From k at keithfullertonwhitman.com Sat Jun 3 11:31:37 2006 From: k at keithfullertonwhitman.com (keith fullerton whitman) Date: Sat Jun 3 11:31:44 2006 Subject: [kfw-announce] :: mms / entschuldigen / forthcoming records / summer dates. Message-ID: hello everyone! welcome to the increasingly infrequent kfw-announce update. i've been back back from sf, oz, & nz for a month now, but it feels like i just got back yesterday; despite what i always tell people about boston clearing out in late may and it being this beautiful ghost-town for the summer, it's been REALLY busy. just last week i taught wayne marshall's electronic music history harvard extension class on tuesday, then sat in with mandarin movie on wednesday, went to see sunn o))) with oren ambarchi on thursday, ran the shop 12 hours a day on friday and saturday, and finally barbequeued for our esteemed guests howard "baked goods" mather and john "xela/type" twells on sunday. no rest for the wicked... the sf/au/oz jaunt was just an amazing, inspiring trip really... much thanks and love to lawrence english @ room40 for setting up the gigs plus all of the folks in brisbane, cairns, townsville, perth, melbourne, auckland, and sydney that made the whole thing viable & so damn smooth. some of the best, most attentive crowds i've had the pleasure of playing with, plus with lawrence's help i was able to play a trio gig with one of my all-time favorite musicians terry riley. this summer, i'm going to concentrate on the following :: 1). mimaroglu music sales. the tiny bedroom mailorder shop / music recommendation service i started as a hobby shortly after retiring from forced exposure has blossomed into a beautiful resource that people all over the world have been using to discover all kinds of really great records. due to its popularity, mms is now taking up the lion's share of my time... and frankly i couldn't be happier. if you've never taken a look at the site (or haven't in a while) - you just might be surprised as to what's on offer there: http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com 2). entschuldigen. my "one record a year" label has just released the debut album by geoff mullen, a providence-area improvisor/composer of note. i urge you all to check it out if multi-fi guitar & banjo minimalism is your thing. i absolutely love it, which is why i spent all of my money and spent 3 solid weeks turning it from a hand-made 20-copy cdr into a hand-made 1080-copy globally distributed cd. future plans for the label include a norbert m?slang / keith fullerton whitman collaborative lp/3"cd, and a collaborative release from c. spencer yeh and jessica rylan. there are also plans for a few small-run cdr releases, names as of yet to be confirmed. keep your eye on the site: http://www.entschuldigen.com 3). forthcoming records. whenever i feel like i'm slowing down in the composition/construction of my own music, i just take a look at the discography. over the past 6 months, i've recorded over 2 hours of new music, all of which will be coming out on different singles and compilations on different labels all over the world. here's a taste of what's just come out: keith fullerton whitman "recorded in lisbon" cd (kranky) keith fullerton whitman "tracka4(2waysuperimposed)" cd (room40) subtle "wishingbone" cd + dvd "i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass" 3cd (carbon) "room40 2006 (five)" cd (room40/the wire) "strp1 : reactions to the music of dick raaijmakers" cd (basta) "trade & distribution almanac volume 3" cd (adaadat) "viva negativa! a tribute to the new blockaders - volume i" 4lp (vinyl on demand) and here's what's on the burner for the near future: keith fullerton whitman "2 albums on one cd ! (antithesis & sch?ner flu?engel)" cd (kranky) keith fullerton whitman "a bogan apocalypse" cs (heavy tapes) keith fullerton whitman "biprosia" one-sided lp (melted mailbox subscription series) "external combustion" lp/cd (schematic) "idealism sound series, vol. 2" cd (ideal) "idioscapes" cd "viva negativa! : a tribute to the new blockaders" 3cd for more info on these, consult the discography page at my personal site: http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/discography 4). summer dates. this summer i'm on a self-imposed embargo from festivals and away-dates... which means that other than a few boston-area appearances and one or two in new york, i'm on a gig-hiatus until the fall (when there's plenty of great festivals dates, one-off concerts, workshops, and much more going on...) fortunately, the local shows are going to be amazing, starting tonight with: june 3rd, 2006 : non-event presents : oren ambarchi, keith fullerton whitman at the boston center for the arts, mills gallery, boston, ma. http://www.nonevent.org/ http://www.bcaonline.org/ july 19th, 2006 :: uppercase sound presents : keith fullerton whitman & geoff mullen (debut duo performance!), soplerfo, jay sullivan, insterstitial dj: ning nong at pa's lounge, somerville, ma. http://www.paslounge.com july 22nd, 2006 : bushwich art project presents : baplap, featuring a whole mess of people including keith fullerton whitman, akira rabelais, sawako, helios, etc... at 3rd ward, bushwick, brooklyn, ny. http://whitebunnyprod.com/ july 22nd, 2006 : tonic presents : prurient, carlos giffoni's death unit w/chris corsano, "the eagles of hair metal" (licht/shiraishi/bernstein/kelley/whitman) at tonic, new york, ny. http://www.tonicnyc.com/ for more info on these, consult the calendar page at my personal site: http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/calendar note that i've cancelled the june 10th/17th "quad" concert at the old zeitgeist/lilypad. nothing serious, i just got a strange vibe from the show's promoter (those of you that caught me sitting in with mandarin movie at pa's lounge a few weeks back should understand - yes it was that guy looming over my doepfer, threatening to pour his beer in the cracks between the modules...) also, please avail yourself to geoff mullen as he plays a stream of boston, providence, & new york-area gigs :: june 9: pa's lounge w/ area c + triple burner june 22: building 13 in olneyville,RI w/ james blackshaw, glenn jones, jesse sparhawk june 27: knitting factory (tap bar) w/ james blackshaw, glenn jones, christina carter, jesse sparhawk july 19: pa's lounge w/ kfw, soplerfo, jay sullivan, dj ning nong july 28: aboveground records w/ jack rose and glenn jones that's it for now. i hope you all have productive summer(s) / winter(s) / or whatever season it's about to be where you live. thanks for reading!.. -keith -- keith fullerton whitman (617) 372-3682 21 cedar street somerville ma 02143 usa http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com http://www.entschuldigen.com "recorded in lisbon" (out 03/20 eu/uk & 04/03 us) http://www.kranky.net geoff mullen "thrtysxtrllnmnfstns" (out 05/16) http://www.entschuldigen.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/kfw-announce/attachments/20060603/5a76f635/attachment.htm From k at keithfullertonwhitman.com Fri Jun 23 12:01:42 2006 From: k at keithfullertonwhitman.com (keith fullerton whitman) Date: Fri Jun 23 12:01:55 2006 Subject: [kfw-announce] :: hrvatski in philadelphia / matmos-kfw podcast / etc... Message-ID: hello everyone! welcome to a micro kfw-announce update. just a few notes. 1). i'll be opening for the boredoms (as hrvatski) in philadelphia next friday (june 30th) at the lovely starlight ballroom. apparently the show is already sold out, which makes this announcement moot, but what the hell... i'll really damn excited as i've been a boredoms mega-fan since finding one of eYe's "ufo or diamond" cassettes in some back-alley st. marks record shop in the mid-90s... lightning bolt are also on the bill - not to be missed!!! more info here: http://www.r5productions.com/shows.html 2). you should subscribe to the dublab podcast* - aside from the already great exclusive sets by most of my friends (greg davis & sebastien roux, the books, a hawk and a hacksaw, bird show, etc...) there's a brand-new completely improvised mega-collaboration between martin & drew-matmos & myself, recorded in their living room just hours before i boarded the plane to australia/new zealand. it's a big mess of clicky stereo freakouts, wandering sub-bass, muttered vocal-drones, atonal bleeps, completely gorgeous filtered drones, zonked modular-synth, and musique concr?te with a nice almost berlin-school ending worthy of 32:05 of your time. you can find dublab via itunes' podcast directory... alternatively you can point your browser to: http://www.dublab.com/fsquare.asp 3). i mentioned this in passing in the last update, but it looks like it's finally reaching some level of near-completion, so time for a proper announcement. i have a one-sided lp containing a brand-new piece of music in two parts called "biprosia" coming out as part of a subscription-only series of one-sided lps known as melted mailbox. for $70 (us) / $90 (elsewhere) you get 7 separate lps of otherwise unreleased music by people like sunroof! (matt bower of skullflower/hototogisu), dino felipe, arrington de dionyso (of old time relijun), ariel pink, carlos giffoni, ooo, and kfw delivered to your door, plus all sorts of related ephemera (photos, postcards, cdrs, etc...) - considering what 7 separate lps costs these days i think this is a bargain. note that these will not be available in record stores or music mail-order sites (no, i won't be stocking them via mimaroglu music sales.) i love the idea of a contemporary music-subscription series, and forcing folks (by proxy) to check out all of the artists involved is something i can get behind. for more info and to subscribe: http://www.meltedmailbox.com 4). petra haschen and i recently completed a minute-long film for completion in the "slo mo video" festival... our piece, "aquarium" grafts a recording i made in a cave on the island of rovaer off the coast of western norway of a microphone falling into the ocean onto footage of the starfish tank @ the boston aquarium being "refreshed" - it, along with 99 other excellent minute-long slow-motion films is now available on a very nice and quite inexpensive dvd. i have copies for sale via mimaroglu music sales, alternatively you can purchase one directly from festival curator/sagan member ryan junell at: http://www.slomovideo.com/ 5). equally compelling is this recording of a hrvatski concert from last autumn's elevate festival in graz, austria. i played inside the mountain at the center of the city, in a room known as "DOM IN BERG" (home in the berg...) it was one of my favorite sets of recent times; was quite drunk (the "backstage" was actually the beer-storage room for the entire complex! what the hell else was i supposed to do?!) and really letting loose. much noise abound, using a beta version of my "aleatoric rhythm" & "glonktompoptrex" modules! enjoy: http://www.play.fm/playfm_artists.php?p_id=1309 * - apparently podcasting is a method by which your computer automatically downloads audio-programming from the interweb. what a glorious age we live in... -k -- keith fullerton whitman (617) 372-3682 21 cedar street somerville ma 02143 usa http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com http://www.entschuldigen.com "recorded in lisbon" (out 03/20 eu/uk & 04/03 us) http://www.kranky.net geoff mullen "thrtysxtrllnmnfstns" (out 05/16) http://www.entschuldigen.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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