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65daysofstatic announce new installation
Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic show no signs of slowing down. They have spent fifteen years establishing themselves globally as a relentless touring band. They have made seven studio albums, soundtracked contemporary dance, scored films and created site-specific A/V installations. In 2016 they released the critically acclaimed soundtrack to the video game ‘No Man’s Sky’: an ‘infinitely long’, dynamic, generative score that responded to the player’s actions. Then they toured a live version of it around the world.Decomposition Theory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Demand the Future is a major new work from 65daysofstatic that will premiere at Algomech Festival in Sheffield. There will be three performances 9th – 10th November 2017, each one different.Decomposition Theory sees 65daysofstatic exploring new ways of harnessing algorithmic music techniques in the context of a live band performance. It focuses on custom-made procedural audio processes, generative music programs, and live-coded noise. By composing processes rather than finished songs, 65 can ‘decompose’ them again onstage. Processes can be combined, rewritten, manipulated or ignored. Each performance will be a unique curation of algorithms, coded by 65daysofstatic to generate live music for them.Decomposition Theory is a live collaboration between the humans and their code-based counterparts. It is 65daysofstatic becoming cyborg, demanding a future where we control the algorithms, not the other way round.65daysofstatic : Supermoon
65daysofstatic announces 2015 Australia tour
“It’s taken us a little while, but we’re really pleased to announce that, as long as civilisation scrapes its way through one more year, we’ll be bringing the Wild Light tour to Australia in March 2015. We’re beginning at the Adelaide Festival of Arts on 7th March and then doing our own headline shows after that. Check out the poster below for the dates; tickets are available now from birdsrobe.com.”
Facebook eventTheMusicMarch 7 – Adelaide ticketsMarch 8 – Melbourne ticketsMarch 9 – Melbourne ticketsMarch 10 – Sydney ticketsMarch 11 – Brisbane ticketsMarch 13 – Perth ticketsLinks to tickets for all shows are up at www.birdsrobe.com65daysofstatic announce ‘The Fall of Math’ European dates
Following the release of their latest album ‘Wild Light’ to critical acclaim and sold out shows across the U.S and Europe, Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic will really step things up with a special series of 2 set shows in March & April.
2014 marks 10 years since the band’s debut album ‘The Fall Of Math’ was originally released and so with that in mind, each night will see 65daysofstatic perform the whole album in full. On the importance of the album the band had the following to say:
‘In the first year of the weird post 9/11 future we all now occupy, 65daysofstatic wrote a record entirely by mistake in an obscure room in the North of England, usually in the evening after finishing whatever day jobs we were holding down.
In the weird spring of 2003 we watched in horror as the US invaded Iraq, aided by our own morally destitute government and seemingly for completely fabricated reasons. A month later, we went into the studio to record the music that would become ‘The Fall of Math’ aided by the kindness of Monotreme Records, the label that helped to build 65dos from the ground up into a viable commodity fit for digestion in the public sphere. We pulled a huge round the clock session, aided by the wisdom and skill of the infamous Alan Smyth, a man whose expertise and advice we seek to this day. While not exactly a global smash, The Fall of Math was met with some excitement by a number of people we had never dreamed of, and threw us into a world of very hard touring and recording for the foreseeable future. In short, it changed our lives, as did the aftermath of the events we were quasi-soundtracking by living through.
While 65daysofstatic are no longer the same people we were back then, The Fall of Math holds a great significance for us. Maybe it does for you too. We’re looking forward to a pleasant six months trying to remember how to play a bunch of the music on there. The world is as big a mess as it ever was. Come and see the results in March and April!’ set will be a normal performance featuring tracks from new album ‘Wild Light’ plus the band’s previous records.
‘Wild Light’ has been the band’s most widely received album with the likes of NME, Clash, Kerrang, Rock Sound, Independent, Q, Fake DIY, Line Of Best Fit and Drowned in Sound all heaping praise on the record.
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65daysofstatic announce Fall of Math anniversary show
Following the release of their latest album ‘Wild Light’ to critical acclaim and a sold out performance at the Scala In London, Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic will really step things up in 2014 with a special two set show at the 1400 capacity venue Koko in Camden on 27th March.
2014 marks 10 years since the band’s debut album ‘The Fall Of Math’ was originally released and so with that in mind the opening set will see 65daysofstatic perform the whole album in full for the first time. On the importance of the album the band had the following to say:
‘In the first year of the weird post 9/11 future we all now occupy, 65daysofstatic wrote a record entirely by mistake in an obscure room in the North of England, usually in the evening after finishing whatever day jobs we were holding down.
In the weird spring of 2003 we watched in horror as the US invaded Iraq, aided by our own morally destitute government and seemingly for completely fabricated reasons. A month later, we went into the studio to record the music that would become ‘The Fall of Math’ aided by the kindness of Monotreme Records, the label that helped to build 65dos from the ground up into a viable commodity fit for digestion in the public sphere. We pulled a huge round the clock session, aided by the wisdom and skill of the infamous Alan Smyth, a man whose expertise and advice we seek to this day. While not exactly a global smash, The Fall of Math was met with some excitement by a number of people we had never dreamed of, and threw us into a world of very hard touring and recording for the foreseeable future. In short, it changed our lives, as did the aftermath of the events we were quasi-soundtracking by living through.
While 65daysofstatic are no longer the same people we were back then, The Fall of Math holds a great significance for us. Maybe it does for you too. We’re looking forward to a pleasant six months trying to remember how to play a bunch of the music on there. The world is as big a mess as it ever was. Come and see the results in March!’
The 2nd set will be a normal performance featuring tracks from new album ‘Wild Light’ plus the bands previous records as seen on their recent UK run and upcoming U.S co-headline tour with Caspian.
‘Wild Light’ has been the band’s most widely received album with the likes of NME, Clash, Kerrang, Rock Sound, Independent, Q, Fake DIY, Line Of Best Fit and Drowned in Sound all heaping praise on the record.
65daysofstatic releases 6th studio album
Our album, Wild Light, is released in the UK and Europe on Monday 16th September through Superball Music. It will follow in the U.S on 29th October, and is also coming imminently to Australia via Bird’s Robe Records and Japan via Zankyo.
Of course we all know that, if you look in the right places, it’s also available entirely for free on the torrent sites and will be forever more.
65daysofstatic had wanted to put out a torrent release ourselves on the day of the official release. Somebody is going to whether we like it or not, and we believe that rather than putting our heads in the sand and pretending it isn’t happening, by proactively seeding the torrent on release day (especially after having managed to avoid the record leaking), we could control the things bundled with it, and allow people to support us in other ways. We could include ticket links, info on the vinyl version…A donate button, maybe? A message to people torrenting it explaining that as much as 65 believe the current model of music ‘consumption’ is hopelessly outdated and fundamentally broken, we are stuck inside it nevertheless; even just buying a t-shirt from our online store makes a real, tangible difference.
All of the above sounds better than a bunch of mistagged, badly compressed mp3s zipped up alongside a dodgy .nfo file with bad ascii art, leading you to a sketchy Russian malware site on the promise of more free music, right?
We haven’t done it, though and we won’t. We have a resolutely old school record deal and, perhaps unusually, we actually like the labels we work with (all small indies, obviously), and so out of respect to them, we decided to just post this message instead. (To be fair, we have an ulterior motive, which is that we want to share this record with as many people as possible and the means by which they hear it is less important to us than knowing that they’ve listened. The labels can’t afford to share that perspective).
One good thing about torrents is that they still preserve the idea of an ‘album’ as a collection of songs, as a cohesive ‘whole’. Even if it’s a collection of mp3 files rather than anything physical, they at least come bundled together with a tracklisting, artwork, a sense that this is ‘something’. Streaming services, in comparison, remove even these fine threads from making music something you might want to own. The songs become just more digital froth spilling out of your computer, along with videos of cats and Facebook notification pings.
Anyway. We didn’t do it. I suppose we could have done it secretly, but that would have missed the point. But. If you are the kind of person that seeds music on torrents and intend to host our new record, it would be great if you could also include links to our live shows page, our online store where people can buy physical copies of the record should they like it, and perhaps also a link to this blog post you’re reading right now.
If you’re a leecher and you intend to download our record from a torrent site, then we hope you enjoy it, and if you do, please consider coming to one of our shows, or buying a t-shirt or something, if paying for the music itself feels weird or old-fashioned.
Most of all though, if you like our band, please share that info with as many people as you can, however you feel sharing works best. The reason 65 has survived so long outside of most of the music industry as you know it is through the word of mouth of people like you.
‘Next time someone tells you guitar music has run out of new ideas, simply point them in the direction of ‘Wild Light’ – 8/10 – NME‘Instrumental rock at its best’ – 8/10 – Fake DIY Magazine‘It’s the depth and scope that make this album worth while’ – Rock A Rolla‘Retreat is death, and 65days only ever run towards the light.’ – 8/10 – Clash‘Full stop. Perfect.’ – 9/10 – Drowned in Sound‘Stunning, and for the 65dos hardcore will no doubt act, along with the rest of this album, as motivational music for their bleakest of days.’ – The Quietus‘65daysofstatic have somehow emerged more original than ever’ – 4/5 – The Skinny‘This is a solid addition to their jaw-dropping canon, proving that there’s plenty more on offer from 65daysofstatic.’ – 8/10 – The 405‘The sort of experimental electronic weirdness that would give Thom Yorke a massive hard-on’ – Album of the Month – Bizarre Magazine‘A meticulously crafted and admirably complex record from a band that are constantly thrilling in their unpredictability.’ – 8/10 – The Line of Best Fit‘65Days… have created something dystopian and unrelentingly victorious.’ – 9/10 – Loud & Quiet65daysofstatic launches interactive remix portal + Tramlines video
It’s always better in the band’s own words …
Sleepwalk City was (is) a large scale live audio/visual installation that we performed for the first time in steel city Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery, during the city’s weekend long Tramlines Festival. The very good and underfunded folk at Museums Sheffield essentially gave us an empty room, a lot of audio equipment and FREE REIGN, the combination of which led to us almost losing our minds but was also triumphant and awesome.
Anyway, don’t take our word for it, watch this mini-documentary (above) that charts our actual marbles being lost.
Prisms
Requires Unity Web Player…
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DOWNLOAD – Mac | Windows | LinuxWho knows who actually came up with the title first, us or Katy Perry, but whichever way you look at it, a prism will now forever be a clandestine, mass electronic surveillance data-mining program operated by the United States’ National Security Agency, rather than a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refracts light.
Prisms remains the title of the next K-P record, and the first track to be released from our new record ‘Wild Light’. The association with the track’s title and international privacy rights isn’t one that bothers us as it’s probably something that should be concerning everybody right now. Prisms is coming on 19th August.
In the meantime, 65 are inviting you to explore an atomised version of the track, built by some of our finest minds. Our finest mimes. Brains.
Now you can manipulate sound as the powers that be will one day manipulate you! Point, Click, BOOM. Remix our lost marbles here. (Won’t work on mobile devices):
65daysofstatic announce UK tour and September album release
65daysofstatic UK Tour September 2013 from 65daysofstatic on Vimeo.
Sometimes they come back … and for some, they do it in style. 65daysofstatic has been on an extended hiatus for something like 3 years, with the occasional jaunt to the furthermost corners of Asia, a burrow and sleepless tumble through Russia or popping up as surprise wedidn’tknowyouwerecoming additions to European festivals, but now they’re back, on their own terms, and finally finally finally there is an album coming.
In the band’s own words:
Remember us?We used to live amongst the humans, but that went bad. So we got out for a while.Way out, way down. Living in the starblack, half-awake time. Too much blurring.
Things went bad there too, bad dreams and slow moments. The undertow. Down in the afterlife, down around forever.
Bad cheques and trouble money.
Blackspots in dreamland…
So we’re coming back.
22/09/13 – Liquid Room, Edinburgh
23/09/13 – Sound Control, Manchester
24/09/13 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
25/09/13 – Scala, London
26/09/13 – Thekla Bristol.
Tickets HERE.
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