ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI

sound sculpture / avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / concrete turntablism / noise / contemporary art / drone music

Aleksander Kolkowski (born 1959 in London) is a British musician and composer whos work combines instruments and machines from the pioneering era of sound recording and reproduction (Stroh violins, wind-up Gramophones, shellac discs and wax-cylinder Phonographs) to make live mechanical-acoustic music. He lives and works in London , England . Kolkowski studied music at the University of London , Goldsmiths College , violin with Clarence Myerscough at the Royal Academy of Music. Taught by John Tilbury, Hugh Davies and in 1982 participated in seminars and performances directed by John Cage.In 2002 he founded Recording Angels, a series that examines our relationships to recorded sound using antiquated home-recording devices such as Phonographs and acetate record cutters in performances and installations.

ANA-MARIA AVRAM

art of noise / noise music / twelve-tone music / serialism / computer music / reduced listening / spectral music / elektronische musik / avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / expressionism / acousmatic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / dark ambient / contemporary art / conceptual art / drone music

Ana-Maria Avram was born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania. She attended the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1980 to 1985 then she studied aesthetics at Sorbonne Paris. She was also the co-director of Hyperion ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who founded the ensemble in 1976. Avram also took on an administrative role by creating Spectrum XXI festival and was an early member of the Romanian Community of electronic and computer music. She continues to have performances of her works after her death, like Issue Projects Room's "Tombeau for Ana-Maria Avram" concert.

Avram's music synthesized contemporary classical, improvisation, electro-acoustic- and electronic music. Her music tended to move between improvisation and notation. She tended to use electronics to augment her sonic palette.

Romanian composer and interpreter Ana-Maria Avram was born in Bucharest in 1961. She is one of the flag-bearers of hyperspectralism, a movement that explores the phenomenological, dynamic presence of sound and understands composition as a performative experience of constant change rather than as a contained, pre-formatted process.

In 1976, Avram founded and began conducting the Hyperion Ensemble together with her husband, collaborator, and fellow composer Iancu Dumitrescu, for the performance of their own and other hyperspectralist works. Avram has written over 90 pieces of solo, chamber, and orchestral music for instruments and/or electronics. Most of this music is inextricably linked to a deep conviction about the spirituality and soul inherent in sound space, and she views compositional techniques oriented around imposed structure and control as a kind of desacralisation. She begins the compositional process by meditating. A piece then takes gains substance and contour until it is finally sculpted and liberated live: “When Ana-Maria Avram conducts, she sometimes seems to be plucking stars from the sky, or jabbing into hives, causing thousands of tiny critters to fly up into the air like flurries of gold dust. Avram allows the moment to shape the music” (WanderingStar e.V.).


Spectralism is a tendency in contemporary art music that takes the material attributes of sound as the point of departure for composition. Originating in France and Romania in the 1970s, partly in reaction to the perceived hegemony of serialism and other high modernist styles, since the 1980s the influence of spectral ideas and techniques has spread across Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Its most prominent representatives are Gérard Grisey (1946–98), Tristan Murail (1947--), and Horatiu Radulescu (1942–2008).


Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition.

Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often informed by sonographic representations and mathematical analysis of sound spectra, or by mathematically generated spectra. The spectral approach focuses on manipulating the spectral features, interconnecting them, and transforming them. In this formulation, computer-based sound analysis and representations of audio signals are treated as being analogous to a timbral representation of sound.

The (acoustic-composition) spectral approach originated in France in the early 1970s, and techniques were developed, and later refined, primarily at IRCAM, Paris, with the Ensemble l'Itinéraire, by composers such as Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail. Hugues Dufourt is commonly credited for introducing the term musique spectrale (spectral music) in an article published in 1979. Murail has described spectral music as an aesthetic rather than a style, not so much a set of techniques as an attitude; as Joshua Fineberg puts it, a recognition that "music is ultimately sound evolving in time". Julian Anderson indicates that a number of major composers associated with spectralism consider the term inappropriate, misleading, and reductive. The Istanbul Spectral Music Conference of 2003 suggested a redefinition of the term "spectral music" to encompass any music that foregrounds timbre as an important element of structure or language.

In France, spectralism grew out of the work conducted by the circle of composers associated with the new music ensemble l’Itinéraire, founded in 1973 by Murail and Roger Tessier. Although the “spectral” moniker was not applied to the music of Grisey, Murail, or other members of this group until 1979, when composer Hugues Dufourt coined the term for a radio program outlining their compositional philosophy, many of the basic precepts of the spectral aesthetic had already taken shape by the mid-1970s. Foremost among these was the call to return to sound. Exploring the psychoacoustic properties of sound, it was argued, would provide a more secure foundation for musical communication, pointing a way beyond the abstractions of serial technique. This renewed attention to the materiality of sound led to a heightened appreciation for the interdependence of its constituent parameters (frequency, duration, intensity, timbre), which stood in contrast to their dissociation in serial theory and practice.


The spectralist movement inspired more recent composers such as Julian Anderson, Ana-Maria Avram, Joshua Fineberg, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jonathan Harvey, Fabien Lévy, Magnus Lindberg, and Kaija Saariaho.

Some of the "post-spectralist" / "hyperspectralist" French composers include Eric Tanguy, Philippe Hurel, François Paris, Philippe Leroux, and Thierry Blondeau.[28]

In the United States, composers such as Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Maryanne Amacher, Phill Niblock, and Glenn Branca relate some of the influences of spectral music into their own work. Tenney's work has also influenced a number of composers such as Larry Polansky and John Luther Adams.[29]

In the US, jazz saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman, and in Europe, French composer Frédéric Maurin, have both introduced spectral techniques into the domain of jazz.

ANTOINE CHESSEX

Alias: DARK MATTER

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / harsh / drone music

Antoine Chessex is a composer and sound artist born in 1980 in Vevey, Switzerland, with a background as a saxophone player and performer. His sonic researches include compositions for ensembles, solo works, transdisciplinary collaborations and sound installations . Chessex´s works are based on the exploration of the physicality of sounds and spaces and deal with acoustic as much as electronic and electroacoustic mediums. His solo works feature dense layers of sustained pitches reacting with the architecture of the space or massive clouds of amplified sax resulting in intense live actions in total immersion in the sound. He presents his works worldwide and appears at numerous international festivals and venues in the U.S.A, Russia, Japan, China and all around Europe. Recent compositional works include "DUST" for 3 violins and electronics (commissioned by Pro Helvetia), "Resonant Water" a site specific piece for acoustic ensemble, "Metakatharsis" commissioned by the Phoenix Ensemble in Basel (2011) and "CHUTE" commissioned by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin (2011) as well as numerous electronic music pieces.

ANTON MAIOF

Alias: MATARRATAS / ULTRA SPIESSER

avant jazz / musique concrete / abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / drone music

ASTRAL LUEUR

Alias: TELE.S.THERION

doom / avant jazz / spoken word / musique concrete / psychedelic / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / weird black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / dark ambient / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / ritual dark ambient

Astral Lueur (the name is the synthesis of german and french languages) came up from darkness in the middle of 2009. Astral Lueur's music tells about world of shadows, anomalous places with history goes back centuries, about something staying at the turn of life and death. Main concepts of project is: look at death by eyes of the dead in damned places which was lost in time.


Lunurumh - All instruments, synths, effects, and voices.

Contacts:
astral.lueur@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/trueastrallueur

 

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA

avant jazz / musique concrete / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / anti records / collage art / noise / nonmusic / abstract surrealism / fluxus / drone music

Big City Orchestra is a long running art/anti-art group based generally in California . They have an ever rotating cast of musician and nonmusician members. One of the most idiosyncratic and original groups of the past two decades, BCO is not your standard Orchestra. Situated in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the band has released an enormous catalog of recorded material over the past two decades. Formed in the late 1970's the ensemble continues to maintain a free-flowing roster of artists from around the world that collaborate on specific projects. Categorizing the Orchestra into any given genre can be a task, as releases continue to surprise even the most devout listener. There is never any way to precisely classify the next BCO release. An album of authentic sea-shanties? A wall of noise? A shimmering downpour of lullabies whispered to the wind? A humorous or thought-provoking album of Sound Collages? Vocal excursions set to make Rod McKuen blush? We press play, leaning forward with slight apprehension. We await the first wave of blissful deception. We are perpetually rewarded.

BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER

avant jazz / musique concrete / psychedelic / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / folk / abstract surrealism / industrial music / drone music

Blind Cave Salamander are: Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Paul Beauchamp, Julia Kent, Marco Milanesio. Blind Cave Salamander is a project by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Paul Beauchamp often backed up by sound designer, producer and engineer, Marco Milanesio and cello player Julia Kent. An unusual mix of electronica, strings and guitars, drones and field recordings; a collection of finely wrought sounds that at times lean towards hypnotic lullabies and at others towards abstraction. A hybrid of the natural and the synthetic of which, like the Proteus, the pale-skinned, cave-dwelling amphibian that lends its name to the project, Blind Cave Salamander unravel shadowy, nocturnal landscapes. special guests and collaborators so far: - Andrew Liles: lounge, fashion, metal and beef - Colin Potter: live sound - Fabiana Antonioli: live visuals - Fovea Hex: sounds and music (live) - Jochen Arbeit: "Soundscapes", sounds and music -Julia Kent: cello, voice, arrangements (studio and live) -Marco Milanesio: recording, mixing, production, sound design - Nurse With Wound: "Soliloquy For Lilith", sounds and music -Michael Begg: electronics on "Troglobite" -Paul Wallfisch: piano on "Troglobite" -Pietro Riparbelli: instrumental transcommunnication action on "Nietzsche Fabrik Sessions/Transmission" -Ruth Bayer: "Splash"

CLAUDIO PARODI

avant jazz / modern composition / abstractism / minimalism / avant-garde / sound art

Claudio Parodi has a classical training as a pianist. Since more then ten years he plays also self-built or self-modified electronics, and more recently some non-western reeds. Many collaborations with many musicians, dancers, poets, actors, painters and video-makers.

CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI

avant jazz / grind / musique concrete / psychedelic / abstractism / electroacoustic / sound art / concrete turntablism / harsh / drone music

Born in Bozen ( Italy ) in 1976. After experiencing the straight-edge hardcore scene, he began exploring the many realms of noise. He played his "destructive" djing within the group/label/collective Sonic Belligeranza. Rocchetti is now working on the composition of cinematic musical landscapes with the aid of old rare records, dusty analogue instruments as source material (old radios, customized turntables, grammophones...). From 2002 is founding member of: 3/4 Had been Eliminated.

DARK MATTER

Alias: KASPER T. TOEPLITZ / ANTOINE CHESSEX

avant jazz / psychedelic / modern composition / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / drone music

DARK MATTER are Kasper T. Toeplitz bass, computer, tam; and Antoine Chessex sax, electronics.

DISTURBANCE

avant jazz / psychedelic / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / field recordings / noise

Disturbance is a side project of Francesco Landucci, founder of TILAK. Polyinstrumentist, guitar and sitar player, traditional folk music researcher, producer, sound engineerer programer and experimental electroacustic and electronic musician.

FRANCESCO CALANDRINO

avant jazz / musique concrete / abstractism / ambient music / expressionism / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / experimental / collage art / noise / drone music

Francesco Calandrino | Iritur'aràrcamu

IVES 1

avant jazz / grind / musique concrete / psychedelic / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise

Ives#1 is a project founded in 2007 by Michael Wertmuller (Alboth, Peter Brotzmann Trio) - vox Marino Piaklas (Steamboat Switzerland, Peter Brotzmann Trio) - bass Thomas Mahmoud (ex Von Spar, Oliver Twist Conspiracy) - drums Gerd Rische - electronics In the early 90s, Swiss drummer Michael Wertmuller and his band Alboth! (that was occasionally produced by Kevin Martin of God, Techno Animal, The Bug) made a benchmark exploration of new terrain somewhere between Metal, Free Jazz and Noise. In the meantime the classically trained multi-instrumentalist plays in Free Jazz trumpeter Peter Brotzmann’s Trio and is a much sought after composer, whose works are performed at major New Music festivals. Amongst other things he’s collaborated with Wolfgang Hilbig and composed pieces for the legendary Peter Brotzmann Chicago 10tet and for bassist Marino Piaklas’ formation, Steamboat Switzerland. Thomas Mahmoud used to be lead vocalist with the Cologne band, Von Spar, with whom he created a surprising, innovative amalgam of Post-Rock, Indiepop and Prog-Rock before leaving the band after its second album. Mahmoud’s primary interest since launching his solo project, Softgod has been electronic and electro-acoustic music. During a joint artists-in-residency sojourn at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Wertmüller and Piaklas met Gerd Rische, a musician and director of the Academy’s electronic studio. After Wertmüller had participated, at Thomas Mahmoud’s invitation, in the latter’s adaptation of an old Dada screenplay, "Der Pleitejazz" by Paul van Ostaijen, he invited Mahmoud to join in rehearsals with Piaklas and Rische at the Academy.

JULIAN BONEQUI

Alias: MATARRATAS / ULTRA SPIESSER

doom / avant jazz / grind / performative art / psychedelic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / constructivism / abstract expressionism / harsh / drone music

Julian Bonequi (born December 27, 1974 ) is a Mexican artist working mostly with Noise and Improvisation and 3d computer graphics[1] He plays the drums, and experiments with electronics and voice to create a rhythmic environment much richer in atmospheres and harmonic flow situations. He plays in the FOCO Orchestra, and create with Dave Tucker[2][3] and Ricardo Tejero the project Machinations of Joy Julian Bonequi established himself in Barcelona within the Spanish improvisation free jazz music scene since 2004, but has since also performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas since he lived in Mexico. He has performed as guest with the London Improvisers Orchestra as electronic voice, attracted by the roots of free improvisation From 1995 to 2000 he participated in several projects of folklore, Rock in Opposition and psychodelia in Mexico City. Since 1995 he played in a lot of punk, psycodelia, stone rock and progressive rock projects, but always trying to give 100% importance to the freedom that improvisation gives to music. He played with Humus (band) that was founded in 1987 by Jorge Beltrán (guitar, keyboards) and Victor Basurto the full fledged bassist. Both of them, are formers musician of many other important Mexican bands, as Frolic Froth, Smoking The Century Away, Euphoric Darkness, Loch Ness and Semefo. Since 1997 Westminster became more or less the permanent drummer of Humus, who was preceded by Julian Bonequi (1998–2000) when Jorge Beltrán invited Bonequi to made important contributions to different albums(not yet released).[4][5] In 1999 he met Decibel (band).[6] Decibel were a rare exception to the prog acts of the 1978 period in Mexico, and were well versed in European groups such as Faust, Magma, Gong, and the Italian prog masters Il Balletto di Bronzo. The lineup centered around keyboardist Carlos Robledo and the bassist Walter Schmidt. So he found finally a place for improve his skills and experiment more. With them Julian Bonequi perform in the First International Festival of Progressive Rock in Mexico City, with Magma and Gong also in the program. And the next year, in March 2000 in a concert in the Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in the historic centre of Mexico City, they celebrated the 25th anniversary and present the CD release named Fortuna Virilis, in addition to a retrospective with the work done since 1974. This concert is included in the three-disc box Fiat Lux, and it was the last time Decibel, this legendary Mexican band of Rock In Opposition play together without Javier Baviera, or Jaime Castaneda, but with Julian Bonequi on drums and Juan Carlos Ruiz on bassoon, former musician of Nazca, and leader of Culto Sin Nombre The same year, in 2000, the Israeli Label, MIO Records produced a 3-disc box called Fiat Lux. The complete recordings. 1977 - 2000, which contains all the studio albums of Decibel, and plus live material and rarities of unedited material. And a small booklet of 28 pages with pictures of the beginnings of the band. Also this box contained the 25th anniversary concert at Ex-Teresa Arte Actual. With Metaconciencia Julian Bonequi recorded the first album "Bestiario" in 2003 published by the French record label MUSEA Records. The critics received well this music work. A rhythm section perform a colourful and warm instrumental rock with multiple influences: Seventies Progressive rock, jazz-rock, Mexican music The music presented in Bestiario is quite intensive all of which is accompanied by quite an extraordinary drumming. Since 1995 he played in a lot of punk, psycodelia, stone rock and progressive rock projects, but always trying to give 100% importance to the freedom that improvisation gives to music. He played with Humus (band) that was founded in 1987 by Jorge Beltrán (guitar, keyboards) and Victor Basurto the full fledged bassist. Both of them, are formers musician of many other important Mexican bands, as Frolic Froth, Smoking The Century Away, Euphoric Darkness, Loch Ness and Semefo. Since 1997 Westminster became more or less the permanent drummer of Humus, who was preceded by Julian Bonequi (1998–2000) when Jorge Beltrán invited Bonequi to made important contributions to different albums(not yet released).[4][5] In 1999 he met Decibel (band).[6] Decibel were a rare exception to the prog acts of the 1978 period in Mexico, and were well versed in European groups such as Faust, Magma, Gong, and the Italian prog masters Il Balletto di Bronzo. The lineup centered around keyboardist Carlos Robledo and the bassist Walter Schmidt. So he found finally a place for improve his skills and experiment more. With them Julian Bonequi perform in the First International Festival of Progressive Rock in Mexico City, with Magma and Gong also in the program. And the next year, in March 2000 in a concert in the Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in the historic centre of Mexico City, they celebrated the 25th anniversary and present the CD release named Fortuna Virilis, in addition to a retrospective with the work done since 1974. This concert is included in the three-disc box Fiat Lux, and it was the last time Decibel, this legendary Mexican band of Rock In Opposition play together without Javier Baviera, or Jaime Castaneda, but with Julian Bonequi on drums and Juan Carlos Ruiz on bassoon, former musician of Nazca, and leader of Culto Sin Nombre The same year, in 2000, the Israeli Label, MIO Records produced a 3-disc box called Fiat Lux. The complete recordings. 1977 - 2000, which contains all the studio albums of Decibel, and plus live material and rarities of unedited material. And a small booklet of 28 pages with pictures of the beginnings of the band. Also this box contained the 25th anniversary concert at Ex-Teresa Arte Actual. With Metaconciencia Julian Bonequi recorded the first album "Bestiario" in 2003 published by the French record label MUSEA Records. The critics received well this music work. A rhythm section perform a colourful and warm instrumental rock with multiple influences: Seventies Progressive rock, jazz-rock, Mexican music The music presented in Bestiario is quite intensive all of which is accompanied by quite an extraordinary drumming.

JULIAN PERCY

Alias: MATARRATAS / ULTRA SPIESSER

avant jazz / musique concrete / abstractism / avant-garde / experimental / noise / drone music

Julian Percy wurde 1978 in Melbourne Australien, geboren.
Für die Erstellung seiner Klänge bedient er sich verschiedener Materialien, wie z.B im urbanen Raum gefundene Objekte, selbst gebauten Instrumenten , individuell preparierte Guitarren, klassischen analogen Effekten , Sampler .
Seine Projekte sind RATBAG, LAST DOMINION LOST, MATARRATAS, ULTRA SPEICER, HELAAS, SKULP, NK.
RATBAG on ZHARK INTERNATIONAL

KASPER T. TOEPLITZ

Alias: DARK MATTER

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / conceptual art / drone music

Composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man's land between "academic" composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic "new music" or "noise music". Has won several prizes and distinctions ; 1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the "Opéra autrement / centre Acanthes" competition, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco) , Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin). Got numerous commissions from the French Governement, the radio and from electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS.. Works with experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Ulrich Krieger, Stevie Wishart, Z'ev, others…….. Some of his long-term groups or projects are LE DEPEUPLEUR (with Zbigniew Karkowski), KERNEL (a trio of computer players), Basstaarang (with Philippe Foch playing taarang), Ephémérides (bass & image by Strom Varx) Has definitively integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, or working on the sheer electronic noise.

MATARRATAS

Alias: JULIAN BONEQUI / JULIAN PERCY

doom / avant jazz / psychedelic / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / harsh / drone music

MATARRATAS are: Julian Percy and Julian Bonequi

MECONIUM

Alias: AA.VV. | STARING AT THE WALL III / POSEITRONE | LUCA DI DATO

avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / psychedelic / abstractism / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / harsh

Meconium are: L. Nascitari and L. Poseitrone.

MERZBOW

avant jazz / musique concrete / psychedelic / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / noise / contemporary art / harsh / conceptual art / industrial music / drone music

Merzbow is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita

PHILIPPE PETIT

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / concrete turntablism / industrial music / drone music

PHILIPPE PETIT is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. PETIT uses a computer to build up electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machine he likes to move various glasses, or percussive objects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds. A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT has celebrated his 25th year of sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp. PETIT has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, working with: Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti, My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, Simon Fisher Turner, Justin Broadrick and many more... Aside his solo works, PETIT is active in Strings Of Consciousness, does a duo with Lydia Lunch, and his collab with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust)

RMEDL

Alias: SG

doom / sound sculpture / photography / video art / visual art / avant jazz / spoken word / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / modern composition / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / acousmatic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / noise / dark ambient / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / drone music

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SETH CLUETT

avant jazz / musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / esoteric / abstractism / acousmatic / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / noise / contemporary art / glitch

American artist, performer and composer born in 1976 in Troy, New York, USA.

SEVENGUITARS

avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / psychedelic / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / constructivism / site specific / drone music

Francesco Fuzz Brasini Sevenguitars is a project born from the idea of interaction between sound and space. The project features seven guitars, seemingly identical but technically conceived to produce distinctive characteristics: the seven instruments have been designed and handcrafted with a tonal chamber inside the solid body which interacts with the string's harmonic vibrations creating different sound effects. Every guitar is connected to a valve-amplifier each of witch is equipped with distinctive speakers and different power. The amps are used at the maximum volume and tone. This creates a feedback effect with the guitars: the strings go in auto-oscillation creating different harmonics depending on the instrument and the tuning, and reacting with the acoustic features of the performative environment. The musician loses, therefore, the role of executor and becomes only the creator of a process open to unpredictable results and closely related to the spatial contest of the performance. Every place, every contest, becomes an important variable able to influence the result: the sound, therefore, is more linked to the spatial dimension rather than to the temporal one with which the music is traditionally associated.

SONGS OF THE NEW EROTICS

avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / electroacoustic / noise / nonmusic / abstract surrealism

W.A.Davison. Songs of the New Erotics is an experimental audio and performance art project headed by Toronto-based polymedia artist W.A.Davison. The project was initiated in 1991 as a means of translating various Recordist/Surrealist experiments into finished works of music, film, and performance art The Songs of the New Erotics project is essentially divided into two complimentary components - performances and audio compositions. Both aspects of the project may also involve film and video work (performance documents, "music videos", etc.) as well as elements of visual art, poetic texts, and other artistic forms.

TELE.S.THERION

Alias: LUNURUMH / PAOLO SANNA / JASON VAN GULICK / LE QUAN NINH / MICHEL DONEDA / STEFANO CORSI / FRANZ HAUTZINGER / DAN BLACKSBERG / KRISTIAN CUCCHIARA (PROFANAL) / REINHART HAMMERSCHMIDT / ELI LITWIN / ROGER TURNER / RENè LUSSIER / NICK DIDKOVSKY / MASSIMILIANO VIEL / SG / K11 / ASTRAL LUEUR / KASPER T. TOEPLITZ / ANTOINE CHESSEX / WILDNESS PERVERSION | MORTUARY DRAPE

noise music / reduced listening / free jazz / acousmatic black metal / doom / avant jazz / musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / abstract symbolism / acousmatic / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / dark ambient / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art / industrial music / drone music

TELE.S.THERION
Acousmatic Black Metal Ensemble.

In large Ensemble with:
Lunurumh, Nick Didkovsky, Norman Westberg, Renè Lussier, Roger Turner, Eli Litwin, Massimiliano Viel, Reinhart Hammerschmidt, Kristian Cucchiara (Profanal), Dan Blacksberg Franz Hautzinger, Stefano Corsi, Michel Doneda, Le Quan Ninh, Jason Van Gulick, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Antoine Chessex, Paolo Sanna, Wildness Perversion [Mortuary Drape].

Acousmatic Black Metal is the TST self-defined musical genre. Music for loudspeakers and audience: based on atonal music and non-idiomatic improvisation principles, applied to a radical Black Metal approach, linked to authors such as Abruptum, Hell Icon, Mözkörke, Emit, Amaka Hahina, Moëvöt, Profane Grace, Astral Lueur, Black Pentecost, Darkness Enshroud, Gnaw Their Tongues, Sunn O))), Grauen Pestanz, Summum, MZ.412, Havohej, Knálh-Kurruv-Kih, Flittering, Burial Hex, Utarm, Wolf Eyes, Zero Kama, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hermann Nitsch, Edgar Varese, Antonio Russolo, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Russolo, Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète, AMM, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva, The Music Improvisation Company, Universe Zero, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Scratch Orchestra, ONCE Group, following the non-musical aural path of early Sodom, Hellhammer, Beherit, Blasphemy, Von, Wormphlegm, Mordor, Senthil, Thergothon, Kranivm, and many more authors who moved from the borders of this sound paradigm. Inspired by the Russolo‘s researches in his Black Art of Noise; the sound spatialization studies of Karlheinz Stockhausen and his music theory; Edgar Varese‘s studies and his vision of “sound as living matter“, the non-objective and aniconic art of Tele.s.therion, is centered on polyphonic sound projections for immersive deep listening experiences, in order to unleash the auditory stimuli that allow the altering of cognitive-perceptual processes (pareidolia), to bring out imaginative and synaesthetic subconscious processes, the epopteia! What we commonly know today as Black Metal, it’s just one of the possible forms available.

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TELE.S.THERION Acousmatic Black Metal Ensemble
Tele.s.therion music program it’s based on the use of techniques and dynamics borrowed from musical genres such as Jazz and Rock, and thus from the practices of the radical primitive Blues that unites them, and that can be find ourselves in the original Black Metal music, introduced here as an interpretive key inside of a compositional and executive system linked to practices carried out by the fringes of classical, modern, non-idiomatic, contemporary, and avant-garde music (with a special interest on the concrete and acousmatic process), sound art, improvised, atonal, black, dark and doom heavy metal, searching for the roots of the meaning of these terms, for their sonic phenomenas, their thought forms, before they became a music genre.

What we commonly know today as black metal, it’s just one of the possible forms availabes.

It is necessary start to watch through the veil of this genre, with an upside down point of view, to discover its das unheimliche, to transgress the stereotopies and cliché, and design new possible forms whithin this musical dimension; to start a new auditory journey to the roots of Black Metal music. The Black Metal's engineering its mutuated by its royal descent, which is derived from the practices developped in Punk and Thrash era, and it is distinguishable by a strong interest in the aesthetic theories, focusing on the physiological effects of special categories such as the sublime, which here become extra musical evocative suggestions, shock tactics, hard edged, transgressive and antiestablishment attitude, iconoclasm, etc. [...]

The TST compositional method, the sound matters was previously selected choosing the performers; the characters and the timbres of the sound bodies chosen for this acousmatic composition, are a unity with the personality of the author involved in the ensemble. Such as characters on the set of a movie, they play blind and alone, using a script and few essential indications. [...]

To keep this aspect of independence of each sound event, each author was called to perform himself, recording his own sessions separately, as a moment form, without knowing what the other authors involved will do. Each recording session, it's conceived and treated as a sort of whodunit, an event developed inside the "locked room mystery", a narrative approach conceptually transposed in sound art, where each detail it's a fondant clues of the acoustic scene, raw material that becomes a sound object per sé. [...]

T.S.T.

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THE HATERS

Alias: GX JUPITTER-LARSEN

avant jazz / grind / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / collage art / nonmusic / harsh / site specific / conceptual art

The Haters are foundedd by GX Jupitter-Larsen It's a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, writer, and filmmaker GX Jupitter-Larsen, accompanied by a constantly changing lineup of other "members," usually local experimental musicians and artists in whatever town in which a Haters performance happens to take place.

THE LOOP ORCHESTRA

Alias: JOHN BLADES

avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / experimental

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

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CARDIOID SNAKE

avant jazz / musique concrete / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / abstract surrealism / surrealism / drone music

Massimo Cuomo

TRAVEL TRIP

avant jazz / psychedelic / abstractism / electroacoustic / noise

Travel Trip, an Italian Duo composed by Marco Seracini, synths and computer, and Augusto Tatone, electric fretless bass. Electoquantum ambient music it's a self named form of experimental ambient music based on two principles of quantum physics: entanglement and synchronicity.

ULTRA SPIESSER

Alias: JULIAN BONEQUI / JULIAN PERCY / ANTON MAIOF

doom / avant jazz / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / abstract surrealism / drone music

ULTRA SPIEßER (ULTRA SPIESSER) are: Julian Percy, Anton Maiof, Julian Bonequi “NK a well known place for avant-garde and experimental music in Berlin was the location where Julian Percy aka Ratbag(electric guitar treatment), Anton Maiof (voice, wii & max/MSP) and Julian Bonequi (manipulated drums & voice) came together in November 2010 to play Ultra Speicer, a stunning performance which promises a deep and intense sonic trip. Leading off with hypnotic drumming, distorted guitar lines embedded in ambient sounds the album moves to ecstatic drumming combined with female and male vocals, accompanied by well placed sound collages which achieve to carry off the listener to another state of consciousness.” Julian Bonequi (December 27, 1974 ) is a Mexican artist working mostly with Noise and Improvisation since 1995. His musical research focuses on emotional instability, semantic landscapes and cathartic explosions and even alienated as an act of concentration. Curator of Audition Records, Dissemination of Musicalibre & drums on F.O.C.O. Orchestra (2006-2011)… has performed under the conduction of William Parker, Keith Tippett, Eddie Prévost, Michael Fischer, London Improvisers Orchestra, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra w/ Tristan Honsinger, Ute Wasserman, Alison Blunt, Wolfgang Georgsdorf… w/Mat Pogo, Klaus Kürvers, Hans Tammen & Ursel Schlicht, Thomas Bjelkeborn, Olaf Rupp, Olivier di Placido, Dave Tucker ( Machinations of Joy ), Germán Bringas, Zeger Vandenbussche, Clayton Thomas… Some other projects : Animales Varios (w/Klaus Kürvers), Ultraspießer (w/Ratbag), Tabla y Cuchillo (w/Ricardo Tejero), The Blind Date (w/Julio Clavijo), Sangre Azteca, Comechingones, The Third Mind (Barcelona), Pandillismo (México) … In Istanbul has performed with Volkan Terzioğlu (Islak Köpek)… and recorded with Umut Çağlar ( re:konstruKt ), Korhan Futacı & Barlas Tan Özemek. At the end of 90′s he played as invited musician with Decibel ( 1999 ), Culto Sin Nombre (2003) … Basically psicodelic bands, chamber music , rock in oposition and other folkloric fusions in Mexico City… Julian currently is working with drums and voice as soloist in a mixture of extreme improvisation and instant composition. In 2012, Julian will start collaborating with Salon Bruit. Julian Percy wurde 1978 in Melbourne Australien, geboren. Für die Erstellung seiner Klänge bedient er sich verschiedener Materialien, wie z.B im urbanen Raum gefundene Objekte, selbst gebauten Instrumenten , individuell preparierte Guitarren, klassischen analogen Effekten , Sampler . Seine Projekte sind RATBAG, LAST DOMINION LOST , MATARRATAS , ULTRA SPEICER , HELAAS , SKULP , NK. RATBAG on ZHARK INTERNATIONAL

VRI-IL

avant jazz / psychedelic / ambient music / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / surrealism / drone music

V-Zent:Vincent Gambino - vox, clarino tapes, plates metallofoni. Kiwy:Matteo Cucini keyboards, sampler, percussions. Aljaz:Francesco Cavaliere - vox, guitar, bass, tapes, discophono. Vril or Vri-il referes also to a non defined form of mystical energy often linked to Orgone energy as described by Wilheilm Reich. The bands intuitions have lead them to believe that life is but a long oniric experience modified by the will of the dreamer. Vri-ils live performance tends to create an hypnagogic environment in which one can lose touch with his conscious self and reach different states of creativity. This is achived through hypnotic rythms, tones repetition and frequency modulations. With the proper attention the listener can reach an estatic condition and hear the infinity of sounds within a single sound. This link them to ancient music traditions and to the modern ipnotic performances such as those of The Theatre of Eternal Music of La Monte Young, Steve Reich Vri-il has played various concerts all around Italy, two special concerts, wich actually were two 6 hours celebrations of spring equinox and summer soltice during 2004, were recorded and released on CD by MCL (Musica di un certo livello), an indipendent italian label. Their first album was completed in summer 2004 and released in early 2005 by MCL and Misty Circle, an historical experimental and industrial label based in Rome.