Icarus

Icarus interview on C74

icarus — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:41:12 +0000

Sam speaks to Cycling 74, makers of MaxMSP, about the role of Max in the making of Fake Fish Distribution.

Fake Fish Distribution out now

icarus — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:56:34 +0000

Fake Fish Distribution is out here for purchase via Paypal. The 1,000 versions are being released incrementally. Get your unique version!

Sonic Acts @ Paradiso, alongside Keith Fullerton-Whitman and Joel Ryan – February 25th

icarus — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:31:39 +0000

The Sonic Acts Festival have announced an epic line up and confirmed that we’ll be playing the Paradiso on a line up that also includes Keith Fullerton-Whitman and Joel Ryan. We’ll also be playing with some kind of fancy new tablet-based musical toys that we’ll be making with STEIM’s Jonathan Reus and Goldsmiths’ Daniel Jones throughout February. This, we think, will be a perfect end to a European winter.

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE – WE HAD FEB 27th UP ON OUR SITE FOR A WHILE.

Check out Sonic Acts here: http://2012.sonicacts.com/

Icarus @ Mayhem

icarus — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:53:05 +0000

Poster for Icarus’ forthcoming gig at Mayhem, Copenhagen, on Jan 24th, with Zack Christ & Sebastian Winther and Djs Opiate and Badun …

Icarus @ Südpol

icarus — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:04:15 +0000

Flyer for Icarus’ forthcoming gig at Südpol, Lucerne, on Jan 27th.

Icarus @ Cafe Oto

icarus — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:10:08 +0000

Our album launch date is booked @ Cafe Oto, on Friday Jan 20th, with Inch-Time and BABs, brought to you by Mystery Plays. Subscribe to our GigPress feed on the sidebar and have it in the diary.

Icarus – Fake Fish Distribution release date in 2012

icarus — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:10:27 +0000

Our forthcoming album, ‘Fake Fish Distribution’, will be available on ~~January 30th~~ 6th February 2012 (N.B change of date!). It is our first full studio album since 2005′s ‘I Tweet the Birdy Electric‘ and was composed using parametric techniques, embedded into Ableton Live using the Max for Live add-on, allowing us to mutate the record so that each version that you download will be different from everyone else’s. More on this can be found via the dedicated FFD page and on the STEIM project blog.

We’re putting the final touches to the record now and are getting ready for the release. It has taken quite a long time to get this far, with a lot of help from some very helpful people, but it will be something a bit special. A short tour in Europe in January and February is being put together to promote the record. Dates coming shortly … for news on pre-orders, gigs and more, follow us on Twitter @birdy_electric or sign up to the Not-Applicable mailing list here (we promise this is ultra-low traffic). In the mean time, here’s a sample of FFD version 500:

Fake Fish Distribution – version 500 sampler by Icarus…

The Road To Denmark …

icarus — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:16:23 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came down to the show at Cafe OTO on the 15th and made it such a great evening. We’re off to Copenhagen this weekend for our last show before Ollie returns to Australia, after which Icarus will have a short hiatus until the winter when we will return with a new studio album and hopefully some more live dates. In the mean time, you can now pick up our Split EP with Badun from Bandcamp – Enjoy!

Flensburg by Not Applicable

London @ Oto, Sunday May 15th

icarus — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:18:23 +0000

Last two shows of the spring for Icarus are alongside the Danish duo Badun to promote our split EP. Badun make deliciously intricate electronic rhythm music, it’s very special and it’s a great pleasure to get them over to the UK. Next up is Inch-Time, Badun and Icarus @ Cafe OTO this Sunday, May 15th. We love OTO.

Badun / Icarus – ‘Flensburg’ EP – Preview by Icarus…

Geneva, Istanbul and Hamburg

icarus — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:18:24 +0000

We set sail this week for three really exciting shows: on Wednesday we visit Cave12 in Geneva, a legendary experimental improv venue; on Saturday we play at Tamirane in Istanbul, where we’re also visiting Bigli University and presenting a workshop to students of the Music School; on Sunday we’re heading to the epic grungeness of the Golden Pudel club in the docks of Hamburg where we play alongside Daedelus (trying not to get too excited about this mythical connection). Next Sunday we play at Cafe Oto back home in London with Badun and Inch-Time, two weeks after that it’s Copenhagen with various greats of Danish electronic music, and that’s the end of our all too ephemeral spring-based stint of touring.

Leeds, Leicester and London

icarus — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:21:14 +0000

Icarus at Leeds (20th April), Leicester (21st April) and London (28th April) all coming up super-soon. Full tour details here…

Date	City	Venue	Country
27/05/11	Icarus in Copenhagen	Byens Lys	Denmark
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 9:00pm. Admission: 60 kr. Address: Fabriksområdet Copenhagen, 147 1440. With Badun, Sofus Forsberg, Karsten Phlum and DJs Helmut Zeit, Jung Pioneers, konditoque and Jeppe Toubro. Badun and Icarus celebrate their split EP release, Flensburg. Flyer: http://komputerwolf.com/files/uploaded_files/oliver/1303765906byens_lys-27.maj-2011.jpg
15/05/11	Icarus in London	Cafe OTO	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £7 adv / £8 on the door. Address: 18 – 22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL. With Badun (DK) and Inch-TIme (Oz/UK).
08/05/11	Icarus in Hamburg	Golden Pudel	Germany
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Address: St. Pauli Fischmarkt 27 20359. Venue phone: 04031979930. With Deadalus.
07/05/11	Icarus in Istanbul	Tamirane	Turkey
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 9:00pm. Admission: Free. Address: santralistanbul Kazım Karabekir Caddesi 1, Eyüp , Istanbul 34060. Presented by Istanbul Bilgi University Music Department and Tamirane.
04/05/11	Icarus in Geneva	Cave12	Switzerland
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Venue phone: +41(0)786821235.
28/04/11	Icarus in London	Elektrowerkz	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 10:00pm. Admission: £7 before 11pm, £10 after. Address: 7 Torrens Street EC1V 1NQ. Venue phone: +44 20 7837 6419. With Mike Dredd, Luke’s Anger, Moster X, Point B, Scheme Boy, Stik, Missaw, Kirsti Weir, BFG, Ursa. All proceeds go to Peace Winds for Japanese relief. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206431512718104
21/04/11	Icarus in Leicester	The Arts Organisation	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £5. Address: 68-70 Humberstone Gate. With Myoptik, Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Cuttlefish Multimedia, Adam Chetty and the Envelope, DJ Support from: Asmo (Bathysphere.co.uk) and Missaw (TheCentrifuge.co.uk).
20/04/11	Icarus in Leeds	Enjoy Art Space	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 7:00pm. Admission: Free. Address: Unit 22, Mabgate, Leeds, LS9 7DZ. with Quip and DJ Missaw
16/04/11	Icarus in Bristol	Cube Cinema	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £6. Address: 4 Princess Row Bristol, Avon BS2 8NQ. Venue phone: +441179074190. With Vaetxh, Colonist and DJ Missaw. Details: http://www.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl?days=61#5813
15/04/11	Icarus in Brighton	Volks	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 10:00pm. Admission: £6 advance, £7 on the door. Address: 3 Madeira Drive Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1PS. Venue phone: +44 1273 682828 ‎. With many many insanely named artists. Main info page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143030452431556

(Thanks again to PRSF for support for our UK shows).

Oto show added in May, Brighton and Bristol coming up

icarus — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:25:55 +0000

We return to the great Oto on May 15th with the great Badun and Inch-Time. We’re also playing at Elektrowerkz on April 28th as part of a Japan fundraiser. Touring kicks off this Friday 15th April at the Wrong Music night, at Volks in Brighton, followed by the Cube Cinema, Bristol on the 16th. This week we are amassing breaks, noises and thunderous sub-bass.

Diverse input: us, Eclectic Method, Chuck D, Weirdcore & Andrew Benson

icarus — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:42:08 +0000

Our recently released remix of Eclectic Method and Chuck D‘s Outta Sight has finally gained a visual component in the form of Weirdcore/Andrew Benson‘s insanely kaleidoscopic feature-driven video remix…

Chuck D / Eclectic Method – Outta Sight (audio mix by Icarus, video mix by Weirdcore/Andrew Benson) from weirdcore on Vimeo.

Icarus spring tour poster

icarus — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:15:47 +0000

Featuring Icarus’ tour mascot, the strange naked mirror-man-marionette…

Icarus tour dates

icarus — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:06:25 +0000

Icarus tour dates are mostly sorted and approaching rapidly, still hoping to sort out another London show, plus a couple of stragglers.

Note the RSS and iCalendar links at the bottom, so you’ll never miss an Icarus show again.

Date	City	Venue	Country
27/05/11	Icarus in Copenhagen	Byens Lys	Denmark
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 9:00pm. Admission: 60 kr. Address: Fabriksområdet Copenhagen, 147 1440. With Badun, Sofus Forsberg, Karsten Phlum and DJs Helmut Zeit, Jung Pioneers, konditoque and Jeppe Toubro. Badun and Icarus celebrate their split EP release, Flensburg. Flyer: http://komputerwolf.com/files/uploaded_files/oliver/1303765906byens_lys-27.maj-2011.jpg
15/05/11	Icarus in London	Cafe OTO	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £7 adv / £8 on the door. Address: 18 – 22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL. With Badun (DK) and Inch-TIme (Oz/UK).
08/05/11	Icarus in Hamburg	Golden Pudel	Germany
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Address: St. Pauli Fischmarkt 27 20359. Venue phone: 04031979930. With Deadalus.
07/05/11	Icarus in Istanbul	Tamirane	Turkey
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 9:00pm. Admission: Free. Address: santralistanbul Kazım Karabekir Caddesi 1, Eyüp , Istanbul 34060. Presented by Istanbul Bilgi University Music Department and Tamirane.
04/05/11	Icarus in Geneva	Cave12	Switzerland
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Venue phone: +41(0)786821235.
28/04/11	Icarus in London	Elektrowerkz	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 10:00pm. Admission: £7 before 11pm, £10 after. Address: 7 Torrens Street EC1V 1NQ. Venue phone: +44 20 7837 6419. With Mike Dredd, Luke’s Anger, Moster X, Point B, Scheme Boy, Stik, Missaw, Kirsti Weir, BFG, Ursa. All proceeds go to Peace Winds for Japanese relief. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206431512718104
21/04/11	Icarus in Leicester	The Arts Organisation	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £5. Address: 68-70 Humberstone Gate. With Myoptik, Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Cuttlefish Multimedia, Adam Chetty and the Envelope, DJ Support from: Asmo (Bathysphere.co.uk) and Missaw (TheCentrifuge.co.uk).
20/04/11	Icarus in Leeds	Enjoy Art Space	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 7:00pm. Admission: Free. Address: Unit 22, Mabgate, Leeds, LS9 7DZ. with Quip and DJ Missaw
16/04/11	Icarus in Bristol	Cube Cinema	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 8:00pm. Admission: £6. Address: 4 Princess Row Bristol, Avon BS2 8NQ. Venue phone: +441179074190. With Vaetxh, Colonist and DJ Missaw. Details: http://www.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl?days=61#5813
15/04/11	Icarus in Brighton	Volks	United Kingdom
Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal	Time: 10:00pm. Admission: £6 advance, £7 on the door. Address: 3 Madeira Drive Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1PS. Venue phone: +44 1273 682828 ‎. With many many insanely named artists. Main info page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143030452431556

Special thanks to PRSF for support with our UK shows, and to Wassim @ The Centrifuge for booking ‘em.

Eclectic Method feat. Chuck D Remix

icarus — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:24:08 +0000

It’s great to be back in touch with Jonny from Eclectic Method after meeting him in 1998 in Bosnia, where we recorded our album Fijaka and he was running DJ workshops and imparting his passion for mashup culture through musical outreach programmes run from Mostar. Twelve years on and it’s no surprise to find him enthusing the denizons of New York with Eclectic Method’s video cut-ups and collaborating with Chuck D from Public Enemy, who he met through a common interest in copyright and its wrongs. Today we revel at a distance in sonic abandon via this nostalgically jump-started remix … to the future! long may it remain as off-kilter as the past!

Outta Sight feat Chuck D (Icarus Remix) by EclecticMethod

Coming soon: A video to our remix made by the mercurial techno evangelists who are Weirdcore.

After STEIM

icarus — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:16:15 +0000

We’ve just got back from a 3 week residency at STEIM, in the Netherlands which, amongst other things, refers to itself as a “nomad studio”. We’re refraining from talking too much about the project at this stage, but we have just posted a project report on the STEIM project blog. The short and cryptic version is this: our new album will be one composition, but 1000 recordings, each its own variation on the album. To this end, over the past three weeks we have been tangled up in breakpoint functions, the finesses of function interpolation, colourful probability distributions, grey coding binary strings, rendering tracks on multiple computers throughout the night into gigabytes of data, and using a big pad and felt-tip pens to try to get multi-dimensional ideas across space into each other’s 3 dimensional imaginations. We have been exploiting the magic of Max4Live, Emmanuel Jourdan, Dropbox, Stroopwaffles and more RME interfaces than you could carry on a bike.

In Session @ STEIM

icarus — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:46:34 +0000

Interview and DJ Mix @ The Liminal

icarus — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:45:35 +0000

The Liminal is a new music website that focuses on “the music that others may be blind to”. So it is absolutely plain common sense that they got in touch with us for an interview about Icarus and Not Applicable.

There is also an hour-long mix by us of music from Icarus and other Not Applicable artists, including a number of previews of tracks that will be coming out this year.

01 Not Applicable Mix – Icarus by The Liminal on Mixcloud

Forthcoming releases on NA by Ollie and Sam

icarus — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:36:11 +0000

A handful of Icarus-related projects involving Ollie and Sam are coming out on the Not Applicable label in the first half of 2011. More details can be found on the Not Applicable website.