Name: Clive by monolab
Duration: 8 min 59 s
Description: another test of the modular , without any real plan .. beep beep

Live improv using Cirklon to drive an analogue drum machine and some other stuff like the Vermona Perfourmer 2. Also some SH-101 sequencing along, a few chords from Diva, Octatrack doing some noises... that's about it I think.
Oh yeah, Cirklon's doing the semi-random gongs triggered from a JV2080. Using a few auxes to make it less predictable. 

Thelittlebarr

Bank-F

a slow layer of 3 oscillators (shapeshifter, piston honda, verbos harmonic) being sequenced by a turing random sequencer and volume controlled by a make noise function with an intellijel linix.

signal mixed and going through a make noise echophon and erbe verb.

oct 09, 2014 (slow oscillators)

OUT ON CASSETTE AND DOGITAL DOWNLOAD!

This is that feeling of when something shows up you had forgot about. It’s a mystery to you, a part of lost time, a blackout. It had just left you; the how, the why, the when?! It all escapes you. It is a semi-familiar blur, mixed with the thought; was I supposed to do this? A tiny alien part of yourself had submerged itself, incongruent with your idea of self.

My first ever CD was God Fodder by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, given to me for the Xmas of 1991. I could only listen to it in the living room when my parents where out of the house, and I didn't get a CD walkman until 1997. Before this I had to make mixtapes to listen on my MC walkman. But elements of that first CD snuck in somewhere, in here, into this album.

Recorded in February 2018, on Valentine's day. An improvised recording session using a Zoom H5 in a somewhat dirty apartment in Briskeby Oslo. I didn't have a valentine that year, as you can probably hear. Recorded in scant clothing with a mild headache, using either an 8 string stereo or dual output feedbacker/guitar or a Rhandy Rhodes DIY-kit guitar that I carved skulls and bear faces into. Or both. A Boss DR-3 for drums. Beats mostly punched in with a Wish.com bought stereo looper. For effects, an Akai deluxe distortion, Electro Harmonix Big Muff deluxe bass, a bit-crusher box assembled by a speed-freak later rehoused, a no-name fuzz also from Mr. speed-freak, 3 wally hotone loopers, 2 x Zoom ms50G, a boss GE7 equalizer. All run through a Behringer Xenxy 802 into the H5.

Unsure if anything. I speculate if this is all from a later session or if I just recorded everything that Valentine's day from 11.20 to 04.55 (according to the meta data). That day is hazy, at best. Later that day I posed for pictures in the “Hello Friend” bear costume and drew a sketch where I noted down title ideas for the album and recordings. I was considering naming it; It’s neither here nor bear, what good is a heart trapped in a chest. But it was to nice to be a noise record, so it sat and waited for better times or the aftermath of worse. You know, post 2020-2022. Meanwhile the sounds lived on as files on the phone - something to listened to while walking with headphones, through crowds. in public, on a tram, train or buss. Music to make you feel off kilter.

As for the cover art, around the same time I grew addicted to breaking up markers and mixing them with flowing alcohol and rubbing it on photo paper, attempting to compose images the same way I improvise music. Sometimes listening to music while doing so, to see if one could compose or make these ink paintings into music annotations. I called the series "Random compositions”. I made them to relax and it felt so freeing in a time of stress, so much It was hard to stop. Escaping figuration sound, it became a very messy meditation with fingers post session looking like I was both discoloured and disfigured. Both the music and the images were expressions awaiting a release until Case Records came knocking.

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Christian Blandhoel is a untaught improvisational musician, disabled and an Oslo art school educated visual artist. Inaction-figure maker, plush bear manipulator, involuntary textile artist, painter, performance, noise-instrument maker, feedbacker creator, realtime composer and noise-musician.
Born in 1976 grew up in the suburban forests of 1405 LANGHUS, with roots in the Follo Rock scene where he was briefly in the indie rock band Thee Unmist from 1998 to 2000, and the unfulfilled ìlavesiî band; Star Star Guitar, making and performing Noise-music under the IJIN, Hello Friend, Blandhoel and Kjøttpøkk banners since 2010.

www.blandhoel.com  


Released May 8, 2024

Composed and performed by
Christian Blandhoel

Mastered by
Ernst Van Der Loo

Cover by
Christian Blandhoel


CASE RECORDS 2024 / CASE35

The World Works Better if You Break it

Passing Out in Hallways

Christian Blandhoel | This World Works Better if You Break it | Passing Out In Hallways

I know I didn't get the sequence exactly right but hey, it was a fun way to end a gig. :)

That Encore

29 Dec Arooga 
P3 driving A4 KS4
testing those high tones, just muting and unmuting P3 tracks, some evolving p3 patterns, P3 aux events doing groovy shit, was first go (hence OTT reverb) so some refinement needed to some patterns..

For the bats

So Korg fixed the delay sync bug, yay, and I'm using delay again on the Electribe Sampler. Overusing inevitably.
Electribe Sampler
P3
A4
KS4
RC505

Lemmings

INFANT

another test of the modular , without any real plan .. beep beep

Clive

Richard O'Sullivan's self-penned theme tune for his 1976-81 ITV sitcom, originally arranged by Shadows and library music god, Brian Bennett, and now given the Loose Capacitor treatment.  Performed using variety of 1970s Moog and Korg monophonic analogue synthesizers, as well as electric piano, Ludwig drums and fuzz bass guitar.

Loose Capacitor - Theme From Robin's Nest

MONOLAB. is the solo electronic project of Martin Powell and has been in existence since 1992. “recording much but releasing very little”..

MONOLAB. Now An Oslo, Norway based Project. Started it’s Life In the Beautiful English town of West Bromwich, deep in the heart of the West Midlands. producing experimental / electronic “Space Music”. using old 70′s/80′s analogue synths + old effects units, field recordings, Reel to Reel Tape/sound manipulation. electronic toys & games. even old home computers now & again. anything which get's the job done really.



Clive

monolab

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