I believe I’m on around 8pm. The best part is that it’s free in!

Line up

Live

• Ebauche
• Nexus
• Shane McKenna
• Keith Lindsay

DJ

• Noid the Droid
• Fyodor

More info can be found on the Second Square to None page where they say something like:

We at Second Square to None HQ are fascinated by synchronised synaesthetic audio visuals, visual music, and music that suggests visual imagery. The live acts we have booked for 13th September have all worked extensively with either visual music or film soundtracking, so we’re looking forward to seeing and hearing what they are going to play.

Love Rhino (aka Jonathan O’Riordan) is having a launch party for his new album “Tumatakuru”. I’m playing support on the night, alongside Halo Darkly. Gig details after a bit of info on the album:

“Tumatakuru” is the long awaited debut album from Love Rhino. Containing 11 tracks and running to 53 minutes the predominantly instrumental album is a blend of electronic and acoustic compositions recorded in New Zealand.

For various reasons the release has been delayed longer than planned but we can now bring it to you in all its glory. The CD will officially be on sale on Saturday June 20th and can be purchased at Road or Spin Dizzy Records and will also be available by mail order through the Love Rhino web site.

Preview tracks from the album here: www.myspace.com/lrhino. The album is being released in conjunction with the Alphabet Set who have tons of free home grown electronic music to suit every palate. Check them out at www.alphabetset.net

Tumatakuru Launch Party

We are having a free launch party to celebrate the release. Advance copies of the album will be available for a special low price at the gig. The details are as follows:

Friday 5th June @ Anseo (upstairs), Camden Street, Dublin 2
Free Admission. Doors 8pm. 3 Acts:

Love Rhino + Rude Doc (live)

As well as yours truly on guitar and electronics I will be joined on stage by Mark “Rude Doc” Finlay on drums and electronics. We have been beavering away in the studio to create live renditions of some of the songs from the album and few old Love Rhino classics.

www.myspace.com/lrhino || www.myspace.com/rudedoc

Halodarkly (live)

Funky, jazzy all out electronic rock mayhem from the undisputed king of Irish rock-jazz-electronic fusion.

www.myspace.com/halodarkly

Ebauche (live)

An electronic audiophonic journey through time and space. Ebauche is a master craftsman of live electronic grooves and soundscapes.

www.ebauche.net

This is a strictly invite only gig, and I’ve procrastinated too long and they’ve closed the invitation list. Still, I’ll let you know what’s going on and hopefully I’ll get a nice recording of what promises to be quite an improvised set.

When: 24th November 2007
Doors 10pm o’clock

Where: Foley Street, Dublin 1

Price: Donation € 8,00 if possible

The Alphabet Set Collective presents:

A night of collaborative art, sound, movement and visual experimentation.

Bluefood with Emma Martin

As a classically trained dancer Emma Martin has over the past few months been attempting to tap into the memories and impressions that classical movement has imprinted on and in her physical being. With Paul’s soundscape performed live, Emma will use this to scratch the surfaces of instinctual movement to explore and experience the patterns of movement
memory.

Emma Martin and Paul Rowan have worked together previously on a Theatre Dance performance of ‘Play3sum’, by Jeff Gormley, in association with the Soulgunwarriors which was presented with great success at the Electric Picnic 2007. This is Emmas second time to collaborate with Bluefood.

Enagh Farrell with Ebauche

Especially for Passages, multi-disciplinary artist Enagh Farrell is teaming up for the first time with Alphabet Set’s Ebauche, who slowly builds layers of textured noise giving way to ambience while Farrell performs, slowly altering the audiences view, revealing and unravelling to create something unexpected. The collaboration is at once dark, yet strangely beautiful.

Kavi

Kavi will artistically build a visual environment with the musicians, fine artist and dancer involved. The conception lies in projecting real time feed as well pre-filmed material, that have been prepared with Emma and Enagh. real-time feed will build up existing mood of performance while being mixed with other video samples which will resolve much deeper
story of people involved. The video footage is very interpersonal and specially created for this particular performance.

Projections will be streamed on multiple screens and manipulated live with a midi controller.

About the artists

Paul Rowan

Paul Rowan has been producing and showing his own cross-breed of electronic compositions as the solo project called Bluefood since 2000ish. Bluefood is one man adventure in sonic and visual communication. His music has been released with Spitroast records and The Alphabet Set but having played live sets in many of the venues in Dublin, prefers the smaller intimate events with a site specific theme-ing.

As part of the Body and Soul area in The Electric Picnic this year Bluefood mixed his sound with Jeff Gormley’s play “3sum” and The Soul Gun Warriors Theatre and Dance to produce a cross genre exploration of sexual and philosophical experimentations. He also played the Rathlin Island festival and the Mantua Lives festival. Paul is currently doing a masters in Music and Multimedia Technology in Trinity college. Bluefoods’ musical style is constantly questioning, questioned and in flux.

Emma Martin

Emma Martin graduated from the John Cranko State Ballet School, Stuttgart, Germany as a professional dancer in 2000. Since then she has worked and performed with the Trier Dance Company and the Stuttgart Ballet, Germany, Ballet Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera and Coisceim Dance Theatre. As a freelance dancer she has worked with choreographers Nathan Garda, Paul Estabrook, Tadeusz Matacz, Renaud Doucet, Ronald Malzer amongst others.

In 2006 Emma became a member of Muse Innovative Dance Theatre in New York where she has developed and performed the choreographies of Christopher Morgan, in association with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, DanceNow NYC, and the Irish Arts Council. Since 2007 Emma has been a member of the Genesis Project, a dance collective, developing her own work as well as collaborating with other participating artists.

Ebauche

Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) currently resides in Letrim and has been producing music for 4 years. Musically his output covers a range of dark beat driven electronica to sublime ambient cascades to simple piano compositions. In 2005 Ebauche released his début album through his own website www.ebauche.net which has been played by John Kelly on RTE Radio 1′s Mystery Train. The album is an ambient work, with layers upon layers beautifully interlacing and falling apart.

Other releases include 2 EP’s, as well as a number of tracks on compilation releases from Invisible Agent, The Alphabet Set and Elusive Recordings.

Recently he has started composing music for film, and has worked on a number of shorts including The Boy with the Ever Open Jaw, Joyriders (Best Short Film at the Galway Film Festival 2006) and The Dropping Well. He is currently working on a new 8 minute short film called The Masterpiece.

He started out playing live sets with Blue Murder Music in Dublin, and since then has played with notables such as Biosphere, Hrvatski and Ambulance.

Enagh Farrell

Enagh Farrell is a multi-disciplinary Carlow based artist who graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003 with an Honours Degree in Fine Art Print. Her work has been shown in The Fringe Festival, Eigse, The Hotel Ballymun Project and The Project Arts Theatre.

Through various disciplines such as performance, photography and drawing she deals with recurring fragile and intangible themes. An expression of transience, what was, and what is now, is integral to the work. Veils and layers separate the viewer from a thought or a previous expression. Building up layers to create a new moment and then uncovering the pretence, she attempts to reveal something that may be hidden or perhaps was lost in a
long forgotten memory.

www.myspace.com/enagh

Kavi

Kavi is cross-discipline artist working in such fields as painting, illustration, photography, animation and film. she always tries to find new ways of expression using mixed media. Recently has performed as video artist for numerous electronic music artists and djs in Dublin.

www.myspace.com/kkavi

The Alphabet Set

Initially formed in the late Spring of 2002 as a platform for a group of bedroom producer friends to play live, The Alphabet Set has grown in size into a loose electronic-oriented collective of musicians, visual artists and djs consisting of over 20 people who have been throwing parties, releasing and promoting Irish electronic music for over the last five years.

From tones in the smallest of spaces to allsorts at large scale art + music fund-raisers for charity to mashups in marquees and walls of sound at festivals via every kind of pub, club, theatre, hall and venue in between, we thought it would be good to do something different again in a space that is outside the usual cash register cacophony / beat manifesto and is
open to multi-disciplinary collaboration.

www.alphabetset.net

After the hugely successful gig with Force 10 in Dublin, the Audio Terrorists are teaming up with them again to present The Session at the Catalyst Arts Centre in Belfast.

I’m going to be playing a live set for this one and I’m really looking forward to it. Sounds like the Catalyst Arts Centre is going to be a really good space with two or possibly three rooms of fun and games.

When: Saturday 3rd November

Line-up

Force 10 Room:

• Acidslacker
• DJ Chuck
• Conor Deviant
• Ciaran J
• ISO9
• Wig Wig

Audio Terrorists Room:

• A-Force
• Lakker
• Prince Kong
• Ebauche

Looks like there’s a lot of fun coming up this weekend. The Alphabet Set and Lazybird are teaming up to offer a sumptuous feast of sound on which I recommend you indulge!

Both of these collectives have impeccable taste in music and the music will be running from 4pm until midnight for the bargain price of €5.

This gig is also signalling the launch of Fringe’s new ABC Net EP – “Chairs” – which I recommend you check out.

So get your costumes on and head on down to Anseo on Sunday.

Line up so far:

• Fringe
• Muttermal (Herv’s drone alter-ego)
• Sarsparilla
• Ed Devane (Experimental tabletop lapsteel, pickups, loopers, multi mixer madness)
• Cignol
• Troubled Soul
• Plus many more to be confirmed

Line up for our room on the night:

• Ebauche vs Thalamus (Alphabet Set) SplatStep laptop DJ shenanigans
• Warren Daly (Invisible Agent) Live Electro Set!
  
• 2BiT (Invisible Agent) Dubset DJ set
  
• T-Woc (Alphabet Set) DJ set

It’s gonna be mega!

This year the Audio Terrorists are pulling out all the stops, bringing the Cyan Eyed marquee with a brand new sound system and, on top of this, a whole mess tent with a full kitchen and a truckload of delicious foodstuffs. We take immense pleasure in eating better in a field on this remote Island than we do at home.

We’re teaming up with Tí­r na gCasta and Deviant this year and you can find a complete line up on the Audio Terrorists website.

Can’t wait to hook up with all the Force 10 crew again!

3 days of music packed mayhem on the 3-5th August

Friday 13th & Saturday 14th July, at a new site just outside the town of Ballaghadreen, Co. Roscommon

• MANTUA MAIN STAGE featuring Sultans of Ping, The Skatalites, 65 Days of Static, Wiggle + many more!
• ALPHABET SET ELECTRONIC STAGE featuring Digital Mystikz, Decal, DJ C, Frog Pocket + many more!
• ROOTICAL REGGAE STAGE featuring Jah Shaka, Firehouse Skank, Worries Outernational + many more!
• IMPACT DRUM ‘N’ BASS STAGE featuring The Teknoist, Subtle Audio Crew, Reach, Ernie + many more!
• FILM & COMEDY STAGE featuring FutureShorts IRL, James Marsh & Comedy Co. + many more!
• VISUAL ART, LIVE GRAFFITI WALL & SCU

More Information

ALPHABET SET MARQUEE SCHEDULE
http://www.alphabetset.net/mantua/mantua07.html

STATE OF MANTUA FESTIVAL WEBSITE
http://www.mantuaproject.com

Tickets are priced at €65 including camping

This is a fully licensed event, full bar facilities.

Invisible Agent has always brought together a myriad of diverse artists – features on the night include:

Live Music & Sonic Experiments by:

• Corrugated Tunnel (a.k.a Edwin James)
• Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard)
• Jonathan O’Riordan (aka Love Rhino)
• Warren Daly

Art Installations by:

• Enagh Farrell
• Dermot Finn

Short Video by:

• Dan Gorman , Jason Pogo , Chris Palmer

Digital Projections by:

• Deirdre Ambrose

Experimental Theatre:

• Regan O’Brien

I’ve also posted details in the gigs section. Finally if you need to know roughly where you’re going click here to see a map of the area on local.live (you might want to zoom out a bit!).