This Week's Updates

Update 11/17

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:38:00 +0000

Welcome back.

This week's podcasts include another awesome trip of retro-sci fi soundtrack gorgeousness with El Plan De Aguavodka's great new episode, 2L84H84FR. Barry Seroff's series of his collaborations with his Thing NY! ensemble continues with the relatably titled It's So Rare That You Have Two Pianos. The first time I caught the title I didn't get the joke, and shame on me! This track features our good friend Barry and Paul Pinto on two pianos, with Paul's voice floating throughout. One Hundred and Eleven is the third episode in the latest series of compositions from the Painful Leg Injuries, Numbers.

Also, check out the latest issue of Make, #16-Spy Tech, I wrote a little review of Screenfashion.org's Mote Daemon product, enjoy. We will return next week.

Update 11/11

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:25:00 +0000

What a difference a week makes, last Monday my blog post came right smack in the middle of pre-election day jitters all around, now we are in the midst of a collective sigh of release. Well, most of us.

This week's new podcasts are served up for you. First up, Barry Seroff's latest podcast series begins with All The Thing You Are. This time Barry is teaming up with other members of the Thing NY! improvising collective, a wild, dada-ist collective. In addition to our old friend Barry, this track features Paul Pinto, the leader of the collective on vocal; Gelsey Bell: voice, Stefanos Tsigrimanis: guitar, Noah Palmer: piano, Jeff Young: violin, Andrew Livingston: bass, Ilias Pantheon: drums. This lively pie reminds me of the Alterations or Terry Day's work.

The latest miniature from El Plab De Aguavodka is the wonderfully brief Nobody Believed They Would Survive. I love John's latest ventures in vintage sci-fi soundtracks. Though short, it's totally fitting for genre John's working in, very hauntology.

Finally, Eleven is the second episode of The Painful Leg Injuries series of self-sampling compositions called Numbers. I think you find the requisite level of chaos here.

Until next week take care.

Update 11/3

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Good to be back again.

Marco Oppedisano, the avant-garde's answer to Eddie Van Halen (cross-bred with Mozart) was recently profiled in this newly published book, STATE OF THE AXE: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer, Ralph Gibson. Samples from the book can be seen here:
http://www.ralphgibson.com/axe
http://www.ralphgibson.com/current

It is available for purchase in bookstores and is currently available on many online bookstores. You can order it from Amazon, click here for more details.

Marco is given some long overdue recognition for his stunning axe-wielding, and he is indeed in good company alongside Arto Lindsay, Nels Cline, Les Paul, Lou Reed, Alan Licht, and bunch of other very high profile folks.

Images from the book will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston running through late January 2009.

The Painful Leg Injuries' set from the Maker Faire is now up. It's probably the most noisy and chaotic set we've ever done, it mostly focuses on material from the Wiimote album, The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat. I focused on this material in light of the article I wrote on Wiimote controlled music for Make #14. This is album is a free download from this site, click above to get it. Download the Painful Leg Injuries live performance from the Maker Faire called "Oh, That White Wizard's Wily White Wand Witchwork!"

Check out my radio interview the JB and Sandy show on October 16th, talking about circuit bending and Wiimote music. Bill from PLI interviewed on JB and Sandy.

This week will begin the final Painful Leg Injuries Podcast Series of 2008, our 28th podcast series, entitled Numbers. This series comes from a project I have gone back to periodically over the past 4-5 years, where I make extremely brief compositions, lasting about a second, maybe even less in some cases. Over the years I've made roughly sixty of these, and the six compositions in this series comes from plugging them into my MIDI sequencer as samples. The first one is somewhat non-ironically called One.

Barry Seroff concludes his amazing trio series with Daniel Carter and Candiria's Ken Schalk with this week's episode Panoramic. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest podcast, Penn Station Is For Dreaming, is a delightful miniature for field recording and tone generator. We'll return next week.

Update 10/20

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:56:00 +0000

Photo by Rebekah Weatherly

I'd like to say thanks to the Maker Faire for having us back this year. This was the first time Suzanne and I performed in a year, and we were glad to be playing in front of an audience again.

When performing abstract electronic music in a live format, it's always hard gauge audience reaction. However, what I can say after having listened to the recording of the set, if you can make a baby cry so loud it gets picked up by the mic, well, you did something right. I will be posting a video and MP3 of the set shortly.

I'd also like to thank Mix 94.7's JB and Sandy for having myself and Sherry Huss from Make on their show on Thursday, here's a link to listen to our interview: Bill from PLI interviewed on JB and Sandy.

Now on to the podcasts, which includes the final episode of the Painful Leg Injuries' Bent Synth Guitar Solos. El Pan De Aguavodka gives us some political criticism through the processing of laptop noise through headphones with Heartbeat Away from Power. Barry Seroff wit the his amazing Unassigned trio deliver another wonderful episode with Old Footage, featuring Daniel Carter and Candiria's Ken Schalk.

No podcasts next week, we will return on November 3rd.

Update 10/13

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:09:00 +0000

Welcome back, everyone.

This week, don't miss the Painful Leg Injuries performing live at the Maker Faire at the Travis County Fairgrounds here in Austin TX. Suzanne and I will be performing material from all of our recent releases and new material from our upcoming album The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better of Me, as well. We will performing on the Maker Stage at 8:30pm.

This week in podcasts, we get an epic jam from Barry Seroff, and his Unassigned trio featuring NYC underground legend, Daniel Carter, and former Candiria drummer Ken Schalk. This episode is Roots. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest is called A Few Words of Advice About Giving Your Opinion and it's another lovely piece of treated Casio VL-1 that sounds like goofy orchestral strings. The Painful Leg Injuries' latest, the fifth episode of their latest series, Bent Synth Guitar Solos.

We will return next week.

Update 10/08

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Apologies for the delay this week.

Don't miss the Painful Leg Injuries performing live for the first time in nearly a year Austin, TX's Maker Faire on October 18th, at 8:30 pm on the Maker Stage. The Maker Faire is a great venue and we can't wait to play for all the makers and on-lookers. We're very excited.

The Painful Leg Injuries this week deliver the fourth episode of their current podcast sercies, Bent Synth Guitar Solos, this week. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest podcast is Rehearsal for Stumbling Through Anything Including Tunnels a lovely work of effected Casio keyboards that honestly sounds more like strings. Barry Seroff's awesome series of improv work with the lengendary Daniel Carter and Ken Schalk continues this week with Remnant, don't Ken Schalk's very colorful percussion work in this fine episode.

Be well, until next week.

Brief Delay

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:37:00 +0000

I'll be posting this week's update on Wednesday, apologies for the delay.

Update 9/29

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:29:00 +0000

Alright some news....

The Painful Leg Injuries will be performing for the first time in nearly a year at Austin, Texas' Maker Faire on October 18th at 8:30pm at the Travis Count Fairgrounds. We will be performing on the Make Stage. We are very excited to be taking part in one oof my favorite events, the Make Magazine Maker Fair. We will be debuting some new material for our upcoming album, The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better Of Me.

Also, be sure to check out our latest release, the second full-length solo album by our good friend Marco Oppedisano, The Ominous Corner. You can purchase it from CD Baby by clicking here.

This week's podcasts, first up, the latest from El Plan De Aguavodka, Death To RF and Other Outrages Implied is squealing skronk fest of joyful noises, and features John's lo-fi FM theremin. Bourbon St. is the second episode of this very exciting trio series including our own Barry Seroff, NYC avant-jazz legend, Daniel Carter and Ken Schalk on drums. Great loose jam, another wonderful piece in this already great series. And lastly, The Painful Leg Injuries' third episode of circuite bent synth guitar spacey-ness, Bent Synth Guitar Solo 3.

Until next week, take care.

Update 9/22

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Welcome back again. This week there's lots of great news to report.

First, now available at CD Baby.com is the new album of solo works by Marco Oppedisano. His second full length solo recording, and his third record with OKSRNA, Marco's new solo works are nothing short of mind-blowing. Click here to get your copy of Marco Oppedisano's The Ominous Corner.

The Ominous Corner marks very new territory for Marco. His work has become more focused, centering around his live playing. His musique concrète constructions are a jumping off point; a foundation for his mastery. He has processed his influences, such as Fred Frith, Marc Ribot and David Torn, and lifted his stylized playing into a symphonic grandeur along the lines of Mahler, particularly in the album’s title track. Get your copy today!

In other big news, Suzanne and I will be performing at Austin's 2008 Maker Faire. This is the Painful Leg Injuries' first live show in almost a year! The Maker Faire will be taking place on October 17th and 18th at Austin's Travis County Fairgrounds, here's a link to more info. I'll post the actual schedule times when I know them, we are very excited to be playing live again.

Still more good news to report, also this week our good friend Barry Seroff, will begin a new six part podcast series of his amazing trio including avant-jazz, New York underground legend, Daniel Carter on reeds and trumpet, as well as Ken Schalk on drums and percussion. Roundtable is the first part, and it's quite awesome. This series is called Unassigned from a session on May 28th 2008.

The Painful Leg Injuries Podcast this week is the second episode of the latest series, Bent Synth Guitar Solos. With my amazing synth guitar the Unisynth XG-1 , with two added switches, I go on a explosive spacey-meltdown. Also new this week is the latest episode of the El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast, the lovely little melodic number I'm Not Sure What You Meant.

Until next week be well.

9/15 Update

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:45:00 +0000

Welcome back everyone.

This week the Painful Leg Injuries begin their 27th podcast series, and it's follow up to Series 2 - Echo Synth Guitar. My Unisynth XG 1, having been in a closet from around '94 to 2K5, had a rough year in 2008. It no longer would play back from battery power, and then it shut down completely. Now I had always resisted the temptation to bend it, but since I had to open it up to fix it. Well, it was pretty much guaranteed I'd find something I'd want to do to it.

I played it conservatively adding only two flip switches, one that pushes it to a higher octave, and another I call the "Chaos" switch, which seems to play all six voices at once. So this new series is 6 guitar solos using this modified instrument, running through the same processing rig that series 2 used with digital plug-in effects as well. It's less drone-y and spacey than the first series, but it's also more colorful, and quirky.

This week is also the final epsiode of Barry Seroff's podcast series with his Lapis Lapuzi bandmate Stefan Paolini. Kami Mono is a delightfully prety and surprising piece.

El Plan De Aguavodka's newest episode is Spirits Refuse. This piece for laptop, and effects is absolutely frightening, if this is the sound of ghosts refusing, then please, John, stop asking.

Take care until next week.

Update 9/8

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:36:00 +0000

Welcome back again everyone. New releases are imminent. Marco Oppedisano's second disc for us, the mind-blowing the Ominous Corner and the debut of our first OKSRNA super-group BIOS which is myself, Marco and El Plan De Aguavodka's John Ibarra.

Speaking of El Plan De Aguavodka, here's John's latest work, a lovely piece of extreme file compression. This Heart Knows Not to Question is yet another great EPDA podcast.

Barry Seroff and Stefan Paolini deliver a surprise bonus episode of their series this week with This Burdening Glare. It's more great stuff. Next week will be the conclusion Barry's collab series with Stefan.

Also next week a new series of the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast. For now enjoy the conclusion of the Neither Sung Nor Song series, Echoes Die Too Quickly Like Everyone Else.

Until next week, be well.

Update 8/25

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:47:00 +0000

Welcome back.

We are readying our next round of releases starting with Marco Oppedisano's new solo disc The Ominous Corner. I expect it to be out very, very soon. This is Marco second solo release with us, and it is an excellent collection of work. This also marks his return to focusing on live playing, with his more musique concrete constructions in the background, thus this record has stronger sense of focus. Don't take that mean he has lost his interest in abstraction, as this record has pushed that aspect of his work forward as well.

Also expected in September is the long promised, long delayed debut release by BIOS, the trio collaboration between myself (Bill Byrne of Painful Leg Injuries, Marco, and John Ibarra of El Plan De Aguavodka. The main issue we were having was trying to find a way to include our live performance DVD, now that we have, the album will be out in September.

On to the podcasts. The latest from El Plan De Aguavodka is another in a run of absolutely eerie and beautiful pieces for guitar, field recordings and tape. This one is Scandals Overheard and Forgotten in Faculty Housing.

Barry Seroff and Stefan Paolini's series of collaborations reaches its climax this week with the incredible epic, On the Regentrification of the Lower East Side. A pile of the broken remains of vocal snippets, jazz breaks, piano flutters and punk rock guitars, the LES's dead soldiers.

The Painful Leg Injuries let loose The Video Game That Lives in My Mouth, a piece made up of vocal samples, bit crushed to oblivion.

Next week there will be no update, check in with us again when we return on September 7th.

Update 8/18/08

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:19:00 +0000

Welcome back folks.

Barry Seroff and Stefan Paolini take us on another continental journey with Tanzania, and it's the kind of trip you don't want to come back from.

El Plan De Agavodka delivers a devastatingly odd work with this queasy guitar piece, Side Effects of Fast Food on Concentration.

The Painful Leg Injuries' latest track is word we can all say to find immediate forgiveness, now matter what we've done it's called Say This, And Become Forgiven No Matter What You've Done.

Take care until next week.

8/11 Update

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:10:00 +0000

Welcome back.

El Plan De Aguavodka returns this week with She Is Waiting (and so are the lions) a stunning work for an over-taxed computer, guitar, and tape.

Barry Seroff drops the second episode of his collaboration with Stefan Paolini with the un-stable yet fun number An Unwritten Flute Sonata.

The Painful Leg Injuries' latest is Played by Plucking Phonemes and bottom line with this piece, it just got way out of hand.

Be well, until next week.

Update 8/4

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:14:00 +0000

It's official, I've spent a year of my life in Texas. I never pictured myself outside NYC, though only true haters could find a way to dislike Austin.

This week, new podcasts. Barry Seroff begins a new series of collaborations with longtime-co-hort, the talented pianist, and operatic vocalist (seriously this dude's got pipes), Stefan Paolini. Stefan was also a member of Little Ricky's House of Chankletas, for LRHC fans Stefan is singing "Prrrrick!" at the beginning of the 27 New York Anti-Sonnets. To begin his new series, called w/Stefan Paolini 4/21/08 Barry Steps aside, and Stefan plays solo on Improvisation on BA/SE. And it's great.

Next, The Painful Leg Injuries deliver the second episode of Neither Sung Nor Sung. It's called Squeaky Mice Multiplied By The Floor's Four. This series is compositions I've made using my own voice, through various samplers and effects, as well as live vocalizations that amount in the end to something that doesn't resemble singing or songs. This one's pretty scary.

El Plan De Aguavodka is taking a break this week. Until next week, enjoy.

Update 7/28

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:24:00 +0000

This week the Painful Leg Injuries begin their 26th podcast series Neither Sung Nor Song. This series will be 6 (big surprise!) compositions of vocal works, mainly utterences chopped into samplers and built into abstract works. This premiere episode is Human Beatboxes Skip When They Meet Table Saws.

Also this week, check out the latest duo between myself and Barry Seroff. The tenth episode of Barry's podcast is his final collaboration with me, though I think that Barry and I will do this again, thanks to the great response we've gotten. Montgomery Clift Pontificates on Rising Fuel Costs (but Nobody Listens) is our epic, it's a freak-out battle of the solos Gameboy vs. Axe. Next Barry's third series begins, a series of duo piece with former LRHC cohort Stefan Paolini.

Finally El Plan De Aguavodka finds a world of clicks and buzzes in his piece No Ground. To some it's all the sounds musicians try to avoid, but our good friend John makes it more that a little pleasant.

Until next week, be well.

Update 7/21

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Aren't we always looking for some kind of balance between beauty and chaos? Now, that's a heavy -handed way to begin an update post, but, this week's podcasts sounded like a little of everything to me, a little pretty, a little silly, a little strange, and a lot of chaos.

Well, perhaps, sometimes we can balance things better in our artwork than in real life.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest miniature is just that, a mix of forces as his coffee can guitar meets "internet technology" in his latest - Live Stream Buffer.

Barry Seroff's latest series of collaborations is with yours truly and this week, we give you Nobody Does The Robot Anymore. Which, was titled by Barry, and I gotta tell ya, Bar, everybody's been doing the robot lately. And probably badly. In any case, you won't be able to anything but the robot to this track I can assure you.

Finally the concluding episode of the Painful Leg Injuries' latest series, Hobnox Multiplication, Duo : A Perspective on Sounds In Perspective. Next week the PLI begin our 26th series, Neither Sung Nor Song, six compositions all made with my own voice.

Until next week, enjoy.

Update 7/14

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Feels like I haven't done this in forever.

Welcome back, there's new podcasts to check out.

Barry Seroff continues his series of podcasts which are a collaboration between Barry and yours truly. I limited myself to my Pushpin Gameboy Synth, and in this episode I did my best to take gorgeous piano piece that Barry sent me and muck it up. It came out very cool. It's called Winter Through The Haze of Summer.

El Plan De Aguavodka's 101st podcast is This Strange Passion. A colorful, all-encompassing orchestral drone builds up around around you, surges and then leaves.

The Painful Leg Injuries podcast this week is a Hobnox trio called Trio : Pegasus Boots and The Dash Attack. I'm improvising on Hobnox's excellent software, Audio Tool on three computers. It has a nice retro feel, and I've processed it to all get out, enjoy.

Don't forgt to check out our latest release, Marco Oppedisano and David Lee Myers' Tesla At Coney Island here at CD Baby.

See you next week.

Update 6/23

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:37:00 +0000

This week is the 100th episode of the El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast!

The El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast started with the launch of the label in January of 2006. Since then, like my own podcast John Ibarra has been releasng music just about every week. John's creativity and broad sound palette has been a exciting thing to listen to every week.

John's work is often beautiful, monolithic, sometimes violent, always intriguing and involving.

This week with Binaural Amnesia John continues his podcast with a miniature, in fact the very shortest in duration since his first (Bueno Cancelo was :38). This piece is about John's reflections on what forgetting actually is, and the noise and static breakouts recall the short circuits of the mind, and the what can happen to the mind only few feet above the third rail repeatedly over a long period time.

If have not yet done so, check out John's podcast, click here to subscribe with iTunes.

Though it's difficult to connect stand-up comedy and experimental noise music, I have to say one of the biggest influences in my most impressionable years were the jokes, quips, tirades and wisdom of George Carlin. To the left is a mock-up made of the photocopied cover of the tape my friend, Mark Hurley, made of a George Carlin tape I listened to, repeatedly, every day, in 9th grade on the school bus. His most recent HBO special, It's Bad For Ya, showed his in a bit weathered, but ultimate his wit was as sharp as ever.

Also this week, the Barry Seroff Podcast begins it's second series, Call And Response, the first a number of Barry's collaborations. This series is four episodes of Barry collaborating with yours truly. We both recorded two tracks the "calls", then we swapped, and recorded the "responses". I choose to limit myself to my Pushpin/Gameboy synth, and Barry hit me with big surprises. The first episode is Prelude. This one begin on my end, I made a twisted cascade of arp-ed Gameboy squeaks and Barry responded with some gorgeous guitar work. Also check out the latest episode of the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast Duo:East Berlin Is For Lovers the latest of my Hobnox Multiplication series and this time I make a sci-fi-techno-mosh-pit-freak-out, that I think you'll love.

We will be taking a brief break from updates, so the podcasts will return on July 14th.

Until then take care.

Update 6/16

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:24:00 +0000

Hello everyone, it's out, David Lee Myers and Marco Oppedisano's Tesla At Coney Island, the latest release on OKSRNA. To order your copy from CDbaby, click here.

I've long been a fan of David Lee Myers' music. His early work as Arcane Device is the foundation of much of today's electronic music. Marco Oppedisano blew me away with his gorgeous ribbons of swirling guitar, from the first time I stumbled across his myspace page. Together the make a powerful as Tesla At Coney Island demonstrates.

The Barry Seroff Podcast this week is Piano, lovely and tense recording on the aforementioned instrument. Don't miss Barry performing his Duo #3 in NYC this week. Here's some details :

ASM Presents
Another All Premieres Extravaganza
Thursday 19 June 2008 at 8 pm
at
The Pig And Whistle
165 West 47th Street
(BDFV to Rockefeller Center, NRW to 49th St, 1CE to 50th).

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest episode is Meanwhile In Another Corner of the Afterlife, it's a another effects processed batch of AM radio which is full on blast of filtered noise that sounds eerily like a cello, awesome.

The Painful Leg Injuries continue Hobnox Multiplication series with Quartet : Guru Dance The Beakers Broke Orca Laughed. It's sounds like two dozen processed techno records playing simultaneously. Feel free to get down.

Take care, until next week.

Update 6/9

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Hey everyone, thanks for checking back in.

Our latest podcasts have now been posted. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest episode is The First 3.5 Minutes In Heaven, a very rough textured noise beast of processed AM radio that is a fierce, scary seven minutes.

Barry Seroff's latest shows his prowess with the Shakuhachi, and it's at the complete other end of the spectrum than John's latest, is delightful, pretty and though a little eerie, it's peaceful.

The Painful Leg Injuries continue their exploration of the web-based techno/groove oriented software, Hobnox, played on multiple laptops. This piece, Duo : Glass In My Mouth is hardly dance-worthy, a very glass textured sounding piece.

Until next week, take care.

Update 6/2

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Hope that everyone enjoyed the memorial weekend holiday. Here in Texas, the sun is beating down with vengeance and it's only June.

An article I recently wrote on using the Nintendo Wiimote as a music controller is now published in issue #14 of Make Magazine.

It's on page 145. I take readers through various set-ups for using the Wiimote to control music software, soft-synths, and even MIDI retrofits of some of my favorite circuit bends. Make was kind enough to give spot on their site for links to the freeware, software, videos, and other bits of associated information, click here to read more.

Also, if you'd like to hear the results of musical experiments with the Wiimote, my band the Painful Leg Injuries have released a free download album called The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat, with 13 tracks of Wiimote-controllled music.

Click here to listen and download

Keep your eyes on this blog for updates on the upcoming release of David Lee Myers and Marco Oppedisano's awesome full length collaboration CD, Tesla At Coney Island. It'll be available very soon, for right now, check out this track, Roog.

Now, we can talk some podcasts. The Painful Leg Injuries begin their 25th podcast series, Hobnox Multiplication. Using the web-based music app, Hobnox Audio Tool, on multiple laptops, I created long improvised tracks. The first was performed on a trio of laptops called Trio: Totally Faked On A PVC Pipe.

El Plan De Aguavodka delights this week with freak out noise-fest miniature called Forms Auto Fill. Barry Seroff's latest is the third of his Primary Colors podcasts called Primary Colors 3 (Acoustic Guitar). Imagine John Fahey in top form slowly getting plastered.

Until next week, take care.

Update 5/18

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:24:00 +0000

Alright, folks you might want to sit down for this one.

We've got a very big announcement, it looks like our next release will be the very exciting collaboration between our own experimental composer and avant-guitarist, Marco Oppedisano, and legendary noise-ician David Lee Myers! It's called Tesla At Coney Island, with 13 blistering tracks, that are full of the widely colorful palette that is Marco's signature, and DLM's gorgeous and powerful electronics. I've put up a bio page for David Lee Myers, if like the kinds of sounds you listen to here, and you are unfamiliar with DLM's work, you should really check out some of his releases.

Stay tuned to this site for details on when the album will be available.

Alright now to this week's podcasts, which are pretty awesome, imho.

Barry Seroff's third episode called Primary Colors 2 (Electric Guitar) is a ferocious beast of a improvised guitar solo. If you dig Lightning Bolt, Sonny Sharrock or Metallica, you should listen to this.

The Painful Leg Injuries conclude the Improvisations for Gameboy series this week with the sixth episode IGB6.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest, Radiating Lines to Indicate Light is absolutely lovely, as radiant and colorful as it's title suggests.

Next week, we won't be updating the podcasts in light of the holiday, we will return the following week, 6/2.

Update 5/12

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:53:00 +0000

Welcome back everyone. Our latest release The Harmful Free Radicals' Duplicate Factories of Washington State is now available for download at iTunes.

Click here to go to the Harmful Free Radicals on iTunes.

Here's this week's new round of podcasts. Barry Seroff's new podcast will definitely surprise with it's second episode, Primary Colors 1 (Suitcase) an electro-acoustic exploration of the world around Barry, highly minimal (but not minimalist) and experimental.

For the latest from El Plan De Aguavodka we have Ite Missa Est a gorgeous collection of sweeping winds. John wanted me to include this quote with it -
"It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth.... so naturally has it flooded every element, every energy, every connecting-link in the unity of our cosmos; that one might suppose the cosmos to have burst spontaneously into flame." --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mass on the World

The Painful Leg Injuries' podcast this week is the latest in a series of improvisations for a Gameboy synth. Tune in next week for the sixth and final episode of this series.

Take care, until then.

Update 5/5

noreply@blogger.com (Bill) — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Hey folks, this is a big week for us.

First, Barry Seroff, long time friend of the label, former member of future weirdo punk legends Little Ricky's House of Chankletas, highly trained musical avant-genius, begins his all new podcast. He's a multi-instrumentalist, who challenges the notion of how one's supposed to play an instrument. He's also got the musical chops to know what he's actually doing. It's a bit of a departure from our other podcasts that primarily focus on electronic abstraction what we have here is just as abstract, but also largely unplugged and plug-in free. The first episode is Flute, part of his first series of solo improvisations on six different instruments. Expect Barry to be doing collaborations in his future series.

Click here to check out Flute.

While we wait for iTunes to put up his page in the iTunes store, you can copy/paste this link - http://oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com/
podcast/bs/bspodcast.xml to your favorite RSS reader or copy/paste it to iTunes
Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast. iTunes is pretty cool about getting new podcasts up quick so, they will likely have it up by the end of the week.

For the Painful Leg Injuries' Podcast this week I went a little nuts, here's an agressive 10 minutes of Gameboy improv, enjoy. This episode marks the 120th PLI podcast. El Plan De Aguavodka also delights with a nicely textured miniature that's full of awesome surprises, with Selective Testing.

Take care, and we'll be back next week.