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This Molten Coil

By felix | Published: July 25, 2011

My friend Sean is an incredible artist. His latest exhibition of painting, sculpture and furniture, “This Molten Coil”, finished on the weekend.

At the opening I played some live experimental electro, and Silke from bFM sang and played ukulele. This is a short clip of some of the music I played, with images of some of the artworks for those who missed seeing them in the flesh. Below the video, some detail about the instruments used.

  • The pulsing rhythm is the nand machine I built a few weeks ago, video here.
  • In places, the nand is driving THE DESTROYER to make squelchy rhythmic sounds along with it.
  • The constant sweeping harmonic squarewave sound is played manually on the Good Will Audio Generator.
  • The feedback echo explosion sound are made by manipulating a Boss DM-2 analogue delay pedal.
  • The helicopter sweeps and other sounds are made manually with a homemade LFO device.

You can see/read about more of Sean’s work here: http://artiwon.blogspot.com/ and less often here: http://artyone.blogtown.co.nz/

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playing in parnell

By felix | Published: July 5, 2011

My friend Sean has an art show kicking off next week and I’ll be playing live electro-dub-noise at the opening.

  • Tuesday July 12th, 5:30pm
  • Pierre Peeters Gallery, Habitat Courtyard, 251 Parnell Rd
  • The facebook event page is here

I’ll be bringing lots of noise and lots of toys, and I might even have to bring my newest toy of all:

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backwithanother1ofthose glue sniffin’ beats

By felix | Published: July 3, 2011

Part 3:

Sorry for the delay, been ill.

As with parts 1 & 2, download, share, transform, enjoy.

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Rescapé remixes revisited

By felix | Published: June 21, 2011

I’ve posted before about NSU’s collaborative remix album “Rescapé” on which I have a track.

So this is just a quick note to say it’s just been released on CD. And that they look lovely, like this:

pic of rescape cd

The best place to get the CD is from Amplifier NZ Music by clicking here.

Alternately you can download the whole album or individual tracks from:

And of course you can still stream the whole album right here:

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glue sniffin’ beats

By felix | Published: June 1, 2011

Today I’m releasing parts 1 & 2* of a project called Glue Sniffin’ Beats, it’s sort of a mini-album and an ongoing recording experiment.

I was going to hack these tracks up myself and use them to build new songs but I’ve got a lot of other stuff to do and I don’t want them gathering dust so I’m releasing them as-is to see what you want to do with them.

So far it’s all skittish beats and echoes and wobbly synth-bass recorded in a live-ish** manner. Let’s see what else it can become.

Please feel free to take these grooves and mix, mash, loop and sample them as you see fit.

To encourage this, the whole Glue Sniffin’ Beats project is released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License which allows for all types of sampling and remixing for all purposes except for advertising.

I’ll be rolling out the other 5 parts over the coming weeks and months. The download is free so please share this around as much as you can. If you use these tracks to make something, please post links in the comments below.


* Part 2 is released along with part 1 because part 2 happens to be really short.

** The recording process is detailed here for music geeks.

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