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GLAC-27: Béton Translucide- Chalet/Vortex E.P.

  By glacial23 | 1/12/2012 - 1:38 am | Catalog, future projects, General, New Stuff, Performances Leave a comment

The “synthpop” EP I’ve been hinting about is done. You can check it out on Bandcamp. It’s officially released on Friday, January 13th (in an edition of 13, no less). You can get a copy either at the Stare With Your Ears event on Friday or via Bandcamp once I see how many are left.

As mentioned in the paragraph above, my first show of 2012 is happening Friday at bela dubby. Should get going around 9pm. I’m even hearing a rumour that it’ll be webcast for those out of town or unwilling to leave their homes.

More special projects in the works, but I’ll talk about those later…

December update so far

  By glacial23 | 12/13/2011 - 1:59 am | Catalog, future projects, New Stuff, Performances 1 Comment

Fun times this weekend, with the official debut performance of ‘PyroGlacial’ (a collaboration with Pyrosonic) on Saturday, and opening for OS OVNI and DJ sets from Textbeak and FUNERALS on Sunday.

Live-wise, a few performances are still lined up for the rest of this year(Dec. 26th at Pat’s, and Dec. 28th on WCSB-FMpostponed, stay tuned) and a few already next year, but I think I’ll be turning down any additional shows in January and maybe February. If something really interesting comes along I’ll give consideration to any opportunities presented, but I’ve got some projects coming up that are going to take a lot of my time between now and February:

GLAC-27 (the debut EP by Béton Translucide) is very, very close to done. Mixing is something like 75% complete. Tapes by the Dec. 26th show? It’s looking possible.

I’ve gotten a number of inquiries about the split tape series, and if everyone who has contacted me so far submits something, these should be two killer splits(currently assigned catalog numbers GLAC-28&29).

GLAC-30 will be a third split, featuring myself and another artist to be announced soon. My side may well be along these lines.

GLAC-20 and GLAC-25 are making slow progress. On a positive note, I finally found a “lost” 4-track tape that I wanted to mix down for -20, so that’s a positive. The scope of -25 has gotten really big (two full CDs + a limited edition mix + a sort of performance art project/road trip), and may well be a box set if the scope creeps any further ;-) .

There’s another project I’m about to start on soon(which is likely the primary focus in the short term), but I don’t want to give too much information on it just yet. It’ll be properly announced when it’s ready.

I’ll leave you with this: Go see the show at Pat’s on December 26th. There will be more synths in there than you can shake a stick at- Inner Spaced (i.e. Telecult Powers+John Elliot of Emeralds/Outer Space), a Fragments/Fluxmonkey collab(!!!), Moth Cock, your humble narrator glacial23, and maybe one more act. UFOs will be seen!

Mid-September 2011 happenings…

  By glacial23 | 9/13/2011 - 5:06 pm | Catalog, future projects, General, New Stuff, Performances 2 Comments

Recording: GLAC-26 is pretty much available in the wild now. Two are purchased, four are more-or-less on hold for folks, and four are still available for the gripping (as well as an unlimited quantity of downloads). It was a long march to get it released in the last couple of weeks, as it turned out a) the tape deck I planned to use had a non-functional input, and b) once I got a replacement deck, the tapes I had planned to use were of an incredibly low quality, and refused to record at a reasonable speed. Luckily I had recently purchased some good-quality C20s, and was able to make this a case of putting both tracks on each side, versus the original one track per side planned.

My earlier estimation of an October 9th release of the next tape (GLAC-27) may be a little premature, as it will now be a full C20 instead of a C10. We’ll see what happens. After that is (likely) a split C30 (GLAC-28), but that’s really early in the planning phases.

 

Live: Played an incredibly anarchic set at Sunday’s Audio/Visual Baptism show pretty much just using my 4-track as an instrument. I had all sorts of feedback issues and just decided to roll with them at some point. Messy, but fun.

I’ll be playing tomorrow, September 14th at bela dubby in Lakewood, along with Michael James (who did a killer drone set at AVB), and Michael Collins (formerly of Prince Rama, but now living in the Cleveland area) and maybe one more performer. I’ll also be doing various and sundry things at Recycled Rainbow next week- as of right now, the only confirmed happening is some sort of performance in conjunction with Eric Alleman.

 

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News update – August edition

  By glacial23 | 8/3/2011 - 12:12 am | Catalog, future projects, General, Performances Leave a comment
  • Three shows have happened since the last post- one at SPACES Gallery on May 25th,  a house show at “The Rock Hall, Agharta Branch” May 7th, and bela dubby on July 23rd. I’ll be playing again on August 11th and August 27th, both at bela dubby, and doing a piece that will involve tape in some form at the Audio Visual Baptism event at Now That’s Class on September 11. Rumors of more performances in the October time frame have been heard, but nothing’s set in stone yet.
  • Parallax and Live at the Grog Shop are now available as a single CD-R, called “22/24″. Available via either of those Bandcamp links or at select shows.
  • Debating a name change for dancier/poppier material vs. the noisy experimental stuff. Thought I had a good one lined up, but apparently another local band is using one of the words for their name. Due to this, the August 11th show is just plain booked under my name, which is kind of weird. Stay tuned.
  • A pair of C10s are in the works. As soon as I’ve got material and packaging ready, they’ll make their way into the world. There are further release plans, but these things take time…
  • Why do these things take time? Well, among other things I took the opportunity after the last show to clean & reorganize the studio space. Once the studio is set up “right”, hopefully material will flow a little better. That’s the theory, anyway.
  • Hey, look- new look on the website. Probably not permanent. Also started a page for documenting live appearances.

Recent happenings – January 2011 edition

  By glacial23 | 1/30/2011 - 11:46 pm | future projects, General, Performances Leave a comment

Past shows: January 15th show went really well. You can check that out on SoundCloud. I played at bela dubby again last night (January 26th) – it was a really good noisy set, but I neglected to bring an SD card for the recorder, so no record remains- guess you had to be there.

Upcoming shows: I’ll be playing bela dubby Saturday, February 5th (with Colorforms(again), Thursday Club (for real this time!), Field of Hats, and Highly Funktioning Kult(a must-see, IMO!)), and the 18th (with Narwhals Taste Like Bacon and others TBD)

Upcoming recordings: I’m still trying to compile together “The Messed Of” (the vault-trawling release I’ve mentioned before)- there’s one particular track I want to finally mix down, but the 4-track tape has gone missing. I may try to recreate it from memory, as I have a lot of the gear used to make it (DR-110, ADV-Bass, MG-1, and I’m sure I can mostly fake a Poly-800 with a Juno 1…)

February is just around the corner, so that means it’s RPM Challenge time! In theory, you should expect some sort of release sometime around the 28th. I think I’ve got my personal rules sorted- we’ll see what happens.