USERlast update: 19.06.2007 / User is a sound project by Scot Cotterell
Mixed and manipulated live
Subterranean ambient studio explorations created with guitar, effects, field recordings, appropriated and accidental sound.
AUDIO > mp3 : [user live at electrofringe 2005 Newcastle. NSW. Aus] ----- [user live Hobart Fringe festival 2006 Hobart, Tas Aus] ----- [user drop guitar 2004 early studio work] -----[ambient mix 2003 early studio work]----- right click, 'save to desktop'. distribute freely.
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NEWS/GIGS >
14.07.2007 Odd OZ Nite: Auxxx Amsterdam. AUXXX - SATURDAY JULY 14 - OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam feat. THE KLEBER CLAUX MEMORIAL SINGERS, Paraphenalia by SisterO, Paul Glazier and USER. http://www.myspace.com/auxxxamsterdam. pre-europe messy excitement pic...stay tuned for real pix.
08.06.2007 Tom Hall, USER, mumble(speak) @ Trout Bar. Hobart. wintery bleep-scapes, sub bass bathing, no input, lo-fi post-digital noise.
29/09/06 The Limbus Jukebox: ElectroFringe/Thisisnotart. Cambridge Hotel Newcastle, Aus, Skist (Japan), Ariel Pink (USA), Richard Chartier (USA), My Disco (Melb), Triosk (Syd), Shannon O'neill + Rik Rue, Macromantics (Syd) + loads of others! hot newcastle. festival overload. corrected name on flyer. people lying on floor during set.
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12/08/06 . 'ITDE' : It's too Damn Early: is broadcast weekly from WDBX 91.1FM, a not-for-profit community radio station serving Southern Illinois. ITDE Host Dave X played some of my 'ultrasound' project, out of which USER grew. found this out accidentally using google.
ITDE features experimental, electroacoustic, improvisational, ambient, and other "difficult" music of all types
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21/06.06 Beat Rag 7: Producers Night, Trout, North Hobart, Australia w/ crytearia, K Mason & heaps local producers presenting sound works/tracks for perusal.
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02/03.06. Hobart Fringe Festival, Night Market, Criterion St Hobart, Aus. played on the back of a semi-trailer truck to packed city street. Two kids would scream, run away, then come back and repeat. Thick spooky sounds wafted up the street
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/10/2005 Elec~Sonic Bbq: ElectroFringe festival, Newcastle, Australia w/ Abject leader, Lloyld Barrett, Gail Priest and Sam James, Simulus, Jodi Rose, Miha Ciglar, xNoBBQx, Monika Brookes, Soul Mirage. Hot Newcastle, played in a returned servicemans room filled with aus flags and old pictures of the queen. Jodi Rose's tin foil bridge was cute.
recorded live for ABC Radio National's 'The Night Air' program
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01/07/2005 Liquid Architecture 6, opening night, w/ dj Olive, Will Guthrie, Essendon Airport... North Melbourne Town Hall Artshouse . review by Gail Priest in REALTIME Magazine. concert hall show, high stage, seated intent audience, great soundsystem, amazing artists.
recorded and broadcast on ABC Radio National.
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06/2007 Time, Place, Space 4 . 14 day Intensive Hybrid Arts Laboratory. AAC Arts Adelaide, Aus. Audio performance with poet Gareth Jenkins (syd).
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04/2005 Trout w/ Hermetic Nemesis, w/ K Mason, North Hobart. Australia. Trout hotel, did breakcore set @ Sight/SOnic shortly after at Inflight Gallery w/ dj Olive etc
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03/2005 Mortal Machines Cluster , Sirens Hobart w/ Idiot lust, Hard Off , separatist, the Grim, Gusto Co.... Sirens, Hobart. Aus.see flyer, played mini-television and two am radios w/ gus on electric drill and simon on groovebox, User set made metalhead sad
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05-dec-2004 ADSR: attack, decay, sustain, release. Hobart Fringe Convergence @ The Venue, Hobart. free electronic audio conference and event. reggie norris (IMAP, Moe Grizzly), Angus Rofe (gusto), Maus (IdiotLust, Sokuseki Men), Chris Groves (Chrysalis), Matt Oakes
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07-Aug-2004 @ Coven w/ Chrysalis, Trout Hobart, Australia. gothic dress-ups, green light, LOUD (chrysalis). funny poster
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9th May 2004. The Moebius Strip @ The Venue, Janssen Herr dvd launch, Salamanca, Australia. cd player stood in for me in my absence, User tracks used to accompany Janssen's film screening and add to the general b&w feel
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July 2004 @ Underground Film Screening, The Venue, Hobart , Australia
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2004 HOTEL: A Film by Janssen Herr. One of the first ever composed USER pieces was used for dream sequences in Aus/Swedish Filmmaker Janssen Herr's low-budget b&w opus HOTEL. strobe light, intense dream scene throbbing audio.
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2004 .Trans-form : an exploration of computer generated space : Australian Architect Michael Nowson commissioned one of my USER audio works to accompany a complex 3d animation as part of his master's degree at RMIT .beautiful organic, code genrated forms evolve on screen to a crackling, deep, primordial, electric soundscape.
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early ephemera when still performing live A/V as Scot Cotterell also appeared as Ultrasound (00-ongoing) Tar Victim (98-01) MkB (03-ongoing).
