MUSIC/COMPUTERS – WORKSHOP/GIG: Bleep 3

Hey again,

Bleep 3 is in two weeks time!

This time it's a jam workshop session at Happy on Monday the 23rd of
October (that's Labour Day), from 7pm.

We've got Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, who has come over from Canada
via the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne to play a gig the
following night down at Indigo. He's going to give a presentation
about the kinds of things he's been involved with and then we're all
going to get to have a jam together. As always, informal and no
pressure, it's all about the music...


*INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC STAR TO LEAD LOCAL MUSIC WORKSHOP*

For the first time, the Bleep workshops will be led by an
international star of the electronic music world: Montreal-based
dub/techno master Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, touching down fresh
from the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne to present his skills at
Happy on Monday the 23rd of October.

Appearing a day ahead of his gig at the San Francisco Bath House the
following night, Monteith will give a short presentation explaining
music-making strategies he has seen work effectively in live
situations, and then workshop participants will get down to business
trying them out for themselves, using their own music gear.

Monteith's presence will lend world-class talent to local musicians.
"I've had a fair amount of experience jamming with other people,"
Monteith says, "ranging from the kind of tag team stuff I do with
Steve as Crackhaus, the online solution Robert [Henke, aka
Monolake] and I developed for Atlantic Waves, right up to the 10 to
12 person jam sessions which Mutek events here are notorious for
turning into in the wee hours of the morning."

The workshop will be held at Happy, corner Tory and Vivian St, from
7pm on Monday 23rd of October. Entry is by koha/donation. To register
or for more information, please contact Damian Stewart on 027 305
4107, email damian@frey.co.nz , or visit
the website at http://www.frey.co.nz/bleep.


*Additional information about the Bleep workshops:*

This is the third in the series of Bleep workshops for people who
make music with machines. The workshops aim to get likeminded people
together to meet and to explore music making with others in a
loosely-directed informal workshop setting.

"People shouldn't be put off by the idea of music made using

machines," says Damian Stewart, aka Frey, the organiser of the
workshops, who will be performing as support for Monteith's Deadbeat
gig the next night at the San Francisco Bath House. "If you've ever
seen inside a piano, you'll know that it's a complicated mechanical
device -- it's a machine. It's the musician that makes the music --
the musician playing the piano, or in our case, the computers and the
electronic machinery."

*Additional information about Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat:*

With music released to consistent critical acclaim on the Cynosure,
Intr_version, Revolver, and ~scape labels, and having performed at
Barcelona's Sonar festival, Berlin's Transmediale, and Montreal's
Mutek, Monteith is well-versed in the art of electronic music-making
and live performance. "We are greatly honoured to have Scott here to
show us what's going on overseas," says Damian Stewart, organiser of
the Bleep workshops. "He brings international ideas to New Zealand,
ideas that we would have no way of getting otherwise."