Here are some of the illustrations I’m working on for Lamfrag’s next Short “The Polig”. They won’t be in the actual film but will be the key feature in the poster and DVD design. Hope you like them – more details coming soon…
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Cyclic Defrost is an Australian electronic music magazine I happened upon when I found a really good interview with Christian Fennesz. It seems to be pretty good, with nice design and layout, as well as good writing about interesting music – I just read a real insightful interview with Autechre that I hadn’t seen before there as well. What is more every issue is free to download online in PDF form. That’s a lot of reading!
The picture above is the front and back cover of issue 16. It is a wicked bit of design.
This is a picture that I have just finished inking. Its original title is ‘I took the spider from my purse, looked at it and said “begone!”. And lo! The spider was gone.’ which is something that happened into my mind one time at the edge of sleep. A bit of a mouthful…
Anyway, it is the first ‘proper’ image I have created with my hands (as in not a photo) in about 10 years or so. I think I quite like it, but will have to give a bit more time before I know for sure. Matt says he likes it tho, which is encouraging.
You will be relieved to hear that the Disperse Records website is back on-line, and newly shiny. Obviously this is momentous news and the hundreds of thousands of people (silently) awaiting this event can finally breathe that long awaited sigh of relief…ehem.
No new music up there at the moment, just the same stuff that was on the old website (free to download to all) but I can tell those same thousands that there will be some stuff from Arthur Winkler NOW!, Jeff Geoff and possibly EXTRASUPER (if I can get my thumb out my ass…) coming soon…watch this space.
Well, well… it’s taken a while but we’ve blocked out the light, closed the doors & ventured down into the depths of our noise making basement (and laundry), and finally finished it. Actually that’s a lie; we’ve still got a few things to plug in and will consume at least 12 cups of tea before its all functional (and frankly, the 3 legged monstrosity we’ve made out of random bits of wood we’re calling a table isn’t up to much – although its good to put my old autoharp on).
It’s also a chance to give our recently acquired Novation A-station synth a whirl… looks like an interesting piece of kit – although it doesn’t have the lovelyness of a true analogue synth, it sure as hell has the potential to make some left field sounds. I’m interested in using it’s input capabilities to feed some rotten samples in from an Akai X7000 – true 80’s mess. Hopefully we’ll have some stuff to show you soon. Also looking forward to listening to the new Autechre Album “Oversteps” on vinyl down there – which you must buy.
I have recently been listening to some of the podcasts Touch Records have on their radio site. Some really interesting stuff – the latest post is Chris Watson’s ‘a journey south’ - an audio diary of his trip sound recording in Antarctica. There’s a part with a recording of the ice breaking recorded underwater – really otherwordly sounds, detailed and multi layered, that stand up as incredible music in their own right.
Well…Here’s where we’re going to be talking about stuff we like, stuff we’ve seen and keep updates on what we’re up to at the moment creatively and commercially. Here goes…