MOOTCAST014: Voxelpop Vol. 2 — 'Icy Nights' w/ Vogelbat

FRIDAY, 18th of  December, 2015

A new transmission by Vogelbat which will put icicles on your earlobes

MOOTCAST014: Voxelpop Vol. 2 — 'Icy Nights' | Vogelbat by Vogelbat on Mixcloud

Icy-cold beats for icy-cold nights. 

The second in a series of Mootcasts from Vogelbat.

00:23 // Nick Nicely - Headwindaheadwind

03:58 // Grischa Lichtenberger - 003_0415_03_Re_0112_Re_0811_08_Lv_1

07:06 // Moodcut - Stuck in Socks

13:58 // Autechre - Deco Loc

19:15 // Arca - Enveloped

21:32 // Kyoka - Flashback

24:34 // Actress - Bubble Butts and Equations

29:19 // Moomin - She Said She Won’t Be That Long Away

34:42 // Ekoplekz - Tremulant

38:50 // Djrum - Plantain

43:59 // Imre Kiss - Gray’s Legend

47:20 // Deantoni Parks - Amsterdam by Foot

52:05 // J Dilla - Dillatronic 10

53:34 // Ras G - ShiroFaceKillah

55:00 // Madonna - Human Nature

60:01 // Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary

63:12 // John Roberts - Chalkdust

67:01 // Lotic - Fractures

Runtime: 71mins 32sec

MOOT013: Dead Town Radio hosted by Stephen Morton

SUNDAY, 6th of  December, 2015

A Mootcast by Stephen Morton for meditating on sadness,

Second Dead Town Radio Mootcast by Stephen Morton. A mix with the aim to meditate solely on the sadness of living by mixing together a selection of dark ambient, sad, drone and experimental recordings as well as extracts from various sources.

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Duration : 1:01:52

Tracklisting :

1.Intro/EKM - A displaced presence

2.Young Echo - Flying

3.Vikhornov - Leo
4.Coil - Box Theme (Unreleased Hellraiser Soundtrack)/ Eno, Byrne - Qu'ran.

5.Zreen Toyz - Salude Gnopedique

6. Bram Meindersma + David O'Reilly - We will all die alone and unloved

7.Lydia Lunch - Gloomy Sunday

8.William Basinski - Dlp 1.3

9. Geile Tiere Im Dschungel (Berlin-West 1980)/Hiss Tracts - ahh wee dictaphone

10.Hiss Tracts- Test Recording at Trembling City

11.Delta - Eden In Shadows

12.Celestial Lineage - Permanent Changes In Conciousness/Main - Part 2

13.This Mortal Coil -  Til' I gain control again

14.Nocturnal Emissions - Raindance/Atrax Morgue - Talking to a decapitated head.

15.Emperor - Witches Sabbath

16.Sieghetnar - Ankunft

MOOT012: Radio On w/REPLETE//NOV/17/15

We received the first new transmission in a couple of months from REPLETE ahead of an upcoming night in a continuing residency at the Bernard Shaw on November 26th. The new Radio On has host REPLETE digging into a festering array of Electronic, Disco, House and Techno for your enjoyment.








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MOOT presents JONI @ The Bernard Shaw

Transcend beyond your meaningless existence momentarily by tuning into the sounds of JONI this July 30th 2015 @ The Bernard Shaw In Dublin where along with resident MOOT DJ's a night of hypnotic aural distraction is promised.

Recent post on Joni here over at Nialler9
Joni's Facebook

MOOT presents a night of afrobeat, soul and house @ The Wiley Fox

This coming July 11th celebrate the joys of living by bring your friends and dearest loved ones with you to The Wiley Fox. MOOT (themootartgallery.org) will be presenting a night of afrobeat, soul and house. Talk, sit down or listen to the music with dancing rhythms by the likes of Fela Kuti, Marvin Gaye, Theo Parrish and Moodyman selected by REPLETE for your enjoyment.

|||MOOT//BERNARD SHAW//JUNE 25TH : a night of music to dance to.|||

On June 25th MOOT's resident DJ's will be playing a night of music to dance to. REPLETE and Foreign Affair will provide some audio relief to invoke a sense of ease through repetitive transmittance with the aim of soothing cosmic dread humans sometimes suffer. Accompanying the night Artist Stephen Morton will be putting together some of his video collages from his archive of medical surgery tapes and car crash footage. The combination of both the audio and the visual should hopefully entertain.

The nights costs no money and begins at 8pm sharp and ends at 12am sharper.

MOOTCAST011: VOXELPOP Vol. 1 w/ Vogelbat

MOOTCAST011: Voxelpop Vol. 1 with Vogelbat by Vogelbat on Mixcloud

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The first in a series of new MOOTcasts. Vogelbat presents 'Voxelpop' -- a selection of hip-hop and electronica from the bowels of the internet, designed to make your commute more tolerable.

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE, UNRELEASED VOGELBAT TRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING VOGELBAT LP.

00:52 // J Dilla — Take Notice

04:01 // Madlib — Sacrifice (BeatAHolic Thoughts)

05:26 // Roots Manuva — Let the Spirit

10:04 // Slum Village — Walk Wit Me

11:05 // Vogelbat — Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut Advert [MOOT EXCLUSIVE]

14:24 // Daedelus — Humdrum Headspin

19:28 // Damacha — Unicorn3

21:20 // Arca — Slit Thru

23:16 // Flying Lotus — All the Secrets

25:16 // Kyoka — Ybe Ybe

27:57 // Nosaj Thing — Don’t Mind Me

31:10 // Busta Rhymes ft. Janet Jackson — What’s It Gonna Be?!

36:28 // Lotic — Amygdala Hijack

39:48 // Grischa Lichtenberger — 0111_05_z Red

42:46 // John Cooper Clarke — Evidently Chickentown

45:08 // Harmonic 313 — No Way Out

49:33 // Soundstream — Wenn Meine Mutti Wüsste

56:27 // Margaret Dygas — Quintet

64:26 // Alex Smoke — Dust

duration: 70min 47sec

MOOTCAST Radio On w/REPLETE and RADIO live! @The Bernard Shaw, Dublin.

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Ahead of Thursday Nights Radio On Live! at the Bernard Shaw In Dublin and deep in the bowels of the city REPLETE hosts the Second Radio On of 2015. A perfect transmission for after work panning out and late night howls, catch up with some of the latest and best new electronic and dance music out there. 

duration : 1:01:26

TRACKLIST:

Dasha Rush – Lumiere Avant Midi

Daniele Ciulini – 10 Silence

Actress – Bird Matrix

Mo Kolours – How I

Aleuda – Casinha Pequenina

Haggid Horns – Traveller pt 2 (PBRStreetgang rmx)

Roman Flugel – BlackTowers

Fort Romeau – All I want

Glenn Astro – 4 User’s Guide To

Matthias Zimmerman – Todd

Levon Vincent -  Black Arm w:Wolf

Grauzone – Eisbaer (Patrice Baumel Edit)

Patrice Scott – Euphonium (E.T.A. Dub)

Jake Chudnow – Shona

Grupo Batuque – Na Batida do Agogo (Osunlade Remix)

Azymuth – Estrada Dos Deuses (Recloose)

Love Business – Your Love is Like the Ocean (Uffe Edit)

??????? – House Music

Tessla – Bottom Out (Kowton Remix)

J.C. – Nebula 584 feat Dario Zenker

Eomac – Frozen Souls

Neil Landstrumm – Leaving Edinburgh Humour

AFX – SomewhereOTTGTBAG

The Bernard Shaw Thursday Night, April 30th 2015. This Months edition of MOOT (themootartgallery.org) curated nights at the Bernard Shaw Is in the spirit of the MOOT'S podcast series, Radio On as well as the Christopher Petit film 'Radio On'. Selectors Include DJ BONG GOZLING, FOREIGN AFFAIR and REPLETE.//////LOVECLOTS independent screenprinting publisher will also have a stall there selling zines and other shite. Free Entry. Runs from 8 -12///////Facebook events page here

More info :
REPLETE
FOREIGN AFFAIR
LOVECLOTS PUBLICATIONS

MOOT ART PROFILE : SEISHIRO MATSUYAMA

Tuesday, 21st of April, 2015

In the third of our Moot Art Profiles we take a look into the work of Seishiro Matsuyama

Manic vibrancy pulsates in us everyday. We are saturated in light and colour so much so that it causes some people to become over saturated and subsequently die or even worse! imprisoned in a sea of grey misery (depression). It is a struggle, a constant war. Colour poses a risk as do the continual bombardment of information we face on most part of our daily routine in contemporary squalor. With an array of materials, from high end products of oil and silicone to human excrement, crayon wax and markers we choose materials and their instruments that leads to the exorcism of these bombardments we face in a techno-gizmotronic society. One by one the information is stored in log books, on sheets of paper or paradoxically on the screen of a computer laptop or hand held smartphone device via cloud storing technology to be contextualised for ourselves and for the enjoyment and the wellbeing of other humans.

The Art of Seishiro Matsuyama is a manifestation of the war we face with both colour and information. This frenetic struggle and subsequent balance between the two becomes evident in the collection 'Starwows' filled with horses, almonds, smiling faces (why are they smiling?) swastikas, phonecalls, flowers, teeth, eating, bambies, smiling (still smiling) all infused with colour, energy, anger, happiness, saturation expression where the body is engulfed towards the point of pure unadulteration. Seishiro's artwork is unadulterated spelled with a capital that is contained and deeply imbedded to the pages of Starwows, Capital Starwow.

The work album 'Art Work Moon' found on Seishiro's facebook.com album is less chaotic and show's more of the composed stylings of contemporary classical collaged pastes and unidentifiable technique on the surface. Beautifully strange touristic imagery brings us on a safari filled with large headed smiling people being nice to fleshy limbed creatures whilst they wear red socks. Eggs on platters and deformed meat piles with cream and raspberries all set in the foreground of a lush calming floral field with mountainy backdrop.

You crack open a pig to get an egg to cook in the cosmos whilst two business men converse in the canteen but deep down inside a chicken man is paired up to fight a pig man smoking a cigarette in his underwear. Might sound absurd but it is no more absurd than the day to day trot-toils we are faced with in our everyday human lives.

Forms of communication change over time, new forms of language spread into the vox populi of human engagement where new means of symbolic gestures take form to express human emotions such as sadness, love, joy and misery. A popular form of communication now takes the form of emoticons or stickers used on smartphone technological handheld devices. Seishiro has gone about incorporating his characters into his own visual language through sticker language. The series 'Kemono My House!' is a collection of 40 stickers like combinations of arranged letters (words) communicate emotions albeit in Seishiro's uniquely idiosyncratic way they are filled with much of his unique witty droplets that you can send to loved one's at home or while their out driving their car.

Stephen Morton (21/4/15)

Kamono My House! available from the Line Store here

Shieshiro on facebook

All Artwork Copyright © Seishirooo Matsuyama

MOOT presents JONI

Wednesday, 15th of  April, 2015

MOOT hosts the second in a series of nights at the Bernard Shaw in Dublin, Ireland.

The next MOOT takeover of The Bernard Shaw comes in the form of the musical stylings of Joni. The name may be unfamiliar to some but with a release coming via Feel Good Lost it won't be long before Joni's sultry tones will be infecting earholes across the land. Expect bass heavy productions with oodles of melody!

MOOT residents will be playing throughout.

Joni :

https://soundcloud.com/joniiiiiiii

Events page (facebook) :

https://www.facebook.com/events/452024071621097/

MOOTART PROFILE : LEO YAMZ

Tuesday, 7th of  April, 2015

Love At First Sight (2015)

Second MOOT art profile looks at the work of Bruxelles based artist Leo Yamz
Images with elements, symbols, keys and colour in different combination's achieve different results in the brain of the human being. Images of order, serenity and meaningfulness play as the antithesis of chaos, turmoil and meaninglessness. The endless combinations create new reactions, the same combinations create the same reactions. The search and finding of and for new reactions, new feelings from various different nuances achieved in the combining of elements can titillate as well as repulse. With sturdy combinations new revelations materialise, images with a more ambiguous nature lead to digestations that result in new growths that formulate inside the lobes of the human cortex. These exist deep inside of what is known as dark matter or what is more commonly known as the twilight zone or also what can be found as a benign brain tumour.

Blower Bubble World

I watched Louis Malles Black Moon recently and felt such a ethereal resonance formulate; In the film to escape from "the war" the protagonist retreats to a farm house where she escapes into a fantasy world, a kind of Alice In Wonderland type scenario unfolds in the lovely house and surroundings. There is something very milky going on here, I could smell throughout much of the film, fine milk dust. A good image to someone Is the right set of combinations in the elements of the picture, when combined correctly to the viewers sense of cosmic ease dolphins are released and they foam over to the point where they can almost smell what is in the image, a form of pure immersion.

The Shamanic Dance Of Saint Anthony

Waking up one day after a night of sleeping I booted up my laptop turning it on. I saw that artist Ann Van Der Linden was linking to a tumblr blog page that showed up on my facebook news feed. Captivated by the tumbnails I hovered the mouse over clicking.

The page I clicked on documented art work by artist Leo Yamz. Yamz's work taps into the sanctity of our more fantastical times In primitive-base-absurdity. His work filled with dark humour, iconographic aesthetic 's reminiscent of the Old Testament, Alchemy drawings and furthermore into the subconscious of modern surrealist imagery. I found similar sensibilities in an old Graphis 101 my Father owned when I was a child with drawings from the late great Roland Topor; they were quite musty black and white images held together with yellowing tape, Topors images made a tremendous impression on my young mind. Yamz's drawings seemed to be coloured digitally and lit up by a computer screen but regardless the format the elements occupy a unique mind-scape making a similar impression In the way of Topor and Malle.

The images created by Yamz are filled with magic, his world based in oddity and expression of thought that conjured an inherent playfulness for human madness executed with graphic prowess. Making the right connections with my lobes a pleasant pathway found when rising from a day slumber and scrolling through his images with elder stumps Yamz's work stunk of something many times more delectable than the nightly curds.

Stephen Morton (6/4/15)

Apprentice Alchemist

-Leo Yamz will be showing his entire zine collection for the first time this Spring at "KABINET" In Bruxelles. (https://lekabinetbxl.wordpress.com/

- "Plastic Soul" - is an illustration for an up-coming edition project related to "Tiny Leg"  (http://tinyleg.com/) a pyscho-rap art group based in New York City.

Plastic Soul

Extract from "Occidental"

Fuck Death

Yamz's sites:
http://leoyamz.tumblr.com/
http://ly-journal.blogspot.be/
http://leo-yamz.net/
http://leoyamz.storenvy.com

Collaborators:
http://www.uniteddeadartists.com/
http://www.theluckyjotter.com/
http://sixelzevir.net/

Birth

Goodbye Dad

Bobby Nixon's "Street Scene"

Friday, 3rd of  April, 2015
A new screenprint by Bobby Nixon is available from Loveclots.com. The Scottish artist took part in an exhibition UMPLEK as part of The Moot Art and Music Festival In 2013. The latest print shows a progression on themes of debauchery and decay.

"Nixon's recent work focuses on painting, print and drawing to depict small-scale figurative scenes. Images of violence, bestiality, murder, body dismemberment, UFOs, varicose veins, beer bottles, cola cans, dog shit, neds, black holes, crucifixions, megalomaniacs, serial killers and prophets are rendered together offering a nightmarish perversion of the human condition."
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For more on the work of Bobby Nixon view it here on MOOT

In the Realms of Choke.

Sunday, 29th of  March, 2015

Photo of The Kingdom Of Choke In Progress

Stephen Morton reflects on his book of drawings 'The Kingdom Of Choke' from 2012,

his time in art college, a continuing fascination with old/bald men who inspired the work and on finishing the book as a short film with Peter Lawlor

In March 2011 I started a book of drawings whilst studying illustration in Scotland. The class was given a personal project as part of the course. I decided to delve into the creation of a book of drawings that eventually became ‘The Kingdom Of Choke’.

Becoming familiar with Henry Darger around this time, his story was enigmatic both perplexing and inspiring at the same time. Henry Darger was what is considered as an Outsider Artist who spent most of his life living a quiet life working as a janitor in a hospital in Chicago. After his death a 15,145 page manuscript was found in his flat, the manuscript was called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. The illustrations in the book are ripe with detail but also possess this incredible energy which is hard to find. The story of Darger really resonated with me as it has for a lot of artists over the years since he was discovered. The content of Dargers work didnt really interest me more so the essence of his creation and what it meant, the idea of the solitary monk like figure working away on his drawings seemed more appealing than the complete contrary dogged frenetic commercial push of the college.

Henry Darger : Wiki

Dargers story also rang true with an essay I picked up on earlier that year. The essay was by a Norwegian Philosopher named Peter Wessel Zapffe. In his essay 'The Last Messiah' Zapffe constructs the idea of Remedies Against Panic, these remedies propose that we as humans artificially limit our consciousness to help deal with what he describes as 'cosmic panic', he compares this to the antlers of an Irish Elk who when its antlers grow too large weighs down the creatures head pinning it to the cold murky ground eventually causing it to die from starvation or panic. In the case of humans we choose to break off these antlers which is our consciousness thus the artificial limiting. Sublimation described as one of these remedies, the one I felt pertained to myself the most and which plays into the idea of transformation, pretty much summed up Darger for me

"...sublimation, is a matter of transformation rather than repression. Through stylistic or artistic gifts can the very pain of living at times be converted into valuable experiences. Positive impulses engage the evil and put it to their own ends, fastening onto its pictorial, dramatic, heroic, lyric or even comic aspects."

The premise for creating the book of drawings was finding out a truth as to why I wanted to make art in the first place and I felt now I could push all the pettiness of college and society behind me and concentrate on something that was true to me and that was creating positive impulses from the sheer dread of existence. The idea of sublimation, transformation coupled with Darger and also a self sufficient Finnish dancer named Elis Sinisto reinforced the alluring romanticism of a hermetic existence which started to give way to this book of drawings I called 'The Kingdom Of Choke' which I spent a year or so illustrating.

Drawing of Elis Sinisto (2011)

I got to around 150 pages which was far off Henry Darger's 15,145 pages but it felt good to get it down. Before starting the book I had developed a very refined way of drawing, however for 'The Kingdom Of Choke' I threw away all my preconceived notions in developing a style and tried to draw in my rawest most immediate form. I felt freed from the common cosmetic inclinations by creating something that strayed away from any obvious trend.

After finishing the book there was no clear idea what to do with it. I wanted people to see it, like the way a kid proudly unveils a shit on the carpet to its parents, an artist must do the same. I had drawn all the images both back and front of the pages in the book, there was no way of framing or displaying them really, it was too fragile to leave out in view for people to paw through and the resources weren't there to make a reproduction. After awhile I got to watching Roland Topor and Rene Laloux's 'Les Temps Morts', the film blends animation by Roland Topor with real life stock footage that is narrated over. The topic is about the cycle of violence in humanity which leads to war and crime, ending in the death penalty. This kind of short animation/visual essay i thought would be perfect for The Kingdom Of Choke so i toyed around with the idea for awhile. Eventually I came back to Ireland and and asked Peter Lawlor to help with working on a soundtrack. I wrote an accompanying text touching on the ideas of sublimation and transformation and layered it over the animation and the soundtrack.

The short animation of the Kingdom Of Choke went through two drafts, one version was played at the Moot Art and Music Festival in 2013 in Kilkenny, It then sat idle for awhile before i made some adjustments and the soundtrack was finished.

The Kingdom Of Choke (2013)

Animation Written and Drawn by Stephen Morton

Music by Peter Lawlor.

The Kingdom Of Choke OST

Soundtrack to The Kingdom Of Choke by Peter Lawlor

Track Listings:

1. The Kingdom Of Choke 1

2. The Kingdom Of Choke 2

Produced and Mastered by Peter Lawlor.

Download All here (1.46gb) here

Download PDF book here

Download OST here

Watch here