video piano i put together for illuminart‘s jackin event for the adelaide fringe.

making-of the video piano

tailor made for a small room (for whom i played bass for while they were in melbourne).

more tailor made for a small room.. just because

While you’re at it, check out all things Subsketch.  He makes tremendous stuff.  It is worthy of your attention.

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:

• alphabetical
• curvacious
• rod stewart: android
• william shatner
• gumption
• dental plan
• dragon master
• griffin slayer
• cromulent
• lights in the skies

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:

my name was in sos

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’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:

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
Instant Expert: Know Your Gadgets
Process Space (401 Hunter St)

Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle (Sound Summit)
Participants: Brett Kinny (Megatroid), Jason Forrest (Cock Rock Disco, DJ Donna Summer, Nightshifters; USA), Pia van Gelder (Dorkbot), Robert Jarvis (Zeal)

The ongoing development of gamer controller technology and continuing innovations in smartphone capabilities have contributed to an increasing number of electronic musicians composing and performing with these tactile devices. Learn some tricks on how to revolutionise your live performance, and have a whole lot of fun doing it.

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.

More travels imminent to promote my (new and free) album:

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.

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.

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.