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AA.VV. | STARING AT THE WALL III
grind / performative art / actionism / abstractism / body art / expressionism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / abstract surrealism / surrealism
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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
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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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski England request info >> |
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CORPUS PRINCIPIUM
performative art / abstract symbolism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / dark ambient / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / drone music
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ 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 http://www.myspace.com/corpusprincipium http://www.deathpostureritualis.com/ USA request info >> |
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DEATH TRICHECO
mail art / musique concrete / performative art / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / experimental / collage art / noise / nonmusic / networking / surrealism / industrial music / fluxus / drone music
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DEATH TRICHECO
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GRAUEN PESTANZ
performative art / esoteric / black metal / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / ritual dark ambient
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ 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 http://www.deathpostureritualis.com USA request info >> |
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GX JUPITTER-LARSEN
performative art / abstractism / noise / conceptual art
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Gerard X Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who has been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. He has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture. During the 1990s he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work is as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who have performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases. Underlying all of Jupitter-Larsen's work is a peculiar mix of aesthetic and conceptual obsessions, particularly entropy and decay, professional wrestling, and a self-created lexicon consisting mainly of personalized units of measurement such as polywave, the totimorphous, and the xylowave. Jupitter-Larsen is also a filmmaker and video artist. From 1982 to 1986, he submitted a black video tape entitled Blank Banner to over forty video festivals. It was screened in nine. In 2008, GX Jupitter-Larsen set up a theme label called Zelphabet. He is compiling and releasing a series of 26 CD compilations featuring the likes of Asmus Tietchens, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Chop Shop, Contagious Orgasm, Dave Phillips, Francisco Lopez, Giancarlo Toniutti, The Hanatarash, Incapacitants, K2, KK Null, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nocturnal Emissions, Sudden Infant, Thomas Dimuzio, Wolf Eyes, Yellow Swans, and Zbigniew Karkowski. Really; I'm just into NOISE... pure noise. I fall apart every time I hear the sound of breaking glass. Oh, and the sound of fire makes me hot !!! http://www.jupitter-larsen.com http://www.myspace.com/gxjupitterlarsen USA request info >> |
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JOACHIM MONTESSUIS
grind / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / abstractism / body art / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / drone music
Joachim Montessuis develops an experimental contextual practice mainly around voice, drone, noise and resonance since the early 90′s. His current work is directed towards conceptual experimental processes of the issue of observation and perception of reality through a non-dual approach. His vocal performative work explores various states of trance through the extreme potentialities of amplification and electronic transformations of screams, throat singing, and also words. He designs his actions as processes, “noise poetry-codes reality fertilizers”. Collaborations with very different artists including Henri Chopin, Charlemagne Palestine, Phill Niblock, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Serge Pey, Master Musicians of Joujouka & Frank Rynne, Junko Hiroshige, Michel Giroud, Gaël Segalen, Julien Blaine, David Larcher, Joël Hubaut, Jörg Piringer, Franck Ancel, Julien Ottavi, Evil Moisture/Andy Bolus, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Horia Cosmin Samoïla, Collectif MU (Paris), Erik Minkkinen, Philippe Simon, Marcello Aguirre, Gomang’s Tibetan Monks, Yvan Etienne, Faustin Linyekula, Ewen Chardronnet, Marko Peljhan, Shu Lea Cheang, Martin Howse, Claudia Martinho, Aymeric de Tapol, François Martig, Wilfried Wending, Tashi Ko, Anne Roquigny, Pierre André Arcand, Eléonore Hellio, Jean Jacques Lebel, Charles Pennequin, Chloé Delaume, Raphaël Charpentié, Gaël Angelis, Cédric Pigot, Crium Delirium, Gigacircus, Michel Collet, Valentine Verhaeghe, Matthieu Messagier, Louis Ucciani, Sylvain Courtoux, Emmanuel During, Antoine Boute, Lucille Calmel, Thierry Théolier, Eric Lin Chiwei, Gigacircus, Philippe Zunino, Michaël Sellam, Nicolas Boulard, Philippe Lepeut, Hellekin… http://www.autopoiese.org/ http://www.erratum.org/ French request info >> |
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JULIAN BONEQUI
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. http://www.julianbonequi.com/ Germany request info >> |
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MASONIC YOUTH
doom / performative art / abstract symbolism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / drone music
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M.Y. founder members are Johnny van de Koolwijk, Marc Van Elburg. Image courtesy WOT4 RECORDS. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Masonic+Youth Holland request info >> |
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MECONIUM
avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / psychedelic / abstractism / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / harsh
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Meconium are: L. Nascitari and L. Poseitrone. http://www.myspace.com/eautontimorumenos http://nascitari.blogspot.com/p/collaborationsplit.html?zx=93e07b1e3351547d Italy request info >> |
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MICHAEL W. FORD
musique concrete / performative art / esoteric / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / dark ambient / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art
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Michael Ford is an American musician and occult author who began his career in 1991 with the black metal band Abaddon (renamed Sorath a year later). Whilst in Sorath, Ford made his first attempts at more experimental music with Darkness Enshroud, first aided by Rahu (Dan Ferguson) and later by Shanna LeJeune. Another experimental avenue was explored with the death industrial project Valefor, whilst black metal would never leave his attention for long and has been pursued under the guise of Black Funeral which Ford originally formed in 1993. Michael W. Ford is the author of BIBLE OF THE ADVERSARY, SATANIC MAGICK, THE VAMPIRE GATE - The Vampyre Magickian, The First Book of Luciferian Tarot and THE LUCIFERIAN TAROT, LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT, LIBER HVHI, BOOK OF THE WITCH MOON, ADAMU, Founder of BLACK FUNERAL, VALEFOR, PSYCHONAUT 75 and a member of ORDO TYRANNIS and HEXENTANZ. http://www.myspace.com/michaelwford USA request info >> |
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NICHOLAS ISHERWOOD
spoken word / musique concrete / performative art / sound installation / modern composition / minimalism / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / contemporary art
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Nicholas Isherwood’s music has been influenced by the great composers he has had the privilege to work with as a singer. His music has been performed at venues such as the Gewandthaus in Leipzig, the Goethe Institut in Paris, the CNRS, Yehudi Menuhin’s Flâneries Musicales in Reims, the Perpignan Festival, the SMIO in Orléans, the Théatre Dunois, Dôme IMAX and Bibliothèque Historique in Paris, Freiburg, the MDR in Halle, the SWR, Vanderbilt University, the University of Oregon, Kaoshung, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Togamura, Japan. He has received commissions from the DRAC du centre, Art Zoyd and the CNAT in Reims. Isherwood’s music has been performed by VOXNOVA, Stefano Cardi, Michel Amoric, Magnus Andersson, Isabel Soccoja, Christophe De Villeneuve and the soloists of the MDR children’s choir. His music has been broadcast by France Musique, the MDR and the SWR. He is a member of the SACD. http://www.nicholasisherwood.com/ USA request info >> |
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POSEITRONE | LUCA DI DATO
musique concrete / performative art / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / abstract expressionism / harsh / industrial music / drone music
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Luca Di Dato http://poseitrone.blogspot.com/ Italy request info >> |
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RMEDL
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
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ RMEDL | RADICAL MATTERS EDITIONS LABEL Italy request info >> |
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RUDOLF EB.ER
visual art / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / body art / avant-garde / sound art / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / site specific
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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. Swisse request info >> |
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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
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ 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. http://www.myspace.com/7guitars7 request info >> |
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SNOW CRASH
grind / musique concrete / performative art / actionism / abstractism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / power electronics / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / harsh / drone music
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SNOW CRASH consisting of the two vocal artist Joachim Montessuis and Julien Ottavi, deliver apocalyptic big bang sound poetry. Powerful, brutal and harsh operates this duo in the extreme climates of experimental sound.... ....a trance-noise performance of the ceremony yet unheard violence that voodoo sounds, brings together powerful - roaring sounds, detonating screaming, ecstatic speech utterances, rough and grainy magic obsession..... ....quantum experiments on experimental sounds of devastating violence awaits all who want to dive into the Harsh Noise trance. You are been warned ...!!! French request info >> |
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SONGS OF THE NEW EROTICS
avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / electroacoustic / noise / nonmusic / abstract surrealism
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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. http://www.myspace.com/songsofthenewerotics http://www.myspace.com/wadavison http://www.recordism.com/SOTNE/SotNE.html USA request info >> |
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SUDDEN INFANT
musique concrete / performative art / actionism / body art / sound art / noise / abstract expressionism
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Joke Lanz Basel / Switzerland Joke Lanz aka SUDDEN INFANT creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expressions, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. Member of the infamous SCHIMPFLUCH collective, singer of the notorious CATHOLIC BOYS IN HEAVY LEATHER and long time accompanist of Rudolf Eb.er, he's presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz has collaborated with the likes of Z'EV, Carlos Giffoni, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Norbert Möslang, DJ Olive, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Christian Weber, Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Roger Rotor, Strotter Inst, Evil Moisture, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and short-films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Entracte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Artware, Klanggalerie, SSSM. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006).Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and short-films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Schimpfluch, Entr'acte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, SSSM, Artware, Klanggalerie, MSBR. Led workshops about Turntablism & Noise Music at the Music Academy Lucerne. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006). Working in the area of experimental and free music since 1989, Sudden Infant is building up complex noise compositions, using unconventional sound sources, lo-fi electronics and turntables. Sudden Infant's music has a humorous and highly improvised character. Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expression, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It's a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy! http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise http://www.suddeninfant.com/ Swisse request info >> |
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THE HATERS
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
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ 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. http://www.jupitter-larsen.com/ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Haters%2C+The USA request info >> |
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THE LOOP ORCHESTRA
avant jazz / musique concrete / performative art / abstractism / ambient music / minimalism / avant-garde / experimental
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Founded in 1982 by Richard Fielding and John Blades. Other members: Manny Gasparinatos, Patrick Gibson, Hamish MacKenzie, Sheriff Lindo. The genesis of The Loop Orchestra occured in the ashes of a simple two-tape-machine-no-man-band, The Nobodies, which died in a fire in 1980. From those ashes, and with a pastiche taken from the likes of Terse Tapes, home of Severed Heads, an ashen poultice was formed to take up further and more involved household heretical experimention, this time with reel-to-reel tape machines. This idea was subsequently expanded upon in the studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm amid a group of experimental radio programmers. Two, John Blades and Richard Fielding, were using the studio equipment as an instrument, experimenting with tape machines through processes involving cutting, dissecting, rearranging and rejoining prerecorded tape, creating tape loops and playing them back. They felt a need to formalise their studio experimentation and so conceived the idea of creating a full blown machine orchestra whose contrived destiny it was to perform in the Sydney Opera House's hallowed Concert Hall. The intention of the Orchestra was for groups of instruments of an orthodox orchestra to be represented by reel-to-reel tape machines playing loops of the instruments' sounds. Upon the realization that this egoistical ambition was doomed a smaller ensemble comprising 4 reel-to-reel machines playing slowly evolving tape-loop constructions, made its live debut playing a live-to-air performance in the rather less graceful, but no less culturally appropriate studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm in 1983, as The Loop Orchestra. A variety of eminent luminaries can lay claim to having been members of the Orchestra, including Patrick Gibson, Peter Doyle, Anthony Maher and Ashley Blower. The current lineup consists of John Blades, Richard Fielding, Emmanuel Gasparinatos, Hamish MacKenzie and Juke Wyat. Members of the Orchestra have been, or are, involved in a diverse variety of groups and projects including but not limited to: Severed Heads; Scattered Order; The Systematics; No Nights Sweat; Splendid Mess; War, Meat & The Dictator; East End Butchers; Z.glutz; Ya Ya Coral; Moral Fibro; Famous; Kinderschmerzen; Esqué; Clean Air Campaign; Hiroshima Chair; Sherrif Lindo & The Hammer; Nutcase & Papa Chubba; Men Like Licorice; Violence In Spring; Vorkapich; Kyoko-Mary & The Cogs of Death; Strict vs State; and Cannibal Loops. THE LOOP ORCHESTRA Against seamless method Against the state of the art and the art of the state Against the tension/release nexus Against the validation of effort Against the composer as genius for a transparency of sound for the anticlimax as metaphor for alienation, detachment and disembodiment for the occlusion aesthetic for the detritus of phonography THE LOOP ORCHESTRA http://www.thelooporchestra.com/ Australia request info >> |
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WERTHAM
performative art / expressionism / power electronics / noise
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Marco Deplano. Wertham is a power electronic/industrial project enstabilished in 1994 in Como, Italy, as a mean of self-expression and as an act of mere cultural survival, interested in playing with stereotypes and misconceptions related to sex, race, class, etc painting different human landscapes based on first hand experience. Although standing against religious, moral, political and ideological dogmas, and being interested especially in exploring, re-acting and understanding bonds existing in modern-day culture, Wertham looks with interest to any expression (not necessary extreme) of these aspect of existence. http://www.myspace.com/xwerthamx http://wertham.bandcamp.com request info >> |
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Y.E.R.M.O.
musique concrete / performative art / abstractism / ambient music / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / experimental / drone music
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ Xavier Dubois, Yannick Franck. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Y.E.R.M.O. French request info >> |
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ZERO KAMA
musique concrete / performative art / esoteric / actionism / body art / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / contemporary art / folk / ritual dark ambient
PUBLISHED RELEASES__________________________________________ 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. http://www.ananael.at/dewitt/zerokama.htm Austria request info >> |
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