11/08/2010

The Last Miner opened last week at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, featuring a Score and Sound Design by J Harbourne and David Lawrie. It has already gained great critical response from The Edinbugh List and it will continue to run throughout the Festival (until the end of August).

If you cannot make the festival, you can catch The Last Miner in the autumn when it will be touring the UK. Keep an eye on the Tortoise in a Nutshell website for dates and venues as and when they are announced

15/06/2010

David will be collaborating with once again with J Harbourne, but this time it will in a theatrical capacity. Critically acclaimed Theatre Company, Tortoise in a Nutshell's latest production The Last Miner will feature music and sound design composed and produced by J Harbourne and David Lawrie and will be featured every day at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. Head over to the company's website to read the synopsis and make sure you come along to witness this truly heart breaking and beautiful tale.

17/05/2010

David will be in the studio once again with Lost from Atlas in June to produce their latest release. If you haven't heard the band already, head over to their Myspace to hear tracks from their self titled album, which was also produced by David.

In other news, David is very much back in the studio working on his next solo release... watch this space.

28/04/2010

Dale Perkins will be showcasing his new composition (featuring performances by David Lawrie) at n.one8, as part of the Fuse Leeds Festival 2010 this Friday, 30th April in The Venue (connected to Leeds College of Music). Tickets are FREE, but must be reserved through the Leeds College of Music Box Office on 0113 222 3434. This will also be the first time David will have heard the composition since he supplied the raw abstract recordings to Dale late 2009.

Come and enjoy the spectacle in spectactular surround sound in a truly wonderful performance space!

21/03/2010

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, the performance next week at the Vineyard Film Festival in Cyprus has had to be cancelled. The official announcement comes from the CEO of the festival and can be found HERE. Please keep checking back to see when new dates are rescheduled. Apologies to all those who were looking forward to the event, we were, too!

25/12/2009

Happy Christmas everyone! Hope that the fat beardy man was kind to you all!

Currently occurring for Didgeridave: Logic 9 is installing. Björk's 'Volta' is playing. The biggest scarf you have ever seen is warming a neck. Ribs are being prodded by a dancing Idiophonic. Turkey meats are smelling good. Brian Eno is waiting to be read. Coloured lamps are glowing. An abundance of Robots... And that. A Jaw Harp is frequently embracing lips. Text messages are incoming fast and outgoing not quite as speedily. A shrink wrapped T Shirt is slowly expanding. There is snow on the ground. There is yay.

If you like, show off what the presents were under the tree either at Facebook, or Myspace.

Enjoy the festivities, and hope to see you all in 2010!

xxx

07/12/2009

The "Loudness Race" has been picking up pace in music production for digital formats for the last twenty nine years. In the past five or six years, sound balance and mastering engineers have begun to admit the damage it is doing to the quality of the recorded products and the dire reduction of the dynamics in modern music. In the last year or two, even the listener, to whom the "loudness" was originally supposed to appeal has begun to publicly acknowledge the poor quality of modern productions.

Grammy-winning engineer/producer Charles Dye, artist John Ralston, and studio owner Allen Wagner have founded a non-profit organisation which aims to raise awareness of the problems the "Loudness Race" brings, and to devise a way of certifying audio recordings as suitably dynamic. The organisation is called Turn Me Up!

This is NOT a fascist production organisation to remove pumping metal records from shelves, but an incentive to promote a suitable dynamic range and output level based on artistic decisions, rather than pointless competition. This is a fantastic opportunity for everyone, producers, mastering engineers, composers, arrangers and (especially) listeners to support an organised effort to increase the quality of the music being produced!

Please go to the Turn Me Up! website, and join this wonderful project!

25/11/2009

Hand decorated and hand signed TShirts are now available in the Store for �7.97 including P+P - check them out!

20/11/2009

Many thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's show at The National Centre for Early Music! Apologies for the last minute change with the Support Act, unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Lost from Atlas had to pull out, but the tremendous David Ward Maclean stepped in and delivered a truly memorable performance.

Unfortunately, the performance could not be recorded, as was originally planned...

We hope you can make it to a future show as and when they are announced!

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