Children of the Drone: news

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Matthew W has just published the first volume of his trilogy of psychedelically-informed books about the nature of mathematical reality: Secrets of Creation volume 1: The Mystery of the Prime Numbers

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Simon recently uploaded an atmospheric videoclip to YouTube of a rather ominous 30 seconds from the (otherwise unrecorded) 06/04/10 session

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Compilation no. 8 is now available for streaming and/or downloading. Compilation 5 has now received over 19,000 downloads (and some of the other compilations and sessions are getting up into the 1000's) - what's happening? Who are all these people?!

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) James T and Annie Q were recently involved in an improv happening up at CCANW. The enthusiastic review included a favourable mention of COTD.

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Someone's been blogging about us in Taiwan! Google have provided a partially accurate, highly amusing translation.

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Polish filmmaker Marcin Blajecki recently used a small excerpt from one of the pieces on Compilation no. 7 as part of the soundtrack for Vinculum, which he describes as an "experimental, niche 3 min. movie". Curiously, the soundtrack also involves someone reading a list of prime numbers, one of Matthew W's major interests.

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) We've been getting some airplay on the John Peel-inspired Dandelion Radio. DJ Matt Jones went as far as to refer to "the really rather special improvisational genius of Children of the Drone" in his program description page (probably the nicest thing anyone's ever written about us!).

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) COTD recently provided live improv soundtracks to some silent films (Maya Deren) during local DJ/art collective Birds, Orphans and Fools series of "Hidden Cinema" screenings in the cellar of The Hourglass, one of Exeter's more interesting pubs. There may be more of this to come.

'Child of Pilotless Plane' - literal Korean translation (a possible logo, designed by Simon) Not so many session lately, for some reason, but James T has been keeping the monthly St. Stephens session going (although it's moved to St. Mary Arches church, as St. Stephens is undergoing major restoration work). Although the quantity of CoTD sessions has been declining, the quality does appear to be improving.