A SHORT TERM EFFECT

musique concrete / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / dark ambient / folk / abstract expressionism / industrial music / drone music

Alberto Picciau

A.M.K.

electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / fluxus

AMK is an American pioneer on experimental music based on extreme and concrete turnatablism, active since the early 80s. Owner of the label Banned Production.

AA.VV. | STARING AT THE WALL III
Alias: MECONIUM

grind / performative art / actionism / abstractism / expressionism / body art / 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

ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI

sound sculpture / avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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.

ANDREA MARUTTI

musique concrete / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / experimental / noise / nonmusic / industrial music / drone music

Andrea Marutti was born in 1970 and currently lives in Milan, Italy. He began his experiments with music in the early '90s using tapes and concrete elements. A few years later he also started to use synthesizers, samplers and other electronic devices, and founded the Lips Vago Digital Studio. His most well-known projects are Amon and Never Known. Several releases of Ambient / Dark Ambient music were published by labels such as Eibon Records, Nextera, Amplexus, Silentes, Drone Records, Taâlem, etc. on CD and other medias. He is also responsible of many other projects dealing with different styles of electronic music ranging from Lo-Fi / Weird / Cheap Electronica to IDM (Wolkspurz & Ramirez, Lips Vago), Dada / Noise / Non-sense (Spiral). Recently he also started recording and releasing experimental/ambient tracks under his own name, in duo with Nimh / Giuseppe Verticchio as "Hall of Mirrors", with Davide Del Col (Ornament, Echran) as Molnija Aura, and again in duo with Andrea "Ics" Ferraris as "Sil Muir". During the years he had the chance to collaborate and play with many friends/musicians/artists: Nefelheim, Madame P, Fausto Balbo, Aidan Baker, Dronaement, Bugo, Hue, Krell, Femina Faber, a034, Florian Filsinger, Roberto Bellatalla, Elephant Zyclus, Kabal, Moan, OvO, Ventolin Orchestra, Sparkle in Grey, Mark Hamn, V/VM, Manuele Cecconello, Amalia Del Ponte, Subterranean Source, Raffaele Serra, Biped... He runs a small label called Afe whose 10th birthday was celebrated in 2005. Among the musicians who had their music released on Afe we would like to mention Maurizio Bianchi, Bad Sector, Maeror Tri, Telepherique, De Fabriek, Ultra Milkmaids, Aidan Baker, Ovum, Steve Brand, Logoplasm, Raffaele Serra, Ellende, Bestia Centauri, True Colour of Blood, Gerstein, Dronaement, Frog Pocket, Moan, Nimh, Brian Lavelle...

ANTOINE CHESSEX
Alias: DARK MATTER

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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.

ASTRAL LUEUR
Alias: TELE.S.THERION

doom / avant jazz / spoken word / musique concrete / psychedelic / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / werid 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

 

BAD SECTOR | MASSIMO MAGRINI

musique concrete / radionoise / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / dark ambient

Massimo Magrini was born in Lucca ( Tuscany , Italy ) in 1966. He had a long degree in Computer Science in Pisa University , with a thesis on musical applications of the Object Oriented paradigm. He studied electronic music with Alfonso Belfiore (professor at the State Conservatory of Florence). He collaborated with the Computer Music Lab of the CNUCE Institute of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) for some years, developing hardware and software tools, composing his interactive computer music and playing it in various countries ( Italy , Spain , Greece , Cuba etc.). He also collaborated with private companies developing software for musical devices based on digital signal processing. During late 80s, he played in a local electronic band (Jesus Blood), using self built analog and digital synthesizers. Besides these activities in 1992 he created his Bad Sector musical project, trying to discover dark sonic areas and focusing his attention on the melting point between ambient, experimental, noise and minimal music. He has released various CDs and vinyls, always having good responses from international underground electronic music magazines and listeners. As Bad Sector, he performed live in Italy , France , England , Germany , Czech rep., Austria , Belgium , Australia and Russia . During 2002 he also started a collaboration with the Italian video-artist Giacomo Verde, creating the multimedia group called XEAR and working on interactive installations / electronic-theater scores.

BIG CITY ORCHESTRA

avant jazz / musique concrete / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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 / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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"

BURIAL HEX

psychedelic / modern composition / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / dark ambient / abstract expressionism / harsh

Clay Ruby.

CHRISTINA KUBISCH

sound sculpture / musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / site specific / conceptual art / drone music

Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her installations. Since 1986 she has added light as an artistic element to her work with sound. Her work displays an artistic development which is often described as the "synthesis of arts" - the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other. Christina Kubisch was born in Bremen. She studied music, painting and electronics. Performances and concerts until 1980, subsequently sound installations, sound sculptures and work with ultraviolet light. Numerous grants and awards, such as Award of the German Industrial Association (BDI), composition grant of the city of Berlin, Carl Djerassi Honorary Fellowship, IASPIS Stockholm. Since 1974 solo exhibitions in Europe, USA, Australia, Japan and South America. Participation in international festivals and group exhibitions such as : Pro Musica Nova, Bremen 1976 /1980, Für Augen und Ohren, Berlin 1980, Biennale of Venice, 1980 / 1982, Gaudeamus Music Festival 1984, documenta 8, Kassel 1987, Ars Electronica, Linz 1987, Steirischer Herbst, Graz 1987, Biennale of Sydney 1990, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 1993 /1997, Prison Sentences, Philadelphia 1995, Sonambiente, Berlin 1996, in medias res, Istanbul 1997, festival d'art sonor, Barcelona 1999, Sonic Boom, London 2000, Visual Sound, Pittsburgh 2001, Singuhr-Hörgalerie, berlin 2002. Christina Kubisch is a professor of sculpture and audio/visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, since 1994 and a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1987.She lives in Berlin. Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as the magnetic induction to realize her sound installations. Since 1986 the artist has added light as an artistic element to her work with sound. Christina Kubisch's work displays an artistic development which is often described as the "synthesis of arts" - the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a new relationship between material and form in music on the other.

CIANI PIERMARIO
Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983

sound sculpture / visual art / punk / sound installation / psychedelic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / collage art / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / networking / abstract surrealism / fluxus

One of the founders of TRAX label along with Vittore Baroni and Massimo Giacon, graphic artist Piermario Ciani (1951-2006) was also the mind behind "virtual" rock band Mind Invaders, and, from 1994, one of the founders of the Luther Blissett multiple name project, officially ended in 1999. In 1996 he also cofounded with Vittore Baroni the publishing firm AAA Edizioni. Founder member of LT. Murnau and the multidisciplinary project TRAX.

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.

CORPUS PRINCIPIUM
Alias: GRäUEN PESTANZ

performative art / abstract symbolism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / dark ambient / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / drone music

Marchözelös - All instrumentation, human bones, Spells of Mist, Chants of the Serpent. Vinum - Death Rituals, Acausal Vibrations of Sanctity, Witchcraft. Aanonin - Succubus vocals, Flesh of Hecate. Gräuen Pestanz is an expression of isolation of the highest order. The Night of the Witch in the eerie light of the mid noon sun is the ultimate envisioning of the sigils invoked within each Hymn. To penetrate into the Womb of the earth and grasp the meaning of our unholy brood, this is our manifesto. The reworking of human nature into the alchemical transformation possible - the final end. Gräuen Pestanz - Marchözelös (aka Priest Marchözelös is member of "Black Funeral" the band founded by Michael W. Ford) - All instrumentation, human bones, Spells of Mist, Chants of the Serpent. Vinum - Death Rituals, Acausal Vibrations of Sanctity, Witchcraft. Aanonin - Succubus vocals, Flesh of Hecate. Related projects: Gräuen Pestanz | Elegy of Madeline | Death Posture Ritualis | Corpus Principium

DALOT | MARIA PAPADOMANOLAKI

abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental

Maria Papadomanolaki is a Greek sound artist, curator and author, currently based in New York City. She works within the fields of experimental and electro-acoustic composition, including sound design for dance and video, field recording, telematic performance, installation and radio art. Papadomanolaki aims to establish a refined relationship with space, memory and identity through the many different manifestations of sound as a source material, a carrier of a dense network of information, an aesthetic intervention, a physical or ethereal trigger and a form of detritus or novelty and re-evaluation, just to name a few primary ones. Her work is also characterized by the notions of participatory understanding and exploration of shared experiences and surrounding environments, as well as the sonification of textural and material peculiarities such as the hidden life of surfaces and urban architectural structures. In the past, she has worked extensively on text-based soundpieces and on the idea of expanding a written text in space through the use of interactive music software; a field that she often revisits. Her collaboration with the NY State-based non-profit arts organization free103point9, has led her to a series of important realizations about the shape and nature of radio and transmission as platforms of artistic expression and experimentation; a line of thought rooted back in 2008 while pursuing her studies in sound art and working as a volunteer sound engineer for a community arts radio station (Resonance FM) in London. Her work has been exhibited and featured internationally at a variety of galleries, institutions and events, such as the 7000IS International Experimental Short Film Festival (Iceland, 2007), the Sunrise Festival (Sommerset, UK, 2007), the Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, GR, 2008), the IMT Gallery (London, UK, 2008), the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, UK, 2009), the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre at St. Mark’s Church (New York, USA, 2009), Cabinet Magazine’s Gallery Space (New York, USA, 2010), Flushnik Studios (New York, 2010), the DHRA Conference (London, UK, 2010), the Center of Mediterranean Architecture/K.A.M. (Chania, Greece, 2010), the Niu Arts Space (Barcelona, Spain, 2011), the SKUC Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011) among others. She has produced experimental radio pieces and exhibits, as well as standard-form radioshows which have been featured in a variety of radio stations such as Resonance FM (London, UK), WGXC (Acra, NY), Radio Campus Paris (France), Sound Art Radio (UK), Radio One 91FM (Dunedin, New Zealand), CFRO Vancouver Co-operative Radio (Canada) and Cooradio (Thessaloniki, GR). As a researcher and writer, she has produced work that has been published and presented at international conferences. Her paper “Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation”, presented at the ECREA Radio Research Section 2009 conference, has been published in the volume ”Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium” (Intellect Books, 2011). She is also the co-author of the book “Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves” (PAJ Publications, 2011). She has received awards and fellowships by the Nagoya University of the Arts (2007), the Schilizzi Foundation (2007) and the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (2008). She holds an MA in Sound Art from the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London.

DREAM WEAPON RITUAL
Alias: SIMON BALESTRAZZI

abstractism / minimalism / avant-garde / experimental / noise / drone music

Dream Weapon Ritual are formed in November 2006 by Simon Balestrazzi and Monica Serra.

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

musique concrete / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / radionoise / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / field recordings / noise / nonmusic / site specific / drone music

Empirical Evidence is Aldo Ammirata. Metaphysical experimental audio research and paranormal investigations. EVP, frequencies meters and recivers devices, field recording and electroacoustic manipulations.

FABIO ORSI
Alias: GREY HISTORY

minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / experimental / noise / folk / drone music

Fabio Orsi is an electronic musician from Taranto (Southern Italy) specialising in atmospheric drone. He is a young and talented composer recently revealed in a series of publications received by an enthusiastic chorus of critical approval. In his compositions the languages of popular tradition meet the avantgarde approach, creating an original and charm mix. Orsi’s music originates with field recordings through which he seeks to capture images in sound inspired by the historic pre-war folk recordings made by Alan Lomax .

FRANCISCO LOPEZ

musique concrete / sound installation / psychedelic / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / contemporary art / nonmusic / conceptual art / drone music

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Over the last twenty years Francisco López has been developing a powerful and consistent world of minimal electroacoustic soundscapes, 'trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrète music'. To date, his catalog comprises more than 140 sound works, which have been released by one hundred record labels from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, UK, Norway, Greece, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Japan, China, Australia. He has toured extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, North, Central and South America, Japan and Australia doing acousmatic performances, and he has received commissions from a number of reknown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization (Rotterdam), Yale University Theater (New Haven), the Ralph Lemon Company (New York), the Zeitkratzer Ensemble (Berlin), Creative Time (New York), Quartier Ephemere (Montreal) and Sound Traffic Control (San Francisco).

GIANLUCA BECUZZI
Alias: LIMBO / GREY HISTORY / KINETIX

video art / visual art / musique concrete / sound installation / esoteric / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / experimental / collage art / noise / contemporary art / folk / constructivism / site specific / glitch / conceptual art / industrial music / drone music

Gianluca Becuzzi (born 1962, Piombino-Italy) is an electronic / electroacoustic composer and sound artist active since the first half of the 80’s. He released many albums and performed live around Europe during the last three decades under various names. Since 1999, his artistic production is characterised by a strong experimental imprint, by the interest into the expressive possibilities offered by the technologies and by a clear aesthetic inclination towards abstract forms and micro / macro noises / sounds. He deals with electronic / electroacoustic composition, sound art, audio installations, ambient post-scorings and sound design. The relationships between art and science, between audio and visual-spatial forms, as well as between composition and self-generative processes represent the main themes in my sonological research. Among the artistic productions of the latest years, in addiction to the experimental works under his own name, we have to mention also his solo works as Kinetix, the records in duet with Fabio Orsi, the electro-post-punk project Noise Trade Company and the harsh-power-noise productions as Greyhistory, plus several other collaborations with musicians, theatre companies and videoartists from the experimental area. PROJECTS: LIMBO (1984-2001) SAINT LUKA (1988-1992) MATAFORM (1995-1996) KINETIX (1999-2010) GIANLUCA BECUZZI (2006-Today) GIANLUCA BECUZZI FABIO ORSI (2006-Today) NOISE TRADE COMPANY (2008-Today) GREY HISTORY (2010-Today)

GLOBSTER

abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / concrete turntablism

Dj e manipolatore di suoni, comincia nel 1991 mixando musica elettronica presso alcune emittenti radiofoniche locali. Nel 1997 con Dj EML forma i BPAM progetto di musica ambient-isolazionista. Nel 1999, dall'incontro con il programmatore e sviluppatore di software CERIN0 , nascono tre progetti musicali: TECHNOTONER (techno suonata in tempo reale con strumenti analogici), GLI ELETTRODI e UNIT (elettronica sperimentale). Nei suoi dj set, Globster spesso si è fatto affiancare da musicisti e ospiti: PINO SILVERI (voce), LEX LUTHOR (chitarra), PINO PETRACCIA (percussioni). Recentemente ha iniziato collaborazioni musicali per danza e teatro contemporaneo: con il gruppo ALHENA e Alessandra La Spada (danza); con l'ATELIER ESPACE ed il gruppo TEATRO ACCANTO (teatro). Altre collaborazioni musicali sono nate con i PERIZONA (rock sperimentale) ; DNA (cross over); con il violinista DIEGO CONTI nello spettacolo “Pescara resiste”; con il chitarrista LUIGI MELONI nel progetto ACORN (ambient);con il chitarrista STEFANO D'EMILIO nel duo PROSPECT (improvvisazione); con OTOMO YOSHIHIDE in occasione di un concerto tenuto nel 1998 all'Alternative Pub di Roccamorice (PE); con EUGENE CHADBOURNE l'anno successivo nel medesimo luogo. Globster è sempre stato interessato all'arte visuale ed ha realizzato alcune ri-musicazioni di film muti: “Nanook of the north” (con i BPAM) presentato al festival di Ri-musicazioni Harlock di Bolzano, al 13° festival Underground Kab Usine a Ginevra ; “ Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari” (con gli Acorn) presentato al Kabala Jazz Club di Pescara, “Isofromatem”, “Crudeliter” e “Diario di una lavatrice” cortometraggi di Andrea Malandra presentati nella rassegna PrimoTempo al teatro Ex-Alici di Spoltore (PE) e al Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio di Pescara; “Duetto metropolitano” del regista Fabrizio De Bartolomei, trasmesso sull'emittente nazionale La 7; e per lo stesso regista “Ger to ger”.

GNAW THEIR TONGUES
Alias: ADERLATING

black metal / abstract symbolism / werid black metal / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise

Mories : All instruments

GRäUEN PESTANZ
Alias: CORPUS PRINCIPIUM

performative art / esoteric / black metal / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / ritual dark ambient

Gräuen Pestanz is an expression of isolation of the highest order. The Night of the Witch in the eerie light of the mid noon sun is the ultimate envisioning of the sigils invoked within each Hymn. To penetrate into the Womb of the earth and grasp the meaning of our unholy brood, this is our manifesto. The reworking of human nature into the alchemical transformation possible - the final end. Gräuen Pestanz - Marchözelös (aka Priest Marchözelös is member of "Black Funeral" the band founded by Michael W. Ford) - All instrumentation, human bones, Spells of Mist, Chants of the Serpent. Vinum - Death Rituals, Acausal Vibrations of Sanctity, Witchcraft. Aanonin - Succubus vocals, Flesh of Hecate. Related projects: Gräuen Pestanz | Elegy of Madeline | Death Posture Ritualis | Corpus Principium

IVES 1

avant jazz / grind / musique concrete / psychedelic / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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.

JOHN BLADES
Alias: THE LOOP ORCHESTRA

spoken word / musique concrete / psychedelic / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / abstract surrealism / fluxus

John Blades is the founder member of the group THE LOOP ORCHESTRA. 02 Dicember 011 The Australian experimental music community lost one of its finest last Friday when John Blades passed away due to complications associated with cancer. John was best known as a founding member of The Loop Orchestra, the long-time host/producer of the Background Noise radio program , and a tireless supporter of experimental musicians and sound artists around the country. Outside of music, John advocated for people with disabilities (he was diagnosed with MS in 1982) in many ways, most memorably in his Walkley Award-winning radio documentary “The Too Hard Basket” about sexuality and the disabled. John was one of the rare people I’ve met who I know pretty soon that I am privileged to have crossed paths with. His severe disability could not conceal his keen intelligence and broad knowledge of the arts, his humour, and most of all a positive energy and enthusiasm that he brought to his work. Listen to his fantastic radio doco “The Too Hard Basket” and you’ll get an idea of what I mean. If anyone in this world had something to be down and self-pitying about, it was John, who struggled for years with MS, only to finally succumb to cancer. His last email of a few weeks ago, informing his friends of his grim prognosis, agreed with what we all thought – ‘it wasn’t fair’. Yet he was still warm and positive, holding out hope for a final experimental treatment. We come across so many negative, self-pitying people – none of them have had the trials John did, and yet he was one of the most positive, enthusiastic people I’ve ever known (even though he had had episodes with depression the past; very common for people with MS). His personal and professional support for my own work was significant and lifted my spirits on several occasions. I saw reports of John’s passing in social media on the weekend, but didn’t want to post anything here until I had something more official. Rik Rue rang me last night and asked that I inform Melbourne people who knew John, and pass on the details of the funeral service (Monday 5 December at Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney). Even if we can’t attend, I’m sure those of us who knew John and/or were moved by his work, will spare a thought for him. Text by Rik Rue http://exp-melb.blogspot.com/2011/12/vale-john-blades.html

JULIAN BONEQUI
Alias: MATARRATAS / ULTRA SPIESSER

doom / avant jazz / grind / performative art / psychedelic / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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

JULIEN OTTAVI

abstractism / abstract symbolism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / conceptual art

Julien Ottavi aka FORMANEX, aka THE NOISER, is part of the sound/activist collective APO 33 in Nantes, has moved recently to London where he has set up up a media lab in the artist space Area 10. APO 33 produced the GNU/Linux audio-media distribution Apodio, which is the one that Julien uses. Ottavi is likely the most intense laptop performer, always ready for new challenges and finding new ways of experimenting and this new work is a continuation of his extreme engagement in sound. Since 1997, he develops a composition work on the voice and its transformation by computer. Active developper of audio/visual programs with Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics (radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video transmitters...etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on technological development. Main developper for the Gnu/Linux operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming manipulation http://www.apodio.org His practices is not limited to the art spheres but crosses different fields from technological development to philosophy research, biomimetic analysis & experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations between experimental practices and collective practices within the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in question the authorship strategy of the “art ideology”. As a sound composer he works on « programmatic compositions », producing computer series of solos : “Nervure Magnétique” - “séries du bruit blanc et rose” , « série métapercussions » “étudesauxhertz” ...(concerts in Europe - 2000/2001, United states 2002/2003/2005). Develops all his researsh with computer and Puredata software and Gnu/Linux operating system. - For these series, he works with some limited sound materials (noise, frequencies, sinus, percussions samples...etc) and uses the computer as an instrument to play music and modify space. -founders and member of FORMANEX, electroacoustic quatuor of chamber music from XXe and XXIe century, which plays graphic scores and others kind of scores from composers like Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, Christian Wolf, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Jerome Joy, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Ralf Wehowsky… etc. -Founder, artistic programmer, audio/video computer researcher (network and audio research) and mix-media artist of APO33: Art, technology and research laboratory based in Nantes working in the fields of sound art, free software, collaborative practices, micromedia and urban and environmental mutations. It is at the initiative of several collective projects linking research, experimentation and intervention in social contexts. APO33 develops several activities : creation to facilitate the development of experimental sound creation practices. APO33 with its own CIA (Cell for Intervention in Art/apo33), created a collective for sound/radio creation (artistic research, participation in festivals, residences, publications...). Technological Research on digital tools (web-radios, server networks, collaborative plate-forms...) and electronic devices. Theoretical research (organizing seminars, colloques, workshops with an interdisciplinary approach). Educational activities (teaching and workshops). Diffusion, Apo33 frequently invites artists from all over the world to present their work, set up collaborations or exchanges.

K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI
Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / PIETRO RIPARBELLI / KAULA / MACABRE / SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY / TELE.S.THERION

doom / musique concrete / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / radionoise / abstract symbolism / suprematism / acousmatic art / minimalism / werid black metal / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art / drone music

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Co-curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound Artist Statement: My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception. I realize works as PIETRO RIPARBELLI especially related to the world of Contemporary Art. So each work arise from a conceptual idea turned into sound. The field in which I principally work is linked to the perception of the sound landscape and to the perception of inner states of consciousness related to other dimensions of awareness. K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers and field recordings taken from very specific locations. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places turned into fields of drone with particular interest into the study of the dynamics of Noise. 



KASPER T. TOEPLITZ
Alias: DARK MATTER

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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.

KAULA
Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / PIETRO RIPARBELLI

doom / psychedelic / black metal / abstract symbolism / werid black metal / avant-garde / noise / drone music

Kaula are: Pietro Riparbelli: Conception, Organs, Distorted Voice and Fiedl Recordings Rosy (Profanal): Vocal Kristian (Profanal): Guitar Nicco (Profanal): Drum Kaula is an experimental Black Metal band based in Italy that wants investigate some dimensions related to the hindu culture with particular reference to the worship of the Kali Deity. Thus, all the lyrics of kaula project are taken from an old an important text of the Shivaitic Tantrism called AVADHUTA GITA. The Avadhuta Gita is a text of Vedanta representing extreme Advaita or Nondualism. It is ascribed to Dattatreya, who is looked upon as an Incarnation of God. Avadhuta means a liberated soul, one who has "passed away from" or "shaken off" all worldly attachments and cares and has attained a spiritual state equivalent to the existence of God. Though avadhuta naturally implies renunciation, it includes an additional and yet higher state which is neither attachment nor detachment but beyond both. An avadhuta feels no need of observing any rules, either secular or religious. He seeks nothing, avoids nothing. He has neither knowledge nor ignorance. Having realized that he is the infinite Self, he lives in that vivid realization.

KINETIX
Alias: GIANLUCA BECUZZI

sound installation / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / glitch / drone music

Since early 1999, KINETIX is the new moniker of Gianluca Becuzzi, electronic / electroacoustic composer and sound artist active since the first half of the 80's (LIMBO, PANKOW, KIRLIAN CAMERA). He released many albums and performed live around Europe during the last two decades under various names. The artistic production of KINETIX is characterised by a strong experimental imprint, by the interest into the expressive possibilities offered by the digital technologies and by a clear aesthetic inclination towards minimalist forms and micro noises/sounds. KINETIX deals with electronic / electroacoustic composition, sound art, audio installations, ambient post-scorings and sound design. The relationships between art and science, between audio and visual-spatial forms, as well as between composition and self-generative processes represent the main themes in the sonological research of KINETIX.

L'ACEPHALE

black metal / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / folk / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Their name is taken from an early 20th Century European philosophical movement but accusations of intellectual or fake metal may be the least of L'ACEPHALE's worries. Portland, Oregon's L'ACEPHALE's sound draws on influences including neo-folk band Death in June and the Ukraine's Hate Forest, both of whom are allegedly "Ripped on Fascist Ideas". Add to that choral passages appropriated from Orthodox Christian composers like Gorecki and Arvo Part, and you can see why they are a more intriguing proposition than the ideologically confused caustic mush that passes for much modern Black Metal. Founding Member Set Sothis Nox La guides us through his complex project.

LUCIANO MAGGIORE

abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / drone music

MASONIC YOUTH

doom / performative art / abstract symbolism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / drone music

M.Y. founder members are Johnny van de Koolwijk, Marc Van Elburg. Image courtesy WOT4 RECORDS.

MASSIMILIANO VIEL
Alias: SIMM-EL

musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / constructivism / drone music

Massimiliano Viel attended studies in electronic music, orchestra conducting ethnomusicology and composition in Milano, Parigi, Salzburg, Odense with professor such as A. Corghi, M. Stroppa, K. Huber, B. Ferneyhough, K. Stockhausen, F.Donatoni and T.Murail. In 1989 he abandoned the performing activity with piano to pursue new sounds and performing techniques with the electronic keyboard.

As a keyboard player he collaborated with ensembles such as the Caput Ensemble 
from Rejkiavik, the Quartetto Arditti from London, MusikFrabrik from Düsseldorf and orchestras such as the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra from Milano, the WDR orchestra
from Cologne and the Orchestra of Paris, 
with whom he performed in all the most important theatres in Europe. In 1997 he performed K.Stockhausen’s "Klavierstuck XV" in Mercure Theatre of Montreal, Canada as a canadian premiere. He collaborated as interpreter and assistant with composers such as K. Stockhausen, L. Berio, L. Francesconi, A. Ingolffson, F. Romitelli and F. Guerrero.

At the same time he developed an aesthetic and technical research in musical composition, realising scores for acoustic and electronic instruments, from solo to full orchestra, performed in Europe, USA, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia and Egypt.
 As a result of his long time interest in the relationship between music and other expressive means, he realised a large number of performances in close contact with theatre, video and dance. In 2001 he started a collaboration with Otolab, one of the most worldwide known italian audiovisual team, with whom he created projects performed in the most important international festivals. I

n 2002 he founded Sincronie, an association devoted to explore the interactions between the western written music tradition and the manifold issues of contemporary culture. Sincronie produces events, an acoustic/electronic ensemble and research/didactic activities. As a natural and complementary activity to composition and production he never ceased to conduct a continuous practise of theoretical research and didactics. He holds the chair of “Composition for music didactics” at the "C.Monteverdi” Conservatory in Bolzano. He is PhD candidate at the Planetary Collegium M-Node, University of Plymouth, UK

MASSIMO BARTOLINI

musique concrete / sound installation / abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / contemporary art / conceptual art / drone music

"Ho cercato di rendere praticabile l'immaginazione. Sto cercando di rendere praticabile l'immaginazione. Per praticabile intendo poterci portare anche il corpo, nel piano dell'immaginazione intendo”

MASSIMO GIACON
Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983

sound sculpture / visual art / sound installation / psychedelic / abstract symbolism / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / networking / conceptual art

Massimi Giacon, born in Padova 1961, has been working as a comic strip maker, illustrator, designer, artist and musician since early 1980. He was also a founding member of Italian group Spirocheta Pergoli and founded TRAX label along with Vittore Baroni and Piermario Ciani. Massimo Giacon was born in Padua (Italy), in 1961. In 1979 he started publishing comics on a regular basis in the major specialized magazines (Frigidaire, Linus, Alter, Dolce Vita, Cyborg, Nova Express, Blue), soon becoming one of the points of reference for the “bizarre” comics. In 1980 he started a music activity that drove him to create several indie music bands. He has since concentrated on his musical activities as solo artist. In 1981, together with Vittore Baroni and Piermario Ciani he took part in the multimedia network projet TRAX, the forerunner of the future activities of subversive Luther Blisset. Then he began a constant artistic-performing activity which led him to a series of exhibition events in Italy, America, Greece, Portugual an Switzerland. In 1985 he took an interest in design and launched into a collaboration with some of the major architecture offices in Milan (Sottsass, Mendini, Thun). He also created designs for the well-known brands such as Memphis, Swatch, Artemide, Alessi. He designed carpets, laminated materials, illustrations for fashion magazines, web sites, fabrics, virtual carachters, TV theme songs, ceramics, and is now working for videogames, various editorial projects, new design objects and art exhibitions. giaconmaximus@gmail.com

MATARRATAS
Alias: JULIAN BONEQUI / JULIAN PERCY

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

MATARRATAS are: Julian Percy and Julian Bonequi

MERZBOW

avant jazz / musique concrete / psychedelic / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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

MICHAEL ESPOSITO | PHANTOM PLASTICS [MICHAEL ESPOSITO AND PATRICK ESPOSITO]

documentary / musique concrete / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / abstractism / ambient music / acousmatic art / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / site specific / conceptual art / drone music

Michael Andrew Esposito
Experimental Artist, Paraphycology researcher, Paranormal sound art.


In this video: "Auditory Thresholds" with: Michael Esposito & Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Michael Esposito was born 1964 in Gary, Indiana. He is an experimental artist and researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). An ancestor of Alfred Vail, who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse. Another ancestor, Jonathan Harned Vail was office manager and assistant to Thomas Edison in his later years when Edison was attempting to develop a device to communicate with the dead. Michael studied communication theory at Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, American University in Cairo, Egypt and Governor's State University. Over the years, under the Phantom Airwaves institution, Michael has participated in hundreds of paranormal investigations all over the world. He has conducted extensive research at many active locations and has developed a great deal of unique theory and devised many unique experiments within the field of EVP. Focusing primarily on EVP research, he has collected tens of thousands EVPs and video. He is featured in the films:

Dead Whisper, Paranormal Labs: Ghosts - Dead Whisper, Ghost Asylum, The Sallie House - Gateway to the Paranormal, Dead Whisper: In Search of Ghosts and the Supernatural, Paranormal Labs Presents: Ghost Asylum, The Sallie House - Gateway to the Paranormal, 2011 Ash 8.3 #3 presented to Michael Esposito by Ash International.

Michael has appeared in numerous television, radio and newspaper features.
Working extensively with EVP's relationship to experimental music, Michael combines EVP with field recording and related frequency tones of research sites to provide an audio-archeological picture of both sides of the veil.
Michael is currently published by Touch Music [MCPS] UK.

MOVIMENTO AVANGUARDIA ERMETICO

esoteric / black metal / abstract symbolism / werid black metal / avant-garde

Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico are: Yog : Vocals & Drums Ans : Guitars Formed in 2005 "Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico" is a raw and introspective black metal band. The current line-up is composed by Yog (vocals, bass and drums) and Ans (guitars). [ESORDI] Correva l'anno 2005 quando grazie all'esperienza maturata a partire dalla fine degli anni '90 - prevalentemente nel progetto "Sarghnagel" - un gruppo di appassionati di musica estrema si trovava per fondare il "Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico". Le finalità di tale progetto erano chiare sin dall'inizio: dar vita ad una forma di Black Metal che sappesse coniugare Tradizione, Avanguardia e spirito underground. Inizialmente la band si forma grazie a Yog (batteria), Ans (chitarra), Jemzo (voce), Onz (basso), ma ben presto quest'ultimo lascia la band per varie motivazioni. Con una formazione a tre viene registrato nel febbraio/marzo del 2006 il contributo di due pezzi ("Ermetico Signal d'antica Schiera" e "Guerriero" )confluiti successivamente nella ristampa di "Alle frontiere.." e sul secondo demo "IGNIS" nonché sullo split 2010 "Visionaries of Valiant Vagaries". [ALLE FRONTIERE DELL'ANIMA] Proseguono le attività del MDAE che nell'estate del 2007, dopo la dipartita del vocalist Jemzo e l'arrivo di R. I. al basso, pubblica "Alle frontiere dell'Anima", mini cd contenente quattro brani. Sorto in un momento di particolare travaglio e nonostante numerosi contrattempi "Alle frontiere..." rappresenta la vena più riflessiva e filosofica del Movimento, in cui solitudine ed introspezione si uniscono con la ricerca delle radici culturali e tradizionali a noi più affini. Tale demo, in occasione del solstizio d'estate 2008, è stata ristampata in versione tape con due bonus track ad opera della bulgara AMF prod. [IGNIS] Terminato anch'esso in occasione del solstizio d'estate, e dopo alcuni ritardi causati dalle poste italiane, nell'agosto 2008 è uscito il primo demo album della band, in versione demo, grazie alla WAR Kommand Prod, etichetta underground italiana che ci ha fornito un gradito e notevole supporto. La demo porta il titolo di "IGNIS", dove all'introspezione che contraddistingue il concept si unisce la ricerca del significato iniziatico del fuoco e del sole nero. [I SENTIERI DELLA TRADIZIONE] Inoltre il MDAE si è accordato con la band "Corvus Invictus" per la realizzazione di uno split, "Sentieri della Tradizione", registrato in occasione del solstizio d'inverno 2008 e pubblicato nel novembre del 2009 da WK. Prod. e da Alzig Art. Nel dicembre del 2009 sono state terminate le registrazioni di "Stelle Senza Luce", 45 minuti di inediti pubblicati dall'etichetta Russa Kunsthauch nel giugno del 2010. [ANNO 2010] Sempre nel 2010 è prevista l'uscita dello split Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico/Adrarakh/Triumphus Mortis/Gorrenje. Tale split intitolato "Visionaries of Valiant Vagaries" vede la partecipazione di band italiane e tedesche dedite ad una forma di black metal atmosferico e pagano. Per ulteriori informazioni o per ricevere copia delle demo, contattateci via messaggio personale.

MUDBOY

musique concrete / abstractism / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / folk

Raphael Lyon.

NEKRASOV

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

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS | NIGEL AYERS
Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983

psychedelic / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / experimental / noise / industrial music

The project was initiated in London in or around 1980 by Nigel Ayers (b. 1957) together with collaborators Danny Ayers(b.1964) and Caroline K (b.1957- d.2008). From early in their work, the group concentrated on the axiom of music being a form of social control, and highlighted concepts such as information overload, cult conditioning, brainwashing and subliminal advertising, in a critique of information society. Their music drew heavily on worldwide folk traditions as well as that of the European avant-garde. One of their earliest performances was in a railway arch in Atlantic Road, Brixton, while the 1981 Brixton riots raged outside. Since 1984 Nocturnal Emissions has continued mainly as Nigel Ayers' solo project. Line-up has varied from one to a dozen musicians. Nocturnal Emissions temporary members have included net artist Stanza, Ben Ponton of Zoviet France and (somewhat bizarrely) life coach Fiona Harrold. Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. The sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilising video art, film, hypertext and other documents. Nocturnal Emissions were later to be associated with the Kernow section of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts and to feature in a best-selling story by the novelist Stewart Home.

NORDVARGR / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK
Alias: MZ.412 / FOLKSTORM / TOROIDH

doom / abstract symbolism / werid black metal / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / dark ambient / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

"Driven by obsessive ideas and an uncontrollable will of producing quality ambience, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk is a man of many projects - MZ. 412, Folkstorm, Toroidh, Vargr, but it's under his given name and very own grim fashion that he delivers the most suffocating music around. Nordvargr manages to capture the spirit of bleakness like no other artist. The different shades of black and grey he paints with have never been more disturbing and at the same time more beautiful. The real Nordic giant of modern dark ambient music."

PANICSVILLE

electroacoustic / avant-garde / noise / surrealism

PHILIPPE PETIT

avant jazz / musique concrete / modern composition / abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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)

PIETRO RIPARBELLI
Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / KAULA / TELE.S.THERION

video art / visual art / musique concrete / sound installation / psychedelic / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / radionoise / ambient music / acousmatic art / werid black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / site specific / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound Artist Statement: My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception. I realize works as PIETRO RIPARBELLI especially related to the world of Contemporary Art. So each work arise from a conceptual idea turned into sound. The field in which I principally work is linked to the perception of the sound landscape and to the perception of inner states of consciousness related to other dimensions of awareness. K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers and field recordings taken from very specific locations. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places turned into fields of drone with particular interest into the study of the dynamics of Noise. 

With PT-R project I want to investigate the way to create rhythmic sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings) with particular reference to the world of electronic scene. The method I utilize within PT-R project is based on sampling of environmental sound sources turned into rhythmic framework.

PROJECT D.A.R.K.

musique concrete / sound installation / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / drone music

PROJECT D.A.R.K. are: Kirsten Reynolds, Ashley Davies, Tony Pattinson and Jason Cook. Project Dark have been producing large-scale live video/music shows since 1995. A catalogue of custom sculpted 7" singles is used as a basis for generating a unique range of sounds and spectacular related images. Project Dark have performed 'Excited by Gramophones' extensively in many varying international venues. The catalogue of 7" singles has also been exhibited in the UK and Europe. A 3D show 'Disc Continued...' was premiered in England and has toured in Europe. In London it was presented as part of 'Sonic Boom Live' - a night associated with the 'Sonic Boom' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank London. Project Dark were invited by the curator David Toop to contribute an installation piece to this, the first major international exhibition of sound art in England.

PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI
Alias: K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / PIETRO RIPARBELLI / KAULA / MACABRE / SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY / TELE.S.THERION

musique concrete / psychedelic / radionoise / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / harsh / idm / martial noise / glitch / industrial music

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound With PT-R project I want to investigate the way to create rhythmic sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings) with particular reference to the world of electronic scene. The method I utilize within PT-R project is based on sampling of environmental sound sources turned into rhythmic framework.

RADICAL MATTERS EDITIONS LABEL
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 art / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / anti records / concrete turntablism / noise / dark ambient / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / conceptual art / drone music

ROD SUMMERS
Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983

visual art / spoken word / avant-garde / contemporary art / nonmusic / conceptual art

Rod Summers (born 1943), born in Dorset, England, is a sound, visual, conceptual artist, performance poet, dramatist, mail artist and book artist, publisher, archivist, and lecturer on intermedia. He is based in Maastricht, Holland. The results of Summers' multiple, art-related activities have often appeared as part of his concept of VEC (Visual, Experimental, Concrete), which he originated in 1973. In 1999 CNN International featured Summers in its Art Club show as a representative of avant-garde art in Holland. In addition, over the last 20 years, Summers has performed his work at various festivals in Europe and Iceland, including the Reykjavik Art Festival (1991), the Polypoetry Festival of Sound Poetry (Bologna, 1993), and the International Sound Poetry Festival (Bologna, 1997), among others. Summers features among the "second wave" of intermedia artists, the first wave including Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, and the Fluxus artists of the 1960s. He differs from Higgins and members of the first generation, however, in that he is less theoretical and more experiential in his approach to his art. There have been no VEC manifestos published by Summers, although one may intuit what it encompasses by examining the activities undertaken and products issued under its sign.

RUDOLF EB.ER

visual art / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / body art / avant-garde / sound art / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / site specific

Rudolf Eb.er (a.k.a. Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock/Wash Your Brains] is a Actionist Performer from Switzerland active from 1985, who leads Schimpfluch Gruppe. He prefers to identify his own work as "psychoacoustic trainings". He is constantly touring with fellow Schimpfluch Gruppe members like Joke Lanz performing actions, which often lead to riots and subsequent ban of Gruppe in certain countries.

SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY
Alias: SG / K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI

doom / esoteric / black metal / abstract symbolism / avant-garde / ritual dark ambient

A seminal true ritual dark ambient / blackned doom metal pioneeristic ensemble, formed in 1988 by SG and K11 (SS keybord).

SERVILE SECT

psychedelic / black metal / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / drone music

Psilo-lysergic bicoastal anti-hymns from Luke (NYC) and Nhate (Humboldt County). Originally formed in Phoenix, AZ in early 2005. Nothing is concrete, nothing is complete. Turn to space through shattered skvll.

SETH CLUETT

avant jazz / musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / esoteric / abstractism / acousmatic art / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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.

SIMM-EL
Alias: MASSIMILIANO VIEL

sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / noise / constructivism

Massimiliano Viel (also as OTO LAB) attended courses and master- classes in piano studies, conducting, electronic music, ethnomusicology and composition in Milan, Paris, Salzburg and Odense with professors such as A. Corghi, M. Stroppa, K. Huber, B. Ferneyhough, K. Stockhausen, F. Donatoni e T. Murail. SIMM-EL is a project devoted to the exploration of electromagnetic soundscapes.

SIMON BALESTRAZZI
Alias: DREAM WEAPON RITUAL

musique concrete / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / drone music

SIX STUDIO

video art / psychedelic / avant-garde / experimental

Simone Stefanini.

SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS

abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / noise / harsh / drone music

Paolo Bandera | Sshe Retina Stimulants ("Super-Sound High Energy Retina Stimulants") was started in 1993 and is the solo project of P.NG5361.B of Sigillum S.

STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES

abstractism / avant-garde / noise / dark ambient

Steel Hook Prostheses was concieved in 1999 by John Stillings & Larry Kerr. Heavy Electronics: power electronics, death industrial, dark ambient, and harsh noise.

STRANGE ATTRACTOR

psychedelic / radionoise / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / experimental / noise / drone music

Mark Pilkington, editor of the Strange Attractor Journal. Strange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture. We declare war on mediocrity and a pox on the foot soldiers of stupidity. Join Us. Strange Attractor was co-founded in 2001 by: John Lundberg and Mark Pilkington.

STRUKTUR

avant-garde / constructivism / idm

TELE.S.THERION
Alias: SG / K11 | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / ASTRAL LUEUR / WILDNESS PERVERSION | MORTUARY DRAPE

doom / avant jazz / musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / psychophonia / esoteric / black metal / abstract symbolism / suprematism / acousmatic art / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / site specific / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art / drone music

Teleth . Sigelion. Therion | Acousmatic Black Metal | A r s A k o u s m a t i k o i : + SG : Phono-medianic record sessions of electric bass guitar prepared with metal coils, amplified in enviromental feedback system using 13 speakers and microphones, during electroacoustic metaphonic field recording session, Ars Echemythia. Hermetic sigil lyrics. + K11 : Instrumental transcommunication actions with short-wave radio receivers, exploring high-range distortions dimensions. Engeneering. Medianic chants, channelling, Ars Echemythia. In large ensemble with: + Lunurumh [Astral Lueur]: Medianic chants, channelling, Ars Echemythia. + Wildness Perversion [Mortuary Drape]: Medianic chants, channelling, Ars Echemythia.

THE HATERS
Alias: GX JUPITTER-LARSEN

avant jazz / grind / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / abstractism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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

THIERRY TILLIER

photography / sound installation / avant-garde / experimental / collage art / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract surrealism / fluxus

Thierry Tillier is a Belgian artist living in Charleroi. His technique is mostly Collage but also photography, etc... His works are visual short-circuits with many meaning stratums ; aesthetic and poetical flashes torn, cut and layed out into brocken puzzles. The themes explored in his work are numerous and the understanding lies in-between the choice, placement of ripped images and nothingness

TORTURE CORPSE

black metal / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / industrial music / drone music

Robert Kroos

TOY
Alias: RADICAL MATTERS EDITIONS LABEL

electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / experimental / contemporary art / abstract expressionism

SG

TOY BIZARRE

musique concrete / sound installation / abstractism / acousmatic art / minimalism / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / conceptual art / drone music

"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

TRAX 0982
Alias: TRAX 0983 / MASSIMO GIACON / CIANI PIERMARIO / VITTORE BARONI

sound installation / abstractism / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / collage art / contemporary art / networking / conceptual art / fluxus

TRAX is a multidisciplinary project founded by: Vittore Baroni Piermario Ciani Massimo Giacon Trax (1981-1987) was an 80s label founded by Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni and Massimo Giacon from Spirocheta Pergoli. It was an open networking project that connected over 500 artists and musicians from different countries, producing records, audiomagazines, xerographies, comics, t-shirts, exhibitions and so on.

TRAX 0983
Alias: TRAX 0982 / MASSIMO GIACON / CIANI PIERMARIO / VITTORE BARONI

sound installation / abstractism / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / collage art / contemporary art / networking / conceptual art / fluxus

TRAX is a multidisciplinary project founded by: Vittore Baroni Piermario Ciani Massimo Giacon Trax (1981-1987) was an 80s label founded by Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni and Massimo Giacon from Spirocheta Pergoli. It was an open networking project that connected over 500 artists and musicians from different countries, producing records, audiomagazines, xerographies, comics, t-shirts, exhibitions and so on.

ULTRA SPIESSER
Alias: JULIAN BONEQUI / JULIAN PERCY / ANTON MAIOF

doom / avant jazz / modern composition / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / 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

UTARM

doom / esoteric / expressionism / abstract symbolism / werid black metal / avant-garde / noise / ritual dark ambient / drone music

s.f.skancke. live rituals: s.f.skancke, s.o.toft Utarm was a project that has been dwelling for years,without finding its right form. Various black metal and ambient bands..projects was tried out through the nineties, but the constallations of people never worked,and it was clear that a oneman project was the only solution. Human relations seems to be a constant failure.in the early years of the new millenium the beast found its ugly shape. Not wanting to make the classic Black Metal, neither Noise or Doom, but creating true satanic desperation not bound by musical structures. Through Utarm the darker shadows of humanity can be found, a mirror to reflect the black holes and misery of oneself. Humans tend to avoid this side of their personality, therfore most humans does not have the caracteristics of a whole person, just shallow creatures who use their time to try and forget their unavoidable death. When confronted with utarm this is not longer possible. Total darkness concentrated to audial spikes of hate, and these spikes will penetrate you.....

VITTORE BARONI
Alias: TRAX 0982 / TRAX 0983 / LIEUTENAT MURNAU

visual art / musique concrete / sound installation / psychedelic / avant-garde / sound art / experimental / collage art / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic

Vittore Baroni is an Italian journalist who was among the first to write about industrial music and the new experimental frontiers. He recorded some experiments on his own which appeared on different compilations, then towards the end of the 80s' he founded the odd experimental band Le Forbici Di Manitù. Founder member of LT. Murnau and the multidisciplinary project TRAX.

XABIER ERKIZIA

musique concrete / sound installation / modern composition / abstractism / minimalism / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / drone music

Sound artist and curator

Y.E.R.M.O.

musique concrete / performative art / abstractism / ambient music / electroacoustic / avant-garde / field recordings / experimental / drone music

Xavier Dubois, Yannick Franck.

ZERO KAMA

musique concrete / performative art / esoteric / actionism / body art / electroacoustic / avant-garde / experimental / contemporary art / folk / ritual dark ambient

Michael DeWitt Early ritual industrial project of Michael DeWitt (Nekrophile Records). Only "The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H." and a few compilation tracks were ever recorded. A planned release of a musical/ritual rendition of The Book Of The Law was planned, but only one track ended up being completed. ZERO KAMA war ein musikalisches Soloprojekt von Michael DeWitt, der unter diesem Namen 1984 das Album "The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H." veröffentlichte, auf dem ausschließlich Musik zu hören ist, die auf selbstgebauten Instrumenten aus menschlichen Schädeln und Knochen gespielt wurde. Inspiriert durch die Praxis tibetischer Mönche, aus den Knochen von Mönchen, hingerichteten Verbrechern und Jungfrauen rituelle Musikinstrumente anzufertigen, begann Michael DeWitt im Frühjahr 1984 eigene Knocheninstrumente herzustellen. Neben reich verzierten Oberschenkeltrompeten nach tibetischem Vorbild entstanden auch vier Schädeltrommeln, verschiedene Perkussionsinstrumente, ein Oberschenkelknochenyxlophon, eine Unterschenkelknochenflöte und zwei aus Unterschenkelknochen und Ellen zusammengesetzte Blasinstrumente, die durch ein Oboen-Doppelblatt-Mundstück angeblasen wurden.