Illusion of Safety at Impala Gallery

Notice Recordings recording artist Illusion of Safety will be performing at the Impala Gallery, as part of the Kaleid Series. This is a wonderful series in a beautiful venue located in Roger's Park. Attendance is highly recommended. Neil Jendon and Green Pasture Happiness are known to put on extraordinary performances as well. We have no idea who Swim Ignorant Fire is.

Hope to see you there.

Illusion of Safety, Travis Bird & Daniel Burke tour

Notice's Travis Bird will be embarking shortly on an East coast tour with Daniel Burke. The two will be playing some sets featuring Burke's Illusion of Safety project and some the eponymous guitar-based project, and the tour will be anchored by a headlining performance at the Sonic Circuits festival in Washington, D.C. and the Signal electronic music festival in Chapel Hill, N.C.


This will work mostly by working within different modes and combinations, and will feature the typical mix of composed and improvised pieces that the duo explore. Go see them if you're in the areas below--

Sep 16 2010

9:00P

Illusion of Safety at Robinwood Concert House Toledo, OH

Sep 17 2010

8:00P

IOS and TB & DB at the Shop Pittsburgh, PA

Sep 18 2010

8:00P

IOS and TB & DB at Fire Museum Philadelphia, PA

Sep 19 2010

10:00P

Illusion of Safety at Sonic Circuits Festival Washington, D.C., D.C.

Sep 20 2010

8:00P

Illusion of Safety at Bar Matchless Brooklyn, New York

Sep 21 2010

10:00P

Illusion of Safety at Existence Establishment Somerville, MA

Sep 23 2010

8:00P

Solo at Think Coffee on Mercer New York, New York

Sep 24 2010

7:00P

Travis Bird & Daniel Burke at Maya Gallery Greensboro, NC

Sep 25 2010

8:00P

Illusion of Safety at Signal Festival Chapel Hill, NC

Sep 25 2010

8:00P

Illusion of Safety at Nightlight Chapel Hill, NC

Sep 26 2010

8:00P

IOS and TB & DB at The Warehouse Cornelius, NC

Bird & Burke video

Here is a quick montage video of the Bird & Burke duo peforming at WNUR last winter. An amazing day of fog rolling in over Lake Michigan , with chunks of ice and snow floating on the undulating surface. Kind of funny to see this during the summer.
Be sure to attend their performance at the Hideout tonight around 10PM. The new record on Complacency will be sold at this show !

Montage by Dan Burke, footage by Evan Lindorff-Ellery.

A quick excerpt of a "review" by Peter Margasak of the Offstrings record : "... the real-time activity is beautifully complemented by clouds of effects-enhanced harmony, drone, and texture. In some cases it's clear that a guitar is the main sound source, and in others it's much harder to be sure."

Offstrings performance at The Hideout

Almost forgot to mention the show at the Hideout coming up this Friday, which will support the new record on Complacency, mentioned below.

David Daniell
Mark Shippy
Travis Bird & Daniel Burke
Michael Vallera

The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia
8$

That record will be for sale as well as some Notice Recordings stuff.

Complacency revival : "Offstrings" compilation featuring Travis Bird & Daniel Burke

Notice Recordings artists Travis Bird & Daniel Burke are featured on a great new guitar-based compilation called "Offstrings : Inventions for Guitar". This is released on Dan Burke's recently revived Complacency Productions label. It's very exciting to see this label active again, and we're looking forward to what comes from it.

Information from Complacency Productions :

Format : 180 gram colored vinyl LP. Edition of 500 with free download.
(100 clear, 100 clear & translucent blue, 100 translucent blue, 100 white & translucent blue, 100 white)
Catalog # : CR201001
Cost : $18 US ppd. $14 pre-orders until 7/29- $22 world ppd.

Music samples, other information and bios are available at the site. http://www.complacencyrecords.com/

Get in touch with them !
complacency (at) Complacencyrecords (dot) com

FOR SALE; Illusion OF Safety "Repairs" Reissue is now available. All other tapes still available.

The classic Illusion Of Safety cassette tape originally issued on Sound Of Pig in 1988 is now available after some delay regarding the printing. Finally, we found an excellent and friendly printer : Kill Hatsumomo right here in Chicago. She did a great job. The cover art is the same as the original, given to us by Dan Burke, except this time it's silkscreen printed. The paper is heavyweight. The whole package looks great ! We have about 30 of these for sale from us, from an Edition of 50. Dan has some as well.





This is the same price as the other tapes : 6$ for North America and 9$ for the World.
Please Paypal the money to noticerecordings[at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks to those who pre-ordered. Please contact for other options of payment.


All the other tapes are currently available as well, pictured below.
If you buy 3 tapes, we will give you one for free. Buy all 6 tapes for 30$ including worldwide shipping. Selling tapes funds more releases, and we have lots to release !


Notices #3 & #4 are pictured above in two different ways. Along with the previous 2 Notices, the Travis Bird & Daniel Burke (Illusion of Safety) tape, "Negentropy", is also listed.
Click on each image for enlarged versions.
The first four cassettes pictured are letterpress printed ink drawings by E. Lindorff-Ellery, 2 panel fold-over inserts on heavy-weight, textured stock. "Repairs" is, as mentioned above, silkscreen printed.

Show Saturday at Hotti Biscotti

Dense Reduction will be playing a show with Illusion of Safety and Travis Bird & Daniel Burke this Saturday, the 20th.

Hotti Biscotti
3545 Fullerton
Chicago

10ish

Hope you can make it.

More later.
Thanks.

Dense Reduction / Jason Soliday & James Edgelake @ Hotti Biscotti

Here is a video for the Dense Reduction and Jason Soliday & James Edgelake performances at Hotti Biscotti on 23 January 2010. There is some digital clicking throughout the videos (mainly Dense Reduction), but it's just from a slightly faulty video camera, and is not part of the performances.

Filmed by Acid Marshmallow --> http://www.acid-marshmallow.com/

Dense Reduction
January 23rd, 2010
at Hotti Biscotti in Chicago

Jason Soliday & James Edgelake
January 23rd, 2010
at Hotti Biscotti in Chicago

Briefly ; more later

Just a quick post for the moment.

The Travis Bird & Daniel Burke tape, "Negentropy" is now for sale.
Notices 3 & 4 : Dense Reduction tapes, "Hobbes Diamond" and "Cornerstone Mill" are now for sale.

The Illusion of Safety reissue, "Repairs", has been duplicated and is back from the plant, but the inserts still need to be printed.

Those of you who have made pre-orders, we thank you ! The tapes will go out as soon as possible.

**Pre-orders help fund new releases. All money received goes towards new releases**

All tapes are 6$ and orders and pre-orders are accepted. Everything is available.

Forthcoming tapes by Yellow Crystal Star, Red Electric Rainbow and Jon Mueller are in discussion.

Upcoming is a series of C90 tapes by E. Lindorff-Ellery utilising layers of rediscovered unmastered 4-Track tapes of bell and metallic loops, diffused field recordings, AM radio, empty sounds of amplified portable audio players, blank tapes, and internal feedback, all recorded live to stereo 2-Track, creating a subjective (non)narrative of textual successions.

Pictures of tapes, samples of audio and descriptions of content are all coming soon.

The craziness of the blog may end soon, being replaced by an actual website.

Please be in touch.

Thank you.

Daniel Burke & Travis Bird @ Enemy

Here are two short videos taken during the show at Enemy, in Chicago.

Bird/Burke #1 from Notice Recordings on Vimeo.

Bird/Burke #2 from Notice Recordings on Vimeo.

Show tonight : Z'EV, Travis Bird & Daniel Burke, Vertonen

Not sure if this will draw anyone new in, but just a reminder of the show tonight at Enemy, in Chicago.

1550 N Milwaukee, up the stairs.
Featuring a rare live performance by Z'EV, a performance by Notice Recordings guitar duo Travis Bird & Daniel Burke, as well as a performance by Vertonen, who is sure to play a great set of dynamic and textural sound layers.

There will be a new post about new tapes for sale soon.

Please be in touch.
noticerecordings [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you.

The recent live WNUR performance by Travis Bird and Daniel Burke is now available for listening on the station's website. The performance included a number of diverse passages, as well as a brief interview. Video was captured throughout and will be edited into visual elements for future performances, and perhaps a throwback "music video," once a staple for major-label-backed television exposure.

Chicago is experiencing a lively and unexpected snowstorm today. Those not working outdoors will toast once again to the continued bravery of such hearty souls who keep the city functioning during these white moments.