The tunes start to form

I have been noodling with the guitar for some time, for the length of time, I dare not calculate. Of late I have been getting together some set tunes, adding beginnings and endings to the middles I have spent so long crafting and playing time and again.


The direction and inspiration for this medley of songs (I say songs as it is true, there are words which whisper themselves from my voice) comes from the river, it's source and flows to the mouth, metaphorically. I am still at an early stage where fear is hard to conquer, but with practice I hope to alleviate this nonsense and revel in the creative act.


With the end of the Christmas decs and the arrival of floral hues and patterns, I am guided by my love and am rest assured, things will be. One day I hope you will hear these pulsings.

Whispering City presents

Lllllllast nnnnnnniiiggghhttt wwwwwwaaaaasss qqqqquuuuuiiiitttte mmmeaty!



Kaya King - Wacky races and ice cream flavours looping criss-crossing drum beats and pre-recorded samples. A summer delight.



Molten Gods - Three men who fell from the skies with arms full of FX pedals, make the loudest racket of noise they can forcing blood to drip from underneath your nails.



Horatio Pollard - electronoise (or was it micronoise?) of a solo man, which has you nodding your head till it drops off.



They loved it!

This is what to do Saturday

That's right, 27th June at Chameleon (Angel Row, above Clinton Cards) £3, 8pm. Noise. Oi! will be doing the doors (or is it scores?)

Big Muff Pi

What is this?


A present?


For Oi!?


Leigh you are so dear to this woman.



Electro-harmonics Big Muff Pi is one 'beast' of a distortion fx pedal, with tone control allowing you to sweep between low and high frequencies and sustain for drawing out harmonic noise this can sound beautiful and edgy. This appears to work wonderfully with guitar input over voice as it deadens the vocal notes yet rings out the guitar signal. This must be something to do with frequency (I did do a test using a bass guitar through the Muff but it didn't respond well) as well as being a 'hot' signal (as I have read before regarding pedals and signals). We can all look forward to Bitumen's musical adventures using the Big Muff Pi.

Bitumen

The newbie band are formed of Amanda and Jude and are truly quite explosive in their early experiments which are due to develop into something melting!

Check out Bitumen on myspace - here

Dolly-winch

Finished! The baby's called 'Dolly-winch' after my old sea-sailing days. The circuit bent FM/AM radio is housed in the customised Bontempi amp case. Great for carrying down the street and free jamming. She sounds like a right dirty madam. DW can be found gifted to the darker side of Molten Gods.


With the ability to tune in to stations and then ride tones when using the override switch you can create a delight of scrapes, screeches and whistles. Plus there is a cut across button giving another frequency change and lower notes. The mini sensors can be used to great effect in shaping the sonic signal. In addition to the in-house speaker, there is a jack out for running through some lovely FX and rigging up to the system. Perfect for jamming a noise beat and sculpting the radio waves.

Video still to come...

FX pedal coming along nicely

This is the state of the matter...


Exploit one child's amplifier kindly donated by the string section of Molten Gods, one FM radio, one jack plug, three multi-functional switches and a new set of circuitry rules.


It is pieced together with a token of modification to all parts involved...