dorian moore : (digital media) technologist

Congratultations to Nina and Karen of somewhere for winning the Northern Art Prize... and obviously I'm basking somewhat vicariously in this 'cos I work with them on a few projects.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 10:58 GMT

And today could well be it's 100th Birthday: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2007/12/100-years-of--1.html.

Let's hear it for atonality, let's hear it for Schoenberg

Tags : music experimental, atonality, Schoenberg,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 09:18 GMT

Some live footage of Voice Of The Seven Woods them at The Local in Crouch End last month.

• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - First track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Second track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Third track

Tags : music video, voice of the seven woods,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 15:51 GMT

It's causing John's computer to crash. Repeatedly.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 22:08 GMT

It should be the name of a band really...

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed

http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/chathamhouserule/

Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 13:19 GMT

Drums, Guitar, noise over Sci-Fi B-Movies... genius!

It's that boy Corsano again...

http://www.myspace.com/dimensionxxx

Tags : music chris corsano, dimension x, drum, scf-fi,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 11:14 GMT

Born 1st February 2007, Duncan & Christy's First Son. My nephew.

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  Owen Forrest Moore

• Duncan's Phone Message 0.5mb – wav
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  Owen

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  Owen Moore

Tags : family owen forrest moore, birth,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 10:43 GMT

Fear of Jazz? More like fear of becoming a stalker....

Last night I saw Chris Corsano perform once again, at The Pool bar in Shoreditch, at the 'Fear Of Jazz' night. Once again he was amazing. Each time I see him he seems to have developed a little bit more in his style and what he's playing. His ability to generate a rhythm and then make it flow and develop in ever more complex ways, bouncing off the drums and modifying them to make the subtlest changes in sound, evolving it and driving it on. See for yourself in the clips below.

He's not always on top form, and if you were unfortunate enough to attend the previous nights performance when he played with Noah Howard, Evan Parker and John Edwards can attest to. I held such high hopes for this, having seen Corsano and Edwards do a blinding performance at the LMC Festival in December, it was horrible to see the restraint from Corsano as every time he and Edwards broke out they were interrupted by Howard bringing it back to New Orleans. I'd really liked to have seen if Parker, Howard and Corsano were left to their own devices that night.

I might start to get perceived as a Corsano stalker at this rate, as I've now seen him perform 9 or 10 times in the last year. Next time is The Flower-Corsano Duo next month. But hey, when you get the chance to see an amazing performer do loads of events in your neighbourhood (well, London) you have to, in the words of Noah Howard: 'support your local geniuses!'

• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 1 45.9mb – mov
• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 2 26.1mb – mov
• Chris Corsano at Fear Of Jazz 2007/01/24 # 3 19.8mb – mov

Tags : music video, experimental, chris corsano, drums, free-jazz, improvisation,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 09:36 GMT

Rest In Peace.

Alice Coltrane, astral jazz composer, dies at 69
Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer, composer and widow of saxophonist John Coltrane, has died at 69 of respiratory failure. For nearly 40 years Coltrane had been the keeper of her husband's musical legacy following his death from liver disease in 1967. A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp on to the jazz bandstand. She died in hospital in California on Friday. Her albums included Ptah the El Daoud and A Monastic Trio. She played her last gigs in the autumn with her son, Ravi.Associated Press in Los Angeles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Coltrane

www.alicecoltrane.org

• Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda 6.1mb – m4a
• Alice Coltrane with John Coltrane - Lord, Help Me To Be 14.4mb – mp3
• Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords 15.8mb – mp3

Tags : music jazz,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 11:05 GMT

Trouser shaking feedback and synthesizer experimentation.

One of the many (42 and counting) performances I've seen in the last week-and-a-bit was Damion Romero's performance supporting Wolf Eyes and Aaron Dilloway.

Romero's performance was particularly impressive to me; beautiful resonating sounds, played with the calm of a scientist conducting an experiment - in this case on the audience, and a great deal of nonchalance, a quiet confidence in what he was doing was going to be very loud and very impressive.

Tags : music experimental,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 16:50 GMT