With special guest Reggie Chamberlain-King, editor of the anthology The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland, published by Blackstaff Press earlier this month.
Reggie will be introducing some contributors to the anthology from the Seamus Heaney Centre, including Sam Thompson, Aislinn Clarke, and Emma Devlin. There will be live musical accompaniment to some of the readings, and the opportunity to buy the book on the night.
I’ll be helping provide sound accompanyment.
AV archive remix: Slow Sonorities + String Lights + Umbrellas
Bass recorder edited for multiple playback streams.
Each track has a relationship of playback speed with the others,
the divisions are in thirds.
1.666 / 1.333 / 1 / .666 / .333
bjc – D&Dv2_Studies_v2
Released on TONEBURST 26 October 2019.
Launch event @ the343 (JD Zazie), Belfast.
After the Squeal & Scrape workshop at Framewerk Gallery Belfast, the participants will perform support for JD Zazie at the 343 as the Squeal and Scrape Orchestra.
Saturday 26 October. Doors 8pm. Tickets £7/5. BYOB. No Glass.
JD ZAZIE is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist and sound artist living between Berlin and Bolzano.
The participants will build two items:
• a piezo transducer (contact mic)
• a small amplifier powered by 9v battery.
The sound produced is not clean; it’s dirty.
The circuit is not complex.
This workshop is suitable for beginners, with no previous electronic circuit making experience.
booking email – barryjoecullen@gmail.com
Location – Framewerk gallery & framing service.
When – Saturday 26th October 2019. 13:00-17:00.
Cost – £10
bjc – D&Dv2_Studies_v1
Released on TONEBURST 27 September 2019.
Launch event @ Oscillations & Modulations festival, Derry.
Abbazappa Records & The Yellow Yard Map
Free event spanning the Friday and Saturday of the Oscillations and Modulations festival, from 1-5.30pm.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM > Ed Devane with a DIY Instrument demo and live improvisation
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM > Subfusc is a live improvisation performance with drums, modular synths and contact mics
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM > BJC with a DIY Instrument demo and live improvisation.
Launch for new TONEBURST release.
‘bjc – Drone & Drama v2 Studies v1′.
Limited edition box set containing cassette tape & Sine Instrument.
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM > This is where anything can happen. The table is yours (soundsystem and mixing desk provided = open jack?)
barry joseph cullen 