April 2002
Salut!
A few busy weeks behind me and almost the hint of a suntan again.
Firstly apologies to anyone reading from Australia. I had a death in
my family last week and had to swiftly return to the UK to attend to
matters and as such postponed a series of concerts and presentations
so please accept my sincerest regrets at not being able to fulfil
these commitments. I'll be back shortly for certain later this year.
If you are in London you should take a chance to explore the regular
club event Sprawl. This week is a more compressed version with two
shows in two nights:
Thursday 18.04.02
Tennis live
Kim Cascone live
DJip@bip-hop.com dj
Bittonic dj
visuals by Phase 4 (Ohio)
Friday 19.04.02
Tonne live
Scanner live mix
Si-Cut.Db live
Soundtoys by StudioTonne; laptop jam by the above artists
DJip@bip-hop.comdj
An intriguing show is about to open in Europe and will be around for
the next two years at least. 'Sonic Process' is an exhibition
initiated by the Pompidou Centre in Paris and will be previewed at
the MACBA gallery in Barcelona from May 2 to July 1. It will later
travel to Berlin and Porto. The show deals with electronic music from
the last decade, organised according to a particular geography of
sites and intersections exploring only part of what has emerged. Like
a gigantic sound studio it will present installations by musicians
and artists, often in collaboration, featuring exclusive commissions
from Doug Aitken, Mathieu Briand, Coldcut, Tosca, FlowMotion, Renee
Green, Johan Grimonprez, Gabriel Orozco, David Shea and a new work
that I have produced with LA based artist Mike Kelley featuring
haunted recordings and video of Paris.
http://www.sonic-process.org/
Not only an interesting read but also an essential chapter in our
heritage of English music, you should take a look at The "Not
Necessarily 'English Music'" issue of Leonardo Music Journal Volume
11 now available. It traces a history from the 1960s with its
peculiar conflation of Pop, Art, Fashion and Politics and musical
through styles of improvisation, minimalism, electronic music,
performance art, political music and "amateur" music that grew out of
British art schools, universities and urban villages. Some
practitioners became well known and influential artists outside of
the U.K. (Cornelius Cardew, Michael Nyman, Derek Bailey), while
others have remained far too unrecognized abroad (Christopher Hobbs,
Ivor Cutler, Ranulph Glanville).
The volume highlights observers and participants who have contributed
their accounts of this latest "Golden Age" of British Music,
including Eddie Prevost, Alvin Lucier, Joe Banks, Janek Schaefer and
my very own personal approach to creating work. Accompanying this is
an amazing double CD curated by David Toop that presents some of the
rarest recordings discovered from this period.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo
It's your last chance to pick up a ticket for the Play show on in
London at the Barbican next week on April 27 featuring new
commissions from Coil, Plaid, Mouse on Mars and SND.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/onlyconnect
If you are passing through London in the next month too you should
take the opportunity to visit the debut show by extraordinary
Norwegian artist Tor-Magnus Lundeby. He has frequently taken his
inspiration from music, record sleeves and for this body of work, the
home. In so doing he is producing a 'home' where I would
imaginatively create my work that will be a one metre square
sculpture, using canalplastic sheets with liquid poured into the
canals between the lining, a blue circular dehumidifier filter, a
warm yellow acrylic sheet and a transparent floor. Believe me, words
cannot do justice to his salient creations. It opens on May 4 at 38
Langham Street London W1W 7AR.
Finally for some free music, please take a look at the site:
http://www.primesounds.com
where you can find an amusing interview and an MP3 using samples from
this location.
Ciao
Robin / Scanner
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::: Diary Dates :::
19 April Sprawl London UK: Global Café Golden Square London W1
http://www.dfuse.com/sprawl/sprawl_mainpage.htm
27 April Play: with Coil, Plaid, Mouse on Mars, SND and Scanner jingles
3 May Sonic Process opening MACBA Barcelona
4 May Tor-Magnus Lundeby opening 38 Langham Street London
6,8 & 9 Nemesis with Random Dance Company: Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Random Dance Company Nemesis Tour Dates 2002
19 Apr Malvern Theatres
26-27 Apr The Maltings, Snape
17 May Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
http://www.randomdance.org
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Exhibitions:
SONIC PROCESS opens may 2 until july 1st
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Tel 34 93 412 08 10
Fax 34 93 412 46 02
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::: listen :::
Pimmon: P Waves Australian tour CDR
Jack Dangers: Variaciones Espectrales (Bella Union)
I/O: Calm (::Room40::)
DJ Olive meets I/O3 (::Room40::)
::: read :::
Sylvere Lotringer: Burroughs Live 1960-1997 (Semiotexte)
Slavoj Zizek: Repeating Lenin (Bastard Books)
Ben Johnson: Three Comedies (Penguin)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (Penguin)
::: ::: ::: :::
SCANNER
PO BOX 6127
LONDON UK
E2 6XD
www.scannerdot.com
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