Slow January update

New Narghile video

A new N4rgh1l3 video has been uploaded to Vimeo.  We needed something to submit to a Visual Music screening series curated by seensound.

It is something of a “Greatest Hits” of Narghile at least from a footage perspective.  Dense hypnogogia.  I feel like this might be a clearing out as we [...]

Remnants and gigs

All the work towards the Micromono13 gig and my upcoming Loft gigs have generated a new album’s worth of material released under my birth name as opposed to the SKON nom de guerre.  ”Remnants” will be available on bandcamp from 11/11/11 as a $5 download and a $10 Limited to 30 photographic edition.

With “Mise En Scene” [...]

more Metasynthesis and gigs!

The track above is a work in progress entitled “Halting State”.  I’m trying to turn my Metasynth experiments into tracks.  Somewhat flustered as I have around 5wks before I am blessed with child and never ever have time to make music ever again (joking – well… we’ll see!)

In other news I’m really incredibly [...]

Metasynth and audiovisual composition

As part of my research i’ve been considering Metasynth as an interesting AV composition tool – particularly as it links to the early pioneers of visual music and the work of Iannis Xenakis.  You might have heard of Metasynth, the enigmatic OSX only AV synthesiser from this wired article about Richard D. James (Aphex Twin).

Here is [...]

Awake in Fields of Albion

Another new SKON release on Bandcamp and one that I am extremely proud of and keep returning to.  The material was recorded and mixed around two years ago but never really found a place on any of the labels or other albums I’ve produced since then and it has evolved over time to be [...]

pay what you like for dry mouth improv

 

Another album posted on bandcamp.  You can play it in the widget to the right.  This one is “pay what you like”.

So I’m going to over-complicate things by saying the origin of this work goes back a decade to when Joe and I shared a residence in Toowong.  While I was working [...]

The Drowned City

Notes on “The Drowned City”:

I’ve added a Bandcamp player widget to the right column that is currently linking to my latest release under the “Secret Killer Of Names” handle.  A number of these works were produced and previewed as part of the RPM Challenge, though in some cases track origins can be traced [...]

MetalkinG

Last Thursday night I went along to the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane to witness the Joel Stern curated Superflux, an evening of expanded cinema featuring artists from the same Grenoble scene as Metamkine.

Here is a sample of the MetalkinG performance, the final act from the event:

OtherFilm and Joel are quite [...]

deconstructing AV

All good intentions…

Something I haven’t blogged about recently are my solo AV experiments.

Here is a video from a performance I did at the Installer gig at the Fringe Bar in October 2009.

Installer Gig excerpt from Performing Audiovisualist on Vimeo.

This footage features compositions i’ve been working on for the next Secret [...]

Performance Experiments Phase1: Surrogate Band

Surrogate Band from Performing Audiovisualist on Vimeo.

A super early version of what could be considered granular video inspired by:

Granular Synthesis; granular synthesis; Phil Niblock’s Magic Sun film of Sun Ra; Kutiman; and the “Say No More” projects of Bob Ostertag.

Compositional Approach:

My goal was to create a performance system that could [...]