Inspired by the Jamuary tradition of spontaneous composition held in the first month of each year, several artists have been invited to create brief compositions for a collective Live and Indirect session at short notice.
Various Artists: Live and Indirections Volume 1 goes out at 20:00 UTC on Sunday 5 January 2025 at Repeater Radio, and the Discord lounge will be open to all as usual.
Contributing artists are:
- zzimmerr - “Eyeball Skeleton” and Phil MFU - “New Year’s Eve Jam”
- Lying Dalai - “Nuear”
- No Masters - “Hastily Assembled Neural Modelling Patch”
- Entropy Circus - “Im Modem Sandoza”
- Hákarl - “Improvisation for Freq, 04-01-25”
- Lying Dalai - “Ancholie”
- Drift of Signifieds - “Auld”
Phil MFU explains: ‘“Eyeball Skeleton” is with my new group zzimmerr playing a cover of a theme tune by a teenage garage rock band Eyeball Skeleton made famous via WFMU. The second track is me jamming with musicians in Belgium, New Years Eve.’
Lying Dalai (@LyingDalai) wonders: ‘How come some years feel tougher than others? Is it me aching in my aging bones, in my mind, or the world trying to plant dark roots in my heart? Dear people’s warmth and playing or listening to music stay the way to renew energy. And stand.’
No Masters (@Fin25) recounts: ‘It’s basically a couple of really quite stupid neural networks trying (and gloriously failing) to figure out how to play a couple of physical modelling algorithms in Max/MSP.’
Entropy Circus ‘have been around for fucking forever, doing a fuck load of fucking incompatible things, so you can’t even be fucking sure what the fuck they’re going to sound like next. Sure there was all that fucking around with modal wah guitar, those fucking widescreen rompler fucking things, the fucking MIDI skronk and of course fucking endless auto-fucking-slav trackerisms, but these are by no fucking means the limit. Effectively they do what the fuck they like, yeah?’
Hákarl 'is the solo project of Kev Nickells (Brighton, UK). Recently I’ve been poring over recordings and literature about maqqamat - classical Arabic musical systems that very roughly correspond to Western modes; maqqamat is the plural, maqqam the singular. This piece is an improvisation for fretless guitar. I’m playing about with a few Ajnas [singular: jins] which are (again roughly) scale fragments that make up a maqqam. Arabic listeners may want to brace themselves for some unorthodox approaches; I’m definitely not trying to be authentic. Except in that valley girl sense of being, like, authentically me yeah?
Drift of Signifieds ‘have dredged up something old, and borrowed the piece concerned from themselves.’