Show: Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39

04.06. - 08.06.2008

'Asynchronous Jitter', a 4 Channel Sound Piece with a 15 Channel computer controlled spatialisation system, will be presented at Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39

http://art.ch/go/id/elj/

Event: Utopia of Sound Symposium Vienna 29.05. - 31.05.2006

30.05.2008
Florian Hecker performs at the Utopia of Sound Symposium, Akademie der bildenden Künsten Wien. Also performing Michel Chion, Terre Thaemlitz

Academy of Fine Arts | Atelierhaus | Lehàrgasse 6 | EG Nord

7:30 – 10:00 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Online Video: Artreview.com

17.05.2008
Florian Hecker performing on opening night of the Reykjavik Arts Festival at the Domo club before his performance was cut short by an audience intervention

Event: Experiment Marathon Reykjavík 16.05.2008

16.05.2008:
Florian Hecker with Ben Aranda and Francesca von Habsburg

One of the highlights of the Reykjavik Arts Festival will be the Experiment Marathon Reykjavík at the Reykjavík Art Museum (RAM) organized by the Serpentine Gallery, London. From May 15, the RAM will become a laboratory in which leading artists, architects, film-makers, academics, and scientists will create an environment of invention through a series of installations, screenings, performances, and experimental films.

Reykjavík Art Museum/Hafnarhús
May 15 – August 17
Tryggvagata 17, 121 Reykjavik
Open 10 am – 5 pm
www.listasafnreykjavikur.is


http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/experiment_marathon_reykjavike.html

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #18. 11.5.08

11.05.2008
HASWELL & HECKER present their eighteenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the 'let's go MENTAL', Lopud Seminar 2008. Lopud Island, Croatia.

http://www.tba21.org/

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session # 17

09.05.2008
HASWELL & HECKER present their seventeenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the Skaņu mežs festival, Riga, Latvia.

9pm Big Hall. 9.5.08.

http://skanumezs.lv

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Event: Haswell & Hecker, Whitehouse 08.05.2008

08.05.2008
Haswell & Hecker are the support act at the penultimate WHITEHOUSE live action!

ve action!
* NOTE: This is NOT a UPIC Diffusion Session

kuratiert von Peter Rehberg (eMego)
live: Whitehouse (UK) + Haswell & Hecker (UK / D)
dj ddkern vk 7.-/ak 8.-

rhiz - bar modern

Guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 Vienna - Austria - EU
phone: ++43 1 409 25 05

http://rhiz.org/

Release: POPOL VUH (Haswell & Hecker Remix)

31.03.2008: Editions Mego release Popol Vuh 'Haswell & Hecker & Mika Vaino Remixes' 12"

Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools. This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker. (Presstext)

Show: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph

06.03.2008-26.10.2008


Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1
A-8020 Graz

Tue-Sun 10am-6pm

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (IV)

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"

The fourth and final part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (III)

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"

The third part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' Kunstverein Hannover

16.02.2008 – 06.04.2008

Kunstverein Hannover e.V.
Sophienstraße 2
30159 Hannover

Opening hours:
tue.-sat. 12-19 h, sundays and holiday 11-19 h

Release: UPIC WARP Tracks (Warp Records) 04.02.2007

04.02.2008: Warp Records release Haswell & Hecker: Upic Warp Tracks
Limited CD & Digital Download
Tracklisting (CD)
Alpha (1.29)

Beta (6.11)

Gamma (9.50)


Buy online here

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (II)

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"
The second part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (I)

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"
The first part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

http://anaximandrake.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/01/17/blackest-ever-black-1.html#footnote-8-referrer

http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/archives/2008/01/empirisme_des_m.html

Announcement: Haswell &Hecker: UPIC Warp Tracks (Warp Records) 18.12.07

18.December 2007:
Warp Records announces Haswell & Hecker: UPIC WARP TRACKS
Released 4th February 2008
Limited CD & Download

http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1371

Release: Haswell & Hecker: Visionaire Magazine # 53 'Sound'

18.12.07
Haswell & Hecker: Franz Graf Acid / Acid for Franz Graz
is featured in Visionaire 53 Sound.

Visionaire 53 Sound. consists of five 12-Inch vinyl picture
disc records packaged inside a dome case.
Limited edition of 4000 numbered copies.

http://www.visionaireworld.com/

Event: CREATE UCSB Santa Barbara

07.12.2007: Florian Hecker speaks at CREATE

Friday December 7 at 6 PM
Studio Xenakis - Music 2215
University of CA, Santa Barbara

Event: Spheres of Interest Lecture: Florian Hecker and Chris Watson

30.11.2007: Acoustic Landscapes and Noise

Florian Hecker and Chris Watson
Friday, 30 November at 5:00pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco 94133

Release: Hecker, Höller, Tracks

12/11/2007: Semishigure releases Hecker, Höller, Tracks
as Gatefold Double Vinyl.

Tracklisting (LP)

Side A:
I (9:03)
Side B:
II (15:25)
Side C:
III (8:23)
IV (1:28)
V (1 :47)
Side D:
VI (8:23)
VII (1:01)
VIII (1:47)

Published Article: Haswell & Hecker and Robin Mackay collaboration 04.11.2007

COLLAPSE Volume III
November 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 515pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-2-0

Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on Speculative Realism held in London earlier this year.

Sound artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker contribute some strange and beautiful images taken from the electronic 'score' of their new sound work Blackest Ever Black, an 'introduction to synaesthesia' created using composer Iannis Xenakis's computerised UPIC system to transform contemporary images into sound. An accompanying text by Robin Mackay analyses the affinities between Xenakis's conception of a musical 'polyagogy' and Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism'.

If you are able to post a notice in your place of work or study, please download and print the flyer for Collapse Volume III from http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/docs/a4flyer-c3.pdf

COLLAPSE is available in the following fine bookstores: Vrin, Paris; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) bookshop, London; Tate Modern bookshop, London; Gleebooks, Sydney.
http://www.urbanomic.com/

Release: NEU CD / NEU LP

Galerie Neu presents Hecker NEU CD & NEU LP
designed by Peter Saville

Frieze Art Fair Stand B4 11-14 October 2007


Tracklisting (CD)

1. Wq Acid VII (9:52)
2. Yin Pitch Detection Synthesis Kissing (17:26)
3. Neu Ext (3:00)
4. ≤ ∑ (3:25)

Publishes Essay: John Miller 'The Placement of Sound: Florian Hecker's Spatial Music'

Ed. by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V., on the occasion of the exhibition "ars viva 07/08 - Sound" with texts by Arend Oetker, Stephan Frucht, Christina Werner, Markus Heinzelmann, Stephan Berg, Kestutis Kuizinas, Christoph Gurk, Stefanie Kreuzer, Jennifer Allen, John Miller, Douglas Park (german, english)

28 x 21 cm, 144 s., 54 col. and 12 b/w. ill., softcover with dustjacket

ISBN 978-3-86588-424-4

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound'

07.10.2007 - 06.01.2008

Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich
Gustav-Heinemann-Strasse 80
51377 Leverkusen

Performance: WDR Radio Concert

26/09/2007: 23:00:00h: Live broadcast of two binaural pieces.
WDR 3 Open "Studio Elektronische Musik"

WDR 3 Radio Frequencies

Release: KTL Forest Floor / Hecker (Filter Mix)

14/09/2007:

Editions Mego release CDR of the KTL live show with Russell Haswell.

The disc features a Remix from Hecker for KTL

Tracklisting: (CD)
1. 20070529 Luminaire, London (Salvage Mix) (52:21)
2. Forest Floor (Filter Mix) (2:01)

http://www.editionsmego.com/

Published On-line Galleries: Flickr

Images from previous UPIC DIFFUSION SESSIONs are now on-line on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9254121@N03/

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=haswell+hecker&page=2

Show: Galerie Neu, Berlin

Opening 07.07. 07 19-21h

Galerie NEU
Phillipstr. 13
10115 Berlin

http://www.galerieneu.com/

Announcement: Hecker, Höller, Tracks

Coming up: Hecker / Carsten Höller 2LP 29.06.2007

The double-LP from Hecker with pieces made for Carsten Höller will be released this summer on Semishigure in an amazing full-colour gatefold sleeve with exclusive photos by Carsten Höller. There will be 500 copies printed of this record, but the first 25 will come as a special edition with the front image of the record printed as a limited photograph (appr. 40 x 40 cm), signed & numbered by the artist, in a specially designed box together with the record. Please email us to inquire for prices and to reserve copies.
(Presstext)

Published Review: Financial Times, June 16 2007

Mark Espiner reviews UPIC Diffusion Session # 11( Aldeburgh).

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0a220cc-1ba6-11dc-bc55-000b5df10621.html

Release: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings)

11/06/2007 Warner Classics release Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black on CD and LIMITED EDITION 2x VINYL.

http://www.warnerclassics.com/release.php?release=4752

Tracklisting (CD):

1 Movement 1 31:38
2 Movement 2 12:46
3 Movement 3 8:45
4 Movement 4 19:44
(*Note: pause)
5 Appendix 1:05

Published Online Videos: Excerpts of UPIC Diffusion Sessions

Several short Video Excerpts of previous UPIC Diffusion Sessions have been posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIfsmnVcnc8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TknLoXgCN3o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=udvepMRZUAY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_iOZzMuPGG0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uT3mnWpbo6k

Haswell & Hecker URLs

http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/

http://myspace.com/haswellhecker

http://haswellstudio.com/

Performance: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor'

30/03/2007: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor' 6 Channel Live Performance, as
part of Talk/Show at Tranzit in collaboration with Kunstverein Munich.

ANARCHITEKTUR (DE), PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA (MEX/UK), JEREMY DELLER (UK), STEPHAN DILLEMUTH (DE), LUCA FREI (CH), FLORIAN HECKER (DE/AT), SCOTT KING (UK), LOCAL MODERNITY / HEIKE ANDER (AT/DE), MICHAELA MELIAN (DE), ANDREAS NEUMEISTER (DE), PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED / KIT HAMMONDS (UK), ANNA SANDERS FILMS (F), FEAT. LIAM GILLICK (UK), DOMINIQUE GONZALES-FOERSTER (F), PIERRE HUYGHE (F), PHILIPPE PARRENO (F), SEAN SNYDER (USA/DE), JAN VERWOERT (DE)

tranzit.sk

tranzit dielne | workshops
Studena 12
821 04 Bratislava
Slovakia

Performance: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor'

02/02/2007: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor' 6 Channel Live Performance,
on the occasion of the opening of Cerith Wyn Evans' solo exhibition
"Bubble Peddler" at the Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum.

Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1
A-8020 Graz

Photo: Matthias Wimler

Release: Recordings for Rephlex

04/12/2006 Rephlex releases Hecker's latest full lenght solo album, titled "Recordings for Rephlex" (#: CAT 181 CD)

Tracklisting:

1		Hénon Map & Gingerbread Man (Linear Edit) (6:26)
2		Pulsar Wg'lett (3:46)
3		Precedence (4:17)
4		Acid 245; Ph.Inv 9T2 (5:38)
5		C 04 05 I_μdd (5:02)
6		4G5EQ 9482592426.7531 (0:55)
7		In Actu (Create 7.1 Edit) (12:21)
8		Wippi (2:53)

Comments & Reviews:

Jaka - 31-Dec-06 01:08 AM
I have collected "electronic music" since early 1991 and now have over 4000 records and cds, just in this category. From Xenakis to Autechre - I listen to everything electronic that I can get my hands on. I also own nearly every release that Rephlex has produced thus far. I felt the need to preface this comment with that information because I believe this to be the single most pointless "thing" that Rephlex has yet released (topping Lektrogirl with EASE!). It's not music, by any means. You could call it "experimentation", if you like to experiment with ramming sewing needles in your ears while machines bleep and blare aimlessly around you at deafening levels. I honestly did not find ONE second of this release to be enjoyable. Ya know those "noise" tracks on the AFX Men releases? Extend that silliness over 35 minutes or so and you'll be getting close. There's a bit more variety to these tracks, but they're still ear splitting nonsensical noise. Now, if this is your thing, great! You should pick this up with a quickness. But if you're looking for some good old-fashioned Braindance, this ain't it.

( http://www.discogs.com/release/847031 )

Show: Lenbach Haus, Munich

'Asynchronous Jitter', a 4 Channel Sound Piece with a 15 Channel computer controlled spatialisation system, will be featured within Cerith Wyn Evans's Solo Exhibition in the Lenbachhaus, Munich.

25.11.2006 – 25.2.2007

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Luisenstraße 33
80333 München


Software Development: Alberto de Campo
Photo: Peter Derbsch

Show: MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

A collaboration between Jennifer Lacey and Florian Hecker
as part of "Wieder und wider: performance appropriated".

Freitag 10.11. 2006– Sonntag 12. 11. 2006 - 14.00 h , 15.30 h, 17.00 Uhr

MUMOK
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Wien

Release: Split 10"

24/10/2006 Rephlex releases a Hecker / Voafose split 10" Vinyl
(#: KIT 001)

Performance: Lampo

21/10/2006:

FLORIAN HECKER
SATURDAY OCT 21 9:00PM
LAMPO - 2116 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Admission open to all ages

Questions? Or to become a Lampo member: http://www.lampo.org/

Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #4. 16.10.06

Haswell & Hecker feature in a on-line photo-set of the Frieze Music event at the London Hippodrome, proving Haswell & Hecker did appear in the audience using the front of house MIDAS desk to diffuse their set. Thats why they didn't appear on-stage. Also note their laser and ring of strobes! + obviously the hooded man pics are Sunn 0)))

http://flickr.com/photos/failme/sets/72157594327029492/

Release: Une exposition à Marseille

01/10/2006: 'Precedence' is included on the DVD accompanying the Carsten Höller's artist book "One Day One Day / Une exposition à Marseille". The DVD contains two versions, slighly different to the version featured on "Recordings for Rephlex"


CARSTEN HÖLLER. One Day One Day. Färgfabriken Stockholm 2003 / Une exposition a Marseille (mac) Marseille 2004-2005. Text by Jan Anam & Nathalie Ergino. Köln 2006. 96 S. mit 79 (73 farb. ganzseit.) Abb., Ppbd. - Mit 2 DVDs - Text in engl. & franz. Sprache. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER CD booklet text: Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor _.09.06

Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker contributed the booklet text for Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor CD which has just been released on Deutsche Grammophon and includes versions of the major work of Steve Reich, Edgar Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Erik Satie etc...

http://www.jimitenor-recomposed.de

Show / Release: Hijmans van den Bergh-building, University of Utrecht

14/07/2006
Permanent installation of a neural network driven particle based sound piece in the
Hijmans van den Bergh-building, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

A.A. Hijmans van den Berghgebouw
Universiteitsweg 98
3584 CG Utrecht

In a panel discussion at the International Computer Music Conference 1992 in Delphi, Iannis Xenakis stated:
"The point is that I don't need to try with computers to imitate this sound that exists already. You don't need that. What is interesting is to explore other paths or ways or sounds or even evolutions of sounds that have never been done or realized, and that is the interesting point."

The sound piece is based on a generative composition process running on a computer. The generative process is based on cellular automata driven neural networks which control several sound synthesis and processing algorithms. The neural networks are educated by the composer to produce desired output.

"These artificial neural networks are advantageous, especially in pattern recognition and classification tasks. Artificial neural networks are usually applied to tasks that are generally easy for humans to accomplish, but difficult for traditional computers. Traditional computers remain superior to neural networks in many situations, but neural networks are dominant in recognizing patterns in extremely large data sets. With the ability to learn from a set of examples and generalize this knowledge to new situations, neural networks are excellent for work requiring adaptive control systems."

The sound generation is created with a customized version of SuperCollider (see Software Links) and is running on GNU/Linux based operating system using a regular server computer (see Default Hardware). Just like clouds in the sky, sonic particles will accumulate and dissolve constantly to create an ever changing sound structure in the building. Oscillating between the constant light of the neon work and the pseudo endless light sequence of the chandelier, the generative sound piece is the third, almost holographic link between these different time-scales in light, and ultimately in sound.

Besides the range of deliberately determined structures of the sound piece, the neural network will be educated by my practice in 'doing' live electronic music, and installed at the university create music in 'the style of me'.

Software Development: Tommi R. Keränen

Show: CCB Lisboa

30/06/06: Angela Bulloch's "The Disenchanted Forest x 10001"
featuring a 7 channel Electronic Music Soundtrack by Florian Hecker
as part of the exhibition: Collection Helga de Alvear;
Conceitos para Uma Colecçao
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal.

30.06. - 22.10.2006

Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império,
1499 - 003 Lisboa
Portogallo
Tel: + 351-213.3612400
Daily 10-19

Show: ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris

'Asynchronous Jitter', a 4 Channel Sound Piece with a 15 Channel computer controlled spatialisation system, will be premiered within Cerith Wyn Evans's Solo Exhibition " …in which something happens all over again for the very first time*"

09.06. - 17.09.2006

ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
11, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris

Software Development: Alberto de Campo
Photo: Marc Domage

Published Article: frieze magazine. _.04.06

frieze magazine Issue 98 April 2006 pages 39-40
Seen and Heard: Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system by Dan Fox. A text-only version can be found at http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/seen_and_heard/

Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER mini interview. _.5.06

A mini interview with HASWELL & HECKER is published in MAY issue of COMPUTER MUSIC Magazine (UK) on page 71 as part of a Sonic Art feature entitled 'The Art of Noise'!

Spheres of Interest Symposium: Florian Hecker, Curtis Roads, Yasunao Tone

14.04.2006: Florian Hecker, Curtis Roads, Yasunao Tone

Friday, 14 April at 5:00pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco 94133

Release: Live @ ZKM

01/04/2006 Tochnit Aleph releases Hecker Live @ ZKM on Cassette.

Tracklisting:

A		Live @ ZKM (43:13)
B		Standard Map & Cusp Map (Binaural Mix) (10:13)

Track 1 recorded with Neumann KM 100 microphones direct to DAT at the ZKM Medientheater on 28.04.2005.
Mastered @ Skye Mastering.
File under: mean & abstract contemporary lsd computer-music.
First Edition of 62 copies. Second Edition of 38 copies.
(Presstext)

Release: Electronic Music Soundtrack For 'The Disenchanted Forest X 1001' By Angela Bulloch

01/03/2006 Editions Mego releases "Electronic Music Soundtrack For 'The Disenchanted Forest X 1001' By Angela Bulloch" DoCD in Super Jewel Case.

Tracklisting:

Disc One: Stereo Mix
Disc Two: Virtual Binaural Mix

Total Time: 01:42:00

Produced by Florian Hecker

Stereo Mix recorded with a Neumann RSM 191 Microphone direct to Harddisc at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin on 01.10. 2005 by Lupo / Acoustic - Interface
Virtual Binaural Rendering by Alberto de Campo
Mastered by Lupo @ Dubplates and Mastering

Photography: Carsten Eisfeld
Graphic Design: Tina Frank

Florian Hecker's Electronic Music Soundtrack for Angela Bulloch's "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001", has already been described as 'irritating' by The Guardian after its showing at the Tate Triennial 2006 in London. However, this double CD contains some of his most accessible works to date, while at the same time being far more experimental than the pieces found on "Sun Pandämonium" (MEGO 044) or his collaboration with Yasunao Tone, "Palimpsest" (MEGO 060).
Comprising of a "Stereo Mix" and a "Virtual Binaural Mix", 1000's of minute pockets of sound spring from all corners creating a mindful experience. The "Virtual Binaural Mix" rendered by Hecker's long time collaborator, the Composer and Software Engineer Alberto de Campo offers a hypnotizing, yet spatially disorientating version of the original seven channel piece. For Headphone use.
"The Disenchanted Forest x 1001" is a complex sound, light and architectural installation consisting of a suspended ceiling, a raised floor, a web of luminescent string, a found text describing the method to place numbers on trees, four different kinds of posters which give views into other optical worlds, a stack of posters on a europallet held down by a plate dispenser, a hammer, a wooden stick to extend the length of an arm and several nails. Furthermore, on a straight line, all the way around the perimeter of the room, are aluminum numbering plates from 1 - 1001. These plates are normally used to number trees along the avenues of cities in Germany but here the individual plates are nailed directly to the wall and spotlit by an occasionally revolving pistol lamp hanging from the suspended ceiling. The different light sources within the installation shift and change according to a sequenced program which is not in synch with the soundtrack. The seven channel electronic music soundtrack was composed by Florian Hecker, commissioned by Angela Bulloch especially for this work. Six of the sound channels are audible in separate localized areas within the installation between the suspended ceiling and the floor. The seventh sound channel is audible throughout the room. The installation was first shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, on the occasion of the, Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2005, 01.09.2005 - 15.10.2005; followed by the Tate Triennial, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Tate Britain, London, 01.03.2006 - 14.05.2006. (Presstext)

Show: Tate Britain, London

01/03/2006: Angela Bulloch's "The Disenchanted Forest x 10001"
featuring a 7 channel Electronic Music Soundtrack by Florian Hecker
as part of the Tate Triennal 2006 at Tate Britain, London.

01/03/2006 - 14/05/2006

Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG


Photo: Carsten Eisfeld

Show: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

02/09/2005: Angela Bulloch's "The Disenchanted Forest x 10001"
featuring a 7 channel Electronic Music Soundtrack by Florian Hecker
as part of the exhibition"Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2005"
at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

02/09/2005 - 16/10/2005

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50- 51
10557 Berlin

Photo: Carsten Eisfeld

Release: Revision 12"

01/06/2005 Mego releases Haswell & Hecker, Revision,
single-sided vinyl 12”, in clear sleeve + large sticker!

Tracklisting:

Side A: Orange-Time-Shock-Format-Wave-Re-Composition (Remix for VOICE CRACK)

The first and till now the only collaboration between Extreme Computer Music Artists Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker.
Possibly the first record to sound very similar when played on either 33 or 45 rpm, or in fact, any speed!
Edition of 500.

(Presstext)

Erratum text from the back label:

The Russell Haswell + Florian Hecker re-mix/recomposition for VOICE CRACK (1972/2002) contained on this single-sided vinyl 12" was previously released as part of the CD compilation "Voice Crack: Remixed" on the now defunct South London Label, Ambush.
To the artists' horror it was released -18dB quieter than the supplied master, a +8dB peak level at 0dBFS! Rashad Becker at Dubplates + Mastering in Berlin managed to restore the intended effect of between +6dB and +8dB, depending on the cartridge and tone-arm et cetera used by the listener.

Release: substantials #02 CCA Kitakyushu

31/03/2005:
substantials #02 (with CD)

ISBN 4-901387-71-5
March 31, 2005
pp. 176 with CD

Florian Hecker
Chris Watson
Atau Tanaka
Helmut Schäfer
Yoshihide Otomo

http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org

Release: Palimpsest

01/10/2004 Mego releases Palimpsest, a collaboration of Yasunao Tone and Florian Hecker.
(Cat.# MEGO 060)

Tracklisting:

1		Palimpsest (28:32)
2		Man Yo 36-37/507417 Xero Crossings (Extended Mix 2) (7:12)
3		Man Yo 36-37/507417 Xero Crossings (Edit) (5:17)
4		4 (3:53)

Finally, the long awaited collaboration between Yasunao Tone and Florian Hecker is ready for release on Mego.

Yasunao Tone (b. 1932, Tokyo) founded the Group Ongaku in 1960, a group devoted to creating "event music" and improvisational music. He began participating in the Fluxus movement in 1962, and has been in events and shows in numerous places. Tone also composed a great deal of experimental music for use in films, theater and dance pieces. Since coming to the United States in 1972, he has composed four scores for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has given many solo concerts as well as participating in numerous Fluxus concerts. Since 1976, Tone has been designing musical compositions as a compound of cultural studies which have been ideas based on post-structuralist theories and audio visual materials compiled with ancient Oriental texts and musical sounds generated by electronic means.

Florian Hecker (b. 1975, Augsburg), has been working with computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Russell Haswell, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, Yasunao Tone since 1996. Hecker's works emphasize the connection of most recent as well as historic developments in computer music, hard- and software. Often working closely together with software engineers and scientists, his recent productions incorporate psycho-acoustic effects disorientating the listeners spatial perception in live presentations and studio works.

This CD only release is packaged in a "grey tray" jewel case with art direction by Russell Haswell including an extensive interview with both artists by Hans Ulrich Obrist , curator at the Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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