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Carlos Casas: unedited interview transcript

Here's the full transcript, plus links and film clips, of the interview with the Catalan audio-visual artist Carlos Casas that forms the basis for the Cross Platform article on Carlos in the new June issue of The Wire . Can you say something about the relationship between recorded sound and filmed image in your work, how they work together, inform or influence each other, or contradict. Actually, sound is a direct extension of the film. I have started to develop in my last three films a much more organic way of working with sound and soundtrack. All sounds that appear in the film are tightly related to the film, the subject I am filming or the place. All the layers of information float in the soundtrack as an integral part of it, it provides the z axis, the third dimension, so to speak, it enhances the image, it is the sound that provides...

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D30, D60, D90 Go

Myself and Nick Richardson will be hosting a tape-only extravaganza on the Adventures In Modern Music show tonight, with music new and old culled from the cassette archives at The Wire office and various other sources, to celebrate the thriving cassette music underground in the US, UK and beyond. You might ask... why? And why now? Over the last year or so the number of tapes coming into The Wire office have increased steadily. It started with Noise heads, but electroacoustic musicians and field recordists have followed down the same route, and Hypnagogic Pop has taken to the cassette form like The Skaters to the music racks at your local charity shop. Record labels have even used them for promo purposes (to avoid pre-releases getting ripped and spread on the internet). We were musing as to what's the appeal of the format. First off, fidelity: cassettes hiss like hell,...

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The Wire at Mutek 6 June

The weather thus far has been warm and humid, so you can wander the city and venue-hop way into the night, but yesterday the heavens opened on and off throughout the afternoon. Mutek's outdoor picnic went ahead just about, we hear, but we were at our stall in Monument-National watching the rain storms come and go. The music began in earnest at around 7pm at Sat with Vladislav Delay, and the programe (including CM Von Hausswolf) was centred around various takes on tone-experiment/drone/beatless exploration – a somewhat abstract line-up for a Saturday night. I only made it down to the venue a little later when Tim Hecker was on, and the place was completely dark, so Hecker himself was only visible in silhouette, with shards of guitar chords just about sensible through the churn of effects. Hecker was doing this before many others, and moments of it hit home. A melody would be routed through his laptop again and again and when...

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The Wire in Mutek 5 June 2010

Our series of four artist Q&As are complete – The Caretaker and Mouse On Mars completed the set yesterday, and all four should be available to download soon. So last night was the first time we got out on the town proper, heading away from the main Monument-National venue and into the clubs – although as it happens, they're just across the road. Sat and Club Soda are right over the street, separated by a few strip clubs. The main area of Mutek used to be (and still partially is) a red light district, and there's a square just around there which is a big area for street drinkers, but with the number of people on the street due to Montreal's balmy weather, it's a intimate, friendly atmosphere both inside and out the clubs. Club Soda has one main room with a high ceiling and balconies down the side, everything pointing your attention to the stage, with concrete and metal decor...

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The Wire in Mutek 4 June 2010

Greetings from Montreal, where The Wire is stationed for the next four days or so. We're currently in our hotel room trying to shake off jetlag by watching a selection of YouTube clips of schmaltzy ballads and power rock posted by Leyland James Kirby. It's working.... we think. All these old school Yello, Daryl Pandy and 80s rock clips are taking us back just enough in time so that we sync with where we left our bodyclocks in the UK. Our coffee machine isn't working, sadly, and Nathan Budzinski is behind me reading Cold World: The Aesthetics Of Dejection And The Politics Of Militant Dysphoria , but apart from that everything's rosy, and the festival has been impressive. The is the first time we've been to Mutek - we're in the middle of a selection of Q&As presented in association with the festival, and after Matmos and King Midas Sound we've got Caretaker and Mouse On Mars today at...

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Konx-om-Pax Display Copy Mix

Glasgow-based director, animator and sound designer Konx-om-Pax aka Tom Scholefield (designer/director for Hudson Mohawke and Jamie Lidell amongst others) has put together a club night as part of his Display Copy project (studio and record label). Forthcoming gigs scheduled are: Oneohtrix Point Never, Tomutonttu, DJ set from Konx-om-Pax and special guests. Glasgow Artschool , 29 May, 11pm–3am, £5/6. Gescom, Konx-om-Pax and Guy Veale, Glasgow Ivy Bar, 4 June, 8pm–12am, free. Download Konx-om-Pax's Display Copy mix here 1. City Scum Shot, “The Bamboo Vein” 2. Grippers Nother Onesers, “After Dark Cravings” 3. Ducktails, “Seagull’s Flight” 4. Dolphins Into The Future, “Lone Voyager” 5. Tod Dockstader, “Knockwhistle” 6. Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan, “The Visitor from Inner Space” 7. Bruce Haack (Miss Nelson And Bruce), “Mudra” 8. Conrad Schnitzler, “Trigger One 2″ 9. Irsol, “Concentration” 10. Tolerance, “Sacrifice” 11. Stephen Mallinder, “Length of Time” 12. David...