Russell Haswell (b.1970 Coventry, UK) and Florian Hecker (b.1975 Kissing, DE)
first met in Vienna in 1996. They have performed Computer Music concerts together numerous times at prestigious festivals and venues around the world. Together they have conducted remix projects for such historical and pioneering music groups as Voice Crack (CH) and Popol Vuh (DE).
In 2003 they began a research project together centering around the use of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC ‘graphic input’ computer music composing system, and a residency at CCMIX Paris, where the UPIC is located. The results are currently being presented to the public as live multi channel electroacoustic diffusion concerts. These events use surround sound and laser lighting to create an immersive multi-sensory environment.
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In 2007 Warner Classics released Blackest Ever Black: Electroacoustic Upic Recordings on both CD and Direct Metal Mastered double vinyl in gate-fold sleeve, both with sleeve notes by Curtis Roads.
Independent of each other they have both received Awards at the Prix Ars Electronica for Digital Music. Haswell with ‘Live Salvage 1997 - 2000’ and Hecker, ‘Sun Panda¨monium’. Between them the have collaborated in concert, on record and/or exhi-
bition with a superabundance of musicians and conceptual visual artists including: Aphex Twin, Carsten Ho¨ller, Masami Akita (MERZBOW), Oswald Berthold, Cerith Wyn Evans, Kjetil Manheim (MAYHEM), Toshiji Mikawa (INCAPACITANTS), Whitehouse and Yasunao Tone. To name a few.
Hecker's latest full length solo compact disc 'Recordings for Rephlex' has just been released. http://www.rephlex.com/
Current information on Russell Haswell can be found at http://www.haswellstudio.com/
Further information: http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com
Thanks for adding me, it's an honour! You make very impressive music! You deserve a huge B R A V O, for supporting, spreading and continuing the work of the greatest musician of the 20th century, Iannis Xenakis!
Pulickel Ajayan, a professor of engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have created a blacker black.
Theirs is an array of tiny carbon cylinders standing on end like bristles on a brush that reflects only 0.045 percent of the visible light shined on it.
you guys are so good i will even buy yr popul vuh remix ... hecker, holler, tracks is my favourite record for years too .. but is there really a place in germany called Kissing? nc x
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