the live situation:  one mic, one take/no mix, no fix
More SASTHOR recordings can be found here: https://sasthor.bandcamp.com

Autorhythmic cells function automatically without the need of instructions from the brain.

Joakim Forsgren (b. 1981 in Skutskär) moves freely between music and visual arts. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 33 he started making electronic music as AUTORHYTHM. The compositions drew from current research how sound can affect the human body down to the cellular level asking the curious question: what would the synthesisers play themselves if the artist would no longer be able to control them. Songs for the Nervous System was first presented at the exhibition Swedish Ecstasy at Bozar in Brussels, 2023.

Swedens biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, gave it 4/5: ”This is electronic instrumental music filled with warmth and, well, hopefulness. The limitation that a lifelong illness can entail has been transformed here into weightlessness.[…] You can refer to 70s pioneers like Kraftwerk or Cluster, but these 36 minutes land directly in the present.”

In 2024 remixes were released by dub legend Scientist, Art Alfie and Pink River Dolphins.

Webshop: https://kronofonika.bandcamp.com/

Releases:
KF015: Dyngherren - Bortom den lila zonen
KF014: Various Artists - The Finspång Sound, Vol. 3 Revelations (98-00)
KF013: Yukiko Jansson - Musica Smaragdina
KF012: Kristallisauna - Baltoscandic Trust
KF011: Karl-Erik Sigbjörn Birt Berglund - Malmberget Mixtape
KF010: Magnus & Magnus (Confessional) Space Jazz Ensemble - 8 Great Ways to Make Your Newborn Baby Look Slimmer!
KF009: Sasthor - RAVE GOD/Comfort Zone
KF008: Various Artists - The Finspång Sound, Vol. 2 Exodus (95-97)
KF007: "Kulturprofilen" - Ett och ett halvt års kamp mot lögner, dumhet och feghet.
KF006: Never Ataraxia - S/T (Cassette)
KF005: Various Artists - The Finspång Sound, Vol. 1 Genesis (92-94) (Cassette)
KF004: Undhulat - Walking Music (Cassette)
KF003: Urban Ahlin (S) - A Drone Over the River Kwai (Cassette)
KF002: Male Bondage - S/T (Cassette)
KF001: 253/Kolthrast - Det fanns inte plats för oss (Cassette)


Kronofonika started in 2010 as a project in which 253 and Kolthrast took turns in creating experimental music on a daily basis. It has now evolved to a cassette label delivering highly limited batches of questionable music dubbed and mastered by complete amateurs. Listen to that here or better yet, just buy it, ok? On our Soundcloud page you will also find demos, livesets and stuff that just doesn't quite fit in on any of our releases. Exclusive as puck! 

Throughout the years we have collaborated with artists like Magnitud, Oh, the ashes! and more recently we have come heavily involved in resurrecting the Finspång scene spearheaded by Florian Wulffpeckrl in the early 90s.

This is more of a file-dump account than anything, mostly for posting one-off music/voice files that I've made with varying quality and genres.
If you want my more serious music uploads, go to my Bandcamp page instead.

My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an artist working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, dance, performance art, and film.

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Evergreen Review.

My paintings, photographs, music, and video art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, and Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery - curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 60th Venice Biennales.

On my music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), Jamie Saft (Iggy Pop), Susan Stenger (John Cale), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Michael Blair (Tom Waits), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Michael Johnson (Joy Division), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Mark Egan (Arcadia), Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Jess Stewart (Psychic TV), Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk), Thomas Stern (Einsturzende Neubauten), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Susan Alcorn, Suzanne Ciani, Keiron Melling (The Fall), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Laurent Petitgand (Wim Wenders), Jen Baker (Werner Herzog), John King (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Stars), Frank Cassara (Steve Reich and Musicians), Andy Findon (Michael Nyman Group), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), David Crowell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Melanie Russell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Eleanor Sandresky (Philip Glass Ensemble), Frank Cassara (Philip Glass Ensemble), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

On my film and video art projects I have collaborated with actors, actresses, singers, and dancers, including Philippe Nahon (Gaspar Noe), Artur Barciś (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Anne Louise Hassing (Lars von Trier), Kate Moran (Peter Greenaway), Kate Fisher (Robert Wilson), Elisa Lasowski (David Cronenberg), Pamela Flores (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Stefania Casini (Andy Warhol), and many others.

I am currently working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am also presently working on an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage, in cooperation with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist, musician, and filmmaker David Lynch.

At the end of 2024, I worked on several re-creation compositions which utilzed sonic elements from pre-existing songs by Brian Eno and David Byrne, Nine Inch Nails, and Grimes, from their albums "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," Ghosts I-IV," and "Miss Anthropocene, combined with new music by myself and other musicians.

Earlier this year, I collaborated with painter Gottfried Helnwein on a short film called: Epigenetic Trauma Painting No. 1.

I'm presently working on a new music recording project. Musicians who have contributed to this project thus far are: Stan Harrison (Radiohead), Bill Gilonis (The Work), Jeroen Visser (Trio Kazanchis +1), Nicholas Currie (Momus), RK Faulhaber (Nurse With Wound), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), Hans Peter Kuhn (Robert Wilson), Audrey Chen, Max Eastley, Conrad Harris (String Noise), Pauline Kim Harris (String Noise), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), William Klugh Connor III (The Centre for Transgressive Behaviours), Alan Splet, Ann Kroeber, and David Lynch.

Soli Deo gloria.

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