Tallbastard

Out of tune..

tallbastard — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:15:05 +0000

Just spent a few minutes looking over an old ABC webpage I made several years ago featuring loose ends from my years supporting Cardiacs one way or another so thought it worth listing here not least that others may find it!

The Mishmash is a selection of live video clips from the third night Cardiacs played at the Garage Islington in 2003 which you view in mp4 here and you can find clips from other shows on http://youtube.com/tallbastard.

Recapped

tallbastard — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:34:00 +0000

Otherwise things have been much as usual.. though there is growing sense of inertia as winter looms despite the fair weather more or less anyway we have such a mild time of it down south. Just talked with Dave Jones holed up in Seattle with my sister Emma who has a new job there and niece Millie whilst they get used to the idea of living in the USA.

I had high hopes for this week, started out with a request to support recent SPC subscribers Space Studios in Mare Street. However seems any plan to move ahead with installation of wireless LAN inside their many buildings over the next month or so are greatly overstated and may drift on. I also was to visit John Thombs of Callidus to pick out any tasty servers and racks they may have available as they close their Kingsland Road office but this was also postponed till another day.

On Friday Adnan, Rob and YT from Deckspace will visit Ryan at his place in Andrews House to add our bit of Micro Noise to the gale persisting there. You can see Yoshi’s photo report here!

////////////////////////////////////////////// nohup / noise=noise
Friday 16th December
8pm – late

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nnnnn, Unit 73a
Regent Studios
8 Andrew’s Road
London
E8 4QN

£5 suggested donation
pay more if you can afford it, less if you can’t

//rough bar//

an evening of ghost architecture, suicide computing, abject music, audiovisual programing, and reanimated electronics

jjjemp
http://xxn.org.uk/

nihal yesil
http://www.nihalyesilstudio.com/
http://evenpress.org

tallbastard & adnan hadzi
http://dek.spc.org

rob canning & antonios galanopoulos
http://goto10.org/

“ ” [sic] tim goldie
http://timgoldie.blogspot.com/

ewa justka
http://vimeo.com/23684344

ryan jordan
http://ryanjordan.org/

dj anomie
http://www.metamute.org/site-info/mute-people

Superphonics

tallbastard — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:07:32 +0000

Kass Schmitt and friends Rupert and Desi offered me a ride and ticket to ATP nightmare before Xmas at Butlins in Minehead, a weekender of gigantic proportions but due to various xwires missed out. ): Instead I visited James Braddell where we collated the latest Funki Porcini LP out of the many great unreleased tracks he holds ready – ‘One Day’ is great so buy it!

Further compensation was had at Union Chapel on Saturday where Bill Drake played a selection from his current LP Rising of the Lights as well as a couple of otherwise unpublished songs. Lastly travelled up to Finsbury Park where Shu Lea joined Rachel and Kyle hosting a ‘moving forest’ workshop as part of ongoing preparation for a summer 2012 incursion/action, Met some old friends and the pleasure of hearing the report of the days work from the dozen participants, more to come about this.

In from the cold

tallbastard — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:11:21 +0000

Collette ov exploding cinema popped round the other day for encouragement using wordpress.com but to my surprise found my account had been suspended ! A week or so later and its been reinstated so the following few entries are some effort to catch up with the many fab things that have been going on around here..

..not least the most enjoyable if not exhausting Exploding Cinema 20th Birthday party at Dog Star in Brixton. James Braddell arrived from Warwick in time to witness the show build and before the doors opened we popped out for a bite to eat in the revitalised Brixton Market and great portion of Korean before piling in to the gathering crowds settling for 48 short filmathon.. great night!

Sh’rub’bees

tallbastard — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:04 +0000

Ah now that's a nice surprise!

Yew Porn

tallbastard — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:59:03 +0000

Just back from a trip to Tim Smith’s garden party celebrating his 50th B’day.

Travelled down in the car with Cathy and Melanie via scary bear gift shop in Bexley Heath! Spent a very pleasant evening barbecuing and tippling in company of old friends there till early hours.

On Sunday followed Matthew Cutts over to his woodsmans cottage on the edge of New Forest where we walked to an ancient yew forest and shot these incredible tangles which you can see more of here

Yoshizen

tallbastard — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:12:03 +0000

One of our regular contributors at Wireless Wednesday workshops is the enigmatic engineer and experimenter YoshiZen. Last visit he returned with a working configuration of the theramin kit donated to Deckspace by BMS. Some considerable amount of fiddling later we have the latest addition to the growing set of electronic sound toys to squelch and scream with.

Yoshi has an unfortunate record with our nations ISP’s and most recently has taken to a 3G dongle but which still frustrates him and obstructs easy access. Turns out the ‘helpful’ vendor software was doubling up the request for connection when in fact he was already linked up. In the past BT, Sky and Virgin have all failed to support his basic access needs the latter spoiling his credit worthiness with their incompetent administration – so whats new.

Transmission Cinema

tallbastard — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:59:28 +0000

We are geting used to the idea of pop up this and that so when Dr Duncan Reekie called to say he had found a cinema space in Bond House Studios, New Cross Gate for three weeks I was all ears. Now rather than make a note of this in advance and post it here it has taken till the passing of the 6th screening of the Pullit Group Art Show for me to comment but hey!. I made it to 4 of the 6 show the last one being this months Exploding Cinema which was the best attended no surprise. The plan is to appeal for extension to the exhibition licence and run a regular open screenings and invite other groups to fill the schedule starting June, finger crossed.

x26 Radio

tallbastard — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:01:43 +0000

just installed x26 radio android app by startx which you can get from projects.plentyfact.org

TBG2 hero

tallbastard — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:25:02 +0000

My current mobile phone is a HTC hero on the T-mobile network and last week I installed a web server and FTP server so that Paddy’s avahi port we installed last week has something to advertise.

We meet in Deckspace each Thursday to hack around with phones and networks not least to explore mdns and zeroconf over wireless and integration of android hosted services so if you are interested get in touch and join us.