So I am proud to present the first video documentation of a performance I did with multi-instrumentalist Jimbot, he was playing the Kendang, Suling and the Bonang. This is just the end of the concert, I can at this point in time only capture video limited to 3 minutes, so if you want more, please tell me!
Read more about the time in Bandung here in the previous post:
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Greetings friends,
A little update, have been in Indonesia since the beginning of the year, initially in Jogjakarta, then in Bandung the past week and a half, before heading back this weekend to Jogjakarta where I’ll be based till maybe June this year.
The time in Indonesia has been extremely fruitful. Spent the first couple of weeks [...]
In less than 24 hours, I say goodbye to Rotterdam and Europe to Asia for half a year at least. The next 6-7 months I will be in India, Indonesia and Indochina, searching and researching for the exhaustive work of Taam Ming: Music Of The Post-Human Future Folk.
Grts all,
Finished up some new tracks for next years release, yes it has been pushed to next year as the rest of my year is pretty packed. Come August, I’ll be in Gijon for the SummerLAB in Laboral, no idea what to expect but its always nice to be in Gijon so I’m not complaining, [...]
Part of the Spectral Magnetic Ghost series of re-contextualized gamelan compositions, took awhile to get around to get off the ground, so here it is the initial lift off!
The project is in its infancy, a collaboration I have with Soopa Collective (PT) and Steim (NL), Spectral Magnetic Ghosts approaches the ghostly [...]
ARP 2500,
ARP 2600
Serge Modular
EMS Synthi
Korg MS20 …
Greetings,
So the time has come and the time is now, for all the fun to end. Thursday, Den Haag saw the last concert I had with Dave Phillips and C-utter left a day before that. Suffering from post-touring trauma at the moment, it has been an incredible month and it will take a full post [...]
After the grueling tour through Germany, Czech Rep, Hungary and Austria, I have been home for a couple of days recovering from exhaustion before heading off again this Friday for a tour with noise guru Dave Phillips and Barcelona darkest ambient duo C-utter!
The latest print edition issue of Italian media magazine Neural has published the previous web review of the Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra in the E-Music section (Issue 32)! For those of you that don’t know of this magazine, it was started in 1993 by Alessandro Ludovico as an Italian only publication for both analog and digital [...]
The story behind is written story is somehow always more interesting. The processes involved forms the road map of the mind (and sometimes beyond that) of the author, an open book so to speak, the window to the soul. In describing the journey I have taken so far, I hope to transmit better the idea that what is summed up normally as a conclusion in a paragraph long press release, album sleeve note or a book length graduation thesis, is merely surface scratching at best. This is a story of a mind in constant flux during a certain period of creative explosion.
So 2009 has brought much clarity contrary to the current climate of uncertainty. The rest of my year is more or less planned out and lots of wonderfully shocking surprises await.
Back from the wonderful Make Art (free libre open-source software – FLOSS) festival in Poitier organizes my the equally wonderful collective Goto10 and on the way to another weekend of Floss-ing in Bergen Norway at Piksel. So its been absolutely crazy these past months. The site has seen some welcome additions with a page dedicated [...]
[...] All this will climax on Saturday the 08th of Nov as One Man Nation will perform at the first of 3 experimental music/art/computing festivals, the noise infested MEM festival in Bilbao. End of Nov will be the Makeart Festival 08 in Pointiers France (28/11/08) followed the week after with Piksel 08 in Bergen (05/12/08).
3 weeks back, guess it is time for a full coverage and pouring out of gratitudes to the ones that made life enjoyable while far away from home. This is the follow-up post to Bye Bye Barna, Bye Bye Spain.
Some good, or rather great news coming from here. First off, One Man
Nation will be returning to Bilbao for the MEM Festival in Nov, this
will coincide with the week long Festival de Improvisación
Multidisziplinar (FIM) at L’Mono where I will be giving a week long
workshop on programming your computer to make it an improvisation
ready instrument (well try to at least).
So the time has come for the end of yet another wonderful tour! More on the rest of the tour since Spain coming soon plus new videos (once I get through the tedious digitization/compression process…). But in the meantime, a short update as to whats happening here -
So, little has happened since the last update, well little since
Staalplaat last weekend. Since Staalplaat, I’ve taken a plane to Riga
followed by a bus to the little countryside town of Kuldiga. Its been 4
days since arriving and I’ve been taking it slow, relaxing in the woods
and getting natural body massages by the rushing [...]
Today marks the end of the mediterrenean maddness as I embarked on my flight to Berlin at 11 this morning. 2 days shy of a month, its time to look back on the wonderous events since setting off from my Rotterdam apartment June the 25th.
Porto was a wonderful surprise with the “Super people at Soopa” [...]
Things worked out really well eventually in A Coruna. There was a surprise show set up for One Man Nation on the Monday 07/07/08 in a squat in A Coruna. Special thanks to Cesar, Conni, Sande and Lucia for making things happen and providing food and lodging!
- One Man Nation tour has reached Gijon since [...]
Just arrived in A Coruna, unfortunately the show here got cancelled, so it means a couple of days of rest. Update on the tour, the show in Porto was wonderful, an unexpected amount of people came and organizers were amazing. So check out their site and work of some really forward thinking musicians in Porto: [...]