Eleventh & Twelfth

Starting to improvise using Ableton Looper... Rough, but so far a nice experience.

Golubka

Process
For the living. My response is always a burial, rather an upturned crypt above the earth, an inverted groove cast with the trowel in this recording as a long line in concrete through and against the earth. Plastic pipes enter the pavement and are sealed roughly at the edges with the same mix of sand and cement. Inversely, rusted steel spines emerge from crumbled concrete, a salt white crystal sups into the grooves.

This piece is an edited recording of that burial, in premixed fast
setting concrete, the etching or inversion of the last work into a
freshly trowelled layer. It took place at the site of the crypt, above ground. It was buried as far as I remember in Copenhagen, close to the botanical gardens. Or was it in Salo, in the sand beneath the two still catfish, wondered if they were still alive?  I think finally it must have been in the grounds of Salpêtrière, in Paris; a bloom, flush or blossom of saltpeter was scraped from the basement walls there and played back with a stick.

Biography
Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics), proposing a return to animism within a critical misuse of scientific technology. Through the construction of experimental situations (within process-driven performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts, Martin Howse explores the rich links between substance or materials and execution or protocol, excavating issues of visibility and of hiding within the world. For the last ten years he has collaborated on numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, published, lectured and exhibited diversely. He is equally the creator of the skin-driven audio divination module, aka. The Dark Interpreter.

Artist Website
http://1010.co.uk

Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/martin_howse

Twitter
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Salpêtrière by Martin Howse

another mix,
In answer to the questions I keep getting asked.
 ccai pt2 , part 1 is Drukqs, as that was the first thing I released that utilised computer controlled instruments, namely a modified Yamaha disklavier, 2nd gen and a couple of midi controlled solenoid based drum mechanisms I made just after I got the Disklavier.

I kept seeing them [disklaviers] in hotels, usually used to pipe muzak around the place and thought why doesn't anyone actually use one of these to compose music on and make beats etc! 
A couple of times when i saw them in hotel lobbies, i sneaked up to the disklavier and set it to play ultra low pitch and very slow, funny watching peoples reactions, it was down every corridor etc
NOBODY i spoke to back in around 1999 inc. people at yamaha knew how to connect one of these to a computer and I had to take my computer into Yamaha to try it out to see how fast these things could go, no info on the net then either.
The first year I burned out countless solenoids in the thing and learnt how to repair them myself, the more recent gen ones like I used at the barbican have temperature cut outs on them thankfully, i’ve still fried a few though!

Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed [snr2mix]

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Sine, Cosine, Tangent

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Radius

08 - Aphex Twin - (Cat 00897-Aa1)

qu 1

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