6 August 2008
Four new mp3 packages for you...
People Like Us - Daphne Oram
(commission to rework Daphne's archive) - 2008
In January 2005, Sonic Arts Network, the leading UK body for electronic music and sound art, was asked by Daphne’s descendants to care for her collected papers, recordings and other items. It was with the benefit of experimental electronic music practice in mind that Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studio (EMS) collaborated with the Sonic Arts Network (SAN) to bring this collection into the academic community where it could be properly studied and developed. To this end, a grant was awarded to Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to catalogue the collection, digitise the audio tapes and initiate related research. In June 2008 People Like Us were invited into the archives of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, to rework them into new compositions, to be presented as part of a day-long symposium at London's South Bank Centre. Here are the results. 01. Daphne Speaks
02. Daphne Inuit Song
03. Daphne Bird In A Teacup
04. Daphne Everybody's Calling
05. Daphne Reggae Lady
06. Daphne Waltz
Sonic Arts Network/Oramics at the Southbank Centre website
Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths website
Daphne Oram website
Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog
People Like Us - Breaking Waves
(mp3 > bluetooth project) - 2008
Forma commissioned People Like Us to make a series of new soundworks for the AV Festival "Now Hear This". Now Hear This is a series of site–specific audio works presented in various public spaces across Middlesbrough, UK. The project featured audio works by artists including Marcus Coates and Zoe Irvine, selected for their various interests in the complex relationships between sound, space and location. Adopting diverse modes of broadcast and public address, Now Hear This offers a range of listening experiences and unexpected sonic interventions into our everyday urban environment, creating surprising and engaging encounters with broadcast material. People Like Us produced this series of short audio works to be broadcast via Bluetooth in Middlesbrough Town Centre. These brief musical compositions explore the humorous side to communication breakdowns in all their varied and surprising forms. Pair up with People Like Us for a series of misfiring musical arrangements, exploring the entertaining aspects of miscommunication, disharmony, bad connections and missed calls.
01. Hello Hush
02. Hello I'm Talking
03. Hello, Sorry It's Alright
04. Let Them In
05. Please Hold
06. Silence
07. Something
08. The Telephone Call
09. Uncle Campbell
10. Webster Lineman
Forma website
Now Hear This website
Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog
People Like Us - On The Rooftops Of London
(mailorder only) - 2007
Was a session for the final edition of BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It", broadcast on 9 February 2007. This is a one track CD single - just under 20 minutes long. Thanks to Felix Carey, Philip Tagney, Mark Russell, Robert Sandall and Ergo Phizmiz.
On The Rooftops Of London
Mixing It - website
Where' The Skill In That - webpage
Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog
People Like Us - All Together Now
(mailorder only) - 2006
People Like Us proudly present 27 minutes of new songs following visits to several music libraries, and appropriating favourites from the western world into a musical pantomime.
01. Blue Bayou
02. Everyday
03. Crazy
04. Stand By Your
05. Green, Green Grass
06. I Walk The Line
07. Singin' In The Shower
Thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog
6 July 2008
People Like Us films now on Ubuweb
People Like Us - Film Works (2002-2007)
Five full-length films and one encarnation of the PLU live set, which employ recycled materials from a variety of sources.
We Edit Life (2002) explores the theme of technology, using documentary, industrial and educational film footage from the Prelinger Archive and The Internet Archive.;
The Remote Controller (2003) uses found footage sourced from educational films to explore the way human body and machine interface in the 20th century;
Resemblage (2004) was created using film from the LUX archive by artists Alan Berliner, Lawrence Jordan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and the Estate of Stan Vanderbeek;
Story Without End's (2005) narrative is from a public domain film of the same name made in 1950 about the development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor;
Work, Rest & Play (2007) is a video triptych exploring the themes of labour, leisure and industriousness; and
Live at the WFMU Record Fair (2003). The work has been carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975.
You can also hear People Like Us' complete audio work featuring hundreds of MP3s in UbuWeb Sound. 3 June 2008
Exclusive Digital Single From People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
We are pleased to announce two brand new downloadable tracks from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, available to the web exclusively from WFMU's Free Music Archive and Beware of the Blog. The Music to Run Fast By digital 7'' is based around the idea of "The Chase", where Vicki and Ergo sourced from and collaged as many fast moving sounds as they could possibly think of! This music was originally conceived for a live soundtrack to Christian Marclay's film "Screen Play", performed by WFMU's delightful duo in London last year (link). It was then developed into "The Chase" episode of their "Codpaste" podcast on WFMU. Check out more very fast music from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz in the Codpaste archive at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25405
Download the mp3s at the WFMU Blog
If you own a horse then do take this on your ipod next time you go out for a trot.
25 March 2008
Now Hear This - "Breaking Waves"
We are pleased to announce that Forma have commissioned People Like Us to make a series of new soundworks for "Now Hear This", which forms part of the larger AV Festival.
Now Hear This is a series of site–specific audio works presented in various public spaces across Middlesbrough. Encompassing several new commissions, the project features audio works by artists selected for their various interests in the complex relationships between sound, space and location. Adopting diverse modes of broadcast and public address, Now Hear This offers a range of listening experiences and unexpected sonic interventions into our everyday urban environment, creating surprising and engaging encounters with broadcast material. Commissions include new sound works by British artists Marcus Coates, Zoe Irvine and People Like Us.
Pair up with People Like Us for a series of misfiring musical arrangements, exploring the entertaining aspects of miscommunication, disharmony, bad connections and missed calls.
People Like Us will produce a series of short audio works to be broadcast via Bluetooth in Middlesbrough Town Centre. These brief musical compositions explore the humorous side to communication breakdowns in all their varied and surprising forms. These tracks, in mp3 form, are available now for download, day by day, as they are released on location into the ether. Get them at http://www.nowhearthis.org.uk/
4 October 2007
Downloadable DO or DIY
In keeping with what is now becoming a tradition, the last on air edition of DO or DIY with People Like Us has been delivered alongside an album
sized chunk of a megamix with the bitesize title of "Wet Sounds - The Best Of All Things Particularly Avant Retard 2007".
Download the album and artwork at the WFMU Blog
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Honeysuckle Boulevard
(10" - self-released) - 2006
The online edition of People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz's album, "Honeysuckle Boulevard", which came out at the beginning of 2007 as a free ten inch vinyl release and is now deleted, can now be downloaded for free here, and at the WFMU Blog here. It includes vinyl label artwork, an info text file and also two bonus tracks. The bonus tracks have never before been made available for release or download.
Download the audio either as a zip file containing all the tracks, or grab each individual MP3.
For more background information on this project, take a look here.
Honeysuckle Boulevard (Zip File, contains all files below)
MP3 Tracks:
Side A, Harpo Honeysuckle Suite
A1: Harpo Boulevard
A2: Beyond Perpetuum
A3: Honeysuckle Rose and Perpetuum Mobile
Side B, Merry Go Mambo Suite
B1: Merry Go-Round
B2: Fat Henry's Mambo
B3: Oh No Not Another Cha Cha Extras:
Bonus Track 1: Bad Restaurant Boogie
Bonus Track 2: Social Folk Dance
Album Label Artwork
Informational Text File Ergo Phizmiz website
WFMU website
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - BOOTS!
(multiformat) - 2006-7
Using the internet and file sharing as our primary means of communication and collaboration, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz have produced this material over a period of almost a year (Spring-Winter 2006-7). These recordings document a collaborative research and development process using live performance (with vintage dansette turntables and vinyl dubplates), a CDr album ("Boots!"), a 10" vinyl record ("Honeysuckle Boulevard"), and a CD album ("Perpetuum Mobile").
The files available here constitute the research, CDr, and the live performance. The concert is represented by an edit from that which was recorded through the mixing desk and miked up record players, a full unedited microphone recording, and an archive of the tracks which were used on the vinyl dubplates - comprising music from the research period split across various records either through splits in time (so one minute of the track may play on one deck, the next three minutes on another player, etc) or through splits in the actual layers on the tracks (so two or more records playing simultaneously would create the "full" track).
Sketches For Boots
Summer 2006
In
which tracksComposed 2006 as R+D for live performance,
CDr, Honeysuckle
Boulevard 10" Record, and Perpetuum Mobile
CD (to be released 23 April 2007).
1.
Domino
2.
La Ronde
3.
Erotic Ballroom Dream of Bill
4.
Last Tango in Parish - Cumshot
5.
Bloody Waltz
6.
A Cup of Cha Cha Cha
7.
Honeysuckle Roads
8.
Let's Dance with Charlie's Loop
9.
Mack
10.
Puppet
11.
Roy Fucks
12.
Singing Lesson
13.
Song For Babs
14.
Sorry
15.
Perpetuum (First Try)
16.
Fruity Peter
17.
Bed Music (Boopy Doop Doop Scoop)
18.
Honeysuckle Ideas
19.
Last Tango in Parish
20.
Air Hostess
21.
Balromulus Machinus
22.
Spanked Latin
23.
Tiny Mambo
24.
Mambobela Rmx With Felix Kubin
info.txt
Dubplates
from "Boots!" Performance
Summer 2006
In
which tracks from research are torn apart for live recomposition,
then pressed to vinyl dubplates
1.
Crying Man
2.
Enoch the Drummer 01
3.
Enoch the Drummer 02
4.
Fat Henry's Mambo 01
5.
Fat Henry's Mambo 02
6.
Gunshot 01
7.
Gunshot 02
8.
Harpo's Ambient Love Groove
9.
Harpo Boulevard 01
10.
Harpo Boulevard 02
11.
Harpo Segue
12.
Hollers 01
13.
Hollers 02
14.
Hollers 03
15.
Hollers 04
16.
Hollers 05
17.
Hollers 06
18.
Honeysuckle Rose & Perpetuum Mobile 01
19.
Honeysuckle Rose & Perpetuum Mobile 02
20.
Honks
21.
Instruments of the Orchestra 01
22.
Instruments of the Orchestra 02
23.
Instruments of the Orchestra 03
24.
Instruments of the Orchestra 04
25.
Mack The What 01
26.
Mack the What 02
27.
Merry Go Loop
28.
Merry Go Round 01
29.
Merry Go Round 02
30.
Oh No Not Another Cha Cha 01
31.
Oh No Not Another Cha Cha 02
32.
Oh No Not Another Cha Cha Segue
33.
Parp 01
34.
Parp 02
35.
Parp 03
36.
Perpetuum Mobile 01
37.
Perpetuum Mobile 02
38.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died - Solo Flute
39.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died - Solo Sax 01
40.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died - Solo Sax 02
41.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died
42.
Singing Lesson A
43.
Singing Lesson B
44.
Singing Lesson Solo 01
45.
Singing Lesson Solo 02
46.
Sit Well Back 01
47.
Sit Well Back 02
48.
Sorry 01
49.
Sorry 02
50.
Sorry Extra
51. Stalling Samples 01
52.
Stalling Samples 02
53.
Stalling Samples 03
54.
Stalling Samples 04
55.
Stalling Samples 05
56.
Stalling Samples 06
57.
Stalling Samples 07
58.
Stalling Samples 08
59.
Stalling Samples 09
60.
Stalling Samples 10
61.
Stan's Voice
62.
Tango & Leer 01
63.
Tango & Leer 02
64.
Valse For Lydia 01
65.
Valse For Lydia 02
info.txt
Saxophone
by Ben Whiting-Wilbee www.myspace.com/benwilbee
Flute by Heather McCallum www.myspace.com/coo6B
Boots!
Live
Summer 2006
1.
Sit Well Back
2.
Sorry
3.
Merry Go Round
4.
Perpetuum Mobile
5.
Tango and Leer
6.
Harpo Boulevard
7.
Mack the What
8.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died
9.
Enoch the Drummer
10.
Fat Henry Perpetually Spanked
11.
Oh No Not Another Cha Cha Cha
12.
Boots! - Full microphone recording
info.txt
Recorded
live at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, June 2006
Performed on Dansette Record players and vinyl dubplates,
with piano, euphonium, horn, and accordian.
Track 12 "Full Microphone Recording" recorded
by Simon Perry www.ventnorblog.com
Setlist
Images : images/People-Like-Us-+-Ergo-Phizmiz_Boots_Setlist_2006.zip
Concert
Images : images/People-Like-Us-+-Ergo-Phizmiz_Boots_Concert_Pictures_2006.zip
Boots!
CD
Summer 2006
1.
Sit Well Back
2.
Fat Henry's Mambo
3.
Merry Go Round
4.
Tango and Leer
5.
Harpo Boulevard
6.
Mack the What
7.
Enoch the Drummer
8.
Honeysuckle Rose & Perpetuum Mobile
9.
Sad Waltz Because His Dog Died
All
tracks given away on limited CD at "Boots!"
Live performance, Isle of Wight, June 2006
Artwork
: images/People-Like-Us-+-Ergo-Phizmiz_Boots_CDR_Artwork_2006.zip
Ergo Phizmiz website
UbuWeb website
(many thanks!)
The
Sixty Second Song Remix Contest
(WFMU) - 2006
People
Like Us have remixed John Cage's legendary 4:33 (Live
at the Barbican) down to one minute, the concept being
WFMU's Ken Freedman's, who is hosting a one minute remix
song contest at the WFMU
blog
4:33
Live At The Barbican
Music
Overheard
(Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
- 2006
Compilation
2CD, edited by Damon Krukowski. An audio response to
the exhibition Super Vision at the Institute of Contemporary
Art/Boston, December 10 2006 to April 29 2007
Hayfever
Download
the entire double CD here
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston website
Super
Vision link
DO
or DIY on WFMU
(Summer Schedule) - 2006
To
commemorate our summer season of DO or DIY on WFMU we
have made available a special downloadable "album"
of the best of DO or DIY on WFMU. We will be skipping
the next (Winter) season in order to pursue other projects
so grab it while you can (not that it's going anywhere)
in mp3 form here at WFMU's
BEWARE THE BLOG.
Also,
while we take the season off you can access the show's
archives (which number over 60 hours now) here at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL
TouchRadio
From
digital gutter, here lie all the soundbytes edited out
of mic breaks for People Like Us's radio show DO or
DIY on WFMU
from June to September 2005. The show is all about cutting
together avant with pop, and the only aspect of this
one hour a week that has ever felt slightly out of place
has been the necessary mic breaks. So now we do them
justice by taking the entire unedited 3 hours, and in
Language
Removal Service style we take out all the meaning
and are left with 34 minutes of delicious background
noise, voice glitches and hesitations.
The
file is here http://bulletin.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio/Radio10/Radio10.m3u
If you go into iTunes you'll work out through the info
page how to download it as an mp3 too.
Subscribe
to Touch Podcasts here:
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/podcast.xml
- or just open iTunes, go to "Podcasts" then
"Advanced" on your menu settings. Then you
can "Subscribe to podcast" by pasting in the
above address.
Moptop
Mashups
(compilation Premium CD for Ken Freedman's
WFMU show) - 2005
Something
In The Way
Ken
Freedman - WFMU website
DO
or DIY on WFMU
(Summer Schedule) - 2005
The
final show of the 2005 summer season of People Like
Us's radio show on WFMU, a megamix of the best parts
of the series
Playlist here
WFMU website
The
Avant Retard mixathon
Artwork
here
and
here
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