Brian Lavelle | Scottish writer & sound artist

Live performances

It's been a long time since I've performed live, but here's a list of appearances in the decade or so backwards from 2006. Hyperlinked performances have downloads available.

2006

12.05.2006 at Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Part of Offf BCN 2006: VI International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture
30 minute laptop improvisation

2001

11.11.2001 at The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
30 minute improvisation - Sonntag 61 - using minidisc players, CD player, mixer feedback and effects
Also performing: Bark! and Hassle Hound

06.10.2001 at Earational 2001, De Melkfabriek, ’s-Hertogenbsoch, The Netherlands
25 minute piece - The Tangential Point Between Zero and Infinity - using minidisc players and CD player
Also performing: Stephan Mathieu, with film by Janetta A3ana soundtracked by Jos Smolders and Jac van Bussel

11.09.2001 at Consume, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute set of 6 pieces - untitled - using minidisc players, CD player and effects.
Also performing: Kim Cascone

24.05.2001 Inversion at Consume, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute duo set comprising 3 improvisations - Ascension Day I, II and III - using minidisc players, CD players, sampler, sequencer, effects
Also performing: Pulsar and Fiend

31.03.2001 at Consume, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute piece - Silence is nearly everywhere; and deafening - using minidisc player, multitrack tapes, sequencer, effects
Also performing: Model Citizen, Druid and Hassle Hound

2000

20.11.2000 Inversion at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
30 minute duo improvisation - untitled - using minidisc players, multitrack tapes, voice, dictaphone
Also performing: James Orr Complex and Aether Flux

01.04.2000 Brian Lavelle & Richard Youngs at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
4 short improvisations - Nise, Fre, Wofer and Grond - recorded live in the gallery, using the 4 radio wavebands and several live mics, as part of the e.g. Sometime Instant exhibition.
Selections were broadcast on radiotuesday on 06.04.2000

05.03.2000 Novia at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
30 minute duo set comprising 5 pieces - They Ate the Same Meal, The Ringing Isle, Noh Ve Ah, Garylike and Asthmatic Duck - using minidisc players, sampler and sequencer
Also performing: Negative Entropy and Opaque

1999

20.11.1999 Inversion at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
30 minute duo improvisation - untitled - using minidisc players, electronics and sampler
Also performing: Voice Crack and Fiend

05.06.1999 Inversion at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute duo improvisation - The Song We Never Sang - using electric guitar [CM] and electric bass [BL] with processing
Also performing: Richard Youngs and Vibracathedral Orchestra

1998

29.11.1998 Inversion at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute duo set comprising 2 improvisations - untitled - using two amplified thumb pianos with processing
Also performing: Ticklish

13.07.1998 Brian Lavelle & Richard Youngs at Scatter, The 13th Note Café, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute duo improvisation - untitled - using two bowed electric bass guitars
Also performing: Tony Bevan

1997

27.03.1997 Brian Lavelle & Richard Youngs at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, England as part of the Flux festival of new music
40 minute duo improvisation - untitled - using two four-track tape machines with processing. Excerpts from the concert were broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It on 31.03.1997.
Also performing: Death Ambient

1996

24.05.1996 Simon Wickham-Smith, Richard Youngs & Brian Lavelle at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Scotland
25 minute set of 6 songs using casio, electric guitar, drums and vocals
Also performing: Telstar Ponies