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Cumulus
Dirty White Noise
For this one I used my TR-808 and TR-606 drum machines, Big Briar Etherwave theremin, and Casio SK-1.
I used a Sony IC Digital Recorder to capture some trains in Germany and some and household sounds, including a malfunctioning toilet that sounded just like the Heuristics trumpet loop to me.
There is also some choppy audio with intermittent static from some public-domain porn posted on the internet. Credits: Hal McGee open loops, Heuristics Inc. open loops. Genre: Love.
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Cumulus
Too Little is Known
This song reminds me of falling asleep with the TV on and having strange dreams.
Special guest Gary Spring plays guitar, courtesy of some 20-year-old cassette tapes I had lying around running through a Peavey digital delay. I also recycled some SK-1 snippets from the same era.
A Big Briar Etherwave theremin running through an ART SGX-2000 processer brings some haunting sounds to this piece.
There are sounds of electronic baby dolls and real babies crying as well as my wife and son laughing and my dog barking.
I also used some audio from some public-domain films I dug up.
The films are "National Drinking Game", "Keep Off the Grass", "Medical Quackery", and some drive-in theater advertisements.
These can all be found at at http://www.archive.org/details/movies.
Credits: David Fuglewicz open loops. Genre: Abstract.
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Decaying Machine
feat Narva9 - Autumn Thoughts in a Nuclear Winter
This is one of two songs I never finished with the Narva9 Collective, but now it is, and you boys and girls are the first to hear it.
[have some speaker problem at home for the moment, so the sound mix can suck!] Credits: Hebephrenic Amb1 pad, from the Free Loops Sample Pack. Genre: Drum N Bass.
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The Ghosts Lounge
Follow the Girl Who Follows the Rabbit
For those who took my sexual arrogance at face value, that is, if anyone out there has been paying attention, here's where I get a little more sensitive. That confidence of mine is a sort of self-parodying act, but executed with such sureness that it ends up being true in a more palatable, and actually more persuasive, way. Now, I'm allowing for the female perspective, but of course I'm still a man culturally constructing sex. I remember the confused look on the face of a hardcore feminist I once knew when she offered to buy a picture of mine that was sexually objectifying a woman, but lovingly. I'm continuing to show that the battle of the sexes is 100% pure crap, and that a synthesis of interests is possible. I might note that the combination of sex and Alice in Wonderland was the subject of my very first sound experiment ten years ago, and that the notion seems as fresh as it did then, maybe even fresher. Credits: Tapegerm Resident Artist loops by Mental Anguish Open Loops, the Alice in Wonderland "See, Hear, Read" record and book (1979), The Story and Songs of the Orange Bird Starring Anita Bryant from Disneyland Records (1971). Genre: Avant Garde.
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Omnitechnomatrix
Heliocentrik Triturationz
Credits: Loopz By Anti - Gravity Workshop open loops - : Mix By Omnitechnomatrix. Genre: MASTERMIND MATRIX.
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The Ghosts Lounge
L'Etat C'est Moi, Ma Cherie
I think that the famous equation of Mr. French Absolutism himself, Louis XIV, sounds much finer than "who's your daddy," don't you agree? When seeking and manipulating the quirks of a woman's nervous system (to her benefit of course), is the state not me? By the way, fellas, when I searched for source audio with term "screaming orgasm," most of what I found involved acts using a big, silly machine! Isn't it time that the men of the USA boned up on their technique, so to speak? Or is that just a French thing? Credits: Tapegerm Resident Artist loops by Buzzsaw Open Loops. Genre: Experimental.
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The Ghosts Lounge
Gauguin Went Down to Florida
Attention to transitions is at the heart of all I do with sound. Here's where I play at that fine American sport, biting the hand that feeds me. Inspired by Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and others, I've sought an intentionally confounding balance between high and low, between sound art and pop music. My musician leanings have been boring me lately, so I'm feeling more sound-artisty now. This piece is longer, more repetitive, and, since it represents a shift in my focus, features a couple of sudden and surprising changes. Credits: Tapegerm Resident Artist loop by Ed Drury Guest Artist, M'bira by Martin Denny (1958), The Girl from Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim (1962). Genre: Experimental.
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Mental Anguish
Hive
A bit of progressive electronica done up improv style. This song features my own work using Rob Papen's Albino VSTI synthesizer by Linplug Virtual Instruments. Very smokeable. Credits: David Fuglewicz Open Loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops. Genre: Green Alien.
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Buzzsaw & The Shavings
Bioluminescent Flashes in the Hadalpelagic Zone
Seven miles and a multitude of fathoms under the waves in the deepest reaches of the ocean, darkness is absolute, the temperature is ever near freezing, and the pressure of the water column above taxes even the most puissant, though that pressure is nothing at all compared to that of Germania that demands yet another crowned historical figure of me, who as far as I know has yet to descend here illumed in bioluminescent flashes. Credits: Mellow Jeremy Guest Artist. Also includes ftp loops by Hal McGee and DJ Get Yo Fat On. Genre: Oceanic.
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britva
scratching surfaces
An audio equivalent of compulsive drawing... Credits: Michael Thomas Jackson guest artist, Fever Spoor guest artist, Contagion, britva (skippin cd through reverb). Genre: Noise.
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Mecan
Jaggered Edge
Credits: Free Loop Project 015 Artist Cystem, Peace Love Productions. Genre: Techno.
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Shell
Gift of Deception
Thanks Dave for the nudge.... Credits: Featuring....David Fuglewicz open loops, Omnitechnomatrix open loops, Mental Anguish open loops, Free Loop Project 015 - CYSTEM & David Fuglewicz loops). Genre: Abstract.
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Decaying Machine
Lee [DEMO]
The japaneese boy Lee, plays he's song in space! Credits: Heuristics Inc. Blipps sample from the free loop sample pack. Genre: Electronica.
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The Ghosts Lounge
Silk Sheets
True to form, here's another production in which I use found sound like onomatopoeia, approximating the timbres of emotion rather than translating nonverbal sounds into words. I'm particularly happy with the middle section, which is structured to be a loving parody of old-fashioned modernism in music, once shocking but now past 100 years old. This section is composed entirely of my LP sound source, a recitation of low-grade, Song-of-Solomon-style erotic poetry. Enjoy! Credits: Tapegerm Resident Artist loops by Hal McGee Open Loops, Nights of Love in Lesbos LP from FAX Records (1962). Genre: Experimental.
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Buzzsaw & The Shavings
Centuries Later, Gemellus Still Escaping Caligula
Though a vast revolution of centuries has passed, and the authority and even the reign of Gaius has long since concluded, the grandson of Tiberius, at last cast aside the pastry platter, consulted the look that attended his every last cough, sounded out incessantly, discerned the blade of Macro come to 'cure' his affliction, and flew from the Palatine, and soon the flying boy truly was, over hills and years, and indeed continues, despite strange changes on the ground that include trains, motorcars and civilised Germans as he soars over old Leipzig. Credits: Includes Mental Anguish Open Loops. Genre: holey O.
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"MENTAL ANGUISH: Open Loops Vol. 3 (CD on Harsh Reality Music)
This CD from 2005 features 75 minutes of industrial music stemming from online collaborations, with each band borrowing samples from each other and utilizing them according to their own idiosyncratic style.
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Mental Anguish: who contribute one track comprised of savage beats and fervent electronics.
Esu Kurasu: who offer three pieces that blend frenetic electronics with sampled vocal snippets and furious rhythms.
Mystified: whose single contribution provides a calming break in the overall fury with pensive tones and languid beats.Buzzsaw & the Shavings: whose pair of tracks mix metallic rhythms with wavery keyboards and a rising tide of anticipation.
Cystem: who deliver one track of glistening mien that combines steadfast beats with surging electronics.
DJ Get Yo Fat On: whose pair of contributions take different approaches, the first exploring numerous variations of an eerie theme with snappy percussives and novel electronic embellishments, while the second splices clever vocal snippets together with a plethora of unconventional instruments and injects a touch of dance fever to the strange mesh.
Dave Fuglewicz: whose single offering injects a sense of hesitancy to a dose of whirling effects and speed-altered sounds.
Omnitechnomatrix: whose single contribution steps up the pace with explosive electronic punctuations mired in a seething pool of glooping rhythms.
Climax Generator: whose sole track applied jungle sentiments to the savage beats and surging electronics.
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Eel Eye: whose sole track combines a haunting undercurrent with jovial riffs and a hint of hip hop.
Again, a superb vehicle to learn the styles of several bands while enjoying a durable sampling of industrial music laced with pep and humor.
MENTAL ANGUISH: Open Loops Vol. 3 (CD on Harsh Reality Music)
This CD from 2005 features 75 minutes of industrial music stemming from online collaborations, with each band borrowing samples from each other and utilizing them according to their own idiosyncratic style.
Included here are tracks by:
Mental Anguish: who contribute one track comprised of savage beats and fervent electronics.
Esu Kurasu: who offer three pieces that blend frenetic electronics with sampled vocal snippets and furious rhythms.
Mystified: whose single contribution provides a calming break in the overall fury with pensive tones and languid beats.Buzzsaw & the Shavings: whose pair of tracks mix metallic rhythms with wavery keyboards and a rising tide of anticipation.
Cystem: who deliver one track of glistening mien that combines steadfast beats with surging electronics.
DJ Get Yo Fat On: whose pair of contributions take different approaches, the first exploring numerous variations of an eerie theme with snappy percussives and novel electronic embellishments, while the second splices clever vocal snippets together with a plethora of unconventional instruments and injects a touch of dance fever to the strange mesh.
Dave Fuglewicz: whose single offering injects a sense of hesitancy to a dose of whirling effects and speed-altered sounds.
Omnitechnomatrix: whose single contribution steps up the pace with explosive electronic punctuations mired in a seething pool of glooping rhythms.
Climax Generator: whose sole track applied jungle sentiments to the savage beats and surging electronics.
DJ Mar "N" Dean: whose single contribution tempers the industrial motif with a sparkling touch of chittering effects.
Eel Eye: whose sole track combines a haunting undercurrent with jovial riffs and a hint of hip hop.
Again, a superb vehicle to learn the styles of several bands while enjoying a durable sampling of industrial music laced with pep and humor.
by Matt Howarth from Sonic Curiosity"
-- $8 from Mental Anguish
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The Tapegerm Collective creates loops for creative audio explorers. Gigabytes of loops are freely available in return for attribution and playing here and elsewhere. We exist by virtue of supporting artist donations, audio and CD purchases, and volunteer coding bees. Participation is free and encouraged. We've been expanding audio horizons for over six years. Listeners will find a wide range of music through an array of dynamic playlists sure to suit any mood or interest. Your comments are welcome.
 Datawhore is a sound poet based in the UK and creating solo or collaborating with a number of other artists. Datawhore's sounds cover a wide spectrum, from the outrightly ironic and satirical to the very serious and intense. Recently Datawhore released four albums on iTunes, with a fifth due in 2008. After a considerable layoff for other creative pursuits, the wheels are rolling again, the first evidence of which is a collaboration with michael dent, entitled 'Ashtray' and a second, 'Roll For You'. 'Olivier' and 'When I Die' have swiftly followed. Next up? Remixes of Tapegerm-derived fodder by Telemarq and Murgit.
Datawhore is proud to be part of the Tapegerm community. Hurting Me was in the community chart for months and this recognition validates a change in direction away from the satirical to the more incisive.
Datawhore: A Definition
"An operative or employee who is so low on the corporate rung he has to make a living by jacking in or interfacing, and experienced the result of personality automation. Nevertheless most lower-eschelon corporates at times need to interface with large information devices. Being jacked or -interfaces will have effects on the subjects psychology; after being jacked in more than 4 hours per day on average the interface or 'face' bleeds over in off-hours , causing employees to become dullwitted."
Get to know Datawhore ;)
1. A) Datawhore has been circulating the experimental-techno
underground for some time now. How long have you been producing music?
The Datawhore experiment began in about 1998. Idly surfing, I misread the word 'datawarehouse' for 'datawhorehouse' and was so taken with the latter term that it became a focus for all my word and sound experiments of that time. At that time I was in collaboration with a UK sound poet and composer named Binda23 and had created a cutup text, Surrendered To My Function, that we were making into an album. On my humble 486 I began to create lo-fi chunks of sound to show him the direction I considered likely. Having been a lyricist and singer for many years but never a composer, I found the sudden ability to solely compose very exciting and liberating. My capacities on the machine improved and little by little I became more and more ambitious with my compositions.
B) In a paragraph or two, how would you sum up the sound/genre that you've created for Datawhore?
It really created me. Given the name Datawhore, it had to be justified. So began the years of lonely tinkering. Fascinated by the dynamics and skewed spirit of cyberspace, DW uses PC audio tools to create lateral mutant sound collages that aspire to capture the energy of cyberspace. Chat rooms, cheesy religion, Microsoft and whatever else he can find pieces of floating around online sound file archives, plus his own cut up texts, are juxtaposed over abused generic dance music.
2. A) Musically speaking, what are your primary influences?
My primary musical influences are actually quite orthodox and tend not to fall into the more predictable categories. This is because my work as Datawhore expresses a part of myself that I live with but not always from. I grew up with rock music and with rock music I remain, especially Paul Westerberg. I adore The Beach Boys, The Who, The Stooges, early Bowie, The Smiths and Morrissey. I love cheesy country and trucking music, but also Blue Oyster Cult and The Beatles. However, I enjoy electronic music, usually ambient, and also primo American punk, such as Husker Du and Ramones. I could say I influence myself, but that would be too honest and anal. I listen to very little music like my own. One is only so strong...in fact, I once was mixing a DW track for hours on headphones and at the end of it found myself totally disassociated and neurally damaged. So that mix was a success.
B) And literary influences?
Burroughs, Kafka, Steinbeck, Orwell, Greene, Ishiguro.
C) How evident, would you say, these influences are to the avegrage listener?
Not very, although obviously my adoration of the cutup technique heavily determines my approach to how I use samples and text and characterises my quest for 'unlanguage'.
3. Evidently Datawhore is not for the casual top-40 hits radio
listener. What audience(s) are you aiming for?
The undead.
4. Is there any messege that you try to portray through your art, or is Datawhore more "art-for-art's-sake"?
It's more 'let others suffer for your art', or 'art-for-fuck's-sake'.
5. Why "Datawhore" as your chosen project moniker? is there a story behind that?
See above.
6. What compels you to create?
Now, this is interesting. Once, in meditation and prayer, I asked the Creator, Why all this? This Creation? And a clear, quiet voice said, into my ear, I create because it pleases me. As an artist by nature and vocation, I related to this answer utterly: I create because it pleases me. I do what I am. And I AM.
7. Would you share with us any of your music background?
Probably not.
8. Any interesting or frustrating artistic experiences in the past?
Yes and yes. Part of my motivation for living online from 1995 was, after many reversals offline, the fact that I could control and create without limitation, with no middlemen and no editing. I have operated in the offline recording and publishing worlds with minor success, but annoyance with the offline valuation of creative work - ie how much money it makes - pissed me off. I love the virtual arena because it is less concerned with that orientation. Having said which, I have had some satisfactions working offline and do value physical product, be it a book, CD, or written article.
9. From what i understand, you have fairly strong socio-political
beliefs. would you mind sharing a little bit about those with us?
Datawhore swarms with contradictory and unlikely perspectives. I suppose that what can come across in the 'music' is irreverence and irony, which two ingredients inform my worldview. I hate the bland acceptance of the masses. Socio-politically, I think that our species - as Krishnamurti noted repeatedly - is somehow on an aberrated evolutionary path that may or may not destroy us and that, as he said, technologically we are on the moon but psychologically in the caves. I've never felt much at home on this planet, but it can be endured. As I get older (which, as time actually runs backwards, is younger...but that's another story) I care more and more about the basics of life: my children (3), my partner, my health. What fascinates me is the vanity and stupidity of the human being, and that it assumes its version of love is more than local, which latter conviction causes havoc in personal relationships and beyond. Politics itself is largely religion for people shy of entertaining a living God: not believing in a God, they imagine they can be one themselves. Which is possible. Now, with gene jazz and the bomb, we can finally play God. But do we know the rules?
10. How does life in the UK affect you? What region are you from?
In point of fact I am American-born, Canadian-raised and British by expired marriage. I lived many years in central London, but not wishing my then small kids to grow up in the shadow of junkies and hookers, moved to south Wales. Wales is beautiful and small, although its people are generally quite parochial and in some cases hideously inbred. The UK is great, really, dragging itself into the future resenting the end of the past and sucking up to Amerika en route to giving in to its historical dual nemeses, the French and Germans.
11. Could you sum up your religious/theoligical beliefs?
I spent a quarter century in pursuit of things 'spiritual'. I have no beliefs, as beliefs are cheap. I hold dear some small and precious firsthand experiential knowledge of things mysterious and perhaps divine, and othertimes alien. Organised religion is a contradiction in terms: you cannot organise religion any more than you can organise the wind and rain. Theology is patent nonsense. It's a control system. So, I don't believe anything, unless it suits me. This is all there is, there's nothing to find out, and life ends in death: that's enough.
12. How do those affect your creative process?
In a sense, they are my creative process, hence my many tracks about religion and spirituality, albeit often ridiculing same. But this is a reflection of my serious, lifelong explorations of the unseen: I use Datawhore as a vehicle for offloading the impurities cast off from the refining of my inner life. Still, let's make one thing plain: I am not interested in enlightenment, salvation, or indeed any other sales pitch of the centuries. Everybody has to find out for themselves that there is no every and no body, no them and no selves.
13. What is your opinion of the status of the western world today?
The West is a fascinating place to live and be in the early 21st Century. I find that this culture is one that practises what I term, 'Death Culture Worship', which is to say it is in love with and catalysed with fear of death. Its collective realisation of its own degradation is driving our culture to kill itself, in order to give birth to a different one. Darkness is to be transmuted to light, as ever, but this does not automatically mean some hideous, anodyne 'new age' of endless honky sweat lodges and serial affirmations. I think that the West is still far from decline and that, overall, one is factually very fortuneate to live in it in this day and age.
14. Any opinions of the US?
I think that the US is misunderstood in the world, because Americans tend to be not so much wilfully ignorant as naive. Outside of the out-facing coasts and their conurbations, America really doesn't need the rest of the world or much know what is happening in it.
15. You are vegan, correct? could you expound on why you've chosen to be so, and if this is in any way associated with your spiritual beliefs?
Beliefs are not spiritual, firstly. Spirit is simply that which is not matter; to go further is supposition and leads to delusions of grandeur. I am no longer vegan as such, but I have been a vegetarian for almost 25 years. In 1983 I was very ill, largely due to poor self-care, and a realisation dawned that I was slowly killing myself. Over a period of months the awareness grew and one bright morning I knew that I would not drink, drug or eat meat again. And so it proved. My final meal of meat was a lamb couscous in a little room in Algiers. When I began as a vegetarian I had no unifying idea about it but interestingly this came as I continued until now, when I am quite strong in my opinions about eating flesh. The foolish thing is that some humans feel that we must act top-down, in other words first we become 'nice' to each other (don't hold your breath) and then to lower forms, but actually we must honour the lower first...does not the seed precede the flower? But we are blind to the truth, and inhabit a backward, looking glass world. So the killing continues.
16. What are your ultimate goals with Datawhore, and is there
anything that you would like to accomplish that, either, you just
haven't encountered the opportunity or just haven't gotten around to doing yet?
I assume this question is regarding only my musical activities? I would like to work with as many gifted and wild/weird people as possible. Make one or two awesome albums so that all the world know that Datawhore and Datawhore alone has talent. My ultimate goals?
17. Who is your favorite comic book character?
Dr. Strange.
18. Any last words for our readers?
These will be available at time of death.
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Everybody's On My List
Fifth of my collaborations with Canadian wordsmith and photographer michael dent, and featuring KATE (of My Discipline) dueling with him on voice. Letting the chaos create the pattern, a "noise narrative" emerges. Abstract, noise-laden and absurd, this epic soundscape is a test of attention and concentration. Credits: Datawhore - michael dent - Fever Spoor guest artist. |
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A long time ago the universe was without form. Hot gases cooled, coalesced, and formed stars and planets.
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New Tapegerm Guest Artist Gemafreie-welten - Gemafreie Musik, Sound und Musikproduktion, Royalty free Music and Soundeffects
We have a brand new guest artist up Gemafreie-welten. "GEMAfreie-welten offers a wide range of Royalty Free Music and Soundeffects." They have given Tapegerm 638mb of loops to work with. Some made especially for Tapegerm. Loads of drums, basslines, synths, fx, soundcsapes & much more. Tapegerm & Gemafreie-welten look forward to hearing your mixes.
When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:
GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist
Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.
Tapegerm Guest Artist Gemafrie-welten
Enjoy!
posted by Mental Anguish --2/16/2007 12:43:00 PM
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New Guest Artist Yuroun
We have a brand new guest artist page up by Tapegerm Free Mix Artist Yuroun.
162mb of loops available only at Tapegerm. Made by Yuroun exclusively for Tapegerm. Synths, drums, basslines & lots more. They await your downloading & your working with them. Tapegerm & Yuroun look forward to hearing your mixes.
When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:
Yuroun Guest Artist
Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.
Enjoy!
posted by Mental Anguish --2/04/2007 03:44:00 PM
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New Guest Artist Ed Drury Available
We have brought back the excellent guest artist Ed Drury that we had up about 3 years ago. We have a brand new set of loops just up freshly made by Ed for tapegerm. 86mb, 46 loops of guitars, bass, drums, bassoon, throats, didgeridu, djembe, bullroarer, synths, tambura & more. They await your downloading & your working with them. Tapegerm & Ed look forward to hearing your mixes.
When uploading your track or tracks be sure & put in the credits section:
Ed Drury Guest Artist
Just like it is above! This will make sure the track or tracks go on the page. Plus it gives your song or songs more exposure.
The guest page has been updated as well, new info, pictures & a new track that Ed did using only the loops he provided.
Enjoy!
posted by Mental Anguish --12/16/2006 12:36:00 PM
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(((NOMUSIC))) Festival X
( ( ( N O M U S I C ) ) ) F E S T I V A L X
http://www.nomusic.org - festival@nomusic.org
-< 48 Participants >-
-< 24h Continuous Audio Streaming Festival >-
-< Realtime Simultaneous Dual Live >-
-< Audio Live Performing only via Internet >-
-< Creative Commons Audio License - No Archivz >-
-< Stream Live Audio - Double/Split Channel >-
* Stream Start :
13th December 2006 (00h00 / 00:00am) [GMT+0 Greenwich Time]
Stream End :
13th December 2006 (23h59 / 11:59pm) [GMT+0 Greenwich Time]
* Playlist & Timeline :
http://www.nomusic.org
* With :
Tapegerm Collective / Martin John Callanan / Struktur / Simultaneous
Translation / Djet / Crashbonsai / Rod Stasick / Suzywan / DFM RTV INT /
Oima / Times Up - Tim Boykett / Jean Voguet / Cat Hope / Davidly /
Schmacke's world / Soundispatch / Jakob Riis / Soundart & the musicians /
Ieva / Flushing Device / Carl Stone / Neil Kaczor / AKM / James Wyness /
Robinsonhotel / El-g / GentleJunk co. / Sonic Kitchen / Nanofamas /
Aloardi / O.m.s. - n.m.a. / Jerome Joy / The RYBN / Bernhard Loibner /
Kaffe Matthews / Erik Minkkinen / Sun Plexus / Jon Eriksen / Arnfinn
Killingtveit / Chris F / Ra]va[ge / Androvirus / Julien Clauss / Cedric
Pigot / laboiteblanche / Carl.Y
* More infos :
(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a
diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the
singular performances of a new generation of artists, musicians,
performers and other actors of the electronic scene. The creation of this
open diffusion site proved to be necessary because of today’s difficulty
to perform disembodied concerts of electronic music on stage, in a
classical frontal (actor/audience) representation space.
Nowadays, these emerging new multimedia performances allow everybody to
approach music in a more singular way, with a different listening practice
and on a more sharing scene.
Every year since 2001, (((NOMUSIC))) offers one or more festivals which
programming is geographically variable and which function is to relay in a
coordinated way a 24 hours earth revolution of no-musicians @ home. This
virtual earth revolution materializes a world wide sound cover of 24 time
zones according to the universal time [GMT 0]. This gives to participants
who are scattered all over the world the opportunity to take part in the
festival. The participation is free of charge and the recruitment is made
exclusively on Internet through diffusion lists. The selection is not made
according to practices and genres criterion but rather according to the
approaches and artistic positions which should echo the logic of the
festival.
(((NOMUSIC))) platform offers two types of live. In its classical form,
the participant plays alone at home for one hour. He can also play in
dual. Dual is a live in which two geographical sites are linked via
Internet and mixed together in stereo (participant 1 on the left channel
and participant 2 on the right one).
(((NOMUSIC))) wishes to generate improbable duals and gatherings between
two participants during one hour time in a web audio performance.
We make no storage because we think that Internet is a huge database which
conveys already a great amount of dead informations and we don’t want to
pollute it further. We are thus in favour of instant access to a selective
event. The mechanism of the programming is not automated; it is relayed
manually for 24 hours without any interruption by
laboiteblanche and Carl.Y., two real human routers who are at the service
of continuous audio stream and who endure technical difficulties and give
rapid formation on the technologies of streaming to all the
participants.
(((NOMUSIC))) stands between musical negation and anti-bruitism, in a
non-silent interstice of audio manifestation. It allows the
composer-performer to be his own auditor, in a place where nothing should
be heard but just felt as a new entity to observe.
Enjoy your flight with us !
laboiteblanche & Carl.Y
posted by Mental Anguish --12/06/2006 11:56:00 AM
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Tapegerm welcomes new Gold Artist M.Nomized
Welcome M.Nomized to Gold mix artist status we appreciate your support.
M.Nomized is a recording artist, mail artist, author, collagist and painter, who was born in Paris in 1956. He started his work in 1975 with contemporary music and sound research. In the subsequent 31 years he has appeared on more than 200 solo, collaboration, and compilation CD and tape releases -- on his own Fraction Studio label, and on numerous European, Japanese, and American labels. M.Nomized has recorded and created music in many different styles, including experimental, electronic, minimalist and repetitive musics, industrial, Indian music, "out", Algerian, noise, cyclic and loop-based music, children's theater, ambient, piano, and spoken word. He was involved in the homemade music scene of the 1980s and 1990s, and was well-known for his recordings as a member of No Unauthorized. M.Nomized has collaborated with De Fabriek, Don Campau, Mr. Moto, Carsten Olbrich, The Golozos, Mark Sonnenfeld, The Legendary Poptones, Daniele Brusaschetto, Bidoche Musique, Kora, Messy, Clover Leaf, Mlehst, and many others.
posted by Mental Anguish --10/12/2006 11:36:00 AM
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Tapegerm Welcomes New Resident Loop Artist Code Mango
Please welcome new Resident Loop Artist Code Mango. Looking forward to working with you as a loop artist!
From the city that introduced the world to Al Capone, house music, Eli's Cheesecake and the 2006 Arena Bowl XX champs the Rush comes native-born, raised and based electronic artist Code Mango. Creating electronic music devoted to the universal following one listener at a time (and they tell their two friends and they tell their two friends and so on and so on and so on......), Code Mango's creative techniques are summarized as possessing the determined zeal of a mad scientist and the loose approach of a syndicated TV chef (i.e. Dr. Frankenstein uniting with Emeril). The formula: exploring diverse genres and styles of music, extracting each's significant rhythms and sounds, combining them using an unknown random formula and finally, creating output like no other in the musical spectrum, let alone the electronic music field. In layman's terms, listeners beware!
posted by Mental Anguish --6/28/2006 11:07:00 PM
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Midsummer Nights Germination
Get ready to tune in & listen to some exciting new music offline mixes & live streaming mixes> Join in the chat if you have MIRC using a dalnet server & join channel # tapegerm. The entire event runs from Midnight Friday Until Midnight Saturday (24 hours) Check your time zones for whatever part of the world you are in.
STREAMING LINEUP
Special early stream:
Giuseppe Bancomatti
8.00-8.30 am CDT
(08.00-08.30) GMT
(Starts the 17th of june 4:00 PM-CDT which in Europe time equals 9.00 PM-GMT (or 21:00 GMT in a 24 hour clock format). (Live 30 minute stream by the
following artists listed below. Lineup & times are subject to change. Use the world clock time zone converter to find what time to listen in your area of the world)
International Garbageman
4.00-4.30 pm CDT
(21.00-21.30) GMT
Mental Anguish
4.30-5.00 pm CDT
(21.30-22.00) GMT
shaud
5.00-5.30 pm CDT
(22.00-22.30) GMT
Dave Fuglewicz
5.30-6.00 pm CDT
(22.30-23.00) GMT
Heuristic Inc.
6.00-6.30 pm CDT
(23.00-23.30) GMT
Cystem or Intermission
6.30-7.00 pm CDT
(23.30-24.00) GMT
International Garbageman
7.00-7.30 pm CDT
(24.00-0.30) GMT
Mental Anguish
7.30-8.00 pm CDT
(0.30-01.00) GMT
Dave Fuglewicz
8.00-8.30 pm CDT
(01.00-01.30) GMT
Heuristic Inc.
8.30-9.00 pm CDT
(01.30-02.00)GMT
Giuseppe Bancomatti
9.00-9.30 pm CDT
(02.00-02.30)GMT
Cystem
9.30-10.00 pm CDT
(02.30-03.00)GMT
Click on the Listen text link below at the times listed to hear the live streams.
Listen
posted by Mental Anguish --6/15/2006 12:50:00 PM
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Exciting day coming
We're all getting excited about the upcoming Tapegerm event for next weekend, June 17th. Make some room on your calendar and be sure to join in the fun.
posted by Bryan --6/11/2006 02:59:00 AM
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New Video MediaNoise up
This is a really cool video, be sure & check it out.
MediaNoise is from Tapegerm newcomer, Steve Craig. This video work is a
visual essay, so to speak, on the daily barrage of infotainment slapping
against our collective brains. Sort of a Garbage IN, Beauty OUT kind of
thing. Credit to David Fuglewicz open loops for the didgeridoo sound.
Photoshop, Isadora, and Final Cut Pro were used in its creation.
posted by Mental Anguish --5/29/2006 01:41:00 PM
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