With VJ Hexler at Ochiai Soup, 2019/09/14.
by Dave Skipper

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(Photo by Hexler)

A further physical action live sampling and mangling adventure. Full video below. This time, I recorded some sounds of me doing things to my guitar (a Washburn N2, my first guitar, bought 1995/11/11), and then distorted and destroyed those sounds during the rest of the set. I partnered with Hexler again for his stonking* visuals.
*stonking (adjective), informal British, “used to emphasise something impressive, exciting, or very large.”

Heavier Than Jupiter (HTJ) is the name of a series of noise events I have been running for several years, always at the wonderful venue that is Ochiai Soup, Tokyo. More on HTJ another time. This time around the event spanned two days, and I co-organised with the lovely dudes behind noise acts Like Weeds and Leecher. I have to say that all the other performances were totally top-notch, it was a fantastic weekend!

For me personally it was a special occasion as it was my first gig after emergency surgery three weeks earlier (I have written about that experience here: Intestinal Strangulation and Quantum Noise). Although I turned up at Soup exhausted, all the artists’ awesome noise gave me new energy for the weekend, and I guess I found something in reserve to focus my own performance. I love intensity in noise, and coming through emergency surgery definitely puts things in perspective and instils fresh purpose and intensity to life!

Listen Here!

I was REALLY happy with this set, I think it’s a significant improvement in the development and execution of the approach that I have been exploring in my performances in recent months. Hexler’s visuals were an amazing complement to the sounds, hats off sir! As usual, good headphones/speakers recommended… (direct link: https://youtu.be/QGTL28pvFyw)

Eurorack modules used:

• 4ms WAV Recorder
• Befaco InAmp
• Make Noise Morphagene
• Noise Engineering Kith Ruina
• Noise Engineering Seca Ruina
• Noise Engineering Sinc Defero
• Noise Engineering Viol Ruina
• Plankton Electronics ENVF
• Random*Source Resonant Equalizer
• Random*Source Stereo Mixer
• WMD MSCL

Credits

• Dave Skipper: sounds
• Rob Fischer aka Hexler: sights
• Aya Irizuki: video camera
• Nobuki Nishiyama: for his usual awesome work as live sound engineer
• Kenny Sanderson (Like Weeds, ex-Facialmess) & Yoshito Nagano (Leecher): for co-organising this 2-day event with me
• Yuhei Fukasawa (P.O.V.): for visiting from Oita and asking me to organise this event for him!
• All the other participating artists (see flier below): for the awesome noise!

Event Flier

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