Alexander's progress

I've finally found a buyer for my Xiosynth, and I've bought a Laptop recently, so I'll be putting the money from my synth towards a Mackie Onyx Satellite (http://www.mackie.com/products/satellite/index.html) which I'll be using to record piano and also - HOPEFULLY - put together a live album out of this tour next march. The live album will be mostly noise material, soundscapes, improvised work and pretty much whatever the hell I feel like doing when I'm onstage.

Scrofa is looking to be something between an album and an EP, probably about 6 tracks in length and very sparse and sinister. There's a bit less Theremin on there than on anything else I've recorded - a lot of it is very spacious organ / synth works but I think it's better this way. I've not used the looper on it at all. There's some a capella Theremin on there which hopefully the folks of this community will enjoy.

I am BBC Bristol Uncovered's featured artist of the week. Booyah.

Bristols Uncovered.

Niiice. Big Up.

:-O

I just bought a Boss PH-3 (http://www.bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp=12). Stepped phasing, get in.

I should be writing in this thread, right?

It's a few weeks until I've got a nice little run of gigs coming up, and at the last minute things seem to be coming together. Phew. I'm going to noise it up around the South of England in March, and hopefully get myself up Midlands / North way and even Scotland later in the year. The people of Oxford have been welcoming and supportive, and just the prospect of playing there again makes me smile.

Brighton's on the way, too - at the West Hill Hall ( http://www.myspace.com/westhill), and it's my first gig in nearly two years with a longtime friend known as Team Brick. There's going to be all kinds of warmth and nostalgia on these travels o'mine.

I'm also due to play Invention Studios in Bath again sometime in April.

There's the prospect of me giving a Theremin Workshop in the near future, and I may be asking you lot here in South England to lend me an Etherwave or two. What the terms of these workshops are, I haven't the faintest. I think they're a weekly thing, with a different host each week, teaching something new and exciting. I don't want to teach a Theremin masterclass (I don't fully believe in the idea), I want to guide newcomers through their first steps. We'll see. I haven't even begun work on it yet.

Aaaand I'm still working on this bloody album. It won't see the light of day for a little while but hopefully within the month I will have finished another record which is a sort of sound collage thing, recycling abandoned recordings into something new. It's sounding like a big noisy hug.

...I think that's all I've got to say!

Right! Taking this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Nosephant/heliumcover.jpg) down to be made up and reproduced tonight, ready for Friday's Warehouse festivities in London!

I have exciting news. I'm now allowed to say what the news is yet, but it makes me giggle and go "hur" and make grand sweeping statements about [i]all[/i] your base. Needless to say, when I divulge this information, the awesomosity may leave you skinless.

What? What? What is it?

I want to hear this so much I'm on the verge of scraping talon marks into my macbook!

Oh, I'm not jinxing this. Although I may murmur a hint in your ear tomorrow night if you're still planning on attending?

Also, I couldn't buy you a drink last time because of your travel constraints; is this still the case? I really feel like I should buy you a drink.

I am indeed. And I'm driving. Orange juice and dry ginger. One ice cube.