Last night I once again joined Sami (Bangkok Impact) in his liveset at a Electro-nation event in the new room at the Melkweg (one of the more prominent performance spaces here) and learned some lessons. See inside for details on improvised dance music, experimental turntablism and breakneck development.
October 25, 2009
October 23, 2009
Oct 23
Bad deadline, lots of code to write… Then the screen of my music laptop went black.
October 20, 2009
Oct 20
Yesterday netted me four new records, three from TLR as I was helping move, one from vrijhaven’s W*ut as interest on a small loan while helping tune up the vrijhaven PA.
This makes for a nice afternoon today.
New Creme office is great and far closer to The Mess, I proposed it be named “Trainspotter’s Heaven”. Vrijhaven PA sounds pritty good now and can certainly go loud enough; the main limiting factor was turntable feedback. Just in time for Tapes/Jahtari on Saturday which I’ll have to miss due to supporting master Sami that night in Amsterdam. More updates on the plans for Saturday soon, assuming we don’t run into another case of documentational slackage….
October 16, 2009
Some notes on last night’s protests.
Yesterday there was a demonstration against the proposed anti-squatting law here. To summarise for the non-Dutch; currently squatting is legal here, provided the building has been unused for over a year. This is meant to address housing shortages and prevent artificial price inflation. Aside from people living in squats this has led to a lively culture where larger squats fill roles like performance space, exhibition space, vegan restaurant, artist work-space, “give away shops” etc. Much of The Hague’s alternative culture takes place in these places. The new law would change this, so that led to protests.
October 5, 2009
Slackpact part3
As mentioned, it’s not so much that I slacked on practice/creation in the #hackpact week (though that happened too), it’s that i was terrible at documentation. In this episode; analogue synthesis and turntablism.
Slackpact part2
Overview of the direction my practice took in the past month, noting areas that need work and the direction I was moving in.
October 3, 2009
Slackpact part1
Catching up on undocumented stuff done in the “hackpact” month part1; a old draft.