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Lead Lozenges LL4

My good friend Michael Toepfer owns and runs the Lead Lozenges music label. He has done me a great favor and released my tape on his label.

http://lead-lozenges.format.com/ll4

Image of cassette tape

It’s called Clipped Bus because I analyzed a bunch of popular noise music signals and concluded they were mostly suffering from clipping so I cobbled together a fun noise supercollider program to make loud granular synthesized tracks.

Here’s a sample to listen to https://archive.org/details/clipped-bus-sample

Cultural Deprivation Tank

Finally after a year-long disappearance the Edmontonian album “Dispatches from the Cultural Deprivation Tank” reappears. Originally released on Digital Dizzy records until bandcamp unceremoniously dumped their entire label, killing off an estimated 500 to 2000 albums.

Here’s the album: https://suddenmomentrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-the-cultural-deprivation-tank

And here’s the SkruntSkrunt track: https://suddenmomentrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/san-andreas-wings

And if you want to download it: http://skruntskrunt.ca/a/skruntskrunt-san-andreas-wings.flac

Gene Kosowan currated this glorious wonder!

It was covered by the UAlberta school newspaper https://www.thegatewayonline.ca/2016/12/album-review-deprivation-tank/

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various-artists/dispatches-from-the-cultural-deprivation-tank/

1 year ago from https://www.facebook.com/events/990961497698177/

Dispatches From the Cultural Deprivation Tank, featuring 20 Edmonton artists, will be out soon on UK-based label digitalDIZZY.

But you have a chance to hear a preview of it.

The CD features tracks by Babysugarbag, Bong Sample, Crashing Lights, Damno Te, Norm de Plume, Fecal Point, Miguel Ferrer, Himiko, M20-2, Meowsers, Trixie Moon, Moonlanding, Motonogo, John Oparyk, Shawn Pinchbeck, Poster Tube Killer, Stephen Sereda, SkruntSkrunt, S’sE Sessions and Will Truchon.

The listening session is free and all-ages and runs from 7-9 p.m. A limited supply of the CD will also be available for sale.

After that, stick around to hear four of the CD’s live acts (S'sE Sessions, Himiko, Miguel Ferrer and Stephen Sereda) hit the stage from 9-11 p.m. Admission for this segment of the night is by donation and is for an 18+ audience.

Youtube: 20160122 BEAMS Arts Birthday Don Ross Skruntskrunt

http://beams.ca/

https://archive.org/details/BEAMS-2016-Arts-Birthday-Audio-Recordings

Edmonton will be celebrating arts Birthday with artists from around the world and Local artists to create a open collaberation Agaperaygunexperiment Himiko deth noise Frozen Lake 121 Don ross Soundreamer Days Hari Maia S'sE sessions Skrunt Skrunt G wolf Stephen Sereda Dave Axis Ben Freeland Koichi Okada nobodisoundz The Spirit of Mercury Artists are paired off with each other to explore the boundaries of new music ,sound and art. Night is also dedicated to robert adrian an outstanding pioneer of new music and computer art. http://alien.mur.at/rax/BIO/telecom.html Also taking place will be an art exchange visuals artist will bring wrapped presents to exchange with other artists $10 non beams members $5 dollars non beams members

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0ltBHrM0MQ

Youtube: 2016 09 17 NME SYOSIS 2 Full Performances of BongSample, Mark Meloche, and Greffes Du Commonwealth

New Music Edmonton’s See You or something in September 2

Not everything could be recorded due to battery and space.

Featuring many artists:

Chenoa Anderson Scott Smallwood Gary James Joynes Alicia Proudfoot Allison Balcetis BlipVert Philip Jagger Trevor DePaige David Stuart Bruce Abram Hindle Daryl Posnett Shawn Pinchbeck Mark Meloche Emily Schultz Gavin Goodwin Laura Kerslake BongSample

https://archive.org/details/20160917NMESYOSIS2Full

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YiPpCLvq53Q

Youtube: 2016-08-31 Ramshackle Day Parade With Skruntskrunt and Noah and Harshmellow and Segue

Downloadbles: https://archive.org/details/20160831SkruntskruntNoahHarshmellowSegueRdp

HARSHMELLOW Fresh tones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRnBN6YSb0

SEGUE Meditations. https://seguemusic.bandcamp.com/

NOAH + SKRUNT SKRUNT Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9RoecWOJ4A

August 31 9pm free show The Underdog (under The Black Dog Freehouse)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8QaNIIn4674

Youtube: BEAMS Presents Art's Birthday 2017

Download videos and audio from https://archive.org/details/BEAMSArtsBirthday2017

Gene Kosowan & Marymotto; Himiko & Hari Maia; SkruntSkrunt & Nobodisoundz; Harshmellow & Mental Escape Pod; Mike Ross & Tamiyurakurage; Dave Wall & James Shearman; Allison Balcetis & Dai Fujikura.

Videos by Christine Miller and Jon Osborne

Filmed by Vadim Bulitko and Abram Hindle

EDMONTON—The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society will commemorate 10 years of Art’s Birthday Edmonton with a special show taking place Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Ortona Armoury (9722-102 Street). The event, Art’s Birthday 2017, pairs seven local acts with works by seven international composers and soundscape artists, some of whom created works specifically for this occasion.

Women will comprise the majority of local performers gracing the stage, with pianist Himiko, saxophonist Allison Balcetis, noise duo Harshmellow and Chapman stick player Dale Ladouceur slated to play. Rounding out the live lineup will be keyboardist and music journalist Mike Ross, software sound designer SkruntSkrunt and guitarist Dave Wall.

Works will be by Dai Fujikura and Tamayurakurage (Japan) Hari Maia (Brazil), Mental Escape Pod (Austria), Nobodisoundz (France), James Shearman (England), and Marymotto (Spain). Videos will be courtesy John Osborne and Christine Miller.

Art’s Birthday originated in 1963 when French surreal artist Robert Filliou declared that art didn’t exist until a million years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. Choosing his own birthday of Jan. 17 to celebrate the event, Filliou proposed a public holiday, which has since been adopted by arts organizations and collectives in more than 20 nations worldwide. Edmonton first held such an event in 2008, presented by the Film and Video Arts Society at the now-defunct ARTery. The Edmonton Arts Council staged Art’s Birthday at Scona Pool the following year. Since 2010, BEAMS has facilitated the event annually.

Doors for Art’s Birthday open at 7 p.m., with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. BEAMS members get in for half-price.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_nWIZXQ_pOI

Youtube: 2016-12-10 Lords of Misrule: Acid Attack, KM Toepfer, Ross, Skruntskrunt, DePaige, Serreda/Melcohe

https://archive.org/details/20161210LordsOfMisrule

BEAMS presents “Lords of Misrule!”. An experimental showcase of sounds featuring: Acid Attack, K.M. Toepfer, Don Ross w/ Cam Neufeld, SkruntSkrunt, Trevor DePagie, and a noise battle between Damno Te and Stephen Sereda.

Free Show (donate $ for our Calgary guest) Ortona (9722 102nd Street)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yfuwe3s74_M