Upland07 > projects

May 08
showreel08a: micro-project - Sir Name solo.
showreel08b: micro-project - Sir Name and Jacob Grosse.

Feb 07
On the Edge of wrong: Gavin Bonner and Sir Name play at improvised music music festival at the College of Music, University of Cape Town.

Nov 06
Windpomp: Brydon Bolton and Sir Name produce the music for the new play by Yvette Coetzee and Moya en Aarde theatre company. The premiere was at the Theater am Bauturm, Berlin. Visit Yvette Coetzee's official Windpomp site here.

Nov 05
Orfeus07: Niklas Zimmer produces texts, photographs and sound pieces for this international, interdisciplinary project by Eberhard Kloke, Berlin. Visit Eberhard Kloke's Orpheus07 site here.

Feb 05
Three nations: Swedish Library Tapes - Per Jardsell and David Wenngren, Germans Daniel Rech and Sir Name, and South Africans Joel Assaisky and Dax Butler are sending recordings across the globe to allow a creative exchabge of different musical approaches and sounds specific to their environments.

Jan 05
here, now (UP4): a 45min Audio loop from the sound installation by Niklas Zimmer for 'Tibet is the High Ground' - an eco-political artwork by Helen Meyer Harrison and Newton Harrison - is about to be released.

Dec 04
Nother: Brydon Bolton and Sir Name have just completed a thirty-minute piece for 'Femmes-blanche et noire', a play at the Landestheater Schwaben. The play, written by Werner Fritsch and published by Suhrkamp, was a complete critical success and is touring sixteen stages. Recordings to be published in the near future.

Oct 04
4x3x4: Brydon Bolton, Dean Henning, Adam Lieber and Sir Name are sending 48 CD-R's through a space-time continuum of three years and three countries... along three paths (three versions of lining up times four participants/musicians times four points of departure/arrival, i.e. every nine months the works are sent and recieved, which will result in 12 individual pieces of music). The process is work-intensive and will take a long time to complete - the results should be published sometime at the end of 2007.

Nov 02
Die Wahl der Fantastischen Möglichkeit: Adam Lieber and Niklas Zimmer produce a full-length soundtrack for this play by Yvette Coetzee and Moya en Aarde theatre company in Berlin. Edits are to be published soon. Visit the official website here.

June 02
Online sales: you can now buy Upland07 CD's online - in Germany at A-Musik, and in South Africa at Bowline and Worldonline.

Nov 01
Critical response and distribution in South Africa: read reviews on open record, Afribeat and CD Wherehouse.
Also, go to SAMQC and support a very good cause for the future of music in South Africa.

June 01
Infinite Coastline: James Webb and Niklas Zimmer spend a few days recording live improvised ambient noise at Upland studio. Niklas on drums and keys and James on effects pedals, shortwave radio and dictaphone.

August 00
Conference: Upland launches its first CD-release as a creative platform for new, alternative South African cultural collaborative activities.