Filed under: Film
Spruce from Daniel Hopkins on Vimeo.
Filed under: Music | Tags: Common, future deer, futuresonic, hurra caine landcrash, manchester, red deer club
I will be playing at ‘Common’ in the Northern Quarter on May 16th 2009, between 3pm and 5pm. This will be part of an event called.
Future Deer (Deaf to the Singer-Songwriter) Which is being presented by Red Deer Club. Here is what the futuresonic website say’s
Manchester’s Red Deer Club is best known for folk, but here Dunk Le Chunk presents a post-folk future vision – a barren landscape of ‘nice’ noises, live acts and DJ’s with no singer-songwriters.
It is free. I will also hopefully have a new record with me.
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Filed under: Art, Film | Tags: Gallery FotoGrafic Prague Czech Republic Plan 9 Experi
http://www.fotografic.cz/CURRENT_EXHIBITION.htm
The fine folks at Gallery FotoGrafic, Prague, Czech Republic has asked to screen a number of my video works in their upcoming Plan 9 Experimental Film event.
Gallery FotoGrafic
Stribrna 2
Prague 1
Czech Republic
November/December 2008
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: salford film festival blank media presents hurra caine
LOCATION…
A night of innovative live music and film for Salford Film Festival 2008
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE TO EARLIER DETAILS AND PRINT PROMOTION: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN MOVED FROM ISLINGTON MILL TO SALFORD ARTS THEATRE (Please see below for address details)
In response to Salford Film Festival’s theme of Location, Blank Media are delighted to present to you a night of live scores to new films.
Musicians and filmmakers from the Salford and Greater Manchester area will collaborate for the first time in creating an audiovisual feast for the eyes and ears.
Collaborating for this one off event are the following acts and filmmakers.
Findlay Hunter Cotterall Trio vs. Benjamin Rose
Messner vs. Left of the Border Films
Keeop vs. Mind Mangle
Hurra caine Landcrash vs. Bad Hand Film
Findlay Hunter Cotterall Trio vs. Benjamin Rose
Film — Benjamin Rose http://www.graphicstateofmind.com/
Music — Findlay Hunter Cotterall Trio http://www.myspace.com/findlayhunterrennie
Findlay Hunter Cotterall Trio
f_h_c play beautiful, uncompromising, challenging, engaging, warm, dark, contradictory, improvised music. Always live, always unpredictable, never planned. Cello meets guitar meets Saxophone meets a lot of effects pedals…
f_h_c are resident in the South Manchester area.
Benjamin Rose
http://www.graphicstateofmind.com
My work blends a use of several design practices and creative disciplines including illustration, photography, motion graphics, graphic design, advertising and web design. I combine passion and enthusiasm into my work in order to arrive at a design solution to best solve the brief. I feel that it is this diversity and resourcefulness that makes me a versatile and imaginative designer. My working practice is such that I’m able to draw inspiration from a variety of sources within the field of art and design as well as drawing reference from other less obvious places.
Ben is from the Greater Manchester Region but is currently resident in Salford.
Messner vs. Left of the Border Films
Film — Iain Goodyear http://www.myspace.com/leftoftheborderfilms
Music — Messner http://www.myspace.com/messnermusic
Messner
From the foothills of the Snowdonia Mountains comes Messner; half hazy acoustic folk and half synth–based electronica. A multi–instrumentalist and producer, he sings in Welsh about such things as wasting time, communication problems, and British weather. Often accompanied by a mysterious but beautiful female string duo he goes forth with his acoustic guitar, pedals and laptop in search of new musical experiences. Messner’s debut album entitled ‘em am’ was released in April of 2008 and has been described by BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens as ‘very nice indeed, lovely stuff’.
Messner is the brainchild of Owain Roberts, currently resident in Chorlton, Manchester.
Left of the Border Films
Left of the Border Films is Iain Goodyear resident in Didsbury; Iain is an international awarding winning filmmaker and teacher in Salford. His work is experimental in form and relates heavily to architecture and films of a structuralist nature.
Keeop Vs. Mind Mangle
Film — Mind Mangle Productions http://www.myspace.com/mindmangle
Music — Keeop http://www.myspace.com/keeop
Keeop
Kee Op makes electronica that shows innovation and influence, but no track they make sounds like the last one. The style varies constantly, with minmal techno and breakbeat influences amongst others being used along with a unique touch making each one stand out on its own merits. Film is known to be a big influence on the Kee Op sound and lends the sound a very atmospheric feel that sets it own mood and when you hear it you can feel it too. Lush, warm old school like you used to listen to before technology alienated everyone, the beats are strange but the melodies hit a raw nerve that don’t leave you in a hurry. There is a beating heart in every track, shown bare for everyone to hear and it makes their music more personal because of it. Socio Rehab, Something Important and Biscuit Juice are examples of the diversity and soul of someone who is in complete control of what they are making. You won’t come out of a Kee Op set musing, you will be moving, and be moved.
Mind Mangle
Little is know about Mindmangle except they have produced interesting promotional videos for the artist Keeop.
From their Myspace, Mindmangle.com produce experimental films, music videos, visuals, photography and literature.
Hurra caine Landcrash vs. Bad Hand Film
Film — Bad Hand Film http://www.myspace.com/badhandfilm
Music — Hurra caine Landcrash http://www.myspace.com/landcrash
Hurra caine Landcrash
Hurra caine Landcrash. Sounds like the name… Whatever that means to you…
Daniel Hopkins is an artist who makes music and films, and is from the South West of England but currently based in the North.
His music is about landscapes, texture and the noise from within.
His film work range from experimental short films about travelling, roads and architecture. To music video’s for bands like ‘the telescopes’ ‘füxa’ ‘mountain men anonymous’ ‘epic 45’ ‘soulo’
Bad Hand Film
Bad Hand Film is Justin Watson, Osama Ammar and Adam Flood, collaborating with artists and musicians on short film clips, installations and live visuals.
They have recently worked with The Arctic Circle, Rocket.No.9, BLK w/BEAR, Fuzzy Lights, Share the Shame, imaginationandmymother, My Winter At Sea, Rothko, Rebecca Page, Marco Paltrieri, Leo Abrahams, Ken Peel and Ryan Teague
Contact Details
info@blankmediacollective.org
Salford Arts Theatre
Kemsing Walk
Off Liverpool St
Salford
M5 4BS
http://www.salfordartstheatre.co.uk
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: rusted satellites hurra caine landcrash airplay radio a
Just noticed one of my tracks getting airplay in Brisbane, Australia.
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/nowplaying/index.cfm?action=dsp_playlist&showID=167&day=4&playlistID=4835
Filed under: Music | Tags: avant rock, dan hopkins, hurra caine landcrash, split femur recordings, the wire
Dear All.
This year has led to an interesting amount of creative endeavours so far.
1. Album
The most exciting was the release of my fourth album of experimental music on the record label ‘split femur recordings’
http://www.splitfemurrecordings.com/
The album called ‘Unanswered Questions’ was a proper CD release and also available on i-tunes and various other download stores.
It has been having some good reviews. In particular The Wire Magazine said
‘Unanswered Questions is a strong collection of pieces, where editing and (re)assembling take precedence over spontaneity, with the momentum on the majority on these tracks provided by Hopkins’s layering and juxtaposing of edits. For the most part, he resists the sort of drone based sound that dominates so much Ambient experimentation, and instead places the stress on reverberation and crackling, percussive noise. There’s not much capacity for drift – deep pulses, the hard twanging of guitar strings and the repetition of echoes sit at the core of Hopkins’s work.’
Page 61, The Wire, Sept 2008.
To the uninitiated I make music under the name of ‘Hurra caine Landcrash’ and have a website and myspace where my music can be listened to and downloaded.
http://www.landcrash.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/landcrash
http://www.last.fm/music/Hurra+caine+Landcrash
http://landcrash.wordpress.com/
2.Gig
I also have a musical performance coming up on the 27th of September at the events called ‘Pins and Needles’ at Café OTO in Dalston on London.
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/
Tartaruga Records present ‘Pins and Needles’ – an alldayer of folk, improv, avant, drone, and spine-shivering noises.
www.myspace.com/pinsandneedlesnoises
Best Regards
Dan
Dan Hopkins
Filmmaker, Musician, Artist.
email: dan@noground.co.uk
web: http://www.landcrash.co.uk
label: http://www.noground.co.uk
myspace music: http://myspace.com/landcrash
myspace film : http://myspace.com/landcrashfilm
Filed under: Music | Tags: dan hopkins, fennesz, hl, hurra caine landcrash, split femur recordings, unanswer questions, Wonderful Wooden Reasons
New Review of ‘Unanswered Questions’ from Ian at Wonderful Wooden Reasons
http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com
From the review
“Fortunately it’s also the shortest track on what subsequently opens up into a sumptuous and absorbing recording characterised by the slow moving flow of the guitar’s misshapen melodies and the fluttering micro-sounds that garnish each track. In parts this recording brings to mind Fennesz in others it is the work of melodic abstractionists like the above mentioned BoC.”
