Release of two signature compositions. Pure-Data NUMBERSTREAM instruments built and played by Julian Simmons, presenting enhanced karplus-strong algorithms and LFO driven noise synthesis.

THE SLIDER
‘It’s like finding yourself outside at night… in front of the heavens… and the whole of reality drops away’, Sarah Lucas.

‘A dangerous sense of seduction’, John Stezaker.

Performed in live quadraphonic variations – in London, Suffolk, Milan and Oslo.

Two recordings included here :
2017 : especially for broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Michael Berkeley speaking on Radio 3, “Julian sent a note with the piece saying that – the beginning was inspired by waking up in a Suffolk field to the violin-buzz of millions of insects”
2011 : performed in an electronic concert with Russell Haswell (Hoffmann Building, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Suffolk, UK).

NUZ JET LAG
‘The rumbles and tweetie noises made me think of David Lynch’s Eraserhead!’, Rob Gold, Music for Films.

The instruments played in this performance were created on New Zealand’s south island, corresponding to the overriding sounds – cicadas and undulating ‘bellbirds’. No field-recordings, just my ear and numbers …a laptop in the middle of an uninhabited twisted parameter reality, no humans, only four items of wildlife and some weird trees that looked like brains.

“I’M IN A JAPANESE RESTAURANT AND I ACCIDENTALLY STARTED PLAYING IT… REALLY LOUD… AND I COULDN’T TURN IT OFF… THE SUSHI GUY LOVES IT”, Ricky Clifton.

THE SLIDER (2017) : Read More

33 minutes. Digitally released 2018.

Album download > NUZ on Bandcamp

Recorded in a c.1800 Napoleonic military Martello tower, 10 metres from the North Sea. Recorded mostly over two days in winter, real-time abstract responses to observing changing sea states, storms, aerial atmospherics, shipping lanes and fog horns.

Tracks 1 – 6 / acoustic instruments into Pure-Data; live headphone monitoring of microphone signal-processing with two serially-connected looping stereo memory-banks providing complex offset & overlay.
Track 7 / Pure-Data only.

Classical guitar, alternative tuning, Kimbara model no. 76, 1970’s, made in Japan for FCN-London.
D tin whistle, Generation.
Gale-force wind & rain recording.

Diffused in ANAHUACALLI, Museo Diego Rivera, Coyoacán, Mexico City, for the exhibition TITTIPUSSIDAD – NUDS, Sarah Lucas, 20 April – 8 July 2012; and soundtrack to the documentary film ‘About Sarah‘, by Elisa Miller; and the film REALIDAD, by Julian Simmons.

“I thought the fucking door was open … I’ve probably listened to it too much”, Russell Haswell.

“LaMonte Young in Japan”, Angus Cook.

Recorded December 2011 – February 2012.
Released 2012, NUMBERSTREAM0.
Remastered, digitally released 2018, TOWER.
63 minutes.

Album download > TOWER on Bandcamp