Steve Bates (solo and collaborations)

Raw and no edit. Recorded while I was heavily sedated at the hospital. One contact mic, a couple of pedals and a 4 tracks (tape). Sound sources are my body and the tubes/scars in/on it...I only had vague memories of this... Recorded in the middle of the night while I was unable to sleep because of the physical pain I was in. This I remember.

LISTEN AT MAXIMUM VOLUME OR NOT AT ALL.

MSSD-130103

This interview of Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese is meant as a complement to the conversation with Jan Turner in our 44th issue (Nov-Dec 2022), The Desert. Entitled "The Impact of a Life (and a Death): Colonial Encounters and Aboriginal Desert Practices," this conversation revolves around the life and death of Aboriginal leader and artist Mr. Ward, whose death was investigated by the project founded by Suvendrini and Joseph: Deathscapes. Together we discuss the various methodologies they use in this project that documents Indigenous and migrant deaths in detention by settler states (in particular Australia), as well as the crucial need to practice these investigations in the utmost respect of the grief of those who lost a relative or a community member.

Suvendrini Perera & Joseph Pugliese /// Deathscapes

Excerpts from Roulette concerts by improvising activist guitarist Derek Bailey, with commentary by musician/professor/author David Grubbs (Records Ruin The Landscape). Emerging from the London free improv scene, between 1986-99 Bailey tapped New York musicians to engage in his wildly diverse Company Weeks, in groupings and pairings with John Zorn (sax), Carlos Zingaro (violin), Ikue Mori (electronic percussion), Jim Staley (trombone), Ciro Baptiste (percussion), Jamaladeen Tacuma (bass), Calvin Weston (drums), Susie Ibarra (percussion), Richard Teitelbaum (electronics), and Greg Bendian (percussion). John Zorn is honoring Derek Bailey with three Nights of Improvisation at Roulette, Jan. 19-21, 2023.

roulette.org

David Grubbs: On Derek Bailey

From the LP/CD, The Wrong Echo. 
Released by ORAL Records

Buy vinyl!

Performing on this track: Christine Fellows (organ), Leanne Zacharias (cello), Peter Burton (double bass), Christof Migone (gutted reel-to-reel, contact mics), Steve Bates (guitar, mixer feedback) 


The Wrong Echo

From "The Wrong Echo" record release at Casa del Popolo, Montréal. 

Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt (drums, electronics) Peter Burton (double bass) Steve Bates (guitar, feedback)

Also performing in The Wrong Echo Band this evening were David Bryant (guitar) and jake moore (vocals). 

Calypso (Live), Peter Burton, double bass; Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, drums; Steve Bates, guitar

From the Lanterner self-titled CD, released September 6, 2011.

Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt (drums), Steve Bates (guitar)

LANTERNER - Hermes Traffic Control

Live performance at echoraum, as part of What's Up Vienna! What's Up Montréal!, May 2011. 

http://whatsupviennawhatsupmontreal.net/

Angélica Castelló (bass recorder, electronics), Billy Roisz (video feedback, electronics, bass), Steve Bates (cassette, mixer, laptop) 


Angélica Castelló | Billy Roisz | Steve Bates - Live in Vienna

From the CD, the dim coast. MoSo Records (2006).
Released by: Moso Records
Release/catalogue number: moso #003
Release date: Jan 1, 2006 

To Return To Come Back To

Live at Casa del popolo, 
Montréal, August 22, 2011

Live recording and mix by Martin Simon Greizis

Steve Bates - Live solo set (Montréal)

Corridor Pressure

L'Arrivée- Hommage à Peter Tscherkassky

Thanks to Igor Gross for inspiring me.

June, 2017
“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” 
-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Allegretto Ma Non Troppo Excerpt

A subtle representation of the incertitude, structured disorder and
rigidity of order as natural habitat and inborn vulnerability of the human
being.
January, 2018

Mezcla Excerpt

The Triangular Mass was performed during the Suoni per Il Popolo festival 2019. This recording was made by Steve Bates and it took place on June 5th 2019 at Le Gesu, Montreal. 

About: 
Triangular Mass (2016) was commissioned by the Icelandic Dark Music Days festival, and is a piece for multiple triangles, which is performable by all, regardless of previous musical knowledge or training. 

The ensemble is playing triangles in different sizes, creating a crystalline and prism like sound. The sound of the individual triangle and the individual player is dissolved and the sound reappears in a new collective form.

Triangular Mass (Live At Le Gesu, Montreal)

music for solo cello. 2012.09.01. Live recording.
This track from the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa and the Outaouais compilation CD.

You can purchase the compilation at www.improvisedmoo.com
All proceeds go to perpetuating a vital and creativity affirming series of concerts put on in Ottawa by Linsey Wellman, Craig Pederson, and David Jackson. 
They deserve all the money you can pass their way. 
Please give generously.

Solo album of Cello music coming in Spring 2012 through Black Bough Records.

To Return To Come Back To

the dim coast

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