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w.a.davison

a confusion of insects in a wax dummy

About Me

A juggernaut of sandwich power falling onto several precisely placed pins.

Or...musician/noisician, composer/improvisor, visual artist, performance artist, film/videomaker, writer, basket weaver and jet engine specialist.


W.A.Davison projects:

The Organ Grinder's Gazette

- up to date online journal of Recordist news, announcements, etc.

Recordism Discussion Group

- a forum for the discussion of Recordism and related ideas at Yahoogroups

The Recordists

- collective activities of The Recordists and friends

hURLy - bURLy

- links of Recordist/Surrealist interest

Disembraining Songs

- Recordist record label

Emunctory of Dreams Press

- Recordist small press

Songs of the New Erotics

- my (mostly) solo experimental music and performance art project

Songs of the New Erotics at Myspace

- blog, mp3s, etc.

Six Heads

- free improv surrealist sound collage group

Six Heads at Myspace

- blog, mp3s, etc.

North Mutator

- Recordist-related drawing collective

North Mutator at Myspace

- blog, more info, pics, etc.

The Recordist Art Of W.A.Davison

- art, writing, info, c.v., etc.

William Davison - Noise Music Noisic

- info on my work in experimental music

My Interests

anvils, paper clips, microscopes, rubber rafts, Recordism, Surrealism, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Any number of large aquatic reptiles with degrees in chemical engineering.

Or...a mysterious fog in a cupboard.

Or...you, you freak!

Music:

Nurse With Wound, irr.app.(ext.), Six Heads, Songs of the New Erotics, Th W rbl r, Gastric Female Reflex, Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects, Nihilist Spasm Band, Nautical Almanac, Caroliner, Volcano The Bear, Nora Keyes, Phycus, Unireverse, Thames, Sam Andreyev, Devo, Adult., Lemon Kittens, The Birthday Party, Chrome, The Residents, Renaldo and the Loaf, Snakefinger, Nash The Slash, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Art Bears, Rudimentary Peni, Gary Numan, John Foxx/Ultravox, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Current 93, Pink Floyd, Pearls Before Swine, Incredible String Band, Captain Beefheart

Movies:

Jan Svankmajer, Bros. Quay, David Lynch, sci-fi/horror b movies

Television:

The Prisoner, Gumby, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Gimme Gimme Octopus, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Spongebob Squarepants, The Venture Brothers, Family Guy, Wonder Showzen, Metalocalypse

Books:

Les Chants De Maldoror, any Surrealist poetry or prose, anything by H.P.Lovecraft, lots of comics including Jim Woodring, Kramer's Ergot anthologies, Paper Rad

Currently reading a lot of science fiction (after a long, long time away)

Heroes:

Legion Of Dust Motes, Oneiromantic Ambiguity Collective, Torpor Vigil Industries, the wooden toothpicks used to prop up cartoon eyelids

My Blog

Sen/Son and COFO

Two gigs coming up very soon. Here’s the info:Saturday, 29 March, 8pm, $6set 1, 8pm - 9pm: Arnd Jurgenson (guitar, etc) and friendsin celebration of Earth Hour, no electricity will be used in th...
Posted by w.a.davison on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:13:00 PST

SOTNE performance

Songs of the New Erotics will be making an appearance at a small event set to take place this coming Friday at Somewhere There. Details follow:Songs of the New EroticsAlmost Blue SunshineDomestic Inte...
Posted by w.a.davison on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:32:00 PST

Six Heads and Sen/Son

Two shows coming up in the immediate future:~~~~~Six Heads will be appearing on Jim Bailey's radio show "Electric Storm/A Missing Sense" on CKLN radio this Sunday evening (Feb. 17) at 11:30 pm EST. Tu...
Posted by w.a.davison on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:28:00 PST

Six Heads gig

Six Heads will be appearing at "The Dead Of Winter Will Not Be Silent" this Friday evening.THE DEAD OF WINTER WILL NOT BE SILENTFriday, January 25thKnurlRoman PilatesPtarmiganSix Headsmore TBA!Satur...
Posted by w.a.davison on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:15:00 PST

did I mention?...S.O.T.N.E. on Myspace

Just added (relatively recently) a Songs of the New Erotics Myspace profile. S.O.T.N.E. is my long-running experimental audio and performance art project (since 1991!), in case you didn't know...Check...
Posted by w.a.davison on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:00:00 PST

North Mutator!

North Mutator, the drawing collective I'm in, now has a website and Myspace page. Check them out atNorth Mutator websiteNorth Mutator Myspace- William...
Posted by w.a.davison on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:11:00 PST

Th W rbl r live!

I'll be doing a solo set with my newish project Th W rbl r at Not My Dog this Tue. Here's the write up for the show courtesy of Noise Tuesday's host Kevin Crump:Live!!! Tuesday November 6th @ Not My D...
Posted by w.a.davison on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

Eddie Prevost

UK drummer and founding member of AMM Eddie Prevost has been doing a few shows around Toronto this week and I will be performing with him tomorrow evening. Here are the details (courtesy of AIMT):AIMT...
Posted by w.a.davison on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

COFO at Inyrdisk showcase

Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects will be performing this Wed. night as part of the Inyrdisk label showcase. Here are the details (from Inyrdisk head honcho Kevin Hainey):inyrdisk cd-r label reduxxe pres...
Posted by w.a.davison on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:46:00 PST

COFO at Tranzac Oct. 9

Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects (Davison + Shapiro + Zukerman)New Ryan Driver Jazz Unitet (Ryan Driver +...Ryan Driver?)Tranzac (292 Brunswick, Toronto)Oct. 9, 10pmPWYC- William
Posted by w.a.davison on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:59:00 PST