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news archive November 10 In advance of starting work in earnest on the Berlin project, here is a new track recorded at the recent Gateways Festival and the first piece I've ever done to feature field recordings from Ireland. The recordings were made at various times at the Back Strand, Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland and the music is based around those recordings. The festival performance included an hour of new material that I'll eventually mix but for now here's the opening track. Click the download link to take it away free of charge if you wish. Enjoy and feedback welcome. Tramore Back-Strand live at Gateways Festival 2010 by mixile In other news, I now have my initial set of Berlin field recordings sorted and tagged and am starting to work through them with a view to sorting out what might go where and when. Only a matter of days before recording work starts. October 10 I'm just back from a few days field recording in Berlin and had a wonderful time. Many thanks to the good folks of Berlin for helping to make it such a productive and enjoyable trip. I'll now be concentrating on those recordings for a forthcoming release. Further details when I know more. Last month's performances at Gateways festival and Soma, Waterford went well. It was interesting to work with new material after nearly six months performing music from the recent album. It was also a liberating to be taking a break from Australian themes after a four year focus. I'm hoping to listen back to the two performances and perhaps upload the audio files for folks who were there or are interested. It's likely that this material will not be performed again as I'd like to move on to the Berlin project. September 10 I'll be playing the Gateway Festival on the 25th September at 13:00 on the most excellent 4 theye stage. I will be using this as an opportunity to try out some completely new music and have been busy writing and rehearsing for the past month. Very much looking forward to this and it's nice to be working on something a little different. Also this month I'll be playing 'Beats,Tea,Cake,Boardgames,Eat,WOMP,Sit' an event in SOMA Waterford on the 26th and will also be trying out some new material for that little gathering. Finally, below is a recording of my 'Live at KnockanStockan Festival' performance. Also available as a high quality free download (click the down arrow). Enjoy and feedback welcome as ever. MiXile-Noosa Sunrise live at Knockanstockan - 230710 by mixile August 10 This month I'm taking time out to mix some performances from Knockanstockan and Bump from last month. Both performances were based around the Noosa Sunrise material but whereas I wanted Knockanstockan to be a little bit psychedelic the Bump performance was intended to be more abstract and an experiment in randomness. Hopefully, I'll have these completed this month and upped here. I'm also considering the direction the next project will take. I'm thinking of taking a break from the Australian series and either concentrating on some European travel concepts or maybe an abstract project that's not travel focused at all. Then again, listening to Robert Henke's 'Intersection' while typing this and I feel a whole new desire to dip into some of my field recordings that I've not even heard yet or maybe even spend a week in a new city somewhere in Europe just strolling around with a microphone. Decisions, decisions. What do you think? Also, I have some pretty cool new photographs taken by Bamian Byrne at the recent Vineyard show that I need to upload as well as some arty pics by Christine O'Brien Shanahan taken at Knockanstockan and Bump. July 10 The Munster Express have given the new album a great review, many thanks Liam Murphy! Still a bit sketchy but I'll be playing both the Bump Music Festival, Co. Clare and the Knockanstockan Festival, Co. Wicklow this month, in fact I'll be playing both festivals on the same weekend. Many thanks to all who came to the Vineyard in Cork and as usual to the Live Beats folks in Dublin 'cos we had a great time. And on the subject of live at the Vineyard ... here is a live performance of the new album which you can hear and even download in high bitrate mp3 for free. It will give an idea as to how the music has evolved through performance since release. Enjoy!!!!!! MiXile-Noosa Sunrise Live at the Vineyard-250610 by mixile June 10 This month I'll be doing an improvised jam session with Flynn and Mirolo as part of Live Beats III in Space 54, Dublin on the 18th. This should be a pretty interesting experience all round and I'm looking forward to it. On the 25th, I'll be playing The Vineyard in Cork. I'll be trying out some new approaches to the Noosa Sunrise material and building on what has already evolved from the album. Many thanks to all who attended the album launch last month and to Christine, Rich, Gav & Paul who helped turn it into a memorable evening for all who attended. May 10 I'll be performing in Waterford on the 21st May at 20:00 in SOMA Contemporary Art Space. This will be the official album launch. We are currently working on some custom UV visuals and video to work with the music on the night. So I played twice in Dublin last month. The IGNITE event at The Science Gallery in Trinity College was so much fun. Down below here you can see a HD quality video of the performance with accompanying photographs by Chris O'Brien Shanahan. I also had a great night with the Ableton Live User Group from Dublin and performed music from the new album and enjoyed some sweet sounds from some of the other folks in the group.
April 10 So, the album is now available on CD with very tasty artwork in Digipak format. It's now available also on Amazon in digital format. Call me old-skool but I still think CD quality beats mp3s + you can always rip the CD for your portable listening :-) I'll be playing a short but very special performance in the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on the 14 April as part of Ignite 4. On Friday, 16 April I'll be back in Dublin to play the Live-beats@space54 event in Space 54 again. March 10 26 March update: The Dublin performance went really well. Brilliant night, cool music from everyone and a chance to party with some great new friends as well as catch up with those I've met at festivals & parties over the last few years. Wonderful time, and the Aural Light sessions are totally to be recommended as is Space 54 in Smithfield. Good people. ------------------------------------------- 8< -- First off, the album is finished, artwork done and a digital release date set for the 15th March 2010. A physical CD release date will follow shortly afterwards. I'll be doing a number of performances over the coming months. The first takes place on the 19th March in Dublin as part of the most excellent Aural Light series at Space 54, Smithfield. I look forward to meeting up with friends old and new on the night. An official launch for the album will be in Waterford shortly. The new album is called Noosa Sunrise. It is based around field recordings made in the South East Queensland region of Australia. There are 6 tracks: 01) Noosa National Park February 10 ... taking a few mins out to update the gallery pages so click here for some pix from Transylvania Calling Festival, Sirius Art Centre, Life Fest, and others. More news to follow as well as new music samples, artwork, album release and launch performance date. Meanwhile, here's an unreleased track from early 2009 called Subterrany Subterrany by mixile Januarry 10 Not much to report other than the new album is currently being mastered. An album launch and performance will likely take place at the new SOMA Gallery in Waterford in March/April. ------------------------------------------- November 09 O dear, a little behind at the moment mostly because things are quite busy of late. The latest is that I'm currently in the late mixing stages for the next album. It will be out early 2010 though I don't have an exact date yet. It's going to be based around travels in Southern Queensland, Australia so forms part of the 'Australian series' of albums. I'll hopefully be announcing a live date or two to coincide with the launch. Invites welcome as usual. September 09 I'll be playing a short performance in the Sirius Gallery, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland on the 12 September so do come along if you're in the neighbourhood. I'm just back from playing the Transylvania Calling Festival in, yes you guessed it, Transylvania. To say that it was a wonderful experience is an extreme understatement. It was amazing in every way and I'm so thankful to the organisers and folks of Transylvania for showing me a truly memorable time. my performance went very well too. The performance was comprised on new workings on Australian travels in Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales to date as well as completely new compositions based on travels in Queensland including Magnetic Island and Noosa. The performance was recorded and may form part of a live album due of release in October. I also recently played the KnockanStockan Festival in Co. Wicklow, Ireland and ended up doing one of the best performances I've ever put together. An hour of improvised electronic music that I put together at short notice and allowed to develop as the performance took place. Brilliant fun! 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 November 2007 I am very pleased to announce that the new album 'Nullarbor' has returned from being mastered by Colin Bennun (and a brilliant job he did too, thanks Colin) . A number of friends and folks who've bought CDs in the past have heard the new album and the feedback has been brilliantly positive. Over the next few weeks I'll be arranging for artwork and CD pressing to take place but in the interim, here is a quick link to the Nullarbor page where I've posted preliminary sleeve notes to accompany the streamed album above. I trust you enjoy the new work, I feel it's the best yet and I'm very proud of it. Feedback is always appreciated. Along the way, why not pick up a CD if you like it (even high res. mp3s are still lossy). It's my plan to do some live work over the next few months to promote the new album so invites are always welcome. September 2007 All has been quiet on the web front of late. The main reason for this is that I have been putting the finishing touches to the second part of the Australian journey series of albums. The album which will be called 'Nullarbor' (after the legendary Nullarbor Plain in Australia where many of the field recordings for the album took place) is currently being mastered by Colin Bennun of OOOD. Tentative release date for Nullarbor is 19 October 2007. Work has now commenced on sorting through field recordings made while in Sydney, Australia and these will form the basis of the third part of the project. June 2007 I've spent some time recently working on a track called 'Extended Blue' which is part of a series of works planned for the next few months. The works form part of an ongoing dialogue with visual artist Christine O'Brien Shanahan. Anyway, the Extended Blue work is complete and is further enhanced in that it has been mastered by Colin Bennun of legendary PsyTrance group OOOD. Colin has done a great job on the sound! A download with background information and credits will be available shortly. May 2007 Work on the Nullarbor recordings goes on and has taken a little longer than originally planned. This is mostly due to having taken time on a collaborative side project with partner Christine Shanahan which will be ongoing. More details on the 'Extended Blue' music shortly. I'm now working with a new Yamaha keyboard setup which is allowing me more scope and should contribute nicely to current and future projects. The summer project for this year will be 10 days recording in Sicily. The long term goal is to finish the Australian project so as to commence a series of works based on Sicilian recordings in the Autumn. That's the plan anyway. A minor facelift for the site is underway. It must be summer!!!!! March 2007 Coming quickly on the release of the Bibbulmun album last month I can confirm that work is well under way to mix and complete the 2nd part of the Australia project. The tracks I'm working on are based on field recordings made while traveling across Australia from Perth to the Blue Mountains via the Nullarbor plain. Again, I'll be mixing in sections recorded during the live performance of 'Nullarbor' last November. I'm hoping to have this part of the project completed by the end of March 2007 so that I can commence work on the next section - 'The Blue Mountains' recordings! I'm also looking at some live performances during the year. Again these will probably be one-off performances (each work performed once only). Invites welcome! mp3 files for the new Bibbulmun album have now been uploaded. Enjoy and if you feel like hearing the tracks in perfect quality then why not pick up a copy of the CD. You know you want to :-) Another major summer project will be taking place this year. More news to come. February 2007
The day also saw the launch of the new album by miXile! The album is called 'Bibbulmun' and features the first series of works to result from my Australian recordings. I'll organise the usual sleeve notes and downloads shortly. The cover was designed by Christine O'Brien Shanahan based on a photograph she took while we walked the Bibbulmun track. -------------------------------------------. I will be playing the Sonic Vigil 2 in Cork, Ireland on the 17th February. The official blurb reads: Next Saturday 17th Feb. sees one of the most exciting events in Ireland's growing Sonic Arts calendar take place in the Unitarian Church in Cork. Sonic Vigil organised by Cork Artists Collective made its hugely successful debut in 2005 with a twelve hour non stop performance in St Finbarr’s Cathedral returns for a six hour show in the Unitarian Church, Prince’s Streeet, Cork City. Saturday.With artists coming from as far afield as Germany, France and America to take part alongside Irish artists from Dublin, Waterford,Limerick and Cork the line up promises to be very exciting. A difference this time round is that each act will perform separately for around half an hour culminating in a mixed improvisation at the end. A new video collective called The Yo Yo Club organised by Irene Murphy and Collette Nolan will also make its debut. The line up is Tony Langlois,James Ojeie + Declan O'Meara, Giordai ua Laoghaire,The Quiet Club (Mick O’Shea, Danny Mc Carthy +Guest Harry Moore), miXile, Christian Carley + Jesse Ronneau, Séamus O'Donnell, Mathias Forge + Cyril Epinat + Leo Dumont A schedule is: Act 1: Tony Langlois..........................................2:10 - 2:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work on the Bibbulmun recordings continues. At this point I am about ready to start mixing. January 2007 Studio work is currently progressing on the 'Bibbulmun' soundtrack recordings. December 2006 Since completing the two recent concerts I have been in the studio fine tuning the Bibbulmun and Nullarbor works. It's my plan to have these ready for release for early in 2007. Along the way I will also be working on the next part of the Australian series of concerts which is based on recordings made while hiking/staying in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. November 2006
In an unrelated project .... I finally managed to complete the 'Harvest Green' track that had been on the back burner since August when I came back from Australia. It's a small work that a few friends have heard in various formats so now it's finished. A copy of the track in mp3 format is available here for free download (right click and save as is best). October 2006
In June 2006, I commenced a seven week journey that took me from Perth in Western Australia across the Nullarbor Plain and on to Sydney before traveling north to Noosa in Queensland and back to Sydney. Along the way several hundred hours of audio field recordings were made to be used as part of a series of electronic music events and other sound based projects. Event 1 Event 2 Minor Note: I've updated the photo gallery pages 10/10/06 September 2006 It may seem like a lull since returning from Australia but there has been a huge amount of background activity taking place with the music. As well as working towards some major live events later in the year, there is the small matter of the "Bend It Like Beckett" CD featuring some of the world's top Electronic musicians and Sound Artists who were invited to take part in the event. Here's the official press release from Art Trail: “Bend It Like Beckett”“Bend It Like Beckett” is the title of the second CD released by Art Trail. Shandon is a place of particular connection with Beckett who, on taking leave of Ireland, made a final call to Cork, to visit Shandon and St Anne’s Cemetery to pay homage at the grave of Francis Sylvester O’Mahony aka Fr Prout, a writer Beckett greatly admired. It seemed appropriate to mark the occasion of the centenary of Beckett’s birth by compiling this CD of one hundred works by over eighty artists from twenty countries spanning the globe. “Bend It Like Beckett” was curated by Danny Mc Carthy one of Ireland leading sound artists who last year co edited (with Julie Forrester) the publication and CD “SOUNDWORKS For Those Who Have Ears” recently listed as one of the Institute of Contempory Arts, London top10 publications and last year he also co curated with David Toop the highly acclaimed exhibition of outdoor sound art entitled “Sound Out” for Cork2005 European Capital of Culture as well as making several installations and performances as an artist in his right.. This new CD has works in a wide variety of forms ranging from electro acoustic, electronic, acoustic and voice to glitch to noise etc., and includes some leading internationally recognised sound artists including David Toop, Scanner, and Stephen Vitiello (who also contributed the cover photo of Beckett’s grave in Paris) plus some of the leading Irish practitioners David Lacey & Paul Vogel, Sean Taylor, Fergus Kelly, Linda O Keefe, miXile , Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Danny Mc Carthy and many more. Containing one hundred works each sixty seconds or less, combining together to form one of the most unique sonic experiences of the year. Selection was by invitation and open submission and the call out received a huge response both nationally and internationally with entries from as far afield as New Zealand and South Korea proving that whilst based in Cork, Art Trail is reaching out to a global audience and that Cork is recognised a leading centre for Sound Art both nationally and internationally. The CD is currently available from Plugg’D Records and the Glucksman Gallery, Cork or direct from Art Trail (www.arttrail.ie) or can be purchased online from http://www.aphasiarecordings.com Further information from info @ arttrail.ie Or soundworksunlimited @ ireland.com Many thanks to Robbie Sinnott who featured my 'Morning Glory' album on his very cool show on Dublin's NearFM on the 29th. June - July - August 2006 On Tuesday 27 June I leave for Australia to spend the month of July traveling from Perth to Sydney doing field recordings. In early August I hope to do some recording in Sydney prior to returning to Ireland. The field and studio works created over the six week period will form the basis of recorded and live works later in the year. Roll on the Nullarbor Plain! April 2006 Some new works based on recent field recordings are currently taking place. New tracks include: 'Birds In Orbit', 'In Space No One Can Whip Cream' and a little thing that has the working title of 'A Few Pints'. I recently purchased some new equipment to help with field recordings prior to the 'big summer project', almost ready to whip the lid off that one. March 2006 I composed and recorded two new tracks especially for 209Radio
Cambridge in England as part of their recent Sound Art event held
between the 11 and 17 of February. The two works - 'suburban
spacers on the lawn' and 'in
the beginning, there was Plato' are now available as free mp3 downloads
by clicking the links. Some background work is also taking place on new music. Nothing dramatic, more a way to try out a few new ideas prior to the big summer project, but more on that later. February 2006 It's been busy of late. On the 12 January I was interviewed on Dublin NearFM by the most excellent Robbie Sinnott. The show also featured tracks from the new Morning Glory album. You can grab a copy of the interview here (10MB).
I was a little unhappy with the sound levels on a few of the tracks so pulled the Morning Glory CD so as to make a few changes. Once I started then I decided to move around the track listings and add an additional track that I had forgotten about. So, you may consider the release date to be January 2006. Free mp3 downloads of the entire album are now available here and the CD quality version may be bought in the shop here. December 2005 The 29th of December is always an important date in the creative calendar for miXile. It was the date 4 years ago that I started the project that would grow into the White Horse album. December 29, 2005 is no exception as it marks the release of the new album by miXile. The work which is entitled 'Morning Glory' contains 12 tracks recorded over a period spanning September 2004 and September 2005. From September to December the tracks were enhanced and mixed and made ready for release. Morning Glory is the fourth studio album by miXile and marks the close of a chapter in my creative endeavors. I can state this with some certainty in that 2006 will see a more regular return to live work and the prospect of some planned collaborative projects. As of writing (29/12/05 15:16), I don't yet have audio downloads or sleeve notes available but will rectify this over the next few days. A pic of the CD cover is included here just to add some colour to the space. November 2005
I performed an 8 hour long set of 45min compositions based on the Phaedo by Plato. The works were a combination of live keyboards, laptop and electric guitar. I was at times joined by son Peter on guitar and daughter Jennifer on keyboards. Christine in usual fashion made sure everything was arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner and took a few photographs along the way. A recording of the event was made and I'm currently looking at working these into a 1 CD live release. If all goes according to plan I should have this ready by January 2006. The work is part of a series of planned live events which will all have a literary/philosophical theme. Preparations for the live show had the effect of slowing down progress on works already in late mixing stages. These I'll get to over the next few weeks and have them ready for release by mid December 2005. Party on. October 2005 Some new material is in the mixing stages and hopefully will go live by the first week in November. Also, important news to follow regarding a return to live performance work due to take place in November. August 2005 A number of new tracks have been completed over the summer period. I've been busy incorporating field recordings into synth and guitar based pieces. A new track called 'From The Top Of The Hill, You Can See The White Line' will be posted here over the next few days as a taster for the next full length release due some time in October. May 2005 A slight lull in proceedings as far as finished material is concerned. I do have some cool stuff completed and am waiting till time allows me to deal with the volume of partly finished tracks and field recordings as well as the 'Les Paul into the Marshal amp and out into the wired up Tibetan meditation bowl' recordings made in April. A newly finished work 'Off Record' did surface recently on a Podcast by sometime-colaborator and partner in crime P W. Rather than release this track on the web at the moment I'm holding it back till the next full project completion. A limited edition album of recent and unreleased tracks is currently being made available to long time friends and supporters. Hi Clodagh in London! I'm hoping to do some field recordings in the UK in June and hopefully will have something to show for all the effort by August. p.s. Yea, I did notice that the White Horse album is being torrented around the place. March 2005 The new mini-album (A Place Called Place) is available for download in the discography section and as a CD purchase in the shop. Sleeve notes are also now in place. Thanks to the folks who dropped by on the launch date last week and sent in their comments after hearing the new work. Work is now progressing on the next project which is likely
to include more drum n' bass as well as acoustic works. That's the plan
anyway with a few tracks down and a hankering for the old 'git-fiddle'. February 2005 Over the last few months I have been working on some larger synth projects. It's hoped that at least 2 of these recordings will be ready for release within the next few weeks. Part of the work involved spending a few grueling days in Kinsale, Co. Cork, writing music and being forced to eat the finest food and swill down some choice red wine. The hardships of composing ;-)
08 September 04 A major new project is now ready for release. After spending some few months working with keyboards and natural sounds culminating in the Strawberry EP I decided to 'hearken back to the old days' and do some guitar based works.
Anyway, over a period of around 24 hours I had recorded and completed all the tracks that now appear on the Aftermath EP. Most of these are one-off recordings with little or no post-live trickery. The title track was recorded as a live improvised rhythm track and then played back once while the live improvised lead track was recorded. The two parts were then combined and I was finished. The whole process took around 10 minutes! One of the titles - QuarTrack is collaboration with my son Peter who plays guitar while I just 'twiddle the dials'. The track was recorded live and then broken into four parts that were each assigned to various quadrants of the top hemisphere of the head. During the next few days I'll make these available for download as mp3 files and as usual will have full quality with artwork and extras versions available on CD.
Some new works completed and ready to go. As a background, I'd been working on some natural sounds + keyboards projects since January and these were completed in August. These works were then paired down to my three favorite tracks and released as 'The Strawberry EP'. During the next few days I'll make these available for download as mp3 files. As usual I'll have full quality with artwork and extras versions available on CD. 18 April 04 New work in progress uploaded. 31 Mar 04 huge gap and such is life in the bunker. Introduced a new section to cover work in progress and in particular lossless downloads for the fat-bandwidth-enabled viewers. Edited: Received too many emails from folks unable to understand what shn files were and how to play them that I've decided to discontinue this feature for the time being. Sept 04 31 Dec 03 I've been laying down some acoustic guitar tracks to work with recordings made while hiking during the last few months. It's also my plan to spend a few days completing tracks during the first few days of the new year. I'm on a roll now so it makes sense to 'strike while the iron is hot' (never used that expression before). Anyway, outside of my own musical endeavors this has been a wonderful year for listening to new music, catching live bands and music related travel. Personal live musical highlights of the year would include: Rolling Stones at MSG - NYC, USA in Jan. 18 Nov 03 An initial recording is in the bag. I'm not sure how much of what has been laid down so far will make it to the next album but even if it achieves nothing more than a jumping off point then I'll be happy. The track has a working title of "You Know You Like It" and is purely electronic. update - 31/03/04 - I've removed the download of this track because, well, it was 'up there' long enough. 09 Oct 03 I've started to examine some new software tools with a view to begin assembling some sounds towards the end of the month. Looks like I'm getting itchy :-) If anyone has any suggestions for software prog's that have worked for them then I'd be interested in hearing from you. What I'm specifically interested in are Windows based prog's that either carry out a specific audio task or amazing all-round software synths and Cool Edit alternatives. Direction wise, I'm still figuring on moving a little less structured than the last album. I have some extended natural sound recordings that I may disassemble and generate some random beats for. There's a bit of a struggle going on regarding the use of acoustic guitar in the music. I bought a new guitar in London, England recently that I'm in love with and am considering recording some tracks with it. There again, I had planed on the next project being purely electronic in nature. Ah, decisions, decisions. 30 Sep 03 Months later and I've finally gotten round to organising the online payment thing for the album. For the moment I'm working with Paypal so can dispatch orders pretty quickly. Work is slow on the new project. To a large degree I've been taking it easy and spending loads of time going to gigs and listening to new music. The summers' in Ireland are short enough so I figured on getting out and using the time to plan and learn before getting down to the grim task of recording again. This year's excellent gigs so far have been brought to
me by Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters,
Queens Of The Stone Age, Free Association ..... and hardly any of this
(with the exception of Radiohead) will filter directly down into the music
I create, that's the beauty of it all. 26 May 03 Initial pre-recording work has begun on the next project. Nothing has been laid down and at this point all I have are some mental outlines. It's early days yet but I'm leaning towards including more guitar and less obvious beats on the next album. I've been blessed with the use of some cool mobile recording equipment (thanks John) that will allow me to make more use of 'found' sounds' while out and about. I happened to be at the 1st warm-up gig of the 2003 world tour by Radiohead last week. Wow, the new music is so vital. I suppose this had some influence on my decision to re-enter the frey so soon. Copies of the White Horse album have been making their way around the world and I'm very happy with the feedback. 28 Mar 03 A major site redesign to mirror the album colours. 19 Mar 03 Fin. Done and dusted. In the bag. I have the cases back from the printers and am so happy with the results! What's left to do? get them in the post. 05 Feb 03 I'm still working on the art stuff for the liner. Most of the sleeve notes have been completed. I'm mulling over whether to put these up live prior to sending them to the printer. At this point I'm figuring on releasing the thing as a limited edition of around 50 copies to be distributed to selected folks around the world. If anyone has other thoughts on the thing please let me know. I can't see a commercial way forward but maybe it's worth setting a minimal price to cover postage to various places. None of this has been thought through in any detail yet. BTW, NYC was great and The Stones rocked for sure. 01 Jan 03 At long last, the album is finished! I'm now working on the sleeve notes and getting ready to press. At the end of the day I thinned the thing down to 16 tracks with a total running time of 61 mins. I'd left the guitar overlays till last and these opened a whole barrel of creative worms in that once I started recording guitar then I inevitably started to introduce additional tracks. A point had to come when I said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Anyway, to the folks waiting for a copy, it will be on the way within the next few weeks probably after I get back from the USA.
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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.
Lots happening at the moment .... the 
The performance on Saturday went very well and feedback was great. Overall the entire event was a wonderful experience, no negatives and all huge positives. It was also a chance to hear some great music from other folks which is always a bonus. When time allows I'll get some photographs up into the 
The
recent concerts went very well and both were well attended. Many thanks
to all the folks who helped out along the way and who offered encouragement
and support and bought CDs. When time allows I'll pop some photographs
up into the gallery. Recordings were made of both concerts so I'll be
working these into something along the way.
Later
this month (October) and early November I will be performing two major
new live works as part of the '
January
2006
November
26 was the occasion of the first live performance in 15 years by miXile!
The event took place in St. Fin Barres cathedral, Cork, Ireland as part
of the 'Sonic Vigil' electronic music/sound art event.
Thanks
to the generosity of 
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August 04