Its actually remix of an entire jazz festival – Novara Jazz 2006 – and a document of the frantic week I spent in a darkened Novara hotel room, going to the shows each evening, picking up recordings of them afterwards, and then putting everything together in time for the last night, where I performed the remix live in a medieval courtyard (w/ accompanying visuals by the artist Luc Trevisani).

You can listen to the whole thing, find places to buy it and so much more at www.v-e-r-t.com. Noise Room compilation A compilation of edited versions of all the tracks featured in the Noise Room – including my track Jellyrollmortonfeldmantwo – is out now on Sonig.

Also included are tracks by Lee Ranaldo, Black Dice, Kevin Blechdom, Mouse on Mars, David Grubbs, Vert, Jason Forrest, Daniel Schorno, Sun OK Papi K.O., Casey Rice, Robert van Heumen, Jeff Carey, Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski and Michel Waisvisz.

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It’s taken a while, but New Thing at Novara is finally out (those of you in the US will have to wait til October 14th).

Its actually remix of an entire jazz festival – Novara Jazz 2006 – and a document of the frantic week I spent in a darkened Novara hotel room, going to the shows each evening, picking up recordings of them afterwards, and then putting everything together in time for the last night, where I performed the remix live in a medieval courtyard (w/ accompanying visual by the artist Luc Trevisani).

The remix is made of performances from Mina Agossi Trio, Di Terra Trio, Louis Moholo & Stan Tracey, Jelly Roll Morton, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Matthew Ship & Guillermo E Brown, Trovesi all’Opera, Galja Vranesevic & Fedor Ruskuc, David S Ware, & the World Saxophone Quartet.

Listen to it on the right -> then go and buy it immediate on the sonig website.

A compilation of edited versions of all the tracks featured in the Noise Room – including my track Jellyrollmortonfeldmantwo – is out now on Sonig.

Also included are tracks by Lee Ranaldo, Black Dice, Kevin Blechdom, Mouse on Mars, David Grubbs, Vert, Jason Forrest, Daniel Schorno, Sun OK Papi K.O., Casey Rice, Robert van Heumen, Jeff Carey, Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski and Michel Waisvisz.

Buy it now at the sonig webshop.

The piece is made up of 5 different recordings made by Jelly Roll Morton, 3 of them recorded to vinyl, 2 to piano rolls, all slowed down in various ways (using custom timestretch algorithms, or slowing down, or transposing to MIDI and just lowering the BPM) by a factor of about 100, so that they move at the rate of a typical Morton Feldman composition.

The Noise Room is a project by Jan Werner, and also includes pieces by Mouse on Mars, Stereolab, Sun OK Papi KO, FX Randomiz & C-Schulz, and many more.

Thursday 14 August 20:00 (we play at about 22:30)
Gewoelbe im Westbahnhof, Hans-Boeckler-Platz 2, Koeln

The musicians:
Tri Minh (electronics)
DJ Kruise (turntables)
Dinh Huy Ha (drums)
Thi Van Mai Le (Đàn tranh – traditional Vietnamese 17 stringed instrument)

Also playing:
Console & Nanue Tipitier
Rubber Inc & Gebrueder Teichmann
Jamie Lloyd & Trickski
Goodnight Electric & Turner
& a panoply of DJs

Come one, come all

Thursday 14 August 20:00 (we play at about 22:30)
Gewoelbe im Westbahnhof, Hans-Boeckler-Platz 2, Koeln

The musicians:
Tri Minh (electronics)
DJ Kruise (turntables)
Dinh Huy Ha (drums)
Thi Van Mai Le (Đàn tranh – traditional Vietnamese 17 stringed instrument)

There’s no stage, no sponsors, and the amplifiers might blow up.

I’ll be road testing some new material that I’ve been working on recently (which is slightly more than a glimmer in its father’s eye and slightly less than an actual finished album), as well as playing old favourites and singalongs.

Coming up in May:

May 4, 2008, 6pm
Judson Church, New York
55 Washington Sq, NY
Hey Hey Glossolalia: The Eroticism of Pedagogy.Artist lectures w/ musical interludes provided my me w/ a band & gospel choir

May 8, 2008
Barbès, Brooklyn, NY
376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
8 o’clock sharp

May 15, 2008
Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221
w/ the wonderful Hospitality (which features Nathan Michel)