andrew weathers

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.

i said i would try to lay low for april and may, yet of course that didn’t quite happen.

April 11th – Maya Performance Space – Greensboro, NC

I’ll be playing guitar in Reed Benjamin’s Monument project. He writes beautiful acoustic pop songs, and I space them out. I believe there will also be drums and violin this night as well.

April 17th – Maya Performance Space – Greensboro, NC

April 18th – Signal Fest, Nightlight – Chapel Hill, NC

These will be AW + AM shows. We’ve got some good stuff planned. Expect minimal glitchy prepared guitar.

May 2nd – The Good Cherry – Lynchburg, VA

This show will be the third Andrew Weathers + Joe Morgan show. Expect expansive ambient jams. CJ Boyd is playing this show also.

May 8th – Thee Rosemont – Charlotte, NC

May 9th – City Skies Electronic Music Festival – Decatur, GA

Thee Rosemont is a hallway in a house apparently, and should be great. Bob Fields is also playing. City Skies was great in October, I believe Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is also playing. This is also my birthday weekend; I never even pause, not for anything.

May 17th – C.O.M.A. at ABC No Rio – Manhattan, NY

May 18th – MonkeyTown – Brooklyn, NY

C.O.M.A. is a weekly improvisational music event that’s been at ABC No Rio for quite a while. I’m excited to play at ABC No Rio. I’ve heard the name often, ever since my zine days. I’ll be doing the featured set for the night, playing with a great guitarist named Jeffery Thompson. I found him because he did a residency at the Elsewhere Collaborative here in Greensboro, and we traded cds. I’ve become a big fan of his stuff.

The MonkeyTown show should also be great. It’s been my favorite venue to play in the city. I’ll be playing a composed piece of mine. ( ) and Ian Epps will also play. I’ve played two shows with both of them before, and they’ve been great. These two make some fantastic music. Keep in mind that to check out a show at MonkeyTown, you need to make reservations in advance.

brian john mitchell interviewd me for his webzine qrd. you can check that out here: http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/39andrewweathers.html

it’s been a little while since i’ve updated this thing. not a lot, but a whole lot has gone on.

for a week in march, i did a short tour with Remora. attendance was overall decent, but merch sales were virtually nonexistant. i guess people aren’t really willing to part with ten dollars for a cd anymore. more and more, i think that purely digital might be a good way to go. but i would hate to cut out cds and other releases. otherwise, my music would have no object to represent it, which is one of the downsides of music in my opinion. the lack of a tangible aspect, that is.

i was impressed with two venues we played at, speakertree records in lynchburg, va and labyrinth press company in jamestown, ny. both were owned by guys probably only about four years older than me. both of the spaces looked great, and seemed to be well run and well kept. i think it’s great that younger people are doing things like that, especially since they’re opening up their spaces for creative music to happen. i feel like there is no way i could run a successful business right now.

i’m working on two main projects right now. the first is a score for a short film being made at ncsa right now. it’s directed by rosalinda darwin, and the director of photography is my friend drew valenti. i read through the script, and i feel like my music is going to be pretty appropriate for it. i’m going to be writing it for intermissions ensemble, with a few of my guitar and electronics tracks. i’ve recorded a bit, and it sounds good so far.

i’m also working on a system to gather environmental data, so that my computer can interact with it. i’m doing research right now, and re-learning how to solder. i’ve successfully made one contact mic that works.

i’m a few days into the tour with Remora.

the tour has been sparsely attended, but i think the shows have been good. tonight’s show in the capitol was easily the largest crowd we’ve played for. we showed up late due to some miscommunication, but the show ran smoothly other than that. brian and i played the show together, which sounded alright, despite no verbal planning at all.

brian and i are staying at my friend eric’s house in ruston,va. tomorrow we head to jamestown, ny for a show with audibel.

i wanted to make a post about the tour i have coming up with Remora. we’re playing with some good bands. here are the dates:

03.05 – Maya Performance Space – Greensboro, NC

03.06 – Nightlight – Chapel Hill, NC

03.07 – The Water Heater – Roanoke, VA

03.08 – The Blue Nile – Harrisonburg, VA

03.09 – House Show – Pittsburgh, PA

03.10 – SpeakerTree Records – Lynchburg, VA

03.11 – Electric Possible at DCAC – Washington, DC

03.12 – Labyrinth Press Company – Jamestown, NY

03.13 – Bella Dubby – Cleveland, OH

03.14 – Doucette 119 – Edinboro, PA

seth put this up on his record label’s new site:

“I’ll keep my descriptions short and as honest as possible. I often feel songs need to be revealed– they already exist, but someone needs to show them to us as they really are and not a being with self involved nonsense caked all over it. Andrew reveals the song as it is meant: very fluid and subtle. It’s like all these invisible doors only he can see, and inside are beings that want to be revealed. He opens the door and lets us see them as they are.”