THE
dreamSTATE DRONE CYCLE 2012
January through December 2012
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In the year 2000, dreamSTATE performed The Drone Cycle 2000 - monthly concerts of improvisations based on the notes of the chromatic scale: January in C, February in C#... Each month Scott M2 and Jamie Todd were joined by special guests to add their special flavours to the brew. It was a landmark year for dreamSTATE who had the great privilege of creating new ambient drone music live each month with these amazing soundartists. Beginning January 10th, 2012, on the "Chromatic Anniversary" of The Drone Cycle 2000, dreamSTATE launched the Cycle again, with new special guests performing with them on a wide variety of instruments, as they traversed the scale back downward: January in C, February in B, March in Bb... to bring the Drone home. dreamSTATE were very happy to have analogue visual greats General Chaos Visuals illuminating the entire cycle with their unique light paintings. All concerts were presented by THE AMBiENT PiNG and hosted by Supermarket at 268 Augusta Ave., Toronto. |
dreamSTATE
with Heiki and General
Chaos Visuals
January 10th, 2012 - photo by Rich Baker
| The
first recorded fruit of The Drone Cycle 2012 has now been released
- a new CD of winter-inspired soundscapes recorded in January with Heiki
Sillaste. The album is titled The
North Shore and is a numbered limited-edition of 250 copies
in digipaks with glass mastered audio CDs and 4 signed artcards. |
IMAGES FROM THE DRONE CYCLE 2012 CONCERTS
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - DECEMBER (C#)
with Beau
Lukes - Photo by Eric Hopper
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December 4th, 2012 ~ Beau Lukes (aka Sorcerer) helped dreamSTATE bring the Cycle to its conclusion performing on electronic hand percussion and an ancient drone instrument - the didgeridoo. Darren Copeland opened the evening by performing a special version of John Cage's Four.6 where all sounds designated for each performer in the score were derived from the archival recordings of dreamSTATE's previous 11 Drone Cycle 2012 concerts. The sounds were also matched with details of General Chaos' light projections from the Cycle. Darren performed the piece as part of worldwide celebrations for the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth. |
Images
from General Chaos projected for John Cage's Four.6
performed with soundscapes from the Drone Cycle 2012
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - NOVEMBER (D)
with Terrence O'Brien - Photo by Eric Hopper
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Tuesday
November 6th, 2012 ~ Terrence
(Terry) O'Brien (aka Anomalous Disturbances) is a master of
live-looping and quite a gear aficionado. dreamSTATE enjoyed
his latest sounds and approaches to guitar, guitar-synth, treatments
and looping.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - OCTOBER (D#)
with Ben Grossman and Hugh Marsh - Photo by Lynn Harrigan
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October
9th, 2012 ~ Synthesizers met the the sounds of instruments
born before the Renaissance and played by modern masters, as dreamSTATE
was joined by Ben
Grossman on hurdy
gurdy and electronics and Hugh
Marsh on violin and electronics.
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THE DRONE CYCLE 2012 - SEPTEMBER (E)
with Phil Ogison and Alan Bloor - Photo by Eric Hopper
| September
11th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE were very happy to have space guitarist
Phil
Ogison (The Devil In The Design, Amoeba Starfish) join the trip,
along with the master of metal Alan
Bloor (Pholde, Knurl), playing a fantastic instrument he designed
- constructed from a very large saw blade and metal strings which he
stroked, scraped and struck with violin bows, metal rods and bars. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - AUGUST (F)
with Kalte - photo by Lynn Harrigan
| August
14th, 2012 ~ In the heart of summer, dreamSTATE's August
theme was COLD, as they performed a super-chilled Drone Cycle
set with the ice-blooded duo from Kalte
- Rik MacLean (Mara's
Torment) & Deane Hughes (Akumu).
At this special show for THE AMBiENT PiNG's 13th Anniversary - the
key was F for Freezing. |
Scenes
from the Drone Cycle 2012 by Lynn
Harrigan.
Byron
Kent Wong - May 15th, 2012 by Lynn
Harrigan.
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - JULY (F#)
with Steven Sauvé and Rob Hoare - Photo by Lynn
Harrigan
| July
10th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE performed for the first time with
multi-talented wind player Rob
Hoare (Geek Weekend), visiting from Berlin, and with their old
friend, synthesist Steven
Sauvé (Geek Weekend, karmafarm, quasiMODAL) who has performed
with them many times - notably in the first Drone Cycle in July 2000.
The key was F# for F#nky. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - JUNE (G)
with Odradek - photo by Lynn
Harrigan
| June
12th, 2012 ~ For this edition of the Cycle, dreamSTATE
was joined by the three sound artists from Odradek:
Andy Yue, James Bailey and Michelangelo Iaffaldano
all on electronics - plus some acoustic instrumental work by Michelangelo. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - MAY (G#)
with Byron Wong - photo by Bert
Bonkowski
| May 15th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE's May Drone Cycle set was also a tribute to their friend and revered radio radical David Pritchard and their special guest was electronic producer Byron Kent Wong as they collaged electronics, live and prepared radio, transformed samples of David's voice and some never-released tracks which Scott mined from old demo cassettes and re-keyed into the drone note of G#. Byron brought along several vintage instruments - including David's old ARP 2600. Liz Janik (one of the last daytime DJs to program their own music at CFNY - a station where David was the original program director) was in the house to introduce the dreamSTATE set. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - APRIL (A)
with Harry Kessels - photo by
Vik Pahwa
| April
10th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE was joined by Harry Kessels, of the
Dutch/Canadian multimedia project Wave
World, performing
on theremin, voice and synthesizer. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - MARCH (A#)
with Jim Field - photo by Bert
Bonkowski
| March
13th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE's special guest was space-guitarist
Jim Field of Northumbria,
Spacenoiz
and Rhea's Obsession. Jim tuned waaaay down to A# for this show. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - FEBRUARY (B)
with Matthew Poulakakis - photo
by Eric Hopper
| February
7th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE's special guest was Matthew Poulakakis
of Automatic Fats, Panoramaroid, Salvagesound, Wassonic,
and NOiNO. Matthew performed wth samples and a variety of trinkets and
found-sound objects. |
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - JANUARY (C)
with Heiki
- photo by Rich Baker
| January
10th, 2012 ~ dreamSTATE's special guest for the launch of
the Drone Cycle 2012 was electronic artist Heiki
Sillaste, probably best known for his work in his groups Kinder
Atom, Digital Poodle and Lazer Caps and his labels paper+sound, nice+smooth
and Shadow Canada. |
| Music
from this concert appears on
The
North Shore - a limited-edition of 250 copies in digipaks
with glass mastered audio CDs and 4 signed artcards. |