SLOW SOUND SYSTEM
LIE DOWN AND BE COUNTED
9 MAY, THE FOUNDRY, 84-86 GREAT EASTERN ST, LONDON, EC2.
3-8PM. FREE ENTRY.
ADAM BUTLER / VERT (sonig, whatness, bovinyl) (uk, d) (live)
Deconstructed laptop piano jazz from Mouse on Mars
collaborator. Nice.
PAUL HOOD (turntable hell, twothousandand, imm) (uk) (live)
London improv lynchpin plays turntables and amplified
objects. Beautifully gritty Ambient.
BBCi EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDSYSTEM (uk) (dj)
Electronica, post-rock and beyond, as the BBC's experimental
music tag team take to the wheels of steel.
DUBASSY (uk) (vj) (tbc)
Top in-sync video mixing by big chill 2003 / geenpeace
artist.
iMAX, ALBERT (uk, fr) (dj)
Collage, digitals and audioscapes from resident djs
JAY ROPINSKY, iMAX (d, uk) (visuals)
slideshow, flashwerks, digital sublime
full info below.
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ARTIST BIOS
ADAM BUTLER (sonig, whatness, bovinyl) (uk, d) (live)
A true cathedralist of the piano's resonances, Cologne-based
Londoner Adam Butler (aka Vert) joins us for a Sunday
afternoon kneesup on the Foundry baby grand, prior to his
very different set at Sprawl.
Adam makes apres-garde lounge music in the great tradition
of Satie, but at the interface between classical
composition, jazz and electronica. His rebuild of Keith
Jarret's famous 'Koeln Konzert' (Sonig) was picked by The
Wire as one of the best electronica discs of the year 2000.
Last year's album on Ekkehard Ehler's Whatness label,
'Schmoozing With The Apres Garde', continues the
trajectory into microscopic sound. At the same time,
releases as Vert and with German electo supremos Mouse on
Mars explore complex rhythmic structures, dub, funk,
Fennesz-like noise and alluring melodies.
'One of the finest and most innovative composers on the
music scene today ... plaintive, pensive, beautiful.'
Stylus
'A gorgeous mixture of minimal piano pieces, strings,
Fennesz-like processed instruments and an overall cinematic
quality. One of the finest releases on Sonig for quite some
time.'
Boomkat (The Koeln Konzert)
'A very important record!'
Mouse on Mars (Schmoozing With The Apres Garde)
http://www.isness.org/vert
http://www.whatness.de
http://www.sonig.de
PAUL HOOD (turntable hell, twothousandand, imm) (uk) (live)
Paul started working with vintage record players in the
early 1990s and has since continued to use turntables as his
primary instrument. He was part of the touring "Turntable
Hell" group which included Martin Tetrault, Otomo Yoshihide,
Martin Ng and others. Paul was recently featured on volume 3
of Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama's "Meeting at
Off-Site" cd (Improvised Music from Japan), and a new album,
'Cplastics', is out now on the Twothousandand label.
Paul has also worked as a key organizer in the London
improvisation scene, starting the Instant Music Meeting club
in 1998 with the intention of bringing improvised and
experimental music to new audiences. Paul also presents the
Japanese improv 'Onkyodo' show on Resonance 104.4FM.
'Beautifully gritty Ambient ... a performance of
considerable poise.'
The Wire (Cplastics)
'Eight tracks of sound manipulations and improvisations
using a prepared turntable and other sound sources ...
delightfullly
contemplative moments that give a true warmth just where
it's needed.'
Smallfish (Cplastics)
http://www.twothousandand.com
http://www.japanimprov.com
http://www.resonancefm.com
BBCi EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDSYSTEM (uk) (dj)
Dispatches from the deep crates of the BBC's Experimental
Music crew ... the shadowy figures behind the Jazz and New
Music pages at the BBC Music and Radio 3 websites emerge
blinking into the daylight to play some of the more
interesting obscurities that have landed on their desks in
the last few months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental
DUBASSY (uk) (vj) (tbc)
Dan Talson's in-sync video mixing combines computer
graphics, animation and his own filmed footage. Dubassy
lands at slow sound system having shown his material at Big
Chill 2003, MTV, Cargo, 93 Feet East and the Vibe Bar, among
many others.
http://www.dubassy.com
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SLOW SOUND SYSTEM
The slow sound system is a collective of djs, producers and
artists exploring ambient listening, new electronica and
pixel manipulation.
'Quality avant chillage' BBCi
'Quiet, considered music' The Wire
'... a truly chilled East End space' The Guardian
'Unadulterated bliss' Resonance FM
'Laid-back post-rock ambience galore' Time Out
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DETAILS
the foundry
84-86 great eastern st
london, ec2
tel: 0207 739 6900
info@foundry.tv
info@slowsound.net
http://www.slowsound.net
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http://www.highpointlowlife.com
http://www.frequenzen.co.uk
http://www.coomberecords.com
http://www.dfuse.com/sprawl
http://www.nosignal.sonomu.net
http://www.kabukikore.net
http://www.jayropinsky.de
http://www.resonancefm.com
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info@slowsound.net
www.slowsound.net
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slow sound system @ foundry, 9 may w/adam butler/vert, paul
hood and bbci soundsystem
www.slowsound.net
slow sound system allnight broadcast on resonance 104.4fm,
17 april
www.resonancefm.com
midrange sessions, forthcoming on coombe records
www.coomberecords.com
'there is no hidden meaning', forthcoming on kabuki kore
www.kabukikore.net
slow sound system vs. posset, 'entropy sessions' out now on
kabuki kore
www.kabukikore.net
'first steps' out now on grain of sound
www.grainofsound.com
remix and rebuild project on 8bitrecs
www.8bitrecs.com
imax photogallery
www.lomohomes.com/imax
london headphones festival 2004
placard.slab.org
frequenzen, fortnightly on resonance 104.4fm
www.frequenzen.co.uk
sonomu: sound noise music
www.sonomu.net
[no.signal] electronica activity
nosignal.slab.org
kultureflash: headlines from london
www.kultureflash.net
sprawl club @ lifthouse
www.dfuse.com/sprawl
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