Alex Kimball & Ian Linter – Kathedrikos Maschine

A Live Transmission with Alex Kimball and Ian Linter applying abstractions from different locations: Little Rock, USA, and Paris, France. An absolute act of improvisation after the render Myth & recording passion for Lodovico Series 9. Recorded Saturday, number 26/11 in 2011.

Alex Kimball

« Really, The Death Sound started in 2007 when I was beginning to explore early industrial music. I had gotten a bug to look into older industrial music while I was going through a Numb kick. I am someone who likes to « go back to the beginning » of things, so to speak, study origins, so the logical starting place was Throbbing Gristle. I was fascinated by it; it was different, challenging, and like nothing you’d really hear called « industrial » today. I’d remembered my friend Matt from college did sequencer programing on a freeware program called Jeskola buzz. I called him up with the proposition of starting a project. The Death Sound was born. Our first recording was just an experiment with using sound editing software, chopping up samples. The result was « A Series of Tubular Bells », which was a joke track that we threw up on myspace until we had time to do anything better. That is, until Cosey Fanni Tuti sent us a message telling us she enjoyed our sound. Late 2007, we had a flurry of recording and put together the 5 or 6 track (depending on which version) Series of Tubular Bells EP, mostly Matt doing instrumentation and myself doing arrangement, composition and some vocals. By 2008, we had been making connections all over the world, and our sound was growing more diverse from the different influences. While we had discussed possibility of touring europe, plans never fully materialized (and we weren’t ready for live performances anyway). While we were making a small name for ourselves in the European scene, very few local shows developed and the reception was lukewarm. Summer of 2008 I arranged and recorded « Loneliness on the Psychic Seas » largely by myself, but building on Matt’s instrumentation. Around this time, I was also doing a number of collaborations with artists from around the world (OLoF NiNe, Tarsus, Arte Sacra Atelier, and several with both Finger Painted Death and Glitchgore) under the name The Death Sound, though these were largely a solo affair. Late summer, we finally scrounged some mediocre gigs to try to promote a compilation of odds and ends « Nothing But a Nightmare » and our band’s one year birthday. This would lead to the retrospective album TDS: « Year One », a compilation of our first two EPs and the full live set from our « birthday » gig, on OFF/BRUMA, a Portugese net label. TDS: « Year One » was intended to be a milestone from which we would launch ourselves forward, and still remains in heavy rotation on underground internet radio, however nothing is as we intend. We played « Easy Street » not long after our birthday show, which proved to be our most successful show. The live album from that night would be the Death Sound’s last full length release. We had intended to begin work on a follow up to Year One, which was to be titled « All Part of Nature’s Plan », however in early 2009 only a few tracks were finished. The birth of Matt’s daughter was a happy occasion, but it meant that he no longer had the time to devote to musical projects that he once did. I found myself playing for the Kill Crazies, a punk band spun off of the band we had played our last show with, which is a story unto itself. Essentially, the Death Sound went on Hiatus. The brief re-emergence of the Death Sound last year had a lot to do with Dakuu, Stillborn Diz, Fuck Your Scene Vol 2, and the breakup of Medicide. I discovered and absolutely fell in love with Stillborn Diz, who ended up on Fuck Your Scene Vol 2. Through Stillborn Diz, I’d heard of a band called 13th Moon; a member of 13th Moon had put out a free Japanese goth compilation called « Plan X From the Eastern Dark ». I checked it out because it had Darkside Mirrors on it (whom I adore). Masahide from Dakuu, a band on that compilation, saw I was familiar with his music from Plan X, and checked out what I was doing with FYS and The Death Sound. -Masahide-san and I talked about the possibility of putting something out on Retro Virus Records. In the end, we decided to include the Death Sound, Stillborn Diz, and Finger Painted Death. Very long and complicated, I know! This gave Matt and I the perfect excuse and opportunity to dust off what we had been working on before our hiatus. While « All Part of Nature’s Plan » will almost certainly never see the light of day, the 5 tracks on Mundus Patet are representative of what the album might have been like, as we were moving away from our harsher sounds to a more moody and melodic style. »

// Keyboard, flanger, phaser, delay, gristleizer//

http://retrovirusrecords.com

Ian Linter

Electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure through a real-time feedback series of necessary events: OLoF NiNe, ACT9, Airf’Auga, Massacre Divino, La Main Traumatique with Joséphine Muller, Plasma, RTP… Ian Linter turns the third axis created by Bórgia Ginz and mirrored by Juca Pimentel.

« Non musika Excentrica IN! For electronikal renoise Key. Submit Random Science & reduction. Overflow cast Numar is for Den emon exp & la mort pour Vitas body convolution. »

// Sampler Z and generator 14 for chroma in multi domains, pad OFF multi, effects Zoomer, controlled mic, ohmed guitar, ohmed voice, pG guitar, surfaces M – Z //

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter

 

multiEmission @ Strange Frequencies Channel

Naal Stayn

Naal Stayn is the man behind many names and many bands like KZSE, Tattooed intestine, Melanome, Trendy Store, Lipstandärd and just mentioning a few… 78’s, altered playing, après-garde, blind recording, bore-friendly, claustrophone, complex-minded, concrete folk, de-music, de-taught, do it myself, err-hazer, far listening, hybrid wave, isolated live, krautsynth, leftwave, lo-psychedelic, maximalism, mental synth, multicraft, no-fi, one-off releases, otherground, overdubbed underdubs, own listening, prepared accidents, proto fünke, re-taught, self sufficiently, sexophobic claps, shield recording, sober sophistication, solitarium, sorrow garden, stream of unconsciousness, uncareering, unsync devices. You can check his one-off & self-produced discography under licence of Self Sufficient Records.

http://self-sufficientrecords.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/naalstayn
http://myspace.com/trendystore1983

Empathy Kills (aka |Joséphine Muller|)

|Joséphine Muller| has been creating metamorphic video-sound fields under different names like Sex on Saturday, Empathy Kills, Abnot Kraz, or La Main Traumatique. Improvised and minimalist electronic manipulations or electro acoustic abstractions, these are some manifestations of this OFF/BRUMA netlabel and ASP association co-founder.

http://astrangerparadise.com/josephinemuller
http://astrangerparadise.com

MaCu (aka Susanne Hafenscher)

MaCu is the project of the Austrian musician Susanne Hafenscher. She started her musically activities with studying piano and vocals. After a certain period without doing any music she began to play guitar. Soon MaCu started to experiment with prepared guitar and to generate music by using field recordings and processed sounds of objects and vocals. She has an extensive discography and composition collaborations released by some of the finest netlabels, and recently she co-founded the netlabel kultur[Terrorismus].

http://macu1.wordpress.com
http://kulturterrorismus.de

Anton Mobin

Anton Mobin is a concrete music composer & radio producer addict of field recordings. Co-curator of the collective H.A.K. and curator of the Improvisators Network. Objects manipulator & improvisator experienced due to several meeting with international artists which one of the most important was certainly with Rinus van Alebeek in Berlin. Always in search for new articulations between objects, manipulations, and interaction with his own body. A crack, a fold, a brightness, a jolt in the plan of the sound, a convexity of surface…

Dreams face downward

Performed live by Anton Mobin at the ASP studios Paris on December 22th, 2010.
Recorded in multi-channel by |Ian Linter| for OFF/BRUMA.

Prepared Chamber. This chamber is a home-made acoustic instrument prepared by Anton Mobin and composed with a large box in wood, upgraded with several springs and others metallic found objects selected for their capacity to create melody. The box is divided into three parts among which each is covered with a different surface (a wood, a metal and a plastic one). Three different contact-microphones are placed in suspension under these surfaces: bass contact for the wood, medium contact for the metal and high contact for the plastic surface. Deliberate accidents produced in the Prepared Chamber create a micro universe which I dread in an intuitive way to resound as the pling plong music. Prepared chamber & Objects manipulated by Anton Mobin in an acoustic mode with effects application and treatments in real time by |Ian Linter|. Each of the 3 microphones were plugged and recorded in a separated track with different processing and equalization on each of them.

http://antonmobin.blogspot.com
http://h.a.k.free.fr

Alrucini (aka Albedo Rubedo Citrinitas Nigredo)

Ricardo Alrucini is the entity behind names like Alrucini, Shamahan, Bad Slap Org, Ombilic, Umbra, Apocalipse Político, and many others. They are Ritualistic Dada manipulations and Industrial Surrealisms transformations in exponential relation with the Moon’s shadow. Alrucini is underground. His extensive discography can be heard at Electro Rucini, the label he founded in 2007.

http://alrucini.blogspot.com
http://obraemalrucini.blogspot.com
http://archive.org/details/electro-rucini

OLoF NiNe (aka |Ian Linter|)

The idea is to have no idea, just frequencies. Metamorphic industrial/immediatism/sensorial. Application controlled for the moment in the superior axis of the Immediate.

http://omnicorn.com/olofnine
http://myspace.com/olofnine

Juan Antonio Nieto (aka Pangea)

Juan Antonio Nieto is a sound artist who signs some of his works under the name of Pangea. His records have been published in labels around the world as Trente Oiseaux, Mandorla, Experimedia, Impulsive Habitat, Idiosyncratics, TestTube AMP, among others. Pangea has collaborated with some of the most prestigious avant-garde artists of the world, Brazilian classical composer Leo Alves Vieira working with string quartets and choirs, the Japanese author Kenji Siratori who has voiced his compositions and David Velez, this latter release was considered the best album of 2007 by the journal Earlabs. His music has been included in art installations in the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid and the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. Pangea has performed in various European and American cities.

http://pangea-juanantonionieto.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/juanantonionieto

Ian Linter

Ian Linter is an original member of the Portuguese underground collective produções Ganza, co-founder of OFF/BRUMA netlabel, and also many others sonic entities like the non-stop webradio Strange Frequencies Channel, under the label ASP. His creations are electro-organic immediatism in any possible structure through a real-time feedback series of necessary events, and have been expressed since the early 90’s on distinct anti-aesthetics with names like OLoF NiNe, ACT9, Airf’Auga, Massacre Divino, La Main Traumatique with Joséphine Muller, Plasma, RTP, among others… Ian Linter turns the third axis created by Bórgia Ginz and mirrored by Juca Pimentel.

http://astrangerparadise.com/ianlinter
http://astrangerparadise.com/strange-frequencies-radio
http://pganza.com

OFF/BRUMA would like to thank all the beautiful dreamers who gave substance to this album.

In trust, The Death Sound has its origins as far back as the late 90s and early 00s, when Matt was recording minimalist electronic and IDM as the Bitter Poets, and Alex was aware of Matt’s programming work (indeed, they even attended college together), but realization of TDS would be not come until late spring of 2007. The idea behind TDS was initially to bring a retro-Industrial sound to Arkansas, but it soon become clear that TDS wasn’t retro, would never be retro, and would be better off doing something new and their own.

« This collection serves to show where TDS has come over the last year, bringing you our earliest recordings and the show that marked our first anniversary, and perhaps to show where we may be going in the future. »

The Death Sound