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playing a bunch of small shows around Virginia with Rachel Austin... I've got two days before our first show to build some sort of drum kit.. 

Last night I managed to blag my way into setting up a network connection to CCRMA Stanford and Universidad Icesi in Colombia with peeps from UM's School of Music. We're in the middle of putting together a large scale art installation in a large pond next week and had a chance to try it out alongside instruments by the pond, in California, and in Colombia.

I've recently just joined a new Dublin based beat collective 'ihaudio', who have a free beattape when you click on the triangle within this link.

To celebrate I'm releasing this new track 'annParis' with Stereofield (aka Jack Drewry).

This is a single-take-live-extended-mix-version of 'Kidney' performed by Pauk & plusbuttons.

Click here for a free download of MCRP v12 - Tandem Edition

Pauk & I have been collaborating over the last month on a new track called 'Kidney' as part of the Monome Community Remix Project. Ours is the last track of this very experimental compilation of ambient/glitchy/experimental/ & beat-driven musics.

In this project each artist submitted two short samples each, the challenge being to create an original piece of music using only source materials from the samples submitted by other artists.

Collaborating with Pauk has been fantastic, even though we only communicated via email & dropbox, I can tell he is a talented and enthusiastic producer, it was a pleasure working with him.

There might not be as much buttons as I would like in my life these days but thats only because its filled up with other very exciting projects.

Currently I am collaborating with Barcelona based finger-ninja Pauk on a track for the upcoming Monome Community Remix Project to be released in March. Our track is in its final stages and shaping up nicely.

Also recently had a collaboration with Bristolite rhodes-molester Jack Drewry with plans to perhaps make a short release in the coming months.

Currently in rehearsals with Rachel Austin with some gigs lined up and a tour of France and possibly further on the cards.

Sons Of Caliber are also on the verge of releasing their debut e.p. and there are some exciting prospects opening up for us. Plentiful gigs approaching so click the link if you're in Dublin/Belfast.

I'm also working on developing the BeatBack for its performance in the Sonorities Festival next month.

For my final portfolio at Queens University I am making a large scale interactive sound-art installation, involving lots of motors, lights, and a lot of cabling. More details on that to come.

I will be developing a similar art installation with Lisa Keogh (with whom I am also going to be composing some music for her short film thats in the oven), involving storytelling in a new interactive and (hopefully) immersive way.