[photos] While_you_were_sleeping

Pang and Panoramica's setup

DJ Mayhem

Blue light

[event] Pang on air

Artists from this Saturday's While_you_were_sleeping gig will be talking and playing tracks on The Session with Pete & Andy at 9pm tonight on Radio Active. Pang will be there, along with Panoramica and possibly others.

Update: in the end, it was Anaesthesia Associates who appeared.

[event] While_you_were_sleeping 25/08/2006

Pang will be performing live at Room 101 this Saturday as part of a While_you_were_sleeping local electronica concert. The other artists will be Panoramica, Anaesthesia Associates, DJ Mayhem and Mr J.

The full details:

8pm
Saturday 5th August
Room 101 (under Bar Bodega, 101 Ghuznee St)
$8 entry

[track] Fabrication (live)

Fabrication (11.7MB mp3, 12'27") is the latest Pang track. It's still finding its shape, so this is an exploration of the textures and rhythms in the piece rather than a final structured composition. Drones evolve into melodies, glitches into rhythms, harmonies into basslines. And then the beat kicks in.

Enjoy.

[track] Noilly

Noilly (5.5MB mp3, 5'50") was starting to veer close to cocktail music territory (not that there's anything wrong with that): hence the name. A slight discombobulation of the Rhodes samples, a vaguely drum & bass-ish midsection and some unpredictable feedback on the snares brought it back to life, so think of it as a musical Martini with a couple of extra twists.

[track] Arranging Strangers

The track Arranging Strangers (2.4MB mp3, 2'42") was originally composed as a potential soundtrack for the yet-to-be-released film Some Strange Arrangement by Dan Campion and Luke Badger. It has a darker, more foreboding feel than most of Pang's music, with breathless, driving sections for the chase scenes.

[track] Spangled

The first pang track, Spangled (3.6MB mp3, 3'50"), is now available for download. It was first composed in 2001, but has gradually evolved since then. The piece sounds a bit like the name, with high notes twinkling in and out of focus, over a deep and loping rhythm.