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Tuesday, 9 February 2010

DAVID BOWIE THE MUSICAL. and Other Performances.

I have been asked to curate an event for eurocultured festival, as part of my internship with Spearfish in May.

My friend Fiona is writing David Bowie the musical, and it shall be one of the high lights of the event. The event I am curating shall be a jumble of everything I love, a lot of Interactive Arts students shall present work and there shall be performances from some of  Manchester up and coming talent, the space is still in the works, and so are a few things but its very exciting.

This week I am performing at the Neck of The Woods exhibition opening at Nexus art cafe, my proposal was accepted, I'm popping in through the week, to practice, my montage, its all about community. The songs I have chosen have a certain musical history and little jokes, I am doing afew surprising things to connect them, and shall surprise the audience with what I am performing, It is being Filmed so shall be put up in the exhibition, But The comedy will be in the cockney songs and the surprise screaming of sorts or maybe not we shall see.

After this all my concentration is on Mill 24, I have an hour performance and I am making self playing found object instruments, I wanted to combine my love of Wallace and Gromit and Quirky inventions with music and performance, so I'm making a machine that makes beautiful music mechanically, and its all influence by the record player.

It shall be a record player that propels a wheel that has playing cards in its spokes to play a harp that shall be sampled by a guitar effect then reversed, then layered, there will also be a fan played guitar, the vibrations of the fan shall strum the guitar, or resonate it.

My proposal was to make a found sound orchestra, but make beautiful music, not just chaos, try to make loving clarity from chaos, I will write the words before with the influence of the music, but shall also improvise some words that have been written with out the influence, so some is pre concieved and some isn't a few juxtapositions, I am planning and rehearsing and experimenting with all the machines for the performance, it combines all the things I love in a individual way and If it fails then It has a lovely connection to one of my Favourite artists work Jean Tinguely Homage to New York.

Recently I have been In the studio with the band we have a couple of songs done which are just getting mastered, its experimental, but not so much it won't get played on radio, we got compared to old Kings Of Leon and Sonic Youth, but also sigur ros, showing how diverse it all is, still finding the sound, but now we can use future works a lot now because our bassist goes there, so we can do some more recording get an album done quickly send demos to bands and management all that, see what happens, not sure if its what I wan't to do I sometimes love it, but sometimes can't stand it, love performing live, and recording how ever stressful is usually a laugh, but I'm not Rock and Roll, or a front man, I don't have that big an ego, though I do think the band should be called Edwyn Butler HA!

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