TELEPHERIQUE

ABSTRACT SURREALISM, AMBIENT, MAIL ART ORCHESTRA

Klaus Jochim, Danijela Jochim & Rene Jochim

The project Telepherique began in 1989 with the intention to explore processes and working with people of different cultures. They started with mail-art projects, co-operations, and communication with people all over the world. Basically, Telepherique is Klaus, Danijela and Rene Jochim, from Würzburg, Germany, but there were others that became members of Telepherique, because of the massive collaborations and projects: Ulf Harr, Echart Seilacher, Harry Lüftl, Stefan Au, Stefan Alt and Karin... The name Telepherique is the french word for funicular railway. This name was chosen because of the intention gaining a view from a higher level.

http://www.ant-zen.com/telepherique

TELE.S.THERION

CONCEPTUAL / ACOUSMATIC / DRONE / BLACK METAL

Sandro Gronchi / Pietro Riparbelli

TELE.S.THERION
(Sandro Gronchi e Pietro Riparbelli)
Tele.s.therion è progetto di musica acusmatica, basato sulle forme medianiche e parapsicologiche dei processi di fissazione sonora: "field recording fono-medianico" principalmente basato su sessioni di basso elettrico preparato, segnali radio ad onde corte e voci medianiche, eseguite nella chiave esoterica dell'ars achemythia e delle forme rituali degli antichi culti Misterici..
Le esecuzioni dal vivo per speacker e audience sono un'esperienza metapsichica incarnata negli idiomi sonori della drone music e del più estremo avantgarde black doom metal.

http://www.radicalmatters.com/telestherion.asp

THE LOOP ORCHESTRA

SURREALISM, ABSTRACT, CONCRETE, AMBIENT

Founded in 1982 by Richard Fielding and John Blades.
Other members: Manny Gasparinatos, Patrick Gibson, Hamish MacKenzie, Sheriff Lindo.
The genesis of The Loop Orchestra occured in the ashes of a simple two-tape-machine-no-man-band, The Nobodies, which died in a fire in 1980. From those ashes, and with a pastiche taken from the likes of Terse Tapes, home of Severed Heads, an ashen poultice was formed to take up further and more involved household heretical experimention, this time with reel-to-reel tape machines. This idea was subsequently expanded upon in the studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm amid a group of experimental radio programmers. Two, John Blades and Richard Fielding, were using the studio equipment as an instrument, experimenting with tape machines through processes involving cutting, dissecting, rearranging and rejoining prerecorded tape, creating tape loops and playing them back. They felt a need to formalise their studio experimentation and so conceived the idea of creating a full blown machine orchestra whose contrived destiny it was to perform in the Sydney Opera House's hallowed Concert Hall. The intention of the Orchestra was for groups of instruments of an orthodox orchestra to be represented by reel-to-reel tape machines playing loops of the instruments' sounds. Upon the realization that this egoistical ambition was doomed a smaller ensemble comprising 4 reel-to-reel machines playing slowly evolving tape-loop constructions, made its live debut playing a live-to-air performance in the rather less graceful, but no less culturally appropriate studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm in 1983, as The Loop Orchestra.

A variety of eminent luminaries can lay claim to having been members of the Orchestra, including Patrick Gibson, Peter Doyle, Anthony Maher and Ashley Blower. The current lineup consists of John Blades, Richard Fielding, Emmanuel Gasparinatos, Hamish MacKenzie and Juke Wyat.

Members of the Orchestra have been, or are, involved in a diverse variety of groups and projects including but not limited to: Severed Heads; Scattered Order; The Systematics; No Nights Sweat; Splendid Mess; War, Meat & The Dictator; East End Butchers; Z.glutz; Ya Ya Coral; Moral Fibro; Famous; Kinderschmerzen; Esqué; Clean Air Campaign; Hiroshima Chair; Sherrif Lindo & The Hammer; Nutcase & Papa Chubba; Men Like Licorice; Violence In Spring; Vorkapich; Kyoko-Mary & The Cogs of Death; Strict vs State; and Cannibal Loops.

THE LOOP ORCHESTRA

Against seamless method
Against the state of the art and the art of the state
Against the tension/release nexus
Against the validation of effort
Against the composer as genius for a transparency of sound
for the anticlimax as metaphor
for alienation, detachment and disembodiment
for the occlusion aesthetic
for the detritus of phonography

THE LOOP ORCHESTRA

http://www.thelooporchestra.com

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CARDIOID SNAKE / MASSIMO CUOMO

SURREALISM, EXPERIMENTAL, ELETROACOUSTIC, WAVE

Massimo Cuomo

TOROIDH

EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, MARTIAL NOISE

Toroidh is a martial industrial music project by Swedish musician Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (of industrial band Maschinenzimmer 412 fame). Bjorkk has described it as a continuation of Folkstorm, his previous project.

http://www.nordvargr.com

http://www.myspace.com/toroidh

TOY BIZARRE

MINIMALISM, CONCEPTUAL, CONCRETE, FIELD RECORDINGS,

"In june 1985, I decided to work under the name of Toy Bizarre, while my best friend and I were recording crickets singing in a pit along a small countryside road, in the sunset. His father's old tape recorder was in fact so bad that we were just able to hear a small frequency part of the hypnotic insects rhythm between the clouds of hiss.

Back at home, I decided to go on recording, put on tape every little sound of my environment, of the sonic world I was surrounded by. I still do it. My actual work is focused on "places", its characteristics and its sound components. So the goal of all my sound compositions is to explore a place: it could be a chain of mountains, a square meter of grass, a beach, a marshalling yard, a hydroelectric powerstation... Each time the process is the same: recording all the typical sounds of the place (well, for me), then to compose sound pieces only with these sounds, through a sound sculpture process. So we can say that each one of these pieces is the sonic reflection of the place." -- Cédric Peyronnet

http://www.ingeos.org/