M. Stratosphere
New Member
We are incredibly excited to introduce for the first time seminal electronic pioneers White Noise performing as part of the DEAF Festival. They will be performing their infamous record ‘An Electric Storm’. Providing live support will the brilliant Polly Fibre, a must see, how do they make such great music from household items?? Well come down and find out!
Filling the gaps and getting the feet moving the small hours will be our good friends the B-Music crew, Andy Votel and Dom Thomas, with some delectable discs of joy with help this time from the amazing Broadcast. The B-Music lads have never failed to amaze us with what they play, including there last visit where they had a packed RiRa dancefloor going nuts to Turkish psych fuzz!! We are promised some special electronic treats and rarers in honour of the DEAF Fest!
*Tickets on sale this Friday 1st August*
MAXIMUM JOY presents
WHITE NOISE
BMUSIC + BROADCAST (DJ Set)
POLLY FIBRE
SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET
26th OCTOBER
7:30pm til late
Adm: €15
Tickets available from Tickets.ie, Road Records and City Discs
www.tickets.ie
www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub
WHITE NOISE
White Noise are an electronic music band formed in London, England in 1969 by American born David Vorhaus. A classical bass player with a background in both physics and electronic engineering. He was initially joined by BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, both ex of electronic music project Unit Delta Plus. David continues to release records under the name and will be performing on the night with master synth musician Mark Jenkins. This is a super rare performance of this unique and amazing album, and a stable love in chez Maximum Joy. Not to be missed!!
About 'An Electric Storm' (1969)
"MANY SOUNDS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD – BY HUMANS: SOME SOUND WAVES YOU DON'T HEAR – BUT THEY REACH YOU. 'STORM STEREO' TECHNIQUES COMBINE SINGERS, INSTRUMENTALISTS AND COMPLEX ELECTRONIC SOUND. THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITY IS AT A MAXIMUM"
This is the introduction on the sleeve to what can only describe as one of the freakiest, most frightening, far-out and forward thinking albums you may ever get to hear.
In 1968 White Noise was one of the first all electronic groups ever. They released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records in 1969 with no interviews or gigs. A record for electronic, psyche, library, kraut heads and a must for all fans of far out music. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and is notable for its early use of the first British synthesizer, the EMS VCS3. David Vorhous met and was inspired to create his own ideas by the UDP pair at one of their lectures to promote the use of electronic music in film, television and advertising.
Here's an extract from a Unit Delta Plus program of the time providing a vivid explanation of the early electronic music making process.
Electronic music is made by recording onto magnetic tape, electronically produced oscillations, which when played from the tape, are heard through a loudspeaker as sounds. There is complete control over all musical parameters such as pitch, timbre (harmonic content), loudness, duration, echo, musical scale if any, and so on. Even after these choices are made there is control over the filtering, switching, and even over the probability (in a mathematical sense) of any or all of these parameters occurring. At times voices or other naturally occurring sounds are used in conjunction with electronic ones. The end product is a tape which is played on a tape recorder (or several tapes and tape recorders) the sounds are heard from loudspeakers. This is the performance and there is never an earlier stage when the competed work is heard live. In this way there is a radical difference between a concert of electronic music and a performance given by live musicians.
Although not initially commercially successful for Island, word of mouth over many years helped this album eventually sell tens of thousands of records. Like stable-mates Art and Nirvana, this album remained on catalogue deep into the seventies.
It has over the years proved to be a cult classic, name checked by such contemporary artists as The Orb and Julian Cope, as well as providing a major influence on contemporary acts like Stereolab, Broadcast, Add N to (X) and Luke Vibert.
www.myspace.com/whiteunderscorenoise
Filling the gaps and getting the feet moving the small hours will be our good friends the B-Music crew, Andy Votel and Dom Thomas, with some delectable discs of joy with help this time from the amazing Broadcast. The B-Music lads have never failed to amaze us with what they play, including there last visit where they had a packed RiRa dancefloor going nuts to Turkish psych fuzz!! We are promised some special electronic treats and rarers in honour of the DEAF Fest!
*Tickets on sale this Friday 1st August*
MAXIMUM JOY presents
WHITE NOISE
BMUSIC + BROADCAST (DJ Set)
POLLY FIBRE
SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET
26th OCTOBER
7:30pm til late
Adm: €15
Tickets available from Tickets.ie, Road Records and City Discs
www.tickets.ie
www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub
WHITE NOISE
White Noise are an electronic music band formed in London, England in 1969 by American born David Vorhaus. A classical bass player with a background in both physics and electronic engineering. He was initially joined by BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, both ex of electronic music project Unit Delta Plus. David continues to release records under the name and will be performing on the night with master synth musician Mark Jenkins. This is a super rare performance of this unique and amazing album, and a stable love in chez Maximum Joy. Not to be missed!!
About 'An Electric Storm' (1969)
"MANY SOUNDS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD – BY HUMANS: SOME SOUND WAVES YOU DON'T HEAR – BUT THEY REACH YOU. 'STORM STEREO' TECHNIQUES COMBINE SINGERS, INSTRUMENTALISTS AND COMPLEX ELECTRONIC SOUND. THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITY IS AT A MAXIMUM"
This is the introduction on the sleeve to what can only describe as one of the freakiest, most frightening, far-out and forward thinking albums you may ever get to hear.
In 1968 White Noise was one of the first all electronic groups ever. They released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records in 1969 with no interviews or gigs. A record for electronic, psyche, library, kraut heads and a must for all fans of far out music. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and is notable for its early use of the first British synthesizer, the EMS VCS3. David Vorhous met and was inspired to create his own ideas by the UDP pair at one of their lectures to promote the use of electronic music in film, television and advertising.
Here's an extract from a Unit Delta Plus program of the time providing a vivid explanation of the early electronic music making process.
Electronic music is made by recording onto magnetic tape, electronically produced oscillations, which when played from the tape, are heard through a loudspeaker as sounds. There is complete control over all musical parameters such as pitch, timbre (harmonic content), loudness, duration, echo, musical scale if any, and so on. Even after these choices are made there is control over the filtering, switching, and even over the probability (in a mathematical sense) of any or all of these parameters occurring. At times voices or other naturally occurring sounds are used in conjunction with electronic ones. The end product is a tape which is played on a tape recorder (or several tapes and tape recorders) the sounds are heard from loudspeakers. This is the performance and there is never an earlier stage when the competed work is heard live. In this way there is a radical difference between a concert of electronic music and a performance given by live musicians.
Although not initially commercially successful for Island, word of mouth over many years helped this album eventually sell tens of thousands of records. Like stable-mates Art and Nirvana, this album remained on catalogue deep into the seventies.
It has over the years proved to be a cult classic, name checked by such contemporary artists as The Orb and Julian Cope, as well as providing a major influence on contemporary acts like Stereolab, Broadcast, Add N to (X) and Luke Vibert.
www.myspace.com/whiteunderscorenoise
