Trills

New Moniker: Cyclea

2011-10-12T11:20:00.000-07:00

Music under the name Trills will continue to be released, but I've decided to create a new moniker to release my more aggressive beat-driven material under the name Cyclea.
Trills will focus more on abstract colorful synth paintings and impressionistic pieces from this point on.

Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cyclea/264159260288819

Preview of the track 'Dreamlet': http://soundcloud.com/cyclea/cyclea-dreamlet

Houston Press Article

2011-09-15T08:57:00.001-07:00

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/09/100_creatives_jonathan_jindra.php

New Collaborations

2011-06-12T09:42:00.000-07:00

An improvised demo that will be part of my set with Chris Becker on June 19th @ Khon's Bar entitled "I Am The Door":
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-chris-becker-i

Also another song that is part of my collaboration with Greek electronic musician Konstantinos Kouzas entitled "Hope it Lasts":
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-konstantinos

Trills - Cnidaria music video

2011-05-09T21:51:00.000-07:00

Music by Trills from the upcoming release "əˈnɛməni"
www.trillsband.com

Video by Binarium Productions
www.binariumproductions.com

Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise free download

2011-05-09T20:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.retronym.co.uk/rtn017/
Free download now available.

"Jonathan Jindra returns to Retronym yet again, this time under his well-established Trills pseudonym. Blue Metabolic Sunrise displays shimmering beauty from start to finish. The first few tracks are trademark Trills, patient melodies crafted around deep kicks and echoing snares with a wall of beauteous twinkles and dischords with percussion that flickers between downtempo and chunky 808's.

Everything gradually melts into spiraling arpeggios and analogue machinery is forced to squeeze out it's most stunning of sounds - conjuring up the kind of imagery that would fit perfectly as an alternative soundtrack to something like Tarkovsky's Stalker. The closing track Flect is the ultimate swan song, a ten-minute long epic which condenses the massive array of shades and styles that Jindra has in his audio locker.

Blue Metabolic Sunrise is also available as an amazingly put-together digipak direct from Jonathan himself. We at Retronym believe this is one of the most stunning packages we've seen in a very long time with artwork by the super-talented Joe Bastardo, who deserves extra special credit for this and previous works for Retronym releases. You can check out his portfolio at Future Forest Design.

Please help support the artist if you like this release and buy direct from Jonathan Jindra himself. Click the 'Buy Now' button or purchase through the official Trills Website. Each purchase comes with a free CD-R of improvised Blue Metabolic Sunrise outtakes entitled Uncountable Snowflakes. Shipped from the United States.

Shutter Memory Music Video

2011-04-05T16:34:00.000-07:00

Trills - Shutter Memory
Taken from the 2011 release "Blue Metabolic Sunrise"
CD purchase: http://trillsband.com/bluemetabolicsunrise.html
Released by Retronym Records

Music & Video by Jonathan Jindra
Model in water & ink: Y. E. Torres (ms.YET) http://artist.to/yetorres/
Florescent hands: Julia Blake
Girl in grass: Eva Kaminski

'Kildare' on Section 27 Compilation

2011-04-05T14:37:00.000-07:00

A new Trills track entitled "Kildare" is available on the new Section 27 netlabel compilation Sectioned v2.0.
Free Download Here

[QUADRANT ONE]
1.01 – Dr Device – No3
1.02 – Trills – Kildare
1.03 – Enabl.ed – Ghetto Snacks
1.04 – RNDM5 – Cloud Fractions
1.05 – Illocanblo – Blood Brothers
1.06 – Swarm Intelligence – Pygmi
1.07 – J.CNNR – Noosfera
1.08 – Motoko Ishii – I Am Chi
1.09 – Inicolabug – Don’t Throw Your Robot
1.10 – Sun Inside – Portrait Candice Morning
1.11 – The Oxy_Gens – A Grudge
1.12 – Pearls For Swines – God Save The Glitch
1.13 – Premodea – 21be
1.14 – Tiruset – Fractal Question
1.15 – Silent Strangers – Lexeme
1.16 – Nonima & theAudiologist – Frenetic

[QUADRANT TWO]
2.01 – Ventolyn & Becotyde – Rasberry Eyes
2.02 – Dissolved – Thermochromism in the Loki Stone
2.03 – Deltason – Back To Earth
2.04 – Mrs Jynx – Dtracked
2.05 – Johnny Jitters – Floaty Feelings
2.06 – LIBRARIES – 1988
2.07 – Doc Deem – Close
2.08 – Swin Deorin – Infinite Triumph
2.09 – Missqulater – Katlord
2.10 – PinkLogik – Forever In Sound
2.11 – VovaOver – Bottom
2.12 – Herre Jorna – Another Dimension
2.13 – Elliot M Bain – Elephant (Sun Drum)
2.14 – Dunaewsky69 – Drob Bilka

[QUADRANT THREE]
3.01 – Dubh Thrian – Nia v2
3.02 – Odaibe – Stars Above Us (+KZ)
3.03 – Syndrom – Kif Kif
3.04 – Adviruz – No Regrets
3.05 – Nina Kardec – Blue
3.06 – Sina. – We Came Undone
3.07 – Argotec – Chaotic Abuse Coupe
3.08 – Deccan Traps – Yearling
3.09 – The Icarus Wings – Fantasmi Della Mattina
3.10 – Hellmood B. Ware – Spark of Light
3.11 – Neomai Gundislav – Scott2
3.12 – Meta Program – 101010_1717
3.13 – Floating Spirits – Missing In Action
3.14 – Jimmy Penguin – Beans
3.15 – Masochistic Values – This Too Shall Pass
3.16 – Struct Seven – Outstare Ver3
3.17 – Altered:Carbon – Livin’ and Learning [ft. Akila Da Hun]

[QUADRANT FOUR]
4.01 – Pablo Ribot – Me and the Hypochondriac Witness
4.02 – Aramburu – Nothing
4.03 – Christoph Schindling – Preisboxer
4.04 – Polar Aviation – Psycho-Kinetic Dub
4.05 – XZICD – Almah
4.06 – Min-Y-Llan – Orange Clouds-Fire Rain
4.07 – Z-Arc – Reactivation
4.08 – Dentist – Fortress
4.09 – Rumbus Merrylegs – Sorry If I Hurt You
4.10 – NCThompson – This Can Kill
4.11 – Pollux – Ghosts I – I (Remix)
4.12 – :dehumanizer: – April’s Gone
4.13 – Data Unit – O Concordia
4.14 – 2Kutup – We Shall Cuddle Up And Sleep
4.15 – VEKTROID – He Wanted To Read The Mind of God

Full credits and artist links are available as a text file in this download.
http://section27netlabel.blogspot.com

http://www.archive.org/details/s27-069VariousArtists-SectionedV2.0

Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise -- Out Now

2011-03-17T21:32:00.000-07:00

Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise
$10 CD-R Digipak & Free Digital Download (coming soon)
Retronym Records
Artwork by Joseph Bastardo
1. Euphotic Zone
2. Joguko
3. Insular Movements
4. Erogenous
5. Blue Metabolic Sunrise
6. Zero-Gemini
7. 22 Deg Halo
8. Shutter Memory
9. Flect

The digipak is available to purchase now for $10. The free digital download will be available in a few weeks. With each purchase of the digipak will come a CD-R of improvised outtakes from the Blue Metabolic Sunrise sessions entitled 'Uncountable Snowflakes'.

Blue Metabolic Sunrise cover art

2011-02-21T15:09:00.001-08:00

Coming March 2010 to CD and free digital download.

KTRU

2011-02-21T15:06:00.000-08:00

http://ktru.org/newsite/top-35-for-2-20-2011

'Modular Puzzle' has been getting lots of radio play from the Houston-area FM radio station 91.7 KTRU. It is in their top 20 playlist this week.

'Trills - Modular Puzzle' Sitting Now Review

2011-02-21T15:04:00.000-08:00

http://sittingnow.co.uk/2011/02/19/trills-%E2%80%93-modular-puzzle-iabsentee/

"I was introduced to Trills on the recent Section 27 release “PH 14”, a split between him and some other guy who’s name escapes me. I was, therefore, quite happy to receive “Modular Puzzle” to further my research.

If you took Boards of Canada, Autechre and Aphex Twin and blended them in a large test tube, shipped them to America and injected them into a host stem cell and raised that stem cell as an electronic musician, you may end up with something like Trills. His influences are obvious (to me at least) but not in a crude way. This is a man who has been listening to the right stuff, while far enough away from the scene to fashion his own take on things. It is also an album of contrasts, one moment he is all futuristic (“Paragon” which is kind of like EP5 era Autechre but with straighter beats) and then on the next track (“Erawitt”) he’s on a kind of 80’s sci-fi movie thing…like an alternative soundtrack to “Running Man”. Then he’s all experimental and industrial on “Zurich”, before dropping in a retro sample and going all glitchy acid hip-hop on “Binarium”). Some people might struggle to move between styles like this but I can safely say that the ball is never dropped on this album. He maintains his own identity, while throwing his influences at a blank canvas and carefully squishing them around, to form something new and old, experimental but enjoyable and challenging but friendly.

http://www.i-absentee.com/IA029.html"

"Blue Metabolic Sunrise" announcement

2011-02-06T16:50:00.000-08:00

Coming in February is the next Trills release entitled "Blue Metabolic Sunrise" which will be available as a free download from my friends over at Retronym. The artwork will be completed Joseph Bastardo from Future Forest Design

Here is a preview of the opening track entitled Euphotic Zone:
Trills - Euphotic Zone by trills

Midmir - Live @ Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2011-01-29T19:20:00.001-08:00

Sandy Ewen & Jonathan Jindra live recording

2010-12-25T19:00:00.001-08:00

Jonathan Jindra & Sandy Ewen (live improv 12-12-2010) by trills

Jonathan Jindra (Trills) & Sandy Ewen performing a live improvised set at the Binarium Sound Series in Houston, TX 12-12-2010

2 B-Sides Available

2010-11-18T14:30:00.000-08:00

Bermuda Triangle' @ I, Absentee is an outlet for them to present free extra tracks of artists connected with the label. Due to the nature of the concept, most files are unmastered and the older audio may contain surface noise in the original recordings. There are two Trills tracks added to the collective: "Blood ...Orange" is a Modular Puzzle demo outtake, and "Joguko" is a newer track that I quite like, but isn't fitting the flow of the rest of my more recent output.

"Joguko" and "Blood Orange"
AVAILABLE HERE

Peach Genesis

2010-10-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

My good friend Dissolved Paul runs an excellent music blog called
"Quagmire of the Antler People" to share mixtapes and this week I
contributed a mix of some tunes that inspire me that I've called "Peach
Genesis".

http://quagmireoftheantlerpeople.blogspot.com/2010/10/peachy-keen.html
As we enter the month of Samhain, we have an exciting hectic, maybe spooky but definitely fish fueled generous time ahead of us here at the Quagmire. Hopefully our eccentric listeners will have filled up on the previous mixes because here comes another, and we are happy to say this time it comes from an eager outsider, possibly an astral traveler, who has arrived from a distant star holding a small flashing device filled with audio greatness. Or it could simply be excellent electronic experimental musician type, Trills/Jonathan Jindra disguised as such a being.

Regardless of what form the traveler appears as, the sonic quavers he brings are tasty and are mysteriously headed under the name "Peach Genesis" which we think is really cool. Is this the name of another planet capable of sustaining life not as we know it or is it the name of an edible book, or perhaps an exotic mantra. We have a pet cat called Genesis actually who has back legs like a rabbit and sometimes when he meows, no sound comes out. Sound most certainly does come out here though so enjoy and listen to the excellent Failure, who don't live up to their name with some grinding melodies and emotional tones that aren't Emo, the lush Boreal Network who bring some warm synths to watch silent 80's science programs to and the slow 'Low' try and run away with your eternal organs, mainly your heart only using the singers sparkling voice, who appears to have originated from a planet where the term "tone deaf" doesn't exist. Pan Sonic have been living in your membranes for their entire existence and are the sound of electronic rain falling inside a cheese grater which is slowly rubbing up against your internal band pass filter while you visit the Arctic.

Peach Genesis.
1.Pan Sonic: Current 1
2.Failure: Heliotropic
3.Steve Brodsky: Halo 4A Hula-Hoop
4.Low: Laser Beam
5.Nico: Afraid
6.Boreal Network: Adrive
7.Oceansize: Massive Bereavement
8.Machinefabriek: Hieperdepiep
9.Greymachine: Wolf at the door
10.Track53: Dimensia

Available Here

Midmir Live Videos

2010-09-28T08:52:00.001-07:00

Sept. 12, 2010 live @ The Binarium Sound Series, Houston, TX

Sequenza 21 Article

2010-08-28T10:48:00.001-07:00

http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/08/trills-this-sunday-august-29th-in-houston-tx/

"Jonathan Jindra’s weekly experimental music concerts Binarium Sound Series continues 8pm Sunday nights here in Houston, Texas at The Mekong Underground, 2808 Milan Street (right next to Kohn’s bar). This is a wonderful series where you will hear intimate performances by local and visiting artists performing composed, improvised, electronic, and acoustic experimental music.

This Sunday’s August 29th Binarium program features Jonathan’s electronica project Trills. Trills is manifested in Jonathan’s live performances as well as several online digital releases – many being collaborations with other similarly minded artists. His recent full length split with Glasgow artist Dissolved entitled PH:14 has been his most successful release to date with over 43,000 downloads in its first month of release. Trills’ repertoire to my ears has roots its in groundbreaking synthesizer and electronic artists and ensembles like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis (especially his soundtrack to Bladerunner) and Popol Vuh. Jonathan name checked for me a handful of more contemporary artists as influences, including Boards of Canada, Pan Sonic, and Autechre.

I’ve listened to a bunch of Jonathan’s music and still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of his talents and repertoire. And I don’t want to pigeonhole Trills with only a cursory familiarity of countless 21st century electronic artists that flood the web trading digital files of original groundbreaking music the way I traded cassette tapes of the same back in the day. The best thing to do is go to the Trills website and enjoy the music and video samples, and then forget what you’ve heard when you check out this Sunday’s show. Jonathan’s set will be accompanied by custom video projection. About This Product joins Trills on this bill."

8-10-2010 Live Recording

2010-08-11T13:45:00.000-07:00

320kb mp3s of last night's sets:

1 - Trills 30:37
2 - Mark.Nine 30:54
3 - Five Step Path 22:20
4 - Daed 45:22

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ce3u1

Binarium Sound Series

2010-08-03T21:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.binariumsoundseries.com/

I am now hosting a weekly experimental series entitled "Binarium Sound Series" at The Mekong Underground outside of Khon's Bar in Houston, TX at 2808 Milam. I'm taking over the concert series previously named Resonant Interval Sound Series who was run by Lance Higdon who created quite a name for himself in the Houston noise music community, partly by DJing the Genetic Memory show at 91.7 KTRU, but more effectively by being a great communicator of the abstract and he served as a hub for a scattered, yet extensive area of Texas music. He is moving to Atlanta to teach Latin at a Catholic University at the end of the month so he is passing the show off to me, which I have renamed "Binarium Sound Series" which shares part of it's name with a track off the Trills release 'Modular Puzzle'.

Phaidon - Flash Fiction

2010-07-24T20:10:00.000-07:00

My good friend Junior Davila was inspired by the Tchrite - Phaidon music video to write a fictional short story based on the images presented in the video.

http://juniordavila.com/2010/07/24/phaidon/

"
Phaidon

July 24, 2010 by Junior

In my nightmare of nightmares; I was in a stairwell. I looked up and there was no end in sight, like an impossible staircase from an M.C. Escher drawing. It was dark, abysmal. But there was a light that came from nowhere and yet was everywhere. The stairwell was lit in the color of arterial blood. The type that flows from the heart to the body, but this was no body. This was me. This was my prison.

Along with the blood-washed walls, there was a sickly green essence presiding there too; pushing away the blood in a mad attempt to overtake it with its feeling of rot and disgust.

I looked at the step in front of me and there stood a Venetian woman. She was clad in a black corset and dress that frilled at the edges below her knees. She wore a mask, the masquerade type seen at Mardi Gras. But there was something very sinister behind that mask. Her eyes were holes beneath it, endless holes. Rose petals fell around her, shriveling and dying as they passed her on the way to their stairwell grave. Suddenly a brilliant flash, lasting only a split second, revealed her eyes. She was watching me. Her ice-blue eyes bore holes into my soul making it a heap of what it was. In that single instant, she took from me my innocence, my love, my devotions, and all the joys in my world. The Venetian Woman robbed me of everything.

Something pushed me forward, but God help me I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to see what lay next.

Please!

The Lady in Red flashed a half-step up the stairwell, who was she? She had blonde hair and a cold, callous look. Her detached demeanor flipped a butterfly knife. The knife was for me. My body. She meant to kill me. No, she meant to rip me of my being—my flesh. My soul a husk, she was meant to finish the job….

God! Please!

She disappeared and in her place, a man. The bald-headed man looked down at me as I passed the Venetian woman holding me in her gaze. I passed her but could not make myself look her in the eyes again. I could not look at the very thing that robbed me of everything dear to me. A cold-shiver ran through my spine as the man in the suit, wearing dark sunglasses, licked his lips as I approached him. He quirked a smile. I’m going to fuck you, son. My lead-ened dick is going to fuck you hard. He pulled a chrome-plated gun and pointed it at me, at my face. I could almost feel him winking behind his sunglasses.

As my eyes widened in absolute terror, as this man was about to destroy my sex and rape me of my ego, two forms materialized in front of me. From what felt like my navel, I was pulled again. I followed a man who held up a figure dressed in a white death shroud in front of him, guiding him up the stairs. I passed the man in the suit…he blew me a kiss and I shook again, I’d soon be seeing him again…I was sure of it.

Help me, please someone help me.

A thought occurred to me as I followed the man with the shaggy hair. His subject, the one he’s escorting…it’s me. I didn’t want to believe it, but the thought came anyway. My heart raced as I was realizing that my nightmare was real; I was dying and I was going the place where all bad men go. And here I was following the very thing that was escorting the shroud that I would come to wear when the time came.

As we turned on the level to go up again, I tried to get a look in the hole where the face would be. Instead, the one escorting him turned to me and my blood ran cold. My eyes beheld the most monstrous sight I had ever seen.

It was a creature. From the neck down it was a normal man with a brown shirt and slacks, but from the neck up…

Jesus no!

It was a scaly creature with the nose of a buffalo. It had slight protruding horns coming out of the sides of its forehead. Another line of small spikes come down the center of its head from the hairline down to the brows. The scales were colored grey and was given the sickly disgusting flair from the rotting green light that emanated from nowhere, yet everywhere. He looked towards me with black vertical slits for pupils and red iris’; irises that glowed with the sheen of the blood-colored light. He continued to look past me and above my head. There was something calling it…and I was the subject. It continued up the stairs and disappeared with what may have been me; or perhaps that shroud that I would fill.

From in front of me stood a woman’s legs. There was something wrong though. I began to look up. She wore a dress of the old-type, the type that was sown in the historic ages with the rough cloth. I looked further up.

What have I done?

With bulging arms and a protruding chest, it was a muscularly built man. He had blonde pig-tails under a Viking helmet and was splitting his tongue down the middle on the blade of an axe. The axe had a skull adorned on the end of the shaft and another similar blade on the opposite side. A spike came up out of the top and I knew…this trans-gendered Viking was here to make me none; not a man, not a woman, neither. It looked at me with maliciousness, hate, and hunger.

My heart stilled and I understood. I finally understood it all. As I flashed back to where the Lady in Red had stood, she now lay on the level floor dead. It’s making sense to me, now.

Another flash and I saw a piglet sitting atop where the shrouded person disappeared. It had a leash being held by nothing and a television showing that there was no body where the Lady in Red obviously laid. My life, the food for the spit, for the very demons who had come for me to strip me of who I am.

I understand now. I am whole; I am saved. The Lady in Red was sacrificed and the Piglet was put in my place.

With cold sweat pouring between my shoulders and down my face, I wept. The nightmare had been real and the Lady in Red had saved me.

Forgive me, Father; forgive me for I have sinned. The Demon’s of hell have shown me who I am. I am he, no more."

This makes me happy.

2010-07-17T20:20:00.000-07:00

I found a small listener review of 'Modular Puzzle' that made me really happy. I'm so glad there are other people out there that really in to what I am trying to make:

"Upon reading the preview for this album on the label's newsletter and web page, i at first read the phrase "acid tachno" and felt a little turned off. I found myself falling into the mindset that acid techo tended to be redundant and uninspiring and more for the dancefloor. Of course, you can't always judge a cd by its preview in print. I listened to the audio samples and was intrigued, and ordered a copy.

It arrived promptly, and popped it into my car stereo and was taken completely off guard. This wasn't your stereotyped acid techno at all in any respect. This wasn't a dancefloor oriented album (thank the stars), and it wasn't anything I had ever heard before. In fact, I was so enthralled with this album, that I am amazed that this hasn't reached anyone else's ears already.

The first few tracks send you into a fiery burst of organized chaos-- industrial beats and a flurry of glitchy synth pads send you into a dark yet vibrant place before settling you into amazingly catchy, IDM-meets-acid synth-meets-Ed Wood Jr's brain if you plugged it into an amplifier. The next several tracks thump you into a whirlwind of emotions; really taking the lidten in and truly making them wonder what could be lurking around the corner.

Things warm up a bit near track nine and ten. Here, I'm reminded of BoC's b-sides to their few singles, only with a hefty dash of Tonikom, "Come to Daddy"-esque Aphex Twin, and a hint of sunlight.

The next few track to the closer are a little more controled, relaxed and mellow. It is certainly needed after such a wild sonic ride.

With such a stunning, brilliant and vibrant label debut, I have no doubt that Trills is going to turn a lot of heads. If there was a soundtrack for the unknown, this would be it."

Nyimbo Za Watoto CD

2010-07-08T14:20:00.000-07:00

http://abcdreams.ca/2009/10/nyimbo-za-watoto-songs-for-the-children/

The Heart is Infinite appears on this Nyimbo Za Watoto fundraiser CD. Special thanks to Graham Fife and Gayle Ye for their help with this project.

"Nyimbo Za Watoto (Songs for the Children)
Posted by Frank, October 15th, 2009

ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams now has a CD of wonderful original music with which we can raise more funds for the children. It’s called NYIMBO ZA WATOTO (Songs for the Children).

The coordination of the massive effort to do this work was done by a good friend of mine, Graham Fife, a music lover and generous soul.

Musicians/songwriters were found who graciously agreed to donate a song or two. Colin Macdonald, (Colin Macdonald Design) another good friend (and my oldest former student!) came on board to do the great artwork and design. Mastering of the CD was done by Sam Reid of Slip One Digital. He’s a member of Glass Tiger.
It’s an exciting eclectic mix of styles of music ranging from ballads, to klesmer/reggae, to indie vocals, to hot latin beats, to electronic instrumental rhythms, to African folk sung by children.

Inside the case is a wonderful booklet which contains all the lyrics of the songs, photos of all the children and a thumbnail photo of an artwork by each of them. The booklet itself is a treasure!

We are launching the CD at Arts and Hearts for the Children of Kilimanjaro, our fundraising dinner and silent auction, on Oct. 23.If you’re reading this and would like a copy just contact us via email.

To give you an idea of how the funds can be used: the sale price of $20 pays for school lunches for a child for ONE YEAR!"

Tchrite - Phaidon Video

2010-06-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Video for Tchrite - Phaidon from the upcoming 'Mind Transplant' LP.
Filmed and edited by Jonathan Jindra

Oblivion

2010-05-11T07:36:00.000-07:00

A new Tchrite track is contained within this short film from Simon Pena, who is the other half of the band with me.

Oblivion from Simon Pena on Vimeo.

SOW - Dog

2010-03-03T12:21:00.000-08:00

SOW - Crybaby (Alternate Edit)

From the new album 'Dog' on I, Absentee. Available at http://www.i-absentee.com/sow/ Additional visuals by Jonathan Jindra.

Collaboration With Radames Ortiz

2010-01-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

I have been working with Houston area poet Radames Ortiz on a collaboration scoring his poems. We plan on releasing a cd this summer of our work together. Here is a recent live performance of a piece we played at Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery in November 2009. The video projection was also shot and edited by me.

MIdmir - Step Into A Dream

2010-01-20T22:44:00.001-08:00

"Step Into A Dream is the debut album from Midmir, collaboratively written and produced by Jonathan Jindra (Trills) and Frank Dambra (Arctier, Track53). The respected talents of both artists fuse together to produce a spark flurrying with a sparse palette of colour-changing, genre-morphing tracks.

Newport Riverbed eases us in with bendy synths stretching around deliciously laidback beats and melodies which eventually navigate into wavering atmospheric ambience. Erazi shines through elements of jazz whilst Step22 and Acidto dissolve into wide-open halls soaked in distant house chords and dripping with acid. The journey peaks with Cathode Blue and I Remember Her Handwriting, both epic in scale and build-up, ultimately climaxing in a spirit-lifting experience, leaving an urge to revisit and peel back the inner depths underlying this entire piece.

The great variety of shades and styles provided by each unmistakable artist meld together harmoniously. A sublime listen!"

http://www.retronym.co.uk/rtn011/

Tchrite Review

2010-01-20T14:20:00.001-08:00

I stumbled upon this today. It's a review of my experimental side project with Simon Pena we call Tchrite:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/08/friday_night_noise_tchrites_un.php

"Houston duo Tchrite - don't ask FNN how to pronounce that - are an experimentalist train wreck. They sew samples (No Doubt's "Don't Speak," the sorta public-access sound scraps that The Books go gaga over) into woozy patches of static tone. They puree and smush and smash samples together. They chop breakbeats into bits. They go in for disorienting-yet-forgettable laptop electronic wave modulations that aren't quite "techno" but aren't totally IDM, either - even if a lot of their unsexy song titles would give Autechre wood. All of which to say is that listening to the Tchrite albums FNN could find online (for free!) - Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Echoe Mae - is never, ever boring. FNN nominates "Casahdt" as a standout for several reasons: it's not excessively schizo, it's not long and it's noiser than every other Tchrite out there. It's 29 seconds of pulse-pounding, take-no-shit ecstasy: an out-of-control algorithm beating the tar outta smooth, air-traffic controller chatter with manic, mescaline-drenched drums, wipe-swipe synth effects, and the unmistakable tonal whine of a 747 rising slowly into the sky."

Video Poem - Drone

2009-12-09T19:37:00.000-08:00

Here is my first in a series of short video poems I am working on containing short pieces of unreleased Trills tunes. This one is called Drone containing a portion of the track Kirlian Drone from my upcoming ambient release Liquid Sunshine:

88 Marquis remix available

2009-11-28T12:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.retronym.co.uk/rtn008/

The new 88 Marquis release "1992 In An Igloo" has a Trills remix of the track "Shenans" available as a free download from Retronym.

"1992 In An Igloo is the debut release from Wisconsin originate Peter De Sanctis. As the title hints, this record is the perfect accompaniment to the up and coming winter months with glistening soundscapes and shimmering percussion. Delicately crafted ambient pieces settle in perfectly, piecing everything together to take the listener on a hypnotic journey, possibly sat atop a lighthouse, watching over the glaciers as they reflect in the moonlight.

If that wasn't enough, we've also been provided with 1992 In An Igloo Remixed, featuring Boreal Network, Trills, Phasen, Treefingers, Five Step Path, Xurba and Brand New Retro who all contribute wonderful and varied takes on the record. Find it further down the page.

The striking artwork is gloriously crafted by Joebot Kill."

Upcoming Show: 11-20-09 @ Rice University

2009-11-14T15:35:00.000-08:00

Upcoming Show:
11/20/2009 8:00 PM at Rice University
6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
Cost:
with Solanae, and Perseph One
http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html
If you look at this map Ray Courtyard (where the outdoor concert will be) is the gray box between the Rice Memorial Center and the Rice Memorial Chapel. Sponsored by KTRU small concert series.

Nov, 1 2009 Videos

2009-11-03T10:25:00.000-08:00

Flect/Canelle:

2009-10-31T21:38:00.000-07:00

2 Upcoming Live Shows

2009-10-20T20:13:00.000-07:00

11/01/2009 08:00 PM - Space Next Door To KHON’S BAR
2808 Milam
Houston, Texas
US
Cost:$5
Description:Resonant Interval Sound Series is a weekly concert series featuring experimental, noisy, freely improvised music with an emphasis on Houston musicians. Occurs every Sunday in the space next to Khon’s Bar (2808 Milam), from 8 pm to 10 pm. $5 cover goes directly to the performers.

11/13/2009 08:00 PM - Rudolph Art Scan Gallery
1836 Richmond Ave.
Houston, Texas 77098
US
Cost:FREE
Description:This will be a very unique show for fans of my music. I am collaborating with local poet Radames Ortiz for part of the Wired Poetry Event. I’ll be scoring poems by him and projecting images that fit his words.

TTK & Trills - Elixir EP

2009-10-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

Trills & TTK - Elixir EP

1. Trills & TTK - Haruki Has No Wind
2. TTK - Nets
3. TTK - A Sign of Bad Things to Come
4. TTK - Boredom 1 - Music For Sleeping In
5. Trills - Flect

The Elixir EP is a short split between Trills & The Telepathic Kid. At only 16 from New South Wales, Australia, Nick Turton from TTK has a lot of potential for such a newcomer. His first LP entitled Sociopathic, can be downloaded here. The track "Haruki Has No Wind" is a collaboration between the two artists. With cover art and embedded track art by David Means (meanscz@gmail.com).

>>Click to download free .zip

Binarium 002: Circuit Bending

2009-09-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

The second episode of my online video series Experimental Expansion: Binarium explores the world of circuit bending with artists Matthew Potter of Nectarine, and Chris O'malley.

or http://binarium.blip.tv

Binarium: Experimental Expansion

2009-09-09T19:32:00.001-07:00

I have been working for about a year now documenting various musicians, artists, poets, eccentrics, etc. in hopes of making a movie about experimental forms of art. I decided to try and instead market it as an online web series for free. It's called "Binarium: Experimental Expansion" and I just launched the first episode.

"Binarium: Experimental Expansion explores experimental & outsider music, video, dance, expression, performance & poetry in ways that reveal our true inner nature, and push the boundaries of current technology and forms of thought. The videos are not intended to be a promotion for the artists involved, rather an exploration in the psychology of art, the creative process, and the connection and complexity of all human life. Although each video will feature a different artist, the focus will be to serve as an inspiration to energize and create new vibrations within the creative community."

I hope you enjoy. I have the next few episodes finished, but I'll post a new one once or twice a month.

Midmir

2009-07-29T17:51:00.001-07:00

I have been collaborating with another Houston electronic music Frank Dambra (Track53, Arctier) on a project for the past few months. We finally created a myspace and have posted 4 new tracks to preview from the upcoming release "Step Into A Dream".

http://www.myspace.com/midmir

Physical Copy!

2009-07-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

My copy of Modular Puzzle finally arrived. It will be released in September 2009 for purchase. The paper is thick, shiny, and beautiful and the packaging is very unique.

Dani from Celer

2009-07-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

This was posted by the ambient group Celer:
"Dear friends,

With great sadness I have to announce to you, our friends, that Dani passed away yesterday, July 8. On Tuesday morning I woke to find her unconscious, and not breathing. The medics were called, and she was revived, but fell directly into a coma and didn't wake up. She passed away yesterday at 3pm, with her family by her. All that is known to say why is that her heart stopped, for no foreseeable reason. The only relation is that her father died in the same way, of a cardiac arrest at the age of 29. She was 26.

Right now I don't know how to express the loss and sadness I feel, knowing that someone so ultimately close to me, and such an inspiration and friend to so many other people in the world is gone. All I can say is that she won't be forgotten, or pushed aside only because she's gone. She'll always be with me, as my inspiration, my love, my everything. All I can say is I miss her, every second.

Right now I won't be able to answer many emails, as there's only so much I can talk about this. Time will heal this, but I know the sadness will never go away. This, I'm ok with, as I never want to forget every way she changed my life, and touched my heart.

I appreciate all your support and love, and even though many of you only knew her through her poetry, or her music, I hope they are good memories."

In her honor I made a music video of one of their songs:

2009-06-17T21:23:00.001-07:00

There is now a Trills Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Trills/80108754057?ref=nf

CDs of 'Modular Puzzle' will be sent out by the end of the week to the distributors. Darla will be the main distributor is USA, Boomkat, Smallfish and Norman in UK.

-Jonathan

Trills - Paragon (live)

2009-05-18T09:11:00.000-07:00

WretchedU Performance

2009-05-15T22:13:00.000-07:00

Here is the WretchedU performance in it's entirety. I played synths/sampler/drum machine for my good friend, the lead singer Chris Omalley who wrote all these songs. Simon Pena (who I play write music with in Tchrite) plays keyboards, and Daniel Salizar is on bass.

Trills May 10, 2009 Live Show

2009-05-14T19:06:00.000-07:00

The show at Super Happy Funland went well. I projected experimental movies that I made behind me during the set. Nectarine opened the show with an awesome set, and then I played the synth/drummachine for my friend who writes acoustic music under the name WretchedU. Simon Pena (who also plays with me in Tchrite) was also in the band, so there were lots of freakout jams involved. I have a video of the whole WretchedU performance that I will post to youtube as soon as it's done uploading.

2009-04-22T20:02:00.000-07:00

I did a remix for Koen Park that has just been released. The CD contains a number of other great artists reinterpretations of his tracks.

Koen Park - Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings

2009 release - I, Absentee Records

Disc 1:
1. I Fall Into You (Falling Into You Remix By Das Rote Telefon)
2. The Sunset Industry (Fugenn And The White Elephants Remix)
3. Your Broadcast (Cheju Remix)
4. Agenda 21 (Portal Remix)
5. Phusiké (Trills Remix)
6. An H-R Diagram (IJO Remix)
7. A.Hoffmann (Gabriel Remix)
8. I Fall Into You (Falling Out Of You Remix By Isocore)
9. The Sunset Industry (The Dandelion Council Crayola Sunset Mix)
10. People As Ants (Phasen Remix)
11. Tear Road (Mrs Jynx Remix)
12. Surrounded By Pigments (Pastel Mmx By Milieu)
13. Fixed Luminosities (Reimagined By Loafeye)

Disc 2:
1. All Apologies - Fog_Lost (Ian Hawgood Remix)
2. Tidy Kid - Fragments 1 (Koen Park Remix)
3. Phasen - What Carbonation Sounds Like (Through People Remix By Koen Park)
4. D.D. NewMole - Rare White Albino (Itabashi Remix By Koen Park)
5. Phasen - Listen While You Walk (Koen Park Remix)
6. Mall Security - Overlapping Pixelated Hearts (Forêt Remix By Koen Park)
7. Vertical67 - Spring Recorder (Koen Park Remix)
8. D.D. NewMole - Rare White Albino (Funabashi Remix By Koen Park) [clip]
9. Rumorse - Azucena Drops (Koen Park Remix)
10. Entertainment For The Braindead - Colors (Washed With Pastel Remix By Ian Hawgood)
11. All Apologies - Air (Ian Hawgood Remix)

Original music on disc 1 taken from the Koen Park albums Grey Night Clouds and Everything In Shadow on Experimedia. This album is partnered with the 3" Koen Park EP Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings In A Quiet Form on Smallfish. Thanks to Jeremy, Sean, Mike, Christian, Sven, Pedro, Warren and all the artists involved for their great work, support and friendship. This album is for my mate Tom.

Disc 2 includes remixes of other artists' original work. Comes in a 2CD jewel case with individually numbered discs limited to 100 copies.