Midnight Sun?

At 6am this morning, with about two hours sleep the night before, I left Malmö and the Art of the Overhead event and flew to Bergen, Norway. After a quick nap and yet again the price shock (EUR 8 for a beer!), I realized that it was 11 at night and the sun hadn’t really gone down yet. Crazy…

I will post some videos and reviews of the Overheads event later on, but first I must repeat the mantra I learned–quite painfully–during my time in Sweden:

I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again. I will not tour without my own mixer ever again.

Three days lost and a one performance ended after 5 minutes due to stupid technical problems with borrowed mixers. Luckily I borrowed yet another mixer and managed to make it up to the very patient audience on the second night of the festival.

Up and Coming!

Next Life
Snöras
Derek Holzer and John Hegre
21.00, 30 May 2009
Landmark
Bergen Norway

Can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to this one. John Hegre (of Jazkammer) has been one of my favorite people and favorite experimental musicians for years now, so playing a duo with him could end up being the highlight of this tour! Thanks again to Piksel & Ny Musikk for organizing both this and the Neanderthal Electronics workshop I’m doing here this week.

fOO_bar!
w/ macumbista (us/de)
column one (de)
‘Systems Crash’
NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS PARTY!!!
21.00, 5 June 2009
WORM
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

‘fOO_bar’ is the public interface of WORM’s medialab moddr_ >> a combination of presentation, installation and performance of digital art and music, showing current interests from the lab without excessive 2.0_fluff – enjoy true interactivity and have a drink while you’re at it…

This night we host the closing event of our ‘Neanderthal Electronics’ workshop by Derek Holzer, with a presentation of the projects created during the week and a Stone-Age style group noise performance.
Live on stage we have COLUMN_ONE and Macumbista, and we start the evening with “Systems Crash” – a new series of public lectures jointly organized by Piet Zwart Institute Media Design and WORM.

Plus earlier in the week I get to see Mudboy open for Lightning Bolt, and on the weekend I go play with the analog synths at the WORM studio. Who says life on the road is all that rough?

Now Playing

Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers – The Power of Myth (TV)
Emeralds – What Happened [2009 No Fun]
Jana Winderen – Heated [2009 Touch]
Jana Winderen – Surface Runoff 7″ [2009 Touch]
Jason Crumer – Ottoman Black [2008 Hospital Productions]
Mika Vainio & Lucio Capece – Trahnie [2009 Editions Mego]
Minsk – With Echoes in the Movement of Stone [2009 Relapse]
Nate Young – Regression [2009 Ideal Recordings]
Natural Snow Buildings – Daughter of Darkness 5XCS [2009 Blackest Rainbow]
Nicholas Szczepanik – The Chiasmus [2009 Basses Frequences]
Our Love Will Destroy the World – Stillborn Plague Angels vinyl [2009 Dekorder]
Pärson Sound – Pärson Sound [1968]
Peter Wright – Snow Blind [2009 Install]
Prurient – And Still, Wanting [2008 Hospital Productions]
Prurient – The Black Post Society [2008 Cold Spring]
Stephan Mathieu – The Key to the Kingdom 7″ [2009 Dekorder]
Stephen O’Malley – Keep an Eye Out [2009 Table of Elements]
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions [2009 Southern Lord] (bit of a dud, really…they are overcome by their own artiness…)
Swans – Omniscience [1992 Young God]
Unknown 1970s Thai psychedelic orchestra
Wolf Eyes – Always Wrong [2009 Hospital Productions]