Hans Tammen's Dark Circuits Orchestra, this time consisting of 20 musicians playing analog synthesizers, will play orchestra pieces of Phill Niblock (and the drone pages of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise, which are not part of this playlist).

With Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Luke Dubois, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Chuck Bettis, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, David First, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Daniel Neumann, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.

Phill Niblock: Baobab (2011)

Infernal Machines is Lars Graugaard and Hans Tammen, remix by Lars Graugaard of a live broadcast at WKCR, New York City October 2011.

Infernal Machines live at WKCR - part 1

Infernal Machines live at WKCR - part 2

Hans Tammen creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely audible noises - through means of his ENDANGERED GUITAR and interactive software programming, by working with the room itself, and, as a critic observed, with his "...fingers stuck in a high voltage outlet". Signal To Noise called his works "...a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage", All Music Guide recommended him: "...clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s."

His numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in 2009 for the ENDANGERED GUITAR - a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing are inspired by Earle Brown's Available Forms, and based on numerous scored "building blocks" that are constantly rearranged when performed.

Phill Niblock: Baobab (2011)

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