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Ellipse Elkshow -- Garbage Party

Live Performance by Ellipse Elkshow in Portland Oregon

To live during the garbage, to find comfort and empathy in the steaming pile of shit— Exploring the intersection between live improvised electronic music, mash-ups and sample-based [recontextual] media and the classic DJ mix, Ellipse Elkshow‘s first release for the stellar SAVANT imprint is both a document of a live moment and an introduction to the postmodern musical landscape. Garbage Party Live is a (free) contemplative, humorous and relevant sonic experience, inspired by the ideas and memories that pile up around us.

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Juice Bank [ellipse elkshow + fermicirrus] audio/video/DJ set

11-26-2011 - Juice Bank [ellipse elkshow + fermicirrus] audio/video/DJ set - Evansville, IN [party on earth]


"EbansBill," Video for show here

Juice Bank LIVE (ebansbill) 11/27/2011

from Juice Bank on Vimeo.

Rocked Bottom

"I want to see hedge-fund managers tipped into cage fights with naked Gypsies; bank managers wrestle with lions in the O2 arena; failed regulators thrown to alligators in the Royal Docks; short sellers in pits of snakes; and distinguished City economists try their luck with sharks. They've had their heyday, their bonuses, their Porsches, their fine wines and oafish ostentation - they've had their fun. Now for ours. To the guillotine!" -- Matthew Parris

Buildings Building Themself(vs) Media Machines Presents:

ROCKED BOTTOM

Featuring: Ellipse Elkshow, Gitar, Mae, Nao and I Cut People. Art by: I Cut People


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Ellipse Elkshow Performance

Posted: 10-14-2011

Ellipse Elkshow King Questions Volume 1

The first installment of the King Question series is an abstract but extremely listenable work that focuses on the human search for meaning.

Certainty - as a concept - is pinned, sliced, and probed by a nearly indescribable mix of beats, noises, and words; samples and bits from radio, television, movies, contemporary music, and field recordings weave in and out, struggling with questions that are rarely answered.

Volume One of King Question(s) takes a narrow focus on the Nouns of life, more of the "WHAT" and "Where," while "WHY," "WHEN" and "HOW" take the bench for a moment.

But this isn't necessarily about intellectual word-play, at all. This is a DaDa musical sound-collage journey, equal parts minimal and maximal, toe-tapping and confounding. ... an engaging mash-up of thoughts, plans, faiths, and desires that challenges your expectations of music while exploring and exploding your expectations of life. Go here to download.

Ellipse Elkshow Remix Project

Ellipse Elkshow's Children Extended

visit the page here. Ambient rhythmic excursion assembled from field recordings gathered by Emery N. Elwell Smith, age [5/6]. Image assembled from photos taken by Usiah O. Barnes, age 3. The site has yet to be finished, but go and check it out anyway.

There are plenty of awesome tracks to listen to as well as great collages to view, so be sure to check it out even if you are not interested in remixing any of the audio.

SUBBA CULTCHA GIVES GITAR'S FALLUJAH 8/10 STARS

"This is a satirical statement more than a traditional album which is by turns shocking, hilarious and deeply moving. You keep expecting it to break into a thunderous hip-hop track but it never does, it constantly holds you on the edge of your seat before dropping you into a field of noisy textures and dense soundscapes populated by grieving widows, insane dictators and imbecilic presidents."

"It could be argued Gitar are taking it to it's logical conclusion but in theory this kind of thing has been done time and time again with the video mash-ups you see so abundantly on youtube. Where this differs however is in it's frank, emotional intensity, it may not grab you right away but listen intently through headphones and the message WILL sink in." Benjamin Hiorns - Subba Cultcha

Read the Review here | Download Fallujah here

Posted: 2-4-2011

NEW WEBSITE!

BBT(VS)MM's brand spankin' new website. A few updates to mention: Our friend Mae Ainsley Mclean is the newest addition to the buildings site/collective. You can check out her awesome art by going here. Don't forget to download Gitar's Fallujah. Also, be sure to check back here in March because Ellipse Elkshow is planning the first of his 3 album release titled, "King Questions." Last but not least, we are currently in the process of starting up an email list.

Posted: 1-1-2011

Gitar - Fallujah

Fallujah is a region in Iraq, with a rich and vibrant history. Often known as the "city of mosques," It is situated less than fifty miles from Baghdad, on the Euphrates River. During the Gulf War of 1991, civilian deaths in Fallujah were some of the highest in the entire war. In 2004, During the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, hundreds of Fallujah's people were slaughtered, while the use of "white phosphorus" and other forms of ecological terror have lead to an extreme spike in cancer cases.

Fallujah, the album, was constructed between 2008 and 2010. The songs originated out of live sets that Gitar performed throughout 2008. The sounds represent the attempt to understand atrocity and terror, from a distance. The sounds remember the crowded open air markets crumbling under the weight of bomb blasts, the fear that mother's had for their children, the fear and misunderstandings of the soldier, the attempt to ignore, justify, fight back and cry. This album is empathetic, but claims to only attempt to understand, and to attempt to engage others in this understanding . . .this rebuilding. It is a match lit in a dark room, in hopes that we all might see, at least for a moment. We are offering Fallujah as a free digital download (mp3 256kbps). Download it here. If you are feeling generous, please donate.

Posted: 12-5-2011

Some Assembly Required 50/50

Compiled in 2010 by mnartists.org and Some Assembly Required, this New CD features 50 sound collage miniatures by artists from around the world. Also available online at eMusic.com and iTunes. Both I Cut People and Ellipse Elkshow contributed to this compilation. Go here to purchase. Below is the entire tracklist:

01 DJ Lobsterdust - "Today It's On" 02 The Cranial Fishers - "Kindly Take Your Seats" 03 Fortyone - "Jibber Jabber" 04 Alyce Santoro - "Please Don't Be Long" 05 Anton Mobin - "Turn & Listen" 06 The Bran Flakes - "Apricot Balls" 07 Jeffrey Sconce - "Catherine Linton" 08 Silica-Gel - "Love Tattoo" 09 Beatrix*JAR - "Let's Make Some Sounds" 10 Savage Ohms - "Dream in Priene" 11 Los Kinkos - "Girls to Watch Music By" 12 CxFx + The Toilet - "Not Again" 13 Overturned Big Rig - "Beginner's Luck In 50 Seconds" 14 Realistic - "Marsupial Method" 15 Brody Johnson - "And So And So And So We" 16 B'O'K - "A Piece of Meat" 17 Timmy The Tapeworm - "Cre" 18 CutUpSound - "Bushonomics" 19 I Cut People - "Rock Bottoms" 20 The Ex-Monkeys - "godjob" 21 Value Village People - That's Progress!" 22 dj BC - "Sweet America In 50 Seconds" 23 fuTuRo - "Re-making AmeRica" 24 Joe Frawley - "Crush Material" 25 The Square Root Of Evil - "smrt" 26 Fortyone - "50" 27 Grateful For The Dead - "3-Way Dueling Mow Mows" 28 Jim Allenspach - "Monotonous" 29 Ellipse Elkshow - "The Cloth" 30 The Beige Channel - "Lifetime Pop Head" 31 Silica-Gel - "You Bear-Gram Her" 32 Mr. Rusty - "Don't Stop The Empire" 33 Robert Voisey - "Oregon" 34 The Found Sound Orchestra - "Nifty Fifty" 35 Idiom Creak - "Video Games" 36 stAllio! - "Fifty Seconds Of Kickin It" 37 Plucked - "Yeah, I know. Who Cares" 38 John Schnall - "If there are 50 ways why does he list just four" 39 Mr. Rusty - "Love Is Stress" 40 Maphead - "Stritzer" 41 Realistic - "I Love That Story" 42 Mr. Dark Keys - "Style Is The Answer" 43 Ros Bobos - "I do not Understand" 44 Naked Rabbit - "The Gun Is Good" 45 notv - "Victoria February 2009" 46 CutUpSound - "Brokaw: Good Evening, Tonight" 47 Shawn Holster - "Talk Radio" 48 Ultrasonic Joy Joy - "Not Quite Right" 49 Los Kinkos - "50 Snippets Deep" 50 Orchid Spangiafora - "Half Right"

Posted: 10-5-2010

Gitar on Over the Edge Radio

On July 16th 2010 the members of gitar (ellipse elkshow & i cut people) got to live out a fantasy and be guests on Don Joyce's Over the Edge Radio live on KPFA in Berkeley, California. Starting at 12am and armed with 2 laptops, 2 samplers and an arsenal of smart media cards, gitar performed for 3 straight hours (without coffee, i might add) to promote their most recent release, "Stuffed" on Negativland's Seeland Records. The night, or rather morning, was filled with laughs, nonsensicalities, girl talk (bleh), and Don telling them to, "Turn down the fucking mixer!" Gitar had a hard time hearing themselves...


The show started off with a live solo set by Gitar (performing the album, "Fallujah"), leading into 2.5 hours of improving. phew. A big "thank you" goes out to Don Joyce for having Gitar as guests on his show. Below is the entire set streamed through kpfa's website. enjoy.

Posted: 8-15-2010

Gitar "Stuffed" summer tour. We had a great time performing a few shows with The Evolution Control Committee and the Bran Flakes. The above picture was taken when we performed at Burgerville in Portland, Oregon.

Posted: 8-1-2010

Gitar - Stuffed

"A thought-provoking, genre confounding, headache inducing work, the duo’s album ‘Stuffed’ is appropriately named, firing out snippets of popular culture with nauseating speed to create a kind of warped 21st century tapestry, a map of samples, torn from their original contexts and used to create an appropriately scattershot commentary on the world of today." - Subba Cultura

Rising out of the collage tradition, Gitar [post post poster artists, I Cut People & Ellipse Elkshow] hold their breath and stare critically at the sources of information and entertainment in contemporary Western society. Pop music, advertisements, radio, television and film are sent through the microscope and the meat-grinder, to be reorganized into fun, disturbing, satirical, informative and utterly ridiculous packets of sonic brain food. Consume this, get Stuffed, and see if you're still hungry for prime time. Stuffed will be released on both Seeland Records and BBT(VS)MM. Read Reviews » | Buy Now » | Buy Digital Download »

Posted: 7-12-2010

Gitar on Pirate Cat Radio in San Fran

Gitar (I Cut People and Ellipse Elkshow) interview on Pirate Cat Radio. Thank you to Fade Out Theatre for having us as guests on your program. Pirate Cat Radio is a studio, performance space, cafe and community asset located at 2781 21st Street, San Francisco. We provide a 24/7 program stream accessible on on the web as well as podcasts of all of our shows. The studio is located within the café, offering public access and participation to all interviews & performances being conducted for our live radio shows.

Click here to listen »

Posted: 2-15-2010

Gitar - Psychedelic Pigeon Pop

Psychedelic Pigeon Pop is yet another gitar improv created at the start of 2010. I have to say, it's pretty fucking psychedelic and is sure to freak out any avid user of LSD and guaranteed to give former users of the drug a flashback or two. This particular improv was created during a gitar mini tour in February 2010. There are plenty of stand out tracks, but to name a few: virgil's apple, shatner's confessions, the pumpkin man, more toulan blood, lucky bastard, Porkchops and Apple Sauce and is that what you are saying?

Posted: 4-20-2010

Ultra Red Compilation

What is the Sound of War on the Poor In an increasingly conservative climate within electronic music and the audio arts, Public Record remains committed to releasing projects that do more than make political claims or represent political ideas. Like the Ultra-red organization itself, Public Record provides a space for exchange between artists and audiences of art directly engaging the political. The German art critic Walter Benjamin once rebuked the Surrealists, demanding that artists who assume the mantle of revolutionaries would do better engaging actual political struggles than promoting their individual artistic careers. Benjamin challenges artists to pursue sustained and committed relationships with social movements. Conversely, simply listening to political movements poses its own inadequacies. Convention and territorialism inflict many political organizers producing tendencies that result in stagnation. Leadership too often becomes a claim to power rather than a participatory process. A challenge to instrumentalism, a critique of goal-driven strategizing, a deconstruction of exclusions, and the distribution of power can inform art's contribution to an encounter with(in) social movements. Solidity, duration, and faith in the process become necessary conditions for such an encounter. As Ultra-red member Leonardo Vilchis argues on the release "Encuentro" (PR 2-01-011), let these terms define the basis of a sound political art practice. This year, look for new projects on Public Record by artists such as Christopher DeLaurenti, Ashley Hunt, Elliot Perkins, Terre Thaemlitz, and various teams within the Ultra-red organization.
I Cut People, Ellipse Elkshow and Gitar all contributed to this Ultra Red compilation series. You can check it out by going here

Posted: 11-5-2009