MORE ROAR!

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This year I’ve been working with Agnes Cameron on MORE ROAR! an entropic synthesiser and degenerative artwork. The more you play it, the more its sounds degrade, become re-ordered. Every restart, a different rate of degradation. ‘Raw’ sound weathered into noise and silence. Artwork by Colin Thelermont (Tellamont).

More details and sounds soon …

John Richards

Dirty Electronics and Oliver Torr collapse Gwilly Edmondez and Lategirl feat. Odie Ji Ghast … an evening of the unreasonable, impractical and unrealistic Cafe Oto, London, 10 Jan

Yarmonics

Big thanks Yarmonics festival of sound and new music. Bad Buffer performance in a multi-storey car park with Louie Perillo. Heavy guitar, not-guitar Dirty Electronics-stylee. Photo honor ash

The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things

The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things publication with Routledge. Now shipping! Discussion on DIY sound-making and communities of practice. Great contributions and texts by: Cristóbal Martínez, indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination; Ziad Moukarzel, autonomous electronic music communities in Beirut, Lebanon; Gijs Gieskes, building circuits from scratch with ‘raw’ electronics materials; and others …