Up for preorder now (ships September 16):

Hurlements by ■david wallraf / Gerald Fiebig

Film samples, soundscapes, noises and static and abruptly changeing, audiophonic walls. A sound-artistic and conceptual work in relation to a movie by the Situationist Guy Debord.

Guy Debord’s 1952 film Hurlements en faveur de Sade is a radical work with no images and minimal sound, challenging the very definition of cinema. Its purpose was to create a “situation” in which the audience’s expectations were subverted, marking a potential endpoint for film as an artistic medium. Debord’s film, with its rejection of spectacle, resonates with the concept of noise as it obliterates signal, while the melancholic voices hint at early Situationist ideas. Artists Gerald Fiebig and David Wallraf pay tribute by translating the film’s themes into sound, using noise and collage to explore its oppositional nature.

New tape dropped:

Nostalgia. Three track C30 tape, self-released.

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Collaborative project with Monad Node is now available as digital download, tape and CD. Songs developed over a three month period by exchanging tracks; artwork, design and production are a shared effort, titles were taken from works by Walter Benjamin (Capitalism as Religion), Max Horkheimer („But whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism“), Rosa Luxemburg („[The most revolutionary thing one can do is] always to proclaim loudly what is happening“) and Karl Marx („The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living„).

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We self-released our first single, the double A side Beyond The Dark Forest/Baby Blue. Clear 7“ lathe cut, limited edition of 20. Available here or at our live shows.

My new tape/album The Commune of Nightmares is due to be released on Karlrecords on January 26 and is up for preorder here.

The Commune of Nightmares stems from the idea that nightmares are the logical reverse of ‘capitalist realism’: an uncanny undercurrent of daily experiences and an algorithmic haunting of dreams that at the same time is a shared – communal – experience of everybody. All songs are based on tapeloops that were cut arbitrarily from a stash of cassettes, some of which found on the street, others from a stockpile of 4 track tapes recorded in the late 90s and early 2000s – a musical game of cadavre exquis played with random strangers and former versions of the self.

The C40 tape comes with a download card and an eight page booklet containing some theoretical background on the songs.

On January 19 there will be a release concert at West Germany in Berlin.

There’s a new compilation out on IN:EX from Chemnitz: Anthroprocene Tresholds (how much space waits between those noises). A C90 tape in interesting packaging containing tracks by Chemiefaserwerk, Mattin, Philippe Petit, Monad Node and many more.

My contribution is titled Inertia and Rust.

It is the sister track to Darkness and Mold, released earlier this year on the Stanislav Lem tribute compilation by Machina ad Noctem.

My new tape Santé Et Efficacité is now available on the awesome Falt label.
Recorded in the summer of 2020, during a climate change heatwave & in quarantine with a Covid infection, these four songs deal with apocalyptic dread from a strictly personal perspective.

The title is borrowed from This Heat’s last EP Health and Efficiency.

Bottlefly Blues is a nod to the blue bottle fly (calliphora vomitoria), a species of fly that feeds on corpses and is used in forensics.
I Want To Be An Insect is the title of a sculpture made in 1960 by Leonora Carrington.
The World’s Curling Up Like An Autumn Leaf is a line lifted from Derek Jarman’s film The Last of England.
D’ailleurs, C’est Toujours Les Autreus Qui Meurent is the inscription on Marcel Duchamp’s tombstone.