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June 09 So, the Life Festival performance was a real buzz and many thanks to all the good folks who sat back in the sun and enjoyed my music in a perfect setting. Thanks also to the people who came along to chat about the performance and music in general after I'd finished. A wonderful way to enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon. The performance was recorded for broadcast so when I've finished a little mixing just to get the levels right it will be ready to pass on to Fluid Radio.
Some photographs from the festival will appear shortly in the gallery but here's a taster for now :-) It's now on to Transylvania and the concert I'm performing there in August. The concert will be recorded for a live album due for release some time around late September. It's early days yet but my plan is to create a performance that takes in all aspects of my Australian travels to date with an emphasis on Queensland (heavenly place that it is). May 09 My performance at the Life Festival on the 31st May will be recorded and broadcast by Fluid Radio in the UK. I will be performing a completely new series of pieces composed especially for the event. It will be quite cool if I say so myself. Do say hello if you're around. Hoping for great weather!!!! I'd like to take a moment to say a big thanks to Waterford City Council Arts Office who recently awarded me a substantial grant towards my music this year. April 09 I've been invited back to play the Life Festival again in May, nice to know that the music was so well received last year and thanks to the organisers for bringing me back. I've opted to play the Sunday morning chill session so that will be 12:00 on the 31st. I'm currently working on a completely new set. See you there again for some ambient moshing :-) March 09 I can confirm that I'll be playing the most excellent Transylvania Calling Festival in Romania in August. More details soon. February 09 I've decided, for the time being place the 'Kraków' piece on hold mainly because I can't get a mix that I'm happy with. When time allows I'll revisit this again. Queensland field recordings are being sorted and the first few synths have been laid down. And thus the cycle recommences. Looking forward to some summer performances again this year and am happy to travel so invites welcome, do get in touch. Now that the Nullarbor album is getting close to having paid for itself I've decided to drop the cost for the digital download version. You can now pick up the entire album in high bitrate mp3 with artwork for only $5.00 with immediate download. Pick it up here! December 2008 The current edition of the brilliant Space Music Podcast (S4.09) includes some of my Dubbo and Beyond track from the recent Nullarbor album. Many thanks TC for including my music! I'm currently mixing the 'Kraków' piece of music that I performed for the plug4 festival in San Francisco. Listening back to the performance I started to realise that it's a cool piece of ambient music and worth taking a week or so to massage the frequency balance and other bits and bobs required to bring it to a place where it could stand on it's own as a release. Not quite a 'live album' but a live EP that will be free of charge. November 2008 On 06 December I will be performing a live streamed set for the [:] p l u g [:] 4 - San Francisco’s 4th Annual Global Headphone Festival in the USA. As a background, while in Kraków for the Unsound/Placard event I carried out field recordings around the city on the day of my performance. These recordings will be used as the basis for an entirely new piece of work to be performed live in San Francisco, USA for the [:] p l u g [:] 4 festival. More details to follow including news of a new miXile live album to be released in 2009! --------------------------------- Kraków went very well. In many ways it was possibly the most enjoyable performance I've ever given. Part of this was down to the fact that I'd spent several enjoyable weeks rehearsing for the event but also because it was just such a cool experience to have been a part of and knowing that the festival was being streamed live over the interweb was a real buzz. Then again, Kraków is such a wonderful city and I look forward to working there again.
A live recording was made of my performance which will shortly be made available via this site. I also took time to carry out some field recordings while in Krakow and am very pleased with the results. It remains to be seen whether these will find their way into an overall project or remain as stand alone recordings. There are some more pics from Kraków on the gallery page. October 2008 The Unsound Festival in Kraków, Poland takes place towards the end of October and I've been invited to play a set as part of the Placard Headphone events. I'll be playing on the 24 Oct. at 15:00 in Klub RE. As usual it will be all new music but based on Australian travels. Looking forward to meeting new friends in Poland! September 2008 The 2009 Dublin Electronic Arts Festival takes place in October and the organisers have selected the miXile track Kalgoorlie to Eucla from my latest album Nullarbor to appear on the 2CD best of Irish electronic music compilation to coincide with the launch. Copies of the album will be available in Dublin from the 03 October and afterwards at all festival events. UK electronic music web site Fluid Radio have listed Nullarbor on their front page. Many thanks Daniel for selecting my work! In coming months I'm due to record a mix session for Fluid Radio so will post updates here along the way. Field recordings I made in and around Sydney Australia are currently under the miXile microscope which means that work on the next project has commenced. With a working title 'Sydney Voices' the project looks like focusing on shorter pieces of mixed styles and may even take in some psytrance as well as the usual ambient/sound art/downtempo stuff. Far too early for me to be sure where it's all going but I'm back in the studio!! August 2008 The last few weeks have been quite hectic so there's a few things to mention. I've just returned from an excellent few days in London where I was taking part in a field recording workshop under the tutelage of the legendary Chris Watson. Brilliant! Prior to that I spent a week recording in the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, Italy. The month started with my performance at the Life Festival in Ireland. All went perfectly with no technical hiccups and the feedback from folks attending was brilliant. Many thanks to all who came along and took part in my musical journey across Australia. The new work based on Magnetic Island recordings does need some refining so I'll get to that over the next few months. Many thanks to Christine who took the performance photographs and shot some short video sequences. July 2008 In advance of my performance on Sunday 06 July, here's a short preview as to what to expect. June 2008 The recent Nullarbor album received am excellent review in a recent edition of Ireland's Munster Express newspaper by their Art/Music critic, Mr. Liam Murphy. Check it out here and thanks Liam for taking time to enjoy the music! I'm now working towards the Life Festival performance in July so will be spending much time before then trying out some new ideas and ways of presenting my Australian journey. Very much looking forward to the event and a chance to meet up with some old friends from last year .... I'll bring my own guitar for late night Radiohead covers in the camp site this time :-) I've also recently invested heavily in some new equipment so can move away from relying on a single laptop and keyboards. This will allow me to relax a little more about the technology knowing that there are a few more baskets for my eggs to go in, if you know what I mean ..... The summer project this year will take me to Tuscany for some field recording in the Apuan Alps. May 2008
April 2008 I'm due to play the 3rd annual 'Sonic Vigil' in St. Fin Barres Cathedral, Cork, Ireland in May. More details closer to the time. I'm currently in the early stages of mulling over whether to do a piece based around unheard Broken Hill recordings or some Blue Mountains sounds, neither of which I've performed live before. Just back from 3 wonderful weeks recording in Australia. Along the way I spent some time up on Magnetic Island in Northern Queensland where I got to do some up-close wildlife recording. These recordings should surface in 2009 by which time I'll be finished the next Sydney and Queensland albums. Many thanks to all who were wonderfully hospitable and cool along the way! I'll update the gallery over the next few weeks. The new Nullarbor album is selling well and the feedback has been brilliant so many thanks to all the folks who have picked up a copy directly from this site or who've grabbed theirs from CD Baby. March 2008 It's now official, I'll be playing the 2008 Life Festival in July! The CD launch went quite well and I took time to improvise a new work in progress track called 'Eels v Tigers' (Australian footy fans should catch the reference) as well as performing a few numbers from the new Nullarbor album. February 2008 An 'official' album launch for the new Nullarbor CD will take place in Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland on 28 February at 18:00. I will be playing a short set as part of the launch as well as enjoying a glass of wine with friends and folks who attend. Admission is free so if you are in the area then do drop by. The new album is now available via CD BABY with worldwide shipping:
Digital distribution via iTunes, Napster, etc is almost in place. The return trip to Australia is shaping up nicely and will now include a few days recording on Magnetic Island in Northern Queensland. It's too early to disclose specifics at this stage but some summer 2008 festival dates are possible. Full steam ahead and all that good stuff! January 2008
I will be traveling to Australia again in March to carry out some more field recordings and hopefully to play 1 or 2 performances (invites welcome) .... very much looking forward to this and the start of the 2008 NRL season which I'll catch in Sydney .... more recording on the Parramatta river methinks. I've finally caved and started a myspace page thing (thanks to evilzombiemonkey for setting it up) ....... have put this off for years ....... ok, it's just started, still looks vanilla but here you go: http://www.myspace.com/mixilemusic
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The Life Festival performance was also a premier of a completely new show based around Sydney, Australia recordings ... and yes, the last track resulted from recordings made in the Sydney monorail.
Along the way I met with some great people, especially Eric who organised and ran 
The St. Fin Barres Cathedral performance went
quite well. Some technical glitches with an amp meant dropping the first piece, an improvised 'Southern Cross' from the new Nullarbor album.