
06.06.-17.08.2008
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2
LT- 01130 Vilnius
Lithuania
Opening hours: TUESDAY - SUNDAY 12:00 - 19:30




09.05.2008
HASWELL & HECKER present their seventeenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the Skaņu mežs festival, Riga, Latvia.
9pm Big Hall. 9.5.08.
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

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.
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.


"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

18.December 2007:
Warp Records announces Haswell & Hecker: UPIC WARP TRACKS
Released 4th February 2008
Limited CD & Download
http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1371

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.



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


Mark Espiner reviews UPIC Diffusion Session # 11( Aldeburgh).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0a220cc-1ba6-11dc-bc55-000b5df10621.html
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
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

| 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) |
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 )



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)))

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...


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/

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



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.
