The Overtone Ensemble (Tim Catlin, David Brown, Atticus Bastow and Ceallaigh Norman) live at Conduit Arts 13 July 2013. 
Vibrissae (stroked rod instruments), acoustic guitar, handbells and bowed objects. 
No amplification or effects.

Thanks to Barnaby Oliver for live recording.

The Overtone Ensemble live at Conduit Arts

Slow Diagonal

Midnight Passes Above The Clouds

Catnip (by Tim Catlin and Machinefabriek)

Haze (by Tim Catlin and Machinefabriek)

Title track from my 2007 release on 23five. Electric guitar and radio drone.

Radio Ghosts

Prepared acoustic guitar piece from the Slow Twitch album. 

Metal Fatigue

Tim Catlin and Machinefabriek.
Acoustic guitar and effects -Tim Catlin
Additional sounds and editing by Rutger Zuydervelt.

Arpeggio (Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek)

Tim Catlin and Machinefabriek.
White Vinyl release on Low Point.
Guitars and electric sitar -Tim Catlin
Additional sounds and editing by Rutger Zuydervelt.

Patina - Side A (Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek)

As a duo Tim Catlin and David Brown come together as ‘Helium Clench’ and boast long histories in the Melbourne and international avant-garde music world. ‘Sieve’, their first duo recording is a studio-based project that amalgamates electroacoustic strategies, bowed objects and processed acoustic and electric instruments. Initial recordings focused on improvisational processes along with bowing of acoustic instruments and found objects, whilst other recordings utilized electronically processed electric guitar beds. All of these recordings were then subject to rigorous studio production techniques to shape the final compositions.

Ring Accretion (by Helium Clench - David Brown and Tim Catlin)

Tim Catlin is a guitarist, instrument designer and sound artist with a deep fascination for exploring the sonic possibilities inherent in friction, magnetism and resonant systems.  Although his work spans composition, improvisation, installations and soundtracks, common threads woven throughout  are a keen ear for sonic minutiae, a preference for physical over digital audio manipulation and a yearning for transcendence through sound.

Much of his activity has involved re-investigating the sonic properties of the guitar through a combination of traditional and extended techniques, guitar preparation and modified designs. These pieces are often drone based and densely textural, “blurring lines between metal machine music and holy minimalism.” (The Wire, UK)  Further works utilising resonance, feedback and the harmonic series have employed electric sitar, chromatic handbell sets, cymbals and long string instruments.

Most recently he has constructed a set of new instruments; the “Vibrissae”. These are microtonally tuned metal rod instruments, which are activated by longitudinal stroking to produce a sustained, “singing” tone. He formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 to perform works using these instruments along with other self-made instruments.

He has performed or collaborated with Machinefabriek, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Otomo Yoshihide, Phill Niblock, Mike Cooper, Candlesnuffer, Philip Samartzis, Rod Cooper, The Wall of E Guitar Ensemble and many others.

Solo and collaborative releases include “Radio Ghosts” (23five, 2007), “Slow Twitch”, (Dr Jims, 2004), “Sieve” with David Brown (Bocian, 2013), “Glisten” and “Patina” with Machinefabriek (Low Point, 2009 and 2011) and “Plates and Wires” with Jon Mueller, (Crouton 2007).

Tim Catlin

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