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$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.

$12.65

back in stock as of
april 19th, 2008

first in stock on
february 6th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète

anomalous (usa) #nom 27 cd

rlw “views” compact disc

#1 (21:13)
#2 (9:43)
#3 (9:25)
#4 (10:30)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "#1"

anomalous press release...

rlw
views

in the 25th year of ralf wehowsky's recording career, anomalous records presents his first truly solo release featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations. using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, an electric toothbrush and an electric guitar) played in unusual ways, he builds up layers of each sound to create a suite of textural pieces. each of the four tracks takes on an identity unique from the others, as the first three each focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. the disc opens with a 20-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more 'live' element to his work, while retaining his skillful use of dynamics and placement of silence which have gained him so many fans. previous releases by rlw have seen him collaborate with such diverse artists as achim wollscheid, bernhard günter, andrew chalk, david grubbs, jim o'rourke, kevin drumm, and bruce russell. he is the founder of the now defunct group p16.d4 and the still active label selektion. other releases of his work have appeared on table of the elements, trente oiseaux, streamline, perdition plastics, swill radio, meeuw muzak, and metamkine.

after a recording career that already stretches over 25 years, involving collaborations with achim wollscheid, bernhard gunter, andrew chalk, david grubbs, jim o'rourke, kevin drumm and bruce russell, not to mention his own p16.d4 ensemble, ralf wehowsky finally presents his first solo collection. presented without titles but with detailed notes on the methods and practices behind each, the four tracks represent subtly shaded perspectives on studio performance and procedures.

spontaneous event and reconstruction shadow each other closely here. four self-programming occillators, controlled by wheels rather than a keyboard, interact to create a densely striated corridor or sound on the protracted opening composition. shorter, more understated but no less arresting, the next two pieces have the feel of secret rituals conducted in private. on the first, four spontaneous musical actions, mostly involving orff percussion instruments designed for children, are reworked into a profoundly meditative sequence, marked by the chiming of bells. the second, in which two music boxes are manipulated, squeezed and muted, transforms the mechanistic renderings of half-forgotten tunes into a series of encrypted memories. coming in on a single thin line of feedback, the fourth and final composition combines elements of the previous three, plus recordings of electric guitar run backwards and forwards into an uncluttered but complex series of structures and interactions....

views was conceived in january 2003.

recordings were done for track: 1 in january,
for track: 2 in february,
and for track: 3 and 4 in march 2003.

final mix: april 2003.

all 4 pieces are based on three or four instrumental improvisations by rlw, re-constructed by spontaneous mix afterwards.

track: 1 is recorded with tone-generator (tg 77) using self-programmed sounds. an early version of the sounds had been created for the cd" acht (1992). the programs have been designed to be controlled via wheels, not by keyboards. the tuning is in 1/8 tone, every sound consist of up to four sound-sources (oscillators), that respond in different ways to the controllers.

track: 2 is based on four spontaneous recordings of musical actions in the recordings room, mostly with orff percussions instruments (designed for children) plus some other tools lying around.

track: 3 uses two musical boxes, which were not used by playing along, but seen as instruments, for instance creating wahwah-sounds by squeezing the boxes. the only external instrument was an electrical toolbrush.

track: 4 is based on one feedback version each from tracks: 2 and 3, one tone-generator track from the recordings of track: 1, plus two additional recordings of electric guitar (played back and forth).

$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

$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).

$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...

$12.01

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:
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.

...

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.).

$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

$79.97

back in stock as of
june 10th, 2008

first in stock on
august 8th, 2006

threads:
anti-music
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
harsh-noise

vinyl-on-demand (germany) #vod 25 lp

“viva negativa! • a tribute to the new blockaders • vol. 2” quadruple long playing record set

achim wollscheid - asignificant
brendan walls - viva blockadres!
violent onsen geisha - tarot arcana major no. xvi
christian renou - don't do it
amk - phlegm angst
damion romero - broken block
das synthetische mischgewebe - simphonie amodal
spiracle - kundearistruct
mnortham - floating course on the field of nothingness (aka fi ra ot ic (old lmbird insmo hvo e))
merzbow - oumagatoki part 3
alexei borisov - two into one
government alpha - tangibility
aaron dilloway - machine rape (blitzkrieg)
putrefier - das motifs de mes compositions anterieures
e-shak mms - bachtcha
bloxus - extrinct raag
wolf eyes - fisted gadgets
incapacitants - as nonchalant as possible
aube - relb
jim o'rourke - 407 seconds over
plexia - variahb
dave phillips - metal-klamauk
idea fire company - les heros de la barricade finale
runzelstirn & gurgelstock - those necrophile birds
the broken penis orchestra - the kill lump
lasse marhaug - good blasphemy
/// - windowpane
anla courtis - happy blockaders time
sudden infant - new simphonie in sudden x major
art break - objective ground level
withdrawal method - sans regard
giancarlo toniutti - rumrudada
embudagonn 108 - variations #0
cheapmachines - null opus
rlw - manifesto (for the next generation of blockaders)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "407 seconds over"

... thanks to the angel of inexpensive (comparatively) vod boxed-sets ; these two essential “tributes” to the work of richard “pd” rupenus are now back in stock ... supplies are limited (natch) ...

vinyl-on-demand press release...

vod 25: new blockaders / various artists viva negativa vol.2 lp-4 (box-set)

a massive project done by richard rupenus. includes tnb material reworked by 75 of the best international avant-garde/industrial/noise artists

oren ambarchi, anomali, ashtray navigations, emil beaulieau, benzo, maurizio bianchi, cisfinitum, controlled bleeding, dieter muh, evil moisture, freiband, grunt, the haters, jason kahn, zbigniew karkowski, komafuzz, kraang, lockweld, massimo, daniel menche, thurston moore, msbr, nocturnal emissions, kk null, pita, plethora, prurient, richard ramirez, scanner, silvum, srmeixner, asmus tietchens, treriksroset, vortex campaign, v/vm, keith fullerton whitman, john wiese, nobuo yamada, z´ev.

previous artist:
rivulets

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

next artist:
rm74

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