Black Sun: Blood Stereo (UK),experimental film programme +more (1 Viewer)

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Thanks so much to all y'all who came out to support the last Black Sun. We were delighted to find ourselves a few tickets short of it being sold out!! The were loads of new faces too which was a real surprise. Was a pleasure to meet so many of ye. Special thanks to Eoin from Bold Lump who carted his records across the country to be part of the night. Big shout out to Eamonn Rimbaud Records who will be joining us again on the 5th of December. A huge huge thank you to Andy Ferreira who stepped in at short notice and provided us with stunning shots of the night. I got a whole new cd of shots from the night last week and I'm almost finished uploading them onto my Flickr account (which you can check out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflinge/ )

Black Sun is a one of a kind event in Ireland at the moment. We don't receive any funding so every penny of what you pay in goes towards paying back flights, fees and overheads. Because of the limited capacity in the Granary, all we can ever hope for with these gigs is that we break even at all. This is why we are relying upon your curiosity and ultimately, your support for the DIY ethos that runs through the event. Inviting this caliber of artists over without a financial security net is risky but exhilarating at the same time. Everyone involved, from the Cork Film Centre to Paula (who makes the cakes) to the distro lads, are all part of this night because we all share the same belief that this ought to be happening in Ireland right now and that we can do it ourselves. So, a huge thanks to those who came out to the previous shows, especially those who traveled from outside Cork. We hope to see you at many more in the future.

Some sad news:
Running Black Sun has been a financially pressured affair and we might have to scale things back a bit to keep from running ourselves into debt. Black Sun will no longer be an almost monthly event, we'll check back with you to see what form it'll take. It may just have to be a seasonal thing or if we get the support we need, it may turn into the full blown Irish experimental music festival I've always dreamed it could be.

So,

The next Black Sun will be our end of year bash, and we're tremendously excited about it.
December 5th's event sees us welcoming a large portion of the Brighton 'out' fambly. We welcome the hugely influential and unclassifiable duo, Blood Stereo. Also travelling are Gryn Brvs (pronounced 'Groin Brothers) and HereHareHere! I'm thrilled to announce that we will have the debut solo performance from the staggeringly talented Anne Marie Deacy (whom some of you might know from the Irish band Mirakil Whip). To complete this line up, I've asked filmmaker and cinephile Maximilian Le Cain to curate a programme of experimental film to be shown at the beginning of the night.

 

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http://www.ubu.com/sound/nyoukis.html


Listen to loads of Blood Stereo mp3s on Ubuweb here!
http://www.ubu.com/sound/blood_stereo.html

Dylan Nyoukis's work exists on the fringe of contemporary avant garde art and underground DIY insurrection. As a leading light in the UK's tape/CD-R scene, Nyoukis has long functioned as a rallying point for artists working to clear a space for original, non-idiomatic sound and feral performance modes. Alongside his sister and long-term collaborator Lisa (Dora Doll), he founded the Chocolate Monk label in 1993, an early experimental music imprint that combined hi-jacks of outmoded media - cassette, CD-R, pen and paper - with cutting edge investigations of the limits of form, while functioning as a home for Nyoukis's own projects, Prick Decay, Decaer Pinga, Ceylon Mange, Blood Stereo and countless one-off collaborations.

Prick Decay's 2001 album, Guidelines For Basement Non-Fidel, has long been regarded as one of the founding documents of the new weird century, alongside Harry Pussy's "Smash The Mirror" and Sun City Girls Torch Of The Mystics. Nyoukis's early material paralleled international developments in post-noise syntax but his approach has become increasingly sophisticated while still retaining a refusenik energy, interrogating sound-poetry and musique concrete strategies while always working outside of their inherited strictures.

His current group, Blood Stereo, is a duo with his wife, the musician and artist Karen Constance, that explores hand-cranked 20th century technology in combination with epiglottal gymnastics and free music modes inherited as much from punk rock's mutilated aesthetic as utopian art styles. His solo vocal and tape work continues to push the envelope in terms of the expressive options offered by amplified physicality while his rejection of any kind of theoretical backdrop liberates him from servitude to any specific agenda. He remains a singular voice. Over the years he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Ludo Mich, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sun City Girls, Bill Nace, Heather Leigh Murray, Phil Minton, Neil Campbell, Usurper and Wolf Eyes. He lives in Brighton, England.

-David Keenan, Glasgow, June 2009

Both hailing from Blackburn. West Lothian,,, a shitsville village in Scotlands central belt, these tubes relocated and married in Brighton, England.. Lungs full of sea air and bellys full of wine fuel much of the scab sounds of Blood Stereo... Outside of this unholy union Karen performs solo as Smack Music 7, as well as leading an ever changing all female outsider noise group The Polly Shang Kuan Band. Dylan also records solo (under the imaginative umbrella of Dylan Nyoukis), previously he performed in Decaer Pinga (the artists formerly known as Prick decay) with his sister Dora Doll.
http://www.myspace.com/bloodstereo

"Anal fins tucked in tight behind them, Blood Stereo look like a pair of ill-kempt roosters, fighting over a dougnut. The guy rooster is jibbering in some unknown tongue, turning his face inside out, while shoving the microphone slowly through a hole in his cheek. the girl rooster appears to be pecking at him, either that or she's picking at various trash they have strewn around the stage. Every time she ducks her head there is the sound of a jet passing overhead. But when you look up at the sky there is no sign of a comtrail. After a while you think you are starting to get a handle on what they are doing, but the guy falls down and starts doing a spazz dance so utterly convincing you begin to worry about him. Then the girls starts screaming and itseems as though something is really profoundly wrong. And it is. But it's not like they're in any kind of trouble. They're just wrong, y'know? So savagely wrong from every angle that it's really tough to imagine there 's anything you could do to really help them. As if they'd even want in. In their masks or out, they sow confussion like wheat." - Byron Coley

 

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Check out Karen's artwork. She is hands down my favourite artist.

http://www.myspace.com/smackmusic7

For those of you who attended Super Sonic 2008, you might remember her painting in the Creatures Of The Night exhibition...

 

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HereHareHere

Primitive & no-fi vocal duet from UK. Awesome free a'capella attack (throat effects, vocal incantation, ...). Somewhere between a rainbow in the African sky & a young girl singing alone behind Marty Mc Fly's future.

http://www.myspace.com/herehareherehare

Brighton duo Hereharehere’s multi-tracked male and female voices start as unnerving chants emanating from dark shadows, rising into unhinged glossolalia and cresting in a threatening purr, like a wild cat driven insane with fear. -Daniel Spicer, The Wire

www.myspace.com/grynbrvs79

Gryn Brvs

"One met Two in a chip-shop....whilst waiting talk turned to the fulk musics, cowes organs, yazz & solid state tuners......heads were nodding........an itch was scratched......a scab picked at perhaps.... they parted company......(ii) continued to beat his head against a trick wall.......years passed with little contact.......(i) royned his way to the southern hemisphere & later settled on Eire........during a return visit (ii) suggested a rendezvous with a tape recorder........this occured in september 2006 .......again in november 2006........and will happen intermittently.......for as long as (i) can maintain consciousness and for as long as (ii) can remain calm enough to do so........in the words of the renowned author Kobi Annobil:..... "G)royne Brothers rip up the speaker can't afford wax so they put it on visa.."

Cd(R) & Cassette releases available from ARCHIVO DE SANGRES DE DIOS/ DIGITALIS LTD/CHOCOLATE MONK/ROTTENSLUSHY/RURALFAUNE/PENDU SOUND/......

" Gryn Brvs unleash a session of lucid improvised tonal scapers and oscillating drones of mixer feedback. Beautiful alchemy drawn from the collective unconscious and spilled onto magnetic tape.No edits, just pure catharsis." Pendu Sound

" Surreal stuff complete with psychical transformations and blank-slated, mindfuck-irrationalism for top quality assurance" Foxy Digitalis

" Absolute 'less is more' jams of strumming and catatonic tinkling, sauced up with electronic drones. We also get a live basement jam and sweet closer that whiffs of atlantis. Now put your arms up, and your brow down" Chocolate Monk

 

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Sad to hear about that. Maybe a ticket price increase? People might not mind paying an extra €2 or so - would probably make a big difference. Keep in mind that people are probably willing to throw down more money for something that happens once a month as compared to once a week, and if you were selling out anyway, it sounds like a good idea.

I think there needs to be something like this regularly, alright.

 

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Fuaimbhac

Sound Barriers -the name of a new sound project of Annemarie Deacy. Over the years she has toured with Mirakil Whip -her band with Aaron Coyne. Played on stage with United Bible Studies, Agitated Radio Pilot, Murmansk , Phantom Dog Beneath the moon, so cow and played on numerous recordings..As well as running many DIY events and music nights over the years in conventional and unconventional spaces..the aim of this project is to explore sound and bring the imaginary into reality by the use of various filters/oscilators...pedals keyboards and d.i.y toys..transitors illusions..things we can see maybe hear but possibly not touch..the effect is of many layers of drones..this is not noise art but an invitation to the listener to have an aural experience..the pallet will be based on frequency exploration..one aspect of the performance will be based on planes breaking sound barriers..samples taken from camcorders..which are limited by their capacity to record such events..never the less there memory of an event is still valid..even if sonically blurred..these recordings are then mimiced using filters and pedals..and the journey into the amazing capabilties and barriers of sound equipment, memory and science begins..there will also be a short piece on Synesthesia..music and colour.

 

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New venue/time alert!

 

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Here are some words from Max Le Cain on the first experimental film programme he's curated for Black Sun.

The first Black Sun experimental cinema programme consists of three short films, each articulating a different potential of the transformative perceptual processes that film and video have at their disposal.

Cork filmmaker Chris O’Neill’s Saint Francis Didn’t Run Numbers (3 mins, 2009) excavates new and surprising spaces from a famous American film of the ‘70s, abstracting a silent, hidden universe from the bustle of narrativity and causing the viewer to question how many other potential films might be concealed in any given movie.

Copy Scream (3 mins, 2005) is a breakthrough work by Oriol Sánchez, arguably the most gifted experimental filmmaker to have come out of Spain in the past decade. His films have been showcased twice in Cork this year, at Cork Film Festival and during the Avant Festival. Copy Scream is a visceral examination of the process of ‘projection’, not only projector-screen projection but also the numerous ‘projections’ a moving image undergoes as it migrates across media.

The evening’s centerpiece screening is a very rare showing of Etienne O’Leary’s Homeo (40 mins, 1967), an object-lesson in the cinematic intensification of images drawn from day-to-day reality, in which home movie footage is rendered rock’n’roll poetry through montage. This cinematic treasure is one of the very few films made by O’Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated ‘diary films’. Like the contemporaneous films by O’Leary’s more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era’s dandies. In contrast to the back-to-origins minimalism of the Zanzibar Group (Garrel, Deval, Reynal, Bard, etc), O’Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. The touchstone would seem to be Mekas and the New York underground rather than Godard. Yet even if much of O’Leary’s material was initially ‘diaristic’, depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias.

 

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Hey all,

A limited 50 crappy handmade Black Sun tickets will be dropped into Plugd today at 12pm. Each one is unique. Astound your friends, amaze your family etc etc. Pick yours up in advance.

Just giving ye an excuse to be seducin' Tombstone at the counter...