23.06.10
8mm Sounds at the Super 8 Shots Festival
An audio installation and promo track feature in the Super 8 Shots Festival in Galway, 23 - 27th June 2010. More here
8mm by chequerboard

17.11.09
Relay: A Dialogue Between Sound Artists
curated by Chequerboard at this year’s D.E.A.F.
A sound installation featuring original works from
Chequerboard, Jimmy Behan, Loscil, Hulk,
Polly Fibre, Pierre Bastien, Bibio and Sunken Foal.



Duration : Oct 22nd – 31st, 11am – 8pm daily
Venue : Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Admission : Free

Special Relay night featuring two participants :
Polly Fibre & Hulk (Live).
Thursday Oct 29th @ Filmbase, Dublin.
Time : 6pm – 9pm
Admission 5 euro

Commissioned by The Model as part of model::offsite programme, Relay is an online music project I devised and have been curating since early 2008. Relay website here.
The idea is to create a chain or collection of music pieces by Irish and international artists where each work is directly influenced by the one before, creating an open ended but linear, conversation of ideas. On finishing their work each artist is asked to gather a cluster of sounds from their track for the next participant who is free to include them or not. Some responses are purely conceptual. The project will continue indefinitely and all works are available to listen to, and download, for free here.
It will have its first physical existence for DEAF09 as an installation at FilmBase. There are eight Relay works so far, from Chequerboard, Jimmy Behan, Loscil, Hulk, Polly Fibre, Pierre Bastien, Bibio and Sunken Foal. Each piece will have it’s own listening station so the listener can move from one response to the next, following the threads of the conversation.

20.07.09
Prince August & the Ishiyama Excursion



Heres the new piece by Swedish video artist Stefan Larsson called 'The Ishiyama Excursion' featuring the Chequerboard track 'Prince August'. View here.

I initially contacted Stefan last christmas about a video piece of his that I fell in love with called 'Yuki' which uses the music 'One sunny cloudy day' by Christ and depicts two hooded figures stumbling around in the snow mirroring the movements of an electronic tree. I must have watched it solidly for a day.
Here it is...
Anyhow while discussing 'Yuki' and exchanging thoughts Stefan became interested in using a track of mine called 'Prince August' as an inspiration for his next piece so I've had the very humbling experience of being sent test runs and first looks at this latest piece. Heres a few words from Stefan on the piece too which was shot in Japan over a four month period and includes Stefans trademark crossbreed naturebots as I like to think of them. In his own words...

" The video features third incarnation AUJIK artifacts at an excursion at the Ishiyama dera in Japan. The artifacts are superfluous products generated in the crossbreed of human and technical evolution. They are in a state between resignation and euphoria,incapable of expressing themselves.
The Ishiyama dera is a sacred Buddhist area and is most famous because of the novelist Murasaki Shikibu who wrote "The Tale of Genji"(the worlds first novel) there. Also Ukiyo-E artist Ando Hiroshige portrayed Ishiyama dera in his "The Famous Views of 60-Odd Provinces".

For more info about AUJIK click here.
and for other videos.

20.05.09
This is what happens when you are not here



A new installation show featuring Marta Fernandez Calvo, Chequerboard & Paco Ramos at The Market Studios, Project Space at
corner of Halston Street across from the old Fruit Market just off Capel Street, Dublin. Running from 17 June - 28 June 2009.
This exhibition is the third stage of a continuing artistic structure
called The Rain Project. Marta Fernández Calvo has developed The Rain Project with Irish musician Chequerboard and Spanish artist Paco Ramos as guest collaborators over 2008 and 2009.
The show consists of two rooms, one of which contains Martas intervention and the other room next to it houses a collaborative piece by spanish graphic artist Paco Ramo and my own site specific sonic contribution. More info here

15.05.09
Bibio contributes to Relay



Bibio has contributed a piece called 'Hedged in' to the Relay project.
Explore further at at www.modelart.ie/relay
My own blog on the piece for the Model Niland. Read here

31.03.09
Pierre Bastien contributes to Relay



Pierre Bastien has contributed 'Play Scissors Play ' to the Relay project. Explore further at at www.modelart.ie/relay

19.03.09
Who's a Boldypants?

A long long time ago in a musical galaxy far far away I did up some t shirts called 'Who's a Boldypants', for the launch night of the debut Chequerboard album 'Gothica' in Dame Lane, Dublin. The t shirts were based on an unfortunate fink character that featured in the comic book that went with the album. As it happened on the night I sold more t shirts than albums and in the months and years after, people often asked me wether they'd be available again.
Well in gloriously sloathish style and after a few false starts its taken 7 years to finally get round to printing the tees, building the website, making some Boldypants tunes and housing it all at www.boldypants.com.



The t shirts are the original 'Who's a Boldypants' design in a wide range of colours and sizes with two other designs available, those being the autobiographically titled ' Unrealistic Plans' and ' Emotional Wreckingball coming through'. The latter title also has a free mp3 to go with it which you can download for free from the download section of the site.

So here it is :www.boldypants.com.
Enjoy, pass it on, J

13.02.09
Polly Fibre for Relay



Polly Fibre contributes ' Reconstructing the Incredible' to the Relay project. A dialogue between sound artists curated by Chequerboard.
To explore Relay click here.

16.12.08
The Rain Project

A collaborative project in the Via Farini gallery in Milan, Italy with Spanish artist Marta Fernandez Calvo culminating in an open day on February 4th. More details here

16.12.08
Skating Couple remix

New Jimmy Behan remix album featuring Chequerboard track Skating Couple. Listen here on Bandcamp