He’s been making some of the most interesting electronic music for the past 2o years, combing electronica, techno, idm, jazz and dub.
He’s music is intricate and complex but still communicates the universal language of music.
Friedman has collaborated with all sort of musicians, Atom TM, in their duo ‘Flanger’.
He has collaborated with legendary drummer Jaki Liebezeit from ‘Can’ and Mohammad Reza Mortazav
Toshimaru Nakamura is in my opinion the best example of no input mixing. The music is experimental and beautiful.
Using the philosophies from Onkyo, and ideas from free improvisation.
Summer, 180 The Strand, Immersive RYOJI IKEDA exhibition
Ryoji Ikeda as for long been an influential audio-visual artist.
Ive explored data-bending and data-moshing.
I started off by using Audacity, which I originally thought of as a simple audio editing platform, i discovered that you can import files as RAW data. Using any sort of file in your computer and converting that into audio, then editing that audio with effects, time stretching, etc. And then exporting the file as the original extension not as audio.
Meaning that a .mp4 or a .jpeg file can be edited as audio an exported as a video or photo file.
This is crazy, all files are 0 and 1’s. So a wav file and a pdf are in their core the same thing. This gave me some fun and experimental digital techniques.
November 5, TrowBridge.
Travis, Sam and I went to a church near Bristol, in a small town called TrowBridge.
The owner of the church has a collection of harpsichords and pianos. We took a field recorder and a ambisonic microphone.
The church had a nice natural reverb, Travis played each harpsichord, some improvisations guided by a visual score made by himself. After doing these recordings, we made a group improv, me playing a steinway and sons piano, Sam playing an organ and Travis singing.
My favourite part was when I got to play the organ. I played long sustained notes on the keyboard and on the bass pedal, while I was moving the ‘knobs’, I found this crazy, since I noticed the air inside the organ being modulated to my movement. I could hear it clearly since I was standing right in front of the pipes.
It was a good day of sonic exploration.
Ive been working on doing the score and mixing of one of my friends movie.
It was recorded on the desert of Dubai, the movie is a man following a feather through the desert.
By making drones and synth layers, I tried to make to follow the atmosphere and emotion of the movie.
It hasnt been released so there no video of it yet.
It was a fun experience, since I got to use my abilities as a sound designer to amplify a friends work.
Heres the poster for the upcoming release.
David Toop is an interesting character, ive read some of his books: Ocean of sound and haunted weather.
He has some of the some interesting and wellrounded perspectives on sound art that ive encountred.
His book Haunted Weather, elaborates on his views on improvisation.
His performance is Cafe OTO, was an improvisation with another ex lcc teacher. He was playing a variety of flutes.
The show was really quiet, but that gave it a sonic quality on itself, where the listener is putting all his attention on all the small details of the ever-changing sound.
Good experience in Cafe OTO as usual
October 30, Hackney Wick.
Travis and I, performed at the first edition of the RoundMouth Festival.
It was our very first collaborative project, and I also worked as an audio engineer and managed the venue’s studio equipment, performances and technical issues.
Travis had at first requested me to re-do certain elements of his original material, so I did some sound design, drums and transitions between the tracks using Ableton and a drum machine. We practiced many sessions in M108.
Whilst Travis performed, I was live-mixing the tracks and vocals. There were some issues along the way that I faced. One of them was the constant changing of volumes between the songs, which meant that I had to keep adjusting the whole sound system of the place. The subwoofers were not making any bass as well and so I felt like I was in a constant fight with the sound system. Yet, this was such a fantastic learning experience despite problems with the sound quality not being up to my expectations. We managed to make the audience enjoy the show and that’s the most important part.