Music: Makmed the Miller
Auto-didactic musician, sound recorder, arranger, composer, video artist and multi-discipline experimentalist. As a musician plays theremin, one string fiddle, bazouki, guitar, cello, saz, percussion, yayli divan, three string pipa, and circuit bent toys.
As a producer/arranger/engineer/musician has produced the following albums of music:
- Camp Chaos ‘Je Vous dis Merde’ Vinyl
- Camp Chaos/Kingdom Scum Vinyl
- King Cannibal and the Headhunter CD
- Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra ‘Iron Shoes’ CD
- ‘Our Tin Tribe’ Vinyl Read more…
Why The Naxi Buried Their Instruments by Makmed the Miller
It was a beautiful autumnal evening in the absolutely delightful old town of Lijiang, in Yunnan province, South West China not too far from Tibet. In the town square next to the little bridge there was music and dancing. About two dozen old ladies were stepping out in an ancient circle dance.
The music was simple but the movements had a cunning little jig in the step which made it even more seductive. It wasn’t long before I had joined in and we hopped and skipped ecstatically around the circle in the square. The music was hypnotic. Read more…
17th August 2012: Makmed the Miller presents The Grief of Isis
On August 17th in the Edinburgh Festival at the Central Library (7-9 George IV Bridge. Postcode, EH1 1EG) Makmed the Miller presents The Grief of Isis and Peter Barratt talks about his Great Grandmother, Alice Hawkins and her life of as a suffragette.