L'île Rodrigues, au beau milieu de l'océan Indien

I took you on a trip back in time. Back to the origins of Hardstyle. Back to our roots. This was MADNESS XXL #12 @ BOOTSHAUS!

▶️ TRACKLIST
01. Pila - History (Pila & The Scientist Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
02. DJ Arne L II - Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) (ZELECTER Edit)
03. Technoboy - Raver's Techno Noise (ZELECTER Mashup)
04. Warp Brothers & Kai Tracid - 4 Just 1 Time & Space (ZELECTER Edit)
05. Zero Vision - Overdrive (ZELECTER Tanz Elektrik Edit)
06. Mike NRG - Lost in Dreams (Sequenza Remix) (ZELECTER Edit)
07. Sequenza & Guis - Tricky Zombie Nation (ZELECTER Early Mashup)
08. Trance Generators - Do You Wanna Balloon (ZELECTER Edit)
09. Marshall Masters - Stereo Murder (ZELECTER Early Edit)
10. Ard & Jorn - 16 (ZELECTER Edit)
11. Brain Ovulation - Kicks & Bass (Acid Step Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
12. The Beholder & Balistic & Max Enforcer - Bigger Better Louder Decibel (ZELECTER Mashup)
13. Hardheadz - Wreck The RMX (Beholder & Max Enforcer Remix) (ZELECTER Edit)
14. ZELECTER - Start Rocking x Follow Me 2002 (Mashup)
15. ZELECTER - The Prophecy Of Derb Voodoo People (Mashup)
16. The Prophet & Headhunterz - Scar Ur Face (ZELECTER Early Edit)
17. DJ Rob - Boys Interface (The Beholder & Balistic Remix) (ZELECTER Short Edit)
18. Zany - Rock The Thugz (ZELECTER Pillzz Mashup)
19. Builder - Her Voice (Super Bass Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
20. Lowriders - Don't Get Back (ZELECTER Edit)
21. Dark Oscillators - Stereophobia (ZELECTER Edit)
22. ZELECTER - Go Go Get This Little Skyscraper (Early Hardstyle Minimix)
23. Josh Lang - Kracker (ZELECTER Edit)
24. ZELECTER - Early Donkey Rollers Mega Mashup
25. Hardstyle Masterz ft. Max Enforcer - Light of the Dark (The Blackout Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
26. The Prophet x Isaac - Insane Acid Dream (ZELECTER Mashup)
27. ZELECTER - Early Showtek Mega Mashup
28. Headhunterz - The Saifam Mashup (ZELECTER Edit)
29. Dutch Disorder - Heroine (Pat B Remix) (ZELECTER Early Edit)
30. Josh Lang - Tektic (ZELECTER Deeper Inside Edit)
31. Donkey Rollers - Beauty Cocaine Followers (ZELECTER Mashup)
32. DJ Duro - Cocaine MF (ZELECTER Haben wir noch Pepps? Edit)
33. ZELECTER - Dance on Disco Shit (Early Hardstyle Minimix)
34. Splinta - Early Soundz (ZELECTER Edit)
35. ZELECTER - Respect x Subsonic x Pressure (Mashup)
36. Headhunterz x Brennan Heart - The Sacrifice (ZELECTER Stormwind Edit)

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MADNESS XXL #12 | BOOTSHAUS, COLOGNE 22-05-07

This track was released as part of:
_EXECUTE Vol​.​1 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Algorithmic Music.

https://toplapduesseldorf.bandcamp.com/


"TOPLAP DÜSSELDORF is a group of artists that has existed since 2018 to explore and promote live coding. In order to make this increasingly popular technique of composing and performing electronic music more widely known, the group is releasing with _EXECUTE Vol. 1 the works of Düsseldorf artists together with the works of the international live coding scene as a compilation for the first time.

In their performances, live coders reveal the inner workings of software, manipulate it directly in the source code, and in the process improvise to create music or moving images. The process of programming is made visible to the audience through a projection of the computer screen. Live coding works in all music genres and is shown in many livestreams and all over the world in concert halls, clubs and on so-called algoraves.

What is unique about live coding is the combination of cool computer science, strictly rule-based and merciless in its treatment of errors, with musical improvisation, which is usually free and open to deviations from the usual. In this way, the live coders fill the sobriety of programming with aesthetic life, making the hidden beauty of code audible and visible to connoisseurs and lay listeners and viewers."

Peter Witt, artistic director of the Düsseldorf art festival "Die Digitale", March 2022. die-digitale.net

Karussell 1

DJ ASA FT DJ BRANDON
YANKY TI ZAGA WENNVIBES AXEL LINFLEX

IMMORTEL PLATINUM OFFICIAL AUDIO

TRUTHSPEAKER - INHALE

One of the results of my research into the chorded sounds or multiphonics: more than one sound made by the voice at the same time.

Chorded Sounds 12th May 2023

Wild Ones

schweigenderest (2000/2001)
radiophonic tape composition with Goebbels' "Sportpalast" speech from 18/2/1943

...war shall never again emanate from German soil...
Realisation: Studio of the composer (Quadro)
Duration: 12'51'' (please contact the composer for the full piece)

Concert premiere: London, The Warehouse, 18 February 2001, Ensemble Apartment House, London
Radio premiere: BBC Radio 3, 23 June 2001 (Producer: Philip Tagney)
German Concert premiere: Cologne, Aulakonzert Neue Musik der Musikhochschule, 13 June 2001
German radio premiere: DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Werkstatt , 28 September 2001 (Producer: Götz Naleppa).

In schweigenderest I turn my attention to the little-noticed but highly sophisticated non-verbal means in Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' infamous "Sportpalast" speech. Since similar pathos is unfortunately still regularly conjured up today on "state-bearing" occasions, I was interested in extracting and abstracting the typical speech act of this special rhetorical case; concrete speech excerpts only shine through in exceptional cases.
The piece proceeds roughly in five stages of approximately equal length. If the focus is initially on variants of acclamatory audience reactions, the magnifying glass shifts to technical noise, which essentially shapes our acoustic imagination of the time.
The third section could perhaps be titled "Manipulations": a sequence of quiet fader actions marks the anti-climax of the piece, a short digital, in other words "total" silence, concluded by the montage of some macabre slips of the speaker.
The next part deals with musical elements. Here, on the one hand, musical pieces of the past abused by the Nazis appear, on the other hand, Goebbels' singsong-like speaking style, which certainly contributed to the fascination of the masses, is isolated.
The finale turns to the speech itself. A version of the total two-hour "Sportpalast" speech, compressed in time in the ratio 1000:12 (the "Thousand-Year Reich" lasted twelve years), is joined by extracted articulatory background noises of the speaking Goebbels, cryptic sound bands of breathing, swallowing, snapping and clicking. At the very end there is apparently the closing motto of the original speech, but it is a forgery on my part. The order of the text words has been permuted, but hypocritically the intonation of the sentence has been restored.

As a common thread, two of Goebbels' infamous "Ten Questions to the German People" underlie each section - stretched out in time. In addition, a "memory layer" appears after about three minutes: the preceding section of the composition is recalled as if from an acoustic background memory, and in such a way that all five sections are present simultaneously in the last part.
18 February 1943 was not only the day of Goebbels' infamous "Sportpalast" speech in Berlin, but also the day when Hans and Sophie Scholl, the main figures of the resistance movement "The White Rose", were arrested in Munich. The premiere of my composition took place exactly 58 years later, on 18 February again, in London, one of the cities most affected by Goebbels' idea of "Total War", which he had proclaimed precisely in his "Sportpalast" speech - all this was not planned or foreseeable when I started thinking about the piece almost two years earlier, but in the end it is a remarkable coincidence.

"Hi-tech glossy plastic aesthetics", as often celebrated by so-called sound art, are quite alien to me. In schweigenderest, deliberately noisy, dirty audio material made of audience noise and atmospheric disturbances marks the edges and contours of speech - "... the rest is silence". (hm 2001)

schweigenderest

schweigenderest (2001; consecutive EXTRACTS)

darkvoice is an album and a set of videos reflecting on the role of spoken language in the age of pervasive and permanent electronic surveillance. it is exclusively made from manipulated voice, sinister typography and digital technology. 

for the full release go here:
http://joerg.piringer.net/darkvoice/

el sys

«Mādar» for Double bass

Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Christine Chapman, horn
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Ulrich Löffler, piano
Dirk Wietheger, violoncello

December 2019

„Botanisieren“ for Ensemble | Ensemble Musikfabrik

Harald Muenz (he/him)
is a German-Italian transdisciplinary artist realising instrumental & vocal, peformative and radiophonic works with an artistic focus on phonetic composition & Ars Acustica.

Harald's compositions have been commissioned by Ensembles Mosaik, auditivvokal, hand werk, Apartment House, Modern, musikfabrik; by radio stations such as Hessischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC, Deutschlandfunk, DLF Kultur, among others.
Harald's works have been performed and broadcast internationally and have been documented on several CDs (portrait CD nearly-fast with Ensemble Mosaik at Coviello).
Frequent collaborations with experimental poets (Florian Neuner, Mathias Traxler, Cristian Forte, Christian Filips, Roža Domašcyna, among others)
On the VR platform Second Life, Harald (aka Cuirec d’Erc) has realised several interactive sound installations and has been a member of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (aom) since 2017.
Harald is also active as a multilingual speech performer (trio sprechbohrer), author and lecturer.
Harald's music has been occasionally described by others as ‘worldly,’ ‘non-conformist,’ or ‘provocative.’

https://haraldmuenz.carrd.co/
Work list on http://composers21.com/compdocs/muenzh.htm

Artist residencies
1996 Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf (Brandenburg/Germany)
2000 Villa Aurora (Los Angeles/USA)
2021 Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Niedersachsen/Germany)
2023 Atelier Galata (Istanbul/Turkey)

Studies
Composition at Music Universities in Cologne (J. Fritsch, K. Meyer, C. Barlow) and Stuttgart  (H. Lachenmann)
PhD in Composition from Brunel University London (J. Croft)
Phonetics at Cologne University’s Institute for Linguistics (G. Heike, G. Sachse)
„Cleaning the House“ Workshop by the Marina Abramović Institute

Teaching
2001-2005 Lecturer for Aesthetic Phonetics, Institute for Linguistics, University of Cologne (part-time)
2006-11 Artistic Director of Musikhochschule Lübeck's Studio for Electronic Music (part-time)
2005-16 Lecturer in Composition Brunel University London (full-time permanent)
2016 Decision to work as a full-time freelance composer again
2017-22 current Lecturer at International Ensemble Modern Academy Frankfurt/M. (IEMA; part-time)

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schweigenderest (2001; consecutive EXTRACTS)

Harald Muenz

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