08-07-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://throbbing-gristle.com/CHRISCARTER/files/acusmatiq-5-small.jpg"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 32px;" src="http://throbbing-gristle.com/CHRISCARTER/files/acusmatiq-5-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" //abr /br /br /Myself and Cosey Fanni Tutti will be performing a version of our new live audio/visual improvisational piece ‘Harmonic Coaction’ at the span style="font-weight:bold;"br /Acusmatiq festival in Ancona, Italy on the 31st July/span.br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"'Harmonic Coaction - Part Two'br /A live audio assimilation of person place and time.br /'Harmonic Coaction' is a series of sound works constructed from audio field recordings relating to the performance site. The work is created live in situ using those recordings as key components, deconstructing and manipulating the sounds in juxtaposition and harmony. The accompanying visuals consist of images inspired by the site to create an audio visual continuum./spanbr /br /Link to sound excerpt of previous 'Harmonic Coaction - Part One' performance.br /a href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter/harmonic-coaction-part-one-live-excerpt"http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter/harmonic-coaction-part-one-live-excerpt/abr //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3479737278926663067?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

19-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "Cosey and myself have been rushed off our feet for the last few months - remixes, my Dirty-Carter project, Cosey Complex, numerous exhibitions, Coseyrsquo;s Tate Modern solo performance and our up-coming audio/art performance in Brescia, where Cosey is also exhibiting new works and doing an lsquo;in conversationrsquo; in Faenza. /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "a href="http://www.cartertutti.com/" rel="external" title="http://www.cartertutti.com/"More details on the CARTER TUTTI site/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br /br /When we return to the UK next week we are taking a few days off before completing some other outstanding projects, which includes remastering some of our early Chris Cosey back catalogue for vinyl reissue later this year.br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-5016872353187920032?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

19-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "Irsquo;ve semi-permanently fixed the previous blog entry problems on this site (and TG's and Cosey's sites). We (well me, the plug-in developer and a few tech chums) couldnrsquo;t actually trace (or fix) the route of the problem but the most likely culprit seems to be some recent undocumented changes that happened with Googlersquo;s Blogger backend. So for now Irsquo;ve moved my blog entries on /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"www.chriscarter.co.uk /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "over to a non-Blogger system and all is well again, it just takes me a little longer to sync up the pages. br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-5985281538319795528?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

13-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"We've recently discovered a technical glitch with this blog page on /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000099;"ua href="http://www.chriscarter.co.uk"www.chriscarter.co.uk/a/u/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;" where visitors see the raw HTML code... while on its Blogspot mirror page it's business as usual. We are attempting to track down the problem asap but in the meantime please bear with us. If you are viewing this on /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000099;"ua href="http://www.chriscarter.co.uk"www.chriscarter.co.uk/a/u/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;" please use the Blogspot link above to view a clean version of this page./spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br /We are also experiencing similar problems with Cosey's site and the TG site./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-5230386140764144276?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

03-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:39abFZCjdnqjGM:http://www.wunschfeld.net/blog/uploaded_images/iphone_noFlash-742851.jpg" alt="" height="auto" width="auto" border="1" /br /As a follow-up to the footnote in the post below I'll mention that after Tweeting my frustration at not finding a simple non-Flash (mobile iFriendly) solution to SoundCloud playback on my blog I got a lot of (what seemed to be) useful tips. Unfortunately non of these were nearly as simple or as elegant a solution as I'd hoped - or even assumed - would be out there. Chief amongst the respondents was fellow musician and all round tech genius /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"a href="http://twitter.com/Chris_Randall" rel="external" title="Chris Randall on Twitter"Chris Randall/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;" - who had some really good laterally thought-out ideas. br /br /So... unfortunately there isn't an immediate available, widely compatible solution and we have to wait for SoundCloud - and BandCamp - to update their webpage players to HTML5.br /If you are a web developer, web designer or are just interested in this subject Chris Randall has posted a detailed blog on his thoughts resulting from attempting workarounds to this unusually complex and (to me) unexpected web problem. It and the many replies make very interesting reading.br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"a href="http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1272836053974" rel="external" title="www.analogindustries.com"http://www.analogindustries.com/a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-154437101472226034?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

02-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/4555241028/" title="NOISE WILL ENSUE! by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/4555241028_b03973c59b_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="NOISE WILL ENSUE!" //abr /When I was in Leicester for the Dirty-Carter project I recorded two live tracks while killing time in my hotel room. They're not Dirty-Carter tracks, although they are related somewhat - it's just me improvising using some of the gear I later used for the Dirty-Carter performance. The voice and ambience on 'This Train...' is from a nearby train station and was recorded out of the hotel window and played back on my iPhone. The inclusion of the Tannoy station announcements on the same piece was partly inspired by listening to the album 'Music For Real Airports' on the journey to Leicester.br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"br /object height="81" width="90%" param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchris_carter%2Fthis-trainamp;show_comments=trueamp;auto_play=falseamp;color=505bda"/param param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/param embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchris_carter%2Fthis-trainamp;show_comments=trueamp;auto_play=falseamp;color=505bda" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"/embed /object spana href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter/this-train"This Train.../a by a href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter"chris_carter/a/spanbr /br /object height="81" width="90%" param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchris_carter%2Fwhile-waitingamp;show_comments=trueamp;auto_play=falseamp;color=505bda"/param param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/param embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchris_carter%2Fwhile-waitingamp;show_comments=trueamp;auto_play=falseamp;color=505bda" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"/embed /object spana href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter/while-waiting"While Waiting/a by a href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter"chris_carter/a/spanbr /br /OOPS...br /I've just realised these audio clips are in Flash format- my apologies. As soon as it's technically possible I will try to replace them with a mobile iFriendly format. See above/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3463776567749319538?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

02-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/4567226167_f242ac27fd_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Dirty Carter E.S.G.I." //abr /Our first Dirty-Carter performance took place in Leicester on the 28th April and went exceptionally well. We played - we being myself, John Richards and the twenty-five piece Dirty Electronics Ensemble - six challenging experimental pieces to an appreciative full-house. Though in fact I only actually played in three of the sections, well I improvised if being pedantic. I have to say how enthusiastic and knowledgeable the ensemble were, without exception. It makes a refreshing change to come across such a disparate range of artists, musicians and technicians who can work together (and with an 'outsider' such as myself) with such a positive attitude.br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br /John and myself will be participating in another Dirty-Carter workshop and performance at STEIM in Amsterdam between June 01 and 03 and if enough interest can be found we will stage the project at other locations later this year.br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php?id=155" rel="external"http://www.steim.org//a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~jrich/dirtyelectronics/menu.html" rel="external"http://www.dirtyelectronics.org//a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br /br /I have posted some photos of the Dirty-Carter rehearsals and performance on my Flikr pages, follow this link to view them: a title="Dirty-Carter on Flikr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157623967404864/" target="_blank"Dirty-Carter on Flikr/abr /br /There's also a short review and interview with me John here:br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://mikistrange.blogspot.com/2010/04/chris-carter-dirty-electronic.html" rel="external" title="MikiStrange Blog"http://mikistrange.blogspot.com/2010/04/chris-carter-dirty-electronic.html/a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-8354695594677805871?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

27-04-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/4567328991_508651d32a_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Dirty Carter E.S.G.I." //abr /Tomorrow I'm teaming up with the twenty-five piece group Dirty Electronics Ensemble, led by noise doctor John Richards, to perform our piece for the 'Experimental Sound Generating Instrument' (E.S.G.I.). As you may already know the instrument also features an copper etching artwork designed by me... expect random sequences, distortion with noise coalescing in a hand-held instrument the size of a postcard. The performance takes place at Phoenix Square in Leicester on Wednesday April 28th.br /br /Tickets: pound;8/pound;5 concessions.br /Booking: /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "To purchase tickets please call the Box Office on 0116 242 2800br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "or Book Online at/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.phoenix.org.uk/index.php?cms_id=287"http://www.phoenix.org.uk/index.php?cms_id=287/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "Box office closed./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-6644189666134672154?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

31-03-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4335119936_8797a2abe4_s.jpg" alt="" height="auto" width="auto" border="1" /br /I have a new 'Guest Mix' now available for all to hear at VESSEL. The 40 minute mix includes 20 disparate tracks from various sources and time periods that you may (or may not) have heard me DJ with before. Enjoy...br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"a href="http://www.vesselmusic.com/guest_mixes/view/chriscarterccandtg/" rel="external" title="Vessel"www.vesselmusic.com/a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3753447785420232300?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

31-03-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4475559417_d7dfc50ac7_s.jpg" alt="" height="auto" width="auto" border="1" //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "I've uploaded a selection of my photos from the recent Cosey Complex / Cosey Club events at the ICA to my Flikr pages.br /More shots (and video of the afternoon event) were taken by the ICA, if/when I can I'll post a link to them here.br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157623583361071/" rel="external" title="Flikr"Follow this Flikr link/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-1155842833738348023?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div