For ticket and venue details please visit The Awakening web site.

Bochum Planetarium Concert feedback

Well, the feedback from the concert in Bochum has been fantastic! Considering it very nearly didn't take place due to technical difficulties - will we ever be able thank Lambert of Spheric Music enough? - I can honestly say that despite the fact we weren't able to do some of the music in the way we'd planned - the reconfiguration meant I lost one of the laptops and sounds/sequence sources - everything went really well. One of the major disadvantages of playing in the dark is that you obviously can't see what you're doing, and for most of the 2+ hours we we're okay, but just to prove it really was live - my JP8000 solo in the final rhythmic section of walking with Ghosts was, er, interesting, when instead of changing the cutoff frequency, resonance and portamento time, I turned the wrongs sliders and dials to get a totally unexpected variation on the sound!

It was great to chat to people afterwards and I wish we could have talked longer to fans, some of whom had traveled from as far away as Moscow, but the late start meant a late finish. Also, sorry to those fans who had to leave before the end to catch trains and buses.

Sadly the Bochum concert wasn't recorded. However, all my tracks from the night will be available on CD and possibly DVD later in 2013 because they were recorded at previous events and I will be tweaking them in the studio. More news on that to follow.

Nominated in Schallwelle Music Awards 2012

Delighted to report that I'm one of 8 AD Music artists to have been nominated in the Schallwelle 2012 Music Awards (International). My album 'Connected' is also one of the 9 AD Music CDs to have been nominated, including the 'After Midnight' compilation in the "Best album" category (International). It's both an honour and a privilege to be in the mix with such esteemed company.

So if you want to vote for your favourite artist and album for the 2012 Schallwelle Music Awards, please go to http://voting.schallwelle-preis.de/ where you'll see simple instructions on how to vote.

AD Music Artists nominated in Schallwelle Music Awards 2012 (International)

Divine Matrix
Dreamerproject
Glenn Main
Claudio Merlini (listed as Merlin, Claudio)
Steve Orchard (listed as Orchard, Steve)
Sylvain Carel
The Pels Syndicate
David Wright (listed as Wright, David)

AD Music albums nominated in Schallwelle Music Awards 2012 (International)

Divine Matrix - Atmospheric Variations
Dreamerproject - The Road to your Heart
Glenn Main - Ripples
Merlini, Claudio - Enchantment
Orchard, Steve - Undersail
Sylvain Carel - Caravansary
The Pels Syndicate - Chemical Inconveniences
Various/Sampler - After Midnight
Wright, David - Connected

David Wright Interview with 'synthsequences'

Recent interview just posted at http://synthsequences.blogspot.ca/2012/11/david-wright-beyond-being-connected.html

Make a note in your diary for one of the last electronic music concerts of 2012.

Sunday 30th December 2012. 8:00pm until 10:30pm

Come and join the New Years celebrations at a cosmic concert at Bochum Planetarium where two of the premiere space music artists from the UK and Germany will perform both solo and collaborative space music to transport you to the stars and beyond.

Tickets €25

Klaus Hoffman-Hoock and David Wright live at Bochum Planetarium.
Sunday 30th December 2012. 8:00pm - 10:30pm
www.planetarium-bochum.de or tel. 0049(0) 234 516060 (Mo-Fr. 9 -15 h) or mail@planetarium-bochum.de

CDs and memorobellia from both artists will be on sale, including a limited edition DVD from the Boddy, Hoffmann-Hoock and Wright Electronic Music concert in 2009.

Code Indigo MELTdown session.

Just finished a creative weekend with Neil Fellowes writing music for the new Code Indigo album "MELTdown". It would be no exaggeration to say the time spent was hugely successful! Some music was already in the "In Progress Can" from last year, so the plan for this weekend was to "be creative" with new songs to add to those ideas so that we had the basics for the album. We think we achieved the aim and look forward to formulating the ideas into finished tracks when the rest of the band get involved.

I see the Schallwelle Music awards listings for 2011 Best International artists and best albums for 2011 were been published today, Flattered to see I'm listed in both so if you want to vote the head on over to  http://voting.schallwelle-preis.de/index.php and follow the voting instructions. You have up to three votes in each category.