Ivory Bunker Recordings
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Japan live recordings and more
Hi all
A quick update from the control room chez bunker. It’s been a busy time, so apologies for the lack of posts and cramming all into one now. But music awaits being made…
Live in Japan Recordings
First of, as the title gave away, there are recordings up now from my 2 (more next time) shows in Japan. You can listen to them on Soundcloud or Youtube, whichever you prefer.
The first show was Tokyo, at Zubar Shibuya. A decent crowd and a fun night. There’s a few pix and even short vids on Twitter of the night. A few here on my instagram:
The audio was recorded line out from my desk mixer into the H4n.
Listen here on Soundcloud:
Or here on Youtube:
Two night’s later, on September 16th I performed at Katakamna Kobe. Unfortunately not a lot of pictures surfacing from there. But there’s a good audio recording, this time a mix of soundboard and room mic.
Listen here on Souncloud:
Or here on Youtube:
I’m hoping for/looking forward to more live performances next year (even this year, if someone wants to book me reach out!). So hopefully see you there, sometimes.
ps: while you’re at it, why not throw in a follow on Soundcloud and/or youtube. It supports me get more reach and you’ll stay up to date!
12 Months of Mornings
Due to the Japan trip I was running a little behind on the 12 Months project and thus the track for August was only finished and uploaded a few days ago. And I’m busy working on September. And then I’ll hopefully find some time to write another blog post about it with some insights around the latest tracks and further plans for the project! Stay tuned. Listen to 12 August 24 here:
Or listen/buy/support on bandcamp: https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings
20 Aeons of The Necrophonicon
My 2004 debut album, The Necrophonicon, turned 20 this month. We had a little listening party over on bandcamp where I shared some trivia. A while ago already I wrote about the album here. I might update this with some of the new memories at some point: https://www.ivorybunker.com/pulp-glitch-breaks-lovecraft-lucifer-and-the-story-of-the-dead-sounds/
Check out the album and grab your digital copy to please The Great Old Ones (I’m old…)
Yes… it’s birthday month at the Bunker and most of you reading this will know from my socials, but until the end of the month use “october24” for 50% off anything on IBR bandcamp!
f’thagn!
tbc…
Japan Mini-Tour 14-16.09.24
Better late than never, allow me to announce my upcoming Japan dates this September. Or, as we in the bunker call it: Next weekend.
Starting off in Shibuya, Tokyo on the 14th I’ll be playing a gig at Zubar together with Log.os, DJ Topgear and Mandy at Zubar.
Next up is Osaka on the 15th, though at time of writing I’m still waiting to hear back on details. If all goes ahead as planned it will happen at Environment 0g.
Last, not least, on the 16th I’ll be playing Kobe together with Sunao Inami (Controlled Voltage), DJ Vincent Jelen, _underline, VJ cafe13 at Katakamna
Come by if you’re near on those dates!
For latest updates, best follow on one of my SNS pages. https://linktr.ee/tomorohhidari
A Nullgerät Remixed and another morning
Fresh out on Japanese label 時の崖_tokinogake is Farmers Manual – Nullgerät Remixed, a massive remix album featuring a remix by yours truly alongside a total of 31 Remixes.
Check it out:
I’ve also recently finished the 6th track of my 12 Months of Mornings project. 13 July 2024 marks the half-point (6 tracks) of the year long project. Check it and the whole album out here:
Last not least, I’ll have an announcement about a few live shows in Japan this September soon! Stay tuned!
A Day that will live in Alchemy: 10 June 2024
12 Months of Mornings
The 12 Months of Mornings project continues, now already 5 tracks strong, during this time of year blessed with bright mornings but not always great weather. Luckily, that doesn’t have too much an effect on the ability of those おはよオーリバー (Good Morning) shots to be turned into some interesting music, which frequently even surprises myself.
In June 2024 the photo for June 10th made the cut and it eventually ended sounding like this:
So, how did it come to sound like this?
On this occasion I decided to forego some of the tools I relied more heavily upon on for some of the previous tracks, such as Photosounder, SoundArt etc. Instead all the fundamental sounds were created using Camel Audio’s fantastic Alchemy Synth. (Sadly now only available as part of Logic, as the Camel Audio was sold to Apple & the VSTi was discontinued – but luckily I still have it from when I did beta testing and it still works!)
Alchemy can load images for resynthesis into its oscillators and with that create some very unique and interesting sounds. Unlike some of the standalone programs, the waveform created via additive (fft-) resynthesis, works like a regular oscillator, can be modulated with LFOs and envelopes, is routed through the filter and VCA and, viola, you have a nice sound!
The composition was inspired/based on the picture in a loose interpretation. But I think you can still see/hear similarities with the structure of the track and the image if read from right to left (yes, let’s not always read left to right in a Eurocentric way!)
Do have a listen to this latest, and all the tracks! And if you are able, please consider supporting the project by buying the album on Bandcamp!
Do follow on Twittre &/or BlueSky where the photos are posted each morning – your likes, comments, reposts etc all have an influence on which photo gets chosen each month!
Depth Sounding
I’ve already mentioned the pre-release in my latest post and am now happy to announce that Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg, Vienna) is out in all its Kaiserliche – & Konigliche Pracht (if you pardon my German):
The Multi-track recording of the live performance was mixed & mastered and has kindly been released by Graz based friends and label Bruitversum.
A few images from the event – me performing live, being photographed by my dad, a view of my very minimal setup and some impressions from the private view of Spacegroup Architects’ “Vertiefung (Adding Depth)” exhibition. (Photos own & dfkt)
Depth Sounding (Live at Hofburg) is available via Bandcamp:
https://bruitversum.bandcamp.com/album/depth-sounding
It’s also available via the major streaming services:
https://ditto.fm/depth-sounding-live-at-hofburg-vienna
And on youtube:
Please enjoy listening. And I hope I’ll soon be able to play more live concerts!
じゃあまた。