Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten ("collapsing new buildings") helped pioneer industrial music with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar drones, vocals verging on unlistenable at times, and a clanging, rhythmic din produced by a percussion section consisting of construction materials, hand and power tools, and various metal objects. Neubauten was founded by vocalist/guitarist Blixa Bargeld and percussionist and American expatriate N.U. Unruh in Berlin as a performance art collective; their early activities included a seemingly inexplicable half-naked appearance on the Berlin Autobahn, where the duo spent some time beating on the sides of a hole in an overpass. Read more
You missed the WIRE issue 220, June 2002 and didn't get hold of the Tigerbeat 6 compilation ? No more worries ! I made my own compilation + a nice cover for a slim cd-case!
All mp3 files can be downloaded from epitnonic.com and from the homepage of the wire.
Links + Downloads tigerbeat6_cover
(application/pdf, 119 KB)
tigerbeat 6 compilation cover, adobe pdf version
finalcover
(application/msword, 80 KB)
If you don't want to use the tracks I used for this compilation, download this microsoft word version and change the text in order to make your own cover.
More free of charge Tigerbeat6 MP3 files are located at the epitonic overview of tigerbeat6.
I am not a designer, I don't no know how to use all that great software like Photoshop or gimp. The resolution is very low, but I think this just fits very well, because of the "cut'n paste" style of most of the tigerbeat6 stuff.
Evolution Control Committee is one of the stage names of Mark Gunderson, a musician, performance artist, digital manipulator and provocateur who has also performed as part of The Weird Love Makers, The Mood Swingers, Gaga, Mellodeath and DJ Pantshead.Evolution Control Committee is the longest-lived of Gunderson's many projects, having started in the early nineties as a tape manipulation project. Gunderson used a cheapo double cassette deck and a four-track recorder to manually edit together the tracks for his early cassette-only releases Buddha Bleach (1990), The Last Mall (1991) and Gunderphonic (1994), which were modestly enhanced by his sampling keyboard and trusty Amiga. This early material was largely guided by the spirit of early Negativland: it was clever enough to make up for the lack of polish, and it was generally humourous enough overall that the occasional pointed barb was still well-received.Read More
Downloads:
More than 40 tracks are availible on the official webpage.
Battersea-based ambient composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, takes his curious pseudonym from his compositional tool of choice; the cellphone scanner. Although only recording and releasing music since the early '90s, Rimbaud has already earned a reputation as a boundary pushing experimentalist, wedding scanned vocal samples with sparse electronics and other textural elements that underscore the degree of strain and isolation often associated with modern telecommunications technology. Though working increasingly toward other, more musical compositional devices, his first several releases went heavy on the lifted convo, attracting as often the comment of postgrad pocket theorists interested in the critical implications of Rimbaud's work as the music critics. Read more
Downloads:
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner - BBC Radio Works 1998-2002 Three full-length works created specially for radio: "The Human Voice" (1998), a production of the Jean Cocteau play starring Harriet Walter; "The Three Women" (2000), based on poetry by Sylvia Plath consisting of three intertwining interior dialogues; and "The Sounds of Love" (2002), a musical feature using the extraordinary sounds of love to be found in nature, starring a cast of hundreds of humans and animals. These three works can be downloaded as full MP3 files, free of charge and completly legal at Ubu.com
Surface Noise
Artangel Commission London UK November 1998
Surface Noise 2.0: Sonarmatica Festival Spain June 2001. Commissioned to create a work around the city of London this work took a red double-decker bus as it’s focus. Making a route determined by overlaying the sheet music from London Bridge is Falling Down onto a map of London, I recorded the sounds and images at points where the notes fell on the cityscape.Download it here
Stopstarting Sounds and noises from liverpool. Download it here .
Statement by the artist:
My paintings comment on the melancholy beauty found in relics of our industrial past. Both the literal and evocative meanings of these subjects strike a responsive chord in me and provide variations on a theme that has been central to my paintings for a long time. The relics remind us that, in our rapidly changing world, the triumphs of technology are just a moment away from obsolescence. Yet these remains of collapsed power have a strength, grace and sadness that is both eloquent and impenetrable. Transfigured by time and light, which render the ordinary extraordinary, they form a visual requiem for the industrial age. More
John Clive's work deals with the tradional artist's concerns of studying and celebrating the interactions of light, texture, form and colour. His intention is not to portray nature but to explore and participate in its processes through simulation. More
Never mind digging in the crates -- the Avalanches probably just buy them whole, sight unseen, and find a way to bounce off each platter. Eventually morphing into a gang of six merrymakers bent on filtering their all-encompassing record collections through original instrumentation and a great deal of sampling, the Avalanches came from one of the most unlikely places to generate mind-bending dance music -- Australia. Read more
LOVE IS COOL is a project by two people from Berlin: Kitty and Peter. The duo in theire on words: We fell in love in summer 2002. Since then we live and produce music together. As LOVE IS COOL we have written eleven trcks, which tell the story in chronical order. The Love EP on bruchstuecke features a selection of these tracks. ... Our music is a window to our love story.
Canadian composer, saxophonist, and sound collage artist John Oswald is best known for his plunderphonics, which involves using samples of existing recordings to create a new work. A year before Negativland got sued for their U2 EP, Oswald was taken to court for his 1989 Plunderphonics CD by one of the many sample sources, Michael Jackson. Plunderphonics was deemed a copyright infringement and all unsold copies were destroyed. Read more
Downloads: Download the whole banned Plunderphonic CD, and even more, at detritus.net ! But beware, this webpage loads very slowly.
The most innovative and influential German composer of the postwar era, Karlheinz Stockhausen laid much of the foundation of modern experimental music; through his pioneering work in electronics, he left an indelible imprint not only in contemporary classic circles but throughout the creative spectrum, where echoes of his genius still reverberate everywhere from the avant-garde to rock to dance music. Born outside the city of Köln (aka Cologne) on August 22, 1928, Stockhausen studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1947 to 1951; influenced by Olivier Messiaen's Mode de valeurs, he began exploring long-range serial composition, a process he first tackled in 1951's Kreuzspiel and the following year's KontraPunkte, both written for piano-based ensemble. While working on the latter he travelled to Paris to study under Messiaen himself, and it was there he first delved into electronic music. Read more.
Radio Plus is a website dedicated to John Peel. On this website are lots of links to tracks played on John Peel's Radio Show. The webpage hasn't been updated since May 2003, but covers the the last few years.
Originally, Tricky was a member of the Wild Bunch, a Bristol-based rap troupe that eventually metamorphosed into Massive Attack during the early '90s. Tricky provided pivotal raps on Massive Attack's groundbreaking 1992 album, Blue Lines. The following year, he released his debut single, "Aftermath." Before he recorded "Aftermath," he met a teenage vocalist named Martina, who would become his full-time musical collaborator; all albums released under Tricky's name feature her contributions. Read more
Tricky has been taking part in a couple of radio shows, which are interesting because they often play
unreleased or rare tracks. Some of them are availible here
A purveyor of digital manipulations of existing music, Ekkehard Ehlers released his debut, Betrieb, in 2000. The record drastically manipulates samples from such early 20th century composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ehlers seeing each piece as a closed system with which to experiment. He has worked on a trilogy of mini-albums on which he assumes the spirit of great artists from the past and applies it to electronics. The first in this series was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson followed by Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler, on which he manipulated compositions for cello. The final record in the trilogy was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes. With Stephan Mathieu, he recorded Heroin. In addition, he has recorded under the alias Auch, as well as with the duo Autopoesies and the group März. (by Geoff Orens, stolen from allmusic.com).
Some more MP3 excerpts can be found at the homepage of Staubgold
Don't wonder when several links are highlighted by putting your mouse coursor over jst "one" link. Those links will take you to webpages where this tracks can be downloaded.
The bearded, fierce-looking German sax and clarinet player Peter Brötzmann has been a luminary of the free jazz world for nearly four decades and has become its godfather, collaborating with younger avant-gardists like Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark and Swedish sax player Mats Gustaffson. Brötzmann's original interest was in painting, but he quickly grew frustrated with the gallery situation in the modern art world and turned his focus to playing swing and bebop semiprofessionally in Germany. Read more
One million downloads a week sounds nice, but a close look at the numbers shows it's not justified. ... Let's look behind the numbers. The 1 million-songs-per-week numbers that were touted in press releases regarding weeks one and two sound big (curiously, Apple has no plans to release a sales total for week three), but upon closer inspection they're not terribly impressive.
Apple says that "more than half" of this song total was sold in album format, rather than as singles. Assuming a conservative 12 songs per album, and one album per person, we can calculate that 500,000 songs would satisfy 42,000 customers. Assuming a conservative five downloads per person for the remaining 500,000 songs, we come up with 100,000 additional users. That's fewer than 150,000 people using the service. (Apple refuses to comment on these numbers.) ...Read the whole article. Found at Lowpass.de
Montreal-based Akufen's "My Way" primarily showcases DJ Marc Leclair's newly developed production technique called "microsampling," and doubles as an intriguing dance music album. Leclair records hours worth of radio broadcasts each day and creates tiny samples from this source, often using only a fraction of a spoken word or a single guitar riff. He then assembles these fragments into sound collages and backs them up with fast-paced 4/4 techno-style drum loops. Et voilà, house music. Read more
Listening to Montreal nine-piece Godspeed You Black Emperor! is a bit like opening up the face of a clock and trying to make sense of its works. They're fascinating in their shiny metallic complexity, beautiful in their technical sophistication, yet ultimately unknowable for a mere layman, representing a prototype for a strange world with a different physics more than a functional machine. In other words, true understanding takes work and effort, but true understanding with respect to Godspeed, unlike a clock, is always a matter of subjective interpretation. Read more.
Aerogramme rose from the ashes of the under-appreciated rhythm-heavy experimental rock group Ganger and shares some similarities with that band, and with the sprawling electronic-laced instrumental epics of Mogwai. In a fairly logical extension of that ethos, they occasionally flirt with strings in refined compositions that suggest the indie chamber music of Rachel's. But sometimes --often, actually -- they burst into bombastic emotional rock that suggests Modest Mouse at their most abrasive. And then, without warning, they might strip all the noise away, working with the vulnerability of voice, acoustic guitar, and a single echoing loop. These abrupt stylistic switcheroos, though often disconcerting, add dynamism to the sound of an already fascinating band.Read more
One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar over the last few decades. His music was so eclectic that it's arguable whether he should be defined as a "folk" artist. In a career that saw him issue several dozen albums, he drew from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop. Read more
Downloads:
At amazon.com :
MP3: "Layla"
MP3: "You'll Find Her Name Written
MP3: "There"
MP3: "Let Go"
MP3: "Melody McOcean"
MP3: "Twilight Time"
MP3: "The Evening Mysteries Of Ferry Street"
MP3: "Black Mommy"
Steve Lacy writes, "There are two different kinds of jazz: offensive and defensive. If they are well played, they are both 'on the brink,' due to the spontaneous nature and individual character of this music." Lacy has spent his musical career wandering between the "defensive" and "offensive" styles, hovering "on the brink" for much of his life. Read more
All my exames for this semester are finally over ! Today I will start to go through all the back issues of the WIRE maazine and post links to media files.
Since I only have maybe the last 20 issues, Iam depending on the index of the "back issues" which is printed in every issue of the magazine.
“Deren acted the role of cinematic Prometheus, stealing the fire of the Hollywood gods for those whom the gods refused to recognize.”. This is an excerpt from "Maya Deren by Wendy Haslem".
If you became interested in Maya Deren, this article would be the perfect starting point. It gives an introduction on herself and her films.
This article was published in "Senses of Cinema - an online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema". The same journal published some more articles on her:
Senses of Cinema became one of my new favourite webpages, while I was looking for mor information on Maya Derren. On this webpage there is so much more to read. There are lots of more articles on other experimentel film makers, for example Stan Brakhage (also a personal friend of Maya Deren).
I don't know if U2 ever was mentioned in THE WIRE. I'm not a fan of them anyway but they seem to be nice people. Like REM, it's OK for them, if people are trading shows on a non profit base:
In another instance of free online file-sharing taking an authorized route to large-scale distribution, U2 MP3 treasure trove U2BloodRedSky.com hosts hundreds of complete U2 concerts for FTP download.
"We tell people who come to our concerts that they can tape the shows if they want," reads a quote from frontman Bono plastered across the margin of the site. "I think it is cool that people are so passionate about our music."
In that spirit, the site is home to 767 (and counting) complete U2 shows, with individual songs in either MP3 or Shorten form. Individual live files on the site date from a 1980 television appearance up through promotional concerts from June 2003. The most recent count of its file catalog listed a whopping 20,869 MP3s. Read more
The Tujiko Noriko MP3 from www.tomlab.de aren't working anymore: Sorry but this work is protected by JASRAC (JP). Due to the high monthly fees we cannot offer you audio previews here.
Battersea-based ambient composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, takes his curious pseudonym from his compositional tool of choice; the cellphone scanner. Although only recording and releasing music since the early '90s, Rimbaud has already earned a reputation as a boundary pushing experimentalist, wedding scanned vocal samples with sparse electronics and other textural elements that underscore the degree of strain and isolation often associated with modern telecommunications technology. Though working increasingly toward other, more musical compositional devices, his first several releases went heavy on the lifted convo, attracting as often the comment of postgrad pocket theorists interested in the critical implications of Rimbaud's work as the music critics. 
Never mind digging in the crates -- the Avalanches probably just buy them whole, sight unseen, and find a way to bounce off each platter. Eventually morphing into a gang of six merrymakers bent on filtering their all-encompassing record collections through original instrumentation and a great deal of sampling, the Avalanches came from one of the most unlikely places to generate mind-bending dance music -- Australia. 
The most innovative and influential German composer of the postwar era, Karlheinz Stockhausen laid much of the foundation of modern experimental music; through his pioneering work in electronics, he left an indelible imprint not only in contemporary classic circles but throughout the creative spectrum, where echoes of his genius still reverberate everywhere from the avant-garde to rock to dance music. Born outside the city of Köln (aka Cologne) on August 22, 1928, Stockhausen studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1947 to 1951; influenced by Olivier Messiaen's Mode de valeurs, he began exploring long-range serial composition, a process he first tackled in 1951's Kreuzspiel and the following year's KontraPunkte, both written for piano-based ensemble. While working on the latter he travelled to Paris to study under Messiaen himself, and it was there he first delved into electronic music. 
Originally, Tricky was a member of the Wild Bunch, a Bristol-based rap troupe that eventually metamorphosed into Massive Attack during the early '90s. Tricky provided pivotal raps on Massive Attack's groundbreaking 1992 album, Blue Lines. The following year, he released his debut single, "Aftermath." Before he recorded "Aftermath," he met a teenage vocalist named Martina, who would become his full-time musical collaborator; all albums released under Tricky's name feature her contributions. 
A purveyor of digital manipulations of existing music, Ekkehard Ehlers released his debut, Betrieb, in 2000. The record drastically manipulates samples from such early 20th century composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ehlers seeing each piece as a closed system with which to experiment. He has worked on a trilogy of mini-albums on which he assumes the spirit of great artists from the past and applies it to electronics. The first in this series was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson followed by Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler, on which he manipulated compositions for cello. The final record in the trilogy was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes. With Stephan Mathieu, he recorded Heroin. In addition, he has recorded under the alias Auch, as well as with the duo Autopoesies and the group März. (by Geoff Orens, stolen from 
The bearded, fierce-looking German sax and clarinet player Peter Brötzmann has been a luminary of the free jazz world for nearly four decades and has become its godfather, collaborating with younger avant-gardists like Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark and Swedish sax player Mats Gustaffson. Brötzmann's original interest was in painting, but he quickly grew frustrated with the gallery situation in the modern art world and turned his focus to playing swing and bebop semiprofessionally in Germany. 
Montreal-based Akufen's "My Way" primarily showcases DJ Marc Leclair's newly developed production technique called "microsampling," and doubles as an intriguing dance music album. Leclair records hours worth of radio broadcasts each day and creates tiny samples from this source, often using only a fraction of a spoken word or a single guitar riff. He then assembles these fragments into sound collages and backs them up with fast-paced 4/4 techno-style drum loops. Et voilà, house music. 
Listening to Montreal nine-piece Godspeed You Black Emperor! is a bit like opening up the face of a clock and trying to make sense of its works. They're fascinating in their shiny metallic complexity, beautiful in their technical sophistication, yet ultimately unknowable for a mere layman, representing a prototype for a strange world with a different physics more than a functional machine. In other words, true understanding takes work and effort, but true understanding with respect to Godspeed, unlike a clock, is always a matter of subjective interpretation. 
“Deren acted the role of cinematic Prometheus, stealing the fire of the Hollywood gods for those whom the gods refused to recognize.”. This is an excerpt from "