Black Dogs 'Audio Almanac' party at Brudenell. FREE! June 18th.

Audio Almanac Party, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, LS6, Friday June 18th, 2010

You are loudly invited to Black Dogs ’Audio Almanac’ party at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

There will be live performances and music from

Gareth S Brown (Leeds) - Gaz has been playing music since he was a young scamp in seminal politicised hardcore outfit Canvas, renowned postrocker faves Hood and then insurrectionary-comedic duo The Unpleasants. Nowadays he makes quite beautiful electronic compositions using laptop and keyboard that may remind you of Steve Reich, Yan Tiersen, Aphex Twin and all good classical music. Always stunning and now with added film accompaniment, nothing can go wrong.
http://www.myspace.com/garethsbrown

Black Dogs Ensemble (Leeds, Elsewhere) - members of Black Dogs and friends appearing on the audio almanac will demonstrate that anyone can and will play music. Improvised soundscapes and scratchy blips ahoy in the style of Smegma, Scratch Orchestra and the RIO movement. Seriously monged but sometimes lovely.
http://www.myspace.com/blackdogsleeds

Plus special guests TBA.

ALSO:

- Partake in a spot of musical quizzery with ACE PRIZES

- Enjoy a visually enhanced playback of the Black Dogs AUDIO ALMANAC

- Capitalise on your sole opportunity to buy the Black Dogs AUDIO ALMANAC 12" vinyl and CD compilation (see details below). Only £11.98!

- Experience recorded music played at volume to make you bop away into the night

- Drink cheap booze and meet and make friends and foes.

- Come down early to play Table Football World Cup!

FRIDAY JUNE 18th at the Brudenell Social Club, Queen's Rd, Leeds, LS6 1NY. 8pm - late. FREE ENTRY!

About Black Dogs Audio Almanac

The Audio Almanac is a compilation of songs, music, recordings, collages and aural oddities produced by individuals with varying degrees of affinity with the epithet 'artist,' compiled and produced by Leeds-based artist collective Black Dogs.

Whilst not every contributor can be said to be wholly comfortable with their individual works framing as a piece of art, Black Dogs are keen to point out that the enjoyment and attention spent in the close-listening to and immersion in this product could be considered an artistic act. Whereas in the past they have described the books produced by the collective as an exhibition between covers, in this instance you are invited to imagine the record as an exhibition on a turntable.

The Tracklisting is as follows:

1. David Steans - My Fellow Artists 3 (3:43)
2. Rory Macbeth - Imagine All The People (2:37)
3. Filthy Turd - Fish Ejaculate Escapes The Net (1:59)
4. Gareth S Brown - Turtosimian Pilgrims Distracted by Rutting Insects (3:12)
5. Niche Homonoid - Baby Come Home (2:08)
6. German Bite - Seven Part Fanfare (2:54)
7. Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Role Play Exercise for Courtroom Interpreters (3:53)
8. Bistrow and Lloyd - Are you who you think you are? (3:00)
9. Vialka & Xiao He - DongXi (2:10)
10. The 712th Human Performance Wing - Rules for the Map (4:16)
11. Luke Drozd - Pussy Cat (2:02)
12. Michael Burkitt -View of Delft (2:34)
13. James Islip - Job Interview (2:04)
14. Stuart Bannister - Wounded Kite at 2:58 (2:58)

The Audio Almanac is released in a limited edition of 300 copies on white vinyl with 12" booklet and free CD version.

Black Dogs are a militantly not-for-profit collective, as such the Audio Almanac is available at cost price of £11.98 per copy. Due to distribution restrictions the only way to purchase the Audio Almanac will be in person. Once they’re gone they’re gone. Don’t miss your chance to own this sexy slab.

A review of the record from the Cu exhibition in Manchester can be read here: http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18094

About Black Dogs

Black Dogs is an artist collective with a fluid and dynamic membership whose activity spans formal exhibitions, publications, events, interventions, workshops, social engagement and curatorial activity. The collective includes members living in various locations in the UK and internationally with a core based in Leeds who meet regularly.

Formed in Leeds in 2003 as a means to conduct artistic activity in the city at a self-organised level, Black Dogs subscribes to a DIY ethos of not-for-profit motivation and ideals of active participation. It is the group's aim, through its artistic activity, to understand and facilitate a transformation from a passive-consumer 'society of extras' through to a stronger, more participative form of social organisation.

Recent projects include a series of interventions and events based on the Tower Works site in Holbeck, Leeds; initiating an 'autonomous learning project' (Free Art School) using unused office space in Leeds, building a pub in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in which to discuss tensions between self-organised and institutionalized art activity and designing a dialogue-facilitating event for Bankside residents as part of Tate Modern's 10th year anniversary celebrations.

http://www.black-dogs.org