it is not easy to get out of your own material, and it can be painful; there is an insecurity aspect to it. This actually is probably the most experimental level. When do you think real innovation and experimentation are happening? Probably when people are insecure, probably when people are in a situation very new [...] Read More…
After much hard work during the final rush of the RPM challenge the rough cut of the album is more or less complete and was received today, March 7, 2011 at RPM headquarters (according to the info on our RPM challenge page). The album really came together quite literally in the last few days from [...] Read More…
The end of February is fast approaching and the album is coming together. The recorded material we took away from the session at the beginning of the month is rather rough. Two days just isn’t a lot of time for a such a diverse group to musically cohere. But it was a good start for [...] Read More…
Writers have national novel writing month. Musicians have the RPM challenge. A world-wide community effort to get everyone off their butts and make an album in the month of February. From the RPM website: This is The Challenge – Record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes [...] Read More…
The first Future of the Lab improv session is upon us. This February 5th and 6th a group of musicians from various cultural backgrounds and musical styles will descend upon the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam’s crown jewel of experimental music and sound art. The goal of this session will be to use some naive [...] Read More…