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previous artist: greg weeks		there are 18 titles featuring ralf wehowsky in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: lawrence weiner

$9.81

new to stock as of
may 5th, 2007

threads:
sound-art
electro-acoustic-composition

anomalous (usa) #nom 28 ep

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)

may 2007 release; this three way split single between jeph jerman, leif elggren, and ralf wehowsky, each contributing a realization in sound to one of anomalous head eric lanzillotta’s drawings.

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.

$22.07

new to stock as of
april 2nd, 2008

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition

anomalous (usa) #nom 03 lp

andrew chalk / ralf wehowsky / eric lanzillotta “yang-tul” long playing record

andrew chalk & ralf wehowsky - wycha (20:49)
ralf wehowsky, eric lanzillotta & andrew chalk - chalawy (17:32)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "chalawy"

... just a really lovely collaboration between andrew chalk (using ralf’s sounds throughout the first piece), ralf “rlw” wehowsky (ditto andrew & anomalous label-head eric lanzillotta’s sounds) - an early anomalous-label release you may have missed - last copies ...

anomalous press release...

andrew chalk, ralf wehowsky & eric lanzillotta "yang-tul" lp

an international sound collaboration. side one features andrew chalk gently reworking the sound materials of ralf wehowsky. a hypnotic drone with waves of mysterious sound. side two, on the other hand, seeing ralf composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from andrew and eric lanzillotta. these pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related to it. subtle, but full of detail for the listener willing to pay attention.

second edition of 419 copies on green vinyl [first edition was blue vinyl].
features a full color cover with a painting by andrew chalk.

$14.16

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

beta-lactam ring (usa) #mt 138 cd

rlw “an archivist’s nightmare” compact disc

an archivist's nightmare 1
an archivist's nightmare 2
an archivist's nightmare 3
an archivist's nightmare 4
an archivist's nightmare 5

beta-lactam ring press release...

an archivist's nightmare
artist: rlw

rlw moves in to the world of sound art with his piece "the archivist's nightmare". rlw: an archivist´s nightmare the nightmare has been produced as a sound feature for radio resonance, london, in mid 2003 and was “aired” on internet october 3rd 2003. it is dedicated to benjamin green and would not have been possible without the help of dorothea, soeren, and sonja. index points are set for your pleasure. the feature itself embraces the whole cd. total time: 60:00

some notes:

"...i will read the titles of the last records i got (i guess about 1000 should fit into one hour). selected, insofar as i'll leave out those i found not worth listening to anyway. no criteria of order otherwise (therefore the title). ... imagine a future archivist interested in experimental/avantgarde/underground - however you will call it - sounds of the past 21st and 20th century, trying to find a path..." rlw, april 2003

“in an earlier mail i told you i would like to add some pieces of mine to the feature. meanwhile i think this only would distract the listener´s attention from the reading. instead i will additionally read parts of my letters to you and include these recordings in the feature. this additional level of self-reflection will also be of use as an structural element.” rlw, may 2003

“sounds fucking great.. and i can sense an opening of possibilities… working with children is something i would be interested in doing, with some kind of structured improvisation/game pieces… strange… i keep getting a very high pitch sound in one ear when i type loudly, which reminds me of yr piece.” ben green, may 2003

“thanks for the radio feature. it´s really great. the funniest thing i´ve heard in a long while. it´ s a weird thing, initially i thought these were the records that would get played later, and then i started thinking like ´got that one, heard that name before, did the cover for that one, dunno this`.” jos moers, june 2003

$14.98

back in stock as of
may 30th, 2008

first in stock on
august 24th, 2006

threads:
harsh-noise
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
minimalism-drones
live-electronic

blossoming noise (usa) #bn 012 cd

francisco lópez “absolute noise ensemble” double compact disc set

a two-disc lopez collage freakout !!

untitled sonic metaorganisms:

06.16.00
11.03.00
01.21.01
06.08.02
09.22.02

untitled sonic microorganisms:

untitled sonic microorganisms

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "11.03.00 / untitled sonic microorganisms"

blossoming noise press release...

total running time: 1:44:58

francisco lópez's absolute noise ensemble 2cd set featuring: alain wergifosse, albert mestre, antón ignorant, carlos medina, césar góngora, christian dergarabedian, daniel menche, ferrán fages, francisco lópez, games addiction, ilios, io casino, joe colley, jorge haro, koji asano, masami akita, mego laptop orchestra, michael gendreau, michael northam, oren ambarchi, philippe faujas, roc jiménez, ruben garcía, russell haswell, shunichiro okada, víctor nubla, zbigniew karkowski, zipperspy, alan courtis, amy denio, antonio garcía, audiopeste, bernhard günter, don campau, elliott sharp, eric muhs, frank koustrup, geoff dugan, gonçalo falcâo, john hegre, john hudak, john wiggins, jon tulchin, jorge mancini, jørgen teller, lasse marhaug, ludovic poulet, mason jones, mike honeycutt, minuit, ralf wehowsky, reznicek, scott konzelmann, stephen fenton, steve peters, tetsuo furudate, wojciek.

deluxe gatefold packaging.

$13.61

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

corpus hermeticum (new zealand) #hermes 041 cd

bruce russell / ralf wehowsky “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.

$13.03

new to stock as of
may 22nd, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
experimental-instruments

hinterzimmer (switzerland) #hint 03 cd

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "geschissen ist nicht gemalt"

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..

$13.03

new to stock as of
may 22nd, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise

hinterzimmer (switzerland) #hint 02 cd

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a stroke of lightning"

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).

$17.36

back in stock as of
april 7th, 2008

first in stock on
january 2nd, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

korm plastics (netherlands) #kp 3021 cd

johannes frisch / ralf wehowsky “tränende würger” compact disc

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "tränende würger"

korm plastics press release...

ralf wehowsky/johannes frisch tränende würger
kp 3021 - full length cd

1) johannes frisch
works since the late 1970s as a performer, composer and improviser of contemporary music between experimental rock, free jazz and other openminded styles. on his main instrument, the double bass, he works for more than three decades consequently on an individual expressive language. he played with lot of musicians of the international scene of free improvisation and all experimental fields - among others lol coxhill, maggie nicols, johannes bauer, le quan ninh, paul hubweber, michael vorfeld, misha feigin . compositions for theatre, film and dance theater actual projects: kammerflimmer kollektief; home of the beast, with peter hollinger und helmut bieler-wendt; ensemble sondarc, music for six double basses; rat'n'x; trio with paul wirkus & mikolaj trzaska;. concerts & festivals all over europe.

2) ralf wehowsky
founded the group p.d. (in 1981 renamed p16.d4) and the label wahrnehmungen (in 1982 renamed selektion) in 1980. p16.d4 were one of the most influential groups of experimental industrial music. they developed concepts of materialaustausch long before the term remix was even coined. for their live appearances they were equally at home at punk and no wave festivals as at the holy grails of academic avantgarde like the ferientage neuer musik, darmstadt. since the early 90s wehowsky worked under his own name (rlw). the quiet, highly complex style of composition, based on artifacts of instrumental and electronic lateral noises, evolving out of his collaboration with bernhard gnter was influential for numerous artists in the fields of electronic and improvised music. some reflections on his work can be found on tulpas, a 5cd- box-set, featuring more than 50 artists performing their versions of rlw pieces (incl. jim o rourke, brume, achim wollscheid, toshiya tsunoda, john duncan, antanas jasenka, ryoji ikeda, john watermann a.o.). the new decennium started with a surprise for many as first releases showed a new approach of integrating improvised music and composition (as can be found on the cds views and sights, the latter w/ long-time collaborator bruce russell).

3) tränende würger
is based on free improvisations by the frisch/wehowsky duo, reworked with electro-acoustic means. the compositional process did not intend to mask the nonlinear nature of the improvisations. quite on the contrary their organic character has been emphasized by crystal- clear sharpening of details. you ll find complex structures and dark atmospheres, not unlike those on some p16.d4-, this heat- or mnemonists- releases, though absolutely rooted in the 21st century. beauty and posoning are not far from each other.

'tränende würger' comes in a plastic bag, 15x15cm with the artwork on six seperate sheets, dealing with poisenious plants.
design by meeuw.

$14.16

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

para disc (japan) #pa 13 cd

rlw “tonlose lieder” compact disc

rid me of... (3:41)
zuckende strichelchen (1:07)
feuerblume & blutblume (2:32)
immer rin o'rhin (2:58)
schema 2aa (1:36)
am liebsten las er suizidgeschichten... (3:50)
...und verliess kriechend den raum (6:00)
loahh (2:13)
pios (3:04)
islak (2:41)
waving goodbye to friendly gods (3:10)
errata digitalis # 910207 (1:02)
w1x1 (1:08)
die kleinen strolche metzeln wieder (0:32)
zerlegung, grimassierend (3:16)
kriemhild did it again (2:13)
allsoh rin rhein immer rin orin (2:09)
affentheater (0:59)
beinschwunde kopfverquer (3:26)
jazz, jazzband
bandwurn (1:12)
konterkant (2:29)
un peu de freezing air (4:36)

para disc press release...

release date : september 2004

rlw
"tonlose lieder"
pac013
cd

total time 56:58
--------------------
all instruments,sounds,improvisations & compositions
by rlw
with the participation of
stefan schmidt (sts) : keyboard on 3,12,14,15,16,20,21
roger schnauer : scratching on 5
johann simon schmid-paede : voc on 19
restauration, edits etc. by rlw 2003

remarks :
this cd is like a sketchbook from the years 1990/91.

it builds the missing link between p16.d4s last release, the acrid acme of p16.d4 cd(1989) and rlw's first cd, achit (1992), not only because od the time of its recording(1990/91, one piece - #22 - from 1992).

it also bridges the gap between p16.d4's more collage-orientated style and rlw's more subtle and radical reductionist ways of composition. of course, a strict separation of these approaches is mere theory.

but the tonlose lieder concentrate for a last time on processes of synthesis, whereas later recordings are based on the results of these processes, undergoing new transformations continuously in discontinuous steps.

so the most typical track of this cd might be #21, an amalgamation of elements, which may come or come not from pieces by shostakovitch, messiaen, xenakis, hendrix, taylor, blount, siemers, the electric prunes or the comedian harmonists.

of course, you won't exactly find them there, not even on an ives record, or another jewel of the archive.

...

and these are tracks :

1) it's early 1990. skipped extracts from maba, 1st track of p16.d4's acrid acme cd, open for fresh recordings of bass and inside-piano. extracts from these recordings later built the core of acht's first track, restless occludion.

2) the first recording using midi instruments (musical instruments digital interface - a standard to mediocritise popular music even more as it was before), therefore the working title was track 1. midi plays funny moods. at hand were factory-built piano and oercussion samples, so what you hear is what you get... combined with a scratching of p16.d4's bruitiste lp-side, recorded the same month.

3) sts improvises on a midi-keyboard in shostakovichian mood. a set of orchestral samples gives the cheesy sound, added by first self-made samples (derived from self-destructing strings and a vacuum-cleaner), playing the same file.

4) another piece using midi instruments, this time composed. trumpet, percussion and strings. the rin series was presented first at peter wiesenthaner's tage experimenteller musik in koblenz 1990.

5) an extract from an hour-long piece grouping and re-grouping sampled scratches, slightly changing over time. another schema-piece used musik-type organ-extemporisations instead of the scratches. none of the schema-piece has survived on tape or disk in its full length.

6) piano and percussion again. as sterile as factory-built samples can be,they give the perfect sound for this sombre excursion. solo-voice: inside-piano.

7) holding a rhythm for more than a few seconds - what a strange concept! it should never be done again.

8) another version of that piece later made it unto acht (kleine blaue hybriden)

9) self-programmed tone-generator + a scratched improvisation, using p16.d4's distruct lp.

10) the compositional process for islak started with a midi-file by bernhard günter (bandes dessines period). for the new instrumentation all data were completely re-organised.

11) the melody is based on jimi hendrix's piece voodoo chile. - another version of this track appeared on: treat the gods as if they exist (cd, aa 1996)

12) piano, organ, bass. maybe dedicated to a.v.webern.

13) an assemblage of extracts from some noisy sampler and synthesizer improvisations from early 1991.

14) this piece was layed down on organ and turntable after having experienced a 4 and a half hour long performance of feldman's for philip guston.

15) a collage of some organ-pieces, which were recorded during a visitof stefan schmidt in koblenz.

16) seeing fritz lang's nibelungen epos again evoked fairly medieval associations. another version of this piece appeared on: klng #2 (cd, fognin and one brain records 2001.

17) another piece from the o'rin-series.

18) this track presents the sounds of a synth preset called "house". using cheap electric instruments against the intentions of their designers always was a part of selektion's philosophy.

19) parts of the tom jones-recitation on this piece have been used as source-material for the piece 325 painful moments (treatment cd - rrrecords 1996).

20) the solo entertainer playing for an audience of one. both drunk.

21) not exactly a summary, but lots of midi-files heard on other tracks of this cd reppear - in more or less bizarre modulations.

22) it's mid 1992. the sound sources of #1(bass; piano-inside) shine up again after having undergone some transformations. the realisation of ...freezing air... (rlw), un peu de neige (bg) and ...ocean de certitude (rlw & bg) is not far...

$12.48

back in stock as of
july 14th, 2008

first in stock on
february 21st, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics
free-improvisation
musique-concrète
field-recordings

sedimental (usa) #sed 047 cd

bhob rainey / ralf wehowsky “i don’t think i can see you tonight.” compact disc

awaken elsewhere, unforeseen (8:37)
i don’t think i can see you tonight. (21:50)
re: hi! (9:10)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "i don’t think i can see you tonight."

outstanding electro-acoustic work jointly composed by bhob rainey and ralf “rlw” wehowsky over a 5-year period.

sedimental press release...

2001
ralf contacts bhob to say that he is "ready" to begin a collaboration.

2002
i.k.k. emerges as the central theme of the collaboration. some preliminary sketches and transformations mode by bhob, most remaining private experiments.

early 2003
i.k.k. re-envisioned as multi-collaborative project. rainey/wehowsky project at something of a standstill.

april 2003
with some goading and inspiring suggestions by ralf, bhob records numerous saxophone excursions, most significant of which is a variation on ralf's "drunken walk" suggestion, where bhob plays saxophone, rolls around in an office chair, bounces a ring-pong ball with his feet, and generally causes distress in an already cluttered attic where he lives. ralf invokes sun ra's black forest myth, cecil taylor's tales from the black forest and brotzmann's schwarzwaldfahrt on his own journey through germany's dark woods: black field recordings by ralf.

december 2003/january 2004
bloodshot eyes and cortison contribute to overturning everyone's expectations. two early drafts for track 2 by rolf. bhob, along with chris cooper, jess goddard, and ginger hoffman finds a group of children skating on a fragile pond in western massachusetts. the four create a suspicious foreround to the childrens' play. a small prop plane stalls in the sky above. an old, broken music box plays silent night.

march/april 2004
bhob cuts & implements myth-ladden sounds for track 2. he sends ralf a piece composed originally for dance, along with the new draft of track 2, and track 3 begins to take shape. ralf sends bhob a cd-r with three suggestions for source material. bhob creates a horrible piece of new age trash from one of them, and a small, comic work, which will become the seed for track 1, from another. a parade of some sort; a group of obsessed entertainers shouting "hello!" ralf's pc crashes in a big way.

october 2004
ralf moils the first draft for track 3.

early 2005
track 1 undergoes major transformations, first from ralf, then bhob. a movement from silly to ominous to pretty damn dark. track 2 is tweaked here and there until it achieves solidity. track 3 sits quietly, labeled with a question mark.

mid 2005
bhob attacks track 3, cutting some things to bits, and adding a new ending.

late 2005
ralf is not comfortable with track 3's new ending. the first significant disagreement in the project arises. the resolution involves bhob composing another new ending for track 3. track 3 sits dejected for some time, labeled with on "x".

early 2006
a window of an idea opens for the end of track 3. bhob puts it together, leaving some gaps for rolf's finishing touches. rolf receives the new version and leaves the gaps untouched. the project is reviewed and deemed complete.

...

the bhob rainey/ralf wehowsky collaboration overcame many gruelling attempts, musical dead-ends and a five full years to realize its outcome and man, was it worth the wait!

both artists sit firmly in their unique and highly regarded (and earned) musical positions these days and are both truly fearless in attempting and pursuing new musical activities for themselves.

here are three powerful, often hair-raisingly intense pieces that allow no room for complacency on the part of the listener....at all.

$12.01

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

selektion (germany) #scd 030 cd

ralf wehowsky / kevin drumm “cases” compact disc

case a (17:49)
case b (15:14)

selektion press release...

selektion scd 030
ralf wehowsky / kevin drumm
cases

musique concrete realized 1999/2000 in chicago and mainz.

kevin drumm: guitar & devices
ralf wehowsky: electronics, edits & composition

cardboard sleeve, design charly steiger.

$12.01

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition

selektion (germany) #scd 026 cd

ralf wehowsky / lionel marchetti “vier vorspiele / l’oeil retourné” compact disc

ralf wehowsky - vier vorspiele (17:18)
lionel marchetti - l'oeil retourné (24:28)

selektion press release...

selektion scd 026
ralf wehowsky / lionel marchetti
vier vorspiele/l'oil retourné

l'oil retourné: musique concrete realisée 1995/97 au studio du cfmi de lyon. voix de tete: hélene bettencourt, citations-collages: roger de la frayssenet, kitnabudja town; ralf wehowsky, eyes, pullover; josephine leask in london; bruno et lionel marchent dans la mon-tagne, ainsi que divers hasards radiophoniques...

vier vorspiele: realized 1996/98 in ralfs kitchen, karlsruhe. based on lionels l´oeil re-tourné (version 1995) with additional vocals by dorothea conradi and quotations from splintered rlw´s moraine´s eyes pt. 4.

two different pieces, which at the same time complete each other.
there is a french poem on the cover...

$12.01

new to stock as of
april 24th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

sirr.ecords (portugal) #sirr 0025 cd

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "andrew deutsch - orion’s dog"

sirr.ecords press release...

rlw i.k.k. – purpur
sirr | cd 025

released 02.2006

the i.k.k.-project started in 1794, when christoph schmid wrote the lyrics for ihr kinderlein kommet, using a melody by contemporary composer johann abraham peter schulz. it was performed soon after in thanhausen an der mindel for the first time. in 2001, a few weeks before xmas, i recorded my daughter sonja (aged 5 then) singing some of her favourite xmas tunes.

wonderful recordings. her singing is full of emotional power and she even hits the right notes from time to time. the interesting moments are when her voice is moving around those notes. instead of burying those recordings in the archive i came back to them soon after, because jos moers (the owner of the label meeuw muzak) was asking me to contribute to a series of xmas 7"s he does once every year. so i recorded one for him early in 2002 for 2003’s yearly event: merry merry. side 2 has a funny piece composed from a transformed ihr kinderlein kommet.

when the 7" was done i had the impression that the transformed sounds had a quality of their own, so i used them for further transformations, as well as to compose a new piece of about 15 minutes: i.k.k. – purpur – scharlachrot. following my inclination for collaborative works i thought that this material could be of interest, not only for me, but also for other artists to work with. so i prepared a cd-r with the existing versions and some basic material from the piece. pieces have been submitted by dan warburton, andrew deutsch, chris halliwell, strotter inst., stephen vitiello and frisch/rainey/wehowsky.

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ralf wehowsky

founder of the group p.d. (1981 renamed p16.d4) and the label wahrnehmungen (1982 renamed selektion) in 1980. p16.d4 was one of the most influential groups in experimental industrial music. they developed concepts of material exchange long before the term «remix» was even coined. for their live appearances they were equally at home in punk and no wave festivals and at the holy grails of academic avantgarde like the internationale ferienkurse für neue musik, darmstadt.since the early 1990s wehowsky works under his own name (rlw). his quiet, highly complex style of composition – based on artifacts of instrumental and electronic sound – is influential for numerous artists in the fields of electronic and improvised music. some reflections on his work can be found on tulpas, a 5cd-box-set, featuring more than 50 artists performing their versions of his pieces (jim o´rourke, brume, achim wollscheid, toshiya tsunoda, john duncan, antanas jasenka, ryoji ikeda, john watermann and others).

his recent work embraces musique concrète improvisée (with bruce russell, and johannes frisch, among others) as well as projects based on extended material exchange (i.k.k.).

$8.67

back in stock as of
may 11th, 2007

first in stock on
february 8th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
digital-musics

sonoris (france) #son 12 cd

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "trivelogue"

duimelinks and meelkop from thu20/kapotte muziek in mail-order collaboration with rlw (aka ralf wehowsky from p16.d4.)

sonoris press release...

peter duimelinks / roel meelkop / ralf wehowsky
verklarte tage

son-12
cd - 4 pages digipack - 1000 copies - 2000
6 tracks - 58:05 min

...

ralf wehowsky (rlw) was founding member, and most important conspirator in p16d4.

peter duimelinks and roel meelkop were members of thu20.

profitable postal collaboration (or each one composes from another one's material) and between three current figures of electroacoustic musics. stratified resonances, shocks of sounds like tectonic plates, brutal ruptures opening on different spaces. a formal and structural work of the most interestings.

$12.48

back in stock as of
july 30th, 2008

first in stock on
february 7th, 2006

threads:
art-punk
analogue-synth
lo-fi

swill radio (usa) #swill 020 lp

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

2nd in this series of... 2... lps, uncovering growths on the teenage-and-beyond mind of mr. ralf wehowsky (of p16.d4, selektion label, etc...)

swill radio press release...

volume two in a swill radio series of lp's documenting the early work of ralf wehowsky (aka rlw). as with volume one, a slightly different version of this lp was originally released on cassette by wahrnehmungen (later renamed selektion) in the early 80's. this is a much more band-oriented release than volume 1. a number of tracks were recorded live and the mood is aggressive throughout. this is a fantastic neue deutsche welle document. if it had been released on lp, it would be legendary. it still is.

$14.68

back in stock as of
january 17th, 2008

first in stock on
february 20th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-poetry

table of the elements (usa) #toe 032 cd

rlw “pullover” compact disc

atmosphere
beziehung
autos
atmosphare
travel
reise
relation
cars

table of the elements press release...

rlw
pullover
format: cd
(toe32, table of the elements)

rlw is ralf wehowsky, founder of renowned ensemble p16.d4 and the influential selektion label, and one of the most respected electronic composers of the last two decades.

pullover is a text-based electro-acoustic piece that includes contributions by jerome noetinger, francisco lopez, stefan schmidt, and gastr del sol's david grubbs and jim o'rourke.

released: 2003-03-18

$18.31

back in stock as of
april 7th, 2008

first in stock on
january 2nd, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
harsh-noise
sound-art
minimalism-drones

korm plastics (netherlands) #kp 3016 cd

“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)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "asmus tietchens - jwat"

korm plastics press release...

various artists - 'epitaph for john'
kp 3016 full length cd

over the course of his life john watermann worked with almost every conceivable artistic medium. in many ways, he was the epitome of the "total artist"; almost every element of his life being in some way his own artistic project.

as a young man in his native germany he worked as a photographer and documentary filmmaker, also etching, painting and writing. his experience as a youth in germany in the second world war influencing his work from then right through until his death.

following his move to australia watermann worked as jeweller, opening a number of shops in sydney with his longtime australian partner barbara heath (an accomplished jeweller in her own right) and meanwhile continued to write, paint and even sculpt. eventually, after traveling the east coast of australia in a self-built sailing boat, watermann settled in brisbane and began to produce his music.

he first released his music in 1989 in the form of the album "warmth is the fifth room". like most of his releases, the cassette appeared in a run of very few copies on his own label "nightshift", and was consequently almost impossible to find.

over the next 10 years he released numerous albums and contributed to a number of compilations, both under his own name as a solo artist, in collaboration with others (such as merzbow) and under a number of pseudonyms (including radio mull, spinal machine and total disease). also, apart from his music, in the 1990s he created an interactive cd-rom work "rose is a rose" and published the webzine "lean yellow supporting".

sadly, on april 2nd 2002 john watermann died suddenly of an infection resulting from his ongoing treatment for cancer. having in the final year of his life returned to painting and writing (alongside a burgeoning interest in cooking), he still had vast plans for future projects.

among these unfulfilled projects were plans to collaborate with frans de waard on a new release. although only preliminary discussions on the collaboration took place and watermann never completed any work towards the project, watermann's source material that was to be the basis of the work now serves as a basis for this tribute release.

despite his vast artistic output, watermann has been known almost exclusively for his music and even then his work remains largely undiscovered, perhaps for no other reason than its sheer unavailability. in many ways watermann could be considered a classic example of the artists' artist, his work influencing many far more prominent sonic alchemists. and perhaps then this release serves as a record of watermann and his influence, documenting the respect he reserved from his peers and, hopefully, introducing his work to a new audience.

- ben byrne

this cd contains the original soundwork sent to frans de waard by john watermann, reworkings thereof by asmus tietchens, ralf wehowsky, merzbow and freiband.

$8.01

back in stock as of
february 13th, 2007

first in stock on
november 10th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
sound-installation
field-recordings

rrrecords (usa) #rrr 021 cd

“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)

1993 release... fairly delicate selection of contemporary sound-artists and electro-acoustic composers given their surroundings in the rrrecords catalogue... excellent work from all, but especially michael prime, artifical memory trace, metamkine-boss jérôme noetinger, ralf wehowsky, and koji marutani.

rrrecords press release...

artificial memory trace, eric chasalow, thomas dimuzio, koji marutani, jerome noetinger, nick peck, michael prime, rlw, tim walters, john wiggins

previous artist:
greg weeks

...and that's everything in stock featuring ralf wehowsky.
(why not take a look at the previous and next artists?)

next artist:
lawrence weiner