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posted 3 months ago

Here's the end of our set from Ptarmigan last weekend, performing the song 'Talbot' which is actually not on the 15,000 Day Boat Trip LP (available very very soon from 8mm!) but a song from my project Handshake Garden. Blurring the lines, you know.... Please accept my apologies for how awkward it is to watch someone sing and play viola at the same time. More live shows (with hopefully an expanded band lineup) will come in the future. And thanks to my partner Tara for filming this and using a nice arty slow shutter speed.

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tags: boattrip, frontpage, live, performance, ptarmigan, video

Upcoming performances this month in Helsinki

posted 4 months ago

I will be performing twice this month in Helsinki.

First, Friday 6 November at Kokoteatteri (Krunnunhaka), as part of Helsinki Meeting Point. I will be playing esraj along with James Andean (piano and electronics) and three dancers (Riikka Theresa Innanen, Jaakko Simola, and Virva Talonen). More information here.

On Saturday 21 November I will be performing as "The 15,000 Day Boat Trip Band" at the It's All In Your Mind 2009 festival, at my space Ptarmigan. There will very possibly be copies of the record The 15,000 Day Boat Trip in my possession by then, which would make this a 'record release show'; not sure yet what the performance or "band" will entail but it will assume some similarity to the album.

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tags: frontpage, live, performance

Musings on Mutopia: a week of collaboration in rural Estonia

posted 6 months ago

I spent the last 10 days in Estonia, mostly at the MoKS AVAMAA 2009 ArtSymposium. While the symposium offered traditional workshops (on printmaking and sound electronics), I participated in Mutopia 3, an exploration of collaborative creative practices that is quite difficult to describe.

Led by MoKS coordinator John Grzinich, the name is intended to combine the idea of Utopia with the process of mutation. And Mooste, Estonia does seem like some type of Utopia to my city-stained soul. A village of 500 people, about 40km from the also-charming Tartu, Mooste was far away from the distractions of my everyday life. The workshop was very focused on Mooste itself (though Mutopia 2 was held in Portugal) – the ideas of place and space were perhaps the one common theme throughout.

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tags: art, estonia, moks, mutopia, oulipo, performance, workshop

Bat Tarbet 'tethered to battery' live video excerpt

posted 11 months ago

Here's the video from the most recent Bat Tarbet performance, last Sunday at Koko-Teatteri in Helsinki. Thanks to Juho Jouhtimäki for shooting and sharing this.

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tags: bat_tarbet, frontpage, performance, video

Bat Tarbet 'noses' live video excerpt

posted about 1 year ago

Bat Tarbet "noses" from last week. We'll be performing again at Kokoteattri in Kruunuhaka, Helsinki on the 15th of March with the Shitty Listeners.

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tags: bat_tarbet, frontpage, performance, video