sets/ambient

Live Sets

Freerotation 2016

Mostly ambient mixes

IS 083 - Chris [Mnml Ssgs]

    Ozy - "Drama Club"
    Oscar Schubaq - "Triade"
    Global Communication - "4:14"
    Lowtec - "Untitled"
    Benjamin Brunn - "Echoes Of BCN"
    Photek ‎- "Kanei"
    Donato Dozzy - "Vaporware 01" (slow version)
    Joris Voorn - "Listen"
    Arctic Hospital ‎– "Rotating Water"
    Boards of Canada - ""Reach for the Dead"
    Two Lone Swordsmen - "As Worldly Pleasures Wave Goodbye..."
    Dettinger - "Untitled" 
    Theorem - "Shift"
     µ-Ziq - "Hug" 

Eli Verveine Ambient Mix For Mixmag.Info

Learn more about the mix at <a href="http://warp.net/records/plaid/download-new-mix" target="_blank">warp.net</a>.

'Reachy Prints' will be released this month, pre-order from
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TRACKLISTING

MAST_ASCENT_APR062
JOHN WIZARDS_MUIZENBERG
MUSIC BOX_NOVEMBER_LYDL008
SAGET_SATELLITE_VLEK13
MAX COOPER_IMPACTS_FLDSCD001
MR OIZO_FLIP BAT
WESLEY MATSELL_TOTAL ORDER OF BEING
LOVE OVER ENTROPY_GROUNDSWELL_SOHASO1
ATOM ™_ICH BIN MEINE MASCHINE_R-N146
RAIN DOG_REGOLITH
AROVANE_VRAIIL
SEVENDEATHS_ALL NIGHT GRAVES_LM020
EDOC_I DONT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING_DBOY16
VISONIA & DOPPLEREFFEKT_DIE REISEN_TRAJECTORY1017
SHATTER HANDS_KNIFIN AROUND
PAUSE_SINK_PLXS003
LAZLO_TURNING TIDE_LYDL009

Plaid Tour

MAY
22 The Soup Kitchen - Manchester, GB (<a href="http://www.seetickets.com/Event/plaid/soup-kitchen/785742" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
23 Village Underground - London, GB (<a href="http://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/13936/chk/689d" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
25 Chill Out Festival - Istanbul, TR (<a href="http://www.biletix.com/etkinlik/RCOFI/ISTANBUL/en" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
29 Conne Island - Leipzig, DE (<a href="http://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/TemplateSystem/EventDetailsTemplate.aspx?templateId=6fa6b976-a95d-4d1e-8068-4a3d26b077f2&eventId=9304" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
30 Gretchen - Berlin, DE

JUNE
01 Tolhuis - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.nl/event/129269?brand=nl_paradiso&camefrom=paradiso" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
02 AB Club - Brussels, BE (<a href="http://www.abconcerts.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
08 Exil - Zurich, CH (<a href="https://starticket.ch/0Numberoftix.asp?ShowID=73690&CategoryID=117758&ZoneID=&ShowDetails=1" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)
13 Gaité lyrique - Paris, FR

JULY
23 Ten Days Off - Gent, BE (<a href="http://www.10daysoff.be/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

AUGUST
01 - 03 Dekmantel Festival - Amsterdam, NL (<a href="http://www.dekmantelfestival.com/" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)

Plaid 2014 DJ MIX 01

This hybrid DJ / Live Set was recorded in a yurt structure at the Freerotation Festival in Wales. This time my idea for the set was to take us all much further out, much deeper inside than the set from last year. A more disembodied experience. 

As I had done last year, I sat on the floor in front of the speakers to perform instead of behind them as a DJ normally does. This greatly enhanced my feeling of experiencing the set with the audience, dissolving the usual performer / audience divide. 
Below is the list of tracks that I played in addition to live improvisation using a eurorack modular system.

Many thanks to Steevio, the whole Freerotation crew and everyone who experienced it there with me.


Lars Von Trier - Intro from Europa
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Crossing the Line - Tibetan Bells III
Delia Derbyshire - Running - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Hydraulic Regime Vibrates Within - Journey from Anywhere
Coil - Copal - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Such Is Life - Time To Tell
Coil - Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück - Black Light District
William S. Burroughs - The Cat Inside: Excerpts - The Best Of William Burroughs
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music - Weaving
Coil - Bism - Worship The Glitch
Delia Derbyshire - Colour - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Long Distance Poison - Signal I (Drew McDowall Remix) - Gleise Translations
Coil - Caged Birds - Worship The Glitch
Coil - Magnetic North - Winter Solstice
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
Coil - We Have Always Been Here - Worship The Glitch
Jo Johnson - Long Shadow (Anthony Child remix)
Rapoon - We Danced Like Sticks - The Kirghiz Light
Alessandro Cortini - Resta - Forse 1
Delia Derbyshire - Falling - Inventions For Radio - Dreams
Compound Eye - Open Interval 1 - Journey from Anywhere
Rapoon - Dala - The Kirghiz Light
Coil - Ended - Worship The Glitch

Surgeon (ambient set) at Freerotation 2014

Tresor Records recently announced the coming of Jonas Kopp’s debut album ‘Beyond The Hypnosis’, set for release in November 2014. Presenting Kopp at his most wayfaring, the album shows off the producer’s flare for spacey, subaqueous music. This new episode of Tresor.Cast pushes further in this direction, with a subtle ambient selection that closes on Jonas Kopp’s ‘528 Hz’ title, also the closing number for ‘Beyond The Hypnosis’.

TRESOR.CAST 006 | Jonas Kopp

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXXII. Evening Of Light by Neel.

This is the second part of Neel's hybrid live performance at Innervarnika Festival, Australia.

https://soundcloud.com/neel

Mysteries Of The Deep XXXII - NEEL | EVENING OF LIGHT

This is the recording of a live improvisation performed at Freerotation festival in Wales.
I was seated on the floor of the yurt with the audience so as to give us the experience of travelling together.
Thanks to Steevio for making it possible and to everyone who was there experiencing it with me.

The following machines were used-
Buchla Music Easel
Electro Harmonix 45000
Strymon blueSky
Sony PCM-D50 recorder

Freerotation 2015

Anthony Child - Live improvisation at Freerotation, Wales 11th July 2015

The aim for this mix was relatively straightforward: to present what I am doing with my ‘drone and bass’ DJ sets. In keeping with the forward thinking attitude of ‘Electronic Explorations’, I focused on presenting new music. Except for an old Conrad Schnitzler production I couldn’t resist including, basically everything else has been released in the last year. I also made an effort to include tracks from artists I think are exploring interesting territory. So if you like the mix, I strongly encourage you to look further into their discographies. The vast majority of the music here is easy to find in digital and other formats. Thanks to Rob for the kind invitation to contribute to this excellent series, to Wata Igarashi for mastering the mix, and to Sae Murakami for the picture.

The mix was recorded in one take on a Sunday afternoon in September 2015. It is entitled ‘music for nominal spaces’.


01.	Drew McDowall – ‘Live at the Silent Barn’
02.	Kemper Norton – ‘Departing’
03.	Sarah Davachi - ‘Flowers and other voiceless things’
04.	Tengui – ‘Shadows’
05.	Atom TM – ‘Texturen I’
06.	Barnett + Coloccia – ‘Rose eye’
07.	Imaginary Softwoods – ‘Describing pain’
08.	Abul Mogard – ‘Drooping off’
09.	Monolake – ‘Error’
10.	Ryo Murakami – ‘Wall’
11.	Brett Naucke – ‘Cellar beat’
12.	Charles Cohen – ‘Mankind and mannequins’
13.	Caterina Barbieri – ‘Undular’
14.	Conrad Schnitzler – ‘Trigger one: solo rhythmics I’
15.	Lumisokea – ‘Risacca’
16.	Peder Mannerfelt – ‘The limits of control’
17.	Yko – ‘Minako (Bee Mask remix)’
18.	Fis – ‘Kal’
19.	JG Biberkopf – ‘Air coltan carbon lithium’
20.	Logos – ‘Metropolis’
21.	Source Direct – ‘Approach identify (Demdike Stare remix)’
22.	Klara Lewis – ‘Untilted’
23.	Shackleton – ‘Silver keys’
24.	Aisha Devi – ‘The saviour on spilled blood’


Editorial

Electronic Explorations - 390 - Chris SSG

Recorded at Nachtdigital in Olganitz, Germany , 08/2015
Words by RBMA Radio
Immerse yourself in the subliminal drones and fever-dream ambience of Donato Dozzy collaborator Neel. Live at Nachtdigital 2015.
For most electronic music aficionados, Neel is a name that first surfaced in 2011, when the Italian producer debuted the Voices Of The Lake project alongside production partner Donato Dozzy. In the years that followed, the Roman duo has made a splash with its cinematic, long-form techno, most notably on its self-titled 2012 debut LP and a handful of EPs for labels like Prologue, Concrete, and The Bunker New York. That being said, Neel, aka Guiseppe Tillieci, didn’t exactly come out of nowhere. Prior to Voices From The Lake, he had worked as a mastering engineer, and over the years has spruced up efforts from Dozzy, Dasha Rush, Marco Shuttle, Dorisburg, Cio D’Or, Terrence Fixmer, Mike Parker, Cassegrain, Abdulla Rashim, Varg, and others too numerous to list. In 2014, he also stepped out on his own as a producer, issuing the Mars-themed album Phobos via the Spectrum Spools label. Untethered to techno’s structural requirements, his solo work finds Tillieci exploring abstract beat patterns, ambient textures, and otherworldly, dream-like moods. For Neel, sonic exploration is a worthy pursuit in its own right, and his mastery of sound only makes his surreal journeys all the more captivating.

Hybrid Live at Nacht Digital

Video now archived at http://be-at.tv/brands/hembrugterrein/dockyard-festival-2016-warehouse/surgeon-live

This is the recording of a totally improvised hardware live performance. Nothing is prepared beforehand. You can hear the music being created and destroyed as it's happening and that was as exciting for me as it is for the audience. 

This is a very risky way to perform. 
As I step up to play I have nothing, I have to create the music there in that moment. The audience is participating in that risk and that adds to the energy and creates a unique atmosphere and sense of excitement. Understanding the technicalities of the machines I'm using is not important. What is important is the energy of music being created right there in that moment. That creates a far deeper connection between myself and the audience than I've ever experience with playing back pre recorded music.

Dockyard Warehouse Festival

Live Improvisation

Surgeon Live at Dockyard Warehouse Festival, Zaandam. The Netherlands. 9th April 2016

A Surgeon & Lady Starlight performance at Tivoli in Utrecht, 21st May 2016. All hardware. All improvised. You can hear the music being created and destroyed as it's happening live in the moment. 
This music is truth, and truth is healing.

Surgeon & Starlight live at Tivoli, Utrecht 21st May 2016

Surgeon & Starlight live at Tivoli, Utrecht NL, 21st May 2016

Here's the recording of my live techno set from Saturday night at Freerotation Festival 2016. Thanks to Steevio & Suzybee, the whole crew and everyone who was there.
This is a totally improvised hardware live performance. Nothing is prepared beforehand. 

Live at Freerotation, Wales

Surgeon live at Freerotation, Wales 9th July 2016

sunday dome set at freerotation 2016
unfortunately not the best, but some of you were asking for it...
onelove

Move D @ Freerotation 2016

Streamed on NTSLive https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/aboutface-16th-july-2016/ 

Recording of 2016 Freerotation performance 'Vaga'. Using the River Wye's characteristics to narrate a reflection of humanity; where have we come from, who we were, who we are and who we may become. The cross currents relating to poly rhythms, the hidden rhythms of whitewater the time signatures. Recordings taken from a 20 mile canoe trip down the river Wye which runs close to the festival location.

Full details here: http://www.aboutfacemusik.co.uk/#!vaga-live-at-freerotation-2016/mpxe9

Synths, recordings, guitar, Hapi Drum, percussion - Ben Kelly
Violin - Taro (https://soundcloud.com/taro_sound)
Extracts from 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth recited by - Jenna Whelan

Aboutface Live Feat. Taro - Vaga (Live At Freerotation 10.07.2016)

2016 Freerotation Chillout Yurt set, this year the yurt has expanded, probably twice the size compared to last year, brilliant visuals were showed, many great artists hear. Only thing that could be missing is someones constant talking. Dreaming of a non chat policy for the Chillout, would make music even more overwhelming.

Labeled as KRILLSET, meaning to be DJ set not a home/studio recording.

Thank you for listening and relistening!

Picture by: https://www.facebook.com/franx.erox


KRILLSET001 - Freerotation Chillout Yurt - Dj Ilmajaam - 10.07.2016

For this performance The Transcendence Orchestra were-
Anthony Child- Buchla Music Easel, Electro Harmonix 45000 
Strymon blueSky, Strymon DIG.
Daniel Bean- Harmonium, Shruti Box.

Live at Freerotation, Wales 10th July 2016

The Transcendence Orchestra live at Freerotation, Wales 10th July 2016

So after much deliberation I’ve finally decided to upload the recording of my set from Freerotation this year.
I was thinking to edit out the imperfections such as record skipping, or where I had the high pass filter turned up without realising (one reason I don’t get on with Allen & Heath), but instead I’ve left it raw, as it was heard on the night, because the atmosphere was electric, saturday night, smack in the middle of this wonderful festival, the room was going off!!! This is a set I won’t ever forget playing, it’s not perfect and my levels are all over the place, but the recording perfectly captures the magical vibes circulating the dance floor that night, and the strength of this outweighs any need to worry about my mistakes, so here it is, hope you enjoy it as much as I did playing it.

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2016

Here's a recording of my Live Set at Festival Forte made using modular synthesisers and hardware machines. It's a bit rough in places, but you can hear the music being created and destroyed as it's happening and I love that most about performing improvised live sets. So I wanted to share the recording with you.

live at Forte Festival, Portugal 31st August 2018

Surgeon Live at Forte Festival, Portugal on 31st August 2018

UK electronic music performer and recording artist. 
Bookings: michael.matuschek@triangleagency.com