Handbag Factory 9-17, Soundwalk map up!

The location Map for the Soundwalk 2011 is up here http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214839954856713076552.0004ab483e981afb54931&msa=0&ll=33.76849,-118.186734&spn=0.001449,0.002207

We will imbed it as well just for fun!

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This weekends mirth and merriment will be at the Handbag Factory in downest downtown LA.

Saturday 9-17-11, 8:30 PM. Phog masheeen will be appearing with a variety of local luminaries, such as +dog+ and Pretty Agony.

The link to the particulars is here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245738285464189

This show has some potentially thrilling features. Including a cover of a Bavab Bavab song!

Certainly worth the drive!

The first one's still free! & New video for your viewing pleasure!

We got some great comments from Suki O'Kane (Curator of Oakland's spectacular Illuminated Corridor) regarding our submission to her project. Here is what she had to say...

"I've watched Color, Movement and Theatrical Violence now, oh, i dunno, about a million times. The selection of gestures and focal points for this keeps amazing me, surprising the viewer with so much more than kicking and punching. It's David Lean-ish in its intimations of violence: using footage just before and after it, or if a classic battle, layering the psychedelic upon it to mirror our own clouded, subconscious ultraviolence. It compels us to reform our idea of Lee: the martial artist as thinker, critical observer, calm (and calming) warrior sliding elegantly into a ritual jacket in the midst of a relentless chaos."

You can view the video at the Illuminated Corridor channel on Youtube. Or the direct link is http://youtu.be/1QqbghhgIZU?hd=1

Don't forget... The first track is still free at CD Baby! Click Here to go there.

The first one's free!

Taking a tip from Multi-level marketers, The first tracks free! Check it out! Click through HERE to 23 Duets on CD Baby, The first track Rocktastic Noise is Free and Download Baby, Download!

We will be adding to this post for a while, as the "first one's free promotion is rolling on.

Preparations are well under way for Soundwalk 2011 in Long Beach, CA. We will be rolling out a pumped up Pick-0-Phone. Improved with resonators and improved playability, the Pick-0-Phone is ready for prime time. Here is the pic.

Link to Soundwalk 2011.

Touch the Gear is a go!

I will be heading to San Francisco on July 17 to participate in the Outsound New Music Summit's "Touch the Gear" event.

The event will be at San Francisco Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street @ 20th, San Francisco, CA
on July 17, 2011. We were involved last year and it was a great event! Lots of cool setups and you can play them. From this event I got some new ideas of how to use my setup.

Is the "art" getting there?

For this event I am taking the Pick-0-phone and the Boise Bundts + 1.

I am flying to San Francisco. The seven pick heads come to around sixty pounds in a bag. I am sorting through whether to package them carefully or just put a bolt through them and put them in a duffle bag.

The TSA commonly searches all my bags. Perhaps I should put a sign in the bag to explain that I am:

1- Taking these picks to the "Antiques Roadshow"

2- Going to a digging tool convention.

3- I am making sure I have the right tool for the job. As long as the Job requires seven picks.

It kind of reminds me of the postal art days of the '80's. A good amount of the "art part" was seeing if the postal service would deliver the item. Here we are struggling to get everything on a plane in our current travel environment.

Here is the setup I am planning to bring.

Stomata Loaf (work in progress)

I have posted A work in progress track called "Stomata Loaf" (Thank you Kevin C. for the title.)

It features some of the experiments with the Boise Bundts +1 and the Pick-0-phone.

It is a love-thing that settles the score with your home speakers.

Here is the stream:

Download at: http://www.archive.org/details/StigmataLoaf

New Tools, Pick-0-Phone, Boise Bundts +1

Check this out ladies and gentlemen, new phog masheeen tools to bring the noise.

The Boise Bundts are joined by the recently acquired Yucca Valley Bundt. Colored Orange the Yucca Valley Bundt is a prize indeed bringing an A concert to the Bundt rack.

In the lower front of the photo is the Pick-0-Phone. Utilizing pick heads as an instant idiophone. The Pick-0-Phone brings a skewed version of tonal music to the noise of phog masheeen. I am planning to lay out the electronics and see what this setup has to offer.

Ok here is the setup with the electronics.

Here is the link to how it sounds (Dig if you will the Barking cadenza performed by Red (the dog):

Recap of the OCCCA show....

What a delicious evening, three long sets and lots of time to stretch and try new things.

Big thanks to Skip, Abbey, Max, David, Vince, Bob, Craig and all the people that came out to check out the Mirth and merriment.

For all you that couldn't make it to Santa Ana, here is a segment of the proceedings. It is available for download at this address:

http://www.archive.org/details/PhogMasheeenOccca6-4-2011

You can stream is here:

Enjoy!

phog