Event: CHARACTERS, FIGURES AND SIGNS

21.02.2009: A collaboration between Jennifer Lacey and Florian Hecker will be performed at Tate Modern as part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live Characters, Figures and Signs


Tate Modern

Bankside
London SE1 9TG

020 7887 8888

Show: Bulletinboard Blvd., Pro Choice Vienna

28.01.2009 - 06.03.09

Pro Choice
Zedlitzgasse 3
1010 Vienna
Austria

+43 650 840 78 12 prochoice.wien@gmail.com

Open Sat. 3-6 and by appointment

Event: Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

23.01.2009: Soundtrack for Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Automne /Hiver 2009-2010

Performance: SND STUDIOS SHEFFIELD 03.12.2008

03.12.2008

'THREE PIECES FOR UNATTENDED, SOMEWHAT ATTENDED AND ATTENDED COMPUTER'

featuring performances from EVOL, Mark Fell and Florian Hecker

Event: Vienna Art Week, Odeon, Vienna

20.11.2008: 'Rearranged Playlist as Auditory Stream Segregation'

DONNERSTAG, 20. NOV. 2008
21.30 Uhr, Odeon Theater, Taborstrasse 10, 1020 Wien

Published Article: Dark Matter Compiler

13.11.2008: Dark Matter Compiler, an article by Nick Cain on
Florian Hecker is featured in The Wire, Issue # 298, December 2008

Show: Sadie Coles HQ, London

14.10.2008 - 22.11.2008

Sadie Coles HQ
35 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BP
Open Tue-Sat 10-6

Published Article: Chaosmos

10.10.2008: Chaosmos, an article by Ines Gebetsroither on Florian Hecker is featured in Spike, art quaterly, Issue 17.

http://spikeart.at/

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session # 19. 16.10.2008

16.10.2008: Haswell & Hecker present their 13th UPIC Diffusion Session at
the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival supporting Corrupted feat. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka

http://www.luff.ch

Show: Biacs3 – Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville

01.10.2008: Rotating Psychoacoustic Tuning Curves,
a new piece commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is part of the compositions for The Morning Line by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda/Lasch and Arup AGU, an architectural structure with a 48 loudspeaker spatialisation system.


Biacs3 – Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2 / Camino de los Descubrimientos
Seville, Spain

October 2, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Release: Formulas For Now

01.09.2008

More than 100 contributors from the fields of art, science, mathematics, performance, music, architecture, design, literature and sociology have devised or chosen their own personal formula to express their understanding of contemporary life

ISBN 0500238502
ISBN-13 978-0500238509

21.0 x 16.8 cm, Hardback, 160pp

Published Article: "Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite" online as PDF

28.08.2008: Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online as PDF

DOWNLOAD PDF

Online Mix: Afro Noise I by DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett)

20.07.2008: A 49:40 minutes long mix by DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) with excerpts from Florian Hecker, Whitehouse, East African witchcraft and Ghanaian funeral field recordings, feline recordings is online now

DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) - Afro Noise I (excerpt) 8:14 - mp3/256kbps

Show: Manifesta 7

19.07.2008 - 02.11.2008

MANIFATTURA TABACCHI, PIAZZA MANIFATTURA 1, 38068 ROVERETO, ITALY

http://www.manifesta7.it/

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' CAC Vilnius

06.06.-17.08.2008
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2
LT- 01130 Vilnius
Lithuania

Opening hours: TUESDAY - SUNDAY 12:00 - 19:30

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

Gepostet von

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