An evening performance for pottery and bugs.
A scìon biofeedback module was connected to a geranium via sensors in the Residents garden of Driving Creek Railway.
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Chimney Fire
Midway through the Driving Creek Residency we were lucky to be invited by Laurie Steer to perform fur the firing of a kiln… nor specifically for the fire.
The firing started early in the morning, we got asked mid-morning and set up around tea time. We set off into the evening playing three sets that reached crescendo close to midnight.
This video is the final two minutes of playing, set to an almost chronological montage of photo and film.
It was an extraordinary event to participate in. The kiln soared beyond 1000°c. The practice of attending to such a beast seemed almost ritualistic. And joy and uncertainty mingled, apparently nothing is predictable when it comes to this craft process. It is yet unknown what the state and nature of the Pottery looks like, the sarcophagus has yet to be opened.
Driving Creek update
A week has passed into our dual residency at Driving Creek Railway in the Coromandel. It has been a week of shifting gears from domestic life, settling into spaces, and exploring some of the sonic playground that surround us.
We each have our own spaces to work. Chrissie is a clay working space that overlooks the industrial aspect of DCR and I’m on a section of old wooden Railway carriage down in the Residents area.
There are a number of recording, video and mark making projects on the boil at any one time. The audio will be mixed more thoroughly once home.
HELLo update
All instruments: RECORDED
Vocals,overdubs and additional guests: COMPLETE
Artwork and editing: COMPLETE
Mixing and mastering: COMPLETED
Send to factory for CD pressing: DONE
Amazing.. it has take almost exactly three years but the new album HELLo is actually finished and off to the factory to duplicate
We are very pleased with it, it’s a grunty little beast packed with some of the best work we have done.
And we’re very excited to be sharing with you all shortly … alongside some other special items!!
Stay tuned
The DCResidence
We have found ourselves in the very lucky situation to have the pleasure to spend four weeks at DCR, Driving Creek Railway. Typically DCR hosts assist residencies for potters and Pottery enthusiasts. However, they wish to expand the scope of artistic disciplines that make use of their facilities, and that wish had enabled us to be able to spend the next month focusing on a number of music projects.
DCR was established by Potter Barry Brickell, a singular individual with an extremely driven passion for pots and mud. He undertook and facilitated the building of many buildings, work stations, and kilns. He was also an avid train enthusiast and hand built a trainline through re-established native forest. The primary function of the line was to gather clay uphill and return it to the studio to be created into pots, cups, and sculptures.
Over the next four weeks, we will be posting photos, footage, and other bits of interest. We will be making both individually and together.
HELLo ALBUM Update and taster
Really very excited to share this teaser from the up-and-coming new album HELLo . … we are in the final stages of mastering, everything else is ready for the factory
But this also seems like a good song for this time:
The east and west were never really split
The wind calls myth to that
In fearful times, binary lines, erected tall to hold you back
There’s telling in the yelling
Slander in a name
So what if you already lost it all
What matters most, whose skin is in the game
We call this the History of the Wall
Sold a lie, there just two side
For who then do the walls toll
The protocol of Us and Them
If you have to ask you’ll never know
Hope to hope, and see and what will be
Hold a rope and hope for open borders
At one end are the things that you flee
The other spanning danger, deeper water
Face to face with an aggressive gate
A gate is just a door into a Pen
The pen it’s said more savage than the sword
The keeper of the gate is not a friend
A friendly someone who’s holding open space
Space is any place you can belong
DSLB performs at OFFSITE: Phil Dadson – a tribute to Jim Allen at Futuna Chapel
DSLB will be performing alongside Phil Dadson and Tim Barlow at this event to celebrate the work of Jim Allen.
“Jim Allen (who taught Dadson at Elam art school in the 1960s) has been called the “father of experimental art” in New Zealand. He was a pioneer of post-object art and performance art in this country, and is regarded as the most influential art educator of his generation. Allen died in June this year aged 100. Futuna, one of NZ’s most iconic buildings, is the site of some of Jim Allen’s most important and enduring artworks, and this concert (and following panel talk) is a celebration of Allen’s contribution to art and culture in Aotearoa.” Source
Sunday 12 November
2pm concert: Tribute to Jim Allen with Phil Dadson, DSLB, Tim Barlow (Presale tickets $27.50 from UTR)
4pm: ‘Jim Allen, Futuna and the Reverberating Present’ – panel talk (koha)
Address:
Futuna Chapel, 67 Futuna Close, Karori
Club.Bowl.Island
vegetable.machine.animal had the wonderful fortune to perform at the Compassionfest held in Island Bay, Te Whanganui a Tara late October 2023.
The festival this year was to celebrate the life of an extrodinary local, Kae Miller “CompassionFest is a festival for the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand, seeking to celebrate and re-tell local stories of local heroes of compassion.
The local hero this year is Kae Miller, who advocated and acted for the benefit of refugees, mental health, and the environment. She inspired Bruce Stewart to build Tapu te Ranga marae out of recycled materials, and she started the movement to replant the South Coast with native bush.” source
FootFall
New short vegetable.machine.animal vid
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