russell haswell / florian hecker “kanal gendyn” long playing record and digital versatile disc set

• kanal gendyn stereo [a] (29:53)
  
  
• kanal gendyn stereo [b] (33:00)
  
  
• dvd :: kanal gendyn 4.0 (62:53)

editions mego press release...

emego 129 /  russell haswell & florian hecker kanal gendyn lp+dvd recorded and produced by russell haswell & florian hecker, 2004–2011 stereo version mixed by haswell & hecker @ ccmix (centre de création musicale iannis xenakis), paris, march 2004 digitally mastered by russell haswell @ haswell studio, suffolk, england, july 2011 dvd authored by gop , köln, september 2011 editions mego is happy to announce the release of 'kanal gendyn', a vinyl and dvd set by russell haswell & florian hecker. this is the first full length release by the artists following their highly acclaimed albums, 'blackest ever black (electroacoustic upic recordings)' (warner classics, 2007), and 'upic warp tracks' (warp, 2008), in addition to their remix's of popol vuh, and voice crack. in the late 90s, early 2000s, it became common for bands, or solo artists to perform live - often alternative - soundtracks to feature films or silent classics. critical of obvious instrumentation and the combination with known classic film, the artists russell haswell & florian hecker chose to create a real-time soundtrack, to an unscored film, 'kanal video' (1992, 60 min.) by the swiss artist duo peter fischli & david weiss. core to kanal gendyn is haswell & hecker's ongoing research on the legacies of polymath iannis xenakis (1922–2001) and in particular his concept of the dynamic stochastic synthesis, an abstract sound synthesis procedure that creates 'sound out of nothing'. in an interview with peter hoffmann, the artists recall: this video, which consists of an hour long ‘ride’ through the zurich sewage system, with a remotely controlled maintenance vehicle equipped with a video camera to survey the sewers for eventual irregularities of defects — struck us both as an ideal piece to be projected in a ‘nightclub’ or music venue with a gendyn only performance. we found twisted relations with such an hour long ‘tunnel vision’. once with the seemingly endless amount of computer generated video projections used as visuals accompanying raves and techno parties during the 1990’s — and also to the accounts of visual hallucinations induced by mescaline as described by heinrich klüver in the 1920’s — with the so called ‘form constants’ — where he mentions amongst others, ‘tunnel like’ patterns. the particularities of gendyn, with its ever changing and meandering waveforms appeared to us as an ideal counterpart. kanal gendyn was performed on the occasion of the event ‘musterraum 9. dual presentation — peter fischli & david weiss — russell haswell & florian hecker’ at musterraum, munich, 30.01.2004. originally constructed as an experimental building, ‘musterraum’ — german for sample or reference room — was a freestanding cube with a base area of 10 12 meters. built as a test and reference space for the planning and construction of the adjacent pinakothek der moderne. two stereo feeds were crossed for quadraphonic (4.0) diffusion using a l&b f12 / b12 loudspeaker system. performed concurrently to the peter fischli & david weiss, ‘kanal video’ (1992, 60 min.) screened on three facing walls. kanal gendyn is released as stereo vinyl lp + 4.0 dts 24 bit / 48 khz dvd (audio only) set. the cover features 10 stills from the original fischli & weiss video, included inside is a 30 x 30 cm 170 gramm paper insert with a further, full-page still, plus extensive sleeve notes by musicologist and software developer peter hoffmann, and everything was designed by norm, zurich. its also worth noting that, with a running time of over an hour, this is one of the longest single lp releases you will come across!  cut by rashad 'the master' becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, september 2011

florian hecker / robin mackay / quentin meillasoux / elie ayache “speculative solution” compact disc and 160 page booklet and quintuple metal ball boxed set

• speculative solution 1 (32:00)
  
• speculative solution 2 (2:57)
  
• speculative solution 2 (2:55)
  
• octave chronics (19:10)

editions mego press release...

emego 118 / hecker speculative solution cd + book release date 23.05.2011 written and produced by florian hecker, march 2009 – november 2010 book edited by robin mackay typesetting by tina frank, elvira stein software design by alberto de campo, tommi keränen mastered by rashad becker this sensation that you are in a world where there can be no physics, but only a chronics, of things. - quentin meillassoux in conversation with florian hecker and robin mackay, paris, 22.07.2010 editions mego and urbanomic are pleased to announce the release of ‘speculative solution’, a cd and book with contributions by florian hecker, elie ayache, robin mackay and quentin meillassoux. originally commissioned by urbanomic and developed over the last year, this collaborative project brings together hecker’s sonic practice and psychoacoustic experimentation with philosopher quentin meillassoux’s concept of ‘hyperchaos’ – the absolute contingency of the laws of nature. in an apparent departure from hecker’s previous release ‘acid in the style of david tudor’ (emego 094, 2009), the four titles featured in ‘speculative solution’ contain a series of micro-chronics and sequences of auditory contingencies, ranging from extreme stasis to the most dynamic intensities, crisp dramatisations of what meillassoux calls in his text ‘extro-science worlds'. as mackay states in his contribution to the book, hecker’s composition “participates in a circuit in which it, the accompanying texts, and diverse other objects, enter into a perpetual catalysis that must annihilate all priority, representation, reference, and even entity.’. both ‘scripture and prescription’, ‘speculative solution’ invites its users to integrate its sonic and textual components, as they enter into an accelerative cycle, becoming “truly ‘literalist’ marks which have no reason to be as they are, and which could have been – and still could be, at every moment – otherwise”. with ‘speculative solution’ hecker proposes that the concepts of absolute contingency and hyperchaos offer a rigorous new alternative to the employment of chance and randomness in avant-garde composition. it is recommended to listen to ‘speculative solution’ on loudspeakers at high volume. headphone use is not advised. frequent recitation of the included texts is also indicated. ‘speculative solution’, is hecker’s 13th release with (editions) mego. it comes in an embossed, deluxe box with a bilingual (english / french) 160 page book and 5 metal balls (ø 3,969mm). available only in this format.

hecker “3 track 12”” long playing record

• (5'12") (5:12)
  
• (2'40" + 0'48") (3:28)
  
  
• (23'32") (23:32)

“all tomorrow’s parties 3.0 • autechre curated” compact disc

• public enemy - gotta give the peeps what they need (3:32)
  
• masters of illusion - the bay-bronx bridge (bhongra remix) (3:49)
  
• gescom - mag (ae remix) (5:43)
  
• push button objects - the atp track (3:52)
  
• jim o'rourke - call up on your sisters (5:46)
  
• o.s.t. - dfde (5:00)
  
• made - type tactical (4:43)
  
• dr. dooom - leave me alone (peanut butter wolf remix) (6:00)
  
• stasis - artifax (7:58)
  
  
• anthony 'shake' shakir - ghetto futures (go figure) (5:56)
  
• disjecta - tiny elements (5:47)
  
• mark broom - translucid (3:05)
  
• baby ford - serpentine tale (5:59)
  
• pita - atipfin (3:15)
  
• autechre - /]{- /](||) excerpt (6:30)
  
• earth - dissolution iii (oversaturated intervallic collisions) (10:03)
  
• bola - magnasushi (7:14)
  
• hecker - stocha acid, additional tables, set 2 modi mix (3:49)

“the end of the fear of god” compact disc

• rlw - 7up 2002
  
• n.o.g. - final chant for god
  
• norbert möslang - 4183
  
• rudolf eb.er - trottelgott
  
• sudden infant - fear of richard gere
  
• strotter inst. - rubbish planet remix
  
• soviet subliminal seduction - the fuck of(f) god
  
• suntour - love song
  
• andrew phillips (4) - don't fuck our children
  
• schurer - fantasie in cmaj
  
• unholy grave - absolution
  
• kevin drumm - first class people
  
• bela kiss - pharma-zootic
  
• evil moisture* - umbilical retribution
  
• hecker - easy jxeluspl jxel funnn pre mix
  
• yamatsuka eye* - 7 seconds no tone
  
• r.h.y. yau - prisoner of your ideals
  
• the idealist - the deconstruction and ressurection of under the chainsaw
  
• gorebitch - pelzfotze bitch
  
• massaccesi - i'm positive that i've seen my hands running through a sea of bodies
  
• kure kure takura - our beed god re-trip butt on frog
  
• dylan nyoukis - under the chainsaw
  
• mike patton & kid606 - circle a
  
• genetic transmission - untitled
  
• eric boros / jason flowers - wo-po-po-po
  
• stress - world under my fingernail
  
• jason kahn - running through the blood
  
• fear of smallcock - untitled
  
• imperative - positive
  
• shoji goto - a sunset with 4 painter
  
• glands of external secretion - (make) 7 up (yours)
  
• jim o'rourke - fog rmx
  
• dropdead / outosushi - pneumatic slaughter
  
• k2 - junk grinder of the master
  
• doris tomasoni - nasse fotze
  
• kouhei matsunaga - a lot of fog or 2 fog
  
• eva revox - sphincteral descaling
  
• merzbow - fear of god
  
• kein babel - gloria
  
• blackjewishgays - bjgrmxfog
  
• eva d. - il fece del signore
  
• ommyth - controlled by fear
  
• medieval moisture - f(urbies) o(n) g(lue)
  
• humectant interruption - bird bite
  
• saicobaba - 11:25 am - 11:26 am
  
• rabid dogs - p.c.u.n.t.
  
• j.c. - fear of fnord
  
• dave noyze - chemical induced oscillatory machination of a circle
  
• dj killroy vs von wurstfinger - one day fly (killfinger remix)
  
• rm74 - eintagsfliege
  
• raionbashi - i81b4u
  
• viscious circle - freakers...
  
• ecrase-merde - amuse - guele
  
• atta - absolution
  
• shite minor - schwere geburt
  
• voice crack - 7714
  
• thomas ankersmit - untitled
  
• silvum - catalogue more rubbish bodies
  
• runzelstirn and gurgelstock - lasset uns beten
  
• takedown uav - for lack of all else: youth devour divinity
  
• the haters - rubbish remix
  
• russell haswell - fog micromedley
  
• the nautilus deconstruction - rubbish away
  
• chicken & money - c&m love fear of god
  
• bloodstar vs saalschutz technopunk - pelzfotze
  
• pita - xxx229fog
  
• seaman staynes & master baits - watersports whilst foggy
  
• zbigniew karkowski - trig
  
• machine gun tv - untitled