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My good friend Subsketch has started a podcast and this week it features me talking about all things Zeal thusfar. He’s done some tricky editing to make me say things i never really said… check it out Y’all! Oh yeah! Give me that podcast!
While you’re at it, check out all things Subsketch. He makes tremendous stuff. It is worthy of your attention.  Leave a comment  animation, DIY, excitement, music, the intertron, video, video games  adelaide, animation, art, excitement, making of, mp3, music, music video, space-time, stop motion, Subsketch, the future, This is how i hear your voice, time, video game, with the moon along side racing us home, zeal there goes 2010. zeal relocated to melbourne and good things happened! starting with what’s happening right now and working back… i’m currently in adelaide where i’m set up in a bunker, recording new songs for some sort of ep early in the new year.
My album is ranked third on a whothehell.net ”list”. It’s the second time i’ve ever been on a list and it’s still fun. Last week my song “clouds” made a top songs of 2010 podcast on polaroids of androids. it was the first time i’d ever been on a list and it was fun. i played alot of shows this year, all of which had secret words, many of which i can’t remember. some were:
the best gigs of the year were hobart + music = yeah and the gate.
i also had a great time at this is not art where i sat on a panel and talked about axis. i got to make a mixtape sorta thing for a polaroids of androids podcast and inflict my taste in music on the masses. i put out an animated film clip for vigilante with midi and lights: i released my debut album and it landed album of the week on FBi.
it was also uploaded to a russian file-sharing website. it’s been a good year. onwards into a happy and productive twenty-eleven! bob. I’ve returned from This Is Not Art all energised and inspired. More recording at the end of the year and more touring are the wildebeest in my crosshairs but there are some other vermin to knock off beforehand:
I’m working on a few new music videos as well – first up’s Vigilante which will be a MIDI sequenced animation and then Wasps which will be some sort of warp speed slide show. Also, if you get a chance, go see 10k Free Men and Their Families. He was awesome at TINA. Exhibit A:
Sydney was awesome. Pictures and thing will surface, I’m sure. like these ones: If you’re heading to this year’s TINA I’m going to part of a panel discussing making music with game controllers smart phones, not so smart phones etc. I imagine I’ll be talking about AXIS and and MAX/MSP… The TINA/Sound Summit Program puts it like this: Saturday, October 2nd: 2.00pm – 4.00pm: Artist Presentation Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle (Sound Summit) Should be a lot of interesting ideas in one place! If you’re in Adelaide Monday the 20th of September (tonight) come down to the wheatsheaf from around 8 to see Virtual Proximity play with me in my VJ disguise. Leave a comment DIY, gigs, music, video games, vj adelaide, axis, DIY, gigs, guitar hero, max msp, music, the future, video game, VJing, zeal Hobart + Music = Yeah! was officially awesome. I’ve come home wanting to play more house shows. I’ll throw up pics and video as they become available… like this one!
More travels imminent to promote my (new and free) album: Fri 17 Sep
The Loft, Sydney
w/ Alps(!!)
Sat 18 Sep
The Gate, Sydney
SeeKae, Bon Chat Bon Rat and Zeal Mon 20 Sep
The Wheatsheaf, Adelaide
Virtual Proximity (VJ set)
Fri 24 Sep
Colonel Light Hotel, Adelaide
w/ The Honey Pies, The Bon Scotts and The Witch Sat 16 Oct
Blue Tile, Melbourne
w/ Citrus Jam, 12 Inch Clocks and Deadly Are the Naked
Will report back with medias for your consumption.
Good eve.
My goodness. There’s alot coming up over the next two months. One biggie in about a fortnight is HOBART + MUSIC = YEAH! A festivus of wonders… I just made up that byline… maybe it’ll be picked up next year. I’m playing with the splederous tiger choir who i’ve played with twice before and there are a stack of other great bands playing. Also it’s cold and there are devils. what more could you want?
I’m also working on a new VJ set for a live audio visual project for james annesley in his solo electronic guise. I’m incorporating live video feeds into this set which is something new for me. Dr Who style video feedback FTW! I’m going to trial some of the new material still in it’s learning-to-walk phase this sunday at the workers club. We’ll see how it goes… but wait there’s more. I’m playing a show in Sydney September 18th which is way exciting as i’m yet to have carved up that particular town with my plastic axe of doom. I’ll put a proper post up about that show soon. There’s still more because there’ll probably be a radelaide show shortly after that. Ampersand there’s even more because after that i’ll be at this years This is Not Art speaking as part of panel on alternative controllers in electronic music… spoiler alert: ergonomics, stage presence and the buttler did it. My new album is still free BTW. i’ve upped my new show reel. enjoy: you might have noticed footage from the cuba is japan clip. it’s the first time it’s graced the intertrons and it may actually be completed sometime in the near future. ooh, tantalising eh? for something not so completely different… i’m playing in adelaide next saturday! poster:
this site is going to be revamped in preperation for the launch of the new album so prep those eyeballs for some amazement. but for now… go watch this. gigs! i’m opening for the spectacular creatures of silence next tuesday the 11th of may at the brunswick hotel. should be a grand night. if you’re a melbournite, be there or be a pear.
then may 22nd i’m playing at the exeter in radelaide with the tenacious tiger choir. yay rads! i’m also playing bass for the inexplicable tailor made for a small room this sunday the 9th at the builders arms. lots of fun stuff to post shortly. including the release of some sort of album. oh my.
spent the last two weeks finishing my new album. i don’t think i’ve mentioned what’s it’s going to be called yet… i don’t think i will now either. but i will moon soon. a few tracks are mastered and i’m being a one man CD duplication factory this very second, pumping out a small pile of cd singles. feels like we should have been done with these lumbering circular plastic things 5 years ago. catch up radio! next step, artwork. it’s quite exciting. you’ll like the album, i promise. it makes mention of robots a few times and there’s this three note refrain that’s sprinkled through out the 15 or so tracks which all weave together. it’s almost a concept album… just with a poorly defined concept… more of a unproven hypothesis album.
also on the work bench, for all you unfortunate souls, i’m getting AXIS up and running on windows… i say that but really xp’s alright. the windows versions going to be minus a few small features just because of the way the windows drivers interpret the guitar (or unless someone else can fix it). this is one big step closer to release meaning it will be out before the years up.
i’ve been making stickers too. as i promised: robots and swear words. if you want one you have two options. the hard way: print out the above robot on sticker paper and cut it out. or the super easy way: enter my EP + sticker give away! there’s four days left and it’s super easy. back to the assembly line for me. The Agnes Kain clip is finished! I’m very happy with the end result. There are no effects in post, everything was shot in camera… which is probably obvious right up until the end. You can check out my previous posts to see how it was made from conception to birth. Big thanks to Chanelle and Stef and ultra-mega-big thanks to Ryan for wearing ridiculous things, standing in uncomfortable poses for extended periods of time and just being generally rad. |
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