December 10, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Tonesucker play at OCCII – Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It – in Amsterdam. Doors open 22:00 until 4:00. Other bands include William Bennett (Cut Hands), Robert B. Lisek, Blood Crisis and Plastic Inferior Urynian.
December 9, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Tonesucker play at WORM – Instituut voor Avantgardistische Recreatie – in Rotterdam. Also on the bill are Christian Galarreta, Robert B. Lisek and Andre Castro. [Photograph by Petr Kazil - click on image to see video clip of the performance.]
October 27, 2011
ONOMA RESEARCH EVENT: CHRONOPHONICS #1
The first Onoma Research promotion, Chronophonics #1 features live music by Tonesucker, Brideburger, Menagerie and Ryan Jordan. Also on the bill, experimental film by Aditya Mandayam, Terry Burrows, JM Bowers, Plesiosaur~ and others. Free CHRONOPHONCIS VOLUME 1 CD with entry, comprising artists on the evening's bill. The Grinning Rat, St Helen's Street, Ipswich.
August 26, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker play The Opening at nnnnn. Billed as "An evening of (dis)information, possession, trance, crash worship, life coding, rough music, electronic resistance and contemporary folklore". Also playing are: Phil Julian, Tim Drage, Andy Bolus, Jamka, Jonathan Kemp, Martin Howse, Noriko Matsumoto, Ryan Jordan, Ryoko Akama and Xname. Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrew's Road, E8 4QN. (Off Broadway Market, alongside the canal.)
July 31, 2011
J M BOWERS/TERRY BURROWS LIVE/FILM, SUFFOLK
John Bowers and Terry Burrows take part in Power At An Edible Compass,filmed as part of On Landguard Point, the East of England's film contribution to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. A group of "greater than 12 guitarists" gathered in the middle of a field to perform "Power", a piece composed by John, the score commissioned specifically for the event.
May 14, 2011
J M BOWERS LIVE, NANTES, FRANCE
John Bowers takes part in the the Electro Pixel festival with his workshop/performance "Construire ses machines".
May 7, 2011
J M BOWERS LIVE, VANCOUVER, CANADA
John Bowers performs "Vancouver Flux" at The User In Flux, Emily Carr University Of Art And Design, Granville Island, Vancouver. Also playing are Pat Subyen, Robyn Taylor/Guy Schofield/John Shearer, and Steve Gibson/Stefan Müller Arisona.
May 5, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker take part in a Noise=Noise event at ]performancespace[, Unit 6, Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London, E9 5EN. "Dark Hypnosis… Psychoactive Noise… Fragmented Performance". Also playing are Ryan, Jordan, Ewa Justka, Andre Castro, Pani K, Xname, EQ-AV, Shelley Parker, Toe, Aqua Dentata, Russell Callow, John Macedo, Ewa Jamka, Sz.Berlin, Vera Bremerton, and others.
April 29, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, IPSWICH
Tonesucker and Ryan Jordan find themselves billed as authentic Brazilian virtuoso musicians as they play extreme noise sets to a potentially hostile audience at Brasilia Café, Ipswich.
April 14, 2011
STEVEN ELSEY & J M BOWERS LIVE, IPSWICH
J M Bowers and Steven Elsey perform solo sets at McGiny's, Ipswich. Also appearing are Buttercup Insurgent.
April 5, 2011
J M BOWERS APPEARS ON CHIPNOISE COMPILATION
J M Bowers appears on track 160 of Cementimental Presents…One Second Chipnoise Comp Which Took Way Too Long. [Click on image to hear album.]
March 10, 2011
TERRY BURROWS LIVE, IPSWICH
Terry Burrows gives a diffusion performance to accompany his second short film, Terminus (above left), at McGinty's Ipswich. Also playing are Toe, Talking Sleeve and Bride Burger.
February 3, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON
Tonesucker perform at The Others, Stoke Newington. The concert will be broadcast live on Ill FM. [Click on image to hear performance.]
January 22, 2011
TONESUCKER LIVE, VAUXHALL, LONDON
Tonesucker perform at the first Post Modular Pop-up at Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London. The event is sponsored by Post Modular, Britain's leading importer of Eurorack-format analog synth modules. The event runs from 9am to 3pm. Tonesucker will perform a 30-minute set at around 12pm.
January 21, 2011
TONESUCKER CD ALBUM, SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS (ONOMA7)
Tonesucker's fifth release. A live CD album, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas (Onoma7), is available from Onoma Research. Copies will be given away at Post Modular Pop-up on January 22 and The Others on February 3.
December 29, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, IPSWICH
Tonesucker celebrate Johnnymas and mark the 30th anniversary of the Rendlesham UFO incident with Martin Briggs, Eddie Nuttall and Ryan Jordan at McGinty's in Ipswich.
November 27, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, CAMBERWELL, LONDON
Weather conditions prevent Tonesucker taking part in a Noise=Noise event at the Rat in Camberwell. Humble apologies are offered.
October 14, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, IPSWICH
Tonesucker take part in a Random Camel Collective event at The Beerhouse, Ipswich. Also playing were Toe and Brideburger. [Images by L Seeley Photography.]
July 3, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, THE BARBICAN, LONDON
Tonesucker take part in Knowledge Of The Hidden at The Barbican, London – a paranormal-themed evening of noise-related activity curated by Ryan Jordan.
May 25-28, 2010
J M BOWERS, SADLER'S WELLS, LONDON
J M Bowers is one of the musicians performing John Tudor's Rainforest IV for Ballet Rambert at Sadler's Wells.
May 13, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker play at "noisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoisenoise" at Butcher's Corner (302 New Cross Road, London). Also playing are: Russell Callow, Medžitlija-Níki, Peter A, Andy Pitchless, Vultures, Joel Cahen, Zlatko Baracskai and Eaten By Children.
April 9, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker perform at The Montague Arms, New Cross, London. [Photo by Steve Xerri.]
March 13, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker perform at The Foundry, London – probably for the last time before its closure. Also playing are: Hylics; Cheapmachines; Tim Goldie, Iron Fist of the Sun; Jamka, Ctrl-N & Paul Ramshaw; Mike McInerney & Zlato Baracskai; John Wall & Alex Rogers; VJ Flickering Light. [Photograph by Geri McKewen.]
March 7, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, ST DIZANT, FRANCE
Tonesucker perform/record/film in St Dizant, France.
March 5, 2010
TONESUCKER LIVE, NANTES, FRANCE
Tonesucker perform at Beyond Signal #9 at APO33, 17 Rue Paul Bellamy, 44000 Nantes, France. Also playing together are Kasper Toeplitz & Julian Ottavi.
December 29, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, IPSWICH
The Curiosity Collective and Noise=Noise celebrate Johnnymas by presenting Ryan Jordan, Tonesucker, Julian Ottavi and Pixelpusher at PJ McGinty's, Northgate Street, Ipswich. 8-11 pm.
December 5, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, MINEHEAD/LONDON
Tonesucker gatecrash All Tomorrow's Parties: The NIghtmare Before Xmas in Minehead with a wholly uninvited performance. Audio will be streamed live to Noise=Noise #15 at the Foundry, London, where it will accompany visuals by Ryan Jordan. Other performers at Noise=Noise TBA. ATP venue TBA on the night.
December 4, 2009
TONESUCKER DVD-EP, LIVE IN LONDON (ONOMA6)
Tonesucker release their second DVD EP, Live In London (Onoma6). It features the live audio performance from The Monty in October accompanied by the evening's back-projected film.
December 3, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON (ALSO BROADCAST LIVE ON ILL FM)
Tonesucker perform at The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, N16. Also playing are: ANTIchildLEAGUE, Shift, Vultures and DJ Poison Creeper. Starts at 20:00. The gig will also be braodcast live on Ill FM. Tonesucker will be giving away copies of their new DVD.
October 20th, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker perform at The Montague Arms, New Cross, London on October 20, 2009. Also playing: Ampersand, Ryan Jordan, and Digep (from Hungary). The performance was recorded for a future release.
September 10th, 2009
FURTHERNOISE REVIEW OF FOUNDRY BASEMENT SERIES
Furthernoise webzine reviews The Foundry's Basement Series in which JM Bowers and Terry Burrows appeared. Click on image to read.
August 26th, 2009
TERRY BURROWS LIVE, LONDON
Terry Burrows performs drone-with-film, Whether Or Not You Wear A Hat for the last of August's Basement Series at The Foundry, Old Street, London. Click on image for brief lo-res video clip.
August 19th, 2009
J M BOWERS AND LIAM WELLS LIVE, LONDON
JM Bowers and Liam Wells perform a guitar drone duet for the 3rd of August's Basement Series at The Foundry, Old Street, London.
August 1st, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker performed at The Foundry, Old Street, London on Saturday, August 1. Also playing were Ampersand, Foul Geese, Cementimental and Sloppy Seconds: "Fragmented sounds, DIY punk noise, flicker drone static, electronic alchemy. metal soundscapes".
July 31, 2009
TONESUCKER DVD-EP, CAPUT MORTUUM
Tonesucker release DVD EP, Caput Mortuum. It features material used in the live Metallica mash-up at The Foundry on March 28, 2009
July 3rd - 4th, 2009
J M BOWERS LIVE, RAINFOREST IV, LONDON
J M Bowers performs in a realization of David Tudor's Rainforest IV at Area 10 in Peckham. Seet the Area 10 website for details.
July 3rd, 2009
TERRY BURROWS INTERVIEW
Terry Burrows interview appears in the psychedlic webzine/blog, TRIP INSIDE THE HOUSE.
June 19, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE
Tonesucker take part in the NOISE=NOISE /// BEYOND SIGNAL event at The Foundry, Old Street, London. They perform using home-built Arduino Noise Machines, crackle boxes, files and Nintendo DS. Also playing are: Ryan Jordan, Julien Ottavi, Half Dupio, Ry-Om, Antonius, Domenico Sciajno and Gadarene. [Original photo by Kim Price.]
June 19, 2009
TONESUCKER ALBUM, LIVE IN CANADA
Tonesucker release second CD album, Live In Canada. It features a single improvisation performed in 2006 for Tone Deaf IV, a festival based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
March 28, 2009
TONESUCKER LIVE, LONDON
Tonesucker take part in NOISE=NOISE at The Foundry, Old Street, London. Terry Burrows [Nintendo DS, electronics] and Steve Elsey [electronics] perform at the venue; John Bowers contribution comes live from the O2 Arena where he feeds a live signal from the Metallica concert via his iPhone. This signal is mashed up and generally abused in a variety of interesting ways, forming the audio core of the performance. Accompanying the performance is John Bowers' film, Requiem. Also featured were Vultures, Ry-Om, Ampersand and Ryan Jordan.
January 11, 2009
TONESUCKER ON RADIO 6, FREAK SHOW
Stuart Maconie gives an airing to Tonesucker's "Splatterstrum" on his BBC6 Freak Zone show. It is sandwiched between Caravan's "In the Land of Grey and Pink" and Cornelius Cardew's "Solidarity Song".
July 15, 2008
TONESUCKER ALBUM REVIEW
Review of Tonesucker's album Slaughterhouse by Pascal Ansell in DISKANT: How many albums do you know of that were recorded in an abattoir? The noise/drone duo Terry Burrows and John Bowers answer that question under the name of Tonesucker, whose 2006 album ‘Slaughterhouse’ captures the intense claustrophobia of a filthy parade through an abattoir. The album opens with a monolithic guitar chord repeated every twenty seconds, the track’s title ‘Hook’ ominously punning on the portent of the horror that the listener / cow awaits. As the song develops there are some wonderfully weird guitar crackles that begin to burn then gently fizz out – just a sample of the great tones and effects the two guitarists Bowers and Burrows achieve in this album. One of the most nerve-wracking songs imaginable is ‘Crush’: a glacier-slow raising of pitch and tension, which achieved (I would guess) by gradually moving a slide up the guitar’s neck. On ‘Slice’ the duo treat us to hypnotic wavelength vibrations – that underlying hum synonymous with Earth and Sunn O))). It’s amazing to think ‘Slaughterhouse’ was recorded with just guitars (plus pedals and amps) – the array of sounds squeezed out of a couple of the instruments is immense. It’s an incredibly intense listen packed full of triumphant droning and delicious noise. According to Terry the final product of ‘Slaughterhouse’ insisted on “tortuous amounts of audio sculpting” – all worthwhile in a particularly effective four songs. Listening to this album makes you wish there was a drummer somewhere in the mix, and lo, Tonesucker have done the right thing. Drummer Steven Elsey joined earlier this year, and the band will surely benefit from this addition.
[Direct link to article doesn't work: go to DISKANT home page and enter "Tonesucker" in the search box.]
April 26, 2008
TONESUCKER LIVE, LITHUANIA
Tonesucker (Left-to-right: Terry Burrows, Steve Elsey, John Bowers) take part in live TV broadcast from Studio 3, Epic Studios, Norwich, UK to a location in Lithuania. Also performing are Liam Wells and Alex Sanders, Jason Dixon and Fran Wall.
April 19, 2008
TONESUCKER LIVE, WEBCAST
TONESUCKER: The Killing of St Alphrege
Live Webcast of Sound and Moving Image marking the the anniversary of the killing of Alphrege, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1012. Click on the image to view video of the event.
March 15, 2008
TONESUCKER LIVE, WEBCAST
TONESUCKER: Beware the Ides of March
Live Webcast of Sound and Moving Image marking the assassination of Julius Caeser and in anticipation of the overthrow of all forms of tyranny. Click on the image to view video of the event.
February 2, 2008
TONESUCKER LIVE, SWEDEN
Tonesucker perform as part of the BLAND KRETSAR OCH LJUD MED JOHN BOWERS evening on Saturday, February 2, 2008, at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. It is the band's debut as a trio – now with drummer Steven Elsey. Also featured are Liam Wells (UK, tachyscope and analogue electronics), Phil Archer (UK, live circuit bending), Mattias Sköld and Sören Runolf (SE, breadboards and synthesizers), John Bowers and Vanessa Yaremchuk (UK/Canada, dreamachines, neural networks). This event is part of the node.stockholm festival.
[Photograph of Tonesucker by Vanessa Yaremchuk. Copyright 2008. Used with permission.]
December, 2007
ARTICLE BY J M BOWERS & VANESSA YAREMCHUK
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Leonardo Music Journal publish article by J M Bowers and Vanessa Yaremchuk.
Related music and photography available on this site.
March 5, 2007
TONESUCKER ON WIRE CD
Tonesucker record exclusive track "Splatterstrum" for The Wire magazine. It will appear on The Wire Tapper 17 CD included with the May edition.
December 13 , 2006
TONESUCKER LIVE, SWEDEN
Tonesucker and Sten-Olof Helström
play set at Fylkingen, Stockholm
October
18, 2006
J M BOWERS LIVE, LEICESTER
J
M Bowers performs concert at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
July
3 , 2006 •
TONESUCKER NEW ALBUM, SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Tonesucker
release their debut CD album, Slaughterhouse (Onoma01). Distribution
is through Shellshock.
The album can also be purchased online at the Onoma shop, Amazon
and Play.com.
A version will be soon available on iTunes and other digital outlets.
www.tonesucker.com
June
24 , 2006
J M BOWERS, TERRY BURROWS, ALEX SANDERS, LIAM WELLS LIVE, FASTER THAN SOUND FESTIVAL
Stegosaurus (J M Bowers, Terry Burrows, Alex Sanders and Liam Wells) perform
at Faster
Than Sound, a festival that claims to be "The first event of its
kind joining the dots between DJs, electronica music and other genres, brought
to you by artists from across the globe". You can watch a video of the
performance at Liam Wells' MySpace
page.
June
23, 2006
J M BOWERS NEW ALBUM, EDISON'S RESIDUE
J M Bowers' Edison's Residue
(Onoma02), an album of 'pseudo-Victorian turntablism', is available as a free
download.
June
15 , 2006
J M BOWERS, TERRY BURROWS, ALEX SANDERS, LIAM WELLS LIVE, MURMURATIONS, ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL
Murmurations:
University of East Anglia Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. Stegosaurus - J M
Bowers (theremin, oscillators), Terry Burrows (theremin, VCS3), Alex Sanders
(VCS3) and Liam Wells (Jen, home-built oscillator) - perform quartet improvisation
on vintage electronic equipment as part of the Aldeburgh Festival's main programme.
Further details on the Aldeburgh
Festival website. You can watch a video of the performance at Liam
Wells' MySpace page.
May
3, 2006
TONESUCKER CONCERT REVIEW
Tonesucker's
October 2005 performance with Mike Cassells at Tonedeaf IV in Kingston Ontario,
Canada is reviewed on the Music
Works website.
April
28, 2006
ASMUS TIETCHENS/TERRY BURROWS
In
Summer 2006 Asmus Tietchens and Terry Burrows plan to begin work on their
third collaboration.
www.tietchens.de
www.terryburrows.com
April
19, 2006
ONOMA DISTRUBUTION
Onoma
Research signs worldwide distribution deal with Shellshock.
March
16, 2006
ASMUS TIETCHENS/TERRY BURROWS, WATCHING THE BURNING BRIDE REISSUES
Asmus
Tietchens, Terry Burrows, Die Stadt Records, Disaster Area Records and Onoma
Research have reached an agreement regarding the first CD editions of the
four-album Tietchens/Burrows work Watching the Burning Bride. Comprising
the albums Watching the Burning Bride by Asmus Tietchens and Terry
Burrows, Abfleischung by Asmus Tietchens, The Whispering Scale
by Terry Burrows, and Burning the Watching Bride by Terry Burrows and
Asmus Tietchens, the albums were released on vinyl between 1986 and 1998.
The boxed set will be a joint project between Onoma in the UK and Disaster
Area in Germany. Die Stadt will meanwhile continue their lengthy reissue program
of Tietchens 80s and 90s vinyl releases, which will include extended versions
of Bride and Abfleischung over the next two years.
www.tietchens.de
www.terryburrows.com
www.diestadtmusik.de
October 29, 2005
TONESUCKER LIVE, NORWICH
Tonesucker perform at WebJam09,
Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK. (Click on image to view video of the performance.)
16 October,
2005
TONESUCKER LIVE, TONE DEAF FESTIVAL, CANADA
Tonesucker make their debut performance, at Tone Deaf 4 Festival, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. [Click on either image to hear the performance.)