Record Store Day Celebrations at PLUGD - Triskel, Cork

Plugd Records celebrates the first anniversary of its new home at the Triskel Arts Centre on Record Store Day April 21st 2012.  Be sure you join in the party at the Triskel Arts Centre with The Jimmy Cake, Melodica Deathship and Nanu Nanu!

My little family (cub pictured, ddmurph out of shot) will be in store from 7-8pm on Record Store Day to spin some of our wildest and weirdest black stuff so make a whole day of it and see ye down there over the course of the day!

More details here:

The Jimmy Cake/Melodica Deathship/Nanu Nanu @ Triskel

Review - Lydia Lunch / Wölflinge - Triskel Christchurch -wearenoise.com

 

Photo by Bríd O' Donovan

To help mark the celebrations for the fifth anniversary of The Black Mariah gallery here in Cork, I was invited to open for Lydia Lunch with a short performance. The space was very different to any other place that I've worked in before and I felt very alone in the piece, apart from hearing some cameras clicking halfway through.

Kieran O' Keeffe was there to review the show for wearenoise.com:

When I hear that tonight’s Lydia Lunch spoken word event will be opened by Wölflinge, it makes perfect sense. Once – and possibly still – an adjunct of the extended United Bible Studies collective, for many years a creative force in her own right, and renowned for pushing the boundaries here in our back yard with Black Sun and multiple collaborations, Vicky Langan aka Wölflinge is about the only local act who could effectively complement the show tonight, or with the kahunas to do so. Plus as tonight’s event is hosted by The Black Mariah gallery, both performers typically stretch across the grey area between music show and performance art. It should make for an interesting evening.

Wölflinge appears unannounced from the darkness at the back of the stage, unassuming as ever; readies an array of pedals, and preps for the performance by partially disrobing. Bare breasted, and contact mic in mouth, the crowd are soon pulled into a kind of uncomfortable intimacy with the performer, as every gulp of saliva and flutter of breath from inside her mouth is amplified to the level that you would normally only hear if the sound was coming from your own head.

Small jars are produced and held at ear level, upturned, allowing the contents – a thick, viscous, inky black liquid, to pour slowly out and cover the naked skin. Breathing, shallow and deep, is accompanied by various clicks and pops from the mic. This performance seems to follow on from recent collaborations with First Blood Pt II where the two are locked in close quarters and at times almost primal screaming into each other’s mouths. Tonight’s solo performance is more vulnerable, and is like an assault on the senses which culminates suddenly when the bodily sounds are thoroughly distorted into a fierce howl, before dissipating, and Wolflinge, now an exhausted figure streaked with black on her skin leaves the stained surroundings of the stage and steps back into the darkness from whence she came. I glance at my watch: the entire performace took no more than fifteen minutes. Impressive for the levels of intensity reached so quickly, most of the audience don’t seem to know what to make of it. Its wordless evocation of female agression and physical vulnerability is a fitting counterpart to the vocal diatribe we are about to experience. “The body is an experimental canvas, full of puss and cum”, we’ll hear later, and that take is foreshadowed here.

Read the rest of the review here: 

Lydia Lunch / Wölflinge – Triskel Christchurch, 12.04.12

Marcin Lewandowski exhibition at the Triskel, Cork.

John Wiese compacting my brain at Black Sun at the Triskel, 2012. Photo by Marcin Lewdandowski

Cork is lucky to have a photographer like Marcin Lewandowski stalking about. His photographs always floor me, and any time he's taken photos at a Black Sun event, I'm always amazed at how he manages to capture intimate moments with such stealth, craft and near-invisibility. It's worth noting then, that as part of their first anniversary celebrations, the Triskel Arts Centre are showing photographs of the many events that Marcin has photographed there over the last 12 months. Go and see for yourself!

www.soundofphotography.com/

facebook.com/soundofphotography

@MLSOP

Gnawing Me, Gnawing you -TONIGHT in Fredz

Dekklynn / Kevbjörn / Viktoriia / Stefin

https://www.facebook.com/GnawingMeGnawingYou

Debut gig tonight supporting FROM THE BOGS OF AUGHISKA
Fred Zeppelins, Cork.

10pm

Lydia Lunch // Wölflinge :: IN ORDER OF 5 YEARS -THE BLACK MARIAH

Book tickets here.

Black Sun (John Wiese & special guests) wearenoise.com review

Rachel Warriner reviews the recent Black Sun over on wearenoise.com

"Next we move down to the TDC for the performance from First Blood Part II & Wölflinge. The two performers stand under a blue spotlight, their mouths open and locked together as they make guttural, screaming, shouting noises. Muffled by their intimacy, the noises sound both sexual and angry, bodily and unworldly. Punctuating the action they break away from each other to spit into the air. Their mutual commitment to the performance makes it gripping to watch, it is vital and visceral."

Black Sun presents John Wiese & guests/screening -Sat March 31st, TDC.

Black Sun returns to the Triskel on Saturday 31st March for a night of powerful intensity. We welcome artist and composer John Wiese (USA), Wölfbait, the Irish premiere of 80’s Serbian underground film 'Personal Discipline' and a performance from First Blood Part II & Wölflinge. Doors 8pm.

John Wiese (www.john-wiese.com) is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, but is known for his collaborations with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Thurston Moore, Bastard Noise, No Age, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh as well as his work as a solo artist. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. While releasing albums on a variety of international labels, Wiese often releases work on his own label, Helicopter.

You've no doubt heard the rave reports regarding John's recent album for the great PAN label, Seven Of Wands and know his astounding back catalogue that finds itself filed under noise but isn't done justice by that narrow pigeonhole, with a technique more akin to the scientific precision of the late and legendary Maryanne Amacher, combined with tape collage, bloodyminded humour and a raft of sublime collaborations. Live, there's a deft artistry to John's work that sets him ahead of most others working in his area, his live shows as searing and explosive as they are intricately constructed.

This upcoming Black Sun will be shaken by a piercing cry of defiance swelling up from an astonishing and all-but-unknown zone of film history. Miroslav-Bata Petrović and Julijana Terek’s Personal Discipline (1983), without doubt the rarest film Black Sun has yet presented, is a product of the early ‘80s Serbian underground. Throbbing with punk attitude, it details a private ritual enacted by writer/performer Terek spilling onto the street in an irresistible upsurge of self-assertion in the face of repressive societal indifference. The pounding rhythms of Petrović’s aggressive editing combine with Terek’s beguiling concentration to create an experience liable to leave the viewer gasping for breath... We are delighted to be giving Personal Discipline its Irish premiere!

Also lined up is the debut Cork appearance from Wölfbait. I saw these guys in Dublin back in January and my eyes were rolling in their sockets it was so good. Delivering total UNGH! with perfect vocals.

First Blood Part II & Wölflinge return again for bewildering and raw, intimate action.

Vicky Langan interview (archived) on Nova, RTÉ Lyric Fm

Back in December 2009 (the day before the Black Sun with Blood Stereo, Fuaimbhac, Gryn Brvs and HereHareHere), I was invited up to RTÉ studios, along with a number of other Cork-based sound artists, to each do an interview with Bernard Clarke, the presenter of Nova, a contemporary music programme on RTÉ Lyric Fm.

As much as I was looking forward to visiting RTÉ and having a look around the studios, part of me felt like I really had no business being interviewed for such a highly-esteemed show on national radio. It was my first time being interviewed as 'an artist' or 'composer', both terms I shrugged off uncomfortably anytime they were mentioned.

I haven't listened back to the recording in a while but looking at the playlist, I'm reminded of what ground we covered. At the time, I was ferociously private about the work I created. I wasn't interested in documenting performances and had little interest in ever recording something that wasn't for a live audience. All we had to go on was recordings of a number of collaborations I had done with various friends over the years, along with one solo recording where I taped myself screaming into a tube in my bedroom for the Rediscovering Locality A Sonology Of Cork Sound Art cd curated by Danny McCarthy.

Bernard was a very sharp interviewer and I loved our time spent together. Our conversation tumbled out so naturally that it ended up becoming an hour long feature on his two hour programme. My mother was burstin' with pride, and I'm delighted to have been able to pay a small tribute to her and the influence she's had on me over the years. When it was broadcast that summer night the following year, I lay on my bed and held a pillow over my face, shouting into it anytime I heard my voice. It was tough going, but I eventually relaxed and began to enjoy listening to the chat unfold.

So, here's the interview from 4th December 2009, which was eventually broadcast August 1st 2010.

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/1375893.html

Playlist: 

Voltos Bolt - Vainio/Vaisanen - Pan Sonic - Gravitoni - Blastfirstpetite - PTYT 045 - 03:39

Early Morning Fog - Reto Mader - RM74 - Reflex - Utech Records - 05:45

Monk - Denseland - Denseland - Chunk - Mosz - MOSZ-022 - 05:11

Frozen Chunk - Denseland - Denseland - Chunk - Mosz - MOSZ-022 - 03:16

Thinking You Are Here And I Am There - Female Orphan Asylum - Vicky Langan and Brian Conniffe - 06:07

Transitory Life - Laurie Anderson - Laurie Anderson - Homeland - Nonesuch - 524055-2 - 06:51

Time Lapse - Arve Henriksen - Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro - Rune Grammofon - RCD 2037 - 05:07

Ending Image - Arve Henriksen - Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro - Rune Grammofon - RCD 2037 - 02:26

.Your Heart Stops.You Continue Writing - Michal Nejtek - Prague Modern/Michel Swierczewski - European Broadcasting Union Recording - 12:36

After Pieces 1 - Raymond Deane - Raymond Deane - Contemporary Music From Ireland Volume 1 - CMC - CMC CD 01 - 04:09

The Ninth Set Sector 1 - Roger Doyle - Roger Doyle - The Ninth Set - Die Stadt - DS103 - 09:51

Pathworking - Female Orphan Asylum - Vicky Langan and Brian Conniffe - 03:35

She Belongs To Me - Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - CBS - CD32344 - 01:35

I'M Going Home - Traditional American - Ervin Webb & Prisoners - Presenting The Alan Lomax Collection - Rounder Records - CRSCD 810 - 02:30

Lamp-Lit Wood - Agitated Radio Pilot - David Colohan and Vicky Langan - David Colohan and Vicky Langan - 03:35

For Alice Coltrane - United Bible Studies - United Bible Studies - 05:45

Howlaround - Vicky Langan - Wolflinge - Rediscovering Locality A Sonology Of Cork Sound Art - Farpoint - FARPOINT031 - 00:45

Rentre Bourre - Jean-Louis Costes - Jean-Louis Costes - 04:01

Voce - Vicky Langan and Damien Donovan - Vicky Langan and Damien Donovan - 05:06-

Lydia Lunch // Wölflinge :: IN ORDER OF 5 YEARS -THE BLACK MARIAH

  IN ORDER OF 5 YEARS

 THE BLACK MARIAH present:

LYDIA LUNCH / WÖLFLINGE

 THURSDAY APRIL 12,

TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH, CORK

 http://www.triskelartscentre.ie

   

Grouper & special guests Raising Holy Sparks -27th March

Happy to announce that I'll be playing at the this show as part of Raising Holy Sparks.

Skinny Wolves Presents

GROUPER – “Violet Replacement”

& special guests

RAISING HOLY SPARKS

The Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen’s Green West, Dublin, Ireland
Tuesday 27th March 2012, 8pm

National Sculpture Factory -Dispatches 2011

Dispatches 2011 (outlining projects at the National Sculpture Factory from 2011)

http://nationalsculpturefactory.com/?page_id=2269

"Wölflinge created a vunerable, visceral & physically charged sound-performance where Langan's body was tested to its limits, lying in a pool of manure while performing on a piano harp all the while labouring under its weight. Langan's discomforting and troubling rituals bring an intensity to the shared performance and a shared physical experience."