Stilluppsteypa

Free improvisation is a fairly new concept to me, personally. Nonetheless, during the last two years it has had an effect on my musical direction and has inspired the way we form our live performance as Amberclock - subtly, but steadily.

Improvisation does not stay within the performance realm - it has to do with a general direction and therefore creeps into life as well. Thus, it wandered -kind of by its own free will- into the Amberclock project earlier than I anticipated, for I already considered future plans regarding this performance. In May, we gave an almost impromptu concert where instead of our usual guitarist, Alexandros Stigas, we performed as a trio with Nikos Kordelis, with whom I have had the honor of collaborating in various line-ups centered around free improvisation and its wonderfully unpredictable mondus operandi.

This is a rehearsal capture which pretty much covers the musical direction we followed at the gig some days later.

Line-up:
Amberclock: Electronics, Ableton Live, vocals
Dimitris Mitropoulos: Synthesizers
Nikos Kordelis: Guitar, prepared guitar, violin, oven lid

Tracklist:
1. Carpenter's meditation
2. Geiger has a dream
3. You will have to wait
4. Haptic synapses is a pretty abstract concept
5. Geiger malfunction isn't subtle
6. Longcase clocks and after hours

Geiger Malfunction Isn't Subtle

Laughing Out, a three track 7" pop single, released by The Tapeworm's Wormhole imprint, released August 12th in a limited edition of 123 copies

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Screenprint of a legendary double-act by Lukas Julius Keijser

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - Laughing Out (out August 12th)

Clicks_+_Cuts (Disc 1)

stilluppsteypa - Confused Bear Thrown Into The Sea

This is a 4-minute excerpt from the opening track, titled "I am the Cello", off the "Wondrous Intermission" release from Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson.

The problem with artists like Icelandic Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is that you don't know what's the best point from which to start the narration. If you start chronologically it's going to look like a Wikipedia entry. If you focus only on the latest release it would look like a review. And if you just deal with several random points it's going to look vague and non-descriptive. We will attempt an approach through all three ways. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is a visual artist who exhibits his paintings, drawings & sound installations in dozens of art galleries and museums around the world over the years, and is a founding member of the band Stilluppsteypa. A band which began with a punk logic and went on into more experimental fields, only to receive the decisive influence of Andrew McKenzie and dedicate itself to the weirdest artistic concerns of its members. Their creativity as a band is apparent in the many works that have been released and the ten (!!) albums that were recorded (for Helen Scarsdale Agency and Editions Mego) together with Swedish BJ Nilsen. From 2001 onwards, Sigtryggur released his solo works and his collaborations with people like Tom Smith, Steven Stapleton and, again, BJ Nilsen (in last year's flawless "Avantgardegasse" LP), with increased frequency and quality. In his work one can easily observe the attempt to teeter between an academic cut-up concrete and a wonderful sense of melody, elements which rank him as easily in avant garde space as on the fringes of classical composition.

In "Wondrous Intermission"  we are excited to see him doing both. Side A, entitled "I am the Cello" is a musical work written for orchestra (cello, piano, bass) performed by the Malneirophrenia trio, with additional field recordings by the extraordinary Argentine musician Anla Courtis and with synths, cut-ups and sound effects from Sigmarsson himself. Originally recorded as the audio accompaniment of an artbook containing 60 paintings of the artist and distributed only between friends, it now enjoys, for the first time, a broader release, since, according to the artist, it's one of his best tracks and would be a shame to be confined to a limited audience. In side B, entitled "It is in Four Parts" things are somewhat more complicated, with vocal experiments alternating with droning strings, electro-acoustic elements and traces of melody in the background. It is so "visual" that one can feel the corresponding performance unfold before one's eyes. The 35 minutes of "Wondrous Intermission" leave us enchanted with every listening, each time a bit more.

Wondrous Intermission

Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - I am the Cello [excerpt]

THORIVOS ALIVE

Rebetik Klapsomoun

Each installment of this ongoing portfolio series features an original audio recording by a musician, composer, or sound artist along with their commentary. Projects range from raw documentation of live performances to sound collage and experiments with aleatory music.

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Alan Courtis: Field Recording #12, "Osaka Pachinko"

Ghostigital  3rd album was released 30. june.
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G.H.O.ST.I.G.I.T.A.L. with Stilluppsteypa

https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/beach-jolanda

Stilluppsteypa (Beach Jolanda B side)

[p*dis] distribution sampler for Septmeber 2012

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Góða Nótt - Góða Nótt 1(editions mego)

Taken from the album 'Góða Nótt' released as LP and Download

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa: 'Góða Nótt 2 (excerpt)' (eMEGO 156)

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Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - I am the Cello [excerpt]

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