Between May 2012 and December 2012 artists all over the world will be submitting realisations of George Brecht’s event scores which will be made available for download from Compost and Height.

Realisation of Page 71 of Brecht’s “Water Yam” now available:

Phil Julian – “Symphony No. 2 (Turning)”

This and the others in the series can be found here.

FRIDAY 15TH JUNE 2012
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building
Lewisham Way, New Cross
London, SE14 6NW
MAP | FLYER
Doors open 7.15pm – First performance 7.30pm sharp!
ADMISSION FREE!

Performing live analogue electronics in the Goldsmiths University Great Hall with John Chantler & Jonathan McHugh.

Organised by John Macedo, more info here.

Mastered and contributed various audio sections to the new LP by Dieter Müh “Heterodoxie”.

Available soon: 17 euro + P&P from http://www.millstonevinyl.se or via http://muhmur.blogspot.co.uk/

Live modular synth gloom taken at the recent Nailafest at The Hope & Anchor, London.

Photo courtesy of Entr’acte.

Some recent releases mastered by Phil Julian:

The New Blockaders “Schadenklang” LP (Hypnogogia) – contact tnbrip (at) yahoo.co.uk for ordering info.
Aqua Dentata “Lesbian Semiotics at a Jewellery Table” CDr (Self Released)

Reviews of the “Schadenklang” LP here.

Cafe OTO, London – Saturday 13 October 2012
Door Times : 8pm (starting 8.30 prompt)

An evening of deep listening, featuring five works by composers in or around the Wandelweiser collective, (Michael Pisaro, John Cage, James Saunders, Manfred Werder, Sam Sfirri) performed by the 40-strong ensemble murmuration. All of the pieces in the programme leave the choice of sounds to the musicians, who will be dispersed throughout the Cafe, with no physical separation between players and audience.

The evening’s concert celebrates the release of a 6-CD box set ‘Wandelweiser und so weiter’ (Wandelweiser and so on) on the Another Timbre label, as well as retrospective launches of other discs by James Saunders, Michael Pisaro and the No Islands quartet. All these CDs will be on sale at ridiculously low prices for one night only. It should be an extraordinary evening, full of wonderful and unusual sounds.

The members of murmuration include Angharad Davies, Dominic Lash, Jennifer Allum, Mark Wastell, John Lely, Daniel Jones, Phil Julian, Ute Kanngiesser, Ross Lambert, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga and Paul Whitty.

More information at Cafe OTO and another timbre.

“Fulcrum / Hardwire” CDr reviewed by Roger Batty at Musique Machine here.

Rammel Weekender photograph by Sian Macfarlane.

Thursday 19/04/2012
Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RL
8pm / £4

Hobo Sonn
Duncan Harrison
Cheapmachines
Aqua Dentata
Dale Cornish

Facebook events page here.

A review of “Transcript” by Frans de Waard is now online in Vital Weekly 824

“For a long time best known as Cheapmachines, Phil Julian now works, from time to time, under his own name, and while I am not sure what makes the difference, his output has always been quite diverse. From noise to ambient to electro-acoustic and anything that might make a cross-over between all of that. Here he returns to lo-fi sound sources: blank cassette tapes (bulk erased, endless loop, vintage, new), cassette decks (stereo, mono), personal stereo and dictaphones and the music is recorded with cassette recorder, telephone induction cells, close-range VLF detector, piezo & pvdf film tab contact microphones. ‘Transcript’ has two parts and it makes up quite a minimal set of works, hissy, scratchy but also spacious and mildly noise based. An excellent choice, I’d say, to put these works out on cassette, and unlike some others of this week, the overall sound quality is very good. Julian knows how to construct his sound pieces to keep them both minimal yet interesting and works along the lines of Howard Stelzer in that respect, but also Joe Colley and Jason Zeh as an influence is never far away. Excellent cassette all around.”