To sync or drift… a little of each I suspect as this new iteration of the Terminal Quartet sets about to sync three operating systems, two software applications, five computers, one network switch and a single turntable from which we receive tempo from. All this and a CD burn station conceived just for our forthcoming [...]
Don’t Touch The Art: Sonorium in B-flat minor, by Andrew Garton, is an on site performance for Arts Birthday, 17 January 2009, in collaboration with KunstRadio and performed at the Magical Soundmachines exhibition, Kulturfabrik, Hainburg, Austria. Listen MP3 Stream: Arts Birthday Mix It is said that a child’s first sound is in B-flat. Some say [...]
Began writing this tune about a year ago. Started out a lot rockier, but by the time I’d got to Cape Town, it slowed down considerably. Its first public debut was performed along with Benguela guitarist, Alex Bozas, who encouraged me to slow it down even more. This version is about as ponderous as it’ll [...]
From 18 August through to 26 September 97, Australia’s The Listening Room presented Sensorium Connect / Body Morph, a generative composition by Andrew Garton and comprised of sounds sampled from performances by Stelarc. Sensorium Connect was the first Listening Room project entirely produced for online and was streamed for its entire six week duration. On [...]
Recorded between Boxing Day and New Years Eve in Graz, Austria, and remixed through early Jan 09. No One Left Around is one of several new songs, including re-arrangements of much older tunes, that I’ve been working on since hitting the road August of 2007. 3 nights and 1 day 1 guitar. 1 voice 1 [...]
It was a brisk, crisp walk to the Schloss Berg in Graz where the last in a series of public discussions on the commons was being held. The venue, Dom in Berg, a theatre carved out of a mountain (the Schloss Berg itself), actually in the mountain, provided an inspired setting for what turned out to be a pivotal, necessary and invaluable exchange of ideas and debate.
It was 1997 when I made my first visit to Austria during which time I was the house guest of Monika Jouvert (formally known by her family name as Wunderer) and her flat mates. Their apartment housed a large community of Smurf’s who would leave messages for their human companions, often busy in the very [...]
It gets dark here around 4pm so by 5 one can be easily confused if you’ve been in doors too long. It could be 10 and as cold as any night can be in central Europe. The city is lit up for Christmas and I love it… It is cheerful, inviting and the commerce is [...]
I have been in Graz, Austria, since the end of September and will remain here for at least another two to three months. For such a relatively quiet city, it has much to offer those of us who tinker at our words, sounds and ideas from dusk to dawn, from dawn to dusk. Graz has [...]
We all know how painful it is to let go of the things you love, the things you have nurtured and given life to. I have had to do just that with Toy Satellite. It has been time to move on… Last year apc.au had decommissioned c2o, it’s hosting servers and along with moving to [...]
A complete recording of GRIT #02 will be available soon, but in the meantime, here’s a snippet from what was a very enjoyable and, if I can say so, moving performance. I’d managed to hit higher notes than I’d expected without any preparation… unfortunately, someone sitting right up front decided to crush a plastic cup [...]
Tuesday 21 Oct 2008 will see the official launch of the book, Re-inventing Radio. I was one of several contributors to this important collection of essays, considerations, reflections and questions. The book will have been launched at The MAK where I will have appeared on a small panel with the editors and performing GRIT #02. [...]
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