Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Play this loud, watch it whole as large as you can, in a dark room for full effect! I was honourably invited to play at Brno Noise Fest in March 2023, by Obstik of the fantastic Usnu? project, and here is the set accompanied by the film I used for the backdrop (a collage of many short films and animations with extra editing). It's just me, my bass (5 string Ibanez GSR200) and effects pedals (EHX Nanopog Octave, Boss ODB-3 Overdrive, DigiTech Death Metal, DigiTech X-Series Delay & Reverse) and a borrowed Orange amp (after mine died in soundcheck).
To be honest, this one almost borders on Morbid Beauty style of crunchy, mid to low heavier noise, due to the nature of the gig and the line up, my feelings at that moment, and the Zoom H1 recorder being pretty close to the cab even recording only on either 15 or 20%, not sure which, but usually the level I have it to (try to) avoid distortion.
My Orange amp died during soundcheck, so I had to run off and ask around and borrowed from the bass player of Sloth. The electrics blew a few times over the course of the day (and during soundcheck) so I think the insane amount of extension cables running all over the venue since every artist on the bill had set up all their gear overloaded everything. Either way, my amp is still dead.
My pedals started making horrendous buzz and hum noises (you can hear them in the set recording, so all I could do was try and utilise them for layers of noise). I tried switching leads and a few other things, but to no avail.
There were problems setting up the projections, the screen, several laptops were used. Eventually the film I brought could be projected onto a screen.
So, I was a total wreck when the set started, and it didn't go in the direction I had kinda imagined beforehand, BUT, it was loud, and it was cathartic, and well received (the cheers at the end shocked me!), and this was still a huge pleasure and honour to be included here, as the line up was really full of heavyweights, from a lot of different countries as well, so, what an experience.
Thank you for reliving this with me.
Having the nightmare time and opening up that truly heavyweight line up of noise and experimental people was a real test for me. It was 2 weeks until I could bring myself to listen back to this recording, and in the end I am actually pleased with how I held myself up, and brought in something also different and Owl-ish.
It was all improvised. I did have ideas, preconceptions I guess, as to how things would go and what I was hoping to try, but it didn't materialise. However, what actually happened was probably more suitable for the event, the time I played, and how my slice of noise fit in with the rest of the day, so I can now feel happy about putting it out there... with the few extra things that I feel are related.
Download 'Live in Brno Noise Fest 2023' with extra tracks and images:
theowl.bandcamp.com/album/116-live-in-brno-noise-fest-18323
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Play this loud, watch it whole as large as you can, in a dark room for full effect! I was honourably invited to play at Brno Noise Fest in March 2023, by Obstik of the fantastic Usnu? project, and here is the set accompanied by the film I used for the backdrop (a collage of many short films and animations with extra editing). It's just me, my bass (5 string Ibanez GSR200) and effects pedals (EHX Nanopog Octave, Boss ODB-3 Overdrive, DigiTech Death Metal, DigiTech X-Series Delay & Reverse) and a borrowed Orange amp (after mine died in soundcheck).
To be honest, this one almost borders on Morbid Beauty style of crunchy, mid to low heavier noise, due to the nature of the gig and the line up, my feelings at that moment, and the Zoom H1 recorder being pretty close to the cab even recording only on either 15 or 20%, not sure which, but usually the level I have it to (try to) avoid distortion.
My Orange amp died during soundcheck, so I had to run off and ask around and borrowed from the bass player of Sloth. The electrics blew a few times over the course of the day (and during soundcheck) so I think the insane amount of extension cables running all over the venue since every artist on the bill had set up all their gear overloaded everything. Either way, my amp is still dead.
My pedals started making horrendous buzz and hum noises (you can hear them in the set recording, so all I could do was try and utilise them for layers of noise). I tried switching leads and a few other things, but to no avail.
There were problems setting up the projections, the screen, several laptops were used. Eventually the film I brought could be projected onto a screen.
So, I was a total wreck when the set started, and it didn't go in the direction I had kinda imagined beforehand, BUT, it was loud, and it was cathartic, and well received (the cheers at the end shocked me!), and this was still a huge pleasure and honour to be included here, as the line up was really full of heavyweights, from a lot of different countries as well, so, what an experience.
Thank you for reliving this with me.
Having the nightmare time and opening up that truly heavyweight line up of noise and experimental people was a real test for me. It was 2 weeks until I could bring myself to listen back to this recording, and in the end I am actually pleased with how I held myself up, and brought in something also different and Owl-ish.
It was all improvised. I did have ideas, preconceptions I guess, as to how things would go and what I was hoping to try, but it didn't materialise. However, what actually happened was probably more suitable for the event, the time I played, and how my slice of noise fit in with the rest of the day, so I can now feel happy about putting it out there... with the few extra things that I feel are related.
Download 'Live in Brno Noise Fest 2023' with extra tracks and images:
theowl.bandcamp.com/album/116-live-in-brno-noise-fest-18323
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