House of Dolls, Trash City, Glastonbury Festival, UK 2007-2009

Glastonbury Festival
House of Dolls, Trash City, UK
2007, 2008, 2009

Three years on and still going strong. Performances so far from: DJ SCOTCH EGG/ SHITMAT/ DJ DONNA SUMMER/ PARASITE/ DEMON CABBAGE/ LE COUTAUX JAUNE/ DJ TENDRAW/ DURAN DURAN DURAN/ COMPANY FUCK/ ROMVALOPE/ USA KINGS/ ED COX/ MC GAFFE/ HORACIO POLLARD/ K-TRON/ TEAM PLASTIQUE/ DJ NASTY MCQAID/ GROOVE/ LXP/ DJ BUMP & GRIND/ DJ STIVS/ DJ POSSIBLY SICK/ DJ JNK/ MR HYDE/ KTULU and many more. Plus visuals by WIERDCORE.
 

The Lost Space of Stiller, ETH, Zurich, CH

The Lost Space of Stiller
ETH, Zurich, CH

Collaboration with architect Markus Seifermann on the 2009 exhibition The Lost Space of Stiller - A Spatial Approximation presented by the Max Frisch Archive at ETH Zurich.
Read review by FHNoéMie Schwaller.

Next 2008, 9th Advanced Music Festival, Zero Space, Bratislava, SK

Next 2008
9th Advanced Music Festival
Zero Space, Bratislava, SK

The 9th year of the "advanced music festival" - improvised music, postjazz, noise, avantrock, live-electronic music, dark drone ambient, outer limits as well as audiovisual performances from DJ TENDRAW (UK), SKYLLA (AT), ANGEL, (FI, D, IS), XAVIER VAN WERSCH (NL), KINETIC TRIO (PL), UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA (JP) + BURKHARD STANGL + FRANZ HAUTZINGER (AT) + PHIL MINTON (UK), GENTLE EVIL (FI), and many more. More info. Pictures.

Nought To Sixty, ICA

Nought To Sixty
Monday 29 September 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

For Nought to Sixty, Open Music Archive presents Free-to- Air, a project initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White which began in 2007 at Cornerhouse in Manchester. Free-to-Air involved an invitation to musicians and DJs to produce cover versions of material drawn from the archive.

DJ Tendraw re-presents his reworking of the Declose copyleft battle record.
Plus, out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall & folk covered and remixed by: MAGIC ARM, SERAFINA STEER, HEST and DJ DYSU

Listen to DJ Tendraw's live reworking of the Declose copyleft battle record click here.

The Open Music Archive's Free to Air CD is available to buy.

Nought to Sixty was curated by Mark Sladen and Richard Birkett. Read More

Freebooter, London Festival of Architecture, 2008

Freebooter
London Festival of Architecture
Saturday 28th June, 2008
The Pilot Inn, 68 River Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London, SE10

Out-of-copyright 1920s blues, jazz, folk and music hall reworked via an open source scratch vinyl by DJ TENDRAW, DYSU & MAN ONE (Open Sauce) hosted by THA 4ORCE (BBE / Mind Tha Gap).
DJ Tendraw worked with ten copies of the Declose vinyl - deconstructing the records to create an experimental scratch set. Freebooter is a project by Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive) Read and hear more.

Drawings, Peacock Projects, London, UK

Drawings 08
Peacock Projects, London, UK

"Automatic drawings 2008", "Rubbings 2007" and "Good Vibrations 2006" by Michael Shaw. Plus works by: Julie Clarke, Alexa de Ferranti, Paul Richards, Adam Thompson and many more.

Bent Festival, 2008, LA + MPLS, US

Bent Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
1st-3rd May 2008
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408, US. More info.
Bent Festival, Los Angeles, California, US
Zero Point

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Read more.

Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, EL

Destroy Athens - Live
1st Athens Biennial, EL, 2007
Public Opening Live @ Technopolis

Destroy Athens - Live
Curated by Chloe Vaitsou
Artists: Antifamily, Infinite Livez, DJ Tendraw, 7000 Dirhams

From experimental politicised avant-pop commentary, to hip-hop jazz electronica improvisations, to real-time deconstruction & amplification of media, these artists all maintain a commitment to immediacy & non-virtuosity. This live programme engages with the Destroy Athens theme by treating Athens as a signal source to be sampled, tweaked with, looped, filtered, commented on and jammed along to. Through the use of on-site found & recorded sound & image, real-time local radio broadcasting interventions, and sonic-surgical media operations, the performers offer a response to context as they find it.
Read more about the concept behind the 1st Athens Biennial 2007

Forest Volume IV

Forest Volume IV
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
6th-16th September, 2007

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios presents Forest (Volume IV) the fourth  in a series of annual exhibitions  exploring the place and potential of sound in art. Read more.

Artists: Beaconsfield Artworks, Karl Burke, Mark Dean, Bruce Gilbert, Leafcutter John, Fergus Kelly & David Lacey, Pan sonic, Bob and Roberta Smith, DJ Tendraw, Nina Hynes.
Curated by London artist and curator David Crawforth.

Soundwaves

Soundwaves
May 18th – Jun 29th 2007
Kinetica Museum
Old Spitalfields Market, London, UK

From a Soviet invention that turns light into sound to an automated orchestra made of household objects, ‘Soundwaves’ will bring together contemporary artworks that explore, warp, collect and manipulate sound. DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog present their unique approaches to investigating the hidden potential of electronic circuits in children’s musical toys and the repurposing, often quite messily, of analogue electronic hardware to create a palette of otherwise unheard sounds and musicality.
Read press release.

Good Vibrations 2006

Interval #2
The Slade Research Centre, London, UK, 2006

As well as his performance for Interval in 2006 DJ Tendraw installed two pieces of work, Good Vibrations 2006, a negative wax cast of the classic 7" by the Beach Boys and Collapse 2006, a busking amp in a lift covered with contact mics.
As you enter Collapse 2006 yours and the lift's every move are amplified turning every squeak and bump into worrying noises.

Cybersonica Conference, Science Museum, London, UK, 2006

Cybersonica Conference

"Is this the coming of age of the mobile phone as a hand-held musical instrument, the "next electric guitar"? The reason I chose to use the analogy of the electric guitar is because of Hendrix. He took a new instrument and bent it to his will – just as all artists do with their instruments. In so doing, he helped fashion a new era for popular music. Where people may have previously played MP3 tracks at "iPod nights", they will in the future be able to turn up to a mobile club night, jack in their phone and perform." From The mobile phone as the next electric guitar (or any other instrument you want) byTim Cole. DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog did a miniMIXA vocal set on mobile phones, having used the phone's microphones to create recordings on the way to the gig.Watch video

Feedback Phone-in

Feedback Phone-in

The Feedback phone-in was a segment of the radioshow Erm on Resonance FM (2005-06) where members of the public were encouraged to phone in on a mobile and turn up their radio/laptop and run round the room. We had people calling from Dubin and Canada and had some excellent results. Thanks again to all of you who contributed in your own unique way.

Magnetic Card Media

Magnetic Card Media

This project utilizes magnetic stripped cards, readers, and writers to input and output data. A credit card or something similiar can be swiped over a cassette playback head to generate data noise. In Going Home 2004 (pictured left), Tendraw collected and recorded onto each train ticket the journeys he made to his home town of Leeds from London over the course of three years. Back in London he cut them up and assembled them into three loops which debuted at Moral Plinth, Beaconsfield, 2004 along with All Stations to Charing Cross 2004. These works also took the form of a radioshow on Resonance FM called The Reel Sound of The Underground.

Audio Tape Athletics  

Audio Tape Athletics 2004

The basic idea behind this project is a cassette deck which is powered by a stationary exercise bicycle, either kinetically by
generating power through pedaling, or, mechanically by modifying the spool to be turned at the same rate as the gears. The kinetically powered version, replacing the batteries with a dynamo, would be the easiest and most effective option. For this event at The Gluerooms 2004 we used cassette tapes of Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" with the objective of racing the bikes to the end of the tape in the fastest time.

Circuit Bent Busking, 2003

Circuit Bent Busking
South Bank, London
Cybersonica 03
ICA, London, UK, 2003

DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog take circuit bending to the streets in the summer of 2003 as part of their contribution to Cybersonica 03, ICA, London. If you want to be kept informed as to when and where the next Circuit Bent Busking and or any other actions will take place join the mailing list or keep checking the myspace.