UPDATE: SOLD the whole edition to a collector in the States. I will be doing future runs of SoundBoxes soon, watch this space or get in touch to reserve yours.

I wanted to remind my dear readers that the three SoundBoxes of the Ghost Lockets series are still for sale. Price is EUR 120 each plus shipping (and USt for German buyers). The Ghost Lockets are enhanced SoundBoxes, incorporating a circuit based on a fancy boutique guitar fuzz with a spring-mounted contact microphone, 9V battery, 1/2 Watt audio amplifier, transparent speaker and audio-responsive lighting. Each one also contains a Danish ghost.

You can see more detailed photos of each here. Videos of two other SoundBoxes can be viewed here (similar design, no distortion) and here (different design, but recorded with distortion pedal), and these should give you an idea of how they can be played and what they sound like. I can shoot specific photos and videos next week for interested buyers. Handstamped nameplate on request.

Contact: macumbista AT THE DOMAIN gmail DOT com

Near village of Mooste EE, 3 Jan 2012

Currently teaching a workshop for the TAIK Media Lab in rainy Helsinki after an amazing New Years trip to MOKS in southeast Estonia, where I walked, cooked, sauna’ed, ate and drank with friends and worked on some sound with Jelena Glazova from Riga. Her processed vocals vs my feedbacking soundboxes… Perhaps some glimpses of this project will make it online later on when I’m back in Berlin and have time to edit them.

I just confirmed two gigs, one Macumbista live set for Electric Spring in Huddersfield UK on 15 February (along with a two day workshop preceding this) and one TONEWHEELS performance and lecture for Sonores in Guimaraes PT on 27 April. I’d be very interested to hear from London people about activities around 16-19 February… pls get in touch!

Now Playing

hive mind–elemental disgrace[2011 spectrum spools]

nonlinearity III from macumbista on Vimeo.

Q: So what do you do?

A: Well, if no one’s ever seen one before, how can they tell if I’m playing it badly or not?

Triple soundbox-drone nonlinearity study, constructed and recorded during my 2011 residency at the Danish Institute for Electro/Acoustic Music, Aarhus and edited during a shorter residency at MOKS, Mooste. Glam-rock, audio-responsive soundbox built for KT.

aluk todolo–ordre[2011 ajna offensive]
asva–presence of absence[2011 important]
barn owl + jefre cantu-ledesma–live at levee berlin[may 2011]
barn owl & the infinite strings ensemble–the headlands[2011 important]
ben frost–live at berghain berlin[feb 2011]
bohren and der club of gore–beileid ep[2011 ipecac]
charlemagne palestine–live at tuned city tallinn[july 2011]
corrupted–garten der unbewusstheit[2011 cold ashes]
crippled black phoenix–live at festsaal kreuzberg berlin[may 2011]
cut hands–afro noise 1[2011 very friendly/susan lawly]
diamanda galas–live at wundergrund copenhagen[oct 2011]
earth–angels of darkness, demons of light I[2011 southern lord]
eleh–radiant intervals[2011 important]
eliane radigue–transamorem, transmortem[2011 important]
ellen fullman–through glass panes[2011 important]
evan caminiti–when california falls into the sea 12″[2011 handmade birds]
falls of rauros–the light that dwells in rotten wood[2011 bindrune]
lasse marhaug–live at wundergrund copenhagen[nov 2011]
master musicians of bukkake–live at festsaal kreuzberg berlin[may 2011]
mika vainio–life (… it eats you up)[2011 editions mego]
motion sickness of time travel–dreamcatcher cs[2011 hobo cult records]
oneohtrix point never–replica[2011 software]
pharaoh overlord–out of darkness[2011 ektro]
pj harvey–let england shake[2011 island]
the skull defects feat. daniel higgs–peer amid[2011 thrill jockey]
thomas ankersmit–live at tuned city tallinn[july 2011]
tim hecker–ravedeath 1972[2011 kranky]
trevor wishart–talk and concert at DIEM aarhus[dec 2011]
various artists–brass pins & match heads: international 78s[2011 mississippi]
valerio tricoli & thomas ankersmit–forma II[2011 pan-act]
wolves in the throne room–celestial lineage[2011 southern lord]