Why am I evening bothering to maintain a website?

3 years after the last piece of ‘news’, there is at least this

Oh I also have a twitter now for some ridiculous reason. It’s accessed somewhere here on the right by clicking whatever the colour icon is that represents it.

A YEAR (2019 edtn.)

…and what a difference it makes.

Well better get a year’s subscription’s worth of news in.

Please investigate at your leisure.

Constant Light have finally released our second album. See the video for the first single above, stream/purchase the album below!

New Automating finally dropped, and a couple of nice mentions in The Wire.

June (!?) update

Oh dear, after a fantastic string of updates (2 in a week!) last year it looks like there's only been an update biannually. Hopefully you can take some time out to investigate the following:-

A co-release with Iceage Productions (https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/shadowboxing) featuring Milica Stefanovic. Bass and sampler, all live, no overdubs!

contact via email to book shows

Lightbox Sky is the new release by Automating. Only one copy, gone. Digital available.

Automating show at the Darwin Fringe Festival on 11 July: https://www.facebook.com/events/174855173153210/

The new Automating album is finished, please get in contact if you want to assist in releasing it.

Constant Light start mixing our second album, a scant erm, seven years after the debut. There were also a couple of live shows  earlier this year (as seen above). As before, get in contact if you'd interested in assisting the release, or would like to book a show from mid-July

Interview and live set on Radio Cuddleman

I was recently a guest on my friend Simon's radio show.

Listen here:

Welcome back to Episode 9 of Radio Cuddleman after last week’s break from our scheduled programming for Cuddlethon. Thanks again to all who tuned in, donated and participated in that event - it was a great weekend. For today’s episode I have two special guests - Karli White and Automating, who both popped in a couple of weeks back to perform live in the studio. Both Karli and Sasha are Melbourne artists who produce quite evocative electronic music, but both have very distinct styles and creative processes, which we explored through our discussion in the upcoming hour. Over the next week I’ll be dropping some more Cuddlethon highlights, and if you didn’t know, we’re having a Radio Cuddleman launch on Sunday August 28th at The Tote, featuring some of my favourite bands - Baptism of Uzi, Cool Sounds, Palm Springs, Time For Dreams, and I’m even getting up and doing a set, so that’ll be fun. More details at http://cuddleman.com https://karliwhite.bandcamp.com/ http://www.sashamargolis.com/automating/

Residency at The Food Court, Docklands

The Food Court is happy to announce our third Residency announcement, Sasha Margolis.

Sasha has been working as a Sound Artist in various guises and locations since 2007. Recently, he has undertaken a Masters degree in Spain, a site-specific residency in remote Finland and esoteric education in England. He is also a creative element and musician in various Kosmische and Post-Punk bands in Melbourne.

The Food Court residency will consist of a medium-term psycho-geographic exploration of the sonic environment in and around The Food Court; a seemingly banal medium-density residential/commercial zone which nonetheless can and will offer surprising, enlightening, and possibly disturbing insights regarding the minutiae of sounds that make up the background ambience of life.

41°22'44.7"N 2°10'45.5"E 6.33pm

The square is relatively empty considering the time, and the fountain is off. It is quite a still evening. Scooters and sparse shouts echo off the almost unbroken line of building facades, and it is possible to hear the approximate dimensions of the space. While none of the of the surfaces around the square are in any way absorbent, the comparative size of the two main axes (especially facing the Basilica) coupled with the completely open area above means that the reverberations do not become too oppressive, but are ever-present.

41°22'44.7"N 2°10'45.5"E 9.01pm

As an experiment I recorded the space and then listened to the recording after noting my initial impressions. What it is most obvious is the lack of selective focus that our ears and brains have naturally (it is surmised that losing this ability is a primary reason for being 'hard of hearing' in older people, rather than an actual loss in the ability to hear sound in general). Without the recording I would have described the space as being relatively quiet, however as you can hear there is pretty much constant 'noise'. What is also noticeable in the recording is the way all these sounds are effective in describing the space - the impulses arriving at the microphones are noticeably altered by the surfaces and geometry of and in the square

41°22'44.7"N 2°10'45.5"E 11.03pm

Warm tones. A fairly still night, it is the holiday of the Immaculate Conception so a hubbub of voices from a crowd gathered outside the Basilica de la Mercè. There a a few people near me where the fountain is at the south-west end of the square, their speech is more distinct and loud - individual voices can be made out. It is an interesting counterpoint to the muted roar of indistinguishable chatter of which no cadence of timbre can be made out, only that of its entirety - a real 'rhubarb rhubarb effect. The fountain is on, adding the characteristic tinkle and splash to the predominantly human ambiance present in the square.