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[If you're unfamiliar with Children of the Drone, the series of compilations will provide a better overview than these individual sessions, which can be quite 'unrepresentative'.]
Improvised music, recorded at The Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter on 11/07/06 (the day Syd Barrett's death was announced).
This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: Children of the Drone
Date: 2006-07-11
Source: MiniDisc
Keywords: ambient; atmospheric; beyond classification; Devon; drone; droning; Exeter; free psych-folk; free psychfolk; free psych folk; freeform; improv; improvisation; improvisational; improvisatory; improvised; improvising; jam; jamming; lo-fi; lofi; modal; other; psychedelia; psychedelic; psychfolk; psych-folk; psych folk; space; spacey; spontaneous; electroacoustic; Syd Barrett; multimedia; eggslicer; mandola; saz; baglama; balalaika
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This was apparently part of the Exeter 2006 Fringe Festival (which, impressively these days, seems not to have a website!), and the first time we've played in the main auditorium at The Phoenix. Syd Barrett's recent death had been announced only a few hours earlier, so the event was dedicated to him. We attempted to do something a bit more interesting than a straightforward 'performance'; the audience were supplied with paper, crayons, coloured pencils and felt tip pens, and encouraged to create art in response to the music we were improvising. Examples of their work can be seen here. 
left to right: James, Keith, Matthew W, Henry, Simon Simon - electric bass guitar, laptop weirdness, synth, eggslicer, percussion Keith - mandola, electric guitar, percussion Matthew W - saz, balalaika, percussion, random dictionary readings Henry - percussion Melski - clarinet, vocals, percussion James T - keyboard, percussion, water, poetry Richard - electric bass guitar Mick - electric guitar Brian - keyboard, percussion Paul Bull, who did an extraordinarily good job on the mixing desk, despite never having met us or heard our music, deserves to be listed as part of the ensemble on this occasion. Also thanks to Claire Evans who came along and helped facilitate the artist interaction amongst our small but fairly enthusiastic audience. 
an example of the art produced - artist unknown The first ten minutes or so of the first piece unfortunately did not get recorded. We started the set with just Simon, Keith and Matthew W playing a gentle, flowing improvisation on bass, mandola and saz (recalling how Children of the Drone started as an improv string trio). Gradually, the other seven players joined the stage, one-by-one, in the chronological order in which they became involved with the collective (as listed above). Henry joined on percussion, then Melski on clarinet, at which point Matthew remembered to switch the MiniDisc recorder on. The remainder of this piece is preserved here as "Diminished Responsibility". The rest of the first set involved randomly selecting five players to play together for exactly five minues each, and other similar randomness-based techniques to keep things changing and interesting (and to avoid sonic overcrowding). At the end of the first set we asked the audience to vote for their favourite piece which we then attempted to "reproduce" at the beginning of the second set - hence "Heteropterous Dinner Jacket (reprise)". A short video clip by Simon is here (he admits to having got a bit carried away with the psychedelic visual effects). A short clip taken by Vicky is here (thanks to Thomas for the editing).  |
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| CoTD_110706_SydRIP_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 39 MB |
| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| Diminished Responsibility | 13 MB | 9.67 MB | 6.50 MB |
| Psychiatric Indifference | 15 MB | 11 MB | 7.45 MB |
| Phyloprogenetive Insulation Tape | 4.59 MB | 3.35 MB | 2.30 MB |
| Heteropterous Dinner Jacket | 4.89 MB | 3.67 MB | 2.45 MB |
| Realism | 4.26 MB | 3.07 MB | 2.13 MB |
| Richard Nixon's Nitrogen Cycle | 4.22 MB | 2.76 MB | 2.11 MB |
| Niddle Noddle | 4.87 MB | 3.55 MB | 2.44 MB |
| Heteropterous Dinner Jacket (reprise) | 7.59 MB | 5.58 MB | 3.79 MB |
| untitled 1 | 5.30 MB | 3.84 MB | 2.65 MB |
| untitled 2 | 3.56 MB | 2.61 MB | 1.78 MB |
| untitled 3 | 6.06 MB | 4.46 MB | 3.03 MB |
| untitled 4 | 3.80 MB | 2.79 MB | 1.90 MB |
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| CoTD_110706_SydRIP_files.xml | Metadata | 143 KB |
| CoTD_110706_SydRIP_meta.xml | Metadata | 8.09 KB |