Baby 5 Atari Fuzz Console video

Baby 5 Atari Fuzz Console pictures

Here’s a couple of picture of the finished instrument I’ve designed for a 2 day workshop coming up in November at South Hill Park Digital Media Center. See previous post for more details.

A Thing About Machines Festival

The next gig on the horizon will be a Threep performance at A Thing About Machines festival in Coventry on Friday 25th September 2009.
We’ll be performing in St. John’s Church along with British composer of the year, turntablist and sound artist Janek Schaefer, sonic and visual manipulators Modulate and a unique performance from Ben Ramsay using recordings of jet engines.
For more info and tickets check out the festival website here athingaboutmachines.co.uk

Stenchival 09 performance

thought I’d wheel out the modular for this one
stench.org.uk

Workshop at South Hill Park Digital Media Center

On November 28th/29th I’ll be teaching a 2 day workshop at South Hill Park Digital Media Centre in Bracknell.
The task for the weekend is to build the Baby 5 Atari Fuzz Console. It’s a modification of Forrest M Mims III ’s stepped tone generator with the addition of a 5 step sequencer, fuzz circuit and preamp. Below is a video of the prototype on breadboard, the finished instrument will be house in a standard VHS video case or participants can bring along their own box. Check out the following link for booking info http://www.digitalmediacentre.org/courses.html#asmo

Stenchival

For this years Summer Sundae Fringe Festival Stench.org.uk are putting on a mini “Stenchival” hosted by Bathysphere and PVC.
The event takes place on the 7th and 8th August at the Great Central Gallery and Studios, Sussex St. Leiceter.

£4 each night or £7 for both nights

click here for map

Friday 7th August: 9pm to 1am
Bathysphere presents an evening of diy electronics, vinyl manipulation, vocal improvisation and audio abstraction.

ASMO
Following on from his headline performance at this year’s International Festival of Circuit Bending in New York Bathysphere’s resident hackmeister Anti Social Musik Order brings to Stench his arsenal of wonky machines for another one off improvised performance. “putting the mental back into experimental”
ASMOvision

Neal Unreal
Episode for the Piano Key Baton “Tonight my name is Neal Unreal. I am a multi-instrumentalist, Composer, Rock Star, Artist and Instrument Designer. I specialise in portable stand-alone instruments built from hacked domestic appliances, and their components. Tonight is the debut performance of the Piano Key Baton that I have designed specifically to expose gesture within electronic performance.”
http://www.myspace.com/nealunreal

James Kelly
Leicester based Turntablist and composer, master manipulator of the vinyl medium.
http://minimaljames.wordpress.com/

Sam Dodson
Sam Dodson (born 1988) is an active composer and performer, hailing from the Midlands (UK), focusing in the electroacoustic field. He recently completed the Music, Technology and Innovation BA (Hons) at De Montfort University (Leicester UK). As an undergraduate, studies predominantly concentrated on custom-built software instruments, generating material of a glitch/noise aesthetic. Recent concerts have included performances at Hare and Hounds (Birmingham UK); Phoenix Arts Centre (Leicester UK); and South Bank Centre (London UK).
http://www.samdodson.info

Annelie Nederberg
Annelie Nederberg is a composer and performer from Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently studying for a BA in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. She has a background as a theatre sound designer. Her works move freely between concrete and abstract sounds, between music and sound art, with the human voice as an important component. Her performances incorporates a conï¬Â?uence between her voice and electronics, in a poetic and slowly evolving manner. Her music has been represented at festivals in London, Los Angeles, Nice and Amsterdam; on radio in Europe and the USA; and in concerts mainly in the UK.

Biscuit Tin Sound System and DJs
Bass heavy Dubstep beatz
Saturday 8th : 9pm to 2am PVC presents

BJ Cole vs Myoptik
Legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole is no stranger to music, but this time he will be joined on stage by Leicester’s electro beat-meister Myoptik and London sound-sculptor Manglebot. As a trio these three set light to Taylor John’s Sonic Boom 2008 summer festival in Coventry with a headline slot that left all in dazed euphoria. They plan to tour more dates and festivals in the UK soon.
http://www.bjcole.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/myoptik

Samuel & the Dragon
http://www.myspace.com/samuelandthedragon

Phaeleh
The distinct sound of Phaeleh fuses the dark and heavy sounds of Dubstep and Drum and Bass with the melodies and soundscapes of Electronica, all sealed together with the subtle textures of acousmatic music.
A diverse range of influences results in an equally diverse musical output which can range from disturbing bass lines and heavy Dubstep/Jungle beats, perfect for the rave, to the more soulful, restrained tracks incorporating a variety of sound sources and vocal styles.
In 2008 he started Urban Scrumping Records and continues to gig regularly across the UK…
http://www.urban-scrumping.co.uk

Glatze
Glatze is musician, circuit-bender and all-out live music nutter, hailing from Kernow and now based in the West Midlands. His sets are an orgy of customised electronic equipment, with circuit-bent kids’ dolls sitting alongside doctored loudspeakers, squealing guitars and a fun-at-all-costs mentality!
http://www.mrunderwood.co.uk

bARRY cONVEX and the party mash
Funk, jazz, exotica and bleeps meet in a tumultuous spree of sundae sound designed to build the nights anticipation.

The Centrifuge (Wassim)
Head honcho of fantastic net-label TheCentrifuge comes to town to show his unbelievable roster and his desirable electronic wares (er, cds).
http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk
More information on the Summer Sundae Fringe Festival
www.summersundaefringe.com

6th International Festival of Circuit Bending

ASMO @ Bent 2009, photo by David Steinberg http://www.oscillateur.com/

The 6th International Festival of Circuit Bending was better than ever this year, 3 days of performances, installations and workshops hosted by The Tank at the 45th Street Theatre in NYC’s Hells Kitchen.  This year was extra special for me as I got to perform and teach a workshop.
It was great to hook up up with some of the world’s best benders and see some truly inspirational performances, highlights for me were Pixel Form’s brutal noise set, Lesley Flanigan’s sublime Speaker Synth, Boring Machine, Computer at Sea and Playboy’s Bend’s hilariously camp dancing.

Circuit Bent Dub Siren workshop

Flickr photo set here

YouTube playlist here

Bent Festival 2009

Well the Bent Festival is almost upon us once again and I’m pleased to announce that I will be performing and leading a Dub Siren / Noise Box workshop this year.  The workshop will be on the Friday afternoon and I’ll be performing at midnight on the Saturday, closing the festival, which is quite an honour I have to say

The Bent Festival takes place at The Tank, 354 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036.
16th -18th April 2009

Full line up at booking info here http://www.bentfestival.org

see you there

Solder Soldiers

full playlist here with great performances from kREEPA and Wrongbot plus bonus noise from all three of us at the same time, oh what fun!

Bending workshop and gig

Bathysphere are hosting a day of circuit bending and diy electronics on the 14th March.

Workshop : Dub Siren / Noise box

Learn the art of circuit bending with Bathysphere’s resident hardware hacker ASMO.
Build a crazy noise box from a childs toy phone complete with LFO and flashing lights.

When : Sat 14th March 2008, 10am – 5pm
Where : Bathysphere, 120a Hartopp Road, Leicester, LE2 1WF
Cost : £40 (includes component costs)

Limited to 15 places so book early to avoid disappointment.

email ph@bathysphere.co.uk to book a place.

Event : Solder Soldiers
Bathysphere presents an evening of improvised electronic geekery with live performances from
John Richards aka kREEPA, ASMO (Anti Social Musik Order) and Wrongbot, DJ Myoptik.

Bring your own anorak, free your inner geek.

£4 on the door
Venue : The Great Central – Gallery & Studios, on the corner of Bell Lane and Sussex Street, Leicester
map here : http://tinyurl.com/b5k3cy