Good news. The videoclip for AMay is currently up and running in the Portable Film Festival:

http://portablefilmfestival.com/video.php?video=405

This is actually the highest res presentation of the clip available online, plus you can download it from there in formats like ipod movie, PSP movie and even 3G Phone.

If you think that the clip is All That – like I do – please register on the Portable Film Festival site and vote for it!

NY's The Indie Revolution played AMay this weekend. It's the first track in their podcast for Sunday 11th August, 2008.

There's also a cool Aeriae ad in Wonkavision Magazine #42, which is out on the stands now. Check it out on the Press page.

I've added a new 'Listen Online' page to the site. The flash jukebox includes all eleven tracks from Hold R1 (seven at full length, four as opening excerpts) plus four Aeriae remixes.

Try it out

1 _ Alternative and electronic music watchers Release gave Aeriae the nod today. To them I say, 'Cheers!'

2 _ I have begun to work on a live performance. The nature of it is decided principally by the fact that I don't find it interesting to watch a person behind a laptop, especially when 100% of the gestures making the music are not discernible. Second, this music is way complicated. Compositionally speaking, this is part of the genre's great appeal to me - that the compositions aren't defined or limited by what a human can do in real time. For these reasons I wondered for a long time if there was any way to perform this music that would satisfy me. This year I saw Moldover's video on Controllerism. His methods are informed significantly by DJ practice, which is something I've never had any interest in, but the whole thing was striking, practical, visual and creatively legitimate. I'm taking what he's generously offered as a starting point and am working on applying it to my own work. It's been very hard so far, but I've got the hardware, I'm building stuff with the software, and it is coming together. I've got a live version of AMay which I muck up 60% of the time, and I'm working on Skirr. What lies ahead is months of practice, refinement, track translation and building. So it's quite a ways off, but I believe I'll get there, and be able to offer a live version of Aeriae.

I like Delta Goodrem plenty. This seems to surprise most folk and causes them to deduct coolness points from me. Today I recommend you stow away any preconceptions and listen to my (COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL) Aeriae take on 'Believe Again'. Somehow it's my favourite thing I've released this year, actually (note - released, not composed). You can pick it up from the B-Sides + Remixes page.

Background info on this remix: Delta's 'You Will Only Break My Heart' single (got it for the princely sum of $4.99 at JB Hi-Fi as I recall) came with a U-Myx version of 'Believe Again' on the B-side. U-Myx is kind of the Fisher Price of the remix world, allowing folks to produce very simple remixes of a given track using colourful onscreen blocks. Now I didn't use U-Myx to remix the track (it would be physically impossible to achieve anything like this with U-Myx) but what U-Myx offered me was access to a lot of isolated audio tracks from Believe Again. Just Delta's lead vocals, just her backup choir, just the guitar, etc. This provided great flexibility re: the source material.

I heard Catcall's 'August' on FBi over summer and was immediately a big fan. I did a remix of the track in January; Catcall was well chuffed. The remix is now doing the rounds on FBi FM. Head over to my B-Sides + Remixes page to download the remix.

I've been on garageband.com for a few years now, and while I've scored 'Track Of The Day' many times, I never managed to crack their elusive-seeming Top 20 in the Experimental Electronica genre until now. My (relatively weird) second B-side from Hold R1, Hermiones, has done the trick and got the Track Of The Week slot in the process. The moral of this story is that you just can't pick how any particular track will be received.

Link: The Hermiones page on garageband.com

The track is free to download from garageband or my own B-sides page.

New review of the album:

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/?p=1789

In January I participated in The Twentieth Project, in which an assortment of artists record a track in the space of a day. The results are gathered on a compilation CD. My track Lenticular Cup appears on the January 20th, 2008 CD. The CD isn't publicly available but the Aeriae track is. You can download it from this LastFM page.

Radio stations recently playing Aeriae:

FBi
JJJ
3RRR
2GLF
LastFM

(This is a dynamic, periodically updated post.)

I entered this track in a remix comp hosted by Musicaoltranza and Hefty Records. Didn't win Check it out on the B-Sides + Remixes page.

You can now buy Hold R1 in Red Eye Records, York St, Sydney. Incidentally this is my fave record shop in the world, so this is way cool!



... and with the madness of xmas out of the way I'm back to working on new tracks. One I completed from go to woe in a day as part of the 20th Project for January, and it'll be released by them accordingly. I'm also working on two other originals and a weird/grime/slowed-down-ravey remix of a track I heard on FBi by another Sydney artist.

Live in the Long Island, New York area or have access to channel 115 there? Live Music Media (LMM TV 115) will be playing the AMay videoclip every Saturday during February. The show starts at 11PM each Saturday. If you haven't seen/heard it uncompressed from a big screen, trust me, it's freaking excellent.

Head on over to the B-Sides + Remixes page to pick up this track.

Head on over to the Press page to read Liz Seymour's trippy review.

The spiffing folk at FBi (94.5 FM in the Sydney area) told me yesterday that Hold R1 would be going into rotation on the station this coming week. They even called to check up on the pronunciation of 'Aeriae'; THAT is how radical they are.

From ABC TV's 'Rage' videoclip playlist for the AM of Saturday, December 8:

4:30 am - 5:00 am
PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE Lolita (Independent)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Someone Great (EMI)
MOONBOOTICA Jump Around (Central Station)
AERIAE AMay (Independent)
PREFUSE 73 featuring SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS The Class of 73 Bells (Inertia)
SAMIM Heater (MOS/EMI)
ALIBI vs. ROCKEFELLER Sexual Healing (Central Station)
LEXY & K-PAUL Ponyboy (Central Station)

As far as the net's concerned, this site was born today.

TRIVIA: PR#6 is the command which will reboot your Apple II series computer.