Theremin FM4

Not quite 10 years ago, but close… live to air at ORF/FM4, Vienna. Sergio to my right… we were on air promoting the first Electro Pathological Consort gig! Must’ve been 97 – 98… I was in Vienna for Kunstradio’s 10th birthday.

Lingo Babel

Lingo Babel circa 1987.

Lingo Babel, free-fusion, 1985-1987. From L – R: Robert Iolini (bass, guitar, sax, vocals), Andrew Garton (synths, piano, sax, nadaswaram, Indian flutes, vocals), David Nerlich (vocals, guitar, busted-clarinet, synths). Self-portrait, 35mm Pentax K1000.

GRIT

Screen shot from Grit, a video work produced by ccSalon.

ROT EMULSION

Screen shot from installation version of Rot Emulsion, a film by Andrew Garton and Andrew Thomas, produced by Toy Satellite.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

Graz Radio Helsinki

Performed live to air on Radio Helsinki with Ludwig Zeininger, both of us formally from the Electro Pathological Consort which had a lifespan of around 2 years.

Drumming

(Photo: 2006, Misi)

The night before we left for Ithala we were treated to an African dinner including a “drumming circle”. I’d always found these “cheesy” but in the local context it was a lof of fun…

(Photo: 2006, Misi)

We were each given a drum and were taught to play specific rhythmes… the drummers were also keen to focus us on collective effort.

(Photo: 2006, Misi)

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Chamelion

A small group of us were on an evening drive… I was straddling the side of the jeep with a high powered light when the driver suddenly pulled over and plucked from the side of the road a blade of grass… this delightful Chamelion he found there… how he could see it in pitch darkness, with only the lights from his jeep, amazed all of us.

A couple of nights later I met him in the bar and he asked how I was going… I told him I’d never felt better. He replied that I should keep my smile, take it back home, and teach those that don’t to smile.

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Chameleon

A small group of us were on an evening drive… I was straddling the side of the jeep with a high powered light when the driver suddenly pulled over and plucked from the side of the road a blade of grass… this delightful Chameleonhe found there… how he could see it in pitch darkness, with only the lights from his jeep, amazed all of us.

A couple of nights later I met him in the bar and he asked how I was going… I told him I’d never felt better. He replied that I should keep my smile, take it back home, and teach those that don’t to smile.

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Ithala monkey

Don’t feed the monkeys we are warned… doing so will not incur a fine, but will result in the shooting of the monkey. By being fed they demand to be fed more. Their habits change and they are eventually put down!

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Shrink Wrapped

I refuse to be commodified… and yet packaged, one’s audience is more broadly defined, more widely accessible… can homogenisation be beaten within the market place?