Category: MUSIC

The Imminence Of ‘Fake Fish Distribution’

The new Icarus studio album; ‘Fake Fish Distribution’, will be released on Not Applicable on January 30th 6th February 2012 (N.B change of date!). It is their first full studio album since 2005’s ‘I Tweet the Birdy Electric‘ and was composed using parametric techniques, embedded into Ableton Live using the Max for Live add-on, allowing them to mutate the record so that each version that you download will be different from everyone else’s. More on this can be found via their dedicated FFD page and on the STEIM project blog.

It’s been an epic project, with a lot of help from some very helpful people, but it will be something a bit special. A short tour in Europe in January and February is being put together to promote the record. Dates coming shortly … for news on pre-ordering, gigs and more, follow Icarus on Twitter @birdy_electric or sign up to the Not-Applicable mailing list in the sidebar or here (we promise this is ultra-low traffic). In the mean time, here’s a sample of FFD version 500:

Fake Fish Distribution – version 500 sampler by Icarus…

Obsolve and Zoetrope

The London Sinfonietta will be performing two newly commissioned short pieces by Isambard Khroustaliov on the 21st October and 5th November entitled Obsolve and Zoetrope. Obsolve is scored for solo percussion with amplification and Zeotrope for quintet (clarinet, violin, horn, ‘cello and flute).

Commissioned as part of the Sinfonietta’s Writing the Future scheme and drawing on previous written work with instrumentalists (documented on the album Ohka), they represent some tentative first steps into the world of contemporary composed music without the use of digital sound processing. The scores for both works are available via the links below.

Obsolve
for solo percussion and amplification – duration: 5 mins

@ Sonic Explorations 2 – Friday 21st October 2011, 8pm, KIngs Place, London.

Zoetrope
for quintet (clarinet, violin, horn, ‘cello and flute) – duration: 7 mins

@ Pavillions 2 – Saturday 5th November 2011, 6pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London.

You can also catch a purely digital solo set, reworking of some of the material from both pieces in support of Blurt on the 28th October, details tbc.

New Release – Flensburg

‘Flensburg’, the new Icarus / Badun split EP is now available via Bandcamp. There are also some reviews up on the Liminal and the Danish magazine Gaffa.

Also, a big thank you to everyone who helped organise the Icarus tour this spring and to everyone who came out to the shows. Icarus are set to return with a new studio album in the autumn, you can keep posted about it through the Icarus website.

Flat Home

Created for the Not Applicable Artists Festival in Berlin this summer by Martin Hampton (shot in and around his native Somerset, navigating the shores of the Bristol Channel and further afield), Flat Home received two screenings with different combinations of instrumentalists improvising to it on each night. The resulting soundtrack is a hybrid of the two:

Flat Home – A film by Martin Hampton

Music improvised to the film on two successive nights during the Not Applicable Artists Festival of Experimental Music and Film, Berlin 2010.

Finnlandzentrum – Tuesday 7th September 2010

Stevko Busch – piano
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Babette – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Tobias Klein – bass clarinet
Kai Wolff – computer
Roy Caroll – electronics
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Maurizio Ravalico – percussion
Rudi Fischerlehner – drumkit
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Recorded and mixed by Isambard Khroustaliov.
Music edited by Isambard Khroustaliov with Martin Hampton.