Live webcast from Lagowski HQ, Tuesday 26th night GMT, of sonic manipulation with Dean Whitbread et al. Stand by for updates and linkage.
Archive for the ‘Live electronic music’ Category
Live webcast Tuesday 26th evening – GMT
May 25, 2009Live at Archangel – 1992
April 7, 2009Lagowski Live at Knowledge – 1992, 34 mins/5 USD
March 29, 2009Nagamatzu Archive
July 23, 2007The Nagamatzu Archive contains several tracks recorded between 1983-1988. There is also a live performance from 28th September 1986, made at The Reptile House, a club that used to reside on Charing Cross Road, London WC2. Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Slides/Video – Stephen Jarvis. Programming, Synths, Guitar, Engineering – Andrew Lagowski.
Out and About
January 27, 2006
Went to the Electronic Lounge on Wednesday 25th at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in The Mall, here in London – this was the 10th anniversary of Scanner and Sprawl’s club and I was expecting less crowd noise and more music, to be honest. Poor old Robin Rimbaud had to compete with a hundred nattering arty types in a room full of smoke.
Deek came with me (despite a headache) and kept me going, though – thanks Deek!
Met Douglas from Sprawl, who seemed like a very nice bloke. I felt like I’d met him before, and he felt the same, but neither of us could remember where or when.
Last night I went to Smallfish Records in Old Street, a great shop for all things trendy in the modern music world. My friend Barry (Si_COMM) was there playing tracks from his new album ‘Cycla’ under the moniker of ‘Level’. Very nice stuff, but again people were just talking way too loud and Barry pointed out that, although it was great to meet people, this kind of music belongs in an art space where chat is not the norm.
While there I met some nice peeps – had a good chat with Matt from Polymorphic Music and a brief “hello” with Shane from the Garden of Earthly Delights radio show. Took a few moments to browse the shop and came away with a copy of Richard Devine’s ‘Lipswitch’ album. A myriad of beats and electro samples – good work, Richard!
When I got home last night, there was a nice surprise waiting for me – a cdr of my Legion gig in Germany on June 10th 2005. Sounds great, so I’m considering in what form to release it.
Hell & back
December 11, 2005After such a great gig in Wroclaw, everything computer-related went downhill very fast. My laptop had been exhibiting strange behaviour before I went to Poland, so I was backing up data every time I changed a track in Reason. The day after I returned from Poland the internal hard drive went bye-bye. I lost a lot of my programs and data but luckily had all of my Refills and tracks backed up, along with music work. Had to pay a large wedge for a new drive and spent a few hours last night installing it. Thanks to the wonderful Pbfixit, and Superspares on Tooting High Street (!) who sold me a Torx 6 driver, I’m now typing this from my revitalised machine.
The bad was tempered somewhat by a nice surprise from Kurt Kurasaki. Namely, my copy of Power Tools for Reason 3, which he wrote. The cd within includes a track in Reason format by yours truly called ‘Mocean Beats’. You’ll need the most up-to-date version of Reason (currently 3.0.4) to play it back.
Wroclaw report
December 6, 2005
Legion’s Unnatural World video
May 23, 2005
Legion_mor
Originally uploaded by lagowski.
This is a still from the Legion dvd I’m creating for my gig in Muenster, Germany.
Berlin – Over and out
June 27, 2004Well, after many hours of work, my S.E.T.I. performance in Berlin has been and gone. It went very well and the sound system was very good – many thanks to Stefan from Ironflame.de for the incredible amount of hard work he did in setting this whole thing up. He was let down by many people along the way but still managed to bring it all together somehow. Not sure how the Laibach copy bands fared because while they were busy bashing their drums and showing off their WW2 outfits, I was already on the way to the airport.
The event was video recorded and a DAT was made of each act, so I hope to be able to share some of the sights and sounds with you lot soon!
Next on the output stage will probably be the S.E.T.I. & Si_COMM ‘Hyperlanguage’ recordings for Resonance FM. Conceptually devised by Si_COMM, this will be an extension to the ‘Probe’ concept of mankind’s adaptation for space and the future.
Some more ‘Probe’ reviews:
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Gemini 7 here Houston, are you reading?
May 23, 2004…..means that I’ve been editing the dialogue from the famous “…got a bogey at 10 O’clock high” message from Gemini 7. The atmos in between the actual dialogue makes for perfect S.E.T.I. material and the words themselves are said in such a rhythmic way that I can use them as the basis/backbone for the start of the Berlin gig as I did in Brussels in 2000 (the gig where Fennesz borrowed my mixer – he’s got the looks and the charisma but they won’t even buy him his own mixer, poor guy).
Instructions for space-based drum sounds – edit the dialogue ie. cut it into small chunks. Put it into the NNXT sampler in Reason and trigger it live from a midi keyboard.
Patch up a phaser that is fed from a stereo delay and you can have dub-style space noise panning all over the venue 
