19-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "Me and Cosey 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

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

26-10-08

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2973569845/" title="Liverpool 2008 by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2973569845_61b5c5bdfa_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Liverpool 2008" //a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"I've posted some photos on my Flikr pages from our recent trips to (and Cosey's subsequent 'talks' at) the Frieze Art Fair and the Liverpool Bienniale.br /I've been a longtime Nikon SLR owner, actually when I think about it I was (occasionally) using Cosey's Nikon F back in 1974 and later her FE, until I got my own FE2 in the early eighties, followed by an F301 and various lenses I've collected over the years. I continued to use my F301 until a couple of years ago, when I bought a digital Sony DSC-F828. The F828 was OK (ish), it handled well and had a good lens and even infra-red capability but had some annoying 'quirks' as far as image handling and image quality goes. /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a name='more'/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"And it definitely was not DSLR. I almost got digital Nikon a few of years ago (a D70) but I wasn't totally convinced by the picture quality/features/price ratio, well not enough to splash out more than a pound;1000 or so. Anyway what with one thing and another (coincidently a PRS cheque arriving the same week as the Nikon announcement) the D90 pretty much fulfills my needs, and like I said I'm extremely pleased with it. Feel free to comment on the photos... don't be too brutal thoughbr //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157608375768224/" rel="external"Link to photos on Flikr/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"br /All these photos were taken with my new Nikon D90 DSLR - which I'm very happy with./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-5903050229108009858?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

14-10-08

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2934371070/" title="1977 by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2934371070_95a968ac5b_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="1977" //abr //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "I've been a little lax keeping up to date here over the last few months, what with one thing and another. We (Cosey and me) decided that some long overdue DIY jobs around the house needed doing before autumn sets in, and as they were all outside jobs it took longer than we expected due to the variable weather here lately. But it's all pretty much completed now, I just need to replace one large interior window pane inside our studio, which I cracked while being a bit too handy when chipping away at some paintwork.br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a name='more'/abr /Also... we've been setting up, or rather re-activating, Industrial Records as a fully fledged Limited Company again after leaving it dormant for more than 25 years. This is to coincide with our new TG release on IR: 'The Thirty-Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle'. Lots more details on that are HERE. But it was a major undertaking (by our terms anyway), registering IR as a company (again), registering for VAT, getting a registered office address, making a business plan for the bank, and a ton of other boring legal stuff that's needed these days! Then we (actually it was mainly Cosey) had to put the 'product' into production. Which translates into having to cope with various suppliers, manufacturers, printers, distributors, shippers etc. etc. etc. All the screamingly frustrating stuff Mute usually to do for us for a 'major' release. Not that they've stopped, they just aren't involved in this release.br /In between running Industrial and DIY we've also been recording with Millimetre and producing a dance remix for Excepter, but more on those projects later.br /br /Next week we are both at the Frieze Art Fair, where Cosey is on a discussion panel, and where we are launching 'Thirty-Second Annual Report'. In a couple of weeks we'll be at the Liverpool Biennial where Cosey is 'in conversation', and on November 7th we are playing at the Wroclaw Industrial Festival in Poland. After all that lot we are taking some time off, as Spring 2009 looks to be busy for TG. Can't say more right now but we could be flying west, then west again.br /br /BTW:br /I've recently posted some really old TG photos/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;" /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157607958968031/" rel="external"on my Flikr pages/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;". Even if you're not a TG fan they're definitely worth checking out. My, my... how we've changed!/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-589155961678406286?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

17-08-08

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2862656849/" title="A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n installation by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2862656849_1b020cf759_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n installation" //abr //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"Fashioning a workable (and practical) realisation of the TG multi-channel audio for Cerith Wyn Evans' A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n sculpture took far longer than I expected. Admittedly, I knew it would probably be challenging working on such a complex large-scale project, co-ordinating with a lot of (talented) people and getting it all finished to a tight deadline. But not that it would mean to the exclusion of almost everything else I was working on with Cosey. Which now puts us in a position of being at least a month behind on completing all our current non-TG activities: outstanding remixes, various collaborations, solo work and of course our (now) overdue FVotSE film./spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a name='more'/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"br /The upside (yes there IS an upside) is that A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n is truly astounding and something you just can't appreciate unless you experience it 'in situ'. We ran our first A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n test last week in a warehouse in London, well about 90% of the finished structure was up and running and the Audio Spotlights still needed polished metal covers, but everyone present was completely blown away by the TG sound track and how well it works with Cerith's sculpture. br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2759669246/" rel="external"bull; here's a link to short video clip of the test run bull;/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"br /br /Because of the technology used, the way the TG soundtrack is configured, the fact that the Audio Spotlights are at different heights and that the highly directional sound reflects off any nearby surface (including the backs of adjacent Audio Spotlights, which all slowly turn at the slightest gust of air, or movement) the sound has the impression of NOT coming from the structure at all but from the space surrounding it. It's a totally unique work and something you have to interact with in all its TG 3-dimensional audio glory to really appreciate.br /br /So... right now we're time managing and juggling hours in a day, trying to prioritise a whole bunch of delayed, unfinished solo and Carter Tutti projects and even trying to complete some long-needed DIY around the house before Autumn sets in.br /But no more TG... for while at least./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-8784100289993450770?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

07-07-08

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2442395321/" title="Cerith amp; TG by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/2442395321_9d4ba54814_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Cerith amp; TG" //abr //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#000000;"Unfortunately our summer break was cut short. The audio project TG are working on for our collaboration (A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n) with artist Cerith Wyn Evans reached an unexpected level of complexity after the initial recordings. Being TG's resident geek/boffin I've been attempting to find solutions for some demanding logistical (not to mention cutting edge) sound configurations. If we can pull this off the way we'd like to then the sculpture is going to be astonishing, unique and very 'TG'. br /So here I am (yet again) ensconced in the studio in the middle of summer. At least this week it's been raining a lot, so we haven't missed out on too much./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-4851303096010897155?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

10-06-07

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/535242103/" title="Sleazy, Gen amp; Cosey by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1275/535242103_e4a7f670b5_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Sleazy, Gen amp; Cosey" //abr /Krems was great, the Tate was amazing and the I.C.A. installation was brilliant, productive and exhausting. But now we are all back in our respective homes: Sleazy has returned to Bangkok, Gen to NY, we two to Norfolk and the intensity and madness of TG has subsided... almost.br /a name='more'/abr /The I.C.A. 12 CD wallet is pretty much done, just a few tweaks left then it goes into production early next week. Sleazy will be returning to us in Norfolk in a couple of weeks so (amongst other things) we can complete the final stages of TGV... hopefully for an Xmas release!br /Cosey and myself have a batch of Carter Tutti projects to finish (new tracks mixes for compilations mainly) and Cosey has some work to complete for some upcoming exhibitions. Then we are taking a well earned break. More news, titbits and updates in the coming weeks.br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157600324149999/" rel="external"New photos from Tate I.C.A are now available on my Flikr pages/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ".br /br /In the next few months I will be transfering all my photos from this site to my /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/" rel="external"Flickr account/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3739007603172074449?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

15-03-07

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2503077552/" title="Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2210/2503077552_ffbb79bedc_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether" //abr /Feral Vapours of The Silver Ether (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emour new Carter Tutti album/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ") is 90% completed and everyone we've played it to so far loves it. We're just agonising over one last track as we're not happy with how it has worked out. So do we re-record it and include it, or do we just dump it and move on? Hmmm...br /br /Anyway... a name='more'/afor those who may not have heard, Cosey's adventures in LA went well but ended on a downer. She was 'removed' from her Virgin Atlantic flight home while the plane was waiting to take-off by ultra paranoid flight attendants and an armed security guard afraid that she 'might' have an in flight heart attack. In fact there was no risk of her having any kind of attack at all, but the Virgin staff wouldn't listen her (or the Doctor sat next to Cosey, who tried to calm their unfounded worries). Four days later and after a many calls, emails, faxes and documents had changed hands she was passed 'fit to fly' (which we all knew anyway!).br /br /Back home we immediately started (and completed) our /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://washington.org/colorfieldremix/index.cfm" rel="external"ColorField Remix/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " contribution, ,which looks and sounds gorgeous./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-2452110406028459927?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

01-01-07

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2373262333/" title="Monte amp; Cosey by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2373262333_c320615207_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Monte amp; Cosey" //a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"2006 was an odd year for us, with some real highs (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; color:#353535;"emlike our Carter Tutti gigs and Cosey's exhibitions and so on/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;") but there were also a lot of unfinished and unresolved aspects to it. And it ended on a real emotional downer, with Nick (our Son) rushed into hospital. But... after a few setbacks he's finally on the road to a full recovery and his nurse says should be OK to go home next Sunday (Jan 7th). By the way, thanks again to all of you who sent wishes etc. they were very much appreciated.br /br /This year should see some interesting developments. We're determined to get our long overdue second Carter Tutti album completed (well over a year late!), Cosey and I are working on a number of interesting 'collaborations and projects' that we'll be announcing soon, there are some 'significant' TG announcements (and releases) imminent and Cosey is in a major exhibition opening in LA, in the Spring.br /br /Detailed updates on all these soon'ish...br /Happy New Year.../spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-4665092315152013586?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

06-05-06

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/4004521852/" title="Tate Modern 'Pop Life' Symposium by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2521/4004521852_a6812d76b7_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Tate Modern 'Pop Life' Symposium" //abr /Spent the weekend in London: I went with Cosey to the /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/tatetriennial2006symposium4947.htm" rel="external"Tate Britain symposium/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ". Her 'Confessions' film was very well received: as usual, Ken Russell was sweet, and very eccentric. Later we met up with friends and /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.portion-control.net/" rel="external"Portion Control/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " Neon Judgement at the monthly Cosey Club all nighter. It was funny really... on the dance floor were all these industrial/gothy 'twenty-somethings' getting it on to classic 80s' 90s' EBM tracks originally played by these middle aged musos (us included) backstage. a name='more'/aWith conversations about "aches, pains and ailments", "did you know so and so was dead" and "I'm not usually up this late" it was like a (slightly scary) 1980s' twighlight zone. We all had a bloody good time though!br /If you live in (or near) London I highly recommend a trip to Richard Clouston's /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.kult77.com/" rel="external"Cosey Club/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ", fantastic atmosphere, amazing DJ sets and some inspired choices of bands. I've posted a few photos from the evening in my /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157604308425384/" rel="external"Flikr pages/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ".br /br /The new (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emas yet untitled/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ") Carter Tutti album is coming along slowly but sounding wonderfull. We're toying with the idea of posting some mp3 'teaser clips' on the CC site when we have some finished mixes. We'll see...br /br /TG are selling the Throbbing Gristle 24-track HD recorder. It's only been used a couple of times but for various reasons it's now "/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emsurplus to our requirements/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "". /spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-8801357876030850429?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

06-01-06

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/2372866271/" title="TG - Berlin by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2372866271_5850c35fab_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="TG - Berlin" //abr /After a lot of (TG) distractions last year our much delayed second Carter Tutti album is finally under way and sounding great. Cosey and I will also be performing two Carter Tutti concerts in Italy - on 31st March in Pisa and on 5th April in Venice. Cosey is also exhibiting at /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/" rel="external"Tate Britain/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " in London from March 2006.br /As there are still some TG projects to be completed there won't be as many performances and new releases from Carter Tutti in 2006 as we would like. We just don't have the time this year. But we're thrilled that the majority of our extensive Chris Cosey catalogue will finally be made available as online downloads throughout 2006.a name='more'/abr /br /TG in Berlin was amazing, but also exhausting, frustrating and bloody cold. The film premier, exhibition, rehearsals, performances and recording all went well, despite some sound gremlins at the first gig. The improvised second-nighter was a completely different affair and vibe. We played to a new 35mm print of Derek Jarman's 'In The Shadow of The Sun' and it looked wonderful projected behind us. We spent the second week recording new TG material at an old East Berlin radio studio. The studio was an incredible place and the staff and technicians were really helpful. So big thanks' to all those at /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.planetroc.de/" rel="external"Planet Roc/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " who made our time there so relaxed and productive. The whole TG Berlin trip was extensively documented (on a daily basis, which was a slightly odd experience) so I expect we'll see a lot of photos from it later this year./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-8205366301954598050?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

01-11-05

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "OK, it's official: TG are playing two concerts, staging a major TG Art exhibition, releasing our first brand new studio album in 25 years and premiering the long awaited 'Live at The Astoria' DVD... and it all starts happening in Berlin in December! Many more details soon.br /br /My 1980 '/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?s=143444playlistId=88691647" rel="external"THE SPACE BETWEEN/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "' album is now available to buy via /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?s=143444playlistId=88691647" rel="external"Apple iTunes/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-2275452188573376704?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

01-05-05

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "We recently returned from the opening of Cosey's successful Van Abbe exhibition in Holland, we had a wonderful time, good food and great company. After a bit of studio maintenance I'm helping Cosey prepare material for her Cardiff exhibition. We are also recording material for Carter Tutti and TG this month.br /Chris Cosey, Carter Tutti and TG tracks are now available on iTunes.br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3826051109356525298?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

30-04-03

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "April:br /It's that time of year again and I'm rationalising the studio (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emyet again/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "), which means I have a bunch of gear for sale. Follow this link for more details (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emebay link expired/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ").br /br /March:br /No news updates lately as I've been busy and there always seemed to be something that needed doing more than updating this site (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emtill now that is/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ").br /I've been editing and mastering/remastering some CC and CTI material (/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana-Italic; "emmore news on that soon/em/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "). Also, since the TG24 launch and TG exhibition we've been involved in another TG related project that we'll be announcing in a month or so.br /br /We've also aquired some new gear and audio video software, which we're very excited about and once we've got to grips with it all we'll be using it for some new projects and releases in the coming year.br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-7782515561967554768?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

20-12-02

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "The Throbbing Gristle TG24 CD boxed set is officially released on the 23rd December 2002 by Industrial/Mute.br /br /Follow this link to the Mute TG24 pages for details of the reservation procedure. (link expired)br /br /A TG24 exhibition is running from 4th-7th December in London. More details /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "uhere/u/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; " (link expired).br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-4380472584481341589?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

30-07-02

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "I recently spent three weeks rebuilding, reorganising and rewiring our studio. This was something that was long overdue but turned out to be a far more complex and time consuming task than I originally anticipated. Everything is now pretty much back up to full spec but we still haven't actually got around to recording yet.br /br /The TG boxed set and IR re-launch are still on track and the whole project is moving along nicely. As a kind of 'primer' we are releasing a new 'best of' TG album and are in discussion with various artists who are interested in re mixing a TG track for commercial release prior to the launch. More soonish...br /br /For the last couple of weeks or so I've been assisting Cosey with some photography and live Art pieces.br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-7504904196881957657?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

20-02-02

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "We've recently finished the first part of a collaboration project, a song called Fade To Black, with US band Mortal Loom. We're all very pleased with the results and hope to start work on a second track in March/April for release on their label this winter.br /br /Last week I put together a one off DVDR of the Throbbing Gristle Heathen Earth recording for showing at the forthcoming Hotel Sub Rosa exhibition at the Marc Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles. This group show features artists represented by London based Cabinet Gallery and also includes new art works by Cosey and a rare public showing of the above TG video.br /I'm currently re mastering the forthcoming Industrial / Mute release of the Throbbing Gristle 24-hour CD boxed set. This is a mammoth task and consist of wading through more than 50 original TG performance cassettes to find the best versions in terms of quality and content. Much of the first stage is done (the listening and checking part) and I'm now transferring the tapes in real time into our G4 Mac. Once the transfers are complete I will carry out some minor restoration work on the noisier sounding tapes and eventually edit each gig into a continuous 60 minute CD friendly format. For the technically inclined I'm using a Sony 'WMD6C Professional' cassette deck interfaced to a Roland VM3100 Pro mixer, which is digitally connected to the G4 Mac running TCWorks SparkXL for the transfer, recording and editing process. At the moment I'm averaging about two gigs a day and hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks I'll be finished editing and into final CD 'red book' mastering stage.br /br /As you can probably imagine listening to raw unedited TG material for 6-8 hours a day can be pretty brain numbing so I'm organising other occasional activities to stop myself going completely gaga. One of these is a remix for the UK band ndot. They're a very talented duo who I've done a few of remixes for in the past and I find collaborating with them very enjoyable. Hopefully you should be able to check out my finished mix and their other works and projects on their web site in the coming months.br /br /Any techno types out there can read my review of the new Moogerfooger range of effects pedals in the current /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://chriscarter.co.uk/content/../content/sos/page51.html" rel="self" title="Moogerfoogers"(February) issue of SoundOnSound magazine/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; ".br /br /Lastly thank you to everyone who remembered my birthday and a special thanks to the anonymous person in Scotland who sent me a couple of exceptionally fine saucy DVDs.br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-521480385404726524?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div