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hi everyone, just wanted to let you know if you missed any of the recent experimental music shows, i've got pix and mp3's available from many of them on my site... the recent experimental music showcase (4) with the fopp crew (andy le kipp, patrick keenan, and steve morrison), out of town artist doug fergusson, and myself: http://billthompson.org/experimentalmusicshowcase4.htm the see/hear inverurie gig with pete stollery, adam proctor, myself, and about 25 young people: http://billthompson.org/seehearinverurie.htm trainstation installation: http://billthompson.org/intransience.htm and much more....mostly on either the gallery page: http://billthompson.org/gallery.htm or news page: http://billthompson.org/news.htm happy listening, happy holidays. b. www.billthompson.org

amen to that! i knew this experimental music thing would come around. now just waiting for the fame and money http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=451817# Rock On b.

experimental music TONIGHT.... hi everyone, just a reminder about tonight's ems gig at the mcroberts building...(corner of kings and st. machar)...come out come out come out...doors at 7, sound at 7:30, donations: 5/3 concessions....more details below....hope to see you there, b.

i like the 'lots of money' idea!

hey dave' date=' yes, i think the new space will be very cool. not as cozy as the other one though, but good in other ways. i think the ems shows will float though after this...i've got a few other crazy ideas for spaces for later in the year. and i don't [i']think we'll need earplugs but it's better safe then sorry, so bring 'em just in case. it should be a really good night...doug is crazy. b.

hi everyone, just a reminder about these two shows....it'd be great to have you out to them! b. *11/19 (saturday) EMS #4: the experimental music showcase returns with its fourth installment featuring out of town texas artist doug ferguson http://www.distilleryrecords.com/ playing improvised analogue electronics, live electronics and video by aberdeen's andy le kipp, patrick keenan, and steve morrison, and the aberdeen premier of 'on hushed breath' for dual dj cd-players by bill thompson. doors open at 7, music on at 7:30 sharp (come early!) aberdeen university, mcrobert building, main lecture hall, 5 suggested donation/3 concessions (no one turned away for lack of funds) map: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/kings/macrobert.shtml **11/22 (tuesday) sea/hear inverurie... young artists of inverurie work with pete stollery, adam proctor, and bill thompson to produce sonic and visual compositions of their impressions of inverurie. their works will be projected and performed over multiple speakers and visual turntables using cutting edge technology. also on the bill is a new work by adam proctor, pete stollery, and bill thompson involving improvised video, live electronics, and sound diffusion. pete stollery performs a recent work and james wyness debuts a new multi-channel work as well! inverurie town hall, 7:30pm, free. ***and finally, if you havent heard it yet, the train station installation (in/transience) is still playing for another week or so. more info here: http://billthompson.org/intransience.htm +++if you haven't heard about the sound festival in aberdeen, there is far more than the above going on this november. please check out their site for more listings and information. hope to see some of you at these events! http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/events.htm sound is a new and exciting contemporary music festival in North East Scotland. sound has been set up by local organizations with the aim of presenting an eclectic but very broad range of contemporary music -classical, traditional, popular, jazz, experimental -to a large and varied public. As part of sound, Evelyn Glennie and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be playing a new work by Sally Beamish on the 24th November at the Music Hall in Aberdeen. Other events will include concerts, workshops and electroacoustic installations featuring artists and composers including Paul Anderson, the Edinburgh Quartet, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, the Hebrides Ensemble, mckenzie medbe, Naresh Sohal, Pete Stollery and many others. >>>>>if you have received this email by mistake and do not not want to receive any further orrespondence, please reply with 'remove please' in the subject line. apologies if this was the case!

hi everyone, i'd like to invite you to some of my upcoming installations and performances taking place in aberdeen over the next several weeks. all of this information can be found in detail on my site here: www.billthompson.org/news.htm hope to see you there, b. * 10/21-11/6 'toward sublimity' a multiple speaker, audio/visual installation included as part of urbanNovember's exhibition "Oil and the City" at the maritime museum aberdeen. the installation explores a very small segment of video taken by an off shore oil worker. an mp3 excerpt available here: http://billthompson.org/mp3s/sublimity.mp3 the opening is friday oct 21st, 6:30 to 8pm [free] (food, drink, artist talks, and more.) other artists presenting works include duncan hart (visual art and documentation relating his experiences exploring life without the use of petrol-chemicals), the new social art school (eva merz's new artist initiative) premiering a documentary focusing on the impact of the oil industry on aberdeen, as well as a short talk by peter troxler, the chairman of urbanNovember. for more information visit: http://www.oilandthecity.org.uk/site/ **10/29 friday, performing live electronics with Mickel Mass opening for FAUST at the tunnels in aberdeen. doors at 7pm, 15 pounds. info/tix: http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/9007/Faust.html ***11/01-12/01 in/transience installation opens within aberdeen's railway station as part of the SOUND festival of aberdeen. the installation explores the transient nature of public spaces. [free] ****11/19 EMS#4: the experimental music showcase returns with its fourth installment featuring out of town texas artist doug ferguson (http://www.distilleryrecords.com/), and sets by bill thompson, andy le kipp/patrick keenan/steve morrison. doors open at 7, aberdeen university, mcrobert building, main lecture hall, 5 pounds suggested donation/3 concessions. map: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/vcampus/kings/macrobert.shtml *****11/22 sea/hear inverurie... young artists of inverurie work with pete stollery, adam proctor, and bill thompson to produce sonic and visual compositions of their impressions of inverurie. their works will be projected and performed on multiple speakers and visual turntables using cutting edge technology. also on the bill are new works by the facilitators themselves (adam proctor, pete stollery, bill thompson, and james wyness). +++finally, if you haven't heard about the sound festival in aberdeen, there is far more than the above going on this november. please check out their site for more listings and information. hope to see some of you at these events! http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/events.htm sound is a new and exciting contemporary music festival in North East Scotland. sound has been set up by local organizations with the aim of presenting an eclectic but very broad range of contemporary music - classical, traditional, popular, jazz, experimental - to a large and varied public. As part of sound, Evelyn Glennie and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be playing a new work by Sally Beamish on the 24th November at the Music Hall in Aberdeen. Other events will include concerts, workshops and electroacoustic installations featuring artists and composers including Paul Anderson, the Edinburgh Quartet, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, the Hebrides Ensemble, mckenzie medbe, Naresh Sohal, Pete Stollery and many others.

found this on another forum: Saw this in the TImes Aberdeen to boldly build a space park for Scotty Marc Horne ABERDEEN is to establish a space park as a memorial to Scotty, the fictional first engineer of the Starship Enterprise. While it may be best known for fishing and the oil industry, the city intends to put itself on the Trekkie tourist map following confirmation that it is the official birthplace of the Star Trek character. John Reynolds, Aberdeens lord provost, is writing to Nasa, the American space agency and the government of Kazakhstan, the home of the Russian space programme, to ask for a used rocket to form the centrepiece of the memorial. The move follows attempts by Edinburgh, Elgin and Linlithgow to claim Montgomery Scotty Scott played by the late Canadian actor James Doohan as their own. The dispute was finally settled in The Sunday Times last week when Richard Arnold, the Star Trek archivist, historian and former adviser to Gene Roddenberry, the seriess creator, confirmed Scottys provenance. Originally it was suggested that a plaque or statue could be erected in order to celebrate Aberdeens link to the cantankerous chief engineer, who is not due to be born until 2222. However, Reynolds, a fan of the 1960s science fiction series, has an altogether grander memorial in mind. Whisky and tartan aside, Aberdeen has never had a major attraction and we would really love to have something that would bring in people from all over the world, he said. The fact that Scotty has been confirmed as an Aberdonian gives us a fantastic opportunity that the city can capitalise on. Our council has very good working relationships with Nasa and the authorities of Kazakhstan where they launch and land the Russian space missions. Because of this I am hoping they could donate a space craft to Aberdeen and we can set-up a permanent or semi-permanent display on space itself and link it to the character of Scotty coming from the city. Reynolds believes land next to the citys futuristic exhibition and conference centre would be ideal for establishing an outdoor space park. In recent years Aberdeen city council has hosted a delegation from Nasa and has signed several trading agreements with Kazakhstan, which is also a major international oil centre. Rustam Tazhenov, the Kazakh consul in Aberdeen, said he hoped his government could provide the centrepiece for the memorial. The countrys Baikonur cosmodrome was the hub of the Soviet space programme in the cold war era. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian government rents the facility, which is still in regular use, for more than 60m a year. The lord provosts suggestion is a wonderful one, said Tazhenov. All things which further develop the strong relationship that exists between our two countries should be encouraged. Debra Rahn, of Nasa, said Aberdeens request would be taken seriously. She added that there was a precedent for American space-craft going on display abroad. Sir Patrick Moore, the astronomer and presenter of The Sky at Night, also expressed his support for the plan. Its a marvellous idea. Its quite harmless and great fun. Im sure it would prove to be popular if it happened. b. www.billthompson.org

ahhh, thanx everyone...i couldn't find any info about it and started to worry it was just some toxic smoke that everyone was just 'used to'! haha. b.

no seriously...doesn't anyone else notice it? i thought there must be a huge fire somewhere... b.

hey everyone, i guess this is another example of my still being new to aberdeen, but what the hell is up with this choking smoke that's billowing across footdee? i've checked the bbc news site and online and can find jack about it...is this normal? it's fucking aweful!!!! b. www.billthompson.org

hi everyone, if you missed hearing this strange building sing, it's started to again today. the workers have added on two stories and it's started making similar harmonic sounds in the wind. you might try to hear it later when the workers are gone (though it's sorta cool to hear them working amidst this harmonic cloud)...but there's a compresser engine that's a bit loud...anyway, it's pretty audible from the park, so that'd be a good place to stand to hear it... it's pretty cool but it's also pretty ephemeral and who knows how long it'll last...it's worth a walk on the beach at least. the building's on the beach in footdee, just next to the restaurant 'the silver darling'...here's that mp3 incase you missed it last time. >> in any case, here is a short mp3 of it: http://www.billthompson.org/mp3s/mcalpinesampleuntreated.mp3 and here is the same mp3 but with only the sound of the building and everything else filtered out:http://www.billthompson.org/mp3s/mcalpinesample.mp3 >> hope you get to hear it...i think it's totally cool b. www.billthompson.org

that's strange because i've burned cdrs (data) at home at relatively high speeds and never had a problem with a cd player reading them...

hi all, not sure if this is best posted here (or musicians corner) but is there a decent place to get a run of about 100 cdrs burned (with thermal printing-i hate press on labels) with inserts and shrink-wrapped..in town? feel free to email me directly if you want (billthompson@billthompson.org) thanx, b. www.billthompson.org