As Welling­to­ni­ans, we love dub, right? [cita­tion need­ed] Some­times to a fault, even? [cita­tion need­ed] Any­one else remem­ber that famous review a few years back in Pave­ment mag­a­zine of some local out­fit that read:

More eff­ing trum­pet-dub from Welling­ton

Any­way if its to your taste, there’s some seri­ous dub trick­ery com­ing down in the next cou­ple of weeks…

[the details after the jump]

On Thurs­day this week reknowned dub­step artist Kode9 is per­form­ing at The Gar­den Club.  Kode9 runs the Hyper­dub label, home of much-laud­ed act Bur­ial, and is also him­self the pro­duc­er of some seri­ous­ly fine sounds — his 2006 album Mem­o­ries of the Future (feat. the Spaceape on vocals) would prob­a­bly be my pick for album of the decade.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyF2vj2t974]

The man’s got a Ph.D in phi­los­o­phy, which is to say that his beats are…seriously con­sid­ered.

10 pm start for Kode9, this Thurs­day July 2nd.

On a very dif­fer­ent and unusu­al dub­wise tip, musi­cal icon­o­clast Karl­heinz Stock­hausen’s work MANTRA (for two pianists and live elec­tron­ics) is being per­formed on 19 July, 6 pm at the Coun­cil Cham­ber in the Hunter Build­ing, Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty. 

Xenia Pesto­va and Pas­cal Mey­er on pianos com­prise the Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo (formed in Ams­ter­dam in 2003) who will be accom­pa­nied by Philip Brown­lee on “sound pro­jec­tion”.

MANTRA is an excit­ing and high­ly vir­tu­osic work that calls for an uncon­ven­tion­al approach to piano play­ing. The pianists are required to play antique cym­bals and wood­blocks, as well as use their voic­es. The sig­nals are processed elec­tron­i­cal­ly in real-time to cre­ate two “super-instru­ments” with scin­til­lat­ing and beau­ti­ful sonori­ties that approach the exot­ic sound worlds of the pre­pared piano of John Cage, high-ener­gy elec­tric gui­tar dis­tor­tion, and mys­te­ri­ous Morse-code radio sig­nals.

Real-time live audio sig­nal pro­cess­ing and manip­u­la­tion?  Mixol­o­gy?  I feel a Mad Pro­fes­sor col­lab­o­ra­tion com­ing on.