An installation artist and electronic music composer based in Stockholm, Sweden, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff has presented his minimalist-leaning audio-visual works in Europe and North-America. An active promoter of avant-garde art in the the 1980s and early 1990s through publications and record labels, since the mid-'90s he has been focusing on his own music, which has become growingly minimalist, a hour-long piece often consisting of the clever use of only a handful of sound sources. More

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• Review at the BBC
  
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• MP3: Carl Michael Von Hausswolff - Ström

A live-streaming of the first event featuring the spectacular discographic project by the japanese Noise artist Masami Akita alias Merzbow: an encyclopedia of noise entitled "Merzbox", containing 50 CDs that, by using low-tech equipment in an anti-conventional way, create a flooding of the senses, negating the opportunities for sound to be distinguished. This collection of manifestations by the "King of Noise" dating from the years 1979-97 was played at the Kunsthalle exhibition "Yayoi Kusama" (www.kunsthallewien.at) in full length in a continuous listening session of approximately 60 hours, introduced and ended with a one-hour live act by Masami Akita.

Downloads:

• MP3: Merzbow - live 4.04.2002 Wien opening performance
  - MP3: Merzbow - live 7.04.2002 Wien closing performance

Noisemakers Masima Akati -- a.k.a. Merzbow -- and Russell Haswell marked the beginning of their Satans Tornade project with this 1999 direct-to-tape recording. Word immediately began to spread, and the two have since revisited the project on several occasions.Those already familiar with Merzbow and Haswell will have an idea of what to expect on here: insane electro-grind, extreme computer music, a frenzy of white noise with little or no discernible melody or rhythms. And you'd be right.The magic of the two is how they constantly manage to reinvent improvisational electro-noise and to push the limits of what noise is and how it can be perceived.

Links:

• Satans Tornade homepage
  
  Reviews:
  
• BBC
  
• Drowned in sound
  
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• MP3: live at the neils yard rough trade shop london
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