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The Wow Cool crew (Marc and Josh) will be at the Heck Yeah Coffee Hub after 8pm for what looks like a fairly awesome show. Calabai Yau, Megafaun, and Yardwork. See you there!
Yes its time to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Academia makes me go to Big Apple. Help me have more money and less things.
THIS SUNDAY JUNE 8
FROM 2 - 4PM SHARP
@ 51 3RD STREET TROY NY 12180
+ SOME KIND OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE at 4pm! Show up and buy your way into an improvised band.
So heres the stuff:
* electronics of various kinds in various states of working (some working, some need a little work, and others are best used for parts)
* a few pieces of furniture
* some instruments
I do not have detailed list of what is available. Can’t respond to individual requests about gear. Come to the sale.
Over n out
Jason
Hell, just listen to Dandelion Radio. They are great.
All June nickname: Rebel will be on the awesome Mark Whitby show - listen online to Dandelion Radio.
In the meanwhile Marc Arsenault and Joshua Baker will be carrying some portable recording equipment to the Charlotte Hilton in two weeks to try to record some sort of source material for the new proper nickname: Rebel record. You can find us at the bar or at Heroes Con.
Wish us luck!
nickname: Rebel on Last.fm
Visit nickname: Rebel’s MySpaceship
Frank Budgen
The Legend of Frank Budgen
Specific 10″
“Totally weird one. I get the idea that this is a jape, but if so, it’s a jape so beautifully and elaborately crafted that it stands as a wonderfully crazy art project in its own right. Packaged in a Folkways-style 10″ sleeve with accompanying booklet, this is said to represent the recorded legacy of a drifter named Frank Budgen, about whom little is known, except that he called Troy, NY home for a while, early in the 21st century. There are six tracks, with heavy blues guitar, drums and vocals in a blown style reminiscent of Michael Yonkers, George Brigman and even The Workdogs. It’s wild lo-fi style, regardless of its actual provenance. And the care taken with the presentation is certain to appeal to cultists of most known stripes. Released in a numbered edition of 99, it’s a real brain rattler, which features one of the screwier Beefheart covers you’ll hear in this lifetime.”
-Byron Coley
The Wire - May 2008
The Legend of Frank Budgen is still available from Specific Recordings.
radioguys have extended the voting on their remix thing ’til june one. give nickname: rebel your love and vote.
Dig if you will an amazing event going down at St Marks Church in NYC.
((im playing “function generator bass and samples” in BUNNYBRAINS tomorrow, friday))
This is part of a festival that starts tonight I’ve forwarded part of the email about it below, but even if u cant catch us, theres plenty of stuff going down so go to free103’s website to get all the dates n acts n stuff.
Cheers,
Jason
NOISE! 2008
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY $10 admission; free video and audio online.
Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the “Incubator” program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists.
Each evening opens with a Radio 4×4 as the audience enters the theater.
Radio 4×4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, “mixing” the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening. Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.
Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing “Fucked for Real”)
Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe
Saturday, May 10
Curated by Damian Catera
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins
The legendary and strange Radiophonic Workshop would have been 50 this month. The Beeb has a great little history article with video up. A vital piece of the DNA of Doctor Who and Pink Floyd was lost this month, now that Tristram Cary - VCS3 designer and Dalek theme music composer - has passed. More info on Create Digital Music.
4-11-08
The Percy Thrills Thrillington masterpiece, Thrillington, is now available in the DRM-free Plus format on iTunes for just 9.99USD. Awesome arrangements, super smooth bass by session legend Herbie ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ Flowers, Easy to listen to. Um, I guess you could always get it from Beware of the Blog or buy the CD, but, honestly I thought it had only ever been available on vinyl or torrent (sounding pretty bad) until now. Here’s some background (of varying accuracy.. I think) on the project.
The full 23 minute video of what happened when the artist Wafaa Bilal visited Troy, New York is online to view now. Music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit, Gov’t Mule and Fugazi.
Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”
“Art (does not equal) Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice.
First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.
When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
Finally got it together to put the Rebel sound up on Last.fm. There is the mini 5-song version of the R is For Riot EP available as free downloads. You can get the whole 10 song thing for free, of course, as one big 30MB download. The MySpaceship has 3 more tunes. The n:R cover of a Sexual Milkshake song is still available as part of a Teen Beat Records tribute called Relax Brother, Relax up on the Internet Archive. Two more cover tunes are on the old DeptEx Sounds page, for you completists. There, that’s it, that’s all of them. Now you know. Now you know… there is a hell.
I hate to beg, but, you know, vote for me. Can’t resist a contest. I put Radiohead through a dub grinder. I’m pretty happy with it… actually prefer it to the original. Hard to touch that vocal. I guess given time and inclination it could have been seriously sliced and diced.
OK, it’s out there to hear. As I’ve been blathering on about here, I spent February recording a new nickname: Rebel joint for the RPM Challenge. You can now hear that whole thing on the RPM Jukebox. Also up there and well worth a listen are the contributions from Rebel guest guitarist Rev. Joshua Baker recording as Not Square with Zero and Kamikaze Heart Matthew Loiacano.
In other news, nickname: Rebel and Wow Cool main guy Marc Arsenault (me) is laying down the guitar as part of Thee Froggss for a benefit for the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also appearing, the mighty GUNN CLUUB and the GERRMMS - April, 1 2008 at The Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, 37915 Cost : $5.00
Made the plunge. Wow… is it almost one AM? Anyway, feel free to friend us on the MySpaceship or fan us on the Facebook. See this post, if you are not sure what a nickname: Rebel is.
Be seeing you.
Fox again dips into the pool of slightly odd to fill space in their schedule, this time dragging Mr. Scott Smallwood (beard, glasses, sitting in the center) along with them. This clip is a tad old, but, hey, it was new to me. For those unfamiliar, Mr. Smallwood is pretty much the central unit in music at Wow Cool, being 1/2 of Evidence and a member of Brown Cuts Neighbors and nickname: Rebel. Check his stuff at the DeptEx shop.
fognozzle is one of 35-odd noise acts doing 15 minute sets each at the International Noise Conference in San Francisco, California on April 11, 2008. I haven’t been in the band in nearly 15 years, and won’t be at this show, but it sounds like a lot of fun.
OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now scattered to the four corners. I was talked into this mad venture by the Rev. Joshua Baker (God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, childhood friend) who is in a similar boat up in Maine. We’re both also trying to figure out how new digital audio deals work on our respective underpowered laptops. The very last tune I finished was the one we had worked on together, and probably the most successful - check out Ouroboos (4MB MP3). If this sounds at all like something you want to hear, you can have the whole thing for free (30MB zipped MP3 files and cover in PDF). It’s called R is for Riot and is by nickname: Rebel. There are just 10 songs. It’s 21 minutes. A few songs have words, they concern micronations with solar powered submarines, lab accidents, Ernest O. Lawrence, and tactful ways to tell someone they’re being cheated on. I got done just in the proverbial nick… getting it in the mail 9 minutes before deadline. nickname: Rebel RPM Page | Josh’s Not Square with Zero RPM Page
What I learned
- Get a taller drum throne. I cannot believe how much my legs hurt.
- That old saying, never mix the same day… oh yeah. These actually sound ok a day or 2 later.
- I’m not loosing my mind now that there are just a few days left… that already happened yesterday.
- Always record every take, even the practice warm up one. Some things are hard to nail. Had two perfect solo runs lost to time. All the ones I got down… eh.
- I have recorded none of the songs I wrote or planned in the first week.
Thanks,
Marc Arsenault
http://wowcool.com/engine
On flickr
Buy Marc's Strongman DVD
