CoDI Off-Grid

In episode 3 of the CoDi Off-grid podcast Glyn Roberts talks to acclaimed experimental music maker, Meilir. Please note this interview is conducted in Welsh.Meilir is one of contemporary music’s most provocative and audacious artists, melding expert songcraft with a fearless lyrical approach and wildly eclectic sonic sensibility. Born and raised in Flintshire, North Wales, he first made waves in his youth as a classically trained pianist and vocalist. Despite his success, Meilir, yearned to create something altogether his own. He co-founded the band Manchuko, making their live debut with a national broadcast on the Welsh-language television channel, S4C. In 2009 Meilir began crafting his own unique music, creating soundscapes with an idiosyncratic blend of piano, electric guitar, and assorted synthesizers with such unlikely instrumentation as a thumb piano, an antique typewriter, wine glasses and even a tray full of gravel. A series of critically acclaimed singles and EPs followed, including 2009’s BYDD WYCH, 2011’s CELLAR SONGS, and the 2014 single, “Arabella,” all available now via Meilir’s Bandcamp HERE. His debut album In Tune was digitally released in December 2020 and was followed by a vinyl release in April 2021, and has since received regular plays on BBC 6Music, Radio Wales & Radio Cymru and all over the world. Recording produced by Glyn Roberts for CoDI Off-Grid - a Tŷ Cerdd project.Music played: Eighteen by Johno Wells, from Sounds for Freedom:https://modulatetv.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-for-freedomMarrakech by Feenixhttps://cardiffepn.bandcamp.com/album/product-001-lunar

In episode 2 of the CoDi Off-grid podcast Ash Cooke talks to sound artist and visual artist and musician Amy Sterly about her work with the Sound Book collectiveAmy Sterly is an artist and musician from Chicago who moved to Wales in 1989 She creates prints, installations and multimedia works based around her love of books and what it means to move away from books as just physical objects and explore the sounds, the smells and the textures of books that are often lost or ignored.Recording produced by Ash Cooke for CoDI Off-Grid - a Tŷ Cerdd project.Music played: ymRfr_hck – FFRWD – from the album Distraction FFrwd is a noise artist from Wales. Making sounds from whatever he finds.FFRWD in Welsh means 'stream' and live performances and the creation of sounds are a stream of consciousness. FFRWD is also short for Fast Forward, Rewind. Tape machines are part of his sonic arsenal. https://ffrwd.bandcamp.com/music Superglue – Aftersun – from the album Bretton WoodsAn album of austerity metafusion, recorded in three living rooms in Cardiff in 2016https://aftersunaftersun.bandcamp.com/

In episode 1 of the CoDi Off-Grid podcast Ash Cooke talks to sound artist and founder of the Shift arts organisation Jon Ruddick.Shift is a working and performance space based in Cardiff which aims to help artists share practice and collaborate. In the interview Jon talks about Shift’s structure, history and development and his future plans for the organisation.Recording produced by Ash Cooke for CoDi Off-Grid.Music played:Hydref – Peiriant – River Songs EPPeiriant are an experimental duo based in Mid Wales, consisting of Rose and Dan Linn-Pearl. They perform with electric guitar, violin and found objects. Peiriant pursue moods of minimalism, drone, post-rock, soundscape and spoken word. Their semi-improvised compositions summon mellifluous and somatic audio environments, characterised by the push/pull tonal relationship between the two instruments.https://peiriant.bandcamp.com/album/river-songs-e-pClimate change denial – Titus Monk – The Green Brian100% Improvised in homage to people like Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi, Eluvium, Andrzej Korzynski, Thurston Moore, Ornette Coleman, Don Van Vliet, Laraaji, Lichens, Earth, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Carlton Melton, The Heliocentrics, Stock Hausen, White Rainbow, Mount Eerie, Focus Group & the recently departed Holger CzukayHorror movie music for only the brave to trip to. Uneasy, anti-genre.https://titusmonk.bandcamp.com/album/the-green-brain