Mouse on Mars 10" just arrived /  by Paul McDevitt

New on Infinite Greyscale; Lichter by Mouse on Mars – 13 minutes of lurching, percussive mayhem. Check out the sample below. Physical release 2. September 2016.

Lichter is the first piece in a new series of electroacoustic dub compositions by Mouse on Mars. It is a massive, lurching, up-tempo percussive epic – a long-haul runaway train that keeps switching tracks without ever losing sight of its destination. Like much of Mouse on Mars’ output, Lichter deftly traverses a varied sonic landscape, encompassing elements of jazz, dub, krautrock juke and psychedelia. Lichter incorporates trigger robots built by Sonic Robots’ Moritz Simon Geist and features Andi Toma & Jan St. Werner’s long time collaborator Dodo NKishi on percussion. The basic layers were produced with a feedback software called smrph, and were edited, arranged and used as a foundation for various live and studio improvisations. The 13min track, Lichter, is a concentration of these various layers. Lichter is also a highly visual piece, and performed live it employs a bespoke network of light-bulbs triggered by data derived from the sounds and pulses of the composition. Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have been recording and playing live as Mouse on Mars since 1993, and have released over a dozen albums. In 2014 the duo celebrated their 21st birthday with a curated festival at Berlin’s HAU theatres, and an accompanying compilation which showcased the band’s numerous collaborations.

CCQ magazine out, featuring Farbvision, Infinite Greyscale, Tommy Støckel, Jan St. Werner /  by Paul McDevitt

Very excited to have an eight page interview in the current issue of CCQ magazine. The text links my studio work, Farbvision, and the Infinite Greyscale label I run with Cornelius Quabeck. In addition there is a further four page interview by Tommy Støckel, written in his amazing Studio Font, as published by Infinite Greyscale and exhibited at Farbvision. And as if that wasn't enough the mag is giving away a CD of Jan St. Werner's storming live set here at Farbvision – 34 minutes of music not available anywhere else. 

 

Negative Space: book launch & discussion – 27. April /  by Paul McDevitt

At 19:30, Wednesday 27 April we will have a special event to mark the launch of Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience (SFU Galleries, 2015). Edited by Antonia Hirsch, this book considers the eponymous inner and outer space as both “real” and imaginary. While artistic practice used to be accepted as a legitimate expression of an individual’s interior world, there has been an increasing demand for art to be socially productive. Four of the publication’s contributors will be present to engage with a topic that could have constituted another chapter of the book: a discussion of how such a thing as "relevance" emerges in artistic practice. 

The conversation with Daniel Colucciello Barber, Olaf Nicolai, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Wolfgang Winkler will be moderated by Antonia Hirsch; Patricia Reed, initiator of the Inclinations lecture series, will act as respondent.