* Next week I'll be performing over two nights at the Science Museum, London, alongside the premier of a new arrangement of Brian Eno's Apollo, introduced by Brian Eno himself on both nights. Iris Garrelfs is also performing. My set will be alongside the actual Apollo X capsule, and this event is part of the celebration of 40 years since the moon landings. Highlights will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 6. This event is half sold out so booking advised now I'm told. Full info HERE.

* A previously unreleased si-cut.db track, 'RegretFul' from my archives is now available for download on the 'Impar 10' compilation for free via the net label Impar. The 3 volumes by various artists include work also by the excellent Joel Tammik and Ontayso. Listen/download HERE.

* In other download archive news, the classic si-cut.db album 'Find Some Shade' is available in full from Boomkat HERE. Also the si-cut.db track 'Winter Cabin', part of the Arctic Circle's That Fuzzy Feeling compilation, HERE.

Recent listening
* A. J. Holmes - The King Of The New Electric Hi-Life (Pingipung, CD)
* Various - The Wire Tapper 19 (Wire magazine, CD)
* Various - Open Source (Music Orbit/SPMN, CD)
* Platform - Distanced (Minimal Resource Manipulation, CD)
* Morgan Packard - Airships Fill The Sky (Anticipate, CD)
* Kraftwerk - 2 (Germanofon, CD)
* Blevin Blectum - Magic Maple (Praemedia, CD)
* Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter (Aagoo, CD)
* FM3 - Buddha Machine II (device and iphone app)
* Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schachtel, CD)
* Brian Eno/Peter Chilvers (iphone/ipod touch app)

My piano-based music set-up at Cafe Oto, from late last year.

* The [60] Project CD album was recently released on the Canadian DIGTALes label. Compiled by Matt Atkins, the album was constructed out of audio contributions from 60 artists including myself (in Si-cut.db guise), Christian Fennesz, David Toop, Terre Thaemlitz, Janek Schaefer, Steve Roden, Lawrence English, Vladislav Delay, Iris Garrelfs, Scanner and many others; a complete list is at http://www.60project.com/#contributors.

* If you want to hear my [60] Project contribution, in its original state, you'll find it HERE, with a host of other FREE SI-CUT.DB DOWNLOADS. [some previously released obscurities, some unreleased].

*The March issue of the Wire magazine contains a free CD by Philippe Petit and friends - subscribers only, but its also given away to anyone mail-ordering a release directly from BiP_Hop - with a track by me and Mr Petit, alongside contributions from Simon Fisher Turner, Jason Forrest and lots more artists collaborating with Philippe. This celebrates 10 years of the Bip_Hop label.

* In Sprawl news, our next event at Cafe Oto, which I will be playing with Iris Garrelfs, next to sets by Philippe Petit, AGF and Simon Fisher Turner, is on 25th March with full details and tickets now available HERE. February's Sprawl was fantastic, photos by Max Nathan HERE. Also, this year's SonicRecycler on May 9th, will feature Steve Beresford and James Blackshaw amongst others; more news soon on that via http://www.myspace.com/sonicrecycler and the Sprawl website

* In other interweb news, some kind fans - and not me, I can assure you - have written two Wikipedia pages on me, a Douglas Benford one and a seperate si-cut.db one. Spot the deliberate, unnecessary and maybe inaccurate fact (which I am loathe to change, as it is funny; bless 'em). You can also become a fan - or a friend (I think you can see which one I am on this list!) - on Facebook. Meanwhile, my Twitter feed is actually my Facebook update too... (I can't remember how I even managed to set that up).

recent music listening
* The Books -  Lost And Safe (Tomlab, CD)
* The Necks - Chemist (ReR, CD)
* The Necks - Mosquito (ReR, CD)
* The Necks - See Through (Fish Of Milk, CD)
* 7HG - Document 1 (Minimal Resource Manipulation, CD)
* Rufus Wainwright - Want Two (Dreamworks, CD)
* Tom Heasley & Toss Panos - Passages (Full Bleed, CD)
* Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A Minor: Finale (BBC Radio 3, CD)
* For Barry Ray - Gabriella Says (3" CD)
* Various - That Fuzzy Feeling (Loaf, CD)
* Various - Blood, Muscle & Air; The Intimate Voice (Sonic Arts Network, CD)
* Various - TriMix (Innova, CD)
* Jasper Leyland - Carbon Series Volume 5 (12x50, CD)
* Whitehouse - Quality Time. (Susan Lawly, CD)
* David Bowie - Station To Station (EMI, CD)
* Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (EG, CD)
* Sparks - Introducing Sparks (Lil' Beethoven Recs, CD)
* Stockhausen - Hymnen / Piano Piece No 7 (BBC Radio 3, broadcast)

* There is a new Douglas Benford CD album
'In The Footsteps Of The Princess'
on http://12x50.com/ [Carbon series], out now.
[analog mastering by Stephan Mathieu].
press release HERE.

upcoming performances

* OCT 22
DOUGLAS BENFORD w. SEBASTIEN ROUX, BEDDOES
Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street
Dalston, London, E8 3DL, UK
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/36952
http://cafeoto.co.uk/programme/overlap_000.shtm
Kultureflash preview HERE.

* NOV 22
DOUGLAS BENFORD w. Invisible Bees
art by Damian Burgess, Elin Eriksen, Doris Gaga,
Joel Chernin, Lesley Featherstone, Mikey Sturgess ... and maybe me.
7pm to Midnight @ 14 Bacon Street, London E1 6LF, UK

* Previously this month - in Brazil.



OCT 14 - SI-CUT.DB with DFUSE performed 'Latitudes'
Teatro Oi Casa Grande, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Slideshow HERE.
Some movies of Rio I took HERE, HERE and HERE.

recent music listening:
* Chris Abrahams - Glow (Vegetable/Vitamin, CD)
* REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction (IRS, CD)
* Various - Airport Symphony (Room40, CD)
* Rod Thomas - Your Love Is A Tease EP (Self Raising, CD)
* Xylitol - Error Bursts In Transmission (Pierogli, 3" CD)
* Various - Atlantic Waves 2007 Festival Sampler (Atlantic Waves/Wire mag, CD)
* Rothko - A Life Lived Elsewhere (Trace, CD)
* Various - Whispers From The Forests, Screams From The Mountains (Hapna/Ideal/Kning/Wire mag, CD)

on my other blog: London vilage-style garage gone, Men in frocks dressed as dogs, Chris Morris at CERN, some bike parking and Al Gore talking sense.

Some images from the Laban centre, where I performed last week with Janek Schaefer, Alex Wendt and Jasper Leyland. A nice review of the evening is just HERE.

photo by Iris Garrelfs

* Furthernoise webzine and net label released a free download compilation recently, 'Explorations in Sound Vol 3 - Music of Sound' with a live track from 2007's Interplay by myself and Iris Garrelfs.

* The Strings of Consciousness 'Fantomastique Acoustica' CD album on Off Records is now released with SoC tracks and then remixes/videos by Scanner, Rothko, Sutekh, Marsen Jules, and myself in SI-CUT.DB mode, amongst others.

* The legendary sold-out 2006 HighPoint LowLife compilation 'Analog for Architecture', featuring (BBC Radio 1's Mary Ann Hobbs played) track 'Estuary' by SI-CUT.DB, is now available on mp3 & flac at Boomkat.

recent music listening:
* Erik Friedlander And Teho Teardo - Giorni Rubati (Bip Hop, CD)
* Various - Runeology 3 (Rune Grammophon/Wire mag, CD)
* The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (Lo-Max, CD)
* Oren Ambarchi - Triste (Southern Lord, CD)
* Israel M - improvisations/field recordings (CDR)
* Okapi & Aldo-Kapi Orchestra - Love Him (CDR)
* Various - Wire Tapper 18 (Wire magazine, CD)
* Various - Periférico: Sounds From Beyond The Bubble (Sonic Arts Network, CD)

* On my unmusic blog:
Some wisdom found on a bush, local Banksy, too much TV, herbal knowledge, bike repairs, the singularity, British shops and some Emotional Hygiene.

* My Twitter updates now feed onto my Facebook page. So there. What a world we live in.

* On obscure releases, from a 2001, the si-cut.db 12" 'Public EP' is just available on itunes next to the si-cut.db 2006 track 'Estuary' from the 'Analog For Architecture' compilation.

* Tonight I am off to see Silje Nes, HERE is my preview.

* Meanwhile I have been enjoying enormously the 21-albums-in-21-gigs by Sparks. Quite awesome, I have 3 more gigs to go! (ok yes, i sampled Russell Mael when ring me up once, it's true. He didn't mind. For full disclosure click HERE; you'll have scroll down to my name)

recent music listening
* Various - Find The Girl! (Abolipop, CD)
* Murcof - Cosmos (Leaf, CD)
* Simmy Rivers and And Canal (3" CD)
* Otomo Yoshihide - Turntable Solo (Alcohol, 3"CD)
* Meadow House - Tongue Under A Ton Of Nine Volts (Alcohol, CD)

* On my obtuse blog: Night movies, industrial recycling movies and a book.

* This must be my briefest recent blog. Just to say this i am going to see Antonelli Electr tonight, the
preview i did of it is HERE.

current listening
* Chris Watson & BJ Nilson - Storm (Touch, CD)
* Si-cut.db - Live at Rhiz (RealJoker, CD)
* Jodi Cave - For Myra (12k, CD)
* Pantunes Music - In Search Of The Surface Noise (Pantunes Music/Suburbs of Hell/Sprawl, CD)
* Harold Budd - Perhaps (Samadhisound, CD)
* Alex Monk (2007 untitled demo CDR).

* Meanwhile on my other blog: some art, a canal trip, intelligent design, and way too much tv (which makes me unintelligent I guess)

* ’Makeshift’, an unreleased exclusive si-cut.db track from the ’From Tears: Beach Archive’ session vaults, is now available for free on Chile’s Epa_sonidos net label, on the ’Epa_toasted’ compilation album.

* Some music by David Toop, Simon Bookish, Blevin Blectum is now on the SonicRecycler page player for your listening delight...and come on May 10th!

the current music listening at home
* Spaceheads And Max Eastley - A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else (Bip Hop, CD)
* Illuminati & King Dice - Espionage (Lotta Continua, CD)
* Marhaug/Asheim - Grand Mutation (Touch, CD)
* Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre (Touch, CD)

* I’ll be going to the Saya gig this sunday. I wrote about it HERE.

* I will also be listening to the last show in this series; some great radio sounds (and of course Aleks is at SonicRecycler4, see above): "Small Poolroom (2 cuts)" - vintage sound effects on 78 rpm shellac & vinyl discs + the occasional wax cylinder c. 1900 - 1950. A radio series for Resonance FM presented by Aleks Kolkowski. Friday, 3.30 - 4pm GMT (4.30 - 5pm Central European Time), next show: 11/4/08 (repeated Tues. 15th at 1pm GMT) Pt. 10/10 Last in series: "Test Tones" - includes gliding tones, sweep frequency, radio interference & a home test recording on wax cylinder circa 1910. Listen live via: http://resonancefm.com/listen or on 104.4 FM

* On my other blog: the snow / One Laptop Per Child.

* I recently finished a short collaborative track with Italian trumpet player Georgio Li Calzi, and you can now hear it on my myspace player. The title is ’Homo Zentropicus’ - a tribute to Lars Von Trier.

music thru’ my CD player lately:
* Erdem Helvacioglu - Selected Electronacoustic Works (Cdr)
* Erdem Helvacioglu - Altered Realities (Albion, CD)
* Organ Eye - Organ Eye (Staubgold, CD)
* VitaminsForyou - The Legend of Bird’s Hill (Intr-version CD)
* Krater - Harmonic Tremor (Klitekture CD)
* Scott Walker - Scott (Fontana, CD)
* Various - Qwartz Awards 2007 (Quartz 3xCD)
* Various - Jukebox Buddha (Staubgold, CD)
* Various - Jarring Effects Home Experience 2 (Jarring Effects, CD)
* Various - Otherness (curated by David Cotner) (Sonic Arts Network, CD)
* Various - Wire Tapper 17 (Wire magazine, CD)
* Various - You Are Hear - Sessions 2002-6 (Hearing Aid Records, CD)
* Various - Analog For Architecture (Highpoint Lowlife, DVDr)

* An antique clip of synthesiser pioneer Ray Kurzweil:



* Latest on my other blog: some artists pedalling, CAPTCHAS, Gervais and Pilkington and a local all-round life-coach.

* I am off to see Efterklang - my piece on this is here - wednesday.

* Its very unusual for me to get involved with pop music nowadays, but I was commissioned to work with Rod Thomas - a talented and very hard working young songsmith - to create some works, for performance and a release, at the end of last year. I ’stepped outside my comfort zone’ as my brother put it, and actually sat down at some acoustic instruments with Rod to write these songs, so they don’t really sound like, er, what I’m known for - but i did add some laptop processing too, for texture. We now have four of these tracks release on Itunes (3 songs and one instrumental).

* Rod Thomas & Si-cut.db: ’Playroom’ ep, tracklisting:
1) Hope
2) Two Parter Part Two
3) Plastic Lullaby
4) Summer End

* The rather radio-friendly documentary podcasts linked to the recording and live show are here:
PODCAST ONE: click HERE
PODCAST TWO ; click HERE ("henrytentpodcast.2")
(Both appx 40 mins. They are slick sounding. I mean, Paul MacCartneys even on ’em! Entertaining at least. )

The original small movie, with our music, for last year’s ICA gig, by Matt Collett:



* RECOMENDATIONS:
This week, two gigs I am going to are CHRIS CUTLER/DAAN VANDEWALLE/SCANNER at the Luminaire, weds 12th
and the Arctic Circle’s COLLEEN performance at Union Chapel, sun 16th.

* ON MY NON-MUSIC BLOG: some rainbows, Merlin Mann@MacWorld, Michael bloody Crichton, and more Mars.