alGARhythm is:
Organic Electronic Music of multiple genres. Complete with Experimental Leanings, a Dance Floor Rhythm Section, The Beauty & Power of Ambient Waves of Sound, The Unpredictability of Improv Sound Collage, The heART of A Painter, and the Amplitude n’ Angst of a Punk Rock Rebel.
Matthew Gar Bailey aka “alGARhythm” is a true Visionary of multiple mediums & endeavors. An assembler of all things findable. All things arrangeable and interchangeable. Always searching for that which he has not found. The alGARhythm musical project is the cumulative essence of what LIVE Post-Punk Electronics has the potential to be in the 21st century. Utilizing some amazing new tools to affect a change in the present from ideals formed in the past. The Dead Ghost of Rock is Now a Living Ghost in Gar’s heART, Drum & Melody Machines. Comparatively.. Think Mouse On Mars meets Jim Morrison. Think Negativland meets Tipper. alGARhythm is beautifully crafted yet purposely free and transcendent, serendipitous musical magic.
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Bio, Musical History, Discography
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PHOTOs:
Photo Credits: (far left & right: B. Cunningham) | (2nd from left: J. Bassett) | (3rd from left: G. Bailey)
AUDIO:
DOWNLOAD: alGARhythm – “Your Other Left” (2009) {320kbps quality}
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DOWNLOAD: alGARhythm – “Grandfather Clock (w3rk mix)” (2007) {320kbps quality}
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DOWNLOAD: alGARhythm – “Burn Barner” (2007) {320kbps quality}
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DOWNLOAD: alGARhythm – “TV 45″ (2007) {320kbps quality}
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VIDEO:
alGARhythm – Live at the Deland Music Fest | 2007 – Portion_3a
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alGARhythm – Live at The AntiPop Fest #5 | Orlando, FL | 11/12/2009
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alGARhythm – Live @ Avant GARism #5 | Deland, FL | May 3, 2008 | Part 5 of 11
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alGARhythm – “Far Knee (Sue Acorns)” | Music Video By: A_Scissors
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Why Does alGARhythm Make Music?
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alGARhythm has performed with the following artists:
Machine Drum, A_Scissors, Mic Mell, R_Garcia, Yip-Yip, The Rules, Johan Ess, AttachedHands, Mr. Antonym, Mr. Whitefolk, Happy Valley, Tel Aviv Bats, The Show Is The Rainbow, JOON, Dr. XnLb, Drone Operator, Pan/Dos, Kid Kadian, Sidecar Racer, Stereodee, Plusses and Ups, Zoltan Dobi, The Future On Films In Space, DJ SPS, Benny Loco, Nathan Wolek, Dub Theorist, Michael Mcnabb, BetaDataDisk, Bent Lee, Kable, Modular, Colour with Sound, Kobalt, The Deep Element, Chairman Hao, Polygon Panties, Please Respect Our Decadence, Kano, Furious, Chris Hydra, J. Wail, The A Team, Joelephant, ArchBishop Shabby, Landing on Land, Telephone, Anomalous, CLH20, Eddie V, James West, Violent Fingers, Epstein, Medicated, DefactofunKt, Devolve, Dickie Clarke, among others…
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Performance Requirements For alGARhythm:
-2 * 1/4 Inch inputs on stage via Direct Boxes, a 1/4 Inch plug tree, or an onstage mixer/PA.
-2 * Working Stage Monitors and 2+ House Speakers
-At least 6ft x 8ft of stage or space
-Dedicated sound-person for entire show (Unless otherwise agreed upon)
-50$ Minimum guarantee (Florida gigs) | 75$ Minimum guarantee (Out of state gigs) {*Unless otherwise agreed upon}
-Contact Number for Promoter or Stage Manager
-Notification of Set Length, Line-Up w/ performance order & time slots before day of show
-Merch Table or Area
-Door Person (If there’s a cover charge)
-Drink comps, coupons, or discounts are appreciated
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LIVE PLAY LIST:
-Wickedness In Babylon
-Your Other Left
-Pushing a Stone Down a Hill
-Snakes Don’t Cry
-Birds Aren’t Afraid Of Heights (Parts 1 & 2)
-Double Quadrant (Parts 1 & 2)
-Burn Barner 2009
-Spontaneous Combustion
-Primordial Gristle Rummage
-A day for a dog is like a week for a person
-A day for a dog is like an hour for a chicken
-The Moon is more beautiful while you are sleeping
-Your Mother’s Mouth Is a Preset
-Roof Decay, Toof Betray
-as well as being able to play for hours on end in trance-like states on riffs and grooves that wreak of eternal truths n’ principles…
*alGARhythm live sets generally are about 40 – 60 minutes in length, but can be lengthened or shortened according to the situation. While pushing the envelope and spontaneity play an important role in any alGARhythm performance or composition, you will also hear some incredible craft & songsmanship in there as well.
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CONTACT FOR BOOKING:
hairysloth@gmail.com
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Line-Up & Instrumentation:
Gar currently runs 2 customized coffins full of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, bent circuitry, microphones, and processing units as the core of his musical rig. Along with all that, Gar also utilizes the use of mass effects, Midi syncing of drums/effects/signals, processed vocalizations, found sound to collage, field recording, vinyl, tape, TV/radio, strings, & live percussion.
Drum Modules, Synths, & Samplers:
-Korg ESX – music production sampler
-Korg EMX – music production synth/station
-Korg ER1 – rhythm production unit
-Korg ES1 – rhythm production sampler
-Korg EA1 – analog modeling synth
-Roland SP555 – creative sampler
-Roland MC303 – groovebox/drum machine/synth
-Acetone Drum Machine (70’s vintage unit)
Effects:
-Kaoss Pad 3 – multi effects processing unit
-Effectron II ADM 1024 – digital delay (rack)
-Ibanez HD1500 – harmonics/delay unit (rack)
-Boss DD-20 Giga Delay Pedal
-Danelectro – Dan Echo delay pedal
-Arion – stereo delay pedal
Bent Circuitry:
-Telephone to Carbon Microphone hybrid
-”Baby Driver” – double pitch bend glitch
-”Toy phone” – low freq pitch bend mute
-”ABC” – uber glitch box
Mixers and Processors:
-Behringer Eurorack UB-2222FX pro – 16 channel mixer
-Numark DM200DX DJ mixer
-Presonus Bluetube DP Microphone Pre-Amp (rack)
-Alesis 3630 Compressor/Limiter (rack) (on the way)
Amps, PA’s, & Cabinets:
-66′ Fender Bassman Head (blackface) w/ single stack 4 x 10″ cabinet
-Yamaha EMX860st – 8 channel PA Amp/Mixer (200/400 watts)
-2 Cerwin Vega PA Cabninets
Other:
-Hondo Mastercaster Guitar w/ mirrored pic guard
-1 crummy ol Turntable
-1 garage sale hammered dulcimer on stand w/ contact mic run thru effex
-1 Harmonica
-1 Egg-shaped Shaker
-3 contact mics
-1 Behringer Condenser Microphone
-1 Shure SM58 Microphone
-1 Shure SM57 Microphone
-multiple small noise making toys, clickers, klackers, & shakers
-1 large rubber chicken (used for primal scream vocals)
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PRESS Reviews:
Album Review: alGARhythm – “reinventing the orange” / Polyvibe Records
Matt Gorney / Orlando Weekly
alGARhythm: Reinventing the Orange (2007)
“Reinventing the Orange is electronic music by a single artist. Central Florida’s Gar Bailey that synchronously champions primitivism and abstraction. Without lyrics to lead a listener down any specific emotional corridor or the deadening predictability of computer quantizing, this second alGARhythm release allows itself to be a seriously immersive and shaggy audition along the lines of Pink Floyd’s “Astronomy Domine” or the first two Orb full-lengths. The German motorik notion of linear, destination-bound travel is in play here, augmented by pit stops full of swirling, stereo-panned clouds. This is mischievous and narcotic night-driving music. As the disc moves forward, a virtual all-frequency antenna grabs a dense canopy of broadcast detritus to distract from the cannon blasts of timbre and bleeps/bloops of leaden sci-fi rhythms.”
By: Matt Gorney
Article’s original link: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/review.asp?rid=12279
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“alGARhythm’s Aesthetic” by: Ian Monroe
Ian Monroe / the orlando weekly
“Multi-talented auteur GAR “alGARhythm” BAILEY is really interested in accidental creativity – besides his music, he also produces a great deal of visual art, and he’s clearly quite influenced by the traditions of collage and improvisation in both mediums. He seeds his musical compositions with the ethereal electromagnetic signals he plucks from his environment at the moment of their births, producing one-of-a-kind, unique pieces that blend the accidental and deliberate, musically, memetically, and multi-dimensionally. Like the bastard offspring of John Dillinger and Jaques Derrida, he shoots from the hip, deconstructing aural conventions and your preconceptions about art, SIMULTANEOUSLY. But don’t think that means his compositions are academic or unlistenable- quite the opposite. He makes music to be heard with metaphorical tongue burrowed deep in metaphorical cheek.”
By: Ian Monroe (Jan 2007)
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Performance Commentary
Bao Le-Huu / “this little underground”
“On August 7, 2007.. “On August 7, 2007.. One-man act alGARhythm, on local imprint Polyvibe Records, delivered a decent performance at Back Booth. From behind a small arsenal of electronics, his button-pushing and knob-twisting produced limber compositions moved by the fluid, bass-thick rhythms that Yip-Yip, sadly, seems to have moved away from. Not that he’s got much competition, but he’s one of the more entertaining solo electronic acts in town.”
-Bao Le-Huu; this little underground
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