New Playlist from jayVe Montgomery

New playlist from Chicago sound-artist jayVe Montgomery posted @ Alrealon Music.

http://alrealon.co.uk/playlists.html

More about jayVe Montgomery - http://jayvejohnmontgomery.com/

Champeta Criolla

"Champeta Criolla (criollo and criolla means Creole) is an Afro-Colombian music style and dance from Cartagena, in the Caribbean coast. The champeta is a hybrid style made up of the rhythms of the Caribbean, Cumbia, Compás, Soca, Calypso, Reggae; combined with the sounds of several countries of the African continent, such as Soukous, Mbaqanga, Bikutsi, Highlife, Juju and Congolese rumba. They were intertwined and gave way to a new style in the barrios (districts) of Cartagena (Colombia). The lyrics are usually satirical. It is also known as terapia criolla."

http://generationbass.com/2009/12/27/ms7champeta-criolla/

9 for '09

Nine favorite recordings from '09

A - Z

Anti-Pop Consortium: Fluorescent Black
(Big Dada)

Tyondai Braxton : Central Market
(Warp)

Cloaks: Versus Grain
(3X3)

Dalek: Gutter Tactics
(Ipecac Recordings)

Filastine: Dirty Bomb
(Soot)

Ben Frost: By The Throat
(Bedroom Community)

King Midas Sound: Waiting For You
(Hyperdub)

Monolake: Silence
(Imbalace Computer Music)

Sunn O))): Monoliths and Dimensions
(Southern Lord)

Mutiny & Mutation

’Reality Radio presents: Mutiny & Mutation’ featuring live performances from The Curtains, Rat Bastard, The Strange Attractor and FluiD.

The Curtains - http://www.myspace.com/curtainsrockers
Rat Bastards - http://www.myspace.com/ratbastards
The Strange Attractor - http://www.myspace.com/thestrangeattractor

Violence

The following events took place in real-time on Thursday 12.10.09 @ Silvie's Lounge, Chicago, IL., between the hours of 9:00pm and 10:00pm CST.

The program will begin with Aaron on drums alone. Aaron will be joined by Feedbacula. The trio plays for 15 minutes. The trio is then joined by FluiD, who establishes a new movement. The quartet will plays for 15 minutes. The quartet is then joined by travis, interfering with all. The quintet plays for 15 minutes. Feedbacula then leaves and the remaining trio plays for 15 minutes. FluiD then leaves and the remaining duo plays for 15 minutes. travis then exits and Aaron concludes the performance.

FluiD & Toxic Taboo on Radio Dabsolis

FluiD tracks 'Black Jinn' and 'The Absent Present' as well as the Toxic Taboo track, 'Corrosive' were included in the most recent edition of Radio Dabsolis.

To stream or download -
http://www.failiem.lv/list.php?i=worwtb

For the full tracklisting -
http://dubstep.lv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1042

Zeppelin 2009

Black Saturn has contributed a sound piece to the Zeppelin Festival. The festival takes place in Barcelona, Spain, December 10 - 12 2009

http://sonoscop.net/zeppelin2009/index.html

Zeppelin 2009 - Sounds of Power / Listening to Fear "is dedicated to thinking about issues that have been insidiously encircling us for some time. We are concerned about signs that might suggest we’re going backwards in terms of hard-won social and intellectual achievements and freedoms".

[prak-sis] presents 'Claytech' 12.05.09

Claytech
Clay and Technology

Art workshops, Ceramics with video and sound, Sculpture,
Performance, Installation,
Music and Holiday Art Sale!!

December 5th, 2009
4:30 - 9:30 pm
1520 N. Damen ave, Chicago
(A block south of Blue line Damen stop)

Schedule
4:30 - 7:00 Art workshop
5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Performance and sound
by Mi-yeon Kwon and Jayve Montgomery
8:00 - 9:30 Music by FluiD

TBC: Dancing About Architecture—BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh Sounds Off on the Year's Best Audio Installations

TBC: Dancing About Architecture—BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh Sounds Off on the Year's Best Audio Installations

Liquification

Heavy Metal Design

Great article @ Print Magazine's website on design and metal/heavy musics. Features Aaron Turner, Seldon Hunt and Stephen O'Malley. Three very talented musicians/graphic designers.

http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-Exile-of-Satan-from-Heavy-Metal-Design

The Look of Blacknuss, Brown Rice 11.19.09

All photos courtesy of Tamara L. Smith, 2009

Brown Rice is Back

An evening of BLACKNUSS descended upon us...google it!...RRK!...anyways...Brown Rice returned last night as the illustrious TRAVIS, the rhythmic FLuiD, and the abstractblack performed in an evening of self discovery...

Be sure to checkout Brown Rice 4432 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL. on Thursday nights, door opens at your beck and call...shows begin at 9PM!

Bass Bringing Zombies...

The new four-song EP from Toxic Taboo is now available for download. Toxic Taboo is a collaboration between Black Saturn, DJ Restless and FluiD.

You can download the EP here -

http://rapidshare.com/files/295716190/Toxic_Taboo_ep_2009.rar

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

Live Electronics

http://www.archive.org/details/Fd2009-11-10.fluidliveSwingstate11-10-09

"Live electronics performers, streaming their own recorded music from laptops, work differently. They follow the basic template given to us by dub reggae. Take a preexisting song, add effects, momentarily remove ("dub out") parts. Live electronica performers basically mess up their own music, which is pre-built and then disassembled. The more "active" they appear, the more the original piece is being interrupted."

From 'Confessions of A DJ' by Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture

Brooklyn Gets Liquified

Two shows this weekend in Brooklyn, NY, Saturday Nov. 7th and Sunday Nov. 8th. Both shows were put together by Robert of Brooklyn's Post Abortion Stress.

Don Letts interview @ The Guardian

Don Letts is the dread who met punk rockers uptown. But does the film-maker remember the first time? Yes, it was at the Roxy with the Pistols!

Read the interview here -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/04/don-letts-interview

Halloween Avant-Garde Bash @ Mojo's

ONO, travis travis travis & FluiD vs. SSCAC

Photo courtesy of Tamara L. Smith (c) 2009

Joe Carducci's blog 'The New Vulgate' has a reivew of our recent show @ The South Side Community Arts Center. You can read the review here -

http://newvulgate.blogspot.com/

Checkpoint 303

Although I missed their recent Chicago shows, their message is not to be missed! Read an excellent interview with Checkpoint 303, talking electronic music, activism, Palestine and Human Rights -

http://greenowl.com/post/99506-mugshot-monday-checkpoint-303

Abiku, FluiD, artwork of Nicholas Schutzenhofer

Saturday Oct. 24th, 2009 @ Reversible Eye

Works on paper by Nicholas Schuzenhofer

http://reversibleeye.com/exhibitions/index.html

Performances by Abiku

http://www.myspace.com/abiku

FluiD

http://www.myspace.com/fluidemusique

DEMISE

South Side Community Arts Center presents - 'DEMISE'.

http://www.southsidecommunityartcenter.com/

Climate Change and The Nobel Prize

One of my favorite writers/thinkers, Naomi Klein on Obama, climate change and the EU. Her books, 'The Shock Doctrine' and 'No Logo' are must reads.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/16/obama-isnt-helping

International Day of Climate Action

October 24th, 2009 - 'The International Day of Climate Action'

Please take action...

http://www.350.org/

"...it's hard to be a war president and win the Nobel Peace Prize"

Cornel West on President Obama and the peace prize. Listen up!

http://www.tavissmileyradio.com/guests09/100909/CornelWest.html

"...independence from reality"

Kode 9 aka Steve Goodman, founder of Hyperdub and truly one of the few visionaries in the music business. Read an interview with Kode 9/Steve Goodman here -

http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=247:celebrating-five-years-of-hyperdub&Itemid=80

Over at Fact Magazine they list the 10 essential releases of Hyperdub who are celebrating their five year anniversary.

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3640&Itemid=52

Upcoming @ Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago...

http://rotofugi.com/toyscart/pc/home.asp

Dr. Heat

My good friend Dr. Heat is putting the finishing touches to the last of 10 paintings featuring images of the fairer sex.

The paintings will be on display and priced to sell this Saturday (10.10.09) as part of the 2nd ATS showcase, 'Another Night of Art & Intrigue'. The show takes place @ Swing State in Lake Villa,IL.

Dr. Heat's band X+X will also perform that night.

To view more of Dr. Heat's art, go here - http://www.myspace.com/theyellabellys

Dr. Heat's band, X+X - http://www.myspace.com/exaddx

Another Night of Art & Intrigue @ The Viaduct Theater

AbstWACKtion @ Bad Dog Gallery, 10.01.09

I recently performed at the opening/reception for 'AbstWACKtion'. The art show was curated by Frank Trankina and hosted by Bad Dog Gallery in DeKalb, IL.

September Podcast from Alrealon Music, online...

Description: A compilation of unreleased/rare/remixed songs from Alrealon Music artists.

"The artwork is ugly, the name is crap, but the songs are just what you were looking for".

Ph. / Alrealon

1 - FluiD * Disrupting The Ghost (Unreleased)

2 - John 3:16 vs. mNIPK * Son of The Father (Unreleased)

3 - The Egg plant * Elusive Ways (Heat From a DeadStar remix - Hot Headed Music, 2009)

4 - Black Saturn * DaDa Sound Train (Unreleased)

5 - LaptopAcidXperience * Being Less Than Being (Heat From a DeadStar remix - Hot Headed Music, 2009)

6 - Black Saturn vs. subduxtion * New Day (Unreleased)

7 - LaptopAcidXperience * Overdressed For School (Unreleased)

8 - DJ Phys * Bury Mx Dxxp In Lovx (Unreleased)

9 - Re: dux tion * Black Swans (Heat From a DeadStar remix - Hot Headed Music, 2009)

http://alrealon.co.uk/podcast.html

Two new Black Saturn vs. subduxtion songs...

'New Day' and 'Metal Confessional' uploaded to our player -

http://www.myspace.com/blacksaturnsubduxtion

Mixed Media show @ Miska's Bar, 10.03.09

This is a mixed media event. Music performances from Waking Chaos, The Jonestown Choir and Da' Mork; along with artwork from several of Chicago's visual artists. Artists displaying their work are Erik Pertl, Eva Flora, Frank Garcia, Rot Graphix, Xna.Art and Wbilliam66.

Erik Pertl - http://www.myspace.com/erikpertlart

Eva Flora - http://www.myspace.com/evaflora8

Rot Graphix - http://www.myspace.com/rotgrafix

Wbilliam66 - http://www.myspace.com/wbilliam

Xna.Art - http://www.myspace.com/d3athcru5h

Spectral Music 2.0

In a previous post I detailed my increasing interest in "spectral music" and the use of FFT analysis for producing very unique sounds and compositions. The "sounds" could be described as being similar to those produced by granular synthesis. The possibilities that FFT analysis offers for live performance is incredible.

Below is a brief definition of Spectral Music -

"Spectral music (or spectralism) is a musical composition practice where compositional decisions are often informed by the analysis of sound spectra. Computer based sound spectrum analysis using a Fast Fourier transform is one of the more common methods used in generating descriptive data. Using FFT analysis, features of a particular sound spectrum can be visualized using a spectrogram. Spectral composition focuses, then, on bringing out these features, interconnecting them, and transforming them. This analytical approach to spectral composition originated in France in the early 1970s and the techniques were primarily developed, and later refined, at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, and with the Ensemble l'Itinéraire, by composers such as Gerard Grisey and Tristan Murail. However, Murail has described Spectral music as an aesthetic rather than a style, an attitude towards composition rather than a set of techniques - the attitude being that "music is ultimately sound evolving in time" . It has been suggested, however, that a number of major practitioners of this compositional method consider the term inappropriate, misleading, and reductive. More recently (2003) the Istanbul Spectral Music Conference redefined 'spectral music' to encompass any music that foregrounds timbre as an important element of structure or musical language".

There is also an upcoming performance of Spectral Music in October:

Spectrum XXI: international festival of Spectral Music

12, 13, 15 October at 7pm, The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1

17 October at 7pm, LSO St. Luke's, 161 Old Street, London ECIV

Compostions by Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Marie Avram, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, Tim Hodgkinson, Costin Cazaban, Horatiu Rodulescu and Mario Diaz De Leon

You can listen live on Resonance 104.4 FM (UK)

http://resonancefm.com/

There is also a lengthy interview with Iancu Dumitrescu in the October 2009 issue of The Wire -

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3042/

FluiD @ Mixtapes Record Store 09.26.09

This Saturday night, 09.26.09 @ Mixtapes Record Store along with Maylane and Sleeper Wake Society...

'Recluse', the new Black Saturn vs. subduxtion video

Our new video 'Recluse', from the recently released 'Cosmic Sorcery' EP. 'Cosmic Sorcery' is available as free download.

You can download 'Cosmic Sorcery' here - http://www.archive.org/details/CosmicSorcery

News from Alrealon Music

The new DJ Phys single called 'Songs From Loftus Road' (ALRN013) is out on Alrealon Music. DJ Phys will be releasing a 4-track EP, 'Poisonous Gxm' (ALRN009) before the end of the year. 'Songs From Loftus Road' can be found at http://alrealon.co.uk/shop.html

In other Alrealon news, lookout for new podcasts from C-Drik (Oct.), ONO (Nov.) and Distopia (Dec.).

C-Drik - http://www.myspace.com/cdrk

ONO - http://www.myspace.com/onopmichaelono

Distopia - http://www.myspace.com/utopiadistopia

William Staples, 'Paintings' @ 65 GRAND Gallery

Opening this weekend at 65 GRAND and continuing until October 10th , 'William Staples -Paintings'.

Opening reception, Friday Sept. 11th, 2009 from 7pm - 10pm.

For more info: http://www.65grand.com/index.php

Shock Tactics

Recently I have begun a compostitional collaboration with MJ Heat of X+X. Our compostion/collaboration is a "game piece" titled 'Shock Tactics'. Heat and I collaborate with an ever-changing lineup of Quad Citites jazz, punk, noise and rock musicians, collectively known as the Shock Tactics Ensemble.

"Game piece is a concept of experimenatl music having its roots with composers Christian Wolff and John Zorn. Game pieces may be considered controlled improvistaion. An essential characteristic is that there is no pre-arranged sequence of events. They unfold freely according to certain rules, like in a sports game. Therefore, game pieces have elements of improvisation. A number of methods can be used to determine the direction and evolution of the music, including hand gestures and shuffled cards, as in his file-card compositions. Zorn's game piece "Cobra", which has been recorded several times for various labels, uses a combination of cards and gestures and can be performed by an ensemble of any size and composition. Zorn's game pieces, written in the late 1970s and mid-1980's, include Cobra, Hockey, Lacrosse, and Xu Feng. His file-card compositions include Spillane and Godard".

http://www.myspace.com/shocktactics1

EGGBLOOD Podcast by The Egg plant

Aye Aye People

The Egg plant have recentley completed the latest in the Alrealon Music podcast series for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy it.

Here's the info/link etc from Alrealon Music - http://alrealon.co.uk/podcast.html

Thanks and Respect to them.

Hope you Enjoy it...Peace.T E p>>>

http://www.myspace.com/theeggplanet

New EP from Toxic Taboo

Coming October 31st... The new EP from Toxic Taboo. Toxic Taboo is DJ Restless aka Finger Painted Death, Black Saturn and FluiD. We've been working together for the past year and are now readying our first release, an as yet untitled EP.

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

Toy Karma 2 @ Rotofugi Gallery

It's been two years since the first Toy Karma exhibit believe it or not! Our original ground-breaking exhibit featured a whole bunch of artists and exclusives and helped introduce Japanese toys and kaiju to the midwest and a greater audience of designer toy collectors. We had so much fun doing Toy Karma that we've asked our friend Mark Nagata (Max Toy Company) to reprise his role as curator and bring you Toy Karma 2!


Mark has put together an amazinng line-up of over 70 artists from Japan, the United States and even Germany, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela to share art inspired by their love of Japanese toys. Opening night is Saturday, September 5, 7-10PM with music by dep. In addition to the exhibit we'll have several exclusive toy releases by Charactics, Real Head, Rumble Monsters, Yamo-mark, Sunguts, Clap Monsters, Zollmen, The Lake Monsters, Skull Toys and maybe even more!


PLEASE NOTE: Just like our normal exhibits, artworks from the TK2 exhibit will be available to purchase first via our Gallery Previews List, but the exclusive toy releases will not. Line Tickets to purchase the exclusives will be available at Rotofugi Toy Store beginning at 12noon on Saturday, Sept. 5. Thanks!


Finally....for exhibit news, information about exclusives and sneak peeks please check out our TK2 Blog at http://toykarma.rotofugi.com

Celebration of Life Festival

Saturday, August 22, 2009... I will be performing at the 'Celebration of Life Festival'. The fest takes place at Swing State in Lake Villa, IL.

3:00… Fluid - www.myspace.com/fluidemusique
4:00… Actually - www.myspace.com/thisisactually
5:00… Earth Program - http://www.myspace.com/theearthprogram
6:00… All the Dim Stars - www.myspace.com/allthedimstars
7:00… grrRoPolis - www.myspace.com/grrropolis
8:00… Venice Gas House Trolley - www.myspace.com/flowpoetry
9:00… Ten Speed - www.myspace.com/theblockofwoodcollective
10:00… Mirrek - www.myspace.com/mirrekband