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SPAMMERS ALL MUST DIE

Will fix comment spamming block thing when I get a chance. Life is full of more-than-sufficient circuit bending, and insufficient sleep.

to tell you that you should JOIN THE BLEEP MAILING LIST which is here.

And also, add yourself as a friend! Bleep needs friends! www.myspace.com/bleepworkshops

much love

Next bleep workshop is all about circuit bending.

from the media release:

The “bleep” workshop crew, champions of music made using machines,
bring circuit bending — the art of torturing, transplanting, and
grafting electronic sound-making devices — to life in a once-only
show at Happy on Wednesday the 26th of July, from 8pm.

“We take cheap battery-powered noise-making toys, ones you can buy
from The Warehouse or The $2 Shop, and disassemble and deliberately
short circuit their electronics — teaching them to speak with the
most alien and unique new voices you have ever heard,” says Damian
‘frey’ Stewart, the organiser of the event. “Then we take them to the
stage, and see what kind of music we can make with them.”

For a circuit bending primer, hop on over to Reed Ghazala’s Art of Circuit Bending.

There’s a circuit bending workshop in Wellington on Sunday the 23rd of July. It’s free, but you’ll need to supply a circuit to bend (grab one from the warehouse) and if you plan on making your bends permanent, a few dollars for components.

If you’d like to come along, drop me an email: damian(at)frey(dot)co(dot)nz or ph/text 027 305 4107.

responds with drawings, paintings, words, and palpable anger to the things going on on his front door.

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hat tip Kakariki

BBC Radio 1’s Breezeblock show are inviting people to enter a competition to remix Music for 18 musicians. The winner will be picked by Reich himself and their track released alongside the original and other remixes by Fourtet and Alex Smoke.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/stevereich.shtml

I don’t know if I’ll have time to do this one, which is a pity as Music for 18 musicians (the whole thing is about an hour long) is one of my favourite pieces of ‘academic’ music. It was composed 1974-1976, and features 18 classical musicians, but nevertheless it’s as minimal as can be and sounds remarkably techno…