Thursday June 8th I’ll play a live score to Jean Genet’s 1950 silent movie Un Chant d’amour.
At Hinterconti artspace, Balduinstr. 24 / 20359 Hamburg. There’s a sound installation that starts at 4pm, the screening is 9 pm sharp. Free admission, donations are welcome. The event is part of Blurred Edges festival for contemporary music.
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.
During the past months I translated three chapters from my book on noise to English. They form a part of the text that addresses the idea of an auditory field of the social that serves as a critical extension of the concept of the soundscape.
Transgressions: Noise and Violence
An introduction to the concept of auditory fields and the relations of noise, force and power in that field.
Ingressions: The Horror and Benefit of Silence
A critique of the discourse on silence that focuses on aggressive uses of quietness and the commodification of silence.
Delimitations: Music and Power
A historical sketch of the relations between power and music. Features Michel Foucault, Italian opera, castration and Muzak.
Überlebenschancen (Chances of Survival) is a series of four new releases: sessions recorded live to C20 tapes without editing or overdubbing. Limited editions of one with collage cover-art. No time spent on the computer during the recording process.
James Main and me started a new project last year. Our first album Optimistic About Nothing was recorded in November 2022. We’re currently looking for a label that interested in giving these songs a physical from.
Shows will be announced in the near future.
Here’s documentation of the concerts at MS Stubnitz on March 23.
Livealbum:
Video:
Concert at/on MS Stubnitz with The Ultimate Bruital Orchestra and Dong Zhou. Click here for the event.
Kirchenpauerkai 29, Hamburg. Doors 19:30, Start 20:30. Box office 15,- €, reduced 10,- €
Live set recorded at Madame Claude in Berlin on 16th of January 2023.
L’Ombilic des Limbes – new song on a single sided 10“ lathe cut disc. Limited edition of 30, shipping starts on 01/23/2023.
Unpleasant Knowns – a five song C20 tape. Austere pop songs with a noise-infection. Limited edition of 15. Starts shipping on January 23rd.
Also available on the 23rd of January: The World Can Be As Sad As It Seems set (sticker and postcard in a Covid-test biohazard bag) and special merch package containing 10“ vinyl, tape, sticker, postcard and a hand made collage (limited edition of five).
My first concert of 2023 will take place at Madame Claude, Berlin on January 16th. Also on the bill are Spzieg (music made on €29 equipment) and DJ Offcourse.
Doors 19:00 / Start 21:00 / Donation
