myoptik

NEWS: go to www.thecentrifuge.co.uk to download Myoptik's Sundae_P. It's a 3 track EP, it's free and it sounds nice with your cornflakes or beef mound. but make sure the mound is tall before your ear.
new compilation now out on THECENTRIFUGE netlabel, featuring your's truly, MYOPTIK. a really diverse electronic compilation for free! check:
http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk/pages/thecentrifuge/audio/cf0 12/cf012.zip
....and now, a free Christmas compilation with a Myoptik rendition of We Three Kings Of Orient Are....
feast your ears, download it from here:
http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk/pages/thecentrifuge/audio/cf0 13/CF013%20-%20The%20Centrifuge%20Xmas%20Compo.zip
YOU CAN VIEW JOHNNY HULSON'S LUSH VIDEO FOR THE MYOPTIK TRACK "TYBESS DURY" WHICH IS TAKEN FROM HIS 2003 ALBUM IONIC SLUICE (ping-discs). REAL NICE IMAGES AND VYBE, TRY THIS:
Sure to be a night to remember PVC @ SUMO on 8/11/8.
Long standing Leicester live music event PVC returns after a long sabbatical to host a special one off event. The legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, will be joined on stage by Leicester’s electro beat-meister Myoptik & London sound-sculptor Manglebot. Also performing live will be Clatterbox the 90s electro star and boss of the funked up Z-Bop Records. Then dubstep from DJ Felis (Kontakt) Plus PVC’s funk residents Barry Convex & JammyG with live percussion from Freedom Beatz & crazy Lego projections from VJ Window… Come down and feel the Fiesta…
MYOPTIK brief BIOG:
For 10 years myoptik has been a radio presenter, dj, music journalist, producer and event promoter based in not-so-sunny Leicester. His long standing record label ping-discs exists to demonstrate unvarnished depth and emotion in modern music and provides release for the many side projects and improvised jams that have informed his musical spread. In all his work, both solo and collaborative, extended narrative combines with an unnerving propensity for the unpredictable. His current work with BJ Cole takes these attributes into a wider domain of juxtaposition and humour. Live performance is Myoptik's natural home with appearances in all sorts of places, under all sorts of musical guises and monikers at events such as the Sonic Arts Network EXPO in 2005 & 2006, Summer Sundae in 2005 & 2008, Monastery Of Sound in 2000, Delia Derbyshire's old home in 2003 & 2004.. His radio shows for DemonFM were of such a calibre that the Shrimpsalad shows were repeated on ResonanceFM in later years, whilst his journalism progressed from The Voice, to Melody Maker and the notorious Miles Ahead. Myoptik is also known for his vibrant Leicester based PVC club nights, which pioneered his trademark live Funkatronix sound. He has worked with the likes of BJ Cole, Chin Chin, I-mitri, Phaelah, aUXiLEC and Normal Position to name a few. On his own his musical demeanor tends towards a wild maelstrom of gutural bleep-funk and emotive soundscapes, accompanied by a glass of rum..
MYOPTIK rambles about his general direction/musical background/vybe/other projects/pant size:
Myoptik has been working on the sonic underground for over ten years. Early forays occurred via the cognoscenti that surrounded Law and Auder records in the 1990s. A certain notoriety was established through two highly charged performances at the Monastery Of Sound festival in Normandy. Held in a twelfth century Abbey the festival provided the perfect backdrop for Myoptik’s unique live sounds. In those early days live keyboards sat alongside crumbling distorted rhythmic assaults, wailing improvised vocals, free falling feedback loops and deeply filtered waveforms, layered with catatonic buckets full of inter-breading species of that ever beloved atmospheric hiss ............................................................ ......................... ............................................................ .........................
Myoptik has always been a keen collaborator too, setting up projects like Blam Blam, BloOm, Skeletor, Rea Diapason, Otaku, Ausgang and Peata out as well as his current forays with BJ Cole and Manglebot to name a few. The majority of which have albums on Ping-Discs which still stew nicely, stretching the standard conceptions with a bit of that soupy miasma, a bit of heart wrenching depth of field normally only associated with good photography and lost relatives. The latest of these collaborations has been with BJ Cole where live performance is creating a stir of excitement in this thunder of comedic emotional funk........................................................ ........
The intangible was always central with the focus being on the spiritual and emotional depths which music was designed to reach and express. Tantamount in this exploration is that which many fear: unpredictability. Myoptik is the ancient wooden spoked apple cart; replete with a broken axel and a wrickety frame; the apples go a tumbling, no one knows where; no one knows how long it can keep going; always its a rattlin; always it is teetering on collapse. Just like reality.
But also the Myoptik sound is murky, not always easy to resolve. Many have said its soupy, and like a proper old broth its full of ingredients; perhaps some of them have gone off, whilst that bit over there is vividly fresh. The whole bears no comparison...hiss is central, feedback is lush, imperfection a beautiful, heart-rending reality..................................................... .......................
Using a very live, unpredictable and un-harnessed resonance Myoptik has cut a reputation for controversy with award winning performances on Demon FM and guest slots on ResonanceFM as Shrimpsalad as well as Tracks for Law n Auder on compilations including Slo n Lo, i-ambient and Rehabilatism (you can hear Rehabilitism on the Law n Auder website). There have also been many many albums for his own ping-discs record label, including Ionic Sluice, Funkatronix volumes 1-5, Bomber, ONLI, Oyarsa...to name a few.
A key player in Leicesters musical underground Myoptik’s live reputation continues to grow in notoriety not least because audiences know they are very unlikely to witness anything repeated.................................................... ........
The Wild was encouraged most at the Legendary Foundry on old st London which became like a second home for hobo-optiK....down he would go and that cavernous wail n beat brought nu light to underground sound art... (peace to Jonathan for allowing 6 years of Myoptik mind bend to grow there...) meanwhile the ever jamming club night he curated under the PVC banner continued to remind Leicester that live electronics should be loose and....slightly crazy..
SUMMARY: New madness every time, Myoptik style.
I eat and noon shall follow $