Random Acts of Elevator Music

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We are still busy in the RAEM studios getting an album of material ready and compiling a report into the 2009 Tour of Melbourne and Sydney. A few more press interviews have been added to the About page and a general tidy up of the site is taking place too.

Thanks to Stu at New Weird Australia we now have a recording of our new mix of the track entitled Lunchtime Meditation Session available for download. Go here http://newweirdaustralia.com/2009/12/new-weird-australia-broadcast-one/ and enjoy.

This nets us recordings of two tracks from the elevator set, though slightly different as we composed a definite start and finish whereas when we play live each track leads into the next one. Its nice to play somewhere bigger than an elevator.

After a bit of a break from all things elevateur its time to head to the studio to commence recording sessions for our album. Prior to which we need to clean, fix and use the coffee machine pictured that was found by the side of the road. And it works perfectly, so caffeinated bliss is achieved.

We played in the front room of Loop Bar to an appreciative audience and it must be said that its great to have a good foldback as our performances tend to require the ability for us to hear what we are playing. Used to small elevators, us. A digital recorder captured the audio from the house mixer so it would be likely that an mp3 of that will be up on the website before long. Thanks goes to Harrie for providing the visuals, cheers lad.

Well here we are getting all set up and ready for a set of elevator music down at Loop Bar in the CBD. We are due to perform in about ten minutes and our VJ is ready to feed the room with visuals.

In the midst of some updates we also have a performance scheduled for this saturday 21st of November. We will be playing at the Electundra Audio-Visual Festival that takes place at Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place in the CBD. If you happen to wander in at about 3.30 pm that saturday you will find us playing our live elevator set, recently played here in Melbourne and Sydney.

We are starting the process of documenting the 2009 performance and tour with this update of two Sydney newspaper articles that our publicist organised for us. These first two, from the Daily Telegraph and the MX, can be found under Random Acts of Elevator Music in the About section of this website, in pdf format for your reading pleasure. The unrelated photo is of two effects delay pedals and the Gakken synthesiser that made up part of our elevator music kit.

After a couple of weeks of recovering from all the elevator madness we are now ready to start uploading some videos, photos and audio files to the website that document our recent adventures. First up is a grab of the Channel 31 interview we did on The Comic Box Fringe Festival special. We are trialing an embedded video player with this too, so go to the Video section and you should see the player ready to go. If this works well then all the other elevator videos will be converted to this Flash format too.

Yes its an audience of talkers, our favourite for an ambient night, thanks Jane.