Tues Feb 12th Cafe Oto.

My Home Made guitar plays: Disorder by Palace music (Will Oldham).

Dusted off the guitar I made in 2007 and decided to have a go one of my favourite Palace tunes. Disorder comes from the 1996 album ‘Arise Therefore’ Which is a beautiful melancholic and sparse record with some of Will’s best lyrics of all time.

late 50's STC 3045 dynamic

I recorded the music with two very old mic’s that I’ve been getting into lately. The voice uses an old BBC STC 4035 from the 1950′s and the guitar a 1970′s AKG lapel mic which is labelled BBC Radio Paris.

I think this is an AKG made sometime in the 70's

I just saw the same mic hanging around Dudley Moore’s neck during his duet with Cilla Black – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxgHypEdeEU

About this guitar:

http://leafcutterjohn.com/?page_id=33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqep67V4Qqw

J x.

A little video of the new light to sound hardware. Live at PowerLunches Dec 2012

Thanks to Blanca for the video.

December Live Shows….

Click on the images for listing info......

Appearance on BBC Radio 3 the verb Friday 26th Oct

Just wanted to point you towards your radio on Friday night 10pm Fri 26th Oct. I’ll be on Ian McMillan’s radio 3 show the verb talking about the letter Q and playing a

piece of music I made out of lots of you lovely people speaking.

Thanks a million to all the people who submitted recordings, there is a full list of people below. If you don’t appear it’s because you didn’t submit your name or I accidentally missed you of the list (please let me know and I’ll put it right). I’ll email all the contributors who supplied me with an email address the finished track in the next couple of days.

Best, J.

Leo Abrahams
Maria Papadopoulou
Kirsten
Amy Clarke
Gus
Danielle Marsden
Steph Comley
Dodebum
Jodi Sussman
Daljit Singh Jutla
Dan Tapper – Freelance sound designer for game and film.
Anton
Steve Hughes
Will Stahl-Timmins
Tim Worrall
Jonny Stutters
Jodi Sussman
Alex Botten
Tessa Wingate
Guanoman
Philip Mudd
Marley Butler
David Coulter
David Collier
Platinum Tone
Kirsten Foster
Labhrás Mac Gabhann
Katja Kettler
Holly Bagnall
Hannah Brown
All Natural
Eva
Int3
Christopher Alcock
Fil McIntyre
Gail Weadick
Chris Carson – Read him at christophercarson.wordpress.com.
Jim Bowers
Oliver Payne
Mark Williamson
Caro
Leila Mays
Robert Davies
Sam Leighton-Jones
Bill Strode
Daniel Loughran
KJ Funk
Michael Duffy
Jason Hoffer
Jonathan Taylor
Ayami Ayamikun
Marco T
Steven Jouwersma
Moritz-Mo-Sauer
Markus Koller
Tano Iozzi
Sasha
Fred Weedon
Andy Larkin
Mark
Christiaan
Allie Sun
PrKr
Anthony Freed
Tyler Von Homey Howe
Mr Paul Maynard
Rob Collier
Chris Cook
Ann Marie Parkes
Michael Chang
Dean Pammen
Isaac Kakande
Katrina Vickers
Tara Williams
Nathan Paul
Micaela Walsh
Angela Scott
Chris Cook
Bella G

I’d like you to help me make a massive morse code chorus.

I’m  making a piece of music for BBC radio 3′s the Verb show and I’d like to assemble a large chorus of people speaking in morse code. I need your help – All you have to do is record yourself speaking the letter ‘Q’ followed by the words:

Dot.
Dash.
Dit.
Dah.

EDIT: Thanks for all the entries, I’ve started work on the music now so entries are not closed.

if you like you can then follow that with your favourite word beginning with the letter Q.

You can record directly onto your computer by clicking the “Send Voicemail” button which is on the right hand side of the screen >>>>>>>>>

Or you can email me the recording & tell me how you’d like to be credited.

morsecodechorus@gmail.com

Or record it via your mobile phone or computer directly to soundcloud and share it with leafcutterjohn. Cleck HERE to do it. And please remember to make it DOWNLOADABLE!

I think the show goes out on 24th October.

Many thanks!

J x.

CROW:dance/puppetry/poetry spectacular with music by Leafcutter John Opens next week

CROW opens in one week!

It’s been well over a year since I started work on the music for CROW, and soon it will be ready. I have made over an hour of new music for the show and been totally inspired by Director Mervyn Millar, the cast, and all the other creatives on the project.

I can guarantee you will never have seen a Theatre / Dance / Poetry / Music thing like this before.

I hope you can make it to Greenwich, London for what I think will be a very special piece of theatre.

The run is 18th Jun 2012 – 7th Jul 2012

What is CROW?

Ted Hughes’s Crow poems are among the most powerful and vital of the last 50 years. He called them ‘my masterpiece’. Multi-award-winning Handspring Puppet Company gives them new life as an unforgettable dance theatre performance.

You can get tickets HERE

All 3 parts of the epic goingthruvinyl.com Leafcutter John interview now online

In what turned into something of an epic interview I think we touched on nearly everything I have done in music and art in the last decade.

It’s split into 3 sections:

Pt I.

Pt II.

Pt III.

Visit http://www.goingthruvinyl.com/

Take care,

John.

Crow, a little titbit on the BBC.

Just finished the final set of Workshops on Crow and noticed a preview of it on the BBC It’s an amazing process I am learning a lot while making the music for this.

J x.

Leafcutter John concert using new DIY light interface at Cafe Oto Tomorrow.

Wednesday 4th April 2012: Door Times : 8pm Tickets : £5 adv / £7 on the door

The BEAM Festival presents BEAM NIGHT, a special one-off taster event held at café OTO. BEAM is a playground of homemade instruments and sonic installations and was devised by Artistic Director Sarah Nicolls to explore the physicality of electronic music.  The focus on electronic music being created LIVE is explored through a programme of performances, demonstrations, installations and workshops.

The acts tonight all use unusual and/or homemade interfaces to perform. Atau Tanaka & Adam Parkinson play iPhones as sensitive, handheld controllers; Bruno Zamborlin performs café OTO’s wall – possibly for the first time?! – with his invention, Mogees, which read gestural language on any surface; Marco Donnarumma’s Music for Flesh is a visceral sensor performance using his instrument system Xth sense, which has just been named “the world’s most innovative new musical instrument” and awarded First Prize at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competiton in Atlanta (http://bit.ly/yiHBu6). Tom Bugs (maker of Bugbrand synth products) appears in a rare performance using his Modular synths and also sets up a mini-installation for the night, whilst the beguilingly creative Leafcutter John conjures up soundscapes with his new explorations in light and sound.

More information, videos & sounds on the BEAM NIGHT website