and while i remember.... which is to say before i forget again.... meshmass is (or possibly are) officially the sound of childhood obesity. documentary makers at rutgers university (which is in the united states of america, incidentally, not in rutger at all) have asked us for permission to use 'guias sonores' (a very long piece which covers several continents) in a film about efforts to combat childhood obesity (variously described as 'an epidemic' and 'your own fault, fatty'). we are naturally flattered to have made such a glamorous field our own and are printing hundreds of (imaginary) t-shirts with 'meshmass - the sound of fat kids' written on them.
meshmass is proud... or are proud.... anyway, proud or at least happy to announce.... or content to announce but happy that in fact.... (oh for heaven's sake get on with it!) there is new music up on soundcloud, a piece called 'the veiling earth'.... or about half of that piece, the second half in fact, thus 'the veiling earth (2)'.
this piece is the first to feature samples of the 'sounding stones' of the sardinian sculptor pinuccio sciola, but is probably not the last.
and not only that, there is a whole new place to find meshmass, at 'new official fm', complete with yummy photographs.
now that may is over we are turning our thoughts to selecting the maymass package, and once again we will struggle to select anything less than 2 hours although we aim for 1 hour and although we only had 2 sessions in may as opposed to our more usual 4 or so.
lots of stuff, people, and all yours for only £10 a year.
meshmass have returned from their scattered hauntings of peculiar places - it is alleged that peter was found playing the soprano saxophone in a disused mine on a mediterranean island (but this can scarcely be true, surely) and that richard has had a headache for a month. the long-delayed and no doubt anxiously awaited april edition of the monthly mass is now available to subscribers on the interweb. it contains approximately 74 minutes of music including a fairly abstract saxophone and guitar duet (delta), a noisy dance-rocker which utilises a megaphone (step away from the groove), the highly attractive 'sauerkraut', 'peace flapping loose' (a 'duet with pulse' - very gentle and pleasant) laptop-based instrumentals 'nosebleed' and 'culminator' and 'the futility foundation' with additional vocals. also the charming duet 'sanctivated'. all pieces are as usual improvised direct to stereo, edited and in this case most have been painstakingly remastered with eq, compression and limiting applied. so that's 8 pieces ranging from 5:45 to 15:27 in length and from the quietly charming to the rampantly noisy with all sorts of weirdness in between. not a bad month, all in all.
work is now proceeding on may's harvest which so far includes a number of samples drawn from recordings of 'sounding stones' made by the sculptor pinnuchio sciola. art turned into art? anything is possible.
(except what you just suggested of course, which is obscene.)
i notice and am not surprised to see that we have 1 follower and it is probably us. never mind, we have become used to the fact that we are of no interest and we carry on regardless. we're currently working on the marchmass - this month's compilation of last month's production at the nothing works - and so far we have whittled it down to just slightly more than twice as much as there ought to be. it would be sensible to hold some over for harder times to come, but since when were we sensible? honestly people, you literally do not know what you are missing - a peculiar but charming blend of pyschedelia, intelligent dance, ambient, jazz, electronica and improvised music delivered free with a picture every month for only £10 a year. there is no other way you will ever hear this music, only perhaps 10 - 20% of it reaches soundcloud - a sample of new work is always available there, however.
we're looking for gigs. we have one on april 14th at the coach house, 22 walpole road kemp town, 8.30 and are in contact with unfortunate individuals in berlin and ghent, but we will come and play in your living room too. think of it as having a living stereo. (which only plays meshmass of course - a bit of a disadvantage i know but we promise to take all the soundwaves away with us when we leave.)
for bookings, subscription enquiries and etc. contact
auralwitness@gmail.com
meshmass played last night to a bath of fire. no computers were involved and the video didn't work, but we played anyway. lola, ruby and pippa were wonderful candle-porters and sabine portela staged the event with her keen and adaptable sensibility. thanks to sara-jane at the coach house, kemptown - we will be playing there again.... better and more complicatedly. (oh god).
we are negotiating with berlin to go and play there. don't hold your breath since so far these negotiations have been ongoing for 5 months. but they have resumed.....
new meshmass on soundcloud - a long piece (this time!) called 'guias sonores' - check your portuguese road atlas.
a new and strangely wonderful video from meshmass. dancing plastic in the tidal river accompanied by the 'loungecrime' hit horvendile. give yourself 8 minutes of peculiar enjoyment.
a plastic horvendile
a plastic horvendile
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