Track taken from the AUM 12" LP released on Opal Tapes Jan 2015. Find full album here opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gondwana-aum

Belief-based Blindness

FULL RELEASE HERE -> https://andreataeggi.bandcamp.com/album/chaoticism-you-can-do-at-home

Seeking to push the cultural and timbral boundaries of an iconic instrument like the piano—a pursuit already undertaken by Andrea in works such as *Nomeri-Tere* and *Tableaux Vivant*—this album employs a rich sonic vocabulary and extended techniques developed over the years by means of "preparations," auxiliary percussion, and reel-to-reel tape. These elements are further transformed through digital processing, positioning the record between the concrete and the more-than-concrete.

This album presents several tracks in distinct couplings, alongside a few standalone pieces. Each pairing originates from the same prepared piano material but unfolds in two contrasting forms. The **fluid** versions embrace abstraction, stretching and morphing the sounds into textural explorations. The **functional** counterparts reassemble the same material into structured, bass-heavy rhythmic compositions. This presentation highlights how a particular sonic source—e.g., recordings of clothespins pinched to a string—can be experienced from different angles.

My own collection of sound sources—coming from recordings of a piano gut at EMS Stockholm and of my own upright—were organized in batches according to their quality. Each batch became then a "syllable", as if I were to make up new "words". For instance the opening track contains two main syllables (woods and metal plates), which engage in a fast-paced dialogue.

All in all this album sits at the crossroad between sound-art, musique concrète, bass heavy, sound-design and ritualistic computer music.

The non-musical inspiration for *Chaoticism You Can Do at Home* comes from neuroscientific research, particularly the concept of *sensitive dependence on initial conditions* in simple cellular automata. Experimental studies highlight the unpredictable, nonlinear nature of Chaos: small changes in initial conditions can lead to entirely unexpected outcomes, making it impossible to predict a system's evolution based solely on its starting state. In other words, it is deterministic—governed by identifiable rules—but remains unpredictable as events unfold. 
credits
released July 1, 2025

Prepared piano recordings taken between EMS Stockholm (SE) and Luxus P Studios Berlin (DE).

All music written and engineered by Andrea Taeggi

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Clothespins II (function)

Micro

Pintape I (fluid)

Unshrouded

Woodplates

Harmx I (fluid)

Clothespins I (fluid)

Pintape II (function)

Andrea Taeggi—Zimní Král (12" vinyl LP)

The music on this record was made using a vast array of rare analog machines Andrea had the chance to work on at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio in Holland (built with the iconic Studio di Fonologia RAI as a blueprint). Most of the percussive sounds come from an Analog Computer, which has been rarely used only as a music instrument (its main purpose was flight simulation). In fact, during the Cold War times it was also used as measurement tool by civil engineers and even by the army. 
To my knowledge, very few artists have given a new context to the such device, which I have found absolutely unique-sounding and gave me enough inspiration to compose a whole new album focused on it. 

At present, no one has ever officially released music recorded at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio.

The music on this record further explores cyclical, minimal and hypnotic concoctions – a particular  investigation focused on unusual rhythms that Andrea had already started on his well-received ‘Mama Matrix Most Mysterious’, released on Type in 2015. Think walls of subfrequencies, snappy rollercoasters of the mind, labyrinths in hyperspace & snakes eating their own tails.

Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and was the epithet given to Frederick V Elector Palatine (king of Bohemia), the last of a legacy to actively support alchemy as a means of studying reality, the self and their inter-reflections.

All music by Andrea Taeggi
https://andreataeggi.wordpress.com

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin

Forthcoming on SM-LL Sept 1st, 2018
http://www.sm-ll.com

Dinergy (SM-LL, Sept 1st)

A1 Mama Matrix Most Mysterious

Qubit

⚡ you can buy my music directly on my website https://andreataeggi.com/buymusic ⚡

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### new solo record "Nattdett" out on Hands in the Dark on May 3rd, 2024: 
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nattdett

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Upcoming:
27.06.2024 — Punctum, Prague (CZ)
12.07.2024 — Bricksonic @ Backsteinboot, Berlin (DE) — as 5HT2
27.10.2023 — Mille Plateaux ‘non-ference” @ Stadtpark, Graz (AT
30.11.2024 — MA/IN Festival, Matera (IT)
14-15.11.2024 — Contrapunkt, Innsbruck (AT) 

Past
23.09.2023 — Bricksonic @ Backsteinboot, Berlin (DE)
03.09.2023 — Cave 12, Genève (CH)
11.03.2023 — Gretchen x Deviate, Berlin (DE)
28. 05.2023— Experimenta Festival, Bari (IT)
28.10.2022 — Lab 30 Festival, Augsburg (DE)
09.10.2022 — VCFB @ Humboldt University, Berlin
17.09.2022 — Version @ OHM, Berlin
05.07.2022 — Absurd Lustre @ Arkaoda, Berlin
04.06.2022 — Moers Festival 2022, “No conspiracy required” (commissioned piece for Moersland)
22.05.2021 — Environ Festival, online edition (IT)
31.05.2020 — Moers Festival 2020 w/ Lumisokea, Moers (DE)
22.01.2020 — CTM Transmediale Vorspiel 2020 x Eclectique W / Lumisokea, Berlin (DE)
08.06.2019 — Moers Festival, solo presentation of “The Third Eye Squeegee”, Moers (DE)
08.06.2019 — Moers Festival w/Global Improvisers Orchestra, Moers (DE)
09.06.2019 — Music Meeting w/Global Improvisers Orchestra, Nijmegen (NL)
05.07.2019 — Solo set @NNOI Festival, Großwoltersdorf, north of Berlin (DE)
18.07.2019 — Solo set @Acud, sm-ll showcase, Berlin (DE)
24.07.2019 — Solo set @Five Miles, sm-ll showcase, London (UK)
02.02.2019 — Solo set @KM28, Berlin (DE)
30.05.2018 — Präsens Editionen Showcase @ OHM, Berlin (DE)
31.05.2018 — Balance Festival/Präsens Editionen Showcase @ IfZ, Leipzig (DE)
19.05.2018 — Moers Festival @ Seconrelle & Die Röhre, Moers (DE)
19.04.2018 — Record Release Launch @ De Space, Lucerne (CH)
18.11.2017 — Mediaspank Festival, St Petersburg (RU)
02.06.2017 — Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig (DE)
03.03.2017 — Vernissage exhibition FAX, Bologna (IT)
21.02.2017 — Roter Salon w/ the Pitch, Berlin (DE)
09.07.2016 — Holotone showcase/OHM, Berlin (DE)
21.04.2016 — Unofficial Preview Gallery, Seoul (KR)
09.04.2016 — FAQ Festival, Den Bosch (NL)
31.01.2016 — Undogmatisch/Urban Spree, Berlin (DE)
20.12.2015 — Klubi, Zürich (CH)
06.12.2015 — Contort/OHM, Berlin (DE)
07.10.2015 — Simultan Festival, Timisoara (RO)
18.09.2015 — Café OTO, London (UK)
29.08.2015 — Today’s, Torino (IT)
27.08.2015 — Flussi Festival, Avellino (IT)
12.06.2015 — Liber Null/Griessmühle, Berlin (DE)
15.05.2015 — Strefa/Monotype Festival, Warsaw (PL)
18.03.2015 — Instants Chévirés, Paris (FR)
24.10.2014 — Lab30, Augsburg (DE)







PAST SHOWS W/LUMISOKEA
19.05.2018 > Lumisokea Dervish, Moers Festival (DE)
13.12.2018 > Lumisokea Dervish, Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
12.12.2018 > Lumisokea Dervish, Bozar, Brussels (BE)
08.12.2017 > Lumisokea “Dervish” premiere, Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
19.10.2017 > Lunchmeat Festival Prague
17.02.2017 > Stereolux // Nantes (FR) //  info
07.12.2016 > Resonanzraum // Hamburg (DE)
04.11.2016 > KIKK // Namur (BE)
22.10.2016 > Champ Libre // Paris (FR)
07.10.2016 > Robot Festival // Bologna (IT)
03.09.2016 > Stadtgarten w/ Murcof // Köln (DE)
06.08.2016 > ZKM // Karlsruhe (DE)
05.06.2016 > Pracht // Leipzig (DE)
13.05.2016 > Ausland // Berlin (DE)
01.05.2016 > Cave12 // Geneva (Switzerland)
30.04.2016 > Haus der Elektronische Künste // Basel (Switzerland)
23.04.2016 > 0g// Osaka (JP)
22.04.2016 > Constant Value// Seoul (KR)
21.04.2016 > Unofficial Preview (Andrea & Koenraad solo shows)// Seoul (KR)
17.04.2016 >  SOUP // Tokyo(JP)
15.04.2016 > Click (Lumisokea DJ set) // Tokyo(JP)
14.04.2016 > Conpass // Osaka (JP)
26.03.2016 > Fuse Art Space // Bradford (UK)
24.03.2016 > Islington Mill // Manchester (UK)
30.01.2016 > IFFR // Rotterdam (NL)
17.12.2015 > Berghain Kantine w/ Rashad Becker & Eli Keszler // Berlin (DE)
23.10.2015 > MUTEK Mexico // Mexico City (MEX)
14-18.10.2015 > LUFF Festival // Lausanne (CH)
11.09.2015 > Open Source Art Festival // Sopot (PL)
01.08.2015 > Sajeta Festival // Tolmin (SL)
04.07.2015 > Pitch Festival // Amsterdam (NL)
28.06.2015 > Contort at Ohm // Berlin (DE)
13.06.2015 > Festival 48h Chrono // Marseille (FR)
28.05.2015 > Mutek // Montréal (CAN)
02.05.2015 > ICAS Festival // Dresden (DE)
25.04.2015 > Inkonst Festival // Malmo (SWE)
05.04.2015 > “Work” at OHM // Berlin (DE)
24.01.2015 > Art City Night Bologna // Bologna (IT)
16.01.2015 > Salotto // Vienna (AT)
12.12.2014 > Liber Null // Berlin (DE)
06.12.2014 > IFZ // Leipzig (DE)
15.11.2014 > Transient Festival // Paris (FR)
08.11.2014 > LSWHR // Roma (IT)
23.10.2014 > LAB30 // Augsburg (DE)
09.10.2014 > Simultan Festival // Timisoara (RO)
27.09.2014 > Bozar Electronic Arts Festival // Brussels (BE)
29.08.2014 > Flussi Festival // Avellino (IT)
12.07.2014 > Tusk festival // Newcastle (UK) // info
26.06.2014 > Unreal at Chesters // Berlin (DE) // info
08.06.2014 > Heart of Noise // Innsbruck (AT)
07.06.2014 > Node Festival // Modena (IT) // info
03.05.2014 > LEV Festival // Gijòn (ES) // info
09.04.2014 > Golden Pudel // Hamburg (DE) // info
05.04.2014 > Sound:Frame // Vienna (AT) // info
22.03.2014 > Interzona // Verona (IT) // info
21.03.2014 > Spatio Aereo // Venice (IT) // info
20.03.2014 > Luxa // Milano (IT) // info
06.02.2014 > Opal Tapes Night // Vooruit // Ghent (BE) // info
05.02.2014 > Opal Tapes Night //OT 301 // Amsterdam (NL) // info
04.02.2014 > Opal Tapes Night // Instants Chavirés // Paris (FR) // info
01.02.2014 > Opal Tapes Night // CTM Festival // Berlin (DE) // info
14.12.2013 > Hirscheneck // Basel (SWI) //info
12.12.2013 > Klubi // Zürich (SWI) // info
28.11.2013 > Multiplicidade Festival // Rio De Janeiro (BR) // info
09.11.2013 > Vondelbunker // Amsterdam (NL) // info
08.11.2013 > Rewire Festival // The Hague (NL) // info
06.11.2013 > Bar.Temp // Brussels (BE) // info
03.11.2013 > Contort #7 // Berlin (GER) // info
12.09.2013 > Phono Festival // Odense (DK)
22.08.2013 > FEED w/ Novi_Sad (Touch Label) // Berlin (GER)
28.06.2013 > NK projekt // Berlin (GER)
16.06.2013 > Villa K – Stichting Centrum // The Hague (NL)
15.06.2013 > Beuk & Axes Festival // Eindhoven (NL)
19.02.2013 > Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, support for Darkstar, Amsterdam (NL)
13.02.2013 > Artefact Festival, support for Actress, Leuven (BE)
08.12.2012 > Kamera Kultura, Nutshuis, The Hague (NL)
02.12.2012 > Vondelbunker, Amsterdam (NL)
30.11.2012 > Goethe instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
29.11.2012 > Studio Loos, The Hague (NL)
15.11.2012 > Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (B) – supporting Shackleton
03.11.2012 > Landbouwbelang, Maastricht (NL) – tryout
02.11.2012 > NDSM werf (next to King Shiloh Soundsystem) , Amsterdam (NL) – tryout
22.10.2012 > 6-day residency @ iMAL, Brussels (B) – info
28.07.2012 > Nozstock Festival, Herefordshire (UK)
27.07.2012 > residency + concert @ NDSM werf, Amsterdam (NL)
28.03.2012 > 3-day residency @ WORM, Rotterdam (NL)
09.03.2012 > 3-day residency @ STEIM – Amsterdam (NL)
04.11.2011 > Italian Institute of Culture – Amsterdam (NL)
25.10.2011 > Worm – Rotterdam (NL)
03.09.2011 > Nuthuis, The Hague NL
13.08.2011 > Satta Outside Festival, Lithuania
18.06.2011 > STEIM, Amsterdam NL
16.06.2011 > Wonderwerp/Studio Loos, The Hague NL
04.06.2011 > Oddstream Festival, Nijmegen NL
15.05.2011 > TEKS, Trondheim (NO)
14.05.2011 > Remix Festival, Kristiansand (NO)
13.05.2011 > Independent Artspace, Kristiansand (NO)
27.04.2011 > Lux Theater, Nijmegen NL
24.04.2011 > Kamera Kultura, The Hague | www.nutshuis.nl
16.04.2011 > Schijnheilig (w/ Cactus Truck), Amsterdam |www.schijnheilig.org
14.04.2011 > OT301, Amsterdam | www.ot301.nl
14.04.2011 > Radio Show OBA, Amsterdam | www.obalive.nl
13.04.2011 > Radioshow Red Light Radio |www.redlightradio.net
12.04.2011 > Radioshow Onda Italiana |www.ondaitaliana.org
09.04.2011 > FAQ Festival, Den Bosch
02.04.2011 > Theater Kikker, Utrecht
27.03.2011 > Radioshow on Radio 6
14.02.2011 > Axes Jazzpower, Eindhoven
10.11.2010 > Kristiansand Art Museum, Kristiansand (NO)
07.11.2010 > Landmark, Bergen (NO)
05.11.2010 > TEKS – Klubb Kanin, Trondheim (NO)
14.09.2010 > Theater Kikker / Proeflokaal, Utrecht (NL)
21.04.2010 > Trytone Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
30.03.2010 > Italian Institute of Culture, Amsterdam (NL)
24.03.2010 > Maarten Luther Kerk, Amsterdam (NL)
18.03.2010 > Studio Loos (Wonderwerp), The Hague (NL)
15.03.2010 > Wendel, Berlin (GER)
13.03.2010 > West Germany, Berlin (GER)
11.03.2010 > Antje Oeklesund, Berlin (GER)
10.03.2010 > Kule Theater, Berlin (GER)
09.03.2010 > Zurmoebelfabrik, Berlin (GER)
08.03.2010 > M.me Claude (Experimontag), Berlin (GER)
07.03.2010 > Badcuyp, Amsterdam (NL)
05.03.2010 > SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
11.11.2009 > Oorsprong, Amsterdam (NL)

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