Euphiomixtape: Alternative 1980s 12:22 AM

Love this stuff. Featuring Bauhaus, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Pixies, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine and Einsturzende Neubaten, nice.

SSTN Cover design 11:25 AM

Designed this very quickly yesterday, think it's my favourite of the SSTN cover designs I've done.

Euphiomixtape: Krautrock 12:40 AM

and the free-wheeling experimentalism of it all, quality.

Some stuff 11:49 AM

Just want to draw attention to two things on the Second Square To None site.

Firstly, the Ten Second Rule Pieces are online (which I contributed a piece to) here and I thoroughly recommend checking them out. We were fortunate to get lots of great material from the finest producers in the country. Lots of diversity and different approaches so am looking forward to seeing what Dubreak, Browncloud, Fyodor, PushMoveClick and Vince MacMahon do with them at the gig next Sunday.

Also, there is a liveset up on the blog by Shane McKenna, a fellow Monaghan person, and it is really worth checking out (well, all the Monday downloads are but I can't be saying it every week!). Beautifully edited orchestral compositions, culled from extensive recordings of the National Youth Orchestra, mixed with a fine underpinning of rhythmic motion. Reminds me somewhat of the Amon Tobin album 'Foley Room', where he used, amongst other things, recordings of the Kronos Quartet.

Meanwhile, I am working away on my set for next Sunday. It's going quite well but there is still alot left to do. Will have loads of new music done by the time it is finished, which I am looking forward to putting out into the world.

Online portfolio 11:23 PM

I've put together an online portfolio for the purposes of job-hunting. I used carbonmade.com to present it, which I am quite a fan of. It has a nice, clean and elegant layout that focuses on the work. However, the 'notes' section on each project is a little too restrained for my liking, you'd never know there was a button there at all!

Check it out at: http://chrisflynn.carbonmade.com/

Chris takes over Playhouse Part II 12:08 AM

Got another animation up on Playhouse, I might let other people have a go now. Check it out here.

Threshold at Darklight 11:40 PM

This weekend my film 'Threshold' is showing as part of the Darklight festival. It's showing in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield all day today & tomorrow on Level -3 (same level as screens 1 & 2).

In case any of you missed it before, here's the blurb:

Threshold is a 3D animation presented using multi-planar projection showing three screens of concurrent action, aswell as relief projection on structures on either side of the stage showing ancillary imagery. It uses an analysis of comparative mythology as a conceptual framework for creating a narrative structure that draws from the store of archetypal images and motifs provided by myth, which are then realized using the fluid aesthetic possibilities of digital animation. The visual elements are accompanied by a score which uses the acoustic sounds of cello, guitar and percussion, and augments them with digital manipulation and textures to create a score that relates the organic principles of collective human experience and filters them through contemporary tools, creating a connection with the manner in which mythology itself is constantly evolving, retaining the essence of its semiotic codes whilst incorporating specific contemporary sociological and cultural cues.

More festival info here. Many thanks to Michael & Ania for lending me their projector and to Conor for helping me set up, couldn't have done it without ye lads :) Also, thanks a million to Derek and all the staff & volunteers involved with Darklight/Lighthouse, everyone was very lovely.

Below is the three screen version.

Playhouse Animation 6:19 PM

An animation I submitted has been excepted to be shown on Playhouse tonight, huzzah! It'll be on between 10 and 11 tonight. Check my submission/vote for me here.

If you haven't heard anything about it:

From the 24th of September until the 11th of October 2009, the iconic Liberty Hall building in Dublin’s city centre will be transformed into a giant 50 metre, low resolution, TV screen. Members of the public are invited to create animations with sound and music, via our website, and broadcast them across the city’s skyline.

Powering the display are 100,000 low-energy LED lights, installed into 330 windows on the south and west faces of the building. These lights can illuminate each window as a solid colour turning it into a tiny pixel that’s part of a giant display.

Check out playhouse.daft.ie for live feed and further info. Also, join this Facebook group that is trying to make it a permanent installation. It's a great project that has given the city a bit of a positive buzz when we really needed it!

UPDATE: It was broadcast! Here is the clip.

Watch live video from Playhouse on Justin.tv

Euphiomix 3: HEAVY 11:54 AM

Euphiomix 3: HEAVY by Euphiophone

Tracklist 1:00:58
Sunn O))) - Etna
At The Drive-In - Mannequin Republic
Boris - Pink
Amon Tobin - Esther's
Mastodon - Divinations
16 Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy
Korn - Chi
Distance - Victim Support
Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots
Clarke - Beg
Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly
Techno Animal - Robosapien
NIN - March of the Pigs
System of a Down - Needles
Speedy J - Borax
Deftones - Hexagram
Tool - Hooker With A penis
Marilyn Manson - 1996
Vex'd - Gunman

I've always loved heavy music, grunge got me through most of the 90s and introduced me to other sort-of-metal bands such as Deftones, Tool, System of a Down etc. Then the 00s hit and I was off to college. Gradually I got more into electronic stuff but I still retained a strong inclination towards music that was sonically dark and aggressive. It is interesting to me that there seems to be a bit of a trend lately to hear electronic producers that have taken a background in listening to metal and used it to colour their productions without it seeming like a cheesy parody (ie such as Distance, not ridiculous breakcore producers who mash in thrash metal over double time breakbeats). This mix is an attempt to make connections between the worlds of post-hardcore and metal, and electronic music. It is also me just stringing together some of my favourite tunes for turning up real loud and moshing when nobody is looking. Admittedly, it's not for everyone.