Sound art, experimental, drone, noise and hardcore/metal music, urban intervention, reality engineering, field recording, sound+architecture, mail art, radio waves, naïve electronics, the tao of physics, outsider magicians, dark shamans, serious pranksters, deserts, glaciers, rainforests, caves, bunkers and post-Soviet landscapes
The end times are near...
Music
13, 1349, Amen Ra, Asunder, ASVA, Bernard Parmegiani, Birchville Cat Motel, BJ Nilsen, Black Boned Angel, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Boris, Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh, Burzum, Carpathian Forest, Celtic Frost, Coffins, Coil's "Timemachines", Corrupted, Crash Worship, Crossed Out, Daniel Menche, Deathspell Omega, Dystopia, Earth, Edgard Varèse, Eliane Radigue, Fela Kuti, Hatewave, Hawkwind, Iannis Xenakis, Isis, Jazkamer, John Fahey, Johnny Cash, Jorge Ben, Keiji Haino, Kevin Drumm, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, KK Null, Leviathan, Man is the Bastard, Misfits, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Neurosis, Om, Oren Ambarchi, Painkiller, Peter Wright, Phil Niblock, Pig Destroyer, Pink Floyd, Rosy Parlane, Skullflower, Slayer, Sleep, Sogar, Stephan Mathieu, Sunn O))), Swans, Techno Animal, The Angels of Light, Throbbing Gristle, Ulver, Venom, Von, Weakling, Wolf Eyes, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xasthur, Yellow Swans, Zeni Geva, ethnographic recordings, mumbly front porch blues, hillbilly freakouts, Soviet Avant-Gardists, insects, bats, singing wolves, crackling ice, roaring fires, underwater bioacoustics, wax cylinders, scratchy 78's...
Movies
Aki Kaurismaki, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Sokurov, Andrei Tarkowski, Andrzej Zulawski, Bill Viola, Chan-wook Park, Chris Marker, Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusterica, Ingmar Bergman, Jan Svankmeyer, Jess Franco, Jim Jarmusch, Kenneth Anger, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Matthew Barney, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nicholas Provost, Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Richard Kern, Roman Polanski, Roman Signer, Stan Brakhage, Stanley Kubrick, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Vera Chytilová, Walerian Borowczyk, Werner Herzog
C.G. Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Elias Cannetti, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Bataille, Hakim Bey/Peter Lamborn Wilson, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Campbell, Kathy Acker, Leif Elggrin, Luis Borges, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Peter Carroll, Phillip K Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Roland Barthes, Sir James Frazier, Stuart Home, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Pelevin, William Faulkner, William S. Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, Yukio Mishima, the Whole Earth Catalog, the AMOK Catalog, Tesla biographies, too many electronics spec sheets for my own good, mythology/anthropology texts, contemporary art and cultural studies, books on music theory (still unopened), my English/German dictionary plus assorted phrasebooks in Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Latvian...
"... the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event."
---Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
Lately, all this hype about minimalism has gotten to be such a bore. Let's talk about maximalism. Iannis Xenakis' bird swarms and hail storms alongside Dave Lombardo's blast beats and double kicks... Right now, in this moment, I want to make sounds from these kind of ingredients, as live as possible, and not to justify anything with cheap intellectualization. Only to be overwhelmed by raw energy and unfathomable complexity. Nothing more, nothing less.
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BIOGRAPHY
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and heavy metal music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Mandorla, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels.
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Who I'd like to meet: Idiosyncrists, alarmists and animists. Extraterrestrials or those in contact with them, the dead or those in contact with them. Myself 10 years ago, you ten years from now. Fakers, charlatans and bunko artists of all stripes and colors. Chaos magicians, ex-KGB agents and anyone who has traveled outside the earth's atmosphere. Owners of any single piece of the True Cross. Anthropophagists and the women who love them. Prophets of the (metaphysical, ecological, technological...) apocalypse. Snake handlers and polygamists. Time machine operators. The ghost of Nikola Tesla.
torba/M! self released cassette split! different colors on black tape. limited to 22 numbered copies. 5 euros shipping included. traders are welcome! ____________
HI Derek - I'll be back in Berlin on the 15th. see you maybe - you know Madame Claude's? Bee
15 sept. 2009, 22:30 - Madame Claude Lübbener Str.19, 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Berlin, Berlin 10997 DE Coût :sliding scale donation - money goes to bands. Description:With Lisa O Piu we play at 10:30 sharp Madame CLAUDE Lübbener Str.19 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) LIVE MUSIC start 21.00 bis 23.45 BAR from 19.00 till LATE ...
Monday 7. September 2009 doors 19.00 start 21.00 free donation
Madame Claude Lübbener Str.19 Kreuzberg 10999 Berlin U1 Schlesisches Tor
COSTES (Clavier, Chant, Films / FR) Jean-Louis Costes! Known as the author/performer of the wildest noise operas, subsequently being banned in many places. He is the father of 'socio-shitcore'... "King of what? King of music? King of rock'n'roll? SOD OFF!!!"... On this tour Costes plays clavier, sings songs, and shows films from his decades of making extreme noise performance art. http://www.costes.org http://www.myspace.com/jeanlouiscostes
A new night for music like no other : where the rules of the West no longer apply, where the sound of voodoo and santería is mixed with raw electricity : where we have the secret, you have the dilemma, and we have the solution : now welcome to CUT HANDS!
sound by William Bennett, live visuals by Nick Herd
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, Astro, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and 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).
