whi
music is dedicated to promoting the power and beauty of improvised and
experimental music. Based in Liverpool, UK, it's largely based around
my activities and collaborations.
the
catalogue now includes eleven items, including the first CD from
amere3, and a number of 'postal' collaborations, with Bret Hart, Lee
Noyes, Glenn Weyant, Barry Chabala and others, and two volumes of the
freejazz.org sampler. 'where we were' by Caroline
Kraabel & phil hargreaves is currently available on Leo Records. for
more information
on this release, see the dedicated
website.
i've recently
added a blog
to the site, which i'll be updating fairly regularly, i imagine.
Whi
music releases are either available as free downloads or via Bandcamp,
which means that they can be previewed online, or downloaded as a 'pay
what you like' download, which means you can have it for free if you
like, or maybe come back and pay something later, as you wish.
meantime, 'trees' by
amere3 is available online from Bruce's
Fingers , and Leo releases are available from the
label directly here.
The
performance by the Infinite Monkey Orchestra last year was recorded,
and has now been released on Ian Simpson's Electronic Musik netlabel.
Go to http://www.archive.org/details/InfiniteMonkeyOrchestraem100 for a free listen and/or download
The
first CD by 'Graculus', eponymously entitled 'Graculus', is now out!
I've been playing with Richard Harding for over two years now, and this
is a record of 13 of those months. See here for the details.
There
are various projects in the pipeline for 2010: my CD with Maggie Nicols
is done, and we're making plans for a release this year;
there's a second amere3 CD recorded (only a decade after the first!),
and i'll also be releasing a work i did with Dinesh Allirajah and Rob
Dainton in 2002. So plenty to look forward to there...
New
Releases:
'Music
for Two Machines' (whi 009) is now available online! I've been
noticiing from the download figures that 'musick for two machines'
wasn't proving as popular as other releases, and i'm assuming that this
is because you have to set up, as the name might suggest, two machines
(CD players/MP3's etc) just to play it. Which is, i'll concede, a bit of
a faff. So i've spent some of my Xmas break figuring out how
to
make it work using Javascript, and here it is. Just click on the link
below and hear us both, randomly arranged.
Cadavre
Esquis
is
an online collaboration with and between musicians of the freejazz.org
online community. This takes the form of people using MP3 files to add
layers to tracks. Now i've taken those tracks and created a flowing,
organic whole from them. It's not a 'best of' or some sort of chart, it
doesn't take away from the recordings that are there; it's just another
way of looking at the contributions. It's called 'imperfect silence',
and you can find it here.
Mr
Glenn Weyant has mixed a video for OILAL, one of the
tracks off friday
morning everywhere. Find it here:
Keep in touch!!
If
you live in the North West of the UK, why not
subscribe to
the New Music North West egroup, where you'll find out just what's hot
locally without lifting a finger? This mailing list has been operating
for a while now, and it's a genuinely useful resource if you're at all
interested in improvised/experimental music.