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Tapenoise is a visual artist, poet, experimental musician and producer. He is a series contributer to resonancefm with a particular focus on anti-capitalism, sustainability, green futures and bio-fuels :
"The extent to which we rely upon electronic modes of comunication and representation today could not be exaggerated, redundancy and obscelesence can soon infiltrate our thinking as we try to keep up."
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Musician & sound-engineer, daz's vst plugins are used throughout this, the first of his looped based contributions - a new piece made up from works previously played on the show. A collusion of neo-conCRET[inism], sampling, manipulation and general chaos. He's also the series producer, by the way.
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Sound Designer and Compser from Burren, Co Clare in Ireland, Barry Dillon works in Acousmatics, Electroacoustic and Computer based composition. His background in electronic engineering and computer science informs his work as he blends musique concrète with industrial strength audio software, calling upon an entirely new sonic pallet.
Barry doesn't currently have a web-presence.
A lore unto himself, Mr Suzuki, although primarily a top-notch drummer, is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and exceptional (experi)mentalist. A skilled listener with a passion for the unusual, Suzuki goes in diverse directions, not afraid to blend nastiness with beauty, complexity with ambience. His 57 is entitled 'Under the Knife' and consists of 9 tracks on the dark side sporting titles such as anaesthesia, amputation, incision and convalesence.
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Amie Slavin's work reflects a deep interest in voices both literal and metaphoric. She creates pieces to represent people, communities and issues, exploring an stretching the audio palate. She makes use of both found and designed sounds, in addition to vocal interview and composed content. Her 57 consists of 2 pieces - wavePOWER and wavePLAY - complimentary and contrasting pieces focussing on our societal relationships with all types of waveform.
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Ex-Gloria Mundi, ex-Eddie & Sunshine, ex-full-time Mother, ex-Big T Pot, ex-Random Infusion. A lifetime's experience of giving people fun and something to think/smile about. Sunshine's 57 is a collection of 20 pieces grouped together into an experience called Listen in the Dark, featuring found sound, samples, electronic instruments and story-telling. Switch the lights off and enjoy. (Sunshine's 57 also contains a little background info on 27/57 itself, as it formed the first of our series)
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Swung Dash Recorded at Bluecoat Arts Centre 28 September 2001
This was recorded at possibly Swung Dash’s first gig, which was part of the Listening Room series of events. I think possibly even as a fill in for something else that didn’t happen. It is a predominantly Liverpool based quartet that nobody knows whether they exist as a quartet anymore. When a couple of the musicians were asked they said ‘I don’t know’.
Track length 8.08
Phil Morton (accidents and treatments), Phil Lucking (trumpet), Adam Webster (bass guitar), Budgie (drums)
S & M (2006 ) Recorded at Wolstenholme Gallery at Frakture Festival
This was recorded at a gig during the 2007 Frakture festival. I personally like that lack of subtlety in the sound world, although there is plenty of subtleness in the playing and approach. I am particularly fond of the sound of the electronics on this piece. They also sound rude - ish. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=147496816 is where to go to hear more and even read a bit about them.
Track length 8.45
Simon Bradley (cello) Mark Webber (electronics)
Remote Viewers 24 April 2003 Recorded at Bluecoat Arts Centre
This is quite an unusual piece by Frakture’s general level as it uses beats – and even a song. With words. And melody. The Remote Viewers were very good at that. http://www.theremoteviewers.com/ is the place to find out more and more.
Track Length 7.51
Adrian Northover (Sax) Louise Petts (Sax) David Petts (Sax)
Mneme + Simon Fell (2002) Recorded at Bluecoat Arts Centre
This was recorded I think during the 2002 festival. Mneme was / is an acoustic string group that has had a number of different people playing either in it or with it. The original line up was Phil Hargreaves, Neil Murphy and Adam Webster, however cellist Simon Bradley from Leeds and Liverpool violinist Simon Jones have all played with some sort of regularity. Mneme have also been joined by a number of other string players, Simon Fell on this recording, Christoph Irmer, Andrea Martin and Jon Edwards.
Track length 7.33
Phil Hargreaves (cello), Neil Murphy (viola), Adam Webster (cello) Simon Fell (dbl bass)
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FBB with Brigitte Küpper (2004) Recorded at Arena Art Studios
This was recorded at Arena studios as part of 8 Days A Week Liverpool Cologne exchange. The performance was moving round the studios, with Brigitte, Ray Dickaty and Phil Lucking starting in the gallery space, and then moving around the building finding the rest of the Frakture Big Band. On this recording though, some of the FBB weren’t found, as they were hidden away in the very top of the building…
Track length 26.13
Phil Lucking (trumpet), Tim Downey (guitar and effects), Ray Dickaty (sax), Garfield Southall (guitar), Phil Morton (accidents and treatments), Neil Murphy (viola), john Whittington (guitar), Brigite Kupper (voice)
FBB with Ben Patterson (2002) Recorded at Bluecoat Arts Centre
This was a performance of the Frakture Big Band with Ben Patterson, from Fluxus, who happened to be in Liverpool. The concert was split into two halves – one performing Ben Patterson’s graphic scores and the other half, dare I say it, free improvisation, of which this is one. There may be a couple of musicians, who I have accidentally missed out from the FBB line up too – such a transient group.
Look at http://www.patsfallgraphics.com/pages/patterson.html
Track length 13.05
Phil Hargreaves (sax / flute), Phil Lucking (trumpet), Neil Murphy (viola), Steve Hood (guitar), Adam Webster (cello), Rob Dainton (drums), Ricardo Fernandez (piano), John Wittington (guitar), Mole (sax), Ben Patterson (dbl bass), Martin Robinson (sax)
FBB recorded at The Oratory, St James Cemetery, Liverpool
The Frakture Big Band is a large-scale improvising group from Liverpool. This was recorded as part of a project for 80 Days Around the City where the Frakture Big Band performed and recorded in the Picton Reading Room at Central Library, the Williamson Tunnels and St James’ Oratory, where this was recorded. And it was very very cold. The Picton Rooms and the Williamson Tunnels were performed in front of audiences however this was purely a recording session. Look at http://www.frakture.org/ensembles/fbb.htm
Phil Lucking (trumpet), Neil Murphy (viola), Adam Webster (cello), John Wittington (guitar), Mole (sax), Simon Jones (violin), Garfield Southall (guitar), Phil Morton (accidents and treatments), Tim Downey (guitar), Ray Dickaty (sax)
Dunmall Gibbs and Rogers Recorded 28 September 2002 at Bluecoat Arts Centre
This for me was one of the standout gigs over the past 10 years. Dunmall is a renowned horn player and while Gibbs and Rogers are also renowned, but less so (to me). This concert got reviewed and everybody who wasn’t there was rightly scolded by the reviewer because in the words of he what reviewed it - “you missed a good ‘un”. Actually he didn’t say those words, but he DID imply them. Go to http://www.pauldunmall.com/ whilst http://www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk/paul-rogers-interview.htm is the best I could muster for Paul Rogers and Philip Gibbs…
Track Length 13.43
Paul Dunmall (sax, Northumbrian pipes), Phil Gibbs (percussion), Paul Rogers (double bass)
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