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barnaby oliver

About Me



Composer/non-composer, guitarist/non-guitarist, sound/non-sound artist.

Born in the UK, now residing in Melbourne.

Currently performing in ensembles Quint and infinite decimals

For a more detailed biog, see my blog

For information on collaborative work with Simon Whitehead click here

For information on the unstates label click here

For information on The Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble click here

Live recordings and other audio are available for download at Noise Archive

(For more information on the tracks on this page, click the 'lyrics' link.)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.untitledstates.net
Influences: moondog, junior kimbrough, thomas tallis, ramones, lamonte young, fats waller, charlie barber, alex chilton, alvin lucier, lee perry, hakim bey, john cage, stooges, eno, ewe tribe, john lee hooker, velvets, phil spector, pil, king tubby, son house, steve reich, william byrd, fela kuti, sam phillips, jimi hendrix, claude debussy, jerry lee lewis, lou harrison, boredoms, tomita, jesse mae hemphill, jan steele, john stevens, karlheinz stockhausen, shona tribe, mc5, vibracathedral orchestra, gustav mahler, charlemagne palestine, otha turner, charle patton, suicide, shadow morton, johnny snipes, ali farka toure, neu!, robert moran, alice coltrane, gyorgy ligeti, samuel beckett, throbbing gristle and early psychic tv, joe meek, richard long, lubomyr melnyk, astral social club, silver apples, luigi nono, hugh tracey, henry cowell, blackbeard, nam june paik, john fahey, silver ray, carlo gesualdo, swati tribe, seeds, kevin volans, swans, lol coxhill, ryokan, television, mississipi john hurt, frederic chopin, esquivel, terry riley, johnny shines, manhattan brothers, king jammy, bridget riley, morton feldman, august musarurwa, yves klein, paddy breen, scientist, henry flynt, 13th floor elevators, robert quine
Record Label: unstates
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Free Downloads at Fat Cat

Brighton (UK)'s excellent Fat Cat Records is hosting a small collection of tracks for free download - go here to check them out.
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Noise Archive - live recordings

For a while I've been uploading selected live performances to Noise Archive, including complete sets with Quint and Infinite Decimals as well as solo shows.The latest one is a totally unrehearsed coll...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Arabic Numerals (Many Integers) - call for performers

I'm putting together a show based around La Monte Young's 'Arabic Numeral (Any Integer)', aka 'X (for Henry Flynt)' (1960) and am looking for people who might be interested in performing.For those who...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:56:00 GMT

Long Division with Remainders version 6

Long Division with Remainders (LDWR) is a collaborative experimental music project formed in the long cold spring of 2006, by husband and wife duo Helen and Justin, and now encorporating people across...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:39:00 GMT

PINGS - Barnaby Oliver and Simon Whitehead (public launch)

PINGS springs directly from the geographical distance between two collaborators. Working from their locales they explore the physical space between them through rivers and air and a range of other ter...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:13:00 GMT

Return of the Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble

"A theatrical exploration of 82.41hz and related frequencies. 17 electric guitarists take you through the emotional range of soaring highs and mysterious depths hidden within perhaps the most basic el...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:56:00 GMT

New video clips uploaded

Live at Loop - extract from solo guitar set recorded at Loop in Melbourne, July 2006Brenin- clip from the film by me and Simon Whitehead for BBC Wales, 2003The Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble - ex...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:37:00 GMT

Biog

Teenage years spent in various postpunk bands in Reading, UK. Then around 6 years of music college and university, ending up with a Masters from London's Royal College of Music. I never quite fitted i...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:55:00 GMT

Thought I'd better get a myspace page going

Much as I hate to become a tiny part of the evil Murdoch empire, I finally got around to getting on myspace. So for a while I'll have to put up with the usual initially embarrassingly low friend- and ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:05:00 GMT