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16 February 2010 Lots to tell. Here goes: 1. Online T-Shirt Store is go! I've started a Redbubble store here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/kriskeogh I've done 10 brand new designs, and you can choose the size/colour/style of shirt you want and they send it to your door. sweet!  2. Red Plum and Snow online store all go! http://redplumandsnow.bandcamp.com We've put together an online store just in time for the release of our second EP. Everything is available for download for free/pay what you want. Enjoy! 3. iPhone Game in the works... I've teamed up with Melbourne based software developers Nyarlu Labs and we are currently designing a drum machine application for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. I'm drawing/designing the interface, working on some futuristic beat warping functions and creating the samples for it. The release won't be for several more months, but i promise that it's a whole other take on drum programming. Stay tuned... Thays all for now. lv k 10 January 2010 Here's a gift. A desktop wallpaper for you. Lv. k  8 December 2009 Free download! Kris Keogh - Analog Transmission 011 Analog Transmission is a Sydney based net label, dropping cutting edge electronic music releases every single Monday! I've done a new 31 minute live set just for them. It's what we might call the transitionary phase from blastcorp to something else, the source samples are sourced from blastcorp songs, but ive completely reformatted then into some nasty minimal techno via the monome. Download: www.analogtransmission.com Sign up for the analog transmission RSS feed (you get notified of each new release as it happens): http://www.analogtransmission.com/feed.rss Subscribe to the Analog Transmission Podcast on iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=326264441 7 December 2009  Blastcorp - Goodbye - R.I.P (2000-2009) The final album...Download now from: http://blastcorp.bandcamp.com Hi! Here’s the final Blastcorp release, Goodbye. It’s time for me let go of this Blastcorp project. Call it creative differences, I guess between me and myself… A decade is a long time. It’s been such a schizophrenic ride, from glitch noise to ambient calmness, from washing machine music to acoustic lovesongs. From my old Akai sampler and scratched CD’s, to the super-futuristic Monome, via guitar, harp and becoming brave enough to sing. I’ve played some crazy gigs, from Arnhem Land to Japan: on beaches, in loungerooms, sock shops, underground tunnels, garages, botanic gardens, cement bunkers, deluxe theatres and plenty of skanky pubs. Its made me so happy, so many times and I want to share all these songs rather than let them hide away on my hard drive.
This album is in four sections, it’s really more like four separate EP’s with 5 songs each.
1-5: Electronic Lovesongs 6-10: Dancefloor Action 11-15: Processed Ambience 16-20: Acoustic Sketches
I’ve never done a thank you list before, so now seems like a pretty fitting time. I used to think I just made music for myself, but it’s not true. I made this for you. Thanks for listening, I’m honoured. Without everyone below I would have never been bothered. Blastcorp bandmates: Dr. Mike, Byron, Francis Collaborators: Pippa & Richie, Justin Mullins, Dsico, Sarah Bock, Snapsuit People who believed in me: Deb, Gretchen, Roddy, Gemma, Mark, Ruben, Genki, Valissa, Brandon and Mollie. My teachers: Adrian (Guitar), Harumi (Harp) and Marineboy (Sampler and Protools) And all the people who helped along the way: Happy Yess, all at Elefant Traks, Music NT, Soundsummit, fbi, 2SER, Lari Gadza, Levins, Cincos, Fumi Yagi, Shaka-Itchi, Sub Bass Snarl, Matt Levinson, Frigid, Triple J, Browns Mart, Vaughton/Newy crew, Darwin High, Amy Brand, Nickamc, Holty, Cal, Simmo, James Mangohig, Monkeymarc, Kongo crew, Discobeans, Analog Transmission, Mark Harwood, CDU, Clan Analogue, all my students, all the bands I’ve played with and everyone that came to shows or bought albums. I’m not sure what’s next, but expect a new project soon… Big Love Kris 29 November 2009 I've got a 31 minute live monome set coming out on www.analogtransmission.com on Monday December 7th. It will be a free download. Yay! 9 November 2009 The world is almost fucked beyond repair. I don’t want to be part of the problem anymore. Below is my new manifesto. I’m telling everyone. Think about it, and pull me up if I slack off.
1. Personal
2. Local
3. Political
4. Work
30 October 2009 Well, I spent October on the road, it was lots of fun. Thank you to Mia, Snaps, Lari, Valissa, Amy, Adele and Francesca for letting me sleep at your respective houses! The gigs went well, the art shows looked good. I was really happy with everything. Things were pretty random at times. I headlocked a heckler, played a duet with a giant woven egg and rocked the party in the back of a Japanese sock shop. I also complained about the cold non-stop and made some wonderful new friends. Yay! Here's whats coming next in Blastcorp land: 1. November 2009: Releasing a new 4 track Digital EP of ambient tracks. Harp, guitar and piano processed with my handmade LoveandLoops software. Also working on a hard techno 12 inch that has developed out of my recent live shows. 2. Making more art and planning next year's exhibitions. 3. Sorting out this web vs $ thing by: a) launching blastcorp.bandcamp.com where you can download my entire back catalogue. b) opening a RedBubble T-Shirt E-store. c) making an Etsy store for my artworks. Stay tuned. Talk soon. Love K | Upcoming: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Plum & Snow - CD Launch Friday 12th March 2010 - Happy Yess Gretchen and I have made a new EP called 'Small Songs', fragile little songs with some fairly heavy processing, arty and tuneful in equal parts! There's 5 tracks, including a very warped remake of "I Would Die 4 U' by Prince! Launch night: We play plus a very special guest, June Mills and a Super 8 film screening by Rod Balaam. Gretchen is also making cakes and sweets for the night. I am happy about that.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smith St West - Kris Keogh, Colin Holt & Ginger Albers - Art Show Thurs 1 April 2010 - Happy Yess If all goes to plan, it will be the opening of the NEW Happy Yess venue. Stay tuned... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kris Keogh and Robert Curgenven 16 April 2010 - Darwin Entertainment Centre Rob will be playing stuff from his new album, released in Europe on 12K earlier this year. I will be playing a solo harp show, some au naturale, some processed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kris Keogh 13 - 30 May 2010 - Melbourne - Art Show and Sound Installation Next Wave Festival Melbourne Sleepover - An Overnight Sound Performance. Sleepover is a 10-hour musical lullaby designed to be experienced while drifting in and out of sleep. The audience bring their pillows, sleeping bags, teddy bears and sweets, spending a night sleeping over in the gallery while the work is performed. Keogh creates dream-like audio environments in real time by generating and processing sounds from musical toys and household items, using a handmade Monome controller and his own custom audio processing software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archive: MegaBass! - Dubstep, Jungle, Breakbeat Night Friday 26th Feb 2010 - Happy Yess I've started a monthly DJ night at Happy Yess, playing futuristic bass music: Dubstep, Wonky, Breaks plus some classic Jungle and Ragga for good measure. Joining me is Clipper (aka Simon White) and monthly guests. We havent DJ'd together since the early days of Kongo, (he's been DJing and bombing Melbourne for a decade) so it's lovely to hang out again. Megabass! is the last Friday of every month, starting this month on February 26th. We even hire more subs for the PA to make sure its properly bass heavy. Come feel it!  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kris - DJ Set The Deadshits 2 Cats 1 Hat Sat 16 Jan 2010 - Railway Club Parap, 8pm Jez and Lauren are packing up and leaving. Come and party. (Not because they are leaving though!) The Deadshits is me, holty, rod and simmo. Scungy rock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri Dec 4 - Darwin - Live Crassic Park Album Launch Brown's Mart All Ages $10, 7pm Crassic Park Blastcorp Semishigure Hooch Slaughtertoall Zed Major  Fri Nov 20 - Darwin - Live Prince Tribute Night Blastcorp and heaps more. stay tuned... ---------------------------------- Sat Nov 14 - Darwin - Art Show Offcuts - Don Whyte Framing Travers St, Coconut Grove Annual group show of pretty much everyone making art in Darwin. Come check it before the gig below...  Sat Nov 14 - Darwin - Live and DJ set! LFO Happy Yess 5 Bennett St, Darwin 9pm-1am $5 Live + DJ: Blastcorp DJ's: Schmaltz Summertime Bass heavy beats night. I'm dropping my new nasty minimal beats set, Shmaltz is back from Austria with a crateload of new d'n'b and dubstep plus Summertime (aka Sime - original Kongo crew member) has the breaks and dancehall action. Saturday Oct 24 2009- Melbourne - Live 7pm-midnight Essence - Installed Art in Pipemakers Park Maribyrnong (Melway ref: 28 B10), Melbourne Cost: Costumed=Free, Not Bothering=$8 Funraiser for F.uture A.rts R.esearch Facebook event link here Art Installation Event with Live Electronica. Featuring work from Lalalullaby. Kris Keogh. Robin Fox. Severin Seiben. Pete Strong. Georgia Snowball. Shami Kiely. Minna Graham. Wayne King. Paul Irving. Anthony Sawrey. Bargeman. Narinda Cook. Emil Egg. I'm playing a Blastcorp set with a MIDI controlled 2 metre high
swinging egg called Lala, lovingly installed in a giant pyramid and
made by Pippa and Richie. This will be something else, i promise. And
Robin Fox is playing. If you don't know about him yet, find out quick!
He uses lasers. Awesome. Here's a sneak previow of Lala. Swinging sends MIDI data, which i will get to turn into sound! ——————————– Fri. Oct 23 2009 - Melbourne - Live6-9pm I.n0jaQ Solo Exhibition!! Cut it up...<Flog it> at Discobeans (japanese sock shop!) 238 High St, Northcote Cut it Party(opening) live: Kohta Blastcorp Cat-grrl KT-SPIT CDDjaQshit ——————————– Friday 16 Oct 2009- Melbourne - Art Show Opening and Live!  6pm-late Discobeans - 238 High St, Northcote My first solo art show in Melbourne! Not only that, live action with: Blastcorp, Ai Yamamoto, Talkshowboy and James Goes To Sydney Discobeans was Osaka’s original no-rules crazy art breakcore anything-goes space. It’s relocated to Melbourne and continues the tradition of bringing crazy shit to people who care. ——————————– Sunday Oct 11 2009- Sydney - Live
Sunday Wreckovery The Excelsior Hotel, Foveaux St, Surry Hills 4-9pm, $10 (im on from 6-7pm) Live: Familia Blastcorp Random Acts Dj's: Telefonica DJ's DJ Tigerlilly Cobra Presented by Clan Analogue.  ——————————– Thursday 1 Oct 2009 - Newcastle - Art Show Art Opening! @ Upcycling Shop 2, Silk House, 200 Hunter St, Newcastle (its in the Mall opposite David Jones!) 6pm, Free! Kris Keogh + David Collins - Decks An exhibition of hand painted recycled skateboards decks. Chuan to drop a DJ set. Will be fun. Facebook event link here  ——————————– Friday 2 October - Newcastle - Panel 2pm-4pm, Free Venue: TPI Auditorium, Ground Floor, 231 King St, Newcastle Creative Communities I'm talking about organising artists and musicians to make cool stuff happen, Happy Yess style. ——————————– Saturday 3 October - Newcastle - Live 12pm-2pm, Free Crack Theatre presents...Goofbang E-Zine Luanch at the Crack House - PAN Building, 5 Auckland St, Newcastle Blastcorp live plus heaps more. I did the artwork for the zine, have a song and 2 videos in there too for you. Come and grab a copy!  ——————————– Sunday 4 Oct 2009- Newcastle - Monome Workshop 3:30-5pm, Free. TAFE Sheds: 590-608 Hunter Street Know Your Gadgets Facilitator: Andrew Tuttle (Peer Pressure, Anonymeye) Panelists: Kris Keogh (Blastcorp), Alex Yabsley (Dot.AY), Cornel Wilczek (Qua), Tim Shiel (Faux Pas) Know Your Gadgets explores the endless possibilities of all that blips and bobs, with interactive demonstrations of innovative approaches to producing, composing and performing electronic music. Getting your nerd on has never looked and sounded so damn cool. ——————————– Sunday Oct 4 2009- Newcastle - Live 3pm-11:30pm, I'm on at 7:30pm SHARP!!, Free. TINA Festival Club - Masons, 102 King St, Newcastle New Weird Australia In borrowing terminology, NWA shrinks the notion of distance between genre, taste, Australia’s own vastness and the world. Neither popular nor alternative, one genre nor another, NWA represents a new breed that find refuge in the space between us, played out in realtime around a renewed Newcastle. Feat: Holy Balm, Gugg (Vic), kyü, Moonmilk, Castings, Alps, smRts (WA), Blastcorp (NT), Brutal Hate Mosh (Qld), Go Genre Everything, Lucia Draft, Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts. Thursday 11th June 2009 - Darwin Art Opening - Lisence To Confuse Kris Keogh and Sam Tupou 6pm Happy Yess 5 Bennett St, Darwin City. LIVE music galore too! This show is collaborative works made over a week while Kris was visiting Cairns.  ——————————– Sat 25th Apr 2009 - Cairns Submerge#2 8pm Crate59 Gallery 59 Sheridan St, Cairns line up: Blastcorp (live monome set), Diverse Dance, Font, e.d., Cassidy Maeir, Return Return v’s File_Error
——————————– Thursday 23rd April 2009 - Cairns
 Friday 20th March 2009 - Darwin Bsss Concussion DJ's: Blastcorp, Schmaltz 9pm, $5 Happy Yess, 5 Bennett St  Sunday 8th March 2009 - Adelaide Red Plum and Snow live! The Wheatsheaf Hotel 7pm, $5 Triple CD launch Red Plum and Snow, Country Town Collective and Greedy Stout. ——————————– Thursday 5th March 2009 - Adelaide Red Plum and Snow live! The Wheatsheaf Hotel 7pm, $5 with a bunch of Darwin bands  ——————————– Wednesday 4th March 2009 - AdelaideBlastcorp Live! The Wheatsheaf Hotel 7pm, $5 entry. Guitar, laptop, monome set. ——————————– Saturday 14th February 2009 - Darwin Darwin Entertainment Centre Blastcorp, Red Plum & Snow, Cooperblck Live $15/13 - 8pm  ——————————– Friday 27th February 2009 - Darwin Red Plum and Snow live Happy Yess, Darwin w/ Genevieve Graves and Semishigure $5, 9pm ——————————– Thursday 11th December 2008 - Darwin Kris Keogh - Art Exhibition Opening - Darwin Happy Yess, 5 Bennett St, Darwin. 6pm-midnight, Free entry Art for sale (nice christmas presents!) plus: The Bionic Hearts (live) Shmaltz (DJ) My second solo art exhibtion, and my first one in australia! Paintings done over the last few months in Osaka and Darwin. Bonus entertainment from the amazing Bionic Hearts and minimal beats courtesy of the master, Shmaltz.  ————————————————————– Saturday 13th December 2008 - Darwin Blastcorp + Genevieve Graves + The Feedback Orchestra Happy Yess, 5 Bennett St $5, 9pm-1am The last night of Happy Yess for 08 and a lovely way to return home. Playing my new blastcorp stuff (on the monome!), plus a sonic onslaught of guitar mayhem and darwin’s (if not the world’s) sweetest singer-songwriter, genevieve graves. ————————————————————– Friday 7th November 2008 - Osaka, Japan Kris Keogh - Art Exhibition Opening Taisho Perori Sangenya 1-13-7 Taisho-ku OSAKA Friday 7th November 2008, 7pm-midnight Free Entry Live: blastcorp DJ;s Shaka-Itchi, Bangin Live painting: Kris and Fumi  ————————————————————– Saturday 30th November 2008 - Osaka, Japan Exhibition Closing Party Taisho Perori Sangenya 1-13-7 Taisho-ku OSAKA Saturday 30th November 2008, 7pm-midnight Live: Blastcorp Live Paint: Kris. Completeing my mural on the wall in the gallery! ————————————————————– Sunday 19th October 2008 - Osaka, Japan Aoyama Harp School - Autumn Recital
International House, Osaka 2-6 Uehommachi 8-chome, Tennoji-ku, Osaka 財団法人 大阪国際交流センター 〒543-0001 大阪市天王寺区上本町8-2-6 Sunday 19th October 2008, 1pm. Free Entry I’m playing an Aphex Twin song I transcibed for harp. My first proper harp show. About 15 other performers, harp frenzy! Terms Report Abuse Print | Powered by Google Sites |