Dead Wood - Late

As I've mentioned on this blog before, I'm quite a fan of the Diquiet weekly Junto project. This weeks project assignment titled Still Life was to create an abstract piece of music in honor of the painter Clyfford Still, using J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2, II. Andante as the sound source. I spent Monday afternoon/evening creating a drone piece for this project, but still managed to miss by midnight deadline by 40 minutes, hence the title Late.

Dead Wood - Forest

My pal Andrew Perry has just released a Dead Wood CDR on his suitably titled We're Gonna Get Fucking Drunk Tonight Boys label. The release is a collection of no-fi guitar jams recorded last summer in Wareham forest, and features lots of feedback, string scratching and general forest spookery. More details and a preview can be found by clicking the image above. Available now for £2 plus postage. Big thanks to Perry for making this release happen. 

Dead Wood - Arrival Transfer

This weekend I made a track for the latest Disquiet Junto project, Radius Joint. Click the photo above to listen / download. 

I've known about Junto since the start but have only really been getting into in the past few weeks. I like the community aspect and getting to hear what other artists have created with their contributions. Each week is a new project and the whole thing is hosted at Soundcloud. 

The Assignment for this week is to make a piece of music between 2-4 minutes long using the 14 second jingle from the Radius radio show as the sole sound source, with processing permitted. Tracks must also include the original jingle at the beginning. 

I've been wanting to do some computer creations for a while now and after having a go a few months back, my beloved original PC finally died, so I'm now learning about music things on the Mac. I made this by editing some loops from the jingle and jammed them with looping, effects and things in Reaktor. I wanted to make something rhythmical and had some fun trying.   

Signalvoid

Signalvoid compilation is available now and features 4 hours of one minute noise tracks, all with no fade outs and designed to be listened on shuffle. I've always been interested in people's interpretations of 'noise' and with over 100 artists contributing to this, I knew it would be a project that would interest me. My friend Jack put this together and I'm really impressed with how it's all tuned out. My contributions include a harsh screeching solo Dead Wood track, plus three collaborations with Knifedoutofexistence. Signalvoid is available for free download and also physical copy including all the tracks on a neat wooden usb stick.   

Dead Wood - How The Tables

Today I made a track for Disquiet Junto project 0033: Turntable Played. Click the photo above to listen / download.

The Assignment: Make music with a turntable but without vinyl.

Firstly I recorded the sound of 4 separate unamplified turntables while interacting with the machines by knocking the arm, messing with the cue / cancel buttons and occasionally letting the needle fall onto the slip mat.

The sounds were captured with a contact mic, recorded straight to cassette, then later recorded into a laptop and processed using loopers in Reaktor 5 software. There are no other effects used, although the cassette itself was old and there were some moments where it had previously chewed and stretched.

Andover

A photo of the Dead Wood / Phantom Heron Seas performance at We Are Collective at Chapel Arts in Andover last Sunday. It was a really nice afternoon and everyone was really lovely. Big thanks to Tom for asking us to play. 

Patches / badges

Amps Against Trend patches and badges available now. Click on the image for more details.