000000Swan
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- 5 tracks (27:58)Obsessed with electronics, rare birds, myth, Native American art, pagan ritual, fetish, punk, and tribal percussion, Black Swan is the brainchild of Phoenix Perry and Margaret Schedel. Connoisseurs of the romantic and ethereal, they create high-impact, hard-to-predict events beyond the realm of normal expectations. Their music is reminiscent of electronica, punk, steam boats and theremins. They comfortably refuse to sit in any known genre or style. All costumes are handmade and designed around the art of Phoenix Perry.
Hexcode was mixed by Brian Jackson. He also created electronic special effects through out the record.
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- We are playing @babycastles for the opening of the IGF! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168075699877847 Can't waitNov 12, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Dorkbot went well. Now we are gearing up for the LISA talk at Devotion curated by sabel Draves Nov 8th.Nov 04, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Hexcode is out! http://soundcloud.com/phoenixperry/sets/hexcodeNov 01, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- coding like a mad woman for dorkbot!Oct 27, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- hear parts the new record here http://soundcloud.com/phoenixperry/sets/000000swan-hexcodeOct 27, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- 000000swan will be speaking at DORKBOT at location one in soho next Wed nightOct 27, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- http://ow.ly/2O9FI Tell the future through observation of animals
- it's here - the first studio rushes of the falconer http://ow.ly/2O6xo
- The Wisdom of Birds http://ow.ly/2LdSF
- Now just what exactly is this gem? http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2010/09/try-out-witch-house-chillwave-naSep 24, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- We are playing this Wednesday at RBar (218 Bowery) around 11.30 with a super talented line up -> http://ow.ly/2xCHf
- two 000000swan shows upcoming! Aug 21st at Secret Project Robot and again on Aug. 27th at 319 Scholes as part of Devotion/319 Belief benefit
- listen to us! 3 tracks here --> http://flavors.me/000000swan#61d/soundcloudJul 08, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Black Swan is the creative project of Phoenix Perry and Margaret SchedelJul 06, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- We will be playing Webster Hall Sunday July 11th as part of the Quarterly Arts Soirée with Amanda Ray, I, Synthesist and Globular ClusterJul 06, 10 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- Oct 27, 10
HEXCODE is an experimentation in process and interaction, as well as our new record. I’m going to be working with Margaret Schedel (Stonybrook Professor of Music and cellist in 000000Swan) and Rebecca Fiebrink (machine learning expert, Princeton). Together we form a team of programer, artist, and musician to create a new form of musical interaction involving gesture, visual design and machine learning. Rebecca built the Wekinator and we are hooking it up to this little device called a Kbow Meg’s been beta testing for a bit now. It’s now available publicly, which is great. We are then taking a whole group of sample of different gestures, letting Wekinator learn them and then we are interpolating number sets between different groups of gestures. We then map those gestures to processing and values such as object size, scale and opacity.
So – here it is – some info on what is the project I’ve worked on for the last 4 years called 000000swan in near secrecy. Our record, Hexcode, comes out on Halloween. We’ve been playing in NYC for 2 years now, mostly unannounced or unpromoted to rooms where people stare enchanted or clear the room or both. There’s nothing like having dancers in swan costumes while you sing songs about death and transcendence surrounded by candles to make people think you’ve gone completely off your rocker. Well, it’s either that or covering my bandmate in blood…
We are threading a profound awareness. HEXCODE is a journey mutating through love to rage transmuted with fire into compassion ending broken in submission and release. It’s the story of Wands. It’s a record of love songs. It’s a record of love lost songs. It’s a record of liberation. It’s a record reaching through a void into stillness.
The optic experience evokes mystic awareness and entrains the viewer into an altered consciousness. We create and then destroy a palatable place within the music 000000Swan. It’s the architecture of the unbuilt…
http://player.vimeo.com/video/15517893000000Swan Live at THE SHIFT from Devotion Gallery on Vimeo.
- Jul 06, 10
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Obsessed with electronics, rare birds, myth, Native American art, pagan ritual, fetish, punk, and tribal percussion, Black Swan is the brainchild of Phoenix Perry and Margaret Schedel. Connoisseurs of the romantic and ethereal, they create high-impact, hard-to-predict events beyond the realm of normal expectations. Their music is reminiscent of electronica, punk, steam boats and theremins. They comfortably refuse to sit in any known genre or style. All costumes are handmade and designed around the art of Phoenix Perry. Founded in 2007
