Name: Attack of the Night Bugle by cbelow
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Description: For this last challenge I unleashed the awesome bugle bike upon London traffic. Sounding out both a signal of attack and a warning of hazards ahead, the bugle fog horn served as a practical response to the car noise monopoly.

Great idea! Would like to see & hear this in action :)

solo voice, cello, analog electronics. recorded in opava, czech republic 2007. photo by Tobechi Tobechukwu

Glacial

Recording of Skatebård's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022.

Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

Skatebård at Lente Kabinet Festival 2022

Tim Byrne's witness account of the 2012 pub crawl at the opening of the Camberwell Arts Festival.
Narrative cocktails, Mexican wrestling, sculptures, dancing, bands and bingo. Interview by Caspar Below.

Pub Crawl witness: Camberwell Arts Opening 2012

‘Rivers and Streams’ will be released by Erased Tapes in LP/CD/DL format on November 27th, 2015.

Pre-order LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP077
or digitally on iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/riversandstreams

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.”

With his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form. Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar.

Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.

Following on from 2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful. 

"In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.

The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!“ – Lubomyr Melnyk

The cover artwork shows the surface of vines captured with macro photography by French artist Marion Benoit, which Lubomyr discovered in early 2015 as the perfect visual counterpart.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Parasol
2. The Pool of Memories
3. Sunshimmers
4. Ripples in a Water Scene	
5. The Amazon: The Highlands
6. The Amazon: The Lowlands

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: lubomyr.com · erasedtapes.com · marion-benoit.com

Rivers And Stream

Parasol

Lubomyr Melnyk – Parasol (excerpt)

In this new episode of the Hardware Podcast, David Cranor and I talk with data scientist Rachel Kalmar, formerly with Misfit Wearables and the founder and organizer of the Sensored Meetup in San Francisco. She shares insights from her work at the intersection of data, hardware, and health care.

Rachel Kalmar on Data Ecosystems

A game for shoppers in the concrete city square of Coventry. 

A sonic bike game made for visitors to play in Millennium Place, the Coventry Transport Museum during Festival of Imagineers 2015. Made by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute (BRI) after a two week residency, the Games also saw the launch of the world’s first sonic tricycle.

This is a recording of a sonic bike ride through the square. The sounds and music can be heard along with the sounds of the environment and passers by.

The Coventry Pedalling Games

Guilty Pleasure

A short stereo excerpt of a longer 8 channel work. This is a sonic investigation into community and gentrification in the London neighbourhood of Walworth. It has traditionally been a working-class neighbourhood with more recent residents coming from all over the world. The area has been subject to several contentious ‘regeneration’ schemes that have already caused the loss of 1100 socially rented homes of the Heygate Estate.

Elephant Endangered Stereo 2

For this last challenge I unleashed the awesome bugle bike upon London traffic. Sounding out both a signal of attack and a warning of hazards ahead, the bugle fog horn served as a practical response to the car noise monopoly.

Attack of the Night Bugle

Caspar Below is an artist experimenting with our relationships to communities, technology and power. In his sound piece he often collaborates with other artists under the Concrete Mass pseudonym.

Previous projects have involved audiences in re-enacting crowd control, finding new parent memories for orphaned family photos and answering a multitude of inquiries via text message as the SMS Oracle.

He set up pirate radio broadcasts in a Northern Irish village and used secret filming to map the no-go  aura  of governmental buildings by stepping into its sensitive zones. More recently he collected bad advice and disposed of it in a series of cleansing rituals as well as running workshops training South Londoners in DIY techniques of urban mass evacuation.

Attack of the Night Bugle

cbelow

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