ECC News

"Shut Up Little Man!" Documentary

General ECC News

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 06:18

Congratulations to Matthew Bate and Closer Productions in Australia!  After visiting ECC studios and guesting on The Sound Of Plaid, they've completed their documentary "Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure" about lovable miscreants Raymond & Peter.  It's started on the festival circuit and even made it into Sundance!

Their main trailer is a collage of various interviewees reciting bits of R&P's drunken dialogues; The ECC's TradeMark G. is right there at the beginning.  Looking forward to seeing the full film!

ECC in Pittsburgh

Concert and Performance Dates

Wednesday, 09 July 2008 17:08

The ECC will make a rare appearance in Pittsburgh at the Garfield Art Works:

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Monday July 21
noisy postpunk from Brooklyn on Hoss Records ex-member of Liars
THESE ARE POWERS
with Evolution Control Committee (plunderphonics/mash-up pioneer from San
Francisco) and RJ Myato (new solo noise project from Salo bassist)
8 pm
$7

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This Week's Special Guest: WOBBLY

General ECC News

Thursday, 14 April 2011 07:37

Our guest for this week's Sound Of Plaid radio show is Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker).

Wobbly has had a long music career as a musician equally adept at sampling versus non-sampling music.  Recent work has focused more on collaborations, including a new album with Matmos and Lesser (Wobbly also collaborated with The ECC for the Beatlerape Live show).  Wobbly's wikipedic knowledge of music attracted the Barcelona Contemporary Museum of Art, and the result is Variations: a six part (so far) series of one-hour podcasts exploring the history of sampling, collage, and the general concept of remixing.  Impressive in both scope and detail, It is quite possibly the most in-depth series of its kind.

On this week's show, we talk to Wobbly about Variations, Chart Sweep, the inevitable Girl Talk mention, and the soul of the mashup.

Many chances to hear the show, and if you can't make the times below, you can hear it at The Sound Of Plaid Archives.

ECC @ Deep Wireless Festival (Toronto)

Concert and Performance Dates

Sunday, 13 April 2008 16:16

The Evolution Control Committee returns to the Deep Wireless Festival in Toronto, Canada!

31-May-08: The ECC debuts a brand new performance:

SPACE: THE VINYL FRONTIER
In 1977, NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to explore the outer solar system and beyond. The spacecraft also contained a message: a golden record, with 80 minutes of music, pictographic instructions on how to build a turntable, and a needle. For whom? In this performance, TradeMark G. and The Evolution Control Committee explore this ultimate desert island disc and a future race of alien DJs who try to make sense of the last record in the universe.

See the festival's Performances web page for location and cost.

01-Jun-08: The ECC's TradeMark G. joins a panel of unusual radio artists to talk about Burning Man's BMIR 94.5 FM radio, its spin-off Shouting Fire, and what it's like to run a radio station in the remote and harsh Black Rock Desert of Nevada. The panel is part of the Deep Wireless / Radio Without Boundaries Festival.

3:15 pm Insight to Radio on Site
Moderater: Andrew O'Connor; panelists TradeMark G (Burning Man Festival radio), Peter Courtemanche and Gabe Sawhney (murmur) How does context influence the radio content made on site? What are the unique challenges of taking broadcasting outside of the conventional studio? What are the social responsibilities of radio produced in situ?

The the festival's Sessions web page for location and cost.