Archive - Trebuchet

First Data Protection Act Fine Issued

24/11/2010

The Information Commissioner responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act has fined Hertfordshire County Council £100k for failing in its duties....

North Versus South Korea

23/11/2010

Missiles and artillery fire has resounded in the far east province of the global village as each leader pumps and primes themselves with carefully worded statements....

Make Better Music 19: Chicken and Egg Melodies

23/11/2010

Make Better Music 19: Chicken and Egg Melodies. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Chap-Hop Rivalry reaches New Heights

21/11/2010

Chap-Hop a particularly English form of Hip-Hop has become privy to some ugly scenes of one-up-manship recently between Mr B and Professor Elemental. ...

Working Hard Outside the Box With Lingua

20/11/2010

"It's a think piece about a mid level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom" – Almost Famous. Lingua are an intriguing band from Sweden. Catching...

Cr2 Presents Live and Direct- Mixed by Uner, Coyu & Edu Imbernon

20/11/2010

Cr2 (Nov 2010) On listening to the brain simmering, head shaking and arms flailing 3 CD compilation album Live and Direct, I found myself longing for a glow stick. The collaboration of Uner, Coyu and...

Thorsten Soltau / Weiss – Rezkla

19/11/2010

Electroton (2010) This little remix release by Soltau and Weiss is in, electronic musical terms, a fossil. Moreover if glitch can be said to have a retro sound then this is it. However, a fossil it...

UK Museum Halts Plague Ridden Expedition to Paraguay

17/11/2010

Following protests an expedition by London's natural history museum has been halted while an impact assessment is made to determine how the local population will be affected. i.e. Plague...

Make Better Music 18: ADSR!

16/11/2010

Make Better Music 18: ADSR! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect

13/11/2010

(Music Composed for the Documentary “Vanishing Bees”) Kranky 2010 There is an oral tradition of Indian mythology which affiliates the origins of music with bees. The mythology describes...

Elfin Saddle – Wurld

13/11/2010

Constellation Records (2010) When exploring the world of Elfin Saddle, it is important to acknowledge that their music and their films are so entwined that it may be difficult to evaluate one without...

Manuscripts Don’t Burn – The Breathing House

12/11/2010

Fans of standard song structures might argue this album away as a talented wank project of a successful guitarist (Ephel Duath) left to his own narcissistic devices. But what do they know....

The Double Helix of Political Life

11/11/2010

In “What Mad Pursuit”, Francis Crick declares that he had no memory of walking into the Eagle pub in Cambridge and declaring that as a result of his discovery of the double helix of DNA along...

Above the line: Stuart Semple

10/11/2010

Trebuchet interviews : Stuart Semple, an established artist who reviews ephemeral media images through his painting, placing them in the context of an emotional historical collage....

Make Better Music 17: Aim higher than high

09/11/2010

Make Better Music 17: Aim higher than high. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Into the Pit – Scaledown

08/11/2010

The Orchestra Pit Company. Featuring Brainer, Hamilton Yarns and Former Utopia Kings and Queens Pub, Fitzrovia. 29th October 2010. Getting lost on your way to a gig showcase is not unheard of,...

Make Better Music 16: Originality

08/11/2010

Make Better Music 16: Originality. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Vayu Naidu Company

07/11/2010

Vayu Naidu Company and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia– ‘A Triumph of Light’ 3rd November 2010, The Barbican Centre Let there be light, and there was. For 2010’s Diwali...

Lingua – All My Rivals Are Imaginary Ghosts

06/11/2010

Aural Music (2010) Mixing the harder edge of Indie guitar with the soaring vocals of mid-era Depeche Mode Swedish rockers Lingua have taken the scrawled melodic postcard of At The Drive-in and kept...

Scientists Get Closer to Invisibility Cloak

04/11/2010

Scientists have come a 'huge step' closer to developing a material that bends light around an object, a property that aims to make things invisible....

Venetian Snares. Deep Cuts.

03/11/2010

Venetian Snares interview 2004 ...

Goldfish Coronet 29/10/10

02/11/2010

Think Goldfish, think hooks. The kinetic House sounds of South Africa’s Goldfish have started to build a solid reputation outside their homeland and for one night only played a memorable set to...

Howard Marks: First there was the Welsh…

02/11/2010

Howard Marks has become something of a cult-celebrity. Trebuchet interviews the ex-con about his other 'other' pastime - writing. ...

Television the Drag on the Nation

01/11/2010

Television has struggled enormously to cope with the technological paradigm shift of the internet...

Silver Apples, Eat Lights Become Lights, Luminaire 2010

01/11/2010

Fuck it, Silver Apples are to electronic music what Thomas Edison is to Facebook....

Make Better Music 15: Don’t Be Normal

31/10/2010

Make Better Music 15: Don’t Be Normal. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extractions

28/10/2010

The opening song for this despondent treat is like the unfolding of a questionably green powdered orange, the insides of Earth evoking a terrified awe when revealed. An album which creeps up on you,...

Boris rejects Cameron’s ‘Social Cleansing’ Cap

28/10/2010

London Mayor Boris Johnson seeks to mitigate the effects of Cameron's bill to cap housing benefit...

Manu Chao – Coronet,UK 23/10/10

23/10/2010

While many can answer the question of who the diminutive French/Spanish Singer Manu Chao is, for the general population the extent to which he is globally huge is unknown. Let's be frank, Manu...

iDose Therefore I Am

22/10/2010

Panic in the Bytes of Digital Music: Featuring Cyber-mums fed moral panic by sensationalist media in An Old Scare Gets a Brave New Update. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Your child is...

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