source - so they look a bit green / grey instead of their actual white. I need projects like this in order to do any drawing at all, otherwise I don't bother and make noises instead!

Second Square to None # 5

2009-06-30T21:20:00.004+01:00

Second Square to None is a project I'm involved with here in Dublin. We had a great time the other day at our latest gig in Twisted Pepper, great livesets from Gland & Conduit, who put the brand new Void sound system through its first N-O-I-S-E test (at which it performed admirably); Ventolyn & Becotyde (the first of hopefully many times he'll play in Dublin), Bluefood, and the last gig Sunken Foal will do with Rod on live beat-tapping. There was tonnes of other stuff on, which you can read about over on the Second Square to None blog.

The next one is on Sunday 9th August, and I'm in the process of booking people for it. Myself and Fyodor are planning on doing a set where each of us has one side of the stereo system - where I'll have the left speaker(s) and he'll have the right - and try to approximate what the other is doing. It's going to be a bit of a noisefest! Probably have a few beats in there at some stage...I'm going to prepare a time-based technique "score" for it, which we plan to practise seperately then together closer to the time of the gig. No pre-recorded sounds...

Drawing on wall

2009-06-14T13:17:00.005+01:00

I did this for A4 Sounds, an art/music collective who have put on some extremely fun gigs in Dublin and more recently Belfast, where this picture was taken. It's deliberately lacking in detail as I knew it was going to be transferred onto a wall in a skate park (with the aid of a projector). Lisa, a.k.a. iheartwillies and a couple of others spent a week doing all the hard work of transferring about 10 pictures onto the rough surfaced wall. Then we had a gig, at which myself, Kachanski, Rory St. John, Ronan Dunne (who still hasn't got any sort of website), Scurvy Lass and Jimmy the Hideous Penguin played, with our gear set up on the top of a half-pipe. Meanwhile coloured chalk was made available to the audience to colour in the murals as they wanted. Great craic!

I've only started drawing again recently, it's something I used to spend a lot of time doing as a kid but like nearly everything else I used to spend time doing, gave way to making noise. I tend to think in 3 dimensional terms moreso than 2-D so will be undertaking various attempts at sculpture in the coming months. I'll post pictures here as I know my legions of avid followers are dying to see photos of bits of wire stapled onto bits of wood. Fascinating stuff...for me, to make...for now the process tends to be more satisfying than the end result but I am planning on building various technologically enhanced kinetic sound sculptures...just need some money so I can buy loads of stuff from this shop.

A track that found its way onto a blog

2009-06-13T23:56:00.004+01:00

...that wasn't meant to. Ah well, I hope people listen to it, that's the main thing...

I wrote this while living in Barcelona a few years ago. I was working in Hertz Rent-a-Car at BCN airport, and having to get up mad early in order to get there for 7am, hence the title, which in Spanish means "(doing something) in the early morning" (the wee hours). The vocal is by Susana Peralta who currently is singing in Rain Lickers in Barcelona.

Madrugando

Madrugando by Ed Devane is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Older livesets that are floating around online, collected

2009-06-13T23:33:00.004+01:00

Yup yup, as may be becoming clear by now, I want to collect everything I've made that is online, whether it's meant to be or not, in this one place. So by the end of this, the day I made my blog, there will be approximately 6 fucking hours worth of my music....ugh!
You don't have to listen to it (all in one sitting) so relax!

This is a mix I did for (you guessed it!)!kaboogie in spring 2008. It's a live recording of a practise in preparation for a gig I did in 4 Dame Lane in Dublin supporting Boxcutter. It's fairly heavy and dubby, but not the most banging set ever.

March 2008 liveset

Next up is a recording (a very distorted recording) of myself and Scurvy Lass live at the 2008 Mantua Festival...which I have to say was one of the best gig experiences I've had, though again I had no soundcheck which resulted in it being a lot more distorted than it was meant to be. Luckily that didn't detract from it all! This was made to keep people moving violently and features lots of heavy beats and bass, and noise zithering.

Mantua 2008 liveset

This is the first proper liveset I made using Ableton Live, in 2007, for the first gig I did in Dublin of club music, again for !kaboogie, this time supporting Drop The Lime. It was also probably the first time I started experimenting with the techno 4/4 beat...this one starts spacey and ends pretty fast and hard.

Summer 2007 liveset

I think that about covers all the sets of mine online that are in any way worth listening to. There may be some of the same tunes in these mixes, or versions of the same tunes, but most of them reflect what I was working on at the time.

Ambient/ Noise Mixes collected

2009-06-13T22:25:00.004+01:00

I've always liked making unsettling ambient music and soundscapes, though to be honest I've never actually "composed" any pieces in this style. That is to say they are largely improvised or process based (feedback being my main process), so I don't mind giving them away for free. I see these recordings as studies for my next big project, which will be highly composed/constructed and mixed in 5.1 surround sound. To the chase I am now cutting.

Live at Lazybird, Dublin, 20-02-05

This is a recording of my very first gig in a public venue (having played tunes at parties and stuff before). I had started using Native Instruments Reaktor in conjunction with a mixer, a modified guitar and a loop sampler 2 months before, and nervously left a CD of some of the recordings in with the guys who ran Lazybird, a weekly Sunday night oasis of all things weird and wonderful on the experimental music front in Dublin. I was surprised when they got back to me a few days later to offer me a gig. It's an oddly bowel-loosening experience, the waiting to go on stage if you've never done it before! Pre-gig shit out of the way when I got on stage I realised that my MIDI controller wasn't working but I managed to get over it quickly enough and got down to making the noise.

Ambnoiund Mix
I did this one for Paul Grant's show on Power FM last year some time. It's a mix of older recordings from the archives, made with an assortment of zithers, motors, effects units and loopers.

What You See Is What You're Given

This is another mix I did for !kaboogie in December 2008. It's a .ZIP file so you'll have to download it if you want to listen to it! I assembled it from improvisations I recorded in preparation for my set at Second Square to None #1 on 30-11-08 in The Joy Gallery, Dublin. That's the next set:

Live @ The Joy Gallery

Winter...I definitely write differently when it's cold! Both this and the previous mix were made with the same gear and techniques so sound quite similar. I collected some more of the recordings made around this time and will make a mini-release of them for anyone interested in the coming hours/days. Like I say, someone may find some value in them if I make them available...otherwise they'll stay unheard on my hard drive.

So yeh...this is just a taste - the main function these experiments has is to provide the raw material I make my more edited music with. A word of advise - listen to these on headphones in the dark for best results.

Mash up !kaboogie - "Convolutions # 1"

2009-06-13T21:54:00.002+01:00

Every week a new mash up (that is, the mixing together of 2 or more tunes in order to make something new) gets posted on kaboogie.net. Never wishing to make life easy for myself I chose to use loads of tunes, probably more in hiphop sampling style than mash style. Whatever.

The experiment didn't have the desired effect, but sounds pretty good. In fact this is probably the only time I've ever sampled other people's music, something that personally I see as a cop out - not to detract from other people's use of samples, I just enjoy making my own sounds...a lot.

Convolutions # 1

Anyway, I used the following tunes:

Squarepusher: Metteng Excuske V1.2 ("ping" noise) / Boris: Ibitsu (feedback)
Laura Sheeran:Below is Golden (vocal)
Brian Fleming: Phuis Fluich (percussion loop)
Evan Parker / Keith Rowe / Barry Guy / Eddie Prévost: Supersession
(sound effects)
I-Sound And Dj Scud (Wasteland): Fin (main beats)
The Slits: Instant Hit (rfythmic loop)
Photek: Infinity (basslines)
Maja Ratkje: Dictaphone Jam (main vocal/noises)
Amen sample from a DJ Floorclearer mix
Rave chords from a Black Hoe showcase mix by Migu & Antichristus
Laura Sheeran: The Breathing (outro vocals)
Dj Krush: Bypath 1 (outro beats)

"Malinovska" - DEAF 2008 live set

2009-06-13T16:14:00.001+01:00

For the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival last year I was asked to play in Andrew's Lane Theatre by !kaboogie. Other acts on the night were Ebola and Mad EP; earlier that evening in the same venue the legendary Nurse With Wound dazzled us with their multi-faceted sound blizzard.

Anyway due to some miscommunication with the sound engineer I never got the sound check I had specifically asked for, even though I was there for the whole day. Suffice to say it didn't go as well as it would have if I had been able to hear anything but bass...not my best gig, but one of my most ambitious. Here's the only recording I have of it, done a couple of days before at home. It's a bit rough around the edges but a lot of it is played in live...

Play it here

The structure of the set is based upon a vivid dream I had a few weeks before, with each track relating to a key moment in the plot. Attempts to describe the dream in words have failed; instead I give you the track names, which might give you an idea.

1. Mountain Walk
2. Native Reserve
3. Predicament
4. Bears!!!
5. Crawling Through Webs
6. Frozen Backpackers
7. The Being
8. The Tower (vocal and lyrics by Scurvy Lass)
9. Jinx
10."Malinovska! Malinovska!!!"