jeph jerman / leif elggren / ralf wehowsky “three aural interpretations of a drawing by eric lanzillotta” seven inch single record

• jeph jerman "drawing" (6:01)
  
  
• leif elggren "soundtrack for eric's drawing" (3:19)
  
• ralf wehowsky "dreaming of / a french disco / sleep commodity" (3:04)

anomalous press release...

"three aural interpretations of a drawing by eric lanzillotta" 7" ep anomalous records nom28 limited edition of 250 copies pressed on clear vinyl and packaged in double-sided 14.5" by 10.5" poster sleeve. this 33 rpm ep include three sound artists playing a drawing by eric lanzillotta. each artist has a unique, though abstract take on the drawing, which is included in the inside of the poster sleeve. the sounds include the calm physical motions of jeph jerman, the static activity of leif elggren and noise music of ralf wehowsky (sounding a bit like p16.d4 here). jeph jerman gained attention under the name hands to, but has created his most refined work under his own name. he performs mostly with natural objects (stones, plant parts, feathers, etc) and has collaborated regularly with wally shoup, greg davis, sean meehan, tim barnes, mike shannon, dave knott, eric lunde, and many others. he has had several previous releases on anomalous records, and a new cd of his work will be released by little enjoyer this year. leif elggren is a pioneering sound, performance, book and installation artist from sweden, as well one of the two kings of elgaland-vargaland. in the last 30 years, he has released a great deal of material on labels such as radium 226.05, anckarström, flykingen, ash international, korm plastics, some, absurd, meeuw muzak, kning disk, ideal recordings, touch and his own firework edition, which has also published many of his book works, such as the legendary "experiment with dreams" done in collaboration with thomas liljenberg. ralf wehowsky started making music in the neue deutsch welle period of germany history with his band p.d., which later became the group p16.d4. since the dissolution of these groups, he has been recorded largely as a solo artist, though in truth always incorporating collaborations with various friends. over the years he has worked with andrew chalk, bernhard günter, kevin drumm, lionel marchetti, bruce russell, david grubbs, jim o'rourke, and many others.

francisco lópez “absolute noise ensemble” double compact disc set

• a two-disc lopez collage freakout !!

• 06.16.00
  
• 11.03.00
  
• 01.21.01
  
• 06.08.02
  
• 09.22.02

• untitled sonic microorganisms

bruce russell “left-handed blows: writing on sound 1993-2009” book

• left-handed blows: towards a technique of incognito
  
• ten aphorisms in lieu of an editorial policy for logopandocy
  
• what is free?: a free noise manifesto
  
• a little aesthetic discourse: a dialogue between alastair galbraith and bruce russell
  
• contra-fludd/contra-kepler: the disharmony of the spheres extolled in ten theses
  
• heaven on earth is always a beguiling prospest: a dialogue between danny butt and bruce russell
  
• to think is to speculate with images: rosicrucian linguistics revisited as semiological discourse
  
• tuplas
  
• poi$on + lie$ = money + death - the axe interview
  
• on the guitar: practical materialism - lesson one
  
• the real ‘driver ufo’ - douglas lilburn: complete electro-acoustic works
  
• thinking my head to the sky: practical materialism - lesson two
  
• points of reference: here to go
  
• midnight crossroads tape recorder blues
  
• concerning the duende: practical materialism - lesson three
  
• celestial disharmonies: retuning the ears of the world with sound art
  
• time under the rule of the commodity: notes towards an epistemology of tape music
  
• silver machines and stone henges: pumping the pipe organ of psycho-social mind control
  
• battering down all chinese walls
  
• dub me tender: a brief personal history of the sound recording as an artistic medium
  
• why i make recordings
  
• caution: analogue artist at work!

clouds press release...

left-handed blows: writing on sound 1993-2009 by bruce russell published 2009 by clouds, auckland, nz 128 pages preface by alastair galbraith  ‘left-handed blows’ is a collection of essays written by bruce russell (dead c.) reflecting on sound, improvisation and critical action in the field of culture. about the title these are days when no one should rely unduly on his ‘competence’. strength lies in improvisation. all the decisive blows are struck left-handed.  walter benjamin (1928). ‘one-way street’ summary of contents the contents of the volume were first written for ‘logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition’ originally published with compact discs on the corpus hermeticum label, as liner notes for other compact discs, or as catalogue essays and journalistic pieces. there are also a theoretical introduction and conclusion, which provide a framework within which these occasional pieces can be collectively understood. essays 1999-2008 left-handed blows: towards a technique of incognito practical materialism lesson 1: on the guitar practical materialism lesson 2: thinking my head to the sky practical materialism lesson 3: concerning the duende time under the rule of the commodity celestial disharmonies: retuning the ears of the world with sound art the real ‘driver ufo’: douglas lilburn in memoriam (the wire) battering down all chinese walls (the wire) why i make recordings (revue et corrigee) caution: analogue artist at work! logopandocy 1994-97 what is free? a free noise manifesto contra-fludd/contra-kepler: the disharmony of the spheres extolled in ten theses a little aesthetic discourse: a dialogue between alastair galbraith and bruce russell heaven on earth is always a beguiling prospect: a dialogue between danny butt and bruce russell ‘to think is to speculate with images’: rosicrucian linguistics revisited as semiological discourse ten aphorisms in lieu of an editorial policy for logopandocy liner notes 1997-2008 ralf wehowsky tulpas 1997 ralf wehowsky points of reference 2003 birchville cat motel gunpowder temple of heaven 2008 bruce russell midnight crossroads tape recorder blues 2005 bruce russell 21st century field hollers and prison songs 2007 interview 1999 ‘poi$on + lie$ =  money + death’ bruce russell interviewed by marco fusinato in axe no. 19, ed. john nixon and marco fusinato about the author bruce russell is a practitioner in sound, who since 1987 has been a member of the dead c. this genre-dissolving new zealand trio, mixes rock, electro-acoustics, noise and improvisation in equal measures. he has also been active as a solo artist, and directed two of new zealand’s vanguard labels, xpressway and corpus hermeticum.   he is currently studying at rmit towards a doctorate in sound. this seeks to establish a theory of the social utility of improvised sound work, building on guy debord’s critique of the commodity-spectacle, walter benjamin’s reflections on time and commodity fetishism, and karl marx’s theory of value.

ralf wehowsky / bruce russell “sights” compact disc

• first sight (14:42)
  
• second sight (12:00)
  
• third sight (18:39)

corpus hermeticum press release...

take two collaborators, one a german sound artist noted for his painstaking micro-engineered computer compositions, the other a new zealand noise terrorist with a reputation for making albums over his morning tea breaks. put them in a basement studio in karlsruhe for three days in february 2003, feed them on coffee and apple juice and let them out to walk in the woods once a day. what do you get? sights, a dramatic collision of two very different but complementary approaches to the same problem -- 'what is this sound?'. this is a postcard from bruce russell's 2003 european holiday, consisting of three duo improvisations, one recorded after the fact by mail collaboration, and two recorded live in ralf's studio. russell and wehowsky take turns in the studio playing guitar and manipulating a range of tone generating electronics, while the mail collaboration includes clavioline and teaspoons. the recordings have then been subjected to ralf wehowsky's characteristically careful mixing, where stereo placement and subtle tweaking of the recorded sounds grants a bewitching crystalline sheen to every click and whine. it's the combination of instantaneous composition and carefully-planned post-production that imparts the mystery to this particular session. at once quite unlike wehowsky's recent work, yet imbued with the same ethos of care and judicious consideration which marks all his productions, sights if anything represents a return to the more carefree jamming practiced by the earliest post-punk incarnations of his first band, pd. in this we see some influence from the slap-dash new zealander, but whereas the average russell production has an unmistakeable air of accident about the fact that anything wound up on tape at all, in this case the beautifully-managed production does perfect justice to the audible excitement captured at the point of creation. there's a measured care to the way these sounds have been put together, but there's no slavish adherence to any tenets regarding how the results should sound. this is too rocking to be reductionist, too chance-driven to be minimalist, and too noisy to be lumped with any temporarily fashionable schools of micro-improvisation. what you get is the meeting of two well-made-up minds, which have spent upwards of two decades each deciding what the business of sound is all about, and then a long weekend putting the resulting experience into practice.

rlw / tito “mahlzeit” compact disc

• eingedampft: nichts da
  
• aufdemweg (the fall of public man)
  
• haha super specialiteiten
  
• fressen, vergessen
  
• s&m maaltijdroddel
  
• gabentisch grossstadt
  
• dode varkens en mooie moraal
  
• geschissen ist nicht gemalt
  
• vertering
  
• hin
  
• baerenplatte
  
• bauernfruestueck, labskaus und gulaschsuppe

hinterzimmer press release...

rlw & tito – mahlzeit (cd hint 03) cd comes in great looking chipboard sleeve hinterzimmers reto mäder (rm74) and german sound artist ralf wehowksy (rlw) have been in contact since many years, resulting in the collaborative cd ‘pirouetten’ (2006) on north american label ‘crouton’. wehowsky, creator of highly influential industrial improv-group p16.d4 and labelmanager of ‘selektion’, released solo- and collaborative albums on various international labels (table of the elements, beta-lactam ring, streamline, trente oiseaux, anomalous…) since the early nineties. for his new ambitious project ‘mahlzeit’ (german for ‘meal’) he worked together with transindustrial toy orchestra (tito), a loose collective of people from hamburg and amsterdam, working in music and other art forms. current members peter kastner, ine ophof and jan van wissen created their part of the conceptual work with their vast collection of toys and kitchen tools, using electronic devices to transform them into bizarre acoustic situations while wehowsky contributes another strange mix of electronics, instruments, voice and body functions. all in all ‘mahlzeit’ is a collaborative release, but in a special way as some tracks were created by ralf wehowsky using sounds by tito and vice versa, but some were just done by one part of the project, assimilating suggestions from the other part. it mixes electroacoustic composition, early electronic music and bizarre kraut-era avantgarde. the heterogeneous but totally coherent and self-contained ‘mahlzeit’ is not just a great experience and expansion of the musical activity of all involved, but also an album of fine music that is not easy to label..

rm74 “fireproof in 8 parts” compact disc and compact disc-recordable set

• a stroke of lightning
  
• passionate
  
• exaudi!
  
• quirk
  
• unearth
  
• orchulence ii
  
• involve
  
• morbus fidel
  
  
• night enfold
  
• mellow
  
• e-s-r-e-v-e-r
  
• klavtarups
  
• temporary undo
  
• zweitagsfliege
  
• scharlach in saldo

hinterzimmer press release...

rm74 - fireproof in 8 parts (cd hint 02) nothing is holy! with his fourth solo-release, reto mäder aka rm74 takes us on a fevery missionary journey which is driven by an unholy quest for saturation and leads us into the dark places where tortured souls dwell. unpredictably muckraking in the shoals of timeless abysses, rm74 seeks to kindle the supressed fires of passion. nothing less! to do justice to this mission, mäder interweaves acoustic instruments such as an organ, a piano, a bassguitar or a harp with analogue and digital treatments into 8 firey and frivolous revelations. the symbiotical relation on "fireproof in 8 parts" is clearly in favour of the beatified instruments, which are re-discovered as liberating tools: "the dusty organ winds itself ecstatically in purgatory. the rickety piano holds confused and atonal soliloquies. the detuned strings of the bassguitar gleefully dance to the song of wantonness, and the harp calls for the exorcism of charaded awe!" "fireproof in 8 parts" also contains a bonus-cdr titled "part 9: lofire". this goodie offers additional insight into the works of rm74, concentrating on his lofi-inspired songwriter drafts. guest musicians: ralf wehowsky (rlw), dave phillips, roger ziegler (herpes ö deluxe), alexei borisov and reverend lester knox (archived by tom smith).

johannes frisch / ralf wehowsky “tränende würger” compact disc

• tränende herzen (21:36)
  
• jungfer im grüzen (10:32)
  
• kantakari (16:12)
  
• hundswürger (0:49)

rlw “points of reference” compact disc

• point 1 (4:48)
  
• point 2 (9:48)
  
• point 3 (8:51)
  
• point 4 (7:38)
  
• point 5 (10:39)
  
• point 6 (2:54)

perdition plastics press release...

ralf wehowsky / kevin drumm “cases” compact disc

• case a (17:49)
  
• case b (15:14)

rlw “i.k.k. - purpur” compact disc

• rlw i.k.k. - purpur - scharlachrot
  
• dan warburton der druck und die temperatur der kleidung
  
• andrew deutsch orion’s dog
  
• chris halliwell in parallel motion
  
• strotter inst. schwadron
  
• stephen vitiello kneel (or hover)
  
• wehowsky/frisch/rainey i.k.k. - purpur - transformation schwarz

rlw “early w 5: grauzeit” compact disc-recordable

• keuchend kriechen leiber ... (4:08)
  
• ... mit bleicher maske durch die stadt (7:41)
  
• eine übung in disziplin (4:19)
  
• ... und in pünktlichkeit (10:38)
  
• zeitlose zeit (9:11)
  
• lautréamont's jazzfrühschoppen (8:39)
  
• die zwangseinweisung des anselm weinberg (16:49)
  
• alltägliches (7:01)

songs from under the floorboards press release...

early w 5: grauzeit rlw songs from under the floorboards is proud to present this gem from the archives of ralf wehowsky, aka rlw, founder of the selektion label (a major inspiration for my starting intransitive) and the legendary german industrial/noise band p16.d4 (a major early and lasting influence on my own music). grauzeit features a previously unreleased session from october 1980 and two added studio improvisations that would appear in edited form on wer nicht arbeiten will soll auch nicht essen!, p16.d4 s debut cassette album. the band, which includes a young achim scepanski (later to found the mille plateaux and force inc techno labels) on synth, played a strange blend of gray noise, psychedelic improvisation, and industrial dub provocation that still sounds unhinged today. rlw and his colleagues (friends from school, and a temporarily-out-of-the-hospital mental patient who happened to be in the audience at an early concert) made a dada / jazz / punk racket in stark contrast to the fashionable new wave scenes in berlin and hamburg at the time. they would rapidly evolve into an art collective that would create installations, write and publish books, produce records and cds, and instigate an international network of cassette-trading collaborators at a time when self-publishing on tape was itself a radical political act. catalog no: floor9 format: cdr edition: 100

peter duimelinks / roel meelkop / ralf wehowsky “verklarte tage” compact disc

• unvoll plus 10:01
  
• [mat] 16:45
  
• x 10.5 in 11 11:00
  
• trivelogue 4:56
  
• 9 in 3 8:03
  
• eemix 6:12

rlw “early w • volume 2: nur die tiere blieben ubrig” long playing record

• kurzschluß
  
• stahlbeton
  
• alltag
  
• ajatollah carter
  
• rosenmontag
  
• ein tauschieder für h.k.
  
• baustelle (incl. sb 2)
  
• mainzer dom (incl. sb 3)
  
• o haupt voll blut und wunden
  
• hauptbanhof
  
• hunger

“ohmix” compact disc

• ralf wehowsky - gesichte (8:31)
  
• martin tétreault - bloc de vitesse brune avec 2 trous (2:43)
  
• christian calon - aiguiser l'ouïe (7:45)
  
• terre thaemlitz - transit(ional edit) (9:00)
  
• john oswald - ohmigone (3:07)
  
• john oswald - ridge (4:03)
  
• diane labrosse - curieux mélange pour amateurs auditifs de la jeune radio (9:09)
  
• david kristian - ohmite (5:38)
  
• alexandre st-onge - i-i (9:52)

avatar press release...

ohmix a work by: artistes variés to publicize the audio collection accumulated by ohm editions between 1993 and 1998, avatar asked eight composers to extract, transform and remix bits and entire pieces whatever way they wanted. the result is obviously one of very different approaches and varied listening experiences. through ohmix, avatar, as the name of the centre indicates, metamorphoses, changes itself and rematerializes with new pieces. from ralf wehowsky to alexandre st-onge, each reading is a taking-aim, an angle of attack, a posture that comes across like a meeting, a rendezvous of sound. the interweavings are amplified sharings, interpretations enriched by the fine-tuning of each sound sensibility. ohmix is a weaving of related but dispersed trends. for several years, a number of artists have been creating a new genre by using the sounds of other artists for their own creations and fishing from assorted discs to reconstruct them into a music that is unprecedented. ohmix sees itself as contributing to the history of avatar and of ohm editions. ohmix was broadcast in november 2001 on the french-language radio service of the cbc, la chaîne culturelle, on le navire night, a program produced by hélène prévost.

“das dreidimensionale moebiusband” double compact disc and three inch compact disc set

• achim wollscheid - radio piece (5:36)
  
• asmus tietchens - böszopfler (= an evil man with a tress) (6:58)
  
• conrad schnitzler - /143 (1-15) (5:36)
  
• das - kreis der fünf (4:54)
  
• darius ciuta - near by one (6:13)
  
• es - kukat ovat hyriä kuuntelijoita (3:43)
  
• felipe caramelos - que su cante me lastima (4:16)
  
• frans de waard - klankschap #7 (6:21)
  
• ilpo väisänen - vihan päivä (8:38)
  
• john watermann - unfaithful moments (14:00)
  
  
• trevor wishart - fanfare / contrapuntus (10:34)
  
• animist orchestra - non title (8:00)
  
• spectre - soaring to the depth (4:38)
  
• rlw - rappel das - or: dealing with indiscipline. a piece for children aged 2-4 years (7:07)
  
• merzbow - earth nazareth (11:47)
  
• liddikoatight - ka-cho-fuh-getsu (6:00)
  
• leif elggren - the paving stone is the weapon of the proletariat no. 5 (6:11)
  
• juozas milasius - tenderness (4:18)
  
• kouhei matsunaga - star point (7:00)

2003 release ; this is... by far... the most interesting record-object i’ve been able to stock via mms thusfar (buddha machine :: ha!) ... what ships as two cds and a three-inch cd-rom inside a resealable plastic display-bag (left) in fact opens up to be an inflatable möbius-strip / objét d’art that you assemble and inflate yourself (with the included red straw no less), then display prominently on your mantlepiece ... voila :: on top of all that, the two audio-discs are rife with excellent, exclusive material from a who’s who of the international sound-art scene ... plus the 3” cd-rom explains the project in more detail and contains artist bios & links & whatnot ... just plain amazing ... no collection should be without !!!

“epitaph for john” compact disc

• asmus tietchens - jwat 1 (3:05)
  
• asmus tietchens - jwat 2 (2:37)
  
• asmus tietchens - jwat 3 (5:39)
  
• asmus tietchens - jwat 4 (3:55)
  
• rlw - seeking perfection - somewhere else (12:52)
  
• merzbow - untitled for john (5:28)
  
• freiband - threnody (10:26)
  
• john watermann - toowong cemetary (13:32)

“testament” compact disc

• artificial memory trace - asymfon (8:04)
  
• john wiggins - masterpiecing (6:05)
  
• eric chasalow - the fury of rainstorms (2:04)
  
• eric chasalow - and it flew upside-down (3:10)
  
• jérôme noetinger - le ballon rouge (5:08)
  
• rlw - 325 painful moments in the life of a self-pitying christian spokesman (5:32)
  
• thomas dimuzio - zero tolerance (6:02)
  
• tim walters - the dry well (15:42)
  
• nick peck - music from airports (6:47)
  
• michael prime - instar (extract) (5:37)
  
• koji marutani - scenes-3 (7:07)

“popcorn” double long playing record set

• pavel büchler - a pip of popcorn
  
• hair stylistics with takuma watanabe - popcorn
  
• rlw - corn poop
  
• kian sandalen - popcorn
  
• burning star core - popcorn
  
• dsr lines - popkorner
  
• evil moisture - porn cop
  
• nuslux - popcorn
  
• raionbashi - maakt popcorn
  
• hetero skeleton - popcorn
  
• vomgrill - dopkaartleggen
  
  
• helm - popcorn
  
• attempt - popcorn
  
• helicoptere sanglante - popcorn
  
• dracula lewis - popcorn
  
• christophe piette - popcorn
  
• kip prims - kipcorn
  
• white circle crime club - popcorn
  
• jacques beloeil - corny pop
  
• spykes - poopcorn
  
  
• cryptic report - ravishing toxic popcorn apostle
  
• autistik youth - popcorn
  
• remörk - untitled
  
• miaux - popcorn
  
• amon düde v - popcorn
  
• fantamatres - poc
  
• ali mio feat. sultan steven - popcorn
  
• rani bageria & hanno schnegg - popcorn
  
• blood stereo - popcorn
  
  
• my land & lion - popcorn
  
• family battle snake - popcorn
  
• three legged race - popcorn
  
• daniel de wereldvermaarde botanicus - popcorn
  
• rock and roll jackie & nour mobarack - popcorn
  
• lucas abela
  
• christopher fleeger & kevin blechdom - poopcorn
  
• heatsick - melts in your mouth
  
• astral social club - popcorn
  
• tarp - popcorn
  
• blaastaal - popcorn

ultra eczema press release...

ue82 popcorn 2x comp lp a follow up to last years' la bamba drama compilation, which annoyed the shit out of everyone that ever put it on, and made in conjunction with the ue popcorn night(mare), a night where over 30 people played a live cover version of gershon kingsley's banger from 1969! this double comp is the sweetest cherry on the cake, it should have been a single lp, but in a over-enthausiastic mood i kept inviting people (thinking noone would actually send something in). the versions vary from literal covers to vague interpretations to kitchen princess styled cooking lessons by pavel büchler, hair stylistics with takuma watanabe, rlw, kian sandalen, burning star core, dsr lines, evil moisture, nuslux, raionbashi, hetero skeleton, vomgrill, helm, attempt, helicoptere sanglante, dracula lewis, christophe piette, kip prims, white circle crime club, jacques beloeil, spykes, cryptic report, autistik youth, remörk, miaux, amon dude v, fantamatres, ali mio feat sultan steven, rani bageria and hanno schnegg, blood stereo, my land and lion, family battle snake, three legged race, daniel de wereldvermaarde botanicus, rock and roll jackie & nour mobarack, lucas abela, christopher leeger & kevin blechdom, heatsick, astral social club, tarp and blaastaal! comes in a vague coverdesign with liner notes by carlo steegen !