The EP will be available to purchase through my online shop and also all the major online music download sites. A free tune from the EP will be available soon to all the people signed up to the iambic mailing list . If you’re not signed up already you can click here to sign up.

The past few months have been really hectic for me. Most of my time was taken up with finishing my final degree project, all the late nights and hard work paid off though – I ended up with a first for my degree! Now I can pretentiously add BSc onto the end of my name! Well, maybe I won’t, but I’m glad it’s all over. Thanks to everyone who has sent me messages of support and good luck over the past 3 years, it’s been really appreciated.

So let’s get onto iambic music news. I’m still working hard on my new album, I expect to get it totally completed by the end of the Summer and will aim to release it early next year. The new album is definitely a follow on from the Echos EP, but with much tighter production and stronger ideas. We’ve been playing a fair few of the songs live and they seem to go down pretty well as they’re generally more upbeat than my previous works. I’m really looking forward to sharing the tracks with you all as this album has taken by far the longest time to write!

If some of you have been following me on Twitter or Facebook, you would perhaps have noticed my announcement that I’m going to be producing Codes In The Cloud’s next LP for Erased Tapes records. I’ve been working closely with Robert Raths (Erased Tapes founder) and of course Codes In The Clouds to plan what I hope will be a pretty unique sounding record drawing influences from a wide range of styles and artists. We’re recording in September at Brighton Electric studios, should be a lot of fun! My remix of ‘Distant Street Lights’ by Codes In The Clouds will be released on their next release entitled ‘Paper Canyon Recycled’.

I’ve been doing a load of remixes recently, but (annoyingly) I can’t say who I’ve been remixing yet. Just wait and see, there will be a few surprises in store .

That’s about it, remember to sign up to my mailing list for more news and discounts on my web store!

Thanks for reading,

Guy

You can check out the YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/iambicmusic

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Info on Phalanger:
Phalanger is a system which facilitates the control of music software with hand and finger motion, with the aim of creating a fluid style of interaction that promotes musicality. The system is purely video based, requires no wearables or accessories and uses affordable and accessible technology. It employs a neural network for background segmentation, a combination of imaging techniques for frame analysis, and a support vector machine (SVM) for recognition of hand positions. System evaluation showed the SVM to reliably differentiate between eight different classes.

Despite my laptop choking a bit on my improvised set (I think it’s sadly time to upgrade the old MacBook!), Phalanger worked really well. I had it sending MIDI CC data to Ableton Live via the internal IAC driver. The software would detect my different hand gestures then would alter various parameters according to the current gesture and also the position of the gesture on the X & Y axis.

It gave me unparalleled expressive creativity in controlling parameters on my software synthesisers, it would be great to see further development in this area of MIDI controllers.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be playing on the inSpiral stage at Glade festival again this year. Last year’s set was a laptop based soundscape one but this year I am glad to say that my full live band will be joining me to perform on stage. We’ll be playing all new tunes from my album that’s currently in the works!

For more information please head over to www.gladefestival.com

I’m trying to get more people to sign up to my mailing list and need your help. I’m willing to offer anyone who gets at least 10 of their friends to sign up to my mailing list a £10 gift voucher for my online store (http://shop.iambicmusic.com).

All you need to do is :

1. Get 10 friends who you reckon might like my music, preferably not 10 fake/forwarding/temporary email addresses, to sign up to my mailing list at http://www.iambicmusic.com (located on the right hand side of the page).

2. Send me a list of your friend’s emails addresses that were signed up.

I’ll double check them and if it’s all good then you’ll get the £10 gift voucher!

Please send your email addresses in one single email to band@iambicmusic.com

This promotion will end on April 16th 2010.

Thanks for reading.

Sorry I haven’t updated this blog in a long time, it’s hard to find time to sit down and write about whats going on when I’m so caught up in everything that IS going on! Following me on Twitter is probably the best bet for the time being: http://twitter.com/guy_andrews

Anyway, in my last mail out on the iambic mailing list I mentioned that I’d be releasing my first two albums again in high quality wav format through my website at the start of 2010. This is still the case, but things have been delayed as I’m trying to finish off my degree, write a new album and sort out a tour for 2010. I can ensure that the albums ARE coming soon and that they will be bundled with a brand new b-side album of post-rock tunes I have written, just so I can release all my older stuff that doesn’t really represent the sound I’m pushing nowadays. It would be a shame for them to just sit on my HD and collect cyberdust!

I’ve got some big news to announce soon regarding a very special side project that’ll please all fans of ‘Under These Stars, We’ll Sleep Again’ and my more ambient works, so the best thing to do is sign up to my mailing list on the front page of www.iambicmusic.com and sit tight for now. Thanks to everyone for their support, 2010 is set to be an exciting one!!

Guy

Hi everyone,

I will be releasing a new free EP on April 6th 2009 entitled “Echos”. The EP will consist of 6 brand new electro-acoustic tunes that I’ve been working on and performing over the past year. It will also include a remix by the Brighton, UK based IDM producer Halogen.

Track listing:

1. Transitions
2. Fragments
3. Move You
4. Suburbium
5. Terra Firma
6. Terra Firma (Halogen Remix)

To obtain the EP, all you have to do is sign up to my mailing list which can be found on the front page of www.iambicmusic.com . As soon as April 6th rolls round, you’ll get an email with a download link. For those who sign up after April 6th, the download link will be presented to you in the confirmation screen once you confirm your email address on the mailing list.

Thanks for reading!

Guy