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

17-03-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "In a collaboration project with John Richards Dirty Electronics Ensemble I will be participating in two experimental electronic music workshops and performances in April and June this year.br /br /The first is at De Montfort University, Leicester in the UK - April 27-30 and the second is at STEIM in Amsterdam, Holland - June 01- 03.br /br /The workshop project is to build a specially designed DIY Dirty Electronics experimental music instrument and perform with it as an ensemble. The instrument will feature an original copper etching artwork and circuit concept by me and has been designed and built by John. Expect random sequences, distortion and noise coalesce in a unique hand-held instrument the size of a postcard. Anti-Social noise for all!br /br /More details and some photos soon... but in the meantime follow these links:br /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 //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.steim.org/steim/workshops.php?id=155" rel="external"http://www.steim.org//a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-7130091131592407780?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

02-07-09

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:SsyWMhfhzVcHSM:http://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/photos/141/FRKWYS_Kickstarter_01.full.jpg" alt="Excepter 12quot;" /br /br /Excepter 12" (a future now series).br /A project we've been working on with the band Excepter which is being released by Rvng, a small Brooklyn-based record label. This limited edition 12" is the first release in the series and features collaborations from NYC's industrial pranksters Excepter with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (of Throbbing Gristle, Chris Cosey, Carter Tutti), JG Thirwell of Foetus and his many alter egos, and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto. /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.excepter.com/" rel="external"exceptor.com/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "br /br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-456299386620604717?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

18-05-09

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; "a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/1515969921/" title="Chemistry Lessons Ramp;D by Chris_Carter_, on Flickr"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/1515969921_2633aa0ff3_s.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Chemistry Lessons Ramp;D" //abr //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"As part of my ongoing CCCL project I recently recorded a short video of some experimental sounds as a 'tribute' to the experimental work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who staged a performance in London on the 17th May, that I couldn't attend. All the sounds and loops originate from a BC8 synth, a Gakken SX-150 synth and BugBrand Weevil synths. All the effects and processing is done with Boss pedals. br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"Longer HD clip on Vimeo: /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"a href="http://www.vimeo.com/4706722" rel="external"www.vimeo.com/4706722/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"br /Shorter lo-res clip on Flikr: /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3541773057/" rel="external"www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3541773057//a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"br /Photo still with notes on what was used: /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3541773771/" rel="external"www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3541773771//a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"br /An audio only MP3 edit of the track can be heard /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;"a href="http://soundcloud.com/chris_carter/haz-chem-beta3" rel="external"HERE/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#353535;" br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-3023721044018378216?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div