We will be playing as part of the World Listening Day Preview held at Cafe Oto, FRIDAY 16th July, exploring the sounds of East Londons Soundscape, along with many other artists.

“Fruit for the Apocalypse invite you to participate in a preview of East London Soundscapes at Cafe Oto. East London Soundscapes has been created for the first World Listening Day, which happens in a secret location on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography.”

Yesterday we visited the new sound art gallery ‘Soundfjord’ on their first open day. The new gallery is based in north London, Seven Sisters, and is a charming space ideally suited for two smaller collaborative projects or a singles artists work. The open day was an excellent opportunity for artists/sound artists to meet and share with others working in similar fields around them.
Helen and Andy are the lovely people behind this new exciting project Soundfjord, both bringing an interesting view on how a galleries specifying in sound art can be more accommodating to the field of sound art. Soundfjord already bosts an exciting line up of artists and assures of a huge response and interest from many other artists, and if the turn out of this first open day is anything to go by, it is surely going to be a very exciting time for emerging sound artists.
Soundfjord’s first work is from artist Yann Novak, owner of Dragon’s Eye Recordings, whose work will be in two parts shared over two months entitled ‘Subtropical’ and ‘Oceanic’.

Soundfjord says this about Yanns work…

We are very pleased to announce our latest work, a recording of our live debut performance taken back in May at our studio. This will be an mp3 release by Yann Novak’s incredible Dragon’s Eye Recordings, of which we are very pleased about.
The artwork used for the cover was a gift given to us on the day of the performance by the very talented and close friend Kimvi Nguyen.

This footage demonstrates a collection of multiple movements in a variety of directions, with no individual movement appearing dominant over another.

A small and silent study of movement against structure.

This footage was taken from inside looking out through our marked studio window. The music being played in our studio is taken from our new album ‘reminiscence’, hopefully due out early this year on Slow Flow Rec. The other incidental sounds, or perhaps they could be thought of as marks on the music, are heard as if inside, although some of these sounds origin however, are not.
‘reminiscent green’ explores a relationship created from two locations, the inside and the outside, articulated through what we see and what we hear. In this short work, we can neither hear what we see, or see what we hear, yet we can imagine.

This video has no accompanying audio, it is purely silent.

Visited some famous London water today with Peter Cusack and friends to take some field recordings.
The day was grey, the tide was out, and the area was swamped in mist. This footage is inspired no doubt by Roni Horn’s recent exhibition nearby at the Tate Modern, which has changed our perception of this water for good. It’s different now, holding many stories.

Just because I’m quite excited about this audio/video diary entry and feeling particularly prolific today.

This is the first entry of many, exploring minimal movement through audio and visual means. These posts will be temporarily available on our facebook page before being eventually available only through moize.net. Each audio/video entry will be accompanied with a short piece of writing found under ‘continue’. This writing will sometimes be our thoughts, sometimes more abstract, sometimes a bit of both.

I woke early this morning, hoping for a bright day in London, and it wasn’t all that bad. I shot this little video with blurry eyes, and while watching it back made some music.

After a many long discussions, myself and Lucia have decided to go ahead with our new exciting project which will be our new small label called threeplusone. This new label will be another place for us to realize our work and also to collaborate with other sound artists in releasing works together.

I recently read a very interesting thesis written by Christian Schrei, a student of Information Design at the University of Applied Sciences Graz, Austria. The paper entitled simply ‘Minimal’, contemplates some similarities and differences between Minimal Art and Minimal Music and does so by comparing various techniques and known artists.

Each chapter (accompanied by minimal designs) is organized into the sections: Reduction, Repetition, Mathematical Logic,  Object Orientation And Perspective and finally Meditative Effect.

Recently we both had the pleasure of meeting with sound artist Felicty Ford, and was involved in a discussion that she organised for the podcast Cut and Splice program series: Living Rooms. We met with Felicity and other sound artists to discuss domestic soundscapes, sonic wallpaper and many views on how we understand and relate to sound within our own sonic environment and the sonic environment around us.