andrew weathers

so the album is as done as it will ever be. it’s very different from anything i’ve done before this, and i’m excited for people to hear it. i’m proud of the work i’ve done on it. i might possibly post some of the tracks on myspace soon.

i’ve started the process of booking the winter tour – i’ll be out for about a month, and i’ll be hitting the south, the midwest, and little bit of the east coast. i think that it’s harder to book as a solo act without a moniker. when i went by pacific before tiger, i could pretend to be a band. people like bands. here are the dates i’m looking for, and what’s already booked, incase you’d like to help

December 17 – Atlanta, GA

December 18 – GreenCup Books, Birmingham, AL

December 19 – Mississippi/Louisiana/Alabama

December 20 – MS/LA/AL

December 21 – Jackson, MS

December 22 – Open Ears Music Series, New Orleans, LA

December 27 – Bryan, TX

December 28 – Dallas/San Antonio, TX

December 29 – End of An Ear In Store, Austin, TX

December 30 – Notsuoh, Houston, TX

December 31 – Super Happy Fun Land, Houston, TX

January 1 – Denton, TX

January 2 – North TX/Oklahoma

January 3 – Lawrence, KS

January 4 – Manhattan, KS

January 5 – Kansas City, MO

January 6 – Kansas City, Mo

January 7 – St. Louis, MO

January 8 – Illinois/Indiana

January 9 – Louisville, KY

January 10 – Dayton/Cleveland/Colombus

January 11 – Dayton/Colombus/Cincinatti

January 12 – Pittsburgh, PA

January 13 – Philadelphia, PA w/ Northern Valentine

January 14 – Baltimore, MD/ Washington, DC

January 15 – Greensboro, NC w/ CJ Boyd

mixing finished. performing tonight at the Good Cherry in Lynchburg, VA with The Late Virginia Summers and Arms and Sleepers.

officially. i am done tracking the album. that is all.

hello friends. at this moment, i’m sitting in my room in my new-ish home in greensboro, north carolina. my windows face the street, and i’m listening to the sound of the street sweeper sweeping the streets.

i’ve been laying low lately. i’ve spent most of august indoors during the day, recording or reading, and nights on porches. recording is progressing positively. things are shaping into a body of music that is coherent and hopefully beautiful and meaningful. i would really just settle for coherent though. if things continue moving at the present rate, i should be done tracking the album in a couple of weeks. i’m not sure how it will get released, but i’m working on those details.

simultaneously, i’m working on booking a winter tour for late december/ early january. i’m going to try to hit the south and midwest. i’ll post tentative dates soon, probably.

other than that, i continue to take classes, help run full spectrum records, and eat food that is terrible for me. just like normal.

so, after a long day of travel that started at a hostel in Milan at 5 in the morning, i’m back home in greensboro, north carolina. as great as the travel was, home is good too. i saw a cast of chopin’s hand at la scala in milan. it was very thin.

i have a pretty busy month coming up. here’s what i’ll be up to:

- two shows: August 10th at Maya Gallery with Justin Peake and others. August 14th at BCHQ in Durham with Khristian Weeks.

- moving into a new home with Reed Benjamin and Matt Northrop.

- drinking a lot of black, american coffee.

- not eating pasta

- moving into a great rehearsal space near downtown greensboro

- recording a new album of entirely new works.

- editing/recording a series of miniatures for clarinet and violin

- various tasks for full spectrum records

- etc.

hello e-world. let me tell you what i’ve been up to.

i flew to milan last sunday. my friend tea lives there now, and was kind enough to put me up for several days. she writes a hilarious blog which you should read here. i explored the city, and wasn’t able to sleep at night ever because i’m very bad at adjusting to different time zones, apparently. i am enjoying the high quality coffee very much.

i played a show in milan on thursday at a place called biko. i wasn’t expecting much of a crowd, considering this was my first time performing outside of the u.s. but a decent amount of people showed up, and i think we had a good time. the people involved with the show were easily the friendliest i met in milan. it’s not a overly welcoming place over there. i played last saturday in a town called pavia, south of milan. the venue was a farmhouse, older than the country i live in, out in the country. i played under some kind of roof outside, with city lights and fireworks in the background. it was really a beautiful setting. i was happy to be there.

after that, i took the train to venice to do the tourist thing for a couple of days. i only had two goals: see the peggy guggenheim collection, and find bruce nauman’s show in the venice biennale. i achieved both. the guggenheim has a great sculpture garden and a really great exhibition of sculptures of robert rauchenberg. the only thing there i was confused by was that the pollacks were all behind glass. i don’t think pollock really works like that. it makes the paintings flat and unengaging. funny how a thin sheet of something that is meant to be ignored can completely ruin the effect.

throughout the city, i continually ran into smaller shows relating to italian futurism. i later found out that 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the publishing of the futurist manifesto. makes sense, right? my favorite of these was a collection of replicas of luigi russolo’s intonarumori. i’d never been able to figure out how his noisemakers worked. it’s actually very clever. ask me, and we can talk about it or something.

i like venice. it’s very much a walking city, and i love walking cities. i think it’s the only way to really experience a place. if you hop from site to site, you only get tiny, tiny parts of a whole. walking, you have to experience the entire city, even the chunks you might not really want to see. i don’t think the presence of crowds of tourists has completely ruined the uniqueness in venice. it’s still easy enough to get off of the main paths and wander through the city alone.

now i’m back in pavia for the soundscape festival. it’s a festival organized by the university of kansas, but held at the vittadini school of music here in pavia. a new piece of mine will be performed later in the festival. we had the first rehearsal this morning, and it went well. it sounds much better than i would have anticipated; its more challenging than a lot of other things i’ve written.

pavia is a smaller town, but interesting. there are universities here, so there are a lot of young people around, and a lot of things happening. i bought a hat at the market. there is also no air conditioning anywhere. i also miss mexican food. that’s really it for now.

in a few days i’ll be leaving for milan, italy. i’m doing a couple of laptop and slide guitar shows while i’m there. here’s the info:

06.09.09 – Biko, Milan, Italy.

06.11.09 – Ortosonico, Pavia, Italy

while i’m there, there will also be a performance of a piece for violin, clarinet, percussion and piano as a part of the soundSCAPE festival in Pavia. the piece is called ‘ocean, pier, ocean.’

i have a track featured on the new dead pilots records compilation, called drone poets. my piece is an older one for guitar, keyboards and electronics. you can preorder it here: www.deadpilotrecords.co.uk

just a quick note about a few things.

first, corey larkin’s piece pnomoneya will be available on full spectrum records tomorrow. andrew marino and i have been working on this release for quite some time, and i think it’s come out very excellently. the screen-printed cd cases came out looking really fantastic, i think, and the piece absolutely beautiful, of course. it’s a limited edition of 100.

things are shaping up for the italy trip. i’ve been able to get a couple of shows before i head to pavia, and i’ll also have some time to travel on my own. check the myspace for the dates on the shows, and let your friends abroad know, please!

i got back from new york yesterday evening, and i’ve spent the past couple of days getting settled back in to greensboro. it’s always such an experience going to new york.

i got to check out lamonte young’s dreamhouse, and i have to say it was incredible. i’ve never heard music in such a physical way before. the intallation changes your perception of everything, from hearing to touch. i couldn’t believe it when i realized i’d been sitting on a pillow on the floor for an hour.

jim combs was good enough to post the recording from my set at city skies on the 9th. you can check it out here. the first piece is an untitled piece, which hasn’t been recorded yet. the second is climates, which should be coming out on echolocation records sometime soon.

that’s all for now. i’ll get in a larger update soon, when i get my head back together.