this is the voice of re:mote induction.Saturday, October 18, 2003
KYTN - Friday - it seemed to take forever to get to dundee last night. the traffic was heavy, in that not moving anywhere at all fashion. which becomes frustrating. i don't really know dundee, never driven there myself, though i have been there a couple of times. with the offer of a loan of a car with satellite navigation i took it, in some ways it is pretty impressive - especially at the point where i pull into the car park and it says "you have reached your destination". lets only hope i can do so well under my own steam when i head up there tonight.
anyway. left here about 4.15ish, and arrived in dundee about 6.35ish. which gave me a little time before the proposed first band starting at 7.15pm. enough time to work out where everyone else was, grab a bite to eat and get some cash. pretty much on the spur of the moment i decided to get a weekend pass, so i'll be doing the whole thing, even though for tonight i will be the only one who is.
cyclo came on about 7.15, give or take. a big gallery space, the whole white wall situation, with the four walls having big screens on them, the same signal images transmitted on them. in the center a boxing ring type square stage is set up, with a surface with two lap tops for ikeda and nicolai. the set started off slow, working on sine pulses, stretching the section out with occasional blips and pulses. this whole section was pretty sedate, with hints of other things to come at points. as the set headed into the second half they played around more with the images, which were responding to the sounds, a particulate circle spinning into shapes erraticly. eventually they started to build the sound, allowing for a more frenetic pace, sine waves clipped by blips and flattened by deep bass moments. this was more of what we were looking for, and was totally cool, i was standing there with a grin on my face as cyclo got carried away.
steve roden came on after about 20 minutes, his set was intended as an improvised soundtrack to one of his own short films. the film was again projected on to each of the walls, a minimal piece of slowly shifting colours, with a suggestion of being in a fluid medium. roden progressed through using a glass of water to generate sound, followed by a plate of what may have been moss (or something similar), via a stringed instrument, to the vibrating of branches. object wise these were all things he had found in dundee to make the set. the sound was very organic and ambient, a very lower case influence at work. while it had its moments it did seem to be a series of sounds generated by objects rather than actually a composition using the sounds together. very understated, so it left mixed opinions.
alva noto was the last performance of the night, after another 20 minute break carsten nicolai returned to the stage. after the warm up of cyclo, noto pretty much went right for it, starting with his cover of a kraftwerk track, which is apparently on a rittornell compilation. like when noto played instal last year he had a sequenced visual show, a line with squares and rectangles errupting from it in time with the music. while at instal he had allowed this to build up in a very ordered and controlled fashion it was pretty much chaotic and layering and shifting from the start. alva noto performs a very clean sound, all pulses and sine waves and bass, striking rhythms resulting from the combination. as witht he cyclo set nicolai built his sound up till the images and sounds reached strobing proportions, blinding and deafening, a whirl that at last left us a little breathless.
tonights main acts are philip jeck, [the user] and mirror. all of whom should have something to offer.
anyway. left here about 4.15ish, and arrived in dundee about 6.35ish. which gave me a little time before the proposed first band starting at 7.15pm. enough time to work out where everyone else was, grab a bite to eat and get some cash. pretty much on the spur of the moment i decided to get a weekend pass, so i'll be doing the whole thing, even though for tonight i will be the only one who is.
cyclo came on about 7.15, give or take. a big gallery space, the whole white wall situation, with the four walls having big screens on them, the same signal images transmitted on them. in the center a boxing ring type square stage is set up, with a surface with two lap tops for ikeda and nicolai. the set started off slow, working on sine pulses, stretching the section out with occasional blips and pulses. this whole section was pretty sedate, with hints of other things to come at points. as the set headed into the second half they played around more with the images, which were responding to the sounds, a particulate circle spinning into shapes erraticly. eventually they started to build the sound, allowing for a more frenetic pace, sine waves clipped by blips and flattened by deep bass moments. this was more of what we were looking for, and was totally cool, i was standing there with a grin on my face as cyclo got carried away.
steve roden came on after about 20 minutes, his set was intended as an improvised soundtrack to one of his own short films. the film was again projected on to each of the walls, a minimal piece of slowly shifting colours, with a suggestion of being in a fluid medium. roden progressed through using a glass of water to generate sound, followed by a plate of what may have been moss (or something similar), via a stringed instrument, to the vibrating of branches. object wise these were all things he had found in dundee to make the set. the sound was very organic and ambient, a very lower case influence at work. while it had its moments it did seem to be a series of sounds generated by objects rather than actually a composition using the sounds together. very understated, so it left mixed opinions.
alva noto was the last performance of the night, after another 20 minute break carsten nicolai returned to the stage. after the warm up of cyclo, noto pretty much went right for it, starting with his cover of a kraftwerk track, which is apparently on a rittornell compilation. like when noto played instal last year he had a sequenced visual show, a line with squares and rectangles errupting from it in time with the music. while at instal he had allowed this to build up in a very ordered and controlled fashion it was pretty much chaotic and layering and shifting from the start. alva noto performs a very clean sound, all pulses and sine waves and bass, striking rhythms resulting from the combination. as witht he cyclo set nicolai built his sound up till the images and sounds reached strobing proportions, blinding and deafening, a whirl that at last left us a little breathless.
tonights main acts are philip jeck, [the user] and mirror. all of whom should have something to offer.
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