Tag: laptop

  • Apropos – 11 February 2010

    Apropos – 11 February 2010

    Apropos are Iain Harrison (saxophones) and Scott Mc Laughlin (computer), playing music that lives  somewhere between the composed/notated and the freely improvised. Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer (studies with PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, Christopher Fox and James Saunders) whose work focuses on the ambiguity of minimal surfaces involving inharmonic and repetitive materials. Iain Harrison…

  • Laptop Workshop – 8 October 2009

    Laptop Workshop – 8 October 2009

    Laptops make great musical instruments there’s so much you can do with them. Effects, live coding, processing, sampling just some of the fun you can have with a laptop. Laptops are increasingly ubiquitous while the capabilities and instrumental performance opportunities are ever increasing. We are offing a free laptop noise making workshop as part of the October Noise Upstairs.…

  • Tullis Rennie / Laptop Workshop Performance – 8 October 2009

    Tullis Rennie / Laptop Workshop Performance – 8 October 2009

    Tullis Rennie is an electronic musician currently based in Barcelona. He is one man with a laptop, some instruments, one very long pair of legs and some nice friends with beautiful vocal talents, all fueled with a tasty packet of biscuits. His music is a combination of haunting melodies, glimmering textures, bass swells, stuttering beats…

  • Rodrigo Constanzo / PA Tremblay CD Release Party – 27 September 2009

    Rodrigo Constanzo / PA Tremblay CD Release Party – 27 September 2009

    It all started with a gig. Rodrigo Constanzo and PA Tremblay shared a stage in late 2008 and both enjoyed each others playing so much that a recording date was arrange for early 2009. This CD is that recording date. Not having ever played with each other, the two setup in a studio, with no…

  • Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – 11 June 2009

    Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – 11 June 2009

    Pierre Alexandre Tremblay was born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec. He studied classical guitar and music theory from an early age, and as a teenager discovered bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato. He also studied composition with Michel Tétrault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison. He earned his BA in music at…

  • Pesticide Organica – 14 May 2009

    Pesticide Organica – 14 May 2009

    Pesticide Organica is a self-supporting musical node. Producing music of the utmost contempt and repugnance, masked by a veneer of acceptable social norms. The ubiquitous force of Pesticide Organica permeates even the most one-dimensional of minds. http://www.myspace.com/pesticideorganica

  • The Red Box – 9 April 2009

    The Red Box – 9 April 2009

    The Red Box – Radioactive Princess enters Stage Right through a whirlwind of pure noise offering up a saucer full of proto-jazz. Non-songs fed on the children of improv, anchored by a rhythmic intensity at their centre. Concentrated moments filtered through long lost vinyl, deflecting like electric snowflakes. http://www.myspace.com/ultratrash

  • They Destroyed His Image – 25 June 2008

    They Destroyed His Image – 25 June 2008

    A night of electronic music, free improve and new sounds. Sets from The Destroyed His Image, findlay_hunter_rennie, ifVersionLinger and Moon Grizzly. http://www.myspace.com/theydestroyedhisimage http://www.myspace.com/moongrizzly http://www.myspace.com/findlayhunterrennie

  • LBO / Messner / F_H_R – 27 September 2007

    LBO / Messner / F_H_R – 27 September 2007

    The Noise Upstairs presents… Messner (welsh acoutic alt.pop) + special guests The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra and a debut by a somewhat familar Manchester improv trio. http://www.myspace.com/findlayhunterrennie http://www.myspace.com/levenshulmebicycleorchestra http://www.myspace.com/messnermusic