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_Will

myspace.com/meaculpanoise

About Me


My Interests

Sonification of data, Microtonal musics, Circuit bending, Pure Data, e-bow, post-digital noise floor!

Home-Brewing, Home-brewed software

I'd like to meet:

Harry Partch

OUT NOW!
ON STATIONARY RECORDS!
ONLY £5.99!

GLUEROOMS VOLUME ONE
Leadtowine 22.48
Brothers Yemen 20.44
The Bohman Family 18.01

trial/sample downloads:
mp3-one
mp3-two
mp3-three
This incredible release on Stationary Records features three exclusive live recordings from The Gluerooms by three extraordinary Artists. This CD is a limited edition of 100 and packaged in a unique greeting card style. It is available from Resonance FM, Rubbish Nasty (New Cross Rd, London) or you can order them direct using GLUEROOMS PAYPAL ---click and scroll down

Music:

well, Bands:
Xiu Xiu, Pan sonic, Neurosis, Autechre, Joy Division, PG99, Whitehouse,Today is the day, Converge, Mea Culpa , Leadtowine , Boards of Canada, Dimmu Borgir, Fugazi, Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart, Frank Black, Frank Zappa, Penderecki, High on Fire, Bongzilla, Taint, Isis, Biffy Clyro, Grails, Nile, Dennis Smalley, Trevor Wishart, Godspeedyoublackemperor! Those are the first i could think of/what i'm listening to now/the past couple of years.

Sounds:
All things Granular sampling and synthesis.
Javanese Court Gamelan - but open to offers.
Generative/Emergent Music (but not Brian Eno)
'Sine tone' organs through distortion and Multitracked e-bow with nuff reverb.
Hitting kalimbas
Steve Albini's drum sound (drool...).
Bell/chime type, inharmonic instruments.
Whatever I made last (doh!) you can see some of my stuff here on Flickr:

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Movies:

Where The Buffalo Roam, Apocalypse Now, Wayne's world, anything by David Lynch, Fahrenheit 451.

Television:

UKTV Mutha Fuckin' History 4EVA

Books:

Jim Giraffe, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Heroes:

Hunter S.Thompson, Ian MacKaye 4finitefuture.

My Blog

Listening Shell at the V&A - Soundscape Commision

"The Listening Shell is a musical instrument which you sit inside: sound composition becomes the voice of the shell. People tend to spend a long time in them - it's an intimate environment which prepa...
Posted by _Will on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:33:00 PST

EY AHALI! (A call for works)

I currently have a collaborative workbeing exhibited at Spike Island in Bristol, A Damaged Plane, it's a 6channel speaker array you can plug directly into...Read on or skip to the end bit if you feel ...
Posted by _Will on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:38:00 PST

Load of reviews

ROCKKKKK"....Mea Culpa paint dense soundscapes in a dozen different shades of black....Debuts rarely come more confident or accomplished than this."8/10 "....the loudest thing you've ever heard. Fan...
Posted by _Will on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:02:00 PST

Quwack (E) @ Spike Island 22/09/07

QUWACK (E)"14 acts, two stages, 2 continuous performances, two sound systems, electronics, stop clocks and Quadraphonic DJ's"with Janek Schaefer, Infinite Livez, Tim Exile, Isambard Khroustaliov, Bela...
Posted by _Will on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:54:00 PST

Review of First To Ripen

HERESomeone listens to/likes our record that knows what found sounds are, this makes me happy....
Posted by _Will on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

Waveswarms 11th July @ TESCO DISCO

I'm playing a London gig at Tesco Disco on Regent Street as part of WAVESWARMS of which I am part. I will be playing a few items from my flickr set which you can find HERE FREE before 8, £6 after.HERE...
Posted by _Will on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:00 PST

HOMEBREW part 2.

I've been reading up on Small beer, scroll down I wonder if you can get a second, milder brew from the dregs of the fermentation bin, hmmmm...Bitter is now ready (Mike? No, are you?) - this was a brew...
Posted by _Will on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:22:00 PST

Engrish

We are "Lock & Loll" click on our album (ignore the American band that used to be called Mea Culpa too).HMV Japanthis is much funnier:www.engrish.com...
Posted by _Will on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:22:00 PST

HOMEBREW

So I made some home-brewed stout, 80 PINTS of it. It was fermented in the greenhouse for a week and a half then bottled in old wine bottles with DIY flip-top lids. The greenhouse is yeast friendly eno...
Posted by _Will on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:09:00 PST

My artwork and instruments on flickr

I posted some pictures of my artwork and instruments.HERE IT IS
Posted by _Will on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:34:00 PST