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Various Artists – The Faust Re.Cycled

headphonica — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:40:47 +0000

Earlier this year Ergo Phizmiz released “The Faust Cycle”, a 14+ hours dream fable, told through speech, songs, collage and sound-design. The diversity and oddness of sounds and harmony literally cried for being remixed. So did the snippets & sampels Ergo provided for this remix project.

Now here they are, in order of appearance [click artistname to get myspaced / tracktitle for direct download]:

Anton – The Faust Re.Cycled (DJ Faustus RMX)

Motoko Ishii – The Faust Re.Cycled (Etwas Neu RMX)

the1983 – The Faust Re.Cycled (Solitude Weimar RMX)

Lezet – The Faust Re.Cycled (Thirst, The Partisan RMX)

Seiei Jack – The Faust Re.Cycled (Black Phonica RMX)

Monos – The Faust Re.Cycled (Mosaico Deconstruttivista RMX)

Satanicpornocultshop – The Faust Re.Cycled (Hiking w/ Mephistopheles RMX)

Goines Ma Non Troppo – The Faust Re.Cycled (¿Dónde dejé la agujereadora? RMX)

Goines Ma Non Troppo – The Faust Re.Cycled (Perspicáz RMX)

Simone Ginesi – The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)

Traqueurs De Combes - The Faust Re.Cycled (Pater Profondus RMX)

Tozz Rox – The Faust Re.Cycled (Onderwaterkabel RMX)

The Truth About Frank – The Faust Re.Cycled (The Devils’ Bargain RMX)

Schiziod Cosmos – The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)

Broken Hours – The Faust Re.Cycled (Bolt The Nest RMX)

Panda Paranoico – The Faust Re.Cycled (Defender Of The Crown RMX)

Vladislav Nogin – The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)

Dinty Slop – The Faust Re.Cycled (Walking Fictions RMX)

Winterberg – The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)

The Mueslimen – The Faust Re.Cycled (Remembering Gretchen RMX)

Hochgobernitz – The Faust Re.Cycled (UnGENIErt RMX)

Gurdonark – The Faust Re.Cycled (To See The Doctor RMX)

Artwork (pdf): Moritz Grünke – The Faust Re.Cycled (Buero Pluspunkt RMX)

Thanks to all participants and the duke of Phizmiz!

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mr&mrsBrian – (the) cleft & (the) kessl

headphonica — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:23:55 +0000

a
“Cinematic Love Equipment For Teenager”
production proudly
presents a
“Kingly Embedded Super Scientific Lifeform”
akustic novel

starring: the astronate/robotor/pit malone
introducing:
dochor auto/lord sinerator
david fructy/the wedd voovareeder
the genelator/”hostos” & the weedy professor
…

myspace.com/mrandmrsbrian

http://mrandmrsbrian.bandcamp.com

Nelson – Ostatki

headphonica — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:10:24 +0000

Its looks like complexity of nature is only illusion. Nature is based on countless, very simple rules still overlapping and acting on many levels and scales. Some of them have major (for our senses) effects and another are very subtle but in fact all of them are equally important and all of them still affects each other. Results cumulates on each level so that even small change of conditions in one point of natural process can cause very big change on another point. Our analytic minds are trying to follow this or that path of natural process looking for patterns, symmetries and causal relationships but there are too many of them and they are intertwined. Its confusing us. For this reason we cannot value nature qualitatively, we can do it only aesthetically. This new category brings peace to our minds, exempt of tracking to many paths, processes and dependencies.

Lets try to imitate this process, lets use very simple rules and algorithms and let them affect one another on many levels. Lets generate sound from them in almost random way, without undue aesthetic choices. Its impossible being human, but lets try. Then leave this system of feedbacks to itself, dont try to control it. Then come and look at the effect. Lets marvel like a child taking a leaf to hand, use your sense of grotesque. Its a pop music! Never use your existing associations and references. Its impossible, but lets try.

myspace.com/ostatkin

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Een Pianist? – Pianoless

headphonica — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:06:51 +0000

I Have Nothing To Say And I Am Saying It.

myspace.com/eenpianist

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Hands – Hold Remixed

headphonica — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:53:52 +0000

The band Hands from L.A. asked in december if we‘d put out some remixes together with them. Well, they provided some excellent and versatile material. So that made quite different approaches to remixes possible.

first one: bear rocks moon remix

myspace.com/bearrocksmoon

second one: dinty slop remix

myspace.com/dintyslop

third one: the1983 remix

myspace.com/the1983

fourth one: J. Yates remix

myspace.com/jamesplaysthedrums

fifth one: anton remix

myspace.com/dim000

sixt one: the plastic jazz orchestra remix

myspace.com/theplasticjazzorchestra

myspace.com/handssounds

Check out their “Cities EP” on iTunes!

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Innocent Bandits – Ceremonies & Spells

headphonica — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:21:58 +0000

This album was about putting everything on the table. It was about not thinking about anything, but feeling. To get rid of a whole past that doesn’t suit the present anymore. It was about not judging any ideas that come through as good or bad, but to accept them and to go with the flow of creativity. To not worry about perfection in terms of music or life because the truth is that the only perfection is to fully accept that we are imperfect, and that in itself is the perfect way to be.

www.myspace.com/theinnocentbandit

*cover art by maricel

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The innocent bandits produced 20 handmade copies of this recording. You can support them by buying one on innocentbandits.bandcamp.com

Ofir Klemperer – No.13

headphonica — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:49:07 +0000

*made in 2008 by ofir klemperer.
ofir klemperer wrote the hebrew music compositions,
and plays -toy / acoustic / electronic / analog instruments,
record, overdub, edit, and mix.
seconds \ days.

*all paintings were drawn by Amnon Yuhas.

www.ofirklemperer.com/

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Aoiroooasamusi – Root Of Sorrow

headphonica — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:23:28 +0000

“Have a lick of an introverted universal unit that sticks on your eardrums.
Taste it and enjoy the wet trip wherever you like.“

crossing while standing still
flying while the body is passiv
transfixed in a moment
detached from time

repetitive / atmospheric / slow / warm – introverted suspence

www.myspace.com/musie93

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Ergo Phizmiz – The Faust Cycle

headphonica — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:34:42 +0000

The Faust Cycle

or, The House of Dr Faustus

Written, Composed, Performed & Produced by

Ergo Phizmiz

Project consultants

James Nye, Martha Moopette, The Travelling Mongoose

One afternoon Ergo Phizmiz finds himself lumbered into delivering a parcel to the house of legendary alchemist and necromancer Dr Johann Faustus who, since the events of some time ago for which he is renowned, has entered into a rather quieter life in a vast, labyrinthine house, with hundreds of lodgers running the gamut from artists, birds, bird-people, walking fictions, ventriloquists, a Cassowary, running chairs, walking gramophones, and myriad automata.

This enormous dream fable, told through speech, songs, collage and sound-design, is the result of over three years delving down various rabbit-holes, and features collaborations in a range of contexts with artists of many disciplines, including Jack Phoenix, Margita Zalite, Pete Um, Angela Valid, Bela Emerson, Martha Moopette, Amie Willingale, and Zenith Pitts.

In glorious radiophonic technicolour, it is a musical-comedy of disorientation and magick, somewhere between nightmare and the half-remembered childhood whimsy of an insomniac music-hall artiste.

Please note – “The Faust Cycle” is not, necessarily, suitable for sensitive ears at times, containing, as it does, some naughty words, some sexy references, and a healthy smattering of scatological excess.

Chunk 1

“Divination” & “Dick & Liz Expound”

00:00 – 01:38 - Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye

“The Legend of George Scrape”

01:40 – 02:41 - Ventriloquist performed by Zenith Pitts

George Scrape story devised with James Nye & Martha Moopette

“From The Toilet of Despair”

02:42 – End - Improvised by James Nye & Ergo Phizmiz

Chunk 2

“Culinary Philosophy”

00:00 – 00:52 - Additional music by James Nye & Margita Zalite

00:52 – 00:58 - “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye

00:58 – 01:18 - “An Evening in Hell” – Piano work

Composed, Performed & Produced by James Nye

“Operatic Laughter”

01:18 – 01:46 - Additional music by Margita Zalite

01:47 – 02:16 - Dr Faustus Actor performed by Pete Um

Eloise performed by Margita Zalite

02:16 – End - Improvisation for Cello & Electronics by Bela Emerson

Chunk 3

00:00 – 00:01 - “An Evening in Hell” by James Nye, reprise

00:01 – 00:26 - “Hell Kebabs” – Electroacoustic work

Composed, Performed & Produced by Angela Valid

“Gretchen”

00:26 – 00:52 - Text developed with and performed by Martha Moopette

Trumpet by Mark Upton

Improvisation for Cello & Electronics by Bela Emerson

“Chronicles of the Suspicious Gentleman”

00:52 -01:14 - “Fever” performed by Margita Zalite

“Madiana” composed & performed with Aaron Islamb

“Helen”

01:14 – 01:45 - Additional vocals by Margita Zalite

Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye

01:44 – 02:00 - Recordings of “The Faust Cycle” workshops at

Quay Arts Podcasts edited by Simon Perry

Workshops facilitated with James Nye

“Kinetoscopes & Dung”

02:00 – End - Trumpet by Mark Upton

“An Evening in Hell” by James Nye

Foley created with The Travelling Mongoose

Interpretations of Erik Satie’s “Le Tango Perpetuel” created with James Nye

Violin solo improvised by Amie Willingale

Chunk 4

“The Bird Machines”

00:00 – 01:30 - Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye

“The Abduction of the Object”

01:28 – End - Improvisations by James Nye & Ergo Phizmiz

Eloise performed by Martha Moopette & Rebecca Robertson

The Inventor performed by Zenith Pitts

Chunk 5

“Garden”

00:00 – 00:43 - Voice of the Vine performed by James Nye

“The Invention of Birds” & “The Circus of Delightful Misery”

00:43 -02:56 - Interpretations of Erik Satie’s “Le Tango Perpetuel” created with James Nye

“Secrets” monologue written & performed by James Nye

The Voice of Faustus performed by Zenith Pitts

Field-Recordings by The Travelling Mongoose

Insect Recordings by Irene Moon

* * * * *

Contains interpretations of music by

Claudio Monteverdi
Carlo Gesualdo
Melchior Franck
Thomas Ravenscroft
The Four Tops
Peggy Lee
Erik Satie
Sergei Prokofiev
Jacques Offenbach
Arthur Sullivan
Georges Bizet
Camille Saint-Saens
J.S. Bach
Charles Tennier
Giuseppe Verdi
Argentian Tango from “Un Chien Andalou”
Cole Porter
W.A. Mozart
Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby

Contains samples too numerous to name…

Written & Recorded 2006-2009

Ventnor, Newport, East Cowes, Ryde, Freshwater, Buckfastleigh, Brighton, London (UK)
La Ferriere aux Etangs, La Noe de Fendrement (France)
Tirgu-Mures, Transylvania (Romania)

Thanks to

All the artists involved, Kate, Talulah & Autumn, Jeremy Court, David Fenech, Felix Kubin & Gagarin Records, Vulnavia Vanity, the Faustus of the West Country, Sal & Simon, Matt Johnson, Soundart Radio, Chris, Lucinda, et al, WFMU, Zoe & Storm, Vicki & Peter , Sid & Maz, Jo Hummel Newell & all at Quay, Penny King & Angela Unsworth, Steven Streight, Chinky Bolin, Soleilmoon, Doyouspeakenglish Radio, Proot Records, Patrick Sims, Sarah & Peter Nelson, Satanicpornocultshop, Tomomi Adachi, Erik Bumbledonk, Anthony Locke, Moritz Grünke

Dedicated to
Joseph Cornell
Ken Campbell
Morecambe & Wise

Supported by Arts Council England

Vaguely Marsupial Productions

Martin Enderlein @ Headphonica

Soundart Radio

VentnorBlog

Quay Arts

BüroPluspunkt

Weblinks Ergo Phizmiz

ergophizmiz.net

ergophizmiz.blogspot.com

twitter.com/ergophizmiz

myspace.com/ergophizmiz

James Nye myspace.com/frogweb

Angela Valid myspace.com/angelavalid

Bela Emerson belaemerson.com

Margita Zalite myspace.com/barenzunge

Martha Moopette myspace.com/marthamoopette

Pete Um umbusiness.co.uk

Mark Upton mark-upton.com

Amie Willingale myspace.com/amiesacoustics

Aaron Islamb myspace.com/aaronislamb

Simon Perry ventnorblog.com

Elements of The Faust Cycle were presented as works in progress on WFMU (wfmu.org), and Soundart Radio (soundartradio.org.uk), who also broadcast the premiere of the entire work.

Instrumental excerpts have been released as “Music From The House of Dr Faustus” on the FMA

Cover Art by Moritz Grünke (www.bueropluspunkt.de)

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There’s a very special edition of “The Faust Cycle” at the FMA which consists of 12 portions, each somewhat around 70 minutes, in mp3 (256kbps): FMA-special-edition

Join the Remix Project “The Faust Re.Cycled”!

http://www.headphonica.com/datas/The_Faust_Re-Cycle.zip
includes 62 samples and snippets from the original mastertapes, compressed in mp3/320kbps.
you can also cut out whatever you like from the released 14+hours and reconstruct it. if you need something very special, please contact the duke of phizmiz himself: ergophizmiz@googlemail.com

so, take the samples and do whatever you like.there are already many genres/styles in the original Faust Cycle – it’s up to you to transfer this samples into something new: invent new genres now.
click, create, communicate.

please send your remixes to:
headphonica@gmx.net

as we’d like to normalize the remixes before publishing them it’s neccessary that you send it in WAV-quality / uncompressed. you can use www.sendspace.com / www.yousendit.com / www.megaupload.com or any free service like that and just post us the download-link. if you have more than 300MB to send us we recommend http://www.mammutmail.com/en/ which takes up to 1GB

DEADLINE for submissions is april 30th.

2pol – Das Neueste aus New York

headphonica — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:40:00 +0000

“Sorry that this post is in English, but I can barely speak German let alone write it. Anyway, I was wondering if someone could post a list of generic German phrases that would be useful for me to memorize. I don’t need things like “where is the bathroom” and “what is my hotel room number”, as I’m staying with family. What I’d prefer are “Yes, I agree” or “My favorite movie is…”.
Thank you so much!”

“Hi !

Here’s a simple list :

Hi / Hello / How are you ? : Hey, wie geht’s ?
I don’t know : (Ich habe) keine Ahnung (litt : I have no clue)
My favorite … is XY : Mein liebelings… ist XY
EX : My favorite movie is Pokémon => Mein liebelingsfilm ist Pokémon. ;p

I’m glad I’ve met you : Gern Sie kennen zu lernen. (formal)
I love you ( to a family relative) : Ich habe dich gern.”

(source: thefreedictionary-forum)

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Dave Merson Hess – Music from the film PRESENCE

headphonica — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:18:58 +0000

“Music from the film PRESENCE” is the score for an independent/cult science fiction film which has premiered in June 2009 at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) in Seattle, Washington, USA. The film is heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Werner Herzog’s Wild Blue Yonder, and the films of David Lynch. It was shot in downtown Los Angeles, CA, mostly at night. It uses music heavily, as well as public domain and stock footage from the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. to tell its story.
As a film, PRESENCE is at once visually beautiful yet stark and unsettling, pairing long, elegant shots of downtown Los Angeles with bleak, startling footage of disasters, both real and fictional. When composing for the movie, I knew I had to provide a score that would blend seamlessly with the visual elements of the film to enhance the sense of acute loss and impending dread experienced by the film’s protagonist. The movie is at some moments frightening and horrific yet at others tender and nostalgic, so I worked with director Bryan Kramer to emulate those emotional shifts while creating a score that was consistent as a whole.
For inspiration, I looked to electronic music pioneers Louis and Bebe Barron’s score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, which blurs the line between music and sound effects. By composing music that was simultaneously repetitive and unpredictable, I hoped to invoke the familiar yet chaotic sounds of claxons, sirens, and alarms.
I used a variety of instruments, including mellotron, Moog and other analog synthesizers and VST emulations (for example, NineCows Cynthia, which emulates the EMS Synthi A), organ drones, vibraphone, heavily delayed drums, and electric guitar, in an attempt to create a score that is like the film itself, both synthetic and organic, both otherworldly and jarringly real.

OTHER MAJOR INFLUENCES ON THE SCORE: DJ Shadow, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Erik Satie, Ennio Morricone, Goblin

Written, performed & produced by Dave Merson-Hess in a closet in Richmond, Virginia, a bedroom in New York City,
and on a train traveling between the two. Special thanks to Jessica Roberts for arrangement assistance on “Onomatopoeia”
and “Drive”, and for general moral support.

THANK YOU: Jessica Roberts, Justin Taber & Rose O’Leary, Max Stofle Anderson, Jeff Lee, The Dilley Family, Aris Blevins,
Jimmy Fusil, Tim Price, DJ Carl “Ratso” Russo, Tom @ 101 Music in North Beach at the corner of Grant & Green in
San Francisco, CA, John Morgan Mitchell, and three superstar VST Developers: Nikolaj Kyndby Holm @ Ninecows for Cynthia;
Aaron Rutledge @ Tweakbench for Tapeworm; and The Interruptor a.k.a Daniel F. Bosshard for his brilliant delay plugins.

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PRESENE-MOVIE.COM
Dave Merson Hess

MagicVan – A Vorkinzeebark

headphonica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:31 +0000

Taren McCallan-Moore, a.k.a. MagicVan lives in Hackney, East London, where he practices from his home studio; “I approach my music in pretty much the same way that I approach my visual art…” He says. “…I’ll start with anything, something that I’ve been experimenting with, a dirge, a note, a melody, a sound and it all leads from there. There’s always something to shake off and I work best when stupefied by some painful muse, otherwise I’m really quite an inadequate musician I think. And I know, people have told me, that I can be frustrating to listen to. One friend thinks that my production is painfully unfair; proffering a hand of sweets only to pull away as the gift has been accepted. I’m just afraid of being pigeonholed even to the point of shooting myself in the foot because I’m terrified of my own mediocrity.” The art of Taren McCallan-Moore art can be found at: tarenvegas.blogspot.com

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OperaRotas – The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

headphonica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:31 +0000

‘The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.’
Said former president Ronald Reagan on January 28 of 1986 after the disaster with space shuttle Challenger.
And: ‘It’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery’
Or: ‘It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons.’
Even: ‘That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.’
Meaning: these quotes indicate pretty well what we had in mind with: ‘The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.’
And that’s all there is to say about it. Enjoy!

OperaRotas

Hanns Ahring & Mary Beaumondt & Miel Kempenich & J.L. Knopf & Jean Quist

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Peterloo Massacre

headphonica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:31 +0000

KiN sings and plays guitar, Paul tinkers with a laptop and plays a synth, Colin plays bass and Howard bangs the drums.

“Peterloo Massacre seem almost conventional in their line-up of singer-guitarist, bassist, drummer and electronics man. Except that electronics man is Paul Green, controller of a synthetic orchestra of beautifully fluid keyboard sounds and laptop (as well as a rather excellent little tabletop LED display screen). And that singer is the remarkable KiN, a black stripe painted across her eyes and her voice a collision of cracked urban soul, atmospheric near-whispers and strange vibrations. As such, they’re reminiscent of the leading lights of the trip-hop movement inasmuch as they manage to sound both richly and pleasantly melodic and faintly menacing at the same time, sort of like being in a flotation tank with a stingray.”

(Live Review 22nd Nov 2008 by Cath Audergine)

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Mu. – Arecibo Psycodelic Classics 17: Abortos Musicales

headphonica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:31 +0000

Mu. is a solo percussion/concrete project dabbling in free jazz, noise and overall sonic dementia. most of the recordings made with one mic made out of cell phone parts and a ball of aluminum foil. improvised beats are the core with extra spice and frosting splattered on top. much thanks to my dog and THC for inspiration.

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Cominform – Tennis

headphonica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:31 +0000

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TozzRox – It was tremendously scary

headphonica — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:03:16 +0000

It Was Tremendously Scary is made by an old, cheap, abused and neglected synthesizer. Being given at some kid’s birthday party, the synth was played on for a few weeks, after which the kid found a new pastime and his mother put it away in a cold, dark basement. Angry and frustrated at its miserable destiny, the synth decided to haunt the family in its dreams by producing ghostly sounds in the middle of many nights. It was tremendously scary…

(the front cover is a painting by Dutch artist Pauline van Schoonhoven. more of her work is to be found at pauvas.nl)

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Omar Lavalle – Bolsitas con ojos de la gran bestia

headphonica — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:54:38 +0000

All the sounds, atmosphere and noise created on the basis of a single original audio recorded by Mateo Millones on Thursday, February 14, 2008, in Angolo, Mórrope, Lambayeque – Peru.

Session by the master healer Isidro Sandoval Alamo, he is 78 years old. The ceremony lasts from midnight until dawn. The songs are from the beginning of the session, after taking San Pedro, invoking to the different patron saints, virgins, and other spirits that help him during the session.

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various artists – Sous les pieds la terRemixed

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

One year ago, Philippe Baudouin (aka Monsieur Tympan – phonographer) and Alexandre Manzanares (photographer) have produced a sound and photographic documentary about rural world, available on CD, called “Sous les pieds, la terre” (which means “Under the feet, the land”). To realize this project, they have collected sounds and pictures of people and landscapes they’ve met on the road: old country people, kids in garden, sounds of agricultural tools, beauty of mountains… In September 2008, Philippe decided to put online 30 samples of the sounds he recorded and to collaborate with Headphonica to release on their netlabel. With this sound samples, everyone was invented to make his own remix! The idea was to propose people to appropriate these field-recordings and to make a subjective remix. Even if these different sounds come from a very little part of the world (Vaucluse, France), the 80 remixes we’ve received show us the universality of these ones. Here is the result sent by people from all over the world! Enjoy yourself!

The ZIP-file comes with three playlists. You can also get them here:

artists that already released music on headphonica :	00__headphonica.m3u
this one was created by Philippe Baudouin:	00__philippe_best_of.m3u
soundscape music – is the paradigm here:	00__soundscape.m3u

Please use these playlists in the folder wherein you downloaded all the mp3-files!

Enjoy listening!

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_PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_ – _PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

DESCRIPTION BY PIT MALONE:

Dear listeners.
When my brother and I were playing together in a band in the past, fighting about the music often broke out. Mr. Brian tended to more noise. I tended to more music. Everybody defended his own interests violently. Today I spare him the physical pain and the humiliation. As a quit pro quo he accepts, that every artistical decision at the _PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_ is made by me. For that I come up with all the music and lyrics. Mr. Brian playing the drums and Cleft playing the bass guitar maintain the guitar-pop-compositions with their conventionally play. A great achievement, considering that they regularly abandon established musical structures, seeing those rules as borderlines of artistical expression.
At the _PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_ there are no escapades of sound, no experiments. To get to new music, I think it can be helpful to take pure and simple songs as a basis from time to time. After that, the big carving and pasting or maybe something completely different can come around.
But before, enjoy the _PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_

yours
Pit Malone

REPLY BY MR.BRIAN:

who likes noise? I like noise! in addition, I like acoustic experiments, too. and because I was a long time of my life on music-detours, I surprised myself, when I appeared easily in a normal, but charming beautiful popband. perhaps I never received the chief position, because I was not a musician, but an artist. perhaps it was unnecessary for me to be a musician, because i like noise. perhaps I don´t need a chief position today, because I learned to play the drums. not very well, but nobody likes professionals. and pit is not so fastidious. anyhow not, if you do, what he says. enjoy.

yours
mr.Brian

CLEFT: RESPONSE:  

once i was an unemployed longhaired bassguitarplayer with no future or any clue. then pit found me and i was allowed to play his fabulous tunes. he taught me well about music but i was an ungrateful disciple. i forsook him and tried to copy and paste his greatness.  and of course i failed.  now over 12 years later he gave me the chance to redeem myself. he never surrendered me.  hail to the pit and his mesmerizing voice! cleft will play his fingers dumb for you!

LAST WORDS BY PIT:

But if we listen to the variations in tempo just to the point more often than not, and if we hear the variations in sound-intensity for example, we have to recognize, that _PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_ is made by dynamic, companionship and fraternity.
Thank you, brother, and thank you cleft for your play and your open words. And thank you two for your solidarity. An egocentric teardrop named happyness is rolling down my headphone-cable and dropping onto my keyboard, it is writing these words.

_PLATTENBOSS_UNDERTAKERS_ is always open for suggestions and feedback or any kind of comments, as long as you are not a shitty plattenboss.

pit (dot) malone (at) gmx (dot) de

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Gosprom – Lazy

admin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Single «Lazy» from the young progressive band of GOSPROM from Kharkov (Ukraine) is modern variations on a theme acid-jazz and trip-hop. Certainly, all the vinyl which gives a surprisingly warm sound songs is underlaid, due to efforts of one of the best acid-jazz dj of Ukraine. Well and certainly instruments, returning a listener to the time of trip-hop 90th. GOSPROM had time to come forward on many festivals, both jazz and alternative. Words of cult poet Vladimir Mayakovski extraordinarily combine with music of GOSPROM and underline an unbelievable rhythm and dynamic quality of their songs. Probably, it is related to the identical orientation of social positions of musicians and avant-gardists 20th and 60th, which is expressly traced in every song. In the end dj’s improvisations in bonus track about the future, people and robots, original epilogue to the single «Lazy».

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Koen Park – My Log: August 2008

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All music written and produced by Ian Hawgood 9pm 31/07/08 to 01:28am 02/08/08 UK. A log is written down events in a journey. The journey I am on is an odd one and one I rarely verbalise as I have little to say. All I am left to do is to write songs.

www.koenmusic.com

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Ofir Klemperer – no.14

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

*made in 2008 by ofir klemperer.
ofir klemperer wrote the hebrew music compositions,
and plays -toy / acoustic / electronic / analog instruments,
record, overdub, edit, and mix.
seconds \ days.

*all paintings were drawn by Amnon Yuhas.

myspace.com/ofirklemperer

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cloud mouth – afterlife

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

robots plugging into the breeze while the trees and their leafs stand in bewildered disbelief,….. a blaze of electric copulation, like a pebble falling from a mountain down into the ocean. a sad laugh or a happy sob…up to interpretation

myspace.com/birddog8o8

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cloud mouth – lambs quarters

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

all and every thing, bach to the blues, Daniel Johnston to the gamelan, benny maupin,neil young, alarm will sound, exhaust, nick drake, the streets, arcangelo corelli, philip glass, crass, coco rosie, telemann, angels of light (and of course the swans) sonny terry,men with out hats, town and country, john zorn, piano,america (the band)((and the land))eric dolphy, william akerman, volapuk, agustus puablo, rio en medio, any and all indigenous music, the Dillard’s, refuge all stars, depak ram, the list goes on and on and on,( and that’s just music wise) ultimately any thing that moves me emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, etc. is my inspiration.

myspace.com/birddog8o8
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Balder- – M-esque

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Minimal,
epic,
minute,
fuck,
ambiance,
innocence,
perverted,
sincere.

myspace.com/balderdashproject

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Light Echoes – Eating A Dead Planet

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Using recently discovered faint light echoes, astronomers have divined when three known supernovas occurred. The visible echoes are described as being much like sound echoes. They’re created when light from the explosion expands outward and reflects off dust and travels toward Earth.

All Music by Moroni Sanchez

Tracks 2 / 5 / 9 with Ian Griffith

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Olajuwon – The Ghost Factory

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

olajuwon came from deep inside the earth’s core and rose up with a sound that is OLAJUWON

myspace.com/olajuwonmusic
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Dirk Markham – Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 4

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All parts composed and recorded by Dirk Markham.
A D-Rock Production, Berlin 2008. Forest Records.

http://www.theforest.org.uk/dirk-markham
http://www.myspace.com/dirkmarkham
http://photographii.com/dirk
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Lezet – character

admin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

this album was recorded by using a typing computer keyboard as the sound-delivering device where each letter is represented by a distinct note.
At times, the nature of the revealed melody called for more of a strictly typist approach, while at others the individual tracks necessitated changes in pitch,melody,dynamics to avoid sounding sternly kinda typist.
The relation between typing machines and music keyboards fascinated me since I was a kid and this was a way of paying homage to this childhood fascination of mine.
Plus I had tons of things to type out while at the University and the arrhythmic nature of the sounds made while typing galvanised me into exploring the abovementioned relation.

Typists:Marijana Tanaskovic (tracks 2&27), Igor Jovanovic (all track except tracks2&27)

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cover-artwork by maricel

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anton – steal more

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

braindance with mike

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myspace.com/dim000
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Panda Paranoico – Comunismo

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Panda Paranoico is an experimental alleatory project from Argentina, dedicated to explore the sounds of music instruments, computers, every day objects, and transforming them into songs.

The project started in 2003 with 6 musician and one non-musician. In 2004 released their first LP, “Vengo del futuro a comprar un sticker, deme un piano Vol. 2″ (I came from the future to sell you a sticker, give me a piano Vol 2.). The same year, 2 of the members left the band. The 5 pandas left, started to play live in late 2004. The debut was in IMPA, a metalurgical factory, along with Jason Khan and Luis Marte.

In 2005, gave concerts in Fuga Jurásica 05, Impa, Casa Panda, Torre Monumental, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and finish the year with the LP “Comunismo”(Comunism).

In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Panda Paranoico have played in Fuga Jurásica 06, 07, Teatro del Borde, Ciclo Panorama Centro Cultural Recoleta, Palais de Tokyo en CCR, Estudio Abierto, Dirección General de Museos, Museo Etnográfico Nacional, Búsquedas Sonoras, Una Casa, etc. In a few the years, they have the opportunity to share stage with the greatest artists of the local circuit: AUTO, Lile, Pablo Reche, Reynols, McFly, Ismael Pinkler, Die Noia Futurizka, Pablo Verón, Estupendo, Marcelo Fabián, Fernando Kabuzaki and a lot more.

The only 3 members, who survived the years, Gabriel Funes, Sebastián Descarso and Guillermo Barceló, are working in their new album to be release in 2009, “Violar, matar y esconder” (To violate, to kill and to hide).

http://www.myspace.com/pandaparanoico
http://www.pandaparanoico.com.ar/

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cover-artwork by Estoy Embarazada

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Een Pianist? – Pianos

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

“Pianos” is a synthesis of all my previous work. A kind of honoring that I give myself..
“Pianos” is like all the food and drink taken in the whole life.
“Pianos” is the carbon dioxide exhaled in all this time.
“Pianos” is everything what my eyes and my ears(hearing) have stopped seeing previously.
“Pianos” is a manufactured product. A product to be consumed preferably from 5 p.m..
“Pianos” is done by an alone note of piano.
“Pianos” is my last work and I hope that it is always the first one.
José M. Tabernero Labrador (”Een Pianist?”)

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Stephan Siebert – Stephan Siebert

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

musik ist eigentlich ein individuelles mittel zur kommunikation von dem wo es keine worte mehr gibt es auszudruecken.
gefuehl zu gefuehl … seele zu seele.

direkte beruehrung des wesenhaften.

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mr&mrsBrian – so not polite

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

mr&mrsBrian are not very polite, but…

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Zukuri – Some Exercises In Provocation 1

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

J.L. Knopf writes: No, ‘wow’ is defenitively not the miracle
ingredient that keeps a group of musicians with a totally different
past going for decades. On the contrary: the different cultures that
make you say ‘wow’ will only clash for a limited time to each
representative’s liking. Soon after only the memory remains and a
few recordings. ‘Wow’ boldly goes where no-one has gone before, to
borrow some famous words to describe what happens, and once it’s
gone you can never capture it again, another famous quote. But
‘wow’, what will they think of next? All music on ‘Some exercises in
provocation’ is extemporized. It combines the views of a rocking
guitarist, a classical flautist, a tubaplayer with brassband roots
and a jazz reedplayer on music which makes you say ‘wow’.
Alltogether eight Exercises in Provocation. To be followed by a
second volume with some more exercises in provocation. Wow…

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photography and cover-artwork by Maren Schram

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Monopole – The Trick Is To …

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

“The trick is to” is a three stage adventure that is bridge together with field recordings that I have made while roaming around town on my bicycle.
Staring off in the sophisticated high class dinning in the wonderful ambiance inside the heart of the ghetto. Then, the after dinner stroll down a secluded beach off the beaten path just beside a four lane road. After that tiresome walk a intriguing intelligent conversation with the locals. At this time you can let your hair down and have some out door fun with the other town folk on the river front walk way in the heart of down town, where there’s people of all colors and nationality . All of this is broken apart by archival recordings which is finalized with a cute and whimsically damage night cap to complete your acoustical journey .
Mechanical clicks, micro sampling, analog D.I.Y. synthesizer sounds, field recordings and home brewed electronics are the medium of this twenty-four minute electronic manufactured audio puzzle. So the big question is, how do you put this “audio puzzle” together . Well you see , “The trick is to…….”

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Metastasis – Sound & chifles

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

“Sound & chifles” is an album when I use the same caracteres(sounds) but in diferent context (in the first 3 pieces), like a three diferent histories with the same elements but transformed.
the piece Prisma II is a Omaggio to a Peruvian 60’s composer Enrique Pinilla, one of the pioners in electronic music in this country. he’s electronic pieces that he worked was charged of visual senses. i made this piece using old school techniques (analog recordings) mixed with sinthesis software.
and the last piece was recorded in a livesession with 2 american musician friends during their visiting for Chile in the 2007, we joined in a Krishna Temple in the city of Antofagasta (Chile) and made a nice concert, very intuitive and sensorial playing with delicate and disturbing sounds and changing emotional senses…

Renzo Filinich 2008

cover artwork by: Aurelie

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new earth objects – live at Schmiede 14.06.2007

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

cover-artwork by marker

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Marcel Pequel – The 12 Months

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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alphajerked – alphajerked

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

“I made this music by recording random stuff around my house and backyard and spent a few months editing the sounds to fit songs that I had written on guitar. While making the songs I was working in the warehouse of a drug store and when I look back on the songs they really remind me of that time. I didn’t intentionally make the songs to represent my job but thats what came out naturally. Maybe because I hated it so much. In order to balance out the industrial-ness of the warehouse I would take long hikes at different trails around my house. So I think this album represents well the industrial side, and the nature side mixed together.”

myspace.com/alphajerked

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cover artwork by elmer.0

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Poking Pillows – I Love You

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

i make music i enjoy listening to and what i was going for with these recordings is exactly how they came out. i wanted a thriving life rhythm which would always be there but dissolve at points but still stand out like a heart beat which will undergo many many unexpected changes. this is partly the state of mind i was in while creating these songs. life (rhythm) will always exist, random things happen (personal legend), then the song (experience) ends, though the memory of the song and its rhythm lives on inside the listener. in one song i imitated the voices of birds in the morning in denver with a synthesizer and various effex, and in another some awesome noise shows heard, and also in another ideas talked about on nights when sleep was to far off to go to. the samples used were experienced simultaneously during the composition of the songs, specifically from video games/movies/conversation at restaurant.
so if you like these songs maybe, quite possibly maybe, share them!

signed
the multiple personalities of poking pillows

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agoostus – movement

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

“lass uns nicht über humor reden. lass uns nicht über musik reden.
lass uns hören! drück mal “play”! … und dann bewusst über jeden regenbogenfarbigen stolperstein fliegen, der uns hier in den weg gelegt wird um dann sofort wieder aufzustehen. blick nach oben: der himmel formt sich aus bunten quadratischen stoffbällen.
atmen heißt anecken.
musik ist (k)ein missverständniss.
lass uns mal drüber reden.”

Here is a collection of tunes: lo-fi tones from a keyboard borrowed from mister Sandoval, samples collected from the outskirts of sound–and also my bedroom, guitar and keyboard loops squished through a wah-pedal, and an unhealthy dose of curiosity. Enjoy.

original cd-package with painting by agoostus

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cleft – neue küche für pit

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Die Küche für den gehobenen Anspruch in einem außergewöhnlichen Design.
Diese Profi-Küche verfügt über einen Kochherd mit Abzugshaube, Backofen mit herausnehmbarem Blech und Kühlschrank.
Ein besonderes Dingsbums ist das Spülebecken, mit Pumpwasserhahn. Der Wasserhahn ist durch ein geschlossenen Kreislauf funktionsfähig. Die geräumigen Abstellflächen sind genau richtig für die Meisterköche.
Im Lieferumfang sind 40 Zubehörteile, z.B.: Wasserkocher, Toaster, Mixer in Edelstahl-Optik, Bratpfannen, Kochtopf, Spül- und Lebensmittel, Gewürzdosen, Geschirr, Besteck und allerelei seltsame Geräusche.
Die Kochmuld und Grillpfanne mit Gräuschknöpfen, Grill- und Dampfgeräusche!
Maße der Küche: Länge: 115 cm, Höhe 96 cm, Tiefe 40 cm,
Packmaße: 37MB in mp3

however, if you really like working in the kitchen you should also visit haushaltsware

cover-artwork by hellsn

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mr&mrsBrian – Y / Shmart

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Peter: “Art, shmart. Put enough monkeys in a room with a typewriter, they’ll produce Shakespeare.”

[Cutaway to monkeys in a room with a computer]

Monkey 1: “Uh, let’s see, ‘a something by any other name…’”
Monkey 2: “Carnation? Peony…”
Monkey 3: “No, they did that on last week’s ‘Marlowe’.”
Monkey 4: “Uh, what about, uh, daisy?”
Monkey 5: “Chrysanthemum?”
Monkey 2: “Iris? Rose? What about rose?”
Monkey 1: “Did you say rose? Rose…”
Monkey 4: “Rose is good.”
Monkey 1: “‘A rose by any other name…’ Yeah, that works, alright. [they all agree] Moving on…”
Monkey 5: “Hey, what about tulip?”
Monkey 1: “Rose is fine. Moving on…”

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cover: serigraphy, manufactured in kiel, designed and printed by brian

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cleft – 10 minutes

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

allow yourself 10 minutes of mental wellness.

an excerpt of this album has been released earlier this year on this stunning compilation: Wakka chikka wakka chikka volume 2

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Worrg – Prison Story

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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Ca$h4otters – Deranged Creatures

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Deranged Creatures is a collection of songs which are all bit wrong, about people and/or things which are all a bit wrong. Stutters, refrigerators, wobbly bass lines, elephants, granular feedback, arctic foxes, crooning, chopped up strings, the unravelling of social fabrics, celebrity polar bears, squeaks, moral-uprighitude, microwaves, ass shaking, and monkey skulls might feature semi-prominently.

Ca$h4otters @ myspace

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cover-artwork by Alf Holm

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scrambled mache – The Bubblemaker

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, — Look how the world with the lights that they lit is illumined and starred, Brief was the flame of their life, but the lamps of their art burn long! Where is the Master of Music, and how has he vanished away? Where is the work that he wrought with his wonderful art in the air? Gone, — it is gone like the glow on the cloud at the close of the day! The Master has finished his work, and the glory of music is — where? Once, at the wave of his wand, all the billows of musical sound Followed his will, as the sea was ruled by the prophet of old: Now that his hand is relaxed, and his rod has dropped to the ground, Silent and dark are the shores where the marvellous harmonies rolled! Nay, but not silent the hearts that were filled by that life-giving sea; Deeper and purer forever the tides of their being will roll, Grateful and joyful, O Master, because they have listened to thee, The glory of music endures in the depths of the human soul

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cover artwork by: Aurelie

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Michele Del Zotto & Michele Spanghero – Blind Statement

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

to improvise is like making a statement without knowing the matter of your speech but the mood;
a “blind statement” that can be a strong assertion

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photography and cover-artwork by Michele Spanghero

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