20 Mar 2008: sunseastar to play Schiphorst Festival

sunseatsar will play at the Schiphorst Avant-Garde Festival in July. The festival takes place in northern Germany over the weekend of 4-6th July. Details tbc.

22 Nov 2007: Fjaerland album released

From the sleevenotes to the album 'Fjaerland'

Crab and I had worked together in his group Bourbonese Qualk before starting sunseastar as a separate project with its own agenda. The idea was inspired by listening to Xenakis and thinking about a physicists' joke about how uncanny it is that nature can solve differential equations instantaneously. The stochastic processes Xenakis uses to construct his music are all around us anyway. From this thought came the idea of taking a short cut around the hard work Xenakis had to do, and making musique concrete based directly on the sound of chaotic processes – the sound of chains rattling, of rain falling, of a field of sheep sounding their bells together, of the sea crashing on the shore, of insects moving through grass.