anxiety, amazement, euphoria, confusion, craze, dis-location, re-location, annoyance, happiness, ecstasy, calmness, rest … back, whereat.

I’ve just summarized my experiences since ‘Clouds are Mountains’ got released. My album’s been out for two months already and it’s been amazing to watch it spread across the web and into people’s hands. I haven’t expected such a positive response and so many new listeners. To visualize this surge, here’s a last.fm chart displaying total plays scrobbled:

I am quite obsessed with statistics so it is worth mentioning that eleven tigers bandcamp registered more than 18,000 plays during those two months…

Well, all I can say is big big THANK YOU! For the first time in my life, I feel like a rabbit in YOUR headlights and I must say that I am enjoying the run! You sent me some incredibly inspiring and encouraging emails, tweets, comments and reviews, I just want to say that you guys are amazing, your support is overwhelming. I am feeling extremely creative and ready to step into a new stage of my life which, I feel, will be quite special. I will update you through my newsletter as I go along (sorry, it’s been a while – I just don’t want to bombard you with pointless news and PR) ;>

Essentially, I am coming to Satta festival in Sventoji, Lithuania and Unsound (!!!) festival in Krakow, Poland where I will be playing along many great artists (Ben Frost, Shackleton, Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie, Clouds etc.). I can’t wait and I want to meet YOU!

Once again, thanks for your support, people! Will be back very soon ;]

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That’s it, I am so excited that I’ve lost all my words… ‘Clouds are Mountains’ is released! Check out the preview video below:

go and get your early bird CD from here.

biggest thanks to everyone who supported me and waited for so long, warmest feelings ever!

xxx

… first of all, I would like to say thanks to everyone who bought/downloaded/shared my little EP ‘Fold’. I was really delighted seeing it popping up at few blogs here, there and there, thanks guys!

I am trying  to play music more impulsively, I love to take an instrument (even if I don’t know how to play it) and explore it’s sonic beauty. sometimes it is very pleasing, sometimes is just plain bullshit. Yet, when I record my explorations I end up with plenty of material to be reused, reorganized and remixed. Last Thursday, after probably 6 hours of improv with Ben Duff, some Mazzy Star like atmosphere blew in and we ended up playing this:

here’s a hi-res mp3 of the recording: http://tinyurl.com/y7agu4j

hey, this Friday is going to be really intense… come down to The Croft and hear some amazing music from bass veterans and me!

together with (Cosmin) TRG/Geiom/Julio Bashmore/Forsaken/EFA and more…

here’s a video of me rehearsing:

check in: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=325098376137

I am excited to open a new page which will serve as an open, versatile and flexible space for ideas, updates and comments on the social sampler. help the development, get involved and we will create something really unique!

go to the social sampler page and become a collaborator by submitting your username (those who selected to become collaborators through registering can happily go editing now)…

I cannot stress enough how much I love music of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk. It’s been my greatest inspiration ever. When I discovered them I thought I may just stop producing as Talk Talk had everything I needed. However, I am still here and today I accidentally recorded something I think might show you how I feel about Talk Talk. Or maybe not. I never wanted to touch their music as not to ruin it. Well, this evening, I was improvising and playing around live and somehow ended up bringing in the sounds of Talk Talk. Euphoria for 20 minutes.

Hear the results:

firstly, update on my stupidity.

I am sorry to say this but sometime ago I have overlooked my contact page form and stupidly left wrong email address… Those messages which went through the contact form got lost in the sea of nothingness… I am really really sorry about that, you probably thought that I am pretentious bum not replying to your emails… it’s fixed now so please, don’t hesitate to message me again, it’s going to be a pleasure to reply :>

well, I would like to use this glamorous moment to invite you to register with my site. make sure you check your SPAM folder as messages from this site get tagged incorrectly.

I am setting up subscription service to offer you exclusive content. I will keep you updated about all of my creative excursions. essentially, I want to share my work, efforts and errors with you…

my long-long delayed album Clouds Are Mountains is finally being manufactured as we speak. I will be sending promo copies of the album very very soon. if you would like to get one, don’t hesitate to register, I am looking forward to connecting with you.

let’s keep synchronised.

eleven tigers

hey hey, I gotta post this. Don’t know if you know DZdj, I just stumbled upon his track ‘Gritty Beats’… It is incredibly lush, something really different from most of the dubstep nowadays. Have a listen and tell a friend:

I started working on the idea of a social sampler (read about it here)… Learning Max/MSP/Jitter/m4l is really exciting and rewarding – I can’t wait to integrate it into my live sets. In the meantime, check this video which documents what I’ve already achieved (not that much but anyway):

remember this?

well, I have just mixed it in 5.1 surround…

My goal was to adapt ‘No Space’ to a different listening environment without drastically changing anything. If you have a surround setup grab this file and immerse yourelf in the soundscape.

I love A.Tarkovsky films. I did some music on top of one of the most beautiful scenes of ‘Stalker’. I hope my music will add something to this scene despite the fact that the original music is perfect…

Internet is an amplifier of the noise, an echo-chamber, a big delay processor. Take trends and posts on twitter and imagine them as taps within a delay, tails fed back around creating massive noise.

Truncated phrases,  taken off social media,  sourced from videos,  transformed into spectral noise which fluctuates in real-time.

Delay/reverb/echo-chamber? A post is an initial signal which gets repeated over many retweets. These retweets mutate/disappear/bounce.  Hashtags represent reflections, bounces,  moments of happening.

Who started what ? Can a sound generated out of twitter noise can be of any use? How filtering RSS is similar to filtering audio through lp/hp/bp/whatever? How about compressing/limiting the noise? However if it is noise are there any dynamics…?  How one create a mix of elements? Who creates filters? Can I transform data of social media into music? Would it be evolving or predetermined as filtering is? May I find it difficult to implement evolutionary processes into this music ? Do I actually need them if the evolution happens real-time online?

I will try my best to create a “social sampler” using Max/MSP, some Java, some APIs.

I need to connect to the twitter API and source the lists of trends, track streams of posts. Then map this data to (let’s say) relevant videos on youtube via tags, popularity, titles etc.  Videos are then streamed to a Java decoder which extracts audio. Audio is passed to Max/MSP….

All of this in real-time.

Would you help me?

Ore.lt, lithuanian music and culture  mag, has just published an interview and a live set I did for their popular ‘Orecast’ podcast series. You’ll hear 11 minutes of my mumblings followed by the exclusive live set…

Orecast : Eleven Tigers

Live set only:

I am so proud to announce that Lowvibe Records has finally pushed LOW001 into the daylight. It features tracks by Taksi (Mark Splinter & Nightjar), Genys and me :> Have a listen and if you like them, go and grab them off Bagpak , here. Also, this digital release will be available in all other good shops soon…