Anaesthesia Associates was the solo audio project of ⊃a∩ ∪ntitle⊃ (formerly Agnihotri-Clark) for five years, and reformed in 2006 as a live audio/video duo with Paul Bradley.
Take a whole load of sampled beats, sounds and visuals, throw them in the blender and that is ⊃a∩ and Paul; mix with a fat dose original sounds and animations and the tasty residue left behind is Anaesthesia Associates. Serve live and enjoy.
Cybergeeks Alert: Anaesthesia Associates have now entered the cyber realm... ⊃a∩ has just returned from a whirlwind tour of Europe, slotting in a couple of Anaesthesia Associates gigs along the way: ⊃a∩ played in London and at a sellout gig in Berlin, while poor Paul got to stay home and mix video in real time over the internet - from his bedroom in Wellington, NZ.
So what should you expect from an Anaesthesia Associates live performance? Well, we can show you...
For the videos below, please note that they will play more smoothly if you download them than if you stream them over the internet. We recommend downloading the videos to get the optimal viewing and listening experience.First, check out our showreel....
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Here is an excerpt from our recent gig at the performance art conference Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance (London, Goldsmiths University). This track is called infinite (cupid's remix) - it's a mashup of the anaesthesia track infinite with other audio from Outkast, Spice Girls, Guns n' Roses, NIN, Led Zepplin, and video from Sex and the City and various romantic comedies...
For this performance, ⊃a∩ mixed audio from London, while Paul mixed video over the internet from an internet cafe in Taupo, New Zealand.
You can also download infinite (cupid's remix) if you want to...
This track is called gangstas paradise city, it's an audiovisual mashup of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise with Guns n' Roses' Paradise City.
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This is another av track, called drummerworld...
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This next track is called away from the train, the video footage is sourced entirely from the open source film project Stray Cinema . Raw footage was filmed in London, and participants from around the globe have been making edits of the film.
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Anaesthesia Associates performed live simultaneously from opposite sides of the globe at the Stray Cinema 2007 Screening Event : ⊃a∩ in London, UK, and Paul performing from his bedroom in Wellington, New Zealand.
The new footage for Stray Cinema 2008 is available now, filmed by the one and only Naomi Lamb .
Participate , participate , participate ...
Here we see the glam rock gods known as Anaesthesia Associates performing The Greatest Air Guitar Album in the World, Vol II, live to web from the Wellington Film Archive, at the 070707 festival - celebrating the launch of UpStage version 2.
And here's some more audiovisual mashup madness, a video from that performance called 3% spandex...
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Ps, feel free to befriend our other bands and projects too:
Axis of Weevils (myspace site) and
Elbow vs. Knee (myspace site)
Stray Cinema (myspace site)
and we're also online here:
Anaesthesia Associates (official website)
Elbow vs. Knee (official website)
Lupavision (Paul's art and illustration)
Intimacy and In.yer.face (a performance/installation event that ⊃a∩ curated)
Stray Cinema (open source film project that ⊃a∩'s involved in)
Code Monkey 1.1 (a creepy little robot monkey that ⊃a∩ made)