recommended
The CBS Radio Workshop’s recording of “Brave New World”, narrated by Aldous Huxley and featuring the music of Bernhard Hermann. Never has dystopia sounded so ramshackle and dreamy. Hermann’s economical score is one of my (newest) favorites..check it out…I bought it at Weirdo.
there’s only one rob aa lowe
After last night’s great triple bill at the ICA (Om, Six Organs of Admittance and Lichens), I am well convinced that Rob is an utter polymath or just…my kind of musician. I only caught a small part of his solo, which was amazing, but his contributions as a new live member of Om were a joy to watch. His vocal turns (on “Cremation Ghat I” from the new record) provided some of the highlights of the night. That and the bass shaking every girder in the theater.
growing old together
Ouest at the Piano Factory in Boston last week. If I have it right, we’ve been together almost 5 years. Photo by AGB.
Performances Fall 2009
Friday October 9th, 2009
Animal Hospital
Brendan Murray
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Double Awake
@ Big Fun Chinatown, Boston (email for info)
Friday October 16th, 2009
solo with
murmer
Jim Haynes
Experimental Intermedia, NYC 224 Center St at Grand, 3rd floor 9pm $4.99
Saturday October 17th, 2009
Richard Garet/Brendan Murray (duo)
murmer/Jim Haynes(duo)
Bee Mask
Jesse Kudler + Ian Fraser,
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA @ VOX POPULI GALLERY 319 N. 11th st. 3rd Floor 8:00pm, $5 – 10 sliding scale. Presented by Philly Sound Forum.
Sunday October 18th, 2009
Jim Haynes
murmer
Brendan Murray
Nicholas Szczepanik
at Pyramid Atlantic, 8230 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
Sunday November 15th, 2009 as part of GRIZZLER (large ensemble directed by David Gross) The Piano Factory, Boston MA
Thursday November 19th, 2009
Brendan Murray
rise.set.twilight
Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
This is it for the year. Please contact me directly for more information. Thanks!
memory serves
on tour, at a rest stop in Maryland
Brendan Murray Quartet, 2002. (l-r Me, James Coleman, David Gross, Mike Bullock)
live with Asher next week
Asher and I will be playing a duet at Cafe Fixe in Brookline next week. It’s being presented by our friends at nonevent. Apparently these guys make a nice cup. Come on by and say hello, it will be nice to see you!
Announcements regarding shows in SF, Philadelphia, NY and Silver Springs, MD are forthcoming.
“number four, bobby orr, what a future he’s got”
watched "the friends of eddie coyle" last night and it rules
For those of you who have gotten in touch with me over Facebook over the last two years, thank you thank you for saying hello and offering your support. I’m currently not using the site for updates or anything else, so please get in touch with me here or at buttonpushing (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, you can “follow” me there.
The new cd on Students Of Decay is out and available directly from the label, Aquarius Records and Mimiroglu Music Sales. Thanks to everyone who has picked it up so far.
Currently in production is a sidelong piece for a split LP with Perespirit. It’s a collaboration with Boston vocalist/improvisor Noell Dorsey (she of Guillermo Sexo, Beautiful Weekend, Jajuno Trio) and is tenatively titled “Birches and Marksman Graves”. Noell has provided me with raw recordings of her formidable vocal skills which I am working into a new composition. It’s pretty scary so far. More on that soon.
Also headed to NYC in a couple of weeks to finish recording the first Hell Hoarse record. Hell Hoarse is me and Chuck Bettis. We’ll be looking for shows in Boston and NYC shortly after that, hit me up if you have ideas.
More soon. Here’s stuff I dig:
Prurient/Cold Cave “Stars Explode” CS
Cold Cave “Love Comes Close” 12″
Hecker “Acid In The Style Of David Tudor” CD
Pedestrian Deposit “Austere” CD
Jason Kahn “Vanishing Point” CD
Arnold Dreyblatt “Resonant Relations” CD
Julianna Barwick “Florine”EP
Science Is Fiction: The Films Of Jean Painleve 3DVD
Roberto Bolano-2666 book
Record Release Show this SUNDAY in Boston
I’m playing a record release show with some of my favorite bands this Sunday over at Great Scott in Boston. Red Horse is also celebrating the release of their new LP, Danny L is bringing Oneohtrix Point Never up from NYC on the heels of the LP he’s just reissued on No Fun Productions and Eat Cloud is coming up from Providence to tear it up. Howard Stelzer and DJ Won’t will be DJ’ing between sets. I’d love to see you there.
Brendan Murray
Red Horse
Oneohtrix Point Never
Eat Cloud
DJ Howard Stelzer
DJ Won’t
Sunday April 12th 2009
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave. (take the Green Line B train to Harvard Ave. stop)
Boston MA
9pm, 7 dollars, 18+
San Francisco April 2009
Details now final for this exciting event!
23FIVE INCORPORATED & SFCINEMATHEQUE PRESENT TONY CONRAD
23Five Incorporated’s annual Activating The Medium festival for 2009 is a co-presentation with SFCinematheque, showcasing the work by the legendary minimalist and filmmaker Tony Conrad. The first evening is a lecture on Friday, April 3. The second features a performance from Mr. Conrad on Saturday, April 4 as well as a collaborative performance between filmmaker Paul Clipson and composer Brendan Murray. The final night features screenings of Mr. Conrad’s later video works on Sunday, April 5. All events will take place at the San Francisco Art Institute.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3
Tony Conrad: Lecture
Flickering Jewel – Window, Perspective, Shadows
presented in association with SFAI’s Spheres of Interest Lecture Series
5:00 PM
Free
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
Tony Conrad
Brendan Murray & Paul Clipson
sound and video performances
8:00 PM
$15.00 general admission
$10.00 members of SFCinematheque
free to SFAI students and staff
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
Tony Conrad
Flicker and Process Films/Works on Video
films include Redressing Down and Tony’s Oscular Pets
7:30 PM
$10.00 general admission
$6.00 members of SFCinematheque
free to SFAI students and staff
Tickets for the Saturday performance and the Sunday screening are available at http://www.23five.org.
San Francisco Art Institute
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Elemental to Tony Conrad’s oeuvre is his work as a violinist, in which primal, enveloping drones create an oscillating ritual theater. In 1962 he co-founded the groundbreaking ensemble known as the Dream Syndicate. Wielding a drone both aggressively confrontational and subtly mesmerizing, he and his collaborators – including La Monte Young and future Velvet Underground co-founders John Cale and Angus MacLise – created some of the most revolutionary music of that (or any) decade. Utilizing long durations, precise pitch and blistering volume, Conrad and company forged a “Dream Music” that articulated the Big Bang of “minimalism.” With his return in the 1990s to recording, publishing and touring, Conrad engaged an entirely new generation of listeners with his unique and uncompromisingly antisocial, raging music. — Steve Polta / SFCinematheque
We hungered for music almost seething beyond control – or even something just beyond music, a violent feeling of soaring unstoppably, powered by immense angular machinery across abrupt and torrential seas of pounding blood. Walt Whitman wrote that ‘all music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.’ So it must be my conscious blood, in my veins, that swells behind my eyes on the unstanchable tide of the music’s careening violence; a voicelessly shrieking glee, gushing and unfulfilled; anger coming from somewhere; sweetness of virulence, energy, heated eyes, tension unrelenting, shrill shuddering lust endlessly recalculated in its spasm; focus of power. – Tony Conrad
Founded in 1993, 23five Incorporated is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena, and to the support and education of artists working with and discussing the medium of sound. 23five Incorporated has remained at the forefront in bringing the most adventurous elements of sound art to the San Francisco Bay area. 23five has served as an important benefactor to artists such as CM von Hausswolff, Christina Kubisch, Francisco Lopez, Olivia Block, Matt Heckert, Zbigniew Karkowski, Atau Tanaka, and many more.
for more information:
http://www.23five.org
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
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