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What was new at Cooky La Moo |
21 June 2008Art: Photos of String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) installed at the Redrawing show are now online. Redrawing at RMIT's Project Space in Melbourne is open until 27 June. |
7 June 2008The new Art page has gone online, with further updates to come. Speaking of which, the Redrawing show is now open. First up on the Art page, a little discussion of radical amateurism: Mock Tudor No.2 (Why doesn't someone get him a Pepsi?) |
25 May 2008The Music page has been rejigged, with a page dedicated to live performances, and "The Night We Burned Down Bimbo Deluxe" has been moved to its own page. Blog: It's Eurovision time! Oh, there's some stuff about operas: Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur and Luigi Nono's Prometeo. |
1 May 2008New show! Redrawing at RMIT's Project Space in Melbourne, starting 6 June. The exhibition will include my String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) in a new, installation version. Floor talk by me and some (all?) of the other artists on Thursday 12 June 12 - 1 pm, followed by a live performance of the String Quartet. New gig! Also in Melbourne, at Horse Bazaar, Wednesday 11 June, 8:30 pm. Live electroacoustic music with Ben Byrne, Natasha Anderson, Sean Baxter + Sam Dunscombe, Judith Hamann, James Rushford Trio. 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. $5 on the door. New music! Magnificent Bastards - eight short pieces for multiple tuning systems, written and performed as quickly as possible. With mp3s. Blog: I'm haunted by the ghost of websites past. |
1 April 2008Blog: Make your own damn Stockhausen composition! You can do it like this, or do it like that. Sarsaparilla: Two countries, locked in combat over who has the greatest inferiority complex. World Class Anxiety! Now continued in Part Two... |
11 February 2008Blog: Looking at Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth at the Tate Modern, I wonder if it means something very different from what the artist thinks it means. |
20 January 2008Blog: I review Vaucanson's Duck in Melbourne. Sarsaparilla: I have a feeling we're not in Crouch End any more. |
2 January 2008New music: Redundens 6i, for piano. Part of Daniel Wolf's A Winter Album. Blog: I review the Other Film Festival in Brisbane. Sarsaparilla: The Year in Review. An absolutely official end-of-year list ready and waiting to shape your opinion the past 12 months. |
22 December 2007New music: What I did on my holidays. The One Who Was Neither or Nor, recorded live in Melbourne and Brisbane. MP3s from the gigs, with behind-the-scenes gossip about the joys of being booked for a show which changes venue three times in a week. Blog: We connect Stockhausen with Ezra Pound. Sarsaparilla: Something soon, I promise. |
12 December 2007Back home from Australia now, so service is returning to normal. The blog has a review of the Other Film Festival in Brisbane. More about Australia and the how the gigs went will follow shortly. Please Mister Please is running again, with a memorial to Stockhausen. |
24 November 2007Ben.Harper live in Brisbane: Sunday 25 November, see the blog for details. I'm on holiday travelling around Australia and New Zealand until early December, so updates and blog posts will be slow and sketchy until then. Hopefully, when I'm back home I'll have some write-ups, photos and music to share. |
6 November 2007Ben.Harper live in Melbourne: Tuesday 13 November at The Make It Up Club, Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. With Dur-e Dara and Ren Walters, Blow, and boy Brightbulb and Robert Curgenven - looks like a night of electronics, percussion, guitar and winds. Something for everyone! $7/$5, 8.30pm. I'll be playing a new piece for digitally simulated feedback, The One Who Was Neither Or Nor. It's a more sophisticated development of the principles used in St Paul's Pianos With Real Nightingales. More details soon. No updates to Please Mister Please while I'm on reduced internet access in various bedrooms around Australia. |
19 October 2007On the music page: St Paul's Pianos With Real Nightingales, for piano, digitally simulated feedback, and two nightingale stops. Nearly two years in the making, mainly because I just couldn't get the electronics right. Includes mp3 excerpt. |
23 September 2007On the music page: I get quietly excited about the preview of a work in progress, Sketch for "A"-16. Yes, it comes with mp3s and a blurry photograph of a messy desktop. At Sarsaparilla: Several specimens of the Canterbury Block are discovered in the wild. |
30 August 2007A new feature! Please Mister Please launches with Buddy Greco, and everything feels a little bit better. At Sarsaparilla, your chance to join the Magic Listeners Advisory Group. |
26 August 2007String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) gets its own page, with a couple of pictures and an mp3. At Sarsaparilla, I indulge in some gentle joshing of the Dawn and Dusk Club and all heck breaks loose. |
18 August 2007On the music page: new mp3s uploaded of some more Stained Melodies for piano, and the story of Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away gets its own page, including an mp3 of Ola-R. |
13 August 2007I celebrate three years of being online in a connected Web 2.0 environment by finally adding a search engine. |
26 July 2007Coming up Sunday 29 July: I'm performing String Quartet No.2 (Canon in Beta) at the Placard Headphones Festival in Paris 27 - 30 July. More about the gig here. Online audio of the event at Radio WNE. Well, I promised more unpopular music when the server switch was completed. Here are two excerpts from Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away, a limited edition cassette made in 1999, uploaded in response to this blog post. Sweet, addictive acknowledgement from the real world: I get to dick around in The Age. |
4 July 2007The site is moving to a new server, so things may be a bit flaky over the next couple of days. Please drop me a line if you notice anything unusual. Normal service will resume shortly, with more room to offer new and exciting features (i.e. more unpopular music). |
9 June 2007At least three half-finished music projects are on the go. I'm working through some new ideas, but they don't go far enough yet. At Haiku Review: I have misgivings about Richard Tipping's public art works. At Sarsaparilla: The bookshelf debate heats up, and then I worry in public about finding philosophical consolation in horrible, horrible pop music. May at Boring Like A Drill: Eurovision madness! Again! Again! Again! Then we connect John Cage with James Bond, and tell you another thing about what's wrong with newfangled electronic music these days. |
1 April 2007Two more Stained Melodies are now available for download, with accompanying notes if you want to know more about how these pieces were written. Latest from Sarsaparilla: Test your word power against a dead squirrel, and Contextualising the contemporary artist within capitalist society: a case study. Also, I moved house! |