6daEXIt

6daEXIt rehearsal 24-1-2011 from alexis porfiriadis on Vimeo.


6daEXIt Rehearsal 17-1-2011 from alexis porfiriadis on Vimeo.

during the past couple of months, i've been participating in the regular rehearsals held by the 6daEXIt improvisation ensemble here in thessaloniki (the name of the ensemble translates phonetically to the greek word for 66, while of course toying with the word 'exit'). The ensemble started off in 2007 at the local university, as the offshoot of a music improvisation course at the department of music studies. The group's actions have music as their point of departure, but regularly include live painting, dance and some playing with light as well. Along with two laptop musicians who joined-in at the same time as i did, we re-intoduced electronics into the enseble's palette, and as a result the improvisations are now examining new areas and of course different kind of relationships between sounds.

http://6daexit.wordpress.com/

nn+, at knot gallery, 25/06/10

thanks to p.faderios for filming this under extreme circumstances. thanks to knot, tot, and the artists, who were responsible for a very beautiful weekend down in athens (see previous post).

nn+, on this occasion, was nicolas malevitsis, nektarios papadimitriou & kostis kilymis. we break more turntables

technologically humbled

"Secret Earth was recorded on a 4-track and on a videocassette machine. So, it's using two source recordings and then uploaded to a computer, and then the vocal tracks in. So, it's very very basic..."

what amazes me is not the fact that these guys can pull this off. Not even that i don't care how their stuff is recorded. But most of all it amazes me that, when i hear it, i don't even categorize it as "lo-fi music" of any kind. At the end of the day it's just pure kick-ass music. And, perhaps more importantly, it gets across as such and doesn't get stuck between labels and tags.

tamio

it's nice to see tamio shiraishi in a full-on noise setting



but to tell you the truth, i prefer to hear him playing like this

Kanye West vs. Will Oldham & Zach Galifianakis

ever since he put out the 'The Brave and the Bold' album with Tortoise, i secretly hoped that Will Oldham would slowly morph into an r'n'b/soul crooner. Unfortunately, a few years later this seems unlikely as ever. That said, this spoof video that someone pointed to a couple of weeks ago in ihm, is as close as we'll probably get