On Wednesday morning I just met the other guys at LCC and got a package containing a Zoom Recorder and Its things. I just ran a test and after that each one of us just went to see the artist that Fari had arranged us to meet. I was supposed to see Simon King. He plays in the band Super Strings and some other side projects. Honestly I couldn't find any webpages related to him, Even though he is a GREAT artist and very known in UK. But here is a photo of him, maybe you could find some pages related to him: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37409944@N02/4634533311/
Even tough I was late for about 2 hours (lost in the city looking for the address) He accepted me with a very warm welcome. Considering my late arrival we didn't have much time to talk and play, So It was a quick meeting. He just talked about their rehearsals and how they used to create music in their different projects.
His type of music was kinda something that one could never heard. unique and post-structural. I did enjoy it very much and honestly I think these kind of musics should and should be heard and be talked about more.
He walked with me to the station on the way back and we talked about how things were in the past and nowadays are. which ppl maybe cared more before than now. He was very optimistic about the future, the future that in it decent musics (I am defining a kind of music as a decent one and I know it, I will explain about it later) would be heard much more and will be cared. I hope such thing happen.
I just couldn't catch the train soon enough and I was late for the evening workshop with Ehsan Ziya wich it was about Abelton and Max4Live. I just missed the Max part but Abelton thing was about producing some visualizations, related to the sounds playing. It was cool. Those technics might come handy sometimes.
After that we just went to ResonanceFM radio station. We were the group, Fari Bradley and Chris weaver.
Fari just arranged us to improvise online on her show, Six Pillars to Persia which was a great and brand new experience for all of us. Chris helped us all to get ready and did the soundcheck things. It was really exciting. The show started and after Fari`s announcement and some words from Keith Rowe we started the improvise. I guess It was OK :) Nasim was on Violon, Sid Was on Laptop, Nima was on Piano, Laptop and Mic, Niloufar was on Laptop and I was on laptop and Mic. I hope the audience enjoyed the performance.
On Friday morning we had a session with Michael Kasparis which runs the label: Night School Records http://nightschoolrecords.com/ and is the digital manager and Rough Trade Records.
It was about starting ones own international internet label. The were some explanations about how to start and distribute the music and making some profit of it to develop the label itself. He was a very decent man with a very helping attitude and he had just some papers ready for us which in them there were some headlines about how to start a new independent label and.. Sure I will talk about it more in the workshop and in the future here in the weblog. He also mailed us all and encouraged everyone to do the things we've talked about in the session.
In the evening we met Chris Watson. World renowned field recordist http://www.chriswatson.net/ .
He is a great artist in this field. He talked about different kind and ways of recordings and about their details, considering Dynamic Range and... After that we just took our packages containing the recorder and... and went to a park close to ual. We started recording. each one separated and recorded the sounds they were interested in. One of the things that looked interesting was the perspective he had about the sounds. The way and kind of the sounds he were recording. Even the natural or manipulated kind of sounds. There will be some posts considering the details of what I've just said.
Anyway we just came back and listened to some of the sounds and talked a bit more and after that went to the place that Fari had booked for the goodbye party.
It was very pleasant for me. 3 guys from LCC joined us too. There was a Funky live performance dawn stairs of that place and It was fine. I enjoyed the performance a lot. Plus there were some talks about me performing with them which I didn't. Cause I've never played or covered any funky thing in my whole music career. But all of a sudden Nemo went on stage and covered 2 songs with them which really cheered up the audience and was awesome :D I will put the links in the case I find them anywhere so u could see that. Tommo (The photographer and Filmmaker of the residency) also showed up and gave us some cute presents. Cool guy indeed. We did went to another place (as the first foreigner participants who may enter that place), heard different type of musics alive (Jazz, Electronica and...) and did some dancing and stuff. It was so exciting and super fun. Great last night together, Thanks to Fari arranging all those plans.
And the last day. We were kinda free. I just went to Tate Modern Museum. Fascinating indeed.
And as usual the shopping, souvenirs and late at night Nemo, Niloufar and I had our last Beer in a public pub in front of our hotel. That was fun :D
Overall I gotta say these 2 weeks were just amazing. A great and such brand new experience for all of us. Every workshop sessions, live performances, the people we met and the other stuff. Thanks to Fari Bradley https://sixpillars.org / https://twitter.com/6Pillars who planned and managed the whole thing which was a big deal itself and the others who supported this residency and made this happen.
There would be more posts about the details of the workshop sessions. So look forward to them!
His type of music was kinda something that one could never heard. unique and post-structural. I did enjoy it very much and honestly I think these kind of musics should and should be heard and be talked about more.
He walked with me to the station on the way back and we talked about how things were in the past and nowadays are. which ppl maybe cared more before than now. He was very optimistic about the future, the future that in it decent musics (I am defining a kind of music as a decent one and I know it, I will explain about it later) would be heard much more and will be cared. I hope such thing happen.
I just couldn't catch the train soon enough and I was late for the evening workshop with Ehsan Ziya wich it was about Abelton and Max4Live. I just missed the Max part but Abelton thing was about producing some visualizations, related to the sounds playing. It was cool. Those technics might come handy sometimes.
After that we just went to ResonanceFM radio station. We were the group, Fari Bradley and Chris weaver.
Fari just arranged us to improvise online on her show, Six Pillars to Persia which was a great and brand new experience for all of us. Chris helped us all to get ready and did the soundcheck things. It was really exciting. The show started and after Fari`s announcement and some words from Keith Rowe we started the improvise. I guess It was OK :) Nasim was on Violon, Sid Was on Laptop, Nima was on Piano, Laptop and Mic, Niloufar was on Laptop and I was on laptop and Mic. I hope the audience enjoyed the performance.
On Friday morning we had a session with Michael Kasparis which runs the label: Night School Records http://nightschoolrecords.com/ and is the digital manager and Rough Trade Records.
It was about starting ones own international internet label. The were some explanations about how to start and distribute the music and making some profit of it to develop the label itself. He was a very decent man with a very helping attitude and he had just some papers ready for us which in them there were some headlines about how to start a new independent label and.. Sure I will talk about it more in the workshop and in the future here in the weblog. He also mailed us all and encouraged everyone to do the things we've talked about in the session.
In the evening we met Chris Watson. World renowned field recordist http://www.chriswatson.net/ .
He is a great artist in this field. He talked about different kind and ways of recordings and about their details, considering Dynamic Range and... After that we just took our packages containing the recorder and... and went to a park close to ual. We started recording. each one separated and recorded the sounds they were interested in. One of the things that looked interesting was the perspective he had about the sounds. The way and kind of the sounds he were recording. Even the natural or manipulated kind of sounds. There will be some posts considering the details of what I've just said.
Anyway we just came back and listened to some of the sounds and talked a bit more and after that went to the place that Fari had booked for the goodbye party.
It was very pleasant for me. 3 guys from LCC joined us too. There was a Funky live performance dawn stairs of that place and It was fine. I enjoyed the performance a lot. Plus there were some talks about me performing with them which I didn't. Cause I've never played or covered any funky thing in my whole music career. But all of a sudden Nemo went on stage and covered 2 songs with them which really cheered up the audience and was awesome :D I will put the links in the case I find them anywhere so u could see that. Tommo (The photographer and Filmmaker of the residency) also showed up and gave us some cute presents. Cool guy indeed. We did went to another place (as the first foreigner participants who may enter that place), heard different type of musics alive (Jazz, Electronica and...) and did some dancing and stuff. It was so exciting and super fun. Great last night together, Thanks to Fari arranging all those plans.
And the last day. We were kinda free. I just went to Tate Modern Museum. Fascinating indeed.
And as usual the shopping, souvenirs and late at night Nemo, Niloufar and I had our last Beer in a public pub in front of our hotel. That was fun :D
Overall I gotta say these 2 weeks were just amazing. A great and such brand new experience for all of us. Every workshop sessions, live performances, the people we met and the other stuff. Thanks to Fari Bradley https://sixpillars.org / https://twitter.com/6Pillars who planned and managed the whole thing which was a big deal itself and the others who supported this residency and made this happen.
There would be more posts about the details of the workshop sessions. So look forward to them!
