Oscillations

Oscillations to join WFMU’s Free Music Archive

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:22:18 +0000

We are very pleased to announce Oscillations has been invited by WFMU-FM (NY/NJ, USA) to curate a collection of festival recordings at the Free Music Archive. The FMA is a free library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Oscillations will join fellow curators Primavera Sound and All Tomorrow’s Parties in offering full live sets from visiting artists including Silver Apples and Blues Control.

http://freemusicarchive.org/

Yuri Landman workshop sold out!

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:46:56 +0000

All tickets are now gone for the Yuri Landman ‘Homeswinger’ guitar workshop. Tickets are still available for Yuri’s evening lecture and performance.

Final Oscillations warm-up gig: Oneida

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:45:07 +0000

The final gig in our series of summer warm-ups sees a rare appearance from killer psych legends, Oneida. The genre-defying Brooklyn group will play the Black Box on Friday 21st August. Tickets are available now.

Oneida were a highlight of this year’s Primavera Sound festival. For those who weren’t in Barcelona (or were, but can’t remember), all of the O’s set is available to download.

Tickets now available for QFT events

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:33:43 +0000

We are extremely pleased to announce a partnership with QFT for this year’s film programme. Tickets are now available for our series of documentaries on electronic music pioneers Pierre Henry and Jean-Jacques Perrey, enigmatic outsider folk recluse Jandek and inimitable music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Jandek on Corwood

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:06:26 +0000

Even by the standards of underground and avantgarde music, Jandek is a man who has pushed the notion of deliberate obscurity to the outer limits. From the bluesy, atonal music and haunting lyrics, to the artist’s steadfast seclusion and sheer longevity, everything about this man intrigues. Twenty-five years, 34 albums, and even the simple detail of the man’s real name is a mystery.

Filmmaker and Jandek enthusiast Chad Friedrich’s documentary Jandek on Corwood examines the enigma that is Jandek and takes a long look at both his music and what this artist’s purposefully obscure approach to his work says about him and his audience.

www.jandekoncorwood.com

Prélude au sommeil: Jean-Jacques Perrey & La Musique Électronique

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:04:58 +0000

At a time when electronic music was sober and serious, electro-pop pioneer and “clownprince of the avant-garde” Jean-Jacques Perrey injected a revolutionary dose of humour and playful glee to the medium. One of the first Moog synth musicians, Perrey blended the instrument with his then groundbreaking looping techniques to create a uniquely comic
take on the future.

For more than 50 years, Perrey has been stirring up good moods with his “Music for Laughs and Smiles”. Perrey has worked with Pierre Schaeffer, Gershon Kingsley, Edith Piaf, Walt Disney and Angelo Badalamenti and has been a huge influence on countless later electronic musicians.

MP3s

Jean-Jacques Perrey - EVA

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Flight of the Bumblebee

Pierre Henry - The Art of Sounds

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:02:59 +0000

In the fifties Pierre Henry provoked scandal by inventing Musique Concrète with Pierre Schaeffer. Together the two revolutionised the concept of music by defying expectations of melody and rhythm. Music was no longer written with notes on a score for instrumentalists but was based on sounds and noises from our environment, collected, edited and transformed by machines.

Today, avant garde musicians, electronic artists and DJs alike claim to be followers of his fabulous work in fashioning sound. In Pierre Henry: The Art Of Sounds, we follow Henry as he brandishes his boom mics through the Coulée Verte, Paris, in search of the “perfect” sound. As the journey unfolds we are brought back forty years as people are leaving the “Concert Couché” (“lying down concert”), with initial reactions from the audience.

Preceded by ‘Le Candidat’ by Gérald Belkin, scored by Pierre Henry.

MP3s

Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock

Pierre Henry - Atelier

33 Seagulls

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:58:02 +0000

’33 Seagulls’ is a short documentary about homeless artist Robert Bodel. The ﬁlm is a personal and intimate view of a 60 year old man who has spent his life continually drawing. He is a man completely removed from society and the world, he knows ﬁ ve people and rarely talks to any of them. Robert is homeless and currently living in a hostel, he is a ghost of a man, quiet and remote, yet gentle and charming.

The ﬁlm charts several days spent with Robert following him in his daily pilgrimage to a little park in East Belfast that is his sanctuary from the world. We also see him draw and talk about his life in his own disarming way. it is Robert’s art which is often the dominant character in the ﬁlm, all abstract works, each meticulously drawn on the back of little envelopes. Robert’s art is tiny and obsessive in detail matched with vivid colour schemes, all this from a man who has “never really seen anyone else’s drawings”. His art presents a truly unique and strange vision, much of which has been captured in this documentary.

Archive Remix

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:55:38 +0000

A celebration / commemoration of the institution that is Catalyst Arts. An installation and performance by
Barry Cullen to re-examine some of the Catalyst archive. Revisiting pieces created in and for the galleries’ various sites. Warping their meaning through remixing. Allowing a peep at the past after it has been altered by the passage of time and a variety of editing processes. Hands-on cut n’ paste and digital sampling will be
used to create newfrom old. There may be harmony and dissonance in the ways older works are approached and (re-)presented. The finished piece may not depict history accurately.

I Need That Record

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:54:01 +0000

Guerilla ﬁlmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes “I Need That Record, a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Greedy record labels, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, E-commerce, shoddy “stars” pushed by big money, and the digital revolution all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores and the music industry at large. Will these stores die? Will they survive?

Featuring: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian MacKaye of Dischord Records/Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt of the Minutemen, Chris Frantz of Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer Glenn Branca, BP Helium from Of Montreal, and many indie record stores across the U.S.