werner durand 'remnants from paradise' (absurd #69 - 2008)

since i heard 'the art of buzzing' i fell in love with werner durand's sound. it had the intensity of freakish organum or robert rutman. back then didn't know much of his previous work either with 13th tribe or as a member in recordings of projects like gilbert artman's urban sax or his participation in arnold dreyblatt's 'orchestras'. it wasn't until 2006 that we met in berlin, at gelbe musik and robert zank's office as well that did the idea for this release was born. 'calmer' than the art of buzzing but rich in textures, sounds, etc. the release that no matter delayed for almost 2 years saw daylight in 2008 and somehow was the point that i can say marked the end of absurd's mark iii. the kinda 'the title says it all thing' i'd say today. including artwork of karlheinz bux. remnants from paradise

2 live dates

download problems / re-ups, etc

just re-uped merzbow's magnesia nova new links on div share. shoulda re-up more stuff too especially the ones that were on megaupload. will take sometime so be patient. plus gotta post more stuff sooner or later.
in the meantime any broken links, etc pls report.
noise in warm milk
nicolas

aux 12/02 live at small music theatre (imvated cdr)

i met leonidas panourgias back during mid / late 90s via mail. he had sent me a tape with shortwave sounds actually. we lost touch for a couple of years until we met again in early 00s at small music theatre. spending time talking about mutual sound interests and more we said why dont' we give it a try for a duet? the chance for it was given when anastasis (or was stylianos tziritas) started the 'attempts' series at small music theatre. every monday night there was a freak out thing happening.
so we did ours. still love it. w/ all the fun that was around in the air as we were playing for an audience for some 5 max 10 friends including of course marios the guy who that day helped as sound technician for the place, get a guy whose most extreme listen in music could be perhaps say 'faith no more' or 'red hot chilli peppers' and ask him to handle sound in a place for experimental musics, you get dozens of funny stories. like us seting up and having a guy asking us for soundcheck as he was listening a noise somewhere, a sound that ended being a shortwave frequency coming out of leonidas's radio / walkman tape but he spent nearly an hour to discover.
we started doing our tapes / live elecs / toys show of pure retarded and ridiculous foustanella noie and of course in the end of the thing anastasis grivas who run the place and stylianos tziritas wanted to make their 'a capella' tribute to aux... you get in the end as bonus what happens or what usually happened when friends we were playing with or for friends...

also still grateful to lieven martens of imvated (now dolphins into the future) who kindly offered to issue it.
front covers were made out of transparent xeroxes leonidas found accidentally thrown near a garbage can somewhere downtown all dealing w/ traditional greek dances, costumes, etc fiting to aux's 'foustanella noise' sound.

imvated cdr

2 dates

v/a 'research center for the definition of happiness' cdr (2003)

long since a new post... so here we are the 'research center for the definition of happiness' compilation. below's the press release / site text

v/a : research center for the definition of happiness

cdr, limited to 199
or how the series started. a documentation of a series of events that took part in 4 random days in 4 random places around the province of phokis. events out of which the idea around the research center was expanded and for which you can learn more here. including recordings of sons of god, cm von hausswolff, ilios, costis drygianakis, chondros/katsiani, rlw, nicolas malevitsis, illusionist.

track listing / event dates here

12/7/98(somewhere in an abandoned warehouse at the mount gion)

costis drygianakis 'the marriage'
nicolas malevitsis 'infinite static worlds (laughing at anaximandros)'
tiina aste / sons of god 'the cabinet song'

19/7/98

somewhere on a hill between the mounts gion & parnassos

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21/7/98 (somewhere between the villages of galaxidi and eratini)

chondros / katsiani : na!
ilios : afternoon at the lounge

30/7/98 (somewhere near the village of delphi)

illusionist : camberdean
cm von hausswolff : airport data log test
rlw : even weber knows when it's not schmidt


regarding further info on the 4 random days event no further info survived between various hard disc crashes, etc. so it's still a mystery if it ever happened, when happened, how happened, etc etc etc

initially for release in '98 shelved for a few years to be finally issued in 2003.

enjoy!

pascal battus alfredo costa monteiro 'ductile' organized music from thessaloniki #3 / a question of re_entry #8

ok i know someone will say why not 'noise-below' well it was a matter of disguise for each of us (kostis & i) i'd say.

for long 've been fond of alfredo's sounds pascal's as well so when they proposed this one to kostis we got hooked w/ a 2 label split as well.
so was out to 160 copies on both organized music ... and a question of re_entry scratchy noisy soundscapes whatelse do you need?

the sound of love

flac version