Event overview
PureGold: Goldsmiths Music Presents Goldsmiths Analogue Synth Evening
An evening of analogue electronic sound, featuring solo sets by
John Chantler
Phil Julian (cheapmachines)
Jonny McHugh
John Chantler is an omnivorous recording artist/musician based in London. He performs solo on modular synthesizer and occasionally convening the Organ Octet – a massed organ ensemble of eight reed/chord organs. He also plays synth in a trio with Tujiko Noriko and Lawrence English and in his Holy Family duo with Lawrence English. His solo LP ‘The Luminous Ground’ released by ROOM40 came in at #37 in The WIRE magazine’s Top 50 records of 2011 chart. This was followed by a private press 12? entitled ‘Automatic Music’ that offered his own take on generative minimalism and surface stasis.
http://inventingzero.net/home/
Phil Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990’s recording numerous works under the name Cheapmachines. Studio recordings and live performances have focused on the use of analogue electronics and computer based works. Julian has had work published by Entr’acte, Banned Production, Harbinger Sound, Second Layer, Beartown Records, Homophoni, Twenty Hertz to name a few. He has has collaborated with Maurizio Bianchi, A Band, Birchville Cat Motel, Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Ryan Jordan, Jason Kahn, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen, as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and playing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.
http://cmx.org.uk/
Jonny McHugh (b. 1981) is a musician living in London. McHugh plays a range of instruments including synthesiser, guitar, piano, mixing desk and computer. Low frequencies, high amplitude and long duration are key elements to his sound. He gained an MMus in electroacoustic composition at Goldsmiths in 2009 and has recently worked with Robert Curgenven in the pipe organ and analogue synth duo Black Lines, Mark Wastell, and Oceans of Silver & Blood (Joachim Nordwall and Mark Wastell).
This event is part of the Department of Music's annual PureGold Music festival.
All welcome, no need to book
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun 2012 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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