BELGIUM! @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel play a FREE show in Bruges on 9th May, as part of the three day extravaganza to celebrate the opening of the city's new BRUSK art gallery.
More info on all of the multi-disciplinary happenings here>>
bruskbrugge.be/en/calendar/...
ITALY! @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel are bringing their transcendental experience to Lamezia Terme's Color Fest on 11th August, which just so happens to be the same day as BC remix alumnus Apparat's live extravaganza. #theuniversewilltakecareofyou
Tickets & more info>> colorfest.it
+ nervously excited - i'll be playing some new music + some from scratch jams on the new version of benny.
tickets>> www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/43076...
and of course my own software 'benny' (playbenny.com) is the ongoing fruit of a couple of decades thinking about how live you can possibly be with a computer. so i'm very grateful to tivoli vredenburg + @creativecoding.bsky.social for inviting me to play their algorave event this april
...refreshing after witnessing half a lifetime of music industry smoke and mirrors. all the uk algo events* i've been to have had the nicest vibe of all clubs, almost like disolving the audience-performer boundary changes everything.
*btw carpet shop ldn tonight
the live coding scene is 100% the thing that has made me most excited over the last couple of years: seeing people perform actually live music with computers, as free as jazz, freer, showing their screen, sharing what they're doing with an audience who understand what they're doing has felt so...
A few photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel at Hamburg's pristine @elbphilharmonie.de
📸: Caroline Windel
A few photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel at Hamburg's pristine @elbphilharmonie.de
📸: Caroline Windel
The Merry Maidens stone circle. Standing stones in a field
The Merry Maidens
Cornwall.
#StandingStoneSunday
A little treat to get you through the week: @thequietus.com have just shared a recording of @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's "intense, beautiful and burbling" live performance at this year's @mutek.bsky.social Montreal>>
thequietus.com/news/james-h...
london! algorave! wednesday!
ra.co/events/2280905
nope! thanks for the heads up.. this website.. like if it's going to welcome nazis as enthusiastically as it does they should at least get jpgs working to make up for it?
Roundly impressed by @jamesholden.bsky.social and Zimpel tonight - superb set guys!
a hazy grainy photo of two performers seated facing each other cross-legged on a stage surrounded by a crowd
in less self-centred news, saw Holden&Zimpel in the round at the ICA last night — proper head-rinsing prog-out absolutely loved it 🤩 so happy to get to see the album live @jamesholden.bsky.social
We've got a nice run of @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel shows lined up to take us through to the end of the year.
So if you are in Brighton / London / Cork / Paris / Ghent / Bergen / Dublin / Istanbul / Hamburg / Berlin, do join them!
Ticket links for all shows on>> bordercommunity.com
Some photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's performance at Montreal's @mutek.bsky.social
📸 (MUTEK | Bruno Aïello-Destombes - @brunodestombes.bsky.social )
Final call for @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel in Brighton - just 10 tickets left here>> dice.fm/event/6dr96b...
Cheeky last minute @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show added in Paris on 28th October>>
dice.fm/event/6dbqe7...
This is Marcus who sometimes plays with @jamesholden.bsky.social - see you there?
BELGIUM! Gent is due a visit from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel on 29th October, and you can secure your tickets here>> apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/voor...
The @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show at London's ICA on 23rd October will be an in-the-round affair.
And a little bird tells me we've sold 79% of the tickets, so if you are hoping to join them it is time to shit-or-get-off-the-pot>> birdonthewire.gigantic.com/holden-zimpe...
(to explain in case it's non-obvious: 'from scratch' means going on stage with an empty project file. livecoders do it a lot, i love to watch it, benny wasn't exactly designed with that in mind but it's fast and flowy and i'll see how far i get..)
can't wait for this, pattern-based music being my favourite thing.. + nervous excitement: i'm going to try a 'from scratch' kind of set using benny...
oh, it's nothing, baby — just the brand new Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter featuring extra insight on ambitious sax guy Sean Imboden, cosmic explorers James Holden + Wacław Zimpel, and ritual tone-shifter Lingyuan Yang
plus reviews of new ones from Bit Cloudy + Avi C. Engel
head into the zone ✨ →
British music producer James Holden and Polish clarinet virtuoso Wacław Zimpel built The Universe Will Take Care of You in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking.
Interview — James Holden + Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound:
@jamesholden.bsky.social
enjoyed this month's pattern club radio - some amazing music & an interesting (hopeful, inspiring) discussion of human-centered algorithms
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/pc...
We are huge fans of the @cosmicchambo.bsky.social podcast so I'm pretty chuffed that something from the new @jamesholden.bsky.social & Zimpel album made it into his latest mix>>
