More sonic affairs this September

Besides playing the first Dayin show for the year on September 18, I'll be joining two pretty nice events with great collab projects. First is the annual НОЩ Пловдив (Night of the Museums and Galleries), which for the past years has become one of the finest traditions in Bulgaria's tiny art life.

On Sept 11 I'll be doing live sound for Austrian artist Fanni Futterknecht's performance 'Меко движение' during Нощ/ Пловдив 2015. Stuff's happening in 'Lotus Hall' all info under #71 in the schedule below or here.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/390304401175644/

Another thing for the Plovdiv night I've done is create over an hour long soundscapes for the opening of KKIIVV - a very dark and special exhibition by illustrator Ilian Iliev and Kostadin Kolanov (calligraphy). Below is an excerpt:

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/1104503246228376/

A week later, on September 17 I'm playing playing Sofia's Da Fest, curated by the Digital Arts programme in Bulgaria's National Academy of Arts, where I've been teaching Sound Art for 2 years now. 

Photo by HRB. (http://iamhrb.tumblr.com)

My set will be enhanced by live visuals by RosettaStone. 

All info about us is here (don't mind it says 16, we're playing on September 17th). 

September 18 - playing a Dayin live set in Sofia

I don't really talk about this project, because... well the music says it all. Anyhow, on March 16th Germany's Cosmic Winnetou released my first Dayin album 'Letting Go of People'. It's now sold out,  but streamable and downloadable below.

Good thing is I'm sometimes playing live shows under that name as well. The first one for 2015 is happening in Sofia on September 18 alongside my friend Tim Holehouse's brand new project Raeppen & Skittish Arm from the USA.

In November I'm taking Dayin to Poland. I love Poland.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/750572738402399/

This explains the post below.

Another day, another less ordinary project

If you're around Sofia you have about a week to experience something very curious, which a bunch of great and very creative people curated. Curated here is said pretty figuratively since their concept was to avoid accentuating over persons, names and authors, but leave it all to your very personal perception. A selection of carefully picked art pieces in three mediums, exploring three of your senses will do the talking instead. Their creators will be revealed only if you wish.

Few nice press hints (in Bulgarian) can be found on Fonoteka Elektrika & Under The Line.

So head to Slavyanska 27, yes the abandoned ruins of an old 90s mobster restaurant, and experience the Museum of Less Ordinary.

Here's me soundchecking.

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/435176519994629

Transfiguration Festival (Bulgaria) 6-9 August

Here's an event I've been waiting to play the whole summer. Yes, my music as Mytrip hasn't seen too many outdoor performances but this August I'll be bringing the drones in the Village of Dolen, Bulgaria. The line-up is pretty special and so is the whole event. Above you can see the second of two stages, all hand-built during the past few monts, 8 m. tall... Really, what a place! 

Mytrip is playing on August 9th, the last day of the festival. The event itself will be accessible for only 1024 people due to the capacity of the village. So it'll be indeed quite a unique ocassion. That's why I'm cooking a special set, which will be the backbone of my first proper full-lenth album.

Tickets: http://bit.ly/1KS8T6w

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1404218466569008/

Martin Lukanov & Mytrip - second ever show

On June 18th in Sofia's Czech Center me and Martin Lukanov will perform our piano-based, neo-classical album 'Two' alongside 'Between' and other (unreleased) pieces in the very same vein. We have performed this only once before, as the opening live of the 7th Alarma Punk Jazz Festival, back in 2012 or something. Now that Martin is back from Thailand for a few months we were invited to do it for a second time (after an unsucessful attempt to play the music with a guest pianist in 2013).

Our special guest will be Simeon Dotkov and his newest brainchild BHE (Binaural Headset Experiment). This will be his first gig with this alias and he'll present material from his third album 'Remember', released by Mahorka on May 18th. Besides neatly composed and produced, his music is a very interesting experiment with binaural beats and isochronic tones. I recently invited him to speak about his approach in front of my Sound Art students and he did manage to really grab their attention so yeah, really looking forward to hearing BHE on a large sound.

RSPV: https://facebook.com/events/1497906803765024/

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Leaver in Sofia's *Mixtape 5* 30/05/15

We played a show alongside drone lady Foie Gras and King Dude, who really is a dude. Our favorite photographer in town made us nice photos. All the love for HRB.

For sure it wasn't our best show from a technical side because we are simply not playing live too often and in the same time we decided to experiment with few new things, including live drumming. However, there are people (journalists included) who seem to have enjoyed our set.

"Носталгия, красива и леко призрачна..." ~ MetalHangar18

"Атмосферата натежава... хората се чудят на това пляскаме ли? По-скоро не. Но не от неодобрение, тъкмо напротив." ~ Mysound