Rhys Chatham, Consumer Electronics, Zomes headlining Hunters Moon 2013 (1 Viewer)

[love jones]

Hunters Moon, sound, art, film and experimental music festival is happening again in Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim 25th, 26th, 27th of October!!
More info here!
http://huntersmoonfestival.com/

MUSIC LINE UP!!!!!!!!!!
RHYS CHATHAM (USA/PARIS)
ZOMES (USA/SWEDEN)
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (UK)
JENNIFER WALSHE (ROSCOMMON/LONDON)
CONTROL UNIT (ITALY)
NACHT UND NEBEL (UK)
ORPHAN FAIRYTALE (ANTWERP)
BIRD PEOPLE (AUSTRIA)
JAVA DELLE (GERMANY)
MIAUX (ANTWERP)
ZOM (DUBLIN)
SCHOOL TOUR (DUBLIN)
PHIL COLLINS PROJECT (CORK)
MVESTLE (CORK)
DIVIL A’ BIT host the interactive “Keyboard Massacre”
CATHAL ROCHE with guests (LEITRIM)
RUAIRI O’ BAOIGHILL (GALWAY)
FERAL BARBERSHOP TRIO (DUBLIN)
CAT PISS BRAIN ROT (THE GUTTER)
ALAN WOODS (LEITRIM)
KATIE O’NEIL (DUBLIN)

Hunters Moon Festival 2013 Film Program!
In Main theater:
‘Silence’ by Pat Collins (2012)
The Source family Documentary (2013) Firtst European preview screening!
There is no escape form the Terrors of the Mind by Rouzbeh Rashidi. (2013) Followed by talk.
In experimental shorts cinema:

A selection of Shorts By American based film maker Vanessa Renwick.
‘Munch – Mich – Medusa’ by Ludo Mich (2006)
A selection of shorts taken from Goulash Gutter by American based Film Maker Bob Moricz.

Workshops:
Sound Bath (Gongs and Chimes)
Fuzz Distortion Pedal Building Workshop with _maker
Circuit Bending Workshop with Rodger Boyle
and more tba
love jones, Aug 21, 2013
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[love jones]

Hunter's Moon, The Beatyard & Bring To Light - Ian Maleney takes a look at the festivals happening in Leitrim, Dublin and Birmingham this October Bank Holiday weekend.

Hunter's Moon Festival - 25-27 October - Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
The third and unfortunately last Hunter's Moon festival takes place in Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim this weekend. Organized primarily by Willie Stewart and Natalia Beylis of Woven Skull with the help of many friends, the two-day festival brings over some great cult names every year and, just as importantly, celebrates the diversity of talent coming out of Ireland's weirdo underground.

This year's big names are avant-garde guitar legend Rhys Chatham, Thrill Jockey's droning Zomes, Italy's Control Unit and pivotal UK noise act Consumer Electronics. Chatham stands atop the bill as quite a coup for the festival, with this show being his first ever in Ireland. The New Yorker was a central part of that city's art/punk/classical cross-over in the 1970s, combining the sheer fuck-you rush of the Ramones with the expansive minimalism of Steve Reich or La Monte Young. His Guitar Trio piece, originally created in 1977, has had a huge influence musicians looking to tap into ideas of primordial, body-moving drone. Now resident in Paris, Chatham continues to explore the possibilities opened up by that piece, such as the 400-guitar A Crimson Grail, as well as evolving into a unique trumpet player.

Having started out as a drone side-project for Asa Osborne of Lungfish, Zomes is now a duo, with Osborne randomly hooking up with vocalist Hanna Olivegren at a festival in Sweden. Since then the Swede has added soulful vocals to Osborne's layered synth sounds, bringing a human heart to what could be some pretty off-kilter compositions.

Control Unit and Consumer Electronics reflect two different shades of the same industrial noise world. The Italians are capable of being almost languid in their uncomfortably slow and damaged sounds, the listless vocals of Silvia Kastel deadened against the slimy walls of guitar noise. They sound like depressed students recording opiate dirges on a boombox in an attic in an estate somewhere Northern England on a rainy November day in the 1970s. This is, obviously, a good thing. Consumer Electronics were actually likely to have been depressed students recording dirges on boomboxes in the 1970s but theirs is an aggressive, conscious and confrontational brand of noise centered on the in-your-face physical presence of vocalist Philip Best. Starved of the coverage peers like Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse received, Best's project has rotted and soured over the intervening decades, spitting bile-fuelled rants over the impenetrable output of fried circuitry.

Less known but no less worthy international names include Dutch master of skin-crawling ambient Innercity, Bird People's soothing, aura-stroking drones and UK noise-makers Nacht Und Nebel.

While the international set is undoubtedly impressive, it's from the Irish contingent that Hunter's Moon gets its unique character and energy. Jennifer Walshe is one of Ireland's most under-rated artists and a festival mainstay. Her incredibly engaging and unsettling performance in St George's Church last year was a highlight of the weekend, her breathy vocalisations rendered with unnerving clarity and deep focus making for a time-bending listening experience without compare. A talented visual artist as well, Walshe doesn't perform half often enough in her own country so any opportunity to see her should be made use of.

Dublin is represented by School Tour, death metal optimists Zom, the unique Feral Barbershop Trio experience and noise artist Katie O'Neill. School Tour is the solo project of Ger Duffy, late of Children Under Hoof and one of Patrick Kelleher's Cold Dead Hands. His heavy, rhythmic cold-wave is wonderfully strange and constantly surprising, built from a small phalanx of unusual musical equipment. Zom are one of the most exciting and crushingly heavy metal acts at work in Ireland today. Their tape on Invictus was a thrill-ride of blasting beats, forceful riffs and guttural vocals expunged from the deepest void imaginable. Feral Barbershop Trio are one-third Woven Skull, one-third United Bible Studies, one-third Luxury Mollusc and three-thirds complete madness. An acapella group the likes of which you've never heard before. Katie O'Neill is a musician and visual artist who has been steadily releasing music through her Bandcamp page for at least the last year or so. The latest EP, W H I T E N O I S E, sees her raging against the dying of the light in a Pharmakon-like fashion of super stripped down screaming and barrages of electronic noise.

From Cork, the twin talents of Phil Collins Project and Mvestle make the journey north. Phil Collins Project is a truly strange dual-drumming tribute to the bald hero of air drummers everywhere from Paul Hegarty of Safe and Kevin Kennedy of First Blood Part II. There is no way to describe this in any way that would prepare you for the reality so I'm not going to. Mvestle released an excellent tape on the always reliable Box Emissions earlier this year and it is a solid representation of their sparse, improvised noise which is well worth picking up.

There is, as always, a healthy local contingent too, with Leitrim contributing the impeccably named Cat Piss Brain Rot who made their debut at the festival fundraiser back in June, saxophonist Cathal Roche, Alan Woods and Devon MacGillivray. There is also a full line-up of independent films (including Pat Collins' revelatory Silence), exhibitions of visual work from many friends of the festival and workshops from Marta Lyszkiewiczo (gongs and chimes) and _maker, who will help you make your own fuzz pedal. All in all, it can be a pretty hectic weekend and the intensity of the music and film on show is likely to send your brain into places it is not normally accustomed to. The cheap Buckfast they have up there isn't likely to help. Expect thrills, shivers and, at the end, exhaustion. Weekend Tickets are just €55 and are available from the festival website, along with a full schedule for the weekend. http://huntersmoonfestival.com

 

[Jerry Twig]

Great that you got Asa Obsourne over - Zomes would be great to see.