AA.VV. | STARING AT THE WALL III

Alias: MECONIUM

grind / performative art / actionism / abstractism / body art / expressionism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / abstract surrealism / surrealism

Italian Harsh Noise Wall festival
Organized by: Toxic Industries & Claustrophilia Records
Curated by: Lorenzo Nascitari

ATRAX MORGUE

musique concrete / death ambient / abstractism / electroacoustic / power electronics / experimental / noise / nonmusic / harsh

Atrax Morgue was the nom de plume of Italian noise musician Marco Corbelli. Many of Atrax Morgue's early material was released on cassette, as part of the industrial/noise 'cassette underground' of the early 1990s. Often these cassettes were released on Corbelli's own Slaughter Productions label, some of which have now been reissued on CD-R. Throughout the late '90s, Atrax Morgue released numerous CDs on prominent noise labels, such as Self Abuse Records, Release, Old Europa Cafe, RRRecords, Crowd Control Activities and Ars Benevola Mater. Corbelli committed suicide May 6, 2007.

DANIEL JANSSON

Alias: AUM ARRHYTHMIA / DEADWOOD

musique concrete / death ambient / esoteric / abstractism / abstract symbolism / electroacoustic / power electronics / experimental / noise / dark ambient / harsh / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

Daniel Jansson is Deadwood.
Deadwood is a one-man project that was created in 2003 under the name Deadwood Murder, its only purpose was/is to satisfy my lust for raw and filthy black Industrial music. It has been a slow process with years in-between releases. The first demo was made and sent out to several labels in 2004. Cold Spring records agreed to release the first full-length Deadwood album "8 19" (HS?). And summer 2004 a split tape with black metal band Blodulv called The Havoc We Seek was released on the French BM label Forgotten Wisdom productions. Cold Spring records released the debut album '8 19' in summer 2005. It took quite a while to get the album out and for a while it looked like forces unknown was trying to stop this dark masterpiece to ever see the light of day. With multiple delays on various fronts nothing seemed to go our way. The first print sent over by the printer was a joke with the colurs all-wrong and the discs scratched. And when it was to be re-printed, the printing factory burned down. 3 years later, “Ramblack"  follows up  Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19". Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes one's perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), whose vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease!

GREY HISTORY

Alias: FABIO ORSI / GIANLUCA BECUZZI

abstract symbolism / power electronics / experimental / noise / harsh / industrial music / drone music

GIANLUCA BECUZZI (Voice and Electronics) and FABIO ORSI (Electric Guitar) : Harsh Power Electronics with structured droning noise and black humor.

JOACHIM MONTESSUIS

Alias: SNOW CRASH

grind / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / abstractism / body art / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / drone music

Joachim Montessuis develops an experimental contextual practice mainly around voice, drone, noise and resonance since the early 90′s. His current work is directed towards conceptual experimental processes of the issue of observation and perception of reality through a non-dual approach. His vocal performative work explores various states of trance through the extreme potentialities of amplification and electronic transformations of screams, throat singing, and also words. He designs his actions as processes, “noise poetry-codes reality fertilizers”.
He has shown his work in many festivals around the globe (more than 200 performances) and he has collaborated with more than 100 artists. He also is the editor of the CD label Erratum devoted to art, noise and experimental sound poetry – which he started in 1993. He occasionally curates experimental poetry events and exhibitions. He lives in Paris and teaches sound and intermedia art at HEAR in Strasbourg.

Collaborations with very different artists including Henri Chopin, Charlemagne Palestine, Phill Niblock, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Serge Pey, Master Musicians of Joujouka & Frank Rynne, Junko Hiroshige, Michel Giroud, Gaël Segalen, Julien Blaine, David Larcher, Joël Hubaut, Jörg Piringer, Franck Ancel, Julien Ottavi, Evil Moisture/Andy Bolus, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Horia Cosmin Samoïla, Collectif MU (Paris), Erik Minkkinen, Philippe Simon, Marcello Aguirre, Gomang’s Tibetan Monks, Yvan Etienne, Faustin Linyekula, Ewen Chardronnet, Marko Peljhan, Shu Lea Cheang, Martin Howse, Claudia Martinho, Aymeric de Tapol, François Martig, Wilfried Wending, Tashi Ko, Anne Roquigny, Pierre André Arcand, Eléonore Hellio, Jean Jacques Lebel, Charles Pennequin, Chloé Delaume, Raphaël Charpentié, Gaël Angelis, Cédric Pigot, Crium Delirium, Gigacircus, Michel Collet, Valentine Verhaeghe, Matthieu Messagier, Louis Ucciani, Sylvain Courtoux, Emmanuel During, Antoine Boute, Lucille Calmel, Thierry Théolier, Eric Lin Chiwei, Gigacircus, Philippe Zunino, Michaël Sellam, Nicolas Boulard, Philippe Lepeut, Hellekin…

NEKRASOV

esoteric / black metal / abstract symbolism / avant-garde / power electronics / noise / dark ambient / harsh / drone music

SNOW CRASH

Alias: JOACHIM MONTESSUIS / JULIEN OTTAVI

grind / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / drone music

SNOW CRASH consisting of the two vocal artist Joachim Montessuis and Julien Ottavi, deliver apocalyptic big bang sound poetry. Powerful, brutal and harsh operates this duo in the extreme climates of experimental sound.... ....a trance-noise performance of the ceremony yet unheard violence that voodoo sounds, brings together powerful - roaring sounds, detonating screaming, ecstatic speech utterances, rough and grainy magic obsession..... ....quantum experiments on experimental sounds of devastating violence awaits all who want to dive into the Harsh Noise trance. You are been warned ...!!!
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WERTHAM

performative art / expressionism / power electronics / noise

Marco Deplano. Wertham is a power electronic/industrial project enstabilished in 1994 in Como, Italy, as a mean of self-expression and as an act of mere cultural survival, interested in playing with stereotypes and misconceptions related to sex, race, class, etc painting different human landscapes based on first hand experience. Although standing against religious, moral, political and ideological dogmas, and being interested especially in exploring, re-acting and understanding bonds existing in modern-day culture, Wertham looks with interest to any expression (not necessary extreme) of these aspect of existence.