What 2024 looks like: always leave them wanting less
Before I state anything too obvious, such as "i exist at the intersection of art and technology", let me add a preface here and set some further context.
My background is in performance venue programming and events production - be it with The Kazimier (Garden, Stockroom, Invisible Wind Factory, Substation), Cartier 4 Everyone, or elsewhere in a freelance capacity - such as with Open Culture's LightNight, or helping to get Liverpool's first, only and very best drag-dinner-cabaret-disco off the ground.
On March 23rd 2020 all my paid employment avenues evaporated in an almost-instant. That is to say: live music venues and nightclubs across my city closed abruptly, and my contract with the local radio station was put on pause indefinitely. I then used that 'first lockdown' to re-train and skill up as an Online Events Facilitator / Digital Consultant, continuing my work as a Producer in this new way: maintaining my freelancing edge in a quickly re-birthing (and vastly more on-the-internet) realm.
This has not been easy - but it could have been much more difficult for me. Having had 3 years of experience in radio (at BBC Merseyside and Melodic Distraction) I was able to quickly re-tool my working space to allow for the administration of events forced to take place in the virtual world. Within a few weeks I was assisting Migrant Artists Mutual Aid with their Symposia, and following that I came to the assistance of DRIP Liverpool in the digital facilitation of their first online-only iteration of event series Spill Yer Tea. Both of these featured an international cast of speakers and performers, held together by a central creative processing node here in leafy south Liverpool.
If you want help with this sort of thing, please do contact me directly over email or phone and we can talk swiftly about your idea: george r maund at gmail, or +44 77O9 9O3 696
On March 23rd 2020 all my paid employment avenues evaporated in an almost-instant. That is to say: live music venues and nightclubs across my city closed abruptly, and my contract with the local radio station was put on pause indefinitely. I then used that 'first lockdown' to re-train and skill up as an Online Events Facilitator / Digital Consultant, continuing my work as a Producer in this new way: maintaining my freelancing edge in a quickly re-birthing (and vastly more on-the-internet) realm.
This has not been easy - but it could have been much more difficult for me. Having had 3 years of experience in radio (at BBC Merseyside and Melodic Distraction) I was able to quickly re-tool my working space to allow for the administration of events forced to take place in the virtual world. Within a few weeks I was assisting Migrant Artists Mutual Aid with their Symposia, and following that I came to the assistance of DRIP Liverpool in the digital facilitation of their first online-only iteration of event series Spill Yer Tea. Both of these featured an international cast of speakers and performers, held together by a central creative processing node here in leafy south Liverpool.
If you want help with this sort of thing, please do contact me directly over email or phone and we can talk swiftly about your idea: george r maund at gmail, or +44 77O9 9O3 696
George Maund is a cross-disciplinary music producer, composer, performer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ based in Liverpool. He has worked with improvisers, choreographers, video artists, and fellow musicians in many contexts since arriving here to study in September of 2005. In 2016 George founded the club night Cartier 4 Everyone with a view to hosting under-represented DJs and music artists from Liverpool and further afield, offering a positive platform for LGBTQ+ music makers, as well as their associated, often overlooked, frequently underground and occasionally avant-garde subgenres of Global Club Music and Bass Music. George currently operates as a freelance broadcaster, working remotely to host radio shows as well as offering broadcast support. In the lead-up to 2020, he DJ'd most reguarly as resident at the Kazimier Garden, alongside work as events programmer and producer at that venue and its sibling, the Stockroom.
Audio CV: https://soundcloud.com/george-maund
Education: Music & Popular Music B.A. (Hons) at University of Liverpool 2005-2008 (2:1)
Wrote and performed with touring bands 2006-2015: Indica Ritual, Stig Noise Soundsystem, Ex-Easter Island Head (co-founder), a.P.A.t.T., plus myriad other collaborative projects
As a founding member of post-minimalist ensemble Ex-Easter Island Head, George composed, arranged and performed with the group as they reached international acclaim with a highly regarded trio of ‘Mallet Guitars’ LPs: http://www.exeasterislandhead.com
While writing, touring and performing with genre-tag-free progressive music polymaths a.P.A.t.T., George contributed a multi-instrumental role to the record that would become ‘Fun with Music’: https://apatt.bandcamp.com/album/fun-with-music
In a solo capacity, George most recently released a set of recordings culled from hours of experimental improvisation for guitar and laptop (scans badly - but listens interestingly!). He began electronic music production with a ‘computer music’ release for net label Upitup Records. The album remains one of the site’s most popular downloads, and lead to live sets opening for the likes of Ceephax Acid Crew and Sleigh Bells, plus work with producer/musician Kepla: http://www.upitup.com/releases/upfree28
The above project evolved into the alias ‘Big Effigy’, with an approach to practice that empahsised electronic hardware outside of the (computer) box - be it synthesisers, drum machines, samplers, other ‘live’ instruments, or CDJs: https://soundcloud.com/bigeffigy
George returned to the guitar to work on semi-improvised durational performance pieces. A session of his ‘Unicursal’ solo material was recently documented on BBC Radio Merseyside’s Popular Music Show: https://soundcloud.com/unicursal-studio
Email: george r maund at gmail dot com • Mobile: 00 44 7709903696
Cartier 4 Everyone: https://linktr.ee/cartier4everyone
Audio CV: https://soundcloud.com/george-maund
Education: Music & Popular Music B.A. (Hons) at University of Liverpool 2005-2008 (2:1)
Wrote and performed with touring bands 2006-2015: Indica Ritual, Stig Noise Soundsystem, Ex-Easter Island Head (co-founder), a.P.A.t.T., plus myriad other collaborative projects
As a founding member of post-minimalist ensemble Ex-Easter Island Head, George composed, arranged and performed with the group as they reached international acclaim with a highly regarded trio of ‘Mallet Guitars’ LPs: http://www.exeasterislandhead.com
While writing, touring and performing with genre-tag-free progressive music polymaths a.P.A.t.T., George contributed a multi-instrumental role to the record that would become ‘Fun with Music’: https://apatt.bandcamp.com/album/fun-with-music
In a solo capacity, George most recently released a set of recordings culled from hours of experimental improvisation for guitar and laptop (scans badly - but listens interestingly!). He began electronic music production with a ‘computer music’ release for net label Upitup Records. The album remains one of the site’s most popular downloads, and lead to live sets opening for the likes of Ceephax Acid Crew and Sleigh Bells, plus work with producer/musician Kepla: http://www.upitup.com/releases/upfree28
The above project evolved into the alias ‘Big Effigy’, with an approach to practice that empahsised electronic hardware outside of the (computer) box - be it synthesisers, drum machines, samplers, other ‘live’ instruments, or CDJs: https://soundcloud.com/bigeffigy
George returned to the guitar to work on semi-improvised durational performance pieces. A session of his ‘Unicursal’ solo material was recently documented on BBC Radio Merseyside’s Popular Music Show: https://soundcloud.com/unicursal-studio
Email: george r maund at gmail dot com • Mobile: 00 44 7709903696
Cartier 4 Everyone: https://linktr.ee/cartier4everyone
