I love the competing sounds going on here!

Robe rehearsal 181017

The spike organ or nail chello (sic) is thought to originate from an early middle Europe monastic sect, the Iscariotians. They may have used the instrument to accompany their lengthy rituals contemplating the pain of the crucifixion.  

The Iscariotians are said to have been wiped out by returning crusaders at the behest of emperor Leopold III. Other commentators have suggested that the whole story may have been a constructed  alibi for the defeated crusaders plunder and desecration of the brewery of ..Santa Quaffa...


A possible surviving 'chello' object, made from of lignum vitae and iron, resides in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Its interpretation is not without controversy with some critics asserting the object is nothing more than a kind of agricultural implement, though this does not explain its cruciform shape and carved decoration.

In 1972 the scholar . Roland de Févin was granted permission to investigate the Rouen Chello, explore its sound making capabilities and make recordings. his theory was that the instrument was to be played by a rosined bow.  Unfortunately de Févin's playing and handling resulted in two of the nails fracturing and so the investigation was terminated after only one day. The single recording de Févin made was never released but it was played to audiences on an European lecture tour he conducted shortly before his death in 1974. 

It has been subsequently alleged that de Févin's  investigation  coincided with the great fire at  Nantes cathedral. This lead to several occultist conspiracy theories, most notably retold in the pulp fiction novel Blood Nail-(Brownie Dane,1975) much of the plot was lifted for the Italian soft core film Sistero Orgasma (1977) where the action was switched away from a monastery to a scantily clad convent.(citation needed) 

On the film soundtrack, the sounds of the Chello were replicated by experimental electronic synthesiser the achoirorium- itself the  subject of intrigue- as its extremely high operating voltages caused the death of its creator  Luigi soon after the recording session.


This recording was made in 1980 by UK avant geographer Forster Iberix who attended several of de Févin's lectures.  He set about building a replica device and making reconstructions of the Iscariotarian mass based on a column of scribbled numbers  which appear reverso  in one of Leonardo da Vinci's codex's (Coded notebooks). The recording was released on an untitled flexi disk issued by cult French label sordide sentimental -who now deny any knowledge of its existence. It does not appear on their official discography.  Improbably- Haringey local studies library, London, has a copy in their archive. The library does not provide any method of playback for the flexidisc and items from the archive cannot be withdrawn -so some subterfuge was involved in me getting this track taped. Whilst the disk was in my possession an inexplicable number of minor disasters befell me -so I can assure you I hurriedly returned it.

disquiet0385
More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:
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The Nail Chello (disquiet0385)

cut of a live improv session installation:
WIEKANNEMANNUR at Artlake Festival 2019

recorded 08.08.-10.08.19 at Bergheider See, Finsterwalde

WIEKANNEMANNUR is an audiovisual collaboration with Bennos Dias

Es gibt da diesen UN-Report in welchem geschrieben steht, dass nur 20% der jährlich weltweit anfallenden Menge von ca. 50 Millionen Tonnen Elektronikschrott geordnet wiederverwertet werden.
'Ja wie kann er denn eigentlich nur, dieser Mensch?' haben sich zwei von eben jenen - namentlich Wiemann und Kannemann - gefragt und setzen sich folglich in künstlerischer Zunftzusammenkunft mit der analogen Nutzbarmachung von Elektronikschrott auseinander (um die Wiederverwertungsquote nach oben zu treiben). Bei dieser audiovisuellen Installation bietet sich dem Besucher die Möglichkeit manipulativ mit Projektion und Geräusch zu interagieren. Frei nach der Wechselwirkung 'Mensch moduliert Geräusch moduliert Projektion moduliert Mensch moduliert Projektion moduliert Mensch' soll (zumindest temporär) ausnahmsweise ein geschlossener Kreislauf in Bewegung geraten und dann eventuell zum Nachdenken anregen. WIEKANNEMANNUR?

WIEKANNEMANNUR will screen again at

- Galerie Pfund & Dollar, Stockmeyerstr. 43, Hamburg
- Reeperbahnfestival 2019

Cover Artwork by Bennos Dias
(-> www.instagram.com/bennos_dias/?hl=de)

|sssns| wiemann

eniac

FRÉQUENCE FINE

Some sonic thoughts on the link between the Earth and the Universe.

From radio to RADIA : creating for the RADIA network a composed play of electromagnetic signals. 

With field recordings and electromagnetic reception recordings from around the world, here is a sonic drift about us, the earth and the universe, without much intention for narrative structure. I want to talk about the very little time we have left to make earth a better and peaceful world ; how fragile and wounded nature is, although still offering us pure moments of bliss ; waves link us together with everything. In the end, we are one with the world, time has no meaning, nothing comes first. All in all is all in one."

Gaïa drifting in the Sky

Gaïa Drifting in the Sky / Fréquence Fine

DR0000 0158

tile label
Exit EON and enter VOID tile art + CD-R
laser printed on tile. each copy is unique.
hand numbered.
comes with a CD-R in a sandpaper sleeve
ltd. 20 copies
https://tile.bandcamp.com/album/exit-eon-and-enter-void-by-gaapiiiii

Exit EON and enter VOID

VOID

downloads

V/A Transmission from dark industry II
by Xernex

1.  Broken Mind - Abandoned  
2. RuiNation - Inverted Womb  
3. Theory - Last Train cold winter 
4. Marko Markovic - 10 Minutes Of Suffering 
5. THE KARMAKUMULATOR - Placebo Domingo ( Unmixed, Draft Version 2015 )  
6. No Way Out - Production de Masse  
7. :dARM - Math Cyclator  
8. Odour Sonour - The Profusion Of Dark Lines 
9. Xtematic - Third deleted memory  
10. Oxygen Abortion - Exit  

released May 4, 2015 

https://xernex.bandcamp.com/album/xe30-transmission-from-dark-industry-ii

Math Cyclator

Life In Decay

Espace Négatif

"El mensaje está claro, el objetivo es reinvidicar... Las enseñanzas del pasado y las visibilidades del presente se manifiestan a través de la expresión verbal, corporar; de esa manera trascender y concebir la tan anhelada y exhaustiva emancipación femenina"

Dedicado a Ding Ling, Diana Mines y para todxs.

Dirección de Arte: Vermillion
Obra incrustada: Diana Mines (Autorretrato con trenza de niña, 1988.)

I_Dedicated_This_Noise_To_You

I DedicatedThisNoise To You

:dARM is an harsh industrial/powernoise/experimental project from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It  was born in 1989 as an integral part of the multimedia project - neue▲urform /art squad for audio/visual media/. After a major break, the project has been re-activated and has been featured on a large number of international industrial / noise compilations for the past couple of years, as well as a couple of collaborations with similar projects from the region. Project members are also the founders of the Independent DIY label "Human Cross Records".

Math Cyclator

:dARM

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