Last Saturday’s FutureEverything performance was documented partially by a participant. Check the videos below for clips.

Here is a video promo for the next Village Orchestra album, ‘Amid The Blaze of Noon’, out on Highpoint Lowlife in the late summer. It’ll be a cd and limited dvd with visuals and film from ex-Marcia Blaine comrade b_kerr.

The video and a lot of the audio were filmed around a performance I did based around Dalston and Stoke Newington, a psychogeographic exploration of the areas.

Here’s a shot of my slightly-more-kit-than-usual setup from last Saturday’s live semi-improvised set at the FutureEverything festival for Hive Collective. It went very well indeed, and the recordings were so good that I think I’m going to try to get it a release, much like the ‘…Sirens…’ live album. More on that soon, I hope.

just to add, Hive collective are looking for personal data to be uploaded to use during the installation. visit http://www.thehivecollective.co.uk/ to upload.

so busy at the moment I’m not updating here properly. Missed completely flagging up the show i did two weeks ago in Bristol for the mighty UFO, alongside Emptyset. sparse attendance at first but great sets from everyone and a brilliant vibe.

Next: next weekend I’m down to Manchester for the FutureEverything festival. I’m taking part in an art installation organised by Liverpool’s Hive collective entitled ‘Memories are Brighter than Our Digital Debris’, a meditation on memory, recording and data decay. I’ll be playing an hour long set during the afternoon inspired by the theme.

heres the blurb…

HIVE are running an interactive installation ‘Memories are brighter than our digital debris’ at this year’s Futureeverything (nee Futuresonic) on Sat 15 May at the Contact Theatre.
Doors are at noon, performances kick of around 2pm, TVO will be on at
5. Free entry all day. Bring along your phone images, tell us about
them…, and see them instantly mashed by some of the most talented
artists working with sound and visuals…if you cant make it, submit
your treasured video here and become part of the performance by proxy.

Event blurb

Everyday digital archives have become ubiquitous through the use of mobile technologies such as smartphones. As a result, we’re constantly
recording our experiences, often at the same time as we experience
them. Immediate, esoteric and transient, digital representations
actually mirror the fleeting nature of memory itself, becoming
confused, misappropriated, anachronistic and ultimately forgotten. For
this interactive performance culminating in a unique performance from
TVO, the Hive Collective invites you to trade a copy of your digital
memories either in person or by uploading to the HIVE website.
In return, invited electronic audiovisual artists will take these as
their starting point, creating an immediate immersive environment in
which your recollections are replayed, re-presented, confused and
ultimately erased.

TVO
One of the regular rotating hosts of Glasgow’s infamous ‘Numbers’ club, Ruaridh Law
just may well be one of UK’s more varied and talented producers. His
wide ranging multitude of aliases and projects stretches from
dancefloor oriented techno as TVO through to considered and serious
drones and ambience as Accrual and The Village Orchestra. Consistently
inventive, Ruaridh takes inspiration from many literary and esoteric
sources beyond the usual sound and music palletes, often times creating
his own software or embarking on audacious sound recording trips to
achieve a specific sound.

http://www.thehivecollective.co.uk/

Colony down in London this weekend, at the Rhythm Factory in Aldgate. Flyer is below and looks to be an amazing night.

To warm up for the night I did a podcast for Colony – link is here. Tracklist below after the flyer.

COLONY_011: TVO

320kbps: http://soundcloud.com/colonyparty/colony011
192kbps: http://www.mediafire.com/?gmm1jzdjtmj

Tracklist

01. Joy Division – She’s Lost Control [Factory]
02. Redinho – Boy Racer [Numbers]
03. Unknown – Want 2 Race? [Unreleased]
04. F – Energy Distortion [7even]
05. Pangaea – Dead Living [Hessle Audio]
06. Marcel Dettmann – Vertigo (Wincent Kunth Rmx) [Ostgut Ton]
07. Untold – Never Went Away [Hemlock]
08. RSD – Naked Mariokart Part 2 [Black Box]
09. Virgo – In A Vision [Radical Records]
10. TVO – All Things End [Unreleased]
11. XXXY – Blue Flashing Lights [Infrasonics]
12. Mosca – Nike (Club Edit) [Night Slugs]
13. VVV – Project X [Fortified Audio]
14. Untold – I Can’t Stop This Feeling (Pangaea Rmx) [Hemlock]
15. Redshape – Steam [Delsin]
16. Aaron Carl – Wash It Revisited [Wallshaker Music]
17. Dynarec – First Machines [Erno]
18. Addison Goove – Dumbshit [Swamp 81]
19. Phil Kieran – Red Controller [Electrix]
20. Headhunter – In Motion [Tempa]
21. Cane – Cations [Warm Up]
22. Mike Dehnert – Nano [Clone]
23. Mark Broom & James Ruskin – No Time Soon [Blueprint]
24. Peter Van Hoesen – Above 90 [Time To Express]
25. Grievous Angel – Show Love [Dust Science]
26. Shut Up And Dance – Java Bass feat. The Ragga Twins [Shut Up And Dance]
27. Jay Denham – Carjacker [Black Nation]
28. Shake – Frictionalized [Frictional]
29. Brackles – Rawkus [Planet Mu]
30. Delta Funktionen – Silhouette [Ann Aimee]
31. Birdland – Jack My Edit [Birdland]
32. Robert Hood – Range [M-Plant]
33. Sterac – Liteon [Tresor]
34. Continuous Mode – Disinformation Design [Klang]
35. Cane – Blizz [Marguerita]
36. Can – Future Days (Carl Craig Rmx) [Columbia]

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And our next party is now barely a week away (boom!). Here’s a refresher:

COLONY | SATURDAY 17TH APRIL

FEAT. PENDLE COVEN (LIVE & DJ), CONFORCE (LIVE), TVO (LIVE), MB & CB

10PM – 6AM @ RHYTHM FACTORY, 16-18 WHITECHAPEL RD, E1 1EW

TICKETS: £6 ADVANCE / £8 OTD

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106653599364477

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?155652

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Outside The Circle Looking In (2002-2010) is a free, downloadable compilation album. The 14 tracks cover web releases, obscure compilations and an exclusive unreleased dub.

Check the link for much more detail and download instructions.

the flyer here for an Edinburgh dj set at the start of April. Then – Colony in London the week after, with Pendle Coven and Conforce with me live at the Rhythm Factory (flyer to follow) and the week after that, UFO in Bristol with Emptyset and another TVO live set.

Hyperbole alert: my set at Plex last month was the happiest i’ve ever been with a live show, great night great crowd and a good set. You can judge for yourself now – the lovely chaps at Plex have a new show on sub.fm and their first one, last thursday, featured the full recording of my set for the second hour.
I’ll probably release the full recording shorn of the radio chat eventually but you should check the whole thing just now, its great.

get it here

tracklist:

* Cosmin TRG – Discotek (Tempa)
* Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie (Eglo)
* Mi Casa – Centerfield Assignment (XL)
* Levon Vincent – Early Reflections (Novel Sound)
* Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir – Electron Rider (Rush Hour)
* Cosmo & Dibs – Up Keys (Moving Shadow)
* Misc. – Unravel (Klang Elektronik)
* Steve Reich – The Desert Music (Freq Nasty & B.L.I.M. Remix) (Arthrob)
* Bracket – Grime3 (Forthcoming on BRACKOUT)
* Model 500 – The Chase (Express Mix) (Network)
* Flint Kids – Triptych ’76 (Unreleased)
* Posthuman – Lander (Echaskech Remix) (Unreleased)
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TVO live at Plex, February 5th 2010

Untitled track
Afanc remix (Stuff)
Untitled track
Erik XVI remix (Highpoint Lowlife)
Untitled track
The Esoteric Order of Stinson (Highpoint Lowlife)
Autechre/Softballet remix (TVO edit)
The White Visitation (Stuff)
Untitled Track
(Steve Reich – Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ)
Aklo Cut With Saffron (Highpoint Lowlife)
Quadrant/Tyree Cooper TVO edit
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls – Team Brass (TVO edit) (forthcoming Highpoint Lowlife)
(Paul Johnson loops)
Dwyer Bonus Beats (Stuff)
Untitled track
Non-Euclidian (Highpoint Lowlife)
Dextro remix (forthcoming 16k)
Sotol (Highpoint Lowlife)
Errorsmith TVO edit
Tober Alternate edit (Stuff)
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* Autechre – Basscadet (Beaumonthannanttwomx) (Warp)

There’s going to be a lot of free things here in the next month.
First:RIP Marcia Blaine. By way of an epitaph, part 1 – a free download of the Action Is Still Not A Verb promo mix, originally a tour cd-r from 2007. Features stuff still as yet unreleased, some obscurities, and album tracks. More info and background behind the link above.