Blank Media Collective

BLANK MEDIA PRESENTS… January ‘09 Photos

Sunday 25th Jan 2009

Photographs by Gareth Hacking of gig on Saturday 24 January. Blank Media Presents…:
Fonik (www.myspace.com/fonikfonik)
Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear (www.myspace.com/deaftovangoghsear)
Paul Green (www.myspace.com/paulgreenmusic)

Blank Media were delighted to introduce you to:

Fonik (www.myspace.com/fonikfonik)

Formed by ex - members of Psychiatric Challenge to carry on the performance and promotion of alternative, experimental forms of music and improvisation. They have releases on Electronic Musik, Casual Seizures, Earth Monkey, Classwar Karaoke & Knife in the Toaster.

Ian and Harry also guest occasionally with (the very wonderful) Gnod.

Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear (www.myspace.com/deaftovangoghsear)

Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear provide the consummate commixture of toe-tapping dance-alongs and larynx-lulling sing-alongs as they lead you puzzle-popping and rubik’s-rocking along the way through geekery, intricacy and catchiness.

Off-kilter rhythms, complexity without virtuosity, and instrument swapping pretty much sum up this mathy foursome. Remember! it’s hip to be square or more precisely 2.236x2/4†.

†2.236 being the square root of 5 within a 99.99% accuracy

Click here to listen to ‘Factual Errors: Sharks Do Not Roar’ by Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear

Paul Green (www.myspace.com/paulgreenmusic)

Paul Green is the controller of a synthetic orchestra of beautifully fluid deeply-layered dark twisting electronic keyboard sounds with a laptop and Tenori-On that make beautiful arppegiated synth sounds and the kind of low tempo clicks and glitches that remind me of walking around an old house when you were a kid and getting a bit scared by the creaky staircases.

There are noises like a lazy summer biplanes passing through a megaphone and then sounds of lush nebula-soaked space blending into electronic pistons working under an iceberg. Melodic and faintly menacing at the same time, sort of like being in a flotation tank with a stingray. The music seemed to map the gluey neurons that fired as I listened: a delicious alarm clock at the end of wintry dream.

Imagine Kraftwerk if someone spiked their punch with absinthe, and you’re halfway there.

Click here to listen to ‘Boxing Clever’ by Paul Green

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