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...info on HASWELL & HECKER can be found at http://myspace.com/haswellhecker and http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/
"I’ve had this for three months and I still don’t think I’m any closer to revealing its secret. I enjoyed it but it’s not one of those records you can just dip into. I found this an all consuming record (and at times overwhelming). But the ride was way more fun than I though it was going to be. Haswell is one of the more interesting noise artists out there at the moment. Value is worth checking out."
http://ducksbattlesatan.com/2010/08/11/review-russell-haswell-value-bonus-no-fun-productions-2010/
VALUE + BONUS is awarded BEST COVER OF THE MONTH, and reviewed at viceland.com, and on the streets in VICE!
RUSSELL HASWELL
VALUE + BONUS
(NO FUN).
7/10
"Suffolk squire Russell Haswell hooks up with No Fun for a double-disc survey of recent activity. This involves tone bursts, acid, noise, live performance, and speaker-testing rumbles on disc one, and, on the second, addled birdsong and an hour-long trawl through a radio dial. As ever with Haswell, there’s a raw honesty to Value + Bonus. which means that every second of sound has been considered, and so even if you don’t fully understand what he’s trying to do, you know there’s a very good reason why he’s doing it."
SUBURBAN DWIGHT
http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n6/htdocs/records-458.php
Russell Haswell: Wild Tracks By D.M. Edwards 14 July 2010
"Wild Tracks compiles items from Russell Haswell’s huge library of “hi-definition recordings for surround sound or multi-media productions”: bird-scaring bangs, gunshots, obnoxious jet engines, insects eating and going about their business and being killed, snow falling, water booming, and wind whining. Occasionally, he gets two at the same time, as on “Ant Colony (Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby)”."
"Haswell doesn’t splice and sequence “raw” material into music as, say, Matmos did with A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, their album of scalpels going through flesh, fat squeezing through a liposuction tube, buzzing eye surgery lasers, acupuncture point detectors, hearing aid test tones, goat spines, and rat cage bars. Context is important for art and for comedy. And there is nothing funnier than art: In the early 1960s, James Coyle and Mal Sharpe dressed in business suits and roamed the streets of San Francisco recording their talks with people, goading and guiding them through surreal comic mazes involving apples with feet, secret languages, interest-bearing piggy banks in heads, and lots more. We know from the background notes that Coyle and Sharpe were joking, but the interviewees were led to believe they were serious. One of their street interviews led a woman who was opposed to live animals being used as musical instruments to utter the immortal words: “I would tour the world, playing on a weasel”. Such projects illustrate how background information is needed to enjoy some art and the poster/booklet for Wild Tracks has enough detail on capturing sounds and rigorously defining their context to more than satisfy."
"None of the pieces on this album attempt the ear-scorching experimentation of Haswell’s real-time computer-generated improvisations Live Salvage 1997-2000 and Second Live Salvage, which are brutally ideal for putting the boom cars firmly in their place or invading the compounds of millenarian zealots. Yet Haswell is admirable, for while most recording artists are regurgitating themes (boy meets girl, boy bores the crap out of girl, boy writes song about it), he’s sculpting noise, reimagining Popul Vuh, sound-curating exhibitions, recording water by hanging from cliffs, fiddling with magnetic field fluctuation detectors, riding in helicopters, or shoving his miniature omnidirectional microphone into anthills, dead birds, or wherever his fancy takes him."
"Of the outlandish sounds on Wild Tracks, the wheezing, explosive “Jamaican Blowhole” resembles Frank Booth’s asthmatic ghost dreaming of his variation of lust. More arresting is “A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass”,(although, given the flashy time-lapses in his film A Zed and Two Noughts, I’d prefer “A Horde of Flies Feast On The Rotting Carcass of Peter Greenaway”). Even better is “Falling Snow #4, +20dB (Extract)”, which suggests emotion, flow, romance, and time. By contrast, the fly-zapping of “Electroswat (Playlist Re-edit)” is merely repulsive."
"Russell Haswell is prolific in music, sculpture, photography, and more, but Wild Tracks is perhaps one of his drier efforts. And the early video game style packaging is definitely annoying." http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/127518-russell-haswell-wild-tracks/
Russell Haswell performed at HAU 2 (HEBBEL AM UFER, Berlin) as part of the event LIFE IS LIVE - MUSIC, DISCOURSE, PERFORMANCE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! ABOUT MUSIC AND TORTURE.
THE WIRE 316 June 2010
Mark Fisher for some reason only reviews Disc 1 of VALUE + BONUS:
Russell Haswell
Value + Bonus
No Fun Productions 2xCD
"Haswell has described Value as “a combination between a stereo test CD, like one of those things that reveals to you that you’ve got your speakers the wrong way around, and a kind of free live Acid Noise improvisation”. The album therefore plays with two senses of noise: noise as something functional and pre-aesthetic, and the familiar sense of Noise as a para-musical genre."
“Left Right Mono Stereo”, “Sub Bass Test” and the amusingly titled “Multicultural nO!se @ -17.5 Db RMS (Black, Brown, Pink And White nO!se + Mix)” are selfexplanatory exercises in functionalism. The playful spirit continues on “Acid nO!se”, which subjects a 303 Acid House riff to a sandblasting of distortion. The effect is like watching a representational image being violently converted into something more abstract. By the end, the Acid traces are like the faint outlines of a man who has been consumed by quicksand. “Coventry” begins with a stuttering kick drum and bursts of machine feedback, before building up into a ballistic jackhammer thud that eventually frays and flares into fireballs of sound, like an asteroid breaking up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The machine freakouts of “None” and “Computer nO!se” are like solos played by solar flares, metallic expectorations that induce that simultaneous feeling of repulsion and bliss peculiar to Noise." Mark Fisher
... in the same issue Derek Walmsley attended the BLOC Weekend and published this:
"Russell Haswell plays a hilariously belligerent 15 minute Noise set before his touring partners Autechre, which has the added bonus of clearing a packed room after Flying Lotus plays. Haswell walks out, plonks a carrier bag, a bunch of effects pedals and sound generators, and some cans of Red Stripe on the table, and thrashes around with his gadgets as if hes got a mousetrap locked on his fingers. It's cartoonish, but brilliantly so, sonic extremity pushed into a zone of hysteria."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
06.06.2010: Russell Haswell, Florian Hecker perform at HAU 2 as part of the event LIFE IS LIVE - MUSIC, DISCOURSE, PERFORMANCE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! ABOUT MUSIC AND TORTURE
10.00 pm - 11.00 pm: Russell Haswell
11.00 pm - 00.00 am: Florian Hecker
HEBBEL AM UFER
HALLESCHES UFER 32
10963 BERLIN
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/kuenstler/kuenstler_18269.html?HAU=2
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line
Istanbul 2010
As one of its essential elements, the artist conceived of the pavilion’s sonic identity. The Morning Line is saturated with fifty speakers, using a unique interactive computer controlled sound system, conceived and implemented by the Music Research Centre of York University.
For the presentation in Istanbul guest sound curator Russell Haswell has invited Jana Winderen, Peter Zinovieff, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Yasunao Tone to conceive new acoustic works, commissioned by T-B A21.
DURATION: May 22 - September 19, 2010
OPENING:
May 22, from 7:00 until 8:00pm followed by special performances by Jónsi & Alex, Cevdet Erek, Lee Ranaldo, Ghostigital and Russell Haswell performs Yasunao Tone's 'MP3 deviation'.
Contemporary Music Sonic Festival: May 23–25, 2010
LOCATION: Eminönü Square, Istanbul, Turkey
Free admission
http://www.tba21.org/program/current/83/artworks2?category=current
VITAL WEEKLY
number 730
week 19
RUSSELL HASWELL - VALUE/BONUS (2CD by No Fun Productions)
"Back in Vital Weekly 699 I was pleasantly surprised by 'Wild Tracks' by Russell Haswell, a work of ""'deliberate recordings' made with other multi media/film projects in mind". No post processing, overdubs or compression." For this new double CD, the cover tells us 'non stop free improvisation (where possible), over overdubs, no crossfades'. This one doesn't seem to be too much (if at all) involved with field recordings and more about electronics. Now that's where the cover isn't to clear about things. What kind of electronics? Based on his previous work, I'd say computer noise in some way or another, but then I might be entirely wrong (although one track is called 'Computer nO!se' - unless he wants to emphasize the O! thing, but that's something I doubt); the cover lists a variety of computer devices and outboard stuff but then maybe Vanilla Electronics may not mean that much. Anyway the records are pretty interesting, and again Haswell takes me by surprise. This is not the noise onslaught as he know him for, but a whole bunch of interesting electronic pieces. 'Value' has sixteen pieces, of which the last two are pretty long, and 'Bonus' has a shorter piece and one very long one. On 'Value' the shorter pieces seem to me studies in sound. An 'event' is started, there are some variations and then that's it. Drone like but then of a more 'pressing' nature. Pieces created with static (white, pink, black and brown noise) or a slowed down voice, which warn us for loud sounds, and indeed the tracks following that are crushingly loud, until the fourteenth piece which sounded like Hecker and Autechre meeting up, followed by lengthy noise excursions. I had the odd idea about this being some sort of conceptual audiophile test record, but perhaps I am thinking the wrong way here. The short piece on 'Bonus' (which lasts ten minutes anyway) has a bird call like sound, perhaps as a loop. The other piece, which lasts over an hour, consists of searching the radio waves. Maybe a layered thing of various improvisations, maybe a 'live to disc'. Nice enough for sure, but not too good to stand its own feet, but certainly works well as a bonus. Point proven. Over two hours of highly demanding music - from noise, to more silent stuff, techno and riding the radio waves. Excellent." (FdW?)
http://www.nofunproductions.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mashroms/4470068083/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevores/4477008774/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amlux/4494816974/
"Painful. ¶ The support was superb too. Didjit diddled around with hip hop before extreme noise experimentalist Russell Haswell threw 15 minutes of painful circuit bending at the crowd.¶ As a gig performance, Haswell's screeching, white noise and frequency murder only served to annoy. I did hear a friend claim this was music from the future, only to get a reply from a random punter, "yeah, only after everyone was dead and buried, then someone shat on a keyboard". ¶ But as a performance of sound sculpture, it delighted the geeky bit of me that has spent many hours building noises from sine waves."
http://fatroland.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-autechre-at-pure-manchester.html
RUSSELL HASWELL - Value + Bonus
NO FUN
2CD // £14.99
EXTREME / NOISE
Released: Apr 2010
Catalogue Number: NFP57CD
Album of the Week
"Russell Haswell presents a KILLER double disc of new studio productions for No Fun. It follows from his most recent effort, a set of field recordings for Mego, with a challenging set of sounds he himself terms as "... a kind of combination between a stereo test CD..." and "... kind of free live acid noise improvisation, recorded in one take with no over-dubbing or anything like that...". On the first disc this takes the form of sublimely dark drones like 'Room Voice Freeze Tone', the gusty environments of the humourously titled 'Multicultural nO!se at -17.5 Db RMS (Black, Brown, Pink And White n0!se + Mix).' through to ecstatically harsh digital punishments like 'None' and longer freeform experimentation versioning digitised extreme metal, like "Jimmy Hendrix multiplied" according to a stray voice captured in the mix. The second disc 'Bonus' consists of two tracks, one an exquisite artificial environment populated with chirping digital fauna, and the next an '...Unedited Radio Scan Solo' clocking in at over an hour and sounding almost exactly as the title suggests. If you've witnessed his recent live shows and HDJ sets supporting Autechre, you'll know to take this material with an open mind, but it works even better on a recorded format. He opens a portal to extreme escapism that will raise many ontological and Cageian questions in the process, making a lot of recorded music seem plain and backward in comparison and should be investigated by those seeking something radically different to the norm. Very highly recommended!"
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=295247
"...being drawn towards the speakers when Haswell appeared on stage, only to be repelled by an outpouring of piercing metallic shards. This was the most astringent of palette cleansers, obliterating the memory of the preceding DJ set with a ferocious sonic assault. It felt as if he’d saved all of the harshest and loudest off-cuts from recent Haswell and Hecker UPIC releases – no need for dynamics, just extremes of volume and frequency: for twenty minutes he pummelled us with huge square waves and squeals, like the sound of an electric guitar being shredded and then fed into a fax machine. Afterwards I felt strangely euphoric, and soaked up the DJ’s soothing reggae riddims like an empty sponge."
http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/autechre-and-russell-haswell-at-bocking-street-warehouse-10410/
"...By the time the venue starts to fill to capacity (midnight-ish) Russell Haswell comes on for a brief, blistering set of ear-splitting tonal jiggery-pokery. 'Power electronics' is what Whitehouse or Merzbow might call this ferocious downpour of noise, a zigzagging, seemingly formless cascade of tweets, bleeps and roars, which often sounds like R2D2 being taken forcefully by an aroused Chewbacca. Not an image one wants to dwell on for too long, so the young girl sleeping soundly in her boyfriend's arms in the depths of the crowd during a particularly teeth-rattling crescendo provides a welcome visual punctuation point."
http://www.musicomh.com/music/gigs/autechre-2_0410.htm
RUSSELL HASWELL
VALUE + BONUS
Format: CD Album
Catalogue Number: NFP57CD
Number of Discs: 2
Label: No Fun
Release Date: 29 March 2010
Tracklist:
VALUE:
Left Right Mono Stereo [0:10]
My nO!se Floor Test [2:00]
Sub Bass Test [0:55]
Wino [4:05]
Room Voice Freeze Tone [2:41]
Motorway Sequence [2:10]
The Artist and the Record Company would like to warn you that consistent high volume playback of these recordings may damage your Audio System and Ears. Do not set levels to Maximum [0:21]
Multicultural nO!se @ -17.5 dB RMS (Black, Brown, Pink and White nO!se + Mix) [5:01]
Sine Wave/nO!se @ -10.2 dB RMS [1:40]
none [5:17]
trk 4 [6:46]
Computer nO!se [8:44]
Acid nO!se [3:39]
Coventry [6:20]
Thursday Afternoon 15102009 [11:59]
nO!se Set + Acid nO!se Encore (Live @ 23 Romily St, 12082009) [11:43]
+ BONUS:
Nocturnal Playlist Edit + Wave Repeat Variations [10:03]
Roberts R871 FM/MW/LW/SW 1-12 Unedited Radio Scan Solo (after Micheal Snow, Consumer Electronics, Toshiji Mikawa) [1:03:45]
http://www.nofunproductions.com/
Boring Postcards review Autechre & Russell Haswell Live in Manchester:
"The thorn in my side is how brief Haswell's set actually was; definitely feeling like less than 30 minutes, it was a tremendous shame as the inflated bass and blasted hardware beats were unimaginably loud and engaging - so much so it even divided opinion in an Autechre-aware crowd no less. Aside from the odd comments around me ranging from "I'm off for a smoke, this guy's pish" to "man, this sound is truly alive", the audience generally stay put standing still, drenched with frenzied strobelighting - observing an empty stage bar the glimpse of Haswell crouched behind a table and obscured by the speaker. The set itself was very tight and the acidic tendencies and Roland-esque nuances in the music certainly aided it to rise above a potential unanimous spectatorial hate. The obvious similarities to Carlos Giffoni's "No Fun Acid" project sprung to mind at one point during the entertainment; a thought later echoed by Haswell's latest double album release "VALUE + BONUS" published on the No Fun label - one I intend to review in the future."
http://boringpost.blogspot.com/2010/03/autechrerussell-haswell-sub-club-16th.html
AUTECHRE 2010 european tour, starts today in Manchester UK
Additional support from Russell Haswell + DJs Rob Hall, Didjit.
UPDATED CONFIRMED DATES =
Thursday March 11th Manchester, UK: Pure
Friday March 12th Birmingham, UK: The Rainbow
Saturday March 13th Minehead, UK: Butlins (BLOC Festival)
Monday March 15th Nottingham, UK: Stealth
Tuesday March 16th Glasgow, UK: Sub Club
Wednesday March 17th Leeds, UK: The Wardrobe
Thursday March 18th Brighton, UK: Pavillion Theatre
Friday March 19th Lille, F: Tri Postal
Saturday March 20th Paris, F: La Machine du Moulin Rouge
Sunday March 21st Nantes, F: Olympic
Monday March 22nd Lyon, F: Plateform
Tuesday March 23rd Geneva, CH: L’Usine
Wednesday March 24th Zurich, CH: Exil
Thursday March 25th Milan, I: Magnolia
Friday March 26th Turin, I: Hiroshima
Saturday March 27th Bologna, I: Crash
Sunday March 28th Ljubljana: Kino Siska
Monday March 29th Budapest, H: A38
Tuesday March 30th Vienna, A: Flex
Wednesday March 31st Brno, CZ: Fleda
Thursday April 1st Berlin, D: Berghain
Friday April 2nd Copenhagen, DK: Concerthall
Saturday April 3rd Oslo, N: Park Teatre
Sunday April 4th Gothenburg, S: Nefertiti
Monday April 5th Aarhus, DK: Voxhall
Tuesday April 6th Hamburg, D: Uebel & Gefahrlich
Wednesday April 7th Amsterdam, NL: Melkweg
Thursday April 8th Luxembourg, L: Exit07
Friday April 9th Brussels, B: Ancienne Belgique (Domino Festival)
Saturday April 10th London, UK: Bocking Street Warehouse, Hackney
http://www.littlebig.org.uk/
Russell Haswell is interviewed by FACT magazine:
http://www.factmag.com/2010/03/10/russell-haswell-the-whole-360°/
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU – The Morning Line: Istanbul 2010.
DURATION: May 22 - September 19, 2010
LOCATION: Istanbul, Turkey
Free admission
"For the presentation in Istanbul guest sound curator Russell Haswell has invited Jana Winderen, Peter Zinovieff, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Yasunao Tone to conceive new acoustic works, commissioned by T-B A21. As The Morning Line continues to travel the world as a platform for contemporary music, and within its mandate to encourage and support the production of innovative composition wherever it tours, T-B A21 has entered a partnership with MIAM – Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul, under the guidance of Melih Fereli, former director of the Istanbul Festival, Kamran İnce, and Cihat Aşkın and has commissioned new compositions by Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Cevdet Erek, Batuhan Bozkurt, and Mehmet Can Özer. These eight new compositions will be presented as world premieres in Istanbul, during the festival that will follow the opening ceremonies on the 22nd of May and run for the rest of the week. They will be added to the existing archive of music and soundscapes selected by the previous guest curators Florian Hecker and Byce Dessner.These include collaborative works by Bryce Dessner in collaboration with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, Mark Fell in collaboration with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Jónsi & Alex, and solo compositions by Bruce Gilbert, Florian Hecker, Lee Ranaldo, Chris Watson, and Thom Willems..."
http://www.tba21.org/program/current/83/artworks2?category=current
Russell Haswell will be either performing live improvised nO!se sets (electronics + pedals), or Hard-Disc-Jockey sets (HDJ) as support for AUTECHRE on their 2010 european tour, between march 11 - april 10.
Additional support from DJs Rob Hall, Didjit.
CONFIRMED DATES =
Mar.11 Manchester @ Pure
Mar.12 Birmingham @ The Rainbow
Mar.13 Minehead @ Bloc Weekender
Mar.15 Nottingham @ Stealth
Mar.16 Glasgow @ Sub Club
Mar.17 Leeds @ The Wardrobe
Mar.18 Brighton @ Pavillion Theatre ...SOLD OUT!!!
Mar.19 Lille @ Tri Postal
Mar.20 Paris @ Locomotive
Mar.21 Nantes @ Olympic
Mar.23 Geneva @ L'Usine
Mar.24 Zurich @ Exil
Mar.25 Milan @ Magnolia
Mar.26 Turin @ Hiroshima
Mar.27 Bologna @ Crash
Mar.28 Ljubljana @ Kino Siska
Mar.29 Budapest @ A38
Mar.30 Vienna @ Flex
Mar.31 Brno @ Fleda
Apr.01 Berlin @ Berghain (+ O.S.T. live)
Apr.02 Copenhagen @ Concerthall
Apr.03 Oslo @ Park Teatre
Apr.04 Gothberg @ Nefertiti
Apr.05 Aarhus @ Voxhall
Apr.06 Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich
Apr.07 Amsterdam @ Melkweg
Apr.08 TBC
Apr.09 Brussels @ AB (Domino Fest)
Apr.10 London @ Central London Warehouse Location
http://www.littlebig.org.uk/
Haswell & Hecker present their 22nd UPIC Diffusion Session at Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam. Thursday 25.02.10.
www.paradiso.nl
Weteringschans 6, 1017 SG Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://2010.sonicacts.com/
HARD FORMAT - Reaching for the sublime in music design!
http://www.hardformat.org/4224/russell-haswell-wild-tracks/
Russell Haswell will perform a 'WILD TRACKS+' 8.2 Surround Upmix at this years Lovebytes (alongside Francisco López, Mark Fell), in the Sheffield Winter Garden, Europe's largest glasshouse!
http://2010.lovebytes.org.uk/event.php?ref=1003&title=Sonic%20Materialities
"Taking a break from massacring speakers (try to sit through either of the 'Live Salvage' albums and tell me it didn't hurt), computer / noise musician Ruswell Haswell changes tack and delivers an album of field recordings. Sourced from his local area of Suffolk as well as Jamaica, it's a mixture of what sounded like a perfect English Summer and intrusive army manouveres."
"The track titles are great: 'A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract)' should be doom metal whilst 'Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer' is exactly that. My favourite by far is 'Jamaican Blowhole'. Sonically the most exciting track is 'Helicopter Trip (Edit)'....play loud for instant fun!"
"Easily the best CD packaging I've seen in a long time as well; encased in a Kidzbox (go and Google it), complete with fold-out A2 poster with colour pictures and recording notes. In some alternate reality, this would have been the standard packaging on all CD's"
http://www.failme.net/2010/01/
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks (Editions Mego) is included in the WIRE Outer Limits specialist chart in the 2009 Rewind - Records of The Year Issue.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3507/
SND (Mark Fell & Mat Steel), Sheffield, include Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS in their top 10 for 2009.
http://www.boomkat.com/charts.cfm?id=513&gID=10
*Note: Google Translation!
Russell Haswell
Wild Tracks
Editions Mego
"8. Megoleute have now achieved their goal? This is to be provided with thick liner notes, recordings of some more or less obscure sounds, which naturally goutieren well as sounds. Whether it is more exciting or challenging or provocative as Lady Gaga, or half an hour through the pedestrian zone, is another matter, but fact is that Mego always wins."
EUROPEEP
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/de/2009/11/28/musikreviews-russell-haswell-gyratory-system-lenny-dee-und-dead-man’s-bones/
Russell Haswell – Wild Tracks (Editions Mego / eMEGO 099)
*Note: Google Translation! "What do we hear? Literally, sound recordings, which were originally created for integration into film or installation, and now stand by itself, so-called Wild Tracks; not actually field recordings, but almost all outdoor audio recordings. There are backgrounds with little anecdotes and stories that go in one place, even out here, what catches your ear: "That this strange little to hear that you look at the pictures must dazuerfinden in the head. And come, for Haswell's collection, which at first seems so relaxed randomly designed structure. Again and again show couple and Querbeziehungen in the air and water phenomena in the air and shot noise; ants become snow Überwespen helicopter, cannon to the barking of the people. Only the recording electrically grilled flying is both technically and musically from the frame (for the class of sounds), not to mention the unbridled gaga factor. A beautifully-shaped release, which remains in spite of the detailed booklets and for all researchers meticulously quite unique puzzling, curious, morbid-threatening, even with latent humor, but also very herbstfrostig-mute."
multipara
http://www.editionsmego.com/
http://de-bug.de/reviews/38890.html
Recordings from Inside a Rotting Carcass and Other Locales
by CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
"WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!" So goes the garish blood-red text accompanying the jittery typeface of Wild Tracks (Mego), whose first few track titles, "Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer," "Jamaican Blowhole," and "Ant Colony (featuring Eurofigher Typhoon F2 Flyby)," place this excellent album in a netherzone between sound-effects discs and soundscape composition—music made with, or entirely of, field recordings.
Compiled by English artist Russell Haswell, Wild Tracks stakes out overlooked and often less-than-glamorous locations, including a drainage pipe, a rotting carcass, and a wasp nest. I love the analogies of scale implied by "Ant Colony," in which ants are dwarfed by a recordist, who in turn gets miniaturized by the roar of overhead jet fighters. At a time when albums in all genres strive for unceasing maximum loudness, Tracks breathes like the real world, so don't bother listening on headphones. You'll miss too much.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-score/Content?oid=2873532
RUSSELL HASWELL
Wild Tracks
EDITIONS MEGO
****
" Avant-gardening: noise doyen's outdoor research There has always been an elemental quality to Russell Haswell's Computer music, but for Wild Tracks the producer actually ventured outside his studio to record the natural environment. He didn't have far to go: Haswell lives in deepest Suffolk and a spot of avant-gardening with an omnidirectional mic results in pieces such as "A Horde Of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass" and "Falling Snow #4, +20dB". Though the real-time audio is not terribly engrossing, the full-colour A2 poster, extensive liner notes and novelty Kidz Box packaging make this one of Haswell's more rewarding albums." Piers Martin.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/magazine
"The UK electronic noise-abraso warrior Russell Haswell has made a highly uncharacteristic record called Wild Tracks (EDITIONS MEGO eMEGO 099), which compiles an assortment of recordings which are emphatically non-digital in origin. Some were intended for cinema projects and other multi-media experiences. Judging from a fairly superficial skim, there seem to be three distinct modes on offer. (1) recordings of wildlife, mostly insects. (2) recordings of the weather and water. (3) recordings of machinery and vehicles, such as a helicopter. There are some other oddities which don't quite fit that profile, but what also comes across is an underlying sense of aggression and conflict, particularly in the titles which imply that nature (and mankind) is cruel and violent; insects and humans are depicted as predatory hunters. Even water has an unstoppable energy which makes it fearful; the recordings of the waterfall at High Force (in Durham) are exceptionally vivid (and beautiful) in this regard. Also I find aggression in the choice of subject matter, which comes close to updating the trusty old notions about 'sound as a weapon' that have been around since the days of Throbbing Gristle, at least. One such example is the 'Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer' which opens the disk. A large poster covered with detailed notes and information is inserted inside the unusual white plastic box, which looks like something you could put your sandwiches in." Ed Pinsent
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2009/11/
WILD TRACKS is awarded BEST COVER OF THE MONTH, and reviewed at viceland.com, and on the streets in VICE!
RUSSELL HASWELL
Wild Tracks
Editions Mego
8/10
"We compared Russell Haswell to Bear Grylls last time, but with his dark flowing locks, North Face gear and blossoming relationship with nature, he’s not a million miles away from that Scottish guy who presents the BBC show Coast, Neil Oliver. Wild Tracks is Haswell’s love letter to the great outdoors, a series of field recordings he made while in Jamaica and on his ranch in Suffolk. The titles are self-explanatory, the audio almost brutally matter-of-fact: during “Local Gamekeepers Shooting a Few Fields Away”, for example, the gamekeepers really do sound like they’re shooting a few fields away from where the microphone is recording. As ever with Haswell, though, it’s the details that make his releases well worth acquiring. Wild Tracks is presented in a cute Kidzbox package with a handle, and also contains a full-colour poster and extensive liner notes. What are you waiting for?"
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/records-233.php
Saturday 7 November 2009
Aldeburgh Snape Maltings: Hoffmann Building.
Autumn season, Faster Than Sound
Faster Than Sound: LISTEN
Curated by Russell Haswell
Bernie Krause / Chris Watson / Russell Haswell / Tony Myatt.
20 speaker 'high order' ambisonic surround Sound (including overhead), d&b audio system.
Special thanks Richard Wyatt, Dave Malham.
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/faster-sound-listen
http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/listen_1.html
Russell Haswell - Wild Tracks
RATED: 7 / 10
reviewed by Sietse van Erve
1-11-2009
"Digital sound monster takes a twist in his own work by bringing raw unprocessed field recordings. Not the regular recordings, but something that you could still expect from Russell Haswell.
Audio terrorist Russell Haswell isn't a stranger in these regions. With digital noise thrown out to torture the world he has found his own special place among other ear shredders. On Editions Mego, run by fellow laptop terrorizer Peter Rehberg, several of his aural terrorist works have been released.Now a side we didn't know of appears on latest release Wild Tracks. No digital processes here, nor computers and mixers. Nope, nothing like that at all. Here Haswell presents his own way of field recordings.
Of course Haswell wouldn't be Haswell if this wasn't with a twist to it. Instead of forest sounds, falling rain and birds Haswell searched for special sounds; those sounds a traditional field recorder would avoid. Some of the examples we find on Wild Tracks: flies feasting on a pheasant, a flight in a helicopter (while viewing waterfalls and such), or what to think about an electric fly trap (Electroswat).No post-processing was used on these recordings. The recordings are just what they are; raw and natural, with their own (un)pleasant surprises. And those surprises are there. Not all recordings are as interesting as others, but there is enough to explore.
For the hardcore field recordists this album might be a huge shock, but for those who are willing to look a bit further a surprisingly album. The recordings are mostly things you wouldn't expect to hear which makes it a good collection. And even was it only for the peculiar packaging and the huge booklet/poster explaining about the recordings this one is recommended."
http://www.earlabs.org/release/review.asp?reviewID=1458
"In filmmaking lingo, a "wild track" is a soundtrack recorded without picture, during production. On Wild Tracks, sound artist Russell Haswell has culled 73 minutes' worth of excerpts from much longer recordings made in the field, but those are not "field recordings" -- i.e. they were recorded as possible soundtracks for film and other art projects, not as actual field recordings. What's the difference? Some of them are more staged and others sound harsher than what you would expect from a field recording CD. And yet, the album fits that category pretty well nonetheless. The recordings cover a wide range of situations, sound levels, and textures, making for an eclectic album built on contrasts. There's a near-silent recording of scatter-birds (propane-fueled noise-makers to scare birds out of sown fields) and a noisy helicopter ride. There are recordings of small insects (wasps, flies, even ants) and recordings of waterfalls -- the scale varies wildly. The recordings are presented as is, unedited, uncompressed, uncured of the technical mishaps and intrusions from wind or passing aircrafts. The diversity of the material and sudden shifts in dB levels between tracks make Wild Tracks an uncomfortable listen -- and a different beast compared to Haswell's previous releases -- but a number of pieces are very successful at taking the listener elsewhere and putting a magnifying ear in unexpected places. Worth noting are: a recording of wasps entering and exiting their nest, recorded up close and from below with great stereo separation, giving you the impression (when listening with headphones) of being surrounded ("Wasp-War"); a hydrophone recording of ants rebuilding their colony after insertion of said hydrophone ("Ant Colony"); a magnetic field fluctuation detector recording flies being zapped by a hand-held device ("Electroswat"); and a snow fall recorded with hydrophones ("Falling Snow #4"). Also worth noting is the fact that the CD is packaged with a full-size poster/booklet in a Kidzbox®, which looks like a DVD case with a handle." by François Couture
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfpxz9ald6e
Norman Records say this about WILD TRACKS:
"Russell Haswell is a fellow I find to be both consistently uncompromising and interesting in everything I’ve had the fortune to hear by the man. Stomping his way through life he seems to have a kind of ESP appreciation of the sonics of our planet like a Chris Watson wearing oil stained overalls. The sounds of ‘Jamaican Blowholes’ sounds like Lord Vader on his deathbed... If you want to hear the sounds of evil wasps mixed with the sound of an Apache helicopter then look no further. Both are flying machines, one organic and one man made, I can hear the connection. I‘m enjoying the rhythms that the rotating blades and headphone pilot communication that ‘Helicopter Trip’ are providing me. Big boys toys! ‘Electroswat’ is like having a big buzzy bee trapped in your processor, and then we’re into more subdued sound for a while before reaching ‘High Force From Above’ which sounds like water crashing from a waterfall into a stream of liquid chaos. ‘Summer Hill Force Against Gibson’s Cave’ ups the noise factor somewhat again with cascading and crashing water noise. ‘Trappers Bait Digital Caller’ has some bird (I think) squeaking that reminds me of being a teenager and very into techno while my brother and I battled for custody of our midi hi-fi where I wanted to play Jeff Mills tapes and he wanted to play back his mock fox calls on loop which he mimed onto tape to play in a field while he shot some bunnies which didn’t go down that well with me being a veggie. 'Falling Snow' captures the gloopy melting crystals of snow changing from a solid into a liquid, secret rhythms of the natural world are revealed. There is little here that has the in your face aggro noise that I was expecting but I just get the vibe that he enjoys the sounds he hears around him and thinks they are wroth sharing with those that ore open to listening. It’s basically just fun and not anally academic and I bet he’s a good laugh to go out on the lash with. ‘Wild Tracks’ is housed in a KIDZBOX™ case which is one of those plastic cases with a handle that my son buzzes off carrying his Bob The Builder and Thomas The Tank Engine DVD’s around in. Out on Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego label which is proving to be very reliable these days."
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/111385
RUSSELL HASWELL - Wild Tracks
Emego
CD // £12.99
ELECTRONIC
Released: Oct 2009
Catalogue Number: EMEGO099
Album of the Week
"Comes packaged in a unique 'KIDZBOX™' and includes a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes. Reknowned extreme sound fetishist Russell Haswell returns with his first release of 2009, following from last year's awesome 'Second Live Salvage'. 'Wild Tracks' is a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations, collecting 15 tracks of 'deliberate recordings' amounting to 73.59.96secs made with other multi media / film projects in mind. The 'Wild Tracks' recordings don't feature any overdubs or compression and document a wide variety of audio experiences including a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony, a horde of flys feasting on a rotting pheasant carcass, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia and two waterfalls in Co. Durham, all detailed on the rear of an accompanying a2 poster, and housed inside the unique KIDZBOX™ packaging (the first commercial to do so, according to Emego!). These sleevenotes are your guide for the release, specifying the techniques and types of microphone used, for instance a hydrophone was used to record 'Falling Snow *4, 20dB (Extract)' and a parabolic dish was used to record 'Local Gamekeepers Shooting A Few Fields Away'. Making the distinction between this and average field recordings, Haswell states "They are not field recordings...they include, and document the noise pollution any regular 'field recordist' would remove or avoid!", so don't expect Chris Watson levels of detail or even the same sounds, you're within the ears of Russell Haswell so be prepared for extreme dynamic level changes. The experience of 'Helicopter Trip' is as visceral as any of Russell's previous recordings, and does beg the question whether this is an elaborate ruse designed to fool us into thinking we're not listening to synthesized sound, but if we trust Editions Mego and the recordist, there's only a few very minor edits made throughout the entire disc. This is certainly a release for those who like to savour and relish intense sound experiences and could possibly qualify as one of the most unexpectedly fascinating releases we've had all year."
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=232912
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks Editions Mego CD
"A disc from notorious noise demon and occasional Merzbow collaborator Russell Haswell called Wild Tracks should be fairly obvious in its extreme qualities. I must admit, I ventured into the album expecting a veritable onslaught of cacophony, but within a few minutes I realized that harsh computer noise was the last thing Wild Tracks was about to provide. Instead, Haswell trades his virtual machines for insects, snow and helicopters, and uses the outside world to create the dynamics he loves in sound art. So we go from near silence to hearing a propane gas cannon and the chattering of birds, then into the whistling of a Jamaican blow-hole, the crunchy stutter of tiny footsteps in an ant colony and the buzz of wasps. It is field recording, but done in Haswell's typically mischievous guerilla style, eschewing the usual pastoral beauty of the birds and bees recordings for gunshots and aircraft engines. When the album does finally come to a close, however, we do reach a pair of quite ineffably beautiful tracks -- one of falling snow, amplified by twenty decibels and one of whistling winds. Both have a calm and solitude in their familiarity, but Haswell enhances the odder qualities giving it a spine-chilling edge impossible to ignore. Coming housed in a giant plastic handled case, this is no doubt a beguiling release but one that should amaze more on each subsequent listen. Recommended." [JT] (Released 2009)
http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Show_Info.cgi?ID=9570702.14552&catalog_id=88222
It seems David Keenan doesn't bother to listen to albums, if the sleeve notes describe its contents!
The reviewer once played on the same bill as OASIS!?
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks Editions Mego CD
"Packaged in an elaborate plastic Kidzbox DVD case, Wild Tracks almost looks like some kind of children’s game from the 1980s that you would find hanging on the racks in a cool toy store. And it sounds like it was a lot of fun to make, consisting of extreme environmental recordings made by Russell Haswell in a variety of unlikely situations, sticking microphones into anthills, recording falling snow, capturing the sounds of “Local Gamekeepers Shooting A Few Fields Away”. It combines the disobedient thrill of being where you shouldn’t with an endearing, almost childlike inquisitiveness.
Haswell makes a point of insisting that these recordings are not actually field recordings but rather soundtracks with the visual component removed, previously used as part of various multimedia and film projects. He calls them “deliberate recordings”, but seeing as most field recordings are just as deliberately conceived, it feels a bit like splitting hairs, albeit with a tiny microphone attached.
Throughout Wild Tracks Haswell seems to work as a lightning rod for displays of military hardware, with the sound of attack helicopters and air defence fighters interrupting a few of the recordings and giving the CD an atmosphere of covert infiltration and Cold War paranoia. The extensive sleevenotes illuminate some of the more minimal tracks, as when he suggests headphones for “Wasp War” so that you can experience the feeling of wasps flying straight into your skull, and compares the later arrival on the scene of two attack helicopters as sonically comparable to the surround sound mix of the Antarctic husky/alien hunt-down scene from John Carpenter’s The Thing. But despite Haswell’s protests and his admirable determination to avoid “rainforest and nocturnal amphibian type material”, Wild Tracks fails to transcend its straightforward documentation of environmental sound, making for a series of field recordings that are interesting in terms of their ideas and execution but with little in terms of extended sonic appeal."
David Keenan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keenan
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
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RUSSELL HASWELL - WILD TRACKS (CD by Editions Mego)
"Nicely packed in a Kidzbox (trademarked but I have no idea when and where they are used - I don't see them with the kids I spot every now and then), this is a new direction for Russell Haswell. "Wild track: sound recorded during production without picture' according to Vincent LoBrutto in 'Sound-On Film'. Moving away from his computer based (noise-) music, Haswell goes into the territory of field recording here: "'deliberate recordings' made with other multi media/film projects in mind". No post processing, overdubs or compression. Yet Haswell wants us also to understand that these recordings are about 'noise pollution' and recordings of sounds other people working in the same field of recording would want to avoid. We have here helicopter trips, flies (on a rotting pheasant carcass), rocket launch, Jamaican blowhole and 'exceptionally loud propane gas cannon bird scarer' - all tracks are named after what we hear. For those who love pure sound - and that includes me - its quite alright that it doesn't include the rainforest or 'nocturnal amphibian type material': this material sounds truly fascinating too. Excellent recordings (made with all kinds of different microphones and various recording machines), which hardly sounds like pollution at all. Maybe Cage was right when he said 'all sound is music'? Haswell has some pretty nice pieces going here and its a brave step outside his normal routine so far." (FdW?)
http://www.vitalweekly.net/699.html
Adventures In Modern Music 24 September 2009
Published 28/09/09 | The Wire On Air
featured: Russell Haswell: Jamaican Blowhole From Wild Tracks (Editions Mego)
Hosted by Derek Walmsley. With Noel Hawks of Pressure Sounds live in the studio
Listen to 'Adventures In Modern Music 24 September 2009'
File: Mp3, 49kbps mono
Length: 90:56 (32.09MB)
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http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3066/
Saturday 7 November 2009
Aldeburgh Snape Maltings: Hoffmann Building.
Autumn season, Faster Than Sound
Faster Than Sound: LISTEN
Curated by Russell Haswell
Bernie Krause, Chris Watson, Russell Haswell, Tony Myatt.
Curated by audio and visual artist Russell Haswell, who has presented installations for both art gallery and concert hall internationally, this promises to be a pioneering residency that brings spectacular sounds from the natural world to the Hoffmann Building.
Chris Watson and Bernie Krause are both electronic music pioneers and leading sound recordists in their fields; whether consciously or not, we have heard their work in recordings for David Attenborough, or for the world's largest collection of recordings of (now destroyed) rain-forest. But there is more to them.
They are bio-acoustic and natural history specialists and, as an electronic musician, Krause is also known for bringing the Moog synthesizer to Europe, and was also a 'synthesist' on Apocalypse Now. Chris Watson was a member of 'Cabaret Voltaire' from 1972-81, and also of 'The Hafer Trio' from 1981-84. With the assistance of Tony Myatt and interference from Russell Haswell, they will present an acoustic habitat in the Hoffmann Building, a fully immersive ambisonic/surround sound event that will astound and amaze!
See also: Wednesday 4 November - free pre-event talk with the creative team.
Britten Studio, Snape 6pm.
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/faster-sound-listen
Russell Haswell's 'A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS (EXTRACT)' is premiered at the REM | Electronic Music Series event:
Feldwiederbänder im REM Zoo.
REM CONCERT 69 | 27.AUGUST 2009, 20.00 UHR
Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art
Teerhof 20 28199
Bremen Germany
Fon: +49–(0)421–59 83 9-0
Fax: +49–(0)421–50 52 47
E-mail: mail(at)weserburg.de
http://weserburg.de/index.php?id=98&L=1
Cat. No.: eMEGO 099
Artist: Russell Haswell
Title: WILD TRACKS
Format: CD
Barcode: 9120020387736
Release Date: October 2nd 2009
1. EXCEPTIONALLY LOUD PROPANE GAS CANNON BIRD SCARER
2. JAMAICAN BLOWHOLE
3. ANT COLONY (FEATURING EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON F2 FLYBY)
4. WASP-WAR (FEATURING APACHE AH Mk 1 DUET)
5. HELICOPTER TRIP (EDIT)
6. A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS (EXTRACT)
7. ELECTROSWAT (PLAYLIST RE-EDIT)
8. LOCAL GAMEKEEPERS SHOOTING A FEW FIELDS AWAY
9. MISSING / HITTING BEER CAN TARGET
10. ROCKET LAUNCH
11. HIGH FORCE FROM ABOVE
12. SUMMERHILL FORCE FROM INSIDE GIBSON’S CAVE
13. TRAPPERS BAIT DIGITAL CALLER
14. FALLING SNOW #4, +20dB (EXTRACT)
15. DRAMATIC WHINING WIND
Total Playing Time: 73.59
Recorded in Suffolk, Co. Durham, St. Lucia & Jamaica 2007-2009.
Edited, compiled and mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk
WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!
"wild track: Sound recorded during production without picture."
(SOUND-ON FILM. VINCENT LoBRUTTO?. Praeger, 1994. p.287)
Russell Haswell returns with a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations (‘Live Salvage’ & ‘Second Live Salvage’).
WILD TRACKS is a collection of ‘deliberate recordings’ made with other multi media / film projects in mind. These recordings do not contain any overdubs or compression, and document a wide variety of audio experiences. Taking you to a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony and to the entrance of wasp nest in Suffolk, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia, two waterfalls in County Durham, as well as the sound of freshly fallen snow, flies being electrocuted and contributions from various military tactical airlift planes, air defence fighters and attack helicopters.
The recordings on WILD TRACKS were realised using a variety of techniques including using hydro-phones to record falling snow, recording gamekeepers many fields away with a parabolic dish, as well as binaural, ‘near-field’ & ‘direct’.
At Editions Mego, we understand this to be the first commercially released audio CD to be packaged in a KIDZBOX™ containing a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes.
Unlike any other release this season!
http://www.editionsmego.com
To commemorate Warp's 20th anniversary, they will release a deluxe special-edition, Warp20 (Box Set).
The package features new songs, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected as some of his personal favorites by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans on Warp20.net. It also includes a beautifully produced book showcasing the label’s rich design history, along with an exclusive hour-long mix and a locked-groove vinyl set.
included somewhere inside:
Russell Haswell 'Cabasa Cabasa' (Original by Wild Planet)
Unreleased 1999 kyma experiment mix.
Decomposed and Deranged by Russell Haswell in Sheffield 1999.
http://warp.net/records/warp20/warp20-box-set-first-tracklistings-confirmed
Russell Haswell
Recorded While It Actually Happened
Tochnit Aleph MC
"Most albums of field recordings evince a sense of wonder, however latent, at the sonic richness of the natural world, and a desire to document it and shape it into narrative episodes. With a title both matter-of-fact neutral and breathlessly schlocky, Russell Haswell’s Recorded While It Actually Happened adopts a more dystopian approach. The entirety of its first side is taken up with a 30 minute recording entitled, presumably accurately, “A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass”. Perhaps because it’s a mono recording on a miniature microphone, it isn’t terribly rich in environmental detail, but the scene is effectively conveyed. The buzzing of the flies soon becomes psychologically relentless, as banal in sound as the activity is gruesome. It’s not without moments of mordant wit – at one point a chorus of birds burst blithely into song, and later on a crow also squawks approvingly. Chris Watson gets thanked in the sleevenotes, as do Napalm Death, Carcass and Entombed. Horrorcore field recordings – to my knowledge, an entirely new genre. Lurking on side two is the 13 minute “Electroswat”, a succession of bursts of digital noise which string themselves into spluttering barrages before collapsing in fizzling heaps. It’s followed by “Reverse Electroswat”, a 16 minute remix which refines its source matter into erratically modulated streams of bristling, sharp fragments."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
HASWELL & HECKER present UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #21 at the largest contemporary arts festival in Portugal, SERRALVES EM FESTA!
SUNDAY 31.05.09
TIME: 22:00 - 23:00
Place: Ténis
http://www.serralvesemfesta.com/gca/index.php?id=443&continuas=
RUSSELL HASWELL
Recorded While it Actually Happened
Tochnit Aleph
10/10
"Like Bear Grylls with a really expensive microphone, Russell Haswell goes back to nature on this recording of events that took place deep in the Suffolk countryside during 2007 and 2008. For 30 minutes, “A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass” documents in remarkable detail the devouring of a dead bird by numerous flies (if anyone from the RSPB is reading, Haswell did not kill the bird—it was already dead when he found it). As the insects tuck in and zip off, this cacaphony of buzzing ebbs and flows, and the macabre mood is brightened by sporadic birdsong. The second side of this extremely yellow 60-minute cassette features “Electroswat”, a recording of flies being electrocuted; the juicier the fly, the louder the squelch. After that comes “Reverse Electroswat (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB)”, which is “Electroswat” played backwards. To those who’ve followed Haswell’s career, this gnarly piece sounds a lot like those live laptop performances he was doing five or six years ago—one in particular, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in September 2003, springs to mind. Anyway, here’s the quote for the poster: More fun than Animal Collective!" SUBURBAN DWIGHT
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n4/htdocs/records-845.php
Russell Haswell will DJ at the after-party for: On/ Off - Mark Stewart from the Pop Group to the Maffia (World Premiere). Genesis Cinema + Rhythm Factory, London, Tues 28th April, 7.30pm http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/index.php?/programme/C16/#onoff
Russell Haswell is highlighted in the Wires review of the BLOC WEEKEND 09. "Russell Haswell is a terrific wild card on Sunday, playing John Carpenter style soundtracks, drone and brutalist rhythm, in dramatic and highly effective style that deliberately exacerbates the awkward transitions between loud and soft. A small but mashed-up crowd quickly tune in with the stark contrasts and jagged disjoints in the set. If this degree of rhythmic perversity can find an audience at BLOC, then there’s every reason to think the festival will continue to be a serious proving ground for the evolution of electronic music." Derek Walmsley
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
The WIRE review: Haswell & Hecker: Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK.
"The current exhibition in the Barbican’s art gallery, a survey of the works of venerated Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier, has spawned a number of supplementary film screenings, panel discussions and concerts. Among them was a day of ‘immersion’ in the works of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, who was employed as an assistant by Corbusier in Paris from 1947 to the late 50s. The day’s events included performances of several Xenakis works and culminated in a late night ‘diffusion session’ by Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker.
The session’s material is composed using Xenakis’s UPIC software, which translates lines drawn on a graphics tablet into sound. These sessions usually take place in darkness, accompanied by laser light shows. The gallery setting meant that tonight the lights had to stay on, though a solitary beam was permitted to fire wavering green lines at the ceiling’s darker recesses. What the performance lost in sensory overload, however, it gained in conceptual resonance.
Its unsocial past-midnight start time encouraged a good chunk of the audience to locate spots around display cases or in front of paintings and photographs in which to slump uncomfortably. Those with the energy to remain upright could wander around the space, exploring the permutations of sounds and track their movements between the ten speakers scattered around the gallery space.
One of the exhibition’s points of focus is the Philips Pavilion, commissioned for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. The building was the cause of the breakdown in the relationship between Xenakis, who was largely responsible for its design, and Corbusier, who claimed the credit for it. The pavilion greeted its visitors with an extravagant aesthetic experience: a light show, film footage, and music (Xenakis’s Concr ete PH and Edgard Varèse’s Poème Électronique) relayed through hundreds of speakers embedded in the structure.
Like the material on Haswell & Hecker’s 2007 album Blackest Ever Black, the duo’s performance was a multichannel barrage of synthesized tones, ascending and deteriorating in swooping arcs, skidding around the gallery and bouncing off its concrete walls. The setting contextualised the music in an explicit historical narrative, reminding us of the origins of Xenakis’s aesthetic, a favour Haswell & Hecker repaid by illustrating how the generations who have followed him have developed his ideas." Nick Cain
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Evidence Photo of Russell Haswell @ BLOC, Minehead, March 2009. Photo by i,max:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_imax/3390429905/
Iannis Xenakis (Frankreich): Mycenae Alpha (1978)
Haswell & Hecker (England / Deutschland): Blackest Ever Black (2007)
Klangregie: L.v. Haußen, J.v. Hasselt und C. Ogiermann
REM Konzert 65 | 26.März 2009, 20.00 Uhr
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany.
http://www.weserburg.de/index.php?id=98
21 03 09 URBANOMIC FALMOUTH.UF5. RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
8.00 INTRODUCTION
8.05 INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL HASWELL [RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON 20 03 09]
8.35 A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS [30:00.00]
9.05 ELECTROSWAT [13:46.23]
9.15 REVERSE ELECTROSWAT (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB) [16:00.00]
NO ENTRY AFTER 8.10
Premiere of Russell Haswell's A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass and Electroswat. Recordings made in the field ('near-field' & 'direct-contact' + 'artificial-worldizing'). With Installation by Urbanomic.
Urbanomic Studio, The Old Lemonade Factory, off Windsor Terrace, Falmouth, TR11 3EX.
http://www.urbanomic.com
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com
Haswell & Hecker UPIC Diffusion Session @ Skaņu Mežs 2008 from Vladekk on Vimeo.
Evidence of Russell Haswell @ BLOC posted on SURGEON's BACK TO THE GRINDER BLOG.
http://dj-surgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/russell-haswell.html
Russell Haswell is DJ-ing at BLOC WEEKEND, alongside DJ Benetti in the Cocadisco Room.
http://www.blocweekend.com/
A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS [30:00.00]
ELECTROSWAT [13:46.23]
REVERSE ELECTROSWAT (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB) [16:00.00]
All Recordings made in the field. ('near-field' & 'direct-contact' + 'artificial-worldizing'!). Edited, Compiled and Mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk, UK. 2007-2008. Edition of 200 Copies. Pro-duplicated & printed 60 minute cassette.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/haswell/
Haswell and Hecker
UPIC Diffusion Session #20
7 March 2009
Barbican Art Gallery
Tickets: Free to same day ticket holders
Time: Midnight
subject to availability
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker employ composer Iannis Xenakis’s UPIC ‘graphic input’ computer music composing system in a multi-channel electroacoustic diffusion concert and use surround sound and laser lighting to create an immersive multi-sensory environment.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8664
the new issues of COLLAPSE contains a Tochnit Aleph advert for their next 2 cassette releases!
Featuring four in-depth interviews along with numerous absorbing essays and new work by three major contemporary artists, this impressive 587-page volume manages the unlikely feat of continuing Collapse's tendency to expand with each subsequent publication!
http://www.urbanomic.com/
early 2009 Tochnit-Aleph will release the LIMITED EDITION C60 Compact Cassette Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/
"Like the alva noto album, this is a beautifully cut two-record set that adds a distinct physicality to that most virtual of genres - computer music. Russell Haswell is a bona fide sound artist - his work mostly consists of site-specific installations and performances and is not really designed for home listening. Haswell's Live Salvage albums compound this fact by presenting documentary-style live recordings as his most high-profile commercially available releases.
From a purely sonic standpoint, it's an approach that works wonders. Like his sometime collaborator Florian Hecker, Haswell is a hardcore proponent of academic-grade music software. Again like Hecker, he uses this definitively cerebral sound source to unleash an astonishingly visceral sound, the elemental power of which is truly transcendent. It makes sense that, to facilitate the transformation from bits-and-bytes to true, air-shaking sonic chaos, Haswell has to situate his music in a room. Heard on headphones, straight from the hard-drive of Haswell's laptop, this stuff wouldn't have half the force it does.
Second Live Salvage is sourced entirely from audience recordings of Haswell performances. The sound quality is variable but none of the recordings take the edge off Haswell's raw power - quite the opposite, one suspects. This is the sound of computer music getting out of the ether and bringing the house down."
http://blogglebumcage.blogspot.com/
Haswell & Hecker: Diffusion Session #13 from Sheikh Ahmed on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/1641100
"Let me, before any explanation, jump right away to the bone of it all : Second Live Salvage is a hell of a fucking great record. That said we can pursue with the introduction.
Released by Peter Rehberg´s Mego Second Live Salvage is multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell second solo effort, after his well known and celebrated collaborations with the likes of Masami Akita and Florian Hecker.
Based on recorded improvisations in various locations Second Live Salvage includes some of the most intelligent, inventive and stimulating pieces of noise music in years. In an era where noise has become sort of a musical institution, just like any other pop genre, it's great to know that are still artists testing and smashing the boundaries of noise as a genre.
In Haswell´s music we find the brutality of the most abrasive noise (with clear connections to Japanese noise) and the legacy of electroacoustic-music, following the concepts of notable XX century composers like Iannis Xenakis or Alvin Lucier. Haswell´s music is one made of apparent ambiguities, and perhaps that's where relies the magic of his music - even thought the sounds are violent and extreme they are profoundly human in the way they communicate emotions and there are always multiple layers of interpretation in each sound. What is also very interesting here is how the exploration of the idea of "truth" and music in a "live act" are connected to the idea of "salvage" present in the title and how they are expressed in the way the audience and the space where each track was recorded are included in the pieces as an actual element of composition.
A must have that should appear in any "best of 2008" list."
http://stabbedintheface.blogspot.com/2008/10/russell-haswell-second-live-salvage.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/25/popandrock1
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #17.Skanu mežs festival, Riga.
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #19.Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=haswell+hecker&search_type=&aq=0&oq=haswell
HASWELL & HECKER present the nineteenth multi-channel UPIC Diffusion Session + LASER supporting Corrupted feat. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka
The circle of corruption night at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 16.10.08.
http://www.luff.ch/en/festival/2008/music/thursday/
Tue 07/10, 9.30 pm
Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose
Intensification: Get High!
Russell Haswell (GB)
Curated by Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)
http://www.steirischerherbst.at/2008/english/calendar/calendar.php?eid=105
Dusted Magazine online reviews Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4550
Thomas Duzer's translation (French) of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online as PDF.
http://anaximandrake.blogspirit.com/list/traductions/Mackay_Blackest_Ever_Black.2.pdf
Second Live Salvage is discussed @ microbionic.blogspot:
http://microbionic.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-overdubs.html
Second Live Salvage is discussed @ TRONIKS/Chondritic Sound NOISE forum:
http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17959
THE BLOGGLEBUM CAGE online blog reviews Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage:
"Russell Haswell is certainly a dude with spotlessly dark credentials; a fan of black metal and Whitehouse. And yet, there's something else happening on his latest double LP, Second Live Salvage. First of all, Haswell takes an restlessly cerebral approach to his noise. These visceral sound-art erruptions are powered entirely by high-end, academic computer music software.
The other interesting thing about Second Live Salvage is that it's a collection of live recordings sourced from audience members. The official-bootleg concept takes Haswell's music away from it's digital source and puts it in a room. This only adds to the elemental power of his mind-bending noise constructions. Second Live Salvage is viciously intelligent.
It also has a great cover, which is possibly a pastiche of Keith Jarrett's new age jazz classic The Koln Concert."
http://blogglebumcage.blogspot.com/2008/08/white-noise-pink-noise-and-new-age.html
Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000, is now available for download for the first time at iTunes:
Second Live Salvage released today on 2xLP by editionsMEGO!
+ Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000, released for download for the first time, on MP3 & FLAC at BOOMKAT...
"This release follows up on Haswell's release eight years ago of the first Live Salvage album, which compiled live recordings made between 1997 and 2000. Since then, Haswell has released collaborative works with Merzbow (on Warp's Satanstornade) and Florian Hecker - the Gilbert to his George, the Eric (or indeed Burt) to his Ernie. Fortunately, Haswell has also been playing live extensively, amassing a new cache of live recordings to throw our way. At this stage, it would probably be worth pointing out to those of you who have not yet guessed it, that Russell Haswell is a noise musician, one who straddles both the cerebral noise world of the eMego camp and the more brutish, DIY, Japanese-inspired aesthetic. The range of terrifying timbres on show during Second Live Salvage is headspinning: there are recordings that sound like a swarm of giant bees let loose in a cathedral, others that resemble the sound of a dentist's drill as heard through the vibrations in your own jawbone, and of course, plenty of moments in which you feel compelled to check that you are in fact listening to a record and not, instead, being run over by a train. There are plenty of noise artists out there who know how to play with the extremities of sound, but it takes someone as talented as Haswell to make it a truly transcendent experience. While so many musicians just throw feedback and distortion in your face, this one makes noise sound like an entity unto itself - not a by-product of some aggressive signal processing or merely something that's too loud - this doesn't sound like music that's the product of distortion pedals and so forth: Russell Haswell gives birth to noise, as if it was never anything other than noise. It's absolute, tyrannical and annihilatingly powerful. Unbelievably good - a massive recommendation." BOOMKAT.
Second Live Salvage 2xLP: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=110277
What was said about Russell haswell: 'Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000': "play this to a Slipknot fan and watch his head fall off." unknown web source
"It reminds us of death. But death sells! As will 'Live Salvage' - though mostly to smug wanker's who like to confuse their less 'artistic' friends with a barrage of outré unpleasantness." Muzik
"This is fine granulation work. I will play it for my lectures on 'Noise Resources in Electronic Music'." Curtis Roads
"The abstract noise excesses contained on this CD present a clear sign of an attitude critical of technology, and in addition help rehabilitate the somewhat forgotten expression, "Fuck You"." de:bug
"a fearsome, skull shattering, flesh shredding display of electronic hostility." the WIRE
"Notes reveal that seven people attended the digital apocalypse that was '11:18:24, 2000, LOK, München'. Now you can experience the terror in your own home." NME
"Haswell has made a record that not only demands but also commands your attention" Other Music
Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000 MP3 & FLAC: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=110612&highlight=110621
SPEX magazine reviews SECOND LIVE SALVAGE:
"Der Auseinandersetzung mit der subtilen, sachlichen Gefährlichkeit von Ryoji Ikeda soll an dieser Stelle die erneute Erwähnung eines Künstlers folgen, der sehr wohl auf urwüchsigen Krawall setzt, um von sich reden zu machen: Obwohl Russell Haswell stets dem Elektronischen verbunden bleibt, produziert er doch eine Musik, die sich ästhetisch nicht nur am naheliegenden Noise-Sound aus Japan und Europa, sondern zudem an der Fäuste ballenden Art extremer Rock-Spielarten speist. Die Compilation »Second Live Salvage« (Editions Mego) präsentiert Haswell in mehreren sehr unterschiedlichen Episoden seiner Erschütterungswut, die er zuweilen mit so viel rostiger Substanz überlädt, dass er sein eigenes Equipment einer wahren Belastungsprobe unterzieht. Interessant ist, dass die vorliegenden Aufnahmen erst im Nachhinein und oftmals gar aus zweiter Hand zusammengetragen wurden: Im Mastering-Prozess hat Haswell versucht, aus dem Gedächtnis die Atmosphäre des jeweiligen Auftritts zu rekonstruieren. Das Ergebnis schließlich hat was von einem ruppigen, liebevollen Bootleg, wird aber leider nur zu Promozwecken ganz angemessen im anachronistischen Tape-Format herausgegeben. Die offizielle Variante erscheint auf Vinyl."
http://www.spex.de/t2/429/kolumnen.html
Full page review of eMEGO 013 Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2x12" vinyl appears in July 2008 issue of The Wire. *NOTE: the WIRE reviewed SECOND LIVE SALVAGE from the 'cassette only' PROMO, on an old Walkman (is it a SONY?) as they dont have a cassette deck! We have no idea of the quality of their headphones, speakers and/or the listening environment!
http://www.thewire.co.uk
MIRE Blog entry, draws attention to the Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, PROMO CASSETTE.
"...a promo release for the forthcoming Russell Haswell Editions Mego double LP Second Live Salvage (fearsome, thrilling noise architecture). The Wire office has been without a tape deck for a short while, so I had to do my own salvaging, retrieving mine from the loft to play it on." DEREK WALMSLEY
http://www.thewire.co.uk/themire/
Haswell & Hecker contribute to the upcoming Flying Swimming CD Compilation: 'Composition 3', the other contributors are Trevor Wishart, and Rashad Becker. Released early August 2008.
LIMITED EDITION: 500 copies!
http://www.ffss.info
LOVEBYTES have uploaded the first TEN minutes of HASWELL & HECKER's: UPIC Diffusion Session #9.
eMEGO 013 Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, 2x12" vinyl LP goes into production!
5 solo live recordings + one 'bonus recording': RUSSELL HASWELL & TOSHIJI MIKAWA(of INCAPACITANTS).
Release Date: 30.06.2008!
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/CataloguePage#emego013
HASWELL & HECKER present their eighteenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the 'let's go MENTAL', Lopud Seminar 2008. Lopud Island, Croatia.
http://www.tba21.org/
HASWELL & HECKER present their seventeenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the Skaņu mežs festival, Riga, Latvia.
9pm Big Hall. 9.5.08.
http://skanumezs.lv
Haswell & Hecker are the support act at the penultimate WHITEHOUSE live action!
* NOTE: This is NOT a UPIC Diffusion Session.
kuratiert von peter rehberg (eMego)
live: whitehouse (UK) + haswell & hecker (UK / D)
dj ddkern vk 7.-/ak 8.-
rhiz - bar modern
guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 vienna - austria
phone: ++43 1 409 25 05
http://rhiz.org/
David Falconer/Russell Haswell exhibit a collaborative artwork in TELEPORT FÄRGFABRIKEN.
The grand opening exhibition of Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden.
Curated by Jan Åman and CM von Hausswolff.
Artists include: Adelle Lutz, Albin Karlsson, Angelo Plessas, Anita Gordh, Andreas Angelidakis, Annika Larsson, Armin Linke, Bajki, Brody Condon, Carsten Höller, Carsten Nicolai, CCA Kitakyushu, Chris Anthony, CM Lundberg, Cory Archangel, David Lynch, Elaine Tin Nyo, Ernst Billgren, Erika Blumenfeld, Finnbogi Pétursson, François Roche, Farshid Moussavi, Fredrik Wretman, FRONT, Young Hea Chang & Heavy Industries, Henrik Samuelsson, Helene Billgren, John Duncan, Joachim Koester, Jana Winderen, Jenny Wiklund, Jesper Waldersten, Jörgen Svensson, Jurij Leiderman, Jan Håfström, Erik Håfström, Jan Svenungsson, J.G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jean Pierre Khazem, Katarina Norling, Karl Holmqvist, Kerry Skarbakka, Lena Bergendahl, Leonid Tischkov, Linda Jansson, Liz Cohen, Leif Elggren, Mats Theselius, Manu Luksch, Marie Sester, Maurizio Cattelan, Max Book, Miriam Bäckström, Militärligan, Miltos Manetas, Mathias Johansson, Mai Ueda, Michael Esposito, Nanna Hellberg, Nico Dockx, Nils Furto, Nathalie Djurberg, Ola Pehrson, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Peter Geschwind, Payam Sharifi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dave Falconer/Russell Haswell, Selmer Nilsen, Mike & Doug Starn, Städelschule, Emanuel Swedenborg, Tiina Aste, Tobias Rehberger, Tobias Bernstrup, Ulf Linde / Marcel Duchamp, Veronika Valk, Jorge Garcia-Robles / William S Burroughs...
http://www.fargfabriken.se/index.php?tabell=content&id=191
eMEGO 090
Popol Vuh: Mika Vainio / Haswell & Hecker Remixes 12"
Release Date: 31.03.2008
2 tracks:
Nachts: Schnee (Mika Vainio Remix)
Aguirre I (Haswell & Hecker Remix)
Cut by Rashad Becker @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin December 2007
Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools. This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker.
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/CataloguePage#emego090
HASWELL & HECKER present numbers fifteen and sixteen, of their UPIC Diffusion Session's at the NETMAGE08 Festival. Bologne the 25th and 26th of JANUARY. http://www.netmage.it/net008b.htm
Piers Martin rants and raves about general HASWELL & HECKER activities and releases in the latest UK issue of VICE. http://www.viceland.com
The WIRE reviews UPIC WARP TRACKS + UPIC Diffusion Session #14 in their latest issue!
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
On the evening of 19 December, White Cube will present a special concert with Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker in collaboration with Cerith Wyn Evans, performing material employing composer Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC system.
The performance on 19 December will take place at 7pm at White Cube Hoxton Square. Please contact party@whitecube.com to check availability.
http://www.whitecube.com/
Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) (Warner Classics) is awarded 40th position, in The WIRE 2007 Rewind, 50 Records of the Year!.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Haswell & Hecker: Franz Graf Acid / Acid for Franz Graz is featured in Visionaire 53 Sound.
Visionaire 53: Sound
A portable record player with over 100 minutes of sound on 5 12" vinyl record picture discs and 2 CDs.
Visionaire 53. SOUND consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs), containing approximately 100 minutes of sound content featuring audio experiments, unreleased songs, samples, and spoken word pieces. The 5 records are packaged inside a domed case that also houses a custom-made MINI Clubman "Vinyl Killer" Record Player: a battery-operated toy car containing speakers and a needle. As the little car drives along the record's groove, it plays each track, acting as a fully portable record player and sound system. The issue also includes 2 CD's with all the sound content, and a booklet of credits and instructions. Sound is a limited edition of 4,000 numbered copies and retails for a starting price of $250. However SOUND is included in a standard subscription to Visionaire at no additional cost.
Contributors include: Musicians David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Liza Minelli, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Malcolm Mc Laren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew WK, Danger Mouse; Artists Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Sunno))), Gang Gang Dance; Haswell & Hecker, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara; Fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander Mc Queen, Stefano Pilati; and many more...
http://www.visionaireworld.com/
Warp Records announces Haswell & Hecker: UPIC WARP TRACKS.
ALPHA
BETA
GAMMA
Released 4th February 2008.
Limited CD & Download.
http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1371
substantials #03 (with CD)
Russell Haswell is featured in the CCA Kitakyushu publication 'substantials #03'
ISBN 978-4-901387-72-9
November 30, 2007
pp. 107 with CD
Keiji Haino
Dickson Dee
William Bennett
Russell Haswell
Toshiji Mikawa
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/
COLLAPSE Volume III
November 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 515pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-2-0
Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on Speculative Realism held in London earlier this year.
- Sound artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker contribute some strange and beautiful images taken from the electronic 'score' of their new sound work Blackest Ever Black, an 'introduction to synaesthesia' created using composer Iannis Xenakis's computerised UPIC system to transform contemporary images into sound. An accompanying text by Robin Mackay analyses the affinities between Xenakis's conception of a musical 'polyagogy' and Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism'
Collapse III will probably appear in early November rather than mid-October as planned.
If you are able to post a notice in your place of work or study, please download and print the flyer for Collapse Volume III from http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/docs/a4flyer-c3.pdf
http://www.urbanomic.com/
The WIRE has a four page feature on Russell Haswell, with pictures by Juergen Teller in ISSUE 285.
on the cover: Underground Resistance;-)
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Haswell & Hecker support PAN_SONIC (first London show in years!) with multi-channel UPIC Diffusion Session #13, at the Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1. Thursday 11.10.07. £12 via ROUGH TRADE SHOPS +
hear the RADIO ad here: * RESpanHHad.mp3:
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com
http://www.seetickets.com or phone 08712300010
'Haswell & Hecker diffuse...' their own and other artists work as part of 'Lopud Seminars' September 20-23, 2007 on the isle of Lopud, Croatia.
http://www.tba21.org
Editions Mego release CDR of the live show where KTL were joined by "Special Guest" Russell Haswell.
20070529 Luminaire, London (Salvage Mix) (52:21)
Forest Floor (Filter Mix) (2:01)
Track 1 recorded at Luminaire, Kilburn, London 29th May 2007. Crude LINE & MIC recordings salvaged and mixed by Russell @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk 20th Aug 2007 Special guest: Russell Haswell: Electronics, Crystal Microphone & Computer
Track 2 remixed by Florian @ Hecker Studio, Kissing, August 2006
Limited Edition of 300 copies available on KTL Japan tour September 2007
http://www.editionsmego.com/
Haswell & Hecker participate in Park Nights, Public Experiment: Sound. Friday 7 September. 7 - 9 pm. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
This event explores the architecture of the Pavilion through vibration, tone, duration and sound investigated in its most basic form: the compression of air through space. Architects, musicians and artists create a sonic laboratory by devising and performing hand-held experiments that explore the physicality of the space through the bodily and psychological perception of sound.
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/08/park_nightspublic_experiment_s.html
THE WIRE review Blackest Ever Black in the september issue.
"The digital purism and intellectual strictness of their process should work against it, but in these examples of sight turned into sound, Haswell and Hecker have created an uncanny synaesthesia - a kind of stealth psyshedelia."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Tiny Mix Tapes on-line review Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) and give it 4.5 out of 5!
"...Xenakis would certainly be proud of their achievements, most assuredly of this recording."
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Haswell-Hecker
Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) makes the WIRE Magazine's 'Office Ambience' chart.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Numerous audience-member made videos of various Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Sessions have started to appear on You Tube:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=haswell+hecker&search=
Opening of Your black horizon Art Pavilion by David Adjaye & Olafur Eliasson. Opening reception with Branka Šulc, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Culture of Croatia, Olafur Eliasson, Artist, David Adjaye, Architect, and Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Followed by a celebratory village fest with food and music. • OPENING: Jun 20, 2007, 6.00 pm
Late night concert by Florian Hecker and Russell Haswell in the Renaissance Fortress. Starting at 10.00 pm. Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #12
UPIC Diffusion Session #12, a multi-channel sound performance, utilizes material generated at the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris, using the UPIC system of sound synthesis developed by Xenakis. UPIC is made of a drawing tablet in the size of a large sheet of paper, and allows the user to “draw” a sound composition: the lines drawn with an electronic pen are directly translated into sound. Haswell and Hecker create a diffusion of a composition arranged for the specific situation in the courtyard of the Renaissance Fortress, and construct an immaterial space, superimposed to the existing architecture. Under the official patronage of the Minister of Culture of Republic of Croatia and City of Dubrovnik, with kind support by Lopud town council.
http://www.tba21.org/pavilions_lopud.php
"...It led me back to the sonic Stonehenge, where I saw the highlight of the event: Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker and their performance of Blackest Ever Black..."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0a220cc-1ba6-11dc-bc55-000b5df10621.html
At the SONAR 2007 festival in Barcelona, Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the eleventh, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material they generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' while in residency at CCMIX Paris in 2004.
17:30 Friday 15th June @ SONARCOMPLEX
http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/news.cfm?id_noticia=325
Warner Classics release Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) on JEWEL CASE CD and LIMITED EDITION GATEFOLD DOUBLE VINYL, with sleeve notes by Curtis Roads, Monday 11 June, 2007.
http://www.warnerclassicsandjazz.com/release.php?release=4752
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the tenth (but first 'outoor'!), multi channel electroacoustic UPIC diffusion session at the Aldeburgh festival event, FASTER THAN SOUND, at the Bentwaters Airbase, in suffolk. Saturday 09 June 2007.
http://www.fasterthansound.com/
Russell Haswell improvised electronics and computer as special guest with KTL (Peter Rehberg & Stephen O'Malley) at the Luminaire, Kilburn.
A 71.4 MB mp3 podcast is hosted at KTL LIVE ARCHIVE:
http://www.editionsmego.com/20070529%20Luminaire%2C%20London%2C%20UK.mp3
+ FAIL ME photo set at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/failme/sets/72157600284594112/
Haswell & Hecker UPIC Diffusion Session #9 in on-line photo archive:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovebytes/sets/72157600230935592/
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the ninth, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material they generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' while in residency at CCMIX Paris in 2004.
In true Xenakis spirt the event will include laser and stroboscopic lighting.
18 May 8-9pm Strictly no admittance after 8pm Workstation Studio, Shoreham Street, Sheffield. £8 / 6. http://festival2007.lovebytes.org.uk/event.php?ref=18200001-UPIC-Diffusion-Session-9
Haswell & Hecker present UPIC Diffusion Session #8 at ZKM Karlsruhe, 8 channel electroacoustic diffusion + 2 colour laser. 'between two deaths: the festival'. ZKM_Media Theater, Karlsruhe. Saturday, May 12, 2007, 8 pm – 3 am.
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5713
HASWELL & HECKER: UPIC Diffusion Session # 7.
5th May, 8 - 10 p.m., Städelschule, Dürerstr. 10, Frankfurt am Main, DE.
http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1177077868.txt
http://lectures-staedelschule.blogspot.com/
http://www.nacht-der-museen.de/frankfurt/index3.php?&PHPSESSID=c9a8ef431c66eabc7c45f21a12070621&class=mus&site=37
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present a multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the Donau Festival, Krems, Austria. Halle 1, MONDAY 30 APRIL 2007, 8:30PM.
Part of 'The Throbbing Gristle Project' including, Boredoms, KTL and Phil Niblock.
http://www.donaufestival.at/content-1/festival/program/07/w2/haswell-hecker-1
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the first of this year and fifth in total, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the Zürich Kunsthalle. WEDNESDAY, 14 MARCH 2007, 8 PM
http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch
Warner Classics sign and announce the 2007 release of Haswell & Heckers' Blackest Ever Black album, entirely recorded on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at CCMIX in Paris in 2004.
"...New to the label are the artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker. Their debut album, Blackest Ever Black to be released in early 2007, pushes the boundaries of contemporary classical music, while never losing sight of the tradition they are working within. Using the unique UPIC system of sound synthesis conceived by legendary Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, Haswell & Hecker create their sound-world using visual images - an electronic pen is used on a drawing tablet and the lines are directly translated into sound. Dan Fox, writing in frieze of his experience of hearing Haswell & Hecker live, said, 'I heard the sound of the blackest ever black and listened to the shape of leaves... [they] explore deeply human questions of how our senses apprehend and interpret the world.' Following the critically acclaimed Gyorgy Ligeti Edition and recordings of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Elliott Carter, Warner Classics is proud to continue its affiliation with some of the most challenging and important music being created in the world of classical music today."
Source: Warner Music International
http://www.wmg.com/news/article/?id=8a0af8120e11a13f010e5c7071d74aa5
Russell Haswell takes part, alongside William Bennett (WHITEHOUSE) and Toshiji Mikawa (INCAPACITANTS), in Sound Workshop + Concert at CCA and IKKI in Kitakyushu, Japan, 17th - 20th January 2007.
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/
http://www.susanlawly.freeuk.com/
http://www.japanimprov.com/incapa/index.html
Haswell & Hecker feature in a on-line photo archive of the XXXXX series of events held in London earlier this year!
http://plot.bek.no/~crash2005/xxxxx_2006/xxxxx_image-html/heckerruss02.html
Haswell & Hecker feature in a on-line photo-set of the Frieze Music event at the London Hippodrome, proving Haswell & Hecker did appear in the audience using the front of house MIDAS desk to diffuse their set. Thats why they didn't appear on-stage. Also note their laser and ring of strobes! + obviously the hooded man pics are Sunn 0)))
http://flickr.com/photos/failme/sets/72157594327029492/
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the fourth multi channel electro-acoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' in Frieze Music at London Hippodrome for the Frieze art fair 2006. Also Sunn 0))) play after Haswell & Hecker! Friday 13 October, £14 + booking fee. http://www.seetickets.com
http://www.friezeartfair.com/music/
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker contributed the booklet text for Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor CD which has just been released on Deutsche Grammophon and includes versions of the major work of Steve Reich, Edgar Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Erik Satie etc...
http://www.jimitenor-recomposed.de
http://www.templebargallery.com/2006programme/0609vol01.htm
http://www.project.ie/cgi-bin/eventdetail.pl?id=508
Editions Mego are maintaining the back catalogue of the shut-down Mego Label.
Mego 012 Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997-2000 is now available from:
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/PurchasePage
Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist interview over 50 people (including Russell Haswell) in 24 hours, inside Koolhaas' Serpentine Gallery Pavillion.
NB: the Serpentine Gallery London Marathon runs for 24 hours non-stop from Fri 28/07 6pm till Sat 29/07 6pm
"the list does bear some potential (Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Ken Loach...) and whatever it may come to lack in edification will most likely be made up for by the fun of seeing what happens before dawn... Russell Haswell at 3:30am followed by Damien Hirst at 4am." http://www.kultureflash.net/
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/marathon/index.html
http://www.timeout.com/london/park_night/3185/Serpentine+Gallery+24-hour+Marathon.html
Russell Haswell provides after-show Hard-Disc-Jockey [HDJ] set at the ICA bar following concerts presented by CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF, ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI, MICHEL CHION and FLORIAN HECKER utilizing the 80 speaker GRM Acousmonium.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/cutandsplice/saturday.htm
A mini interview with HASWELL & HECKER is published in MAY issue of COMPUTER MUSIC Magazine (UK) on page 71 as part of a Sonic Art feature entitled 'The Art of Noise'! .
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Haswell/Manheim/Marhaug
Russell Haswell, Kjetil Manheim (original MAYHEM drummer!) and Lasse Marhaug headline DESCENT as live improvised noise trio at SAGE Gateshead.
The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two, Sunday 16 April 4:00 pm.
DESCENT. This all-day event gathers an international cast at Sage to celebrate the use and abuse of noise, drones and feedback in music. The astounding (and deafening!) line-upincludes: an exclusive appearance by Russell Haswell/Kjetil Manheim/Lasse Marhaug, a trio renowned individually and coming together to create an awesome free noise rock tirade; Japanese noise legend and Zeni Geva mainman K K Null; Austrian soundscapist and mainstay of the revered Mego label, Pita; from Ohio, one-man drone-rock orchestra Burning Star Core; Load Records' feedback abuser Prurient; London-based experimental veteran Z'ev; and Newcastle's own drone-rock monolith Jazzfinger. + HIAZ and BRUCE GILBERT added to the bill!!!
http://www.thesagegateshead.org/whats_on/event.aspx?e=&eid=632788030449258759&ts=632808000000000000&spid=5044&id=5045&df=632807424000000000&dt=632808287990000000&g=&p=&f=
http://no-fi.org.uk/
http://blog.manheim.no/
http://www.moonfrost.net/mayhem/members/manheim.htm
http://www.lassemarhaug.no/
frieze magazine Issue 98 April 2006 pages 39-40
Seen and Heard: Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system by Dan Fox. A text-only version can be found at http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/seen_and_heard/
UPIC Diffusion Session 2 @ XXXXX
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the second session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the XXXXX festival at the ICA, London.
ICA london march 24 entry £15 booking 02079303647
http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk/
http://www.ica.org.uk/
http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/upic.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/UPIC.htm
Russell Haswell is NOT performing at the Sunn 0)))/Earth/Consumer Electronics gig at Thekla, Bristol on February 14th as is allegedly listed at some URLs!? 
UPIC Diffusion Session 1
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System'.
Somewhere in london, 7PM 14th DECEMBER 2005! Check http://cubittartists.org.uk/upcoming.html for further details!
http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/upic.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/UPIC.htm
© Doris Woo
ASAGIRI JAM
Russell Haswell plays a Hard-Disc-Jockey [HDJ] set in JAPAN somewhere near Mt. Fuji Saturday 1st October 2005.
http://www.smash-jpn.com/asagiri/timetable.html
All Tomorrows Parties: EASY TO SWALLOW: 2. Curated by Russell Haswell
Saturday 17th September 2005. KOKO, Camden, London.
LEE DORRIAN (dj)
PITA (live)
EARTH (live)
AUTECHRE (live)
ROBERT HOOD (dj)
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/index.php?event=21
Haswell & Hecker: Revision (Mego) single-sided 12” Vinyl, in clear sleeve + large sticker! Edition: 500!
Haswell & Hecker: Orange-Time-Shock-Format-Wave-Re-Composition (Remix for VOICE CRACK)
http://www.mego.at/mego069.html
http://www.warprecords.com/?mart=MEGO069
All Tomorrows Parties: EASY TO SWALLOW. Curated by Russell Haswell
Thursday 2nd June 2005. SEOne Club, London Bridge, London.
CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF (live)
YASUNAO TONE + HECKER (live)
MARK STEWART AND THE MAFFIA (live)
APHEX TWIN ()
WHITEHOUSE (live)
SURGEON + REGIS PRESENT: BRITISH MURDER BOYS ()
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/line_up.php?event=17
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- Published On-line Review: popmatters.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 14.07.10
- Published On-line Video: Russell Haswell Live in Berlin. 01.07.10
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- Event: LIFE IS LIVE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! 06.06.10
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- Published On-line Review: BOOMKAT. Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 14.04.10
- Published On-line Videos: Russell Haswell Live. 12.04.10
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- Published On-line Review: musicomh.com: Autechre @ Bocking Street Warehouse, London, 10 April 2010. 10.04.10
- Announcement: Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 29.03.10
- Published On-line Review: Autechre/Russell Haswell - Sub Club, 16th Mar '10. 18.3.10
- Events: AUTECHRE 2010 euro tour. 11.03.10
- Published On-line Interview: FACT:Russell Haswell: the whole 360° 10.03.10
- Announcement: Russell Haswell curates: The Morning Line in Istanbul 2010. 05.03.10
- Published On-line Video: another UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 02.03.10
- Announcement: Russell Haswell is tour support for AUTECHRE 2010 euro tour. 02.03.10
- Published On-line Video: UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 01.03.10
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 25.02.10
- Published On-line Review:hardformat.org. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego) 13.02.10
- Event: Russell Haswell performs WILD TRACKS+ Surround Upmix @ Lovebytes. 12.02.10
- Published On-line Review: failme.net. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 13.01.10
- Published Chart: THE WIRE 311. 2009 Rewind - Records of The Year. 18.12.09
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- Published On-line Review: viceland.com/blogs/de. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 05.12.09
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- Event: Russell Haswell curated event: LISTEN. 7.11.09
- Published On-line Review: EARLabs. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 6.11.09
- Published On-line Review: allmusic.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 5.11.09
- Published On-line Review: Norman Records. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 16.10.09
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- Published Review: THE WIRE 293. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 15.10.09
- Published On-line Review: VITAL WEEKLY. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 07.10.09
- On-line Track: Russell Haswell: Jamaican Blowhole. 28.09.09
- Announcement: Russell Haswell curates: LISTEN @ Aldeburgh. 29.08.09
- Event: Russell Haswell premier @ REM | Electronic Music Series. 27.08.09
- Announcement: Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 29.07.09
- Announcement: Russell Haswell: Warp20 (Box Set). 02.07.09
- Published Review: THE WIRE #305. RUSSELL HASWELL: Recorded While it Actually Happened. C60 Cassette (Tochnit Aleph). 20.06.09
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #21. 31.05.09
- Published Review: VICE MAGAZINE vol 7 #4. RUSSELL HASWELL: Recorded While it Actually Happened. C60 Cassette (Tochnit Aleph). 18.05.09
- Event: On/ Off - Mark Stewart from the Pop Group to the Maffia (World Premiere). 28.04.09
- Published Review: THE WIRE 303. BLOC WEEKEND. 17.04.09
- Published Review: THE WIRE 303. Haswell & Hecker: Barbican Art Gallery. 17.04.09
- Published On-line Photo: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 02.04.09
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 02.04.09
- Event: Haswell & Hecker's Blackest ever Black is together with Iannis Xenakis Mycenae Alpha subject of the 65th edition of the Reihe Elektronischer Musik, Bremen. 26.03.09
- Event: Urbanomic Event UF5 Saturday 21st March. 21.03.09
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 19.03.09
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #17. 19.03.09
- Published On-line Photo: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 15.03.09
- Event: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 13.03.09
- Release: Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. C60 CASSETTE, TOCHNIT ALEPH TA089. 01.03.09
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 3.2.09
- Published AD: COLLAPSE V. 3.2.09
- Announcement: Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. (TOCHNIT-ALEPH) 10.10.08
- Published On-line Chart: blogglebumcage.blogspot: Top Ten of the Year 2008: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 1.10.08
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #13 added to VIMEO! 25.10.08
- Published On-line Review: stabbedintheface.blogspot: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 23.09.08
- Published Review: GUARDIAN: Girls Aloud, The Promise. 25.10.08
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #17 + #19 added to You Tube! 20.10.08
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #19. 16.10.08
- Event: Russell Haswell @ steirischer herbst 2008. 07.10.08
- Published On-line Review: dustedmagazine: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 23.09.08
- Published Article: "Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite". 28.08.08
- On-line Blog: microbionic: "No overdubs". 28.08.08
- On-line Forum: TRONIKS: RUSSELL HASWELL "SECOND LIVE SALVAGE". 20.08.08
- Published On-line Review: THE BLOGGLEBUM CAGE: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 09.08.08
- Release: Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000. iTunes. 14.07.08
- Release: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage. 2xLP. + Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000. MP3 & FLAC. 30.06.08
- Published Review: SPEX. Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 14.06.08
- Published Review: THE WIRE 293. Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 09.06.08
- Published Blog: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, PROMO CASSETTE. 03.06.08
- Announcement: Flying Swimming CD Compilation: 'Composition 3'. 03.06.08
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #9 on You Tube! 27.05.08
- Announcement: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, 2x12" vinyl. 12.05.2008
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #18. 9-12.5.08
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #17. 9.5.08
- Event: Haswell & Hecker support WHITEHOUSE. 8.5.08
- Exhibition: TELEPORT FÄRGFABRIKEN. Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden. 02.04.2008
- Release: Haswell & Hecker remix POPOL VUH. 31.03.2008
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #15 & #16. 25+26.1.08
- Published Article: VICE Magazine: Electric Independence. _.1.08
- Published Review: THE WIRE _. UPIC WARP TRACKS + UPIC Diffusion Session #14 _.1.08
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #14. 19.12.07
- Published Chart: THE WIRE 282. 2007 Rewind - Records of The Year. 18.12.07
- Release: Haswell & Hecker: Visionaire Magazine # 53 'Sound'. 18.12.07
- Announcement: Haswell &Hecker: UPIC Warp Tracks (Warp Records). 18.12.07
- Published Article: substantials #03 (with CD). 30.11.07
- Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER, and Robin Mackay collaboration. _.11.07
- Published Feature: THE WIRE NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE 285. 18.10.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #13. 11.10.07
- Event: 'Haswell & Hecker diffuse...' 21.9.07
- RELEASE: KTL: Eine eiserne Faust in einem Samthandschuh CDR 14.09.07
- Event: Public Experiment: Sound 7.9.07
- Published Review: THE WIRE 283. Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) _.9.07
- Published On-line Review: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) _.8.07
- Published Chart: THE WIRE 282. _.8.07
- Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Sessions on You Tube! 1.7.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #12. 20.6.07
- Published Article: Financial Times Aldeburgh Review. 16.6.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #11. 15.6.07
- Announcement: Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics) 11.6.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #10. 9.6.07
- Podcast: KTL 20070529 Luminaire, London, UK. 30.5.07
- Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #9. 19.5.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #9. 18.5.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #8. 12.5.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #7. 5.5.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #6. 30.4.07
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #5. 14.3.07
- RELEASE: Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics) 26.2.07
- Event: CCA KITAKYUSHU JAPAN. 17-20.1.07
- Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #2. 1.12.06
- Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #4. 16.10.06
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #4. 13.10.06
- Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER CD booklet text: Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor _.09.06
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #3. 27.09.06
- On-Line Shop: Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997-2000 (Mego 012)
- Event: Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist 24-hour Interview Marathon. 28-29.07.06
- Event: Cut & Splice: Acousmonium @ ICA. 6.5.06
- Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER mini interview. _.5.06
- Event: DESCENT: Haswell/Manheim/Marhaug @ SAGE Gateshead 16.4.06 CANCELLED!
- Published Article: frieze magazine. _.04.06
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #2. 24.03.06
- Event: Sunn 0)))/Earth/Consumer Electronics 14.02.06
- Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #1. 14.12.05
- Event: ASAGIRI JAM. 1.10.05
- Curated Event: ATP:ETS:2. 17.09.05
- Vinyl Reissue: Haswell & Hecker: Revision. 29.06.05
- Curated Event: ATP:ETS. 2.06.05
Published On-line Review: ducksbattlesatan.com. Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 11.08.10
"Russell Haswell has produced a rather odd record. The first nine tracks on Value are merely tonal and sound-texture tests for want of a better description. Sub Bass Test is exactly that and only that. There is no trick to it. Sine Wave/nO!se @-10.2 Db RMS gives you a fair idea what that track sounds like. I suppose if you were interested in noise building blocks then the first nine tracks have some interest but I found it all a bit perplexing. The question is- is this merely noise onanism? Is this an indication that Haswell thinks of his art so highly that it should be dissected and analysed? I don’t know what the answer is but after those nine strange tracks, Haswell goes on to produce a fantastic racket which would satisfy any noise fan. The eleventh track (Trk 4) is a melting pot of distortion, futuristic pulse, Wiese-style cut ups and reversals and grinding noise circa 1994 Merzbow. Acid nO!se is where glitch meets noise and made for the most hardcore Rave ever held. Coventry is my favourite track- It begins as a lone .snd style beat mixed with a noise that is oddly reminiscent of a field recoding of a jet taking off before morphing into a harsh beat-fest. Thursday Afternoon 15102009 is all jack hammer noise nastiness. The second disc Bonus comprises two tracks. The first, Nocturnal Playlist Edit + Wave Repeat Variations combines what might be field recordings of birds with the sound of the beach underneath it before being slightly processed to make something much more unpleasant. I thought it ws pretty intresting that even a minor tweek in the field recording can make something go from peaceful to the exact opposite. The hour long final track says it all really Roberts R871 FM/MW/LW/SW 1-12 Unedited Radio Scan Solo (after Michael Snow, Consumer Electronics,Toshiji Mikawa).""I’ve had this for three months and I still don’t think I’m any closer to revealing its secret. I enjoyed it but it’s not one of those records you can just dip into. I found this an all consuming record (and at times overwhelming). But the ride was way more fun than I though it was going to be. Haswell is one of the more interesting noise artists out there at the moment. Value is worth checking out."
http://ducksbattlesatan.com/2010/08/11/review-russell-haswell-value-bonus-no-fun-productions-2010/
Published On-line Review: VICELAND.COM. Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 14.07.10
VALUE + BONUS is awarded BEST COVER OF THE MONTH, and reviewed at viceland.com, and on the streets in VICE!
RUSSELL HASWELL
VALUE + BONUS
(NO FUN).
7/10
"Suffolk squire Russell Haswell hooks up with No Fun for a double-disc survey of recent activity. This involves tone bursts, acid, noise, live performance, and speaker-testing rumbles on disc one, and, on the second, addled birdsong and an hour-long trawl through a radio dial. As ever with Haswell, there’s a raw honesty to Value + Bonus. which means that every second of sound has been considered, and so even if you don’t fully understand what he’s trying to do, you know there’s a very good reason why he’s doing it."
SUBURBAN DWIGHT
http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n6/htdocs/records-458.php
Published On-line Review: popmatters.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 14.07.10
Russell Haswell: Wild Tracks By D.M. Edwards 14 July 2010
"Wild Tracks compiles items from Russell Haswell’s huge library of “hi-definition recordings for surround sound or multi-media productions”: bird-scaring bangs, gunshots, obnoxious jet engines, insects eating and going about their business and being killed, snow falling, water booming, and wind whining. Occasionally, he gets two at the same time, as on “Ant Colony (Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby)”."
"Haswell doesn’t splice and sequence “raw” material into music as, say, Matmos did with A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, their album of scalpels going through flesh, fat squeezing through a liposuction tube, buzzing eye surgery lasers, acupuncture point detectors, hearing aid test tones, goat spines, and rat cage bars. Context is important for art and for comedy. And there is nothing funnier than art: In the early 1960s, James Coyle and Mal Sharpe dressed in business suits and roamed the streets of San Francisco recording their talks with people, goading and guiding them through surreal comic mazes involving apples with feet, secret languages, interest-bearing piggy banks in heads, and lots more. We know from the background notes that Coyle and Sharpe were joking, but the interviewees were led to believe they were serious. One of their street interviews led a woman who was opposed to live animals being used as musical instruments to utter the immortal words: “I would tour the world, playing on a weasel”. Such projects illustrate how background information is needed to enjoy some art and the poster/booklet for Wild Tracks has enough detail on capturing sounds and rigorously defining their context to more than satisfy."
"None of the pieces on this album attempt the ear-scorching experimentation of Haswell’s real-time computer-generated improvisations Live Salvage 1997-2000 and Second Live Salvage, which are brutally ideal for putting the boom cars firmly in their place or invading the compounds of millenarian zealots. Yet Haswell is admirable, for while most recording artists are regurgitating themes (boy meets girl, boy bores the crap out of girl, boy writes song about it), he’s sculpting noise, reimagining Popul Vuh, sound-curating exhibitions, recording water by hanging from cliffs, fiddling with magnetic field fluctuation detectors, riding in helicopters, or shoving his miniature omnidirectional microphone into anthills, dead birds, or wherever his fancy takes him."
"Of the outlandish sounds on Wild Tracks, the wheezing, explosive “Jamaican Blowhole” resembles Frank Booth’s asthmatic ghost dreaming of his variation of lust. More arresting is “A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass”,(although, given the flashy time-lapses in his film A Zed and Two Noughts, I’d prefer “A Horde of Flies Feast On The Rotting Carcass of Peter Greenaway”). Even better is “Falling Snow #4, +20dB (Extract)”, which suggests emotion, flow, romance, and time. By contrast, the fly-zapping of “Electroswat (Playlist Re-edit)” is merely repulsive."
"Russell Haswell is prolific in music, sculpture, photography, and more, but Wild Tracks is perhaps one of his drier efforts. And the early video game style packaging is definitely annoying." http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/127518-russell-haswell-wild-tracks/
Published On-line Video: Russell Haswell Live in Berlin. 01.07.10
Russell Haswell performed at HAU 2 (HEBBEL AM UFER, Berlin) as part of the event LIFE IS LIVE - MUSIC, DISCOURSE, PERFORMANCE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! ABOUT MUSIC AND TORTURE.
Published Review: THE WIRE 316: Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 06.06.10
THE WIRE 316 June 2010
Mark Fisher for some reason only reviews Disc 1 of VALUE + BONUS:
Russell Haswell
Value + Bonus
No Fun Productions 2xCD
"Haswell has described Value as “a combination between a stereo test CD, like one of those things that reveals to you that you’ve got your speakers the wrong way around, and a kind of free live Acid Noise improvisation”. The album therefore plays with two senses of noise: noise as something functional and pre-aesthetic, and the familiar sense of Noise as a para-musical genre."
“Left Right Mono Stereo”, “Sub Bass Test” and the amusingly titled “Multicultural nO!se @ -17.5 Db RMS (Black, Brown, Pink And White nO!se + Mix)” are selfexplanatory exercises in functionalism. The playful spirit continues on “Acid nO!se”, which subjects a 303 Acid House riff to a sandblasting of distortion. The effect is like watching a representational image being violently converted into something more abstract. By the end, the Acid traces are like the faint outlines of a man who has been consumed by quicksand. “Coventry” begins with a stuttering kick drum and bursts of machine feedback, before building up into a ballistic jackhammer thud that eventually frays and flares into fireballs of sound, like an asteroid breaking up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The machine freakouts of “None” and “Computer nO!se” are like solos played by solar flares, metallic expectorations that induce that simultaneous feeling of repulsion and bliss peculiar to Noise." Mark Fisher
... in the same issue Derek Walmsley attended the BLOC Weekend and published this:
"Russell Haswell plays a hilariously belligerent 15 minute Noise set before his touring partners Autechre, which has the added bonus of clearing a packed room after Flying Lotus plays. Haswell walks out, plonks a carrier bag, a bunch of effects pedals and sound generators, and some cans of Red Stripe on the table, and thrashes around with his gadgets as if hes got a mousetrap locked on his fingers. It's cartoonish, but brilliantly so, sonic extremity pushed into a zone of hysteria."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Event: LIFE IS LIVE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! 06.06.10
06.06.2010: Russell Haswell, Florian Hecker perform at HAU 2 as part of the event LIFE IS LIVE - MUSIC, DISCOURSE, PERFORMANCE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! ABOUT MUSIC AND TORTURE
10.00 pm - 11.00 pm: Russell Haswell
11.00 pm - 00.00 am: Florian Hecker
HEBBEL AM UFER
HALLESCHES UFER 32
10963 BERLIN
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/kuenstler/kuenstler_18269.html?HAU=2
Events: Russell Haswell curates: The Morning Line in Istanbul 2010. 22.05.10
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line
Istanbul 2010
As one of its essential elements, the artist conceived of the pavilion’s sonic identity. The Morning Line is saturated with fifty speakers, using a unique interactive computer controlled sound system, conceived and implemented by the Music Research Centre of York University.
For the presentation in Istanbul guest sound curator Russell Haswell has invited Jana Winderen, Peter Zinovieff, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Yasunao Tone to conceive new acoustic works, commissioned by T-B A21.
DURATION: May 22 - September 19, 2010
OPENING:
May 22, from 7:00 until 8:00pm followed by special performances by Jónsi & Alex, Cevdet Erek, Lee Ranaldo, Ghostigital and Russell Haswell performs Yasunao Tone's 'MP3 deviation'.
Contemporary Music Sonic Festival: May 23–25, 2010
LOCATION: Eminönü Square, Istanbul, Turkey
Free admission
http://www.tba21.org/program/current/83/artworks2?category=current
Published On-line Review: VITAL WEEKLY. Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS 2xCD. 11.05.10
======== VITAL WEEKLY
======== number 730
======== week 19
======== RUSSELL HASWELL - VALUE/BONUS (2CD by No Fun Productions)
"Back in Vital Weekly 699 I was pleasantly surprised by 'Wild Tracks' by Russell Haswell, a work of ""'deliberate recordings' made with other multi media/film projects in mind". No post processing, overdubs or compression." For this new double CD, the cover tells us 'non stop free improvisation (where possible), over overdubs, no crossfades'. This one doesn't seem to be too much (if at all) involved with field recordings and more about electronics. Now that's where the cover isn't to clear about things. What kind of electronics? Based on his previous work, I'd say computer noise in some way or another, but then I might be entirely wrong (although one track is called 'Computer nO!se' - unless he wants to emphasize the O! thing, but that's something I doubt); the cover lists a variety of computer devices and outboard stuff but then maybe Vanilla Electronics may not mean that much. Anyway the records are pretty interesting, and again Haswell takes me by surprise. This is not the noise onslaught as he know him for, but a whole bunch of interesting electronic pieces. 'Value' has sixteen pieces, of which the last two are pretty long, and 'Bonus' has a shorter piece and one very long one. On 'Value' the shorter pieces seem to me studies in sound. An 'event' is started, there are some variations and then that's it. Drone like but then of a more 'pressing' nature. Pieces created with static (white, pink, black and brown noise) or a slowed down voice, which warn us for loud sounds, and indeed the tracks following that are crushingly loud, until the fourteenth piece which sounded like Hecker and Autechre meeting up, followed by lengthy noise excursions. I had the odd idea about this being some sort of conceptual audiophile test record, but perhaps I am thinking the wrong way here. The short piece on 'Bonus' (which lasts ten minutes anyway) has a bird call like sound, perhaps as a loop. The other piece, which lasts over an hour, consists of searching the radio waves. Maybe a layered thing of various improvisations, maybe a 'live to disc'. Nice enough for sure, but not too good to stand its own feet, but certainly works well as a bonus. Point proven. Over two hours of highly demanding music - from noise, to more silent stuff, techno and riding the radio waves. Excellent." (FdW?)
http://www.nofunproductions.com
Published On-line Videos: Russell Haswell Live. 18.04.10
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mashroms/4470068083/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevores/4477008774/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amlux/4494816974/
Published On-line Review: fatroland.blogspot.com: Autechre at Pure, Manchester, March 11th 2010. 15.04.10
Russell Haswell is reviewed supporting Autechre on the fatroland.blogspot.com:"Painful. ¶ The support was superb too. Didjit diddled around with hip hop before extreme noise experimentalist Russell Haswell threw 15 minutes of painful circuit bending at the crowd.¶ As a gig performance, Haswell's screeching, white noise and frequency murder only served to annoy. I did hear a friend claim this was music from the future, only to get a reply from a random punter, "yeah, only after everyone was dead and buried, then someone shat on a keyboard". ¶ But as a performance of sound sculpture, it delighted the geeky bit of me that has spent many hours building noises from sine waves."
http://fatroland.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-autechre-at-pure-manchester.html
Published On-line Review: BOOMKAT. Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 14.04.10
RUSSELL HASWELL - Value + Bonus
NO FUN
2CD // £14.99
EXTREME / NOISE
Released: Apr 2010
Catalogue Number: NFP57CD
Album of the Week
"Russell Haswell presents a KILLER double disc of new studio productions for No Fun. It follows from his most recent effort, a set of field recordings for Mego, with a challenging set of sounds he himself terms as "... a kind of combination between a stereo test CD..." and "... kind of free live acid noise improvisation, recorded in one take with no over-dubbing or anything like that...". On the first disc this takes the form of sublimely dark drones like 'Room Voice Freeze Tone', the gusty environments of the humourously titled 'Multicultural nO!se at -17.5 Db RMS (Black, Brown, Pink And White n0!se + Mix).' through to ecstatically harsh digital punishments like 'None' and longer freeform experimentation versioning digitised extreme metal, like "Jimmy Hendrix multiplied" according to a stray voice captured in the mix. The second disc 'Bonus' consists of two tracks, one an exquisite artificial environment populated with chirping digital fauna, and the next an '...Unedited Radio Scan Solo' clocking in at over an hour and sounding almost exactly as the title suggests. If you've witnessed his recent live shows and HDJ sets supporting Autechre, you'll know to take this material with an open mind, but it works even better on a recorded format. He opens a portal to extreme escapism that will raise many ontological and Cageian questions in the process, making a lot of recorded music seem plain and backward in comparison and should be investigated by those seeking something radically different to the norm. Very highly recommended!"
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=295247
Published On-line Videos: Russell Haswell Live. 12.04.10
Published On-line Review: mapsadaisical: Autechre and Russell Haswell at Bocking Street Warehouse, 10/4/10. 12.04.10
Russell Haswell is reviewed supporting Autechre on the mapsadaisical blog:"...being drawn towards the speakers when Haswell appeared on stage, only to be repelled by an outpouring of piercing metallic shards. This was the most astringent of palette cleansers, obliterating the memory of the preceding DJ set with a ferocious sonic assault. It felt as if he’d saved all of the harshest and loudest off-cuts from recent Haswell and Hecker UPIC releases – no need for dynamics, just extremes of volume and frequency: for twenty minutes he pummelled us with huge square waves and squeals, like the sound of an electric guitar being shredded and then fed into a fax machine. Afterwards I felt strangely euphoric, and soaked up the DJ’s soothing reggae riddims like an empty sponge."
http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/autechre-and-russell-haswell-at-bocking-street-warehouse-10410/
Published On-line Review: musicomh.com: Autechre @ Bocking Street Warehouse, London, 10 April 2010. 10.04.10
Russell Haswell is reviewed supporting Autechre on the musicomh blog:"...By the time the venue starts to fill to capacity (midnight-ish) Russell Haswell comes on for a brief, blistering set of ear-splitting tonal jiggery-pokery. 'Power electronics' is what Whitehouse or Merzbow might call this ferocious downpour of noise, a zigzagging, seemingly formless cascade of tweets, bleeps and roars, which often sounds like R2D2 being taken forcefully by an aroused Chewbacca. Not an image one wants to dwell on for too long, so the young girl sleeping soundly in her boyfriend's arms in the depths of the crowd during a particularly teeth-rattling crescendo provides a welcome visual punctuation point."
http://www.musicomh.com/music/gigs/autechre-2_0410.htm
Announcement: Russell Haswell: VALUE + BONUS, 2xCD (NO FUN). 29.03.10
RUSSELL HASWELL
VALUE + BONUS
Format: CD Album
Catalogue Number: NFP57CD
Number of Discs: 2
Label: No Fun
Release Date: 29 March 2010
Tracklist:
VALUE:
Left Right Mono Stereo [0:10]
My nO!se Floor Test [2:00]
Sub Bass Test [0:55]
Wino [4:05]
Room Voice Freeze Tone [2:41]
Motorway Sequence [2:10]
The Artist and the Record Company would like to warn you that consistent high volume playback of these recordings may damage your Audio System and Ears. Do not set levels to Maximum [0:21]
Multicultural nO!se @ -17.5 dB RMS (Black, Brown, Pink and White nO!se + Mix) [5:01]
Sine Wave/nO!se @ -10.2 dB RMS [1:40]
none [5:17]
trk 4 [6:46]
Computer nO!se [8:44]
Acid nO!se [3:39]
Coventry [6:20]
Thursday Afternoon 15102009 [11:59]
nO!se Set + Acid nO!se Encore (Live @ 23 Romily St, 12082009) [11:43]
+ BONUS:
Nocturnal Playlist Edit + Wave Repeat Variations [10:03]
Roberts R871 FM/MW/LW/SW 1-12 Unedited Radio Scan Solo (after Micheal Snow, Consumer Electronics, Toshiji Mikawa) [1:03:45]
http://www.nofunproductions.com/
Published On-line Review: Autechre/Russell Haswell - Sub Club, 16th Mar '10. 18.3.10
Boring Postcards review Autechre & Russell Haswell Live in Manchester:
"The thorn in my side is how brief Haswell's set actually was; definitely feeling like less than 30 minutes, it was a tremendous shame as the inflated bass and blasted hardware beats were unimaginably loud and engaging - so much so it even divided opinion in an Autechre-aware crowd no less. Aside from the odd comments around me ranging from "I'm off for a smoke, this guy's pish" to "man, this sound is truly alive", the audience generally stay put standing still, drenched with frenzied strobelighting - observing an empty stage bar the glimpse of Haswell crouched behind a table and obscured by the speaker. The set itself was very tight and the acidic tendencies and Roland-esque nuances in the music certainly aided it to rise above a potential unanimous spectatorial hate. The obvious similarities to Carlos Giffoni's "No Fun Acid" project sprung to mind at one point during the entertainment; a thought later echoed by Haswell's latest double album release "VALUE + BONUS" published on the No Fun label - one I intend to review in the future."
http://boringpost.blogspot.com/2010/03/autechrerussell-haswell-sub-club-16th.html
Events: AUTECHRE 2010 euro tour. 11.03.10
AUTECHRE 2010 european tour, starts today in Manchester UK
Additional support from Russell Haswell + DJs Rob Hall, Didjit.
UPDATED CONFIRMED DATES =
Thursday March 11th Manchester, UK: Pure
Friday March 12th Birmingham, UK: The Rainbow
Saturday March 13th Minehead, UK: Butlins (BLOC Festival)
Monday March 15th Nottingham, UK: Stealth
Tuesday March 16th Glasgow, UK: Sub Club
Wednesday March 17th Leeds, UK: The Wardrobe
Thursday March 18th Brighton, UK: Pavillion Theatre
Friday March 19th Lille, F: Tri Postal
Saturday March 20th Paris, F: La Machine du Moulin Rouge
Sunday March 21st Nantes, F: Olympic
Monday March 22nd Lyon, F: Plateform
Tuesday March 23rd Geneva, CH: L’Usine
Wednesday March 24th Zurich, CH: Exil
Thursday March 25th Milan, I: Magnolia
Friday March 26th Turin, I: Hiroshima
Saturday March 27th Bologna, I: Crash
Sunday March 28th Ljubljana: Kino Siska
Monday March 29th Budapest, H: A38
Tuesday March 30th Vienna, A: Flex
Wednesday March 31st Brno, CZ: Fleda
Thursday April 1st Berlin, D: Berghain
Friday April 2nd Copenhagen, DK: Concerthall
Saturday April 3rd Oslo, N: Park Teatre
Sunday April 4th Gothenburg, S: Nefertiti
Monday April 5th Aarhus, DK: Voxhall
Tuesday April 6th Hamburg, D: Uebel & Gefahrlich
Wednesday April 7th Amsterdam, NL: Melkweg
Thursday April 8th Luxembourg, L: Exit07
Friday April 9th Brussels, B: Ancienne Belgique (Domino Festival)
Saturday April 10th London, UK: Bocking Street Warehouse, Hackney
http://www.littlebig.org.uk/
Published On-line Interview: FACT:Russell Haswell: the whole 360° 10.03.10
Russell Haswell is interviewed by FACT magazine:
http://www.factmag.com/2010/03/10/russell-haswell-the-whole-360°/
Announcement: Russell Haswell curates: The Morning Line in Istanbul 2010. 05.03.10
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU – The Morning Line: Istanbul 2010.
DURATION: May 22 - September 19, 2010
LOCATION: Istanbul, Turkey
Free admission
"For the presentation in Istanbul guest sound curator Russell Haswell has invited Jana Winderen, Peter Zinovieff, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Yasunao Tone to conceive new acoustic works, commissioned by T-B A21. As The Morning Line continues to travel the world as a platform for contemporary music, and within its mandate to encourage and support the production of innovative composition wherever it tours, T-B A21 has entered a partnership with MIAM – Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul, under the guidance of Melih Fereli, former director of the Istanbul Festival, Kamran İnce, and Cihat Aşkın and has commissioned new compositions by Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Cevdet Erek, Batuhan Bozkurt, and Mehmet Can Özer. These eight new compositions will be presented as world premieres in Istanbul, during the festival that will follow the opening ceremonies on the 22nd of May and run for the rest of the week. They will be added to the existing archive of music and soundscapes selected by the previous guest curators Florian Hecker and Byce Dessner.These include collaborative works by Bryce Dessner in collaboration with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, Mark Fell in collaboration with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Jónsi & Alex, and solo compositions by Bruce Gilbert, Florian Hecker, Lee Ranaldo, Chris Watson, and Thom Willems..."
http://www.tba21.org/program/current/83/artworks2?category=current
Published On-line Video: another UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 02.03.10
Announcement: Russell Haswell is tour support for AUTECHRE 2010 euro tour. 02.03.10
Russell Haswell will be either performing live improvised nO!se sets (electronics + pedals), or Hard-Disc-Jockey sets (HDJ) as support for AUTECHRE on their 2010 european tour, between march 11 - april 10.
Additional support from DJs Rob Hall, Didjit.
CONFIRMED DATES =
Mar.11 Manchester @ Pure
Mar.12 Birmingham @ The Rainbow
Mar.13 Minehead @ Bloc Weekender
Mar.15 Nottingham @ Stealth
Mar.16 Glasgow @ Sub Club
Mar.17 Leeds @ The Wardrobe
Mar.18 Brighton @ Pavillion Theatre ...SOLD OUT!!!
Mar.19 Lille @ Tri Postal
Mar.20 Paris @ Locomotive
Mar.21 Nantes @ Olympic
Mar.23 Geneva @ L'Usine
Mar.24 Zurich @ Exil
Mar.25 Milan @ Magnolia
Mar.26 Turin @ Hiroshima
Mar.27 Bologna @ Crash
Mar.28 Ljubljana @ Kino Siska
Mar.29 Budapest @ A38
Mar.30 Vienna @ Flex
Mar.31 Brno @ Fleda
Apr.01 Berlin @ Berghain (+ O.S.T. live)
Apr.02 Copenhagen @ Concerthall
Apr.03 Oslo @ Park Teatre
Apr.04 Gothberg @ Nefertiti
Apr.05 Aarhus @ Voxhall
Apr.06 Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich
Apr.07 Amsterdam @ Melkweg
Apr.08 TBC
Apr.09 Brussels @ AB (Domino Fest)
Apr.10 London @ Central London Warehouse Location
http://www.littlebig.org.uk/
Published On-line Video: UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 01.03.10
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #22. 25.02.10
Haswell & Hecker present their 22nd UPIC Diffusion Session at Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam. Thursday 25.02.10.
www.paradiso.nl
Weteringschans 6, 1017 SG Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://2010.sonicacts.com/
Published On-line Review:hardformat.org. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego) 13.02.10
HARD FORMAT - Reaching for the sublime in music design!
http://www.hardformat.org/4224/russell-haswell-wild-tracks/
Event: Russell Haswell performs WILD TRACKS+ Surround Upmix @ Lovebytes. 12.02.10
Russell Haswell will perform a 'WILD TRACKS+' 8.2 Surround Upmix at this years Lovebytes (alongside Francisco López, Mark Fell), in the Sheffield Winter Garden, Europe's largest glasshouse!
http://2010.lovebytes.org.uk/event.php?ref=1003&title=Sonic%20Materialities
Published On-line Review: failme.net. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 13.01.10
Russell Haswell: Wild Tracks (Editions Mego) - CD originally released June 2009"Taking a break from massacring speakers (try to sit through either of the 'Live Salvage' albums and tell me it didn't hurt), computer / noise musician Ruswell Haswell changes tack and delivers an album of field recordings. Sourced from his local area of Suffolk as well as Jamaica, it's a mixture of what sounded like a perfect English Summer and intrusive army manouveres."
"The track titles are great: 'A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract)' should be doom metal whilst 'Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer' is exactly that. My favourite by far is 'Jamaican Blowhole'. Sonically the most exciting track is 'Helicopter Trip (Edit)'....play loud for instant fun!"
"Easily the best CD packaging I've seen in a long time as well; encased in a Kidzbox (go and Google it), complete with fold-out A2 poster with colour pictures and recording notes. In some alternate reality, this would have been the standard packaging on all CD's"
http://www.failme.net/2010/01/
Published Chart: THE WIRE 311. 2009 Rewind - Records of The Year. 18.12.09
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks (Editions Mego) is included in the WIRE Outer Limits specialist chart in the 2009 Rewind - Records of The Year Issue.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3507/
Published On-line Chart: boomkat.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS. 16.12.09
SND (Mark Fell & Mat Steel), Sheffield, include Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS in their top 10 for 2009.
http://www.boomkat.com/charts.cfm?id=513&gID=10
Published On-line Review: viceland.com/blogs/de. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 05.12.09
*Note: Google Translation!
Russell Haswell
Wild Tracks
Editions Mego
"8. Megoleute have now achieved their goal? This is to be provided with thick liner notes, recordings of some more or less obscure sounds, which naturally goutieren well as sounds. Whether it is more exciting or challenging or provocative as Lady Gaga, or half an hour through the pedestrian zone, is another matter, but fact is that Mego always wins."
EUROPEEP
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/de/2009/11/28/musikreviews-russell-haswell-gyratory-system-lenny-dee-und-dead-man’s-bones/
Published On-line Review: de-bug.de. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 05.12.09
Russell Haswell – Wild Tracks (Editions Mego / eMEGO 099)
*Note: Google Translation! "What do we hear? Literally, sound recordings, which were originally created for integration into film or installation, and now stand by itself, so-called Wild Tracks; not actually field recordings, but almost all outdoor audio recordings. There are backgrounds with little anecdotes and stories that go in one place, even out here, what catches your ear: "That this strange little to hear that you look at the pictures must dazuerfinden in the head. And come, for Haswell's collection, which at first seems so relaxed randomly designed structure. Again and again show couple and Querbeziehungen in the air and water phenomena in the air and shot noise; ants become snow Überwespen helicopter, cannon to the barking of the people. Only the recording electrically grilled flying is both technically and musically from the frame (for the class of sounds), not to mention the unbridled gaga factor. A beautifully-shaped release, which remains in spite of the detailed booklets and for all researchers meticulously quite unique puzzling, curious, morbid-threatening, even with latent humor, but also very herbstfrostig-mute."
multipara
http://www.editionsmego.com/
http://de-bug.de/reviews/38890.html
Published On-line Review: thestranger.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 01.12.09
The ScoreRecordings from Inside a Rotting Carcass and Other Locales
by CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
"WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!" So goes the garish blood-red text accompanying the jittery typeface of Wild Tracks (Mego), whose first few track titles, "Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer," "Jamaican Blowhole," and "Ant Colony (featuring Eurofigher Typhoon F2 Flyby)," place this excellent album in a netherzone between sound-effects discs and soundscape composition—music made with, or entirely of, field recordings.
Compiled by English artist Russell Haswell, Wild Tracks stakes out overlooked and often less-than-glamorous locations, including a drainage pipe, a rotting carcass, and a wasp nest. I love the analogies of scale implied by "Ant Colony," in which ants are dwarfed by a recordist, who in turn gets miniaturized by the roar of overhead jet fighters. At a time when albums in all genres strive for unceasing maximum loudness, Tracks breathes like the real world, so don't bother listening on headphones. You'll miss too much.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-score/Content?oid=2873532
Published Review: UNCUT. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 24.11.09
RUSSELL HASWELL
Wild Tracks
EDITIONS MEGO
****
" Avant-gardening: noise doyen's outdoor research There has always been an elemental quality to Russell Haswell's Computer music, but for Wild Tracks the producer actually ventured outside his studio to record the natural environment. He didn't have far to go: Haswell lives in deepest Suffolk and a spot of avant-gardening with an omnidirectional mic results in pieces such as "A Horde Of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass" and "Falling Snow #4, +20dB". Though the real-time audio is not terribly engrossing, the full-colour A2 poster, extensive liner notes and novelty Kidz Box packaging make this one of Haswell's more rewarding albums." Piers Martin.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/magazine
Published On-line Review: thesoundprojector.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 21.11.09
"The UK electronic noise-abraso warrior Russell Haswell has made a highly uncharacteristic record called Wild Tracks (EDITIONS MEGO eMEGO 099), which compiles an assortment of recordings which are emphatically non-digital in origin. Some were intended for cinema projects and other multi-media experiences. Judging from a fairly superficial skim, there seem to be three distinct modes on offer. (1) recordings of wildlife, mostly insects. (2) recordings of the weather and water. (3) recordings of machinery and vehicles, such as a helicopter. There are some other oddities which don't quite fit that profile, but what also comes across is an underlying sense of aggression and conflict, particularly in the titles which imply that nature (and mankind) is cruel and violent; insects and humans are depicted as predatory hunters. Even water has an unstoppable energy which makes it fearful; the recordings of the waterfall at High Force (in Durham) are exceptionally vivid (and beautiful) in this regard. Also I find aggression in the choice of subject matter, which comes close to updating the trusty old notions about 'sound as a weapon' that have been around since the days of Throbbing Gristle, at least. One such example is the 'Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer' which opens the disk. A large poster covered with detailed notes and information is inserted inside the unusual white plastic box, which looks like something you could put your sandwiches in." Ed Pinsent
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2009/11/
Published On-line Review: VICELAND.COM. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 16.11.09
WILD TRACKS is awarded BEST COVER OF THE MONTH, and reviewed at viceland.com, and on the streets in VICE!
RUSSELL HASWELL
Wild Tracks
Editions Mego
8/10
"We compared Russell Haswell to Bear Grylls last time, but with his dark flowing locks, North Face gear and blossoming relationship with nature, he’s not a million miles away from that Scottish guy who presents the BBC show Coast, Neil Oliver. Wild Tracks is Haswell’s love letter to the great outdoors, a series of field recordings he made while in Jamaica and on his ranch in Suffolk. The titles are self-explanatory, the audio almost brutally matter-of-fact: during “Local Gamekeepers Shooting a Few Fields Away”, for example, the gamekeepers really do sound like they’re shooting a few fields away from where the microphone is recording. As ever with Haswell, though, it’s the details that make his releases well worth acquiring. Wild Tracks is presented in a cute Kidzbox package with a handle, and also contains a full-colour poster and extensive liner notes. What are you waiting for?"
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/records-233.php
Event: Russell Haswell curated event: LISTEN. 7.11.09
Saturday 7 November 2009
Aldeburgh Snape Maltings: Hoffmann Building.
Autumn season, Faster Than Sound
Faster Than Sound: LISTEN
Curated by Russell Haswell
Bernie Krause / Chris Watson / Russell Haswell / Tony Myatt.
20 speaker 'high order' ambisonic surround Sound (including overhead), d&b audio system.
Special thanks Richard Wyatt, Dave Malham.
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/faster-sound-listen
http://www.fasterthansound.com/news/listen_1.html
Published On-line Review: EARLabs. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 6.11.09
Russell Haswell - Wild Tracks
RATED: 7 / 10
reviewed by Sietse van Erve
1-11-2009
"Digital sound monster takes a twist in his own work by bringing raw unprocessed field recordings. Not the regular recordings, but something that you could still expect from Russell Haswell.
Audio terrorist Russell Haswell isn't a stranger in these regions. With digital noise thrown out to torture the world he has found his own special place among other ear shredders. On Editions Mego, run by fellow laptop terrorizer Peter Rehberg, several of his aural terrorist works have been released.Now a side we didn't know of appears on latest release Wild Tracks. No digital processes here, nor computers and mixers. Nope, nothing like that at all. Here Haswell presents his own way of field recordings.
Of course Haswell wouldn't be Haswell if this wasn't with a twist to it. Instead of forest sounds, falling rain and birds Haswell searched for special sounds; those sounds a traditional field recorder would avoid. Some of the examples we find on Wild Tracks: flies feasting on a pheasant, a flight in a helicopter (while viewing waterfalls and such), or what to think about an electric fly trap (Electroswat).No post-processing was used on these recordings. The recordings are just what they are; raw and natural, with their own (un)pleasant surprises. And those surprises are there. Not all recordings are as interesting as others, but there is enough to explore.
For the hardcore field recordists this album might be a huge shock, but for those who are willing to look a bit further a surprisingly album. The recordings are mostly things you wouldn't expect to hear which makes it a good collection. And even was it only for the peculiar packaging and the huge booklet/poster explaining about the recordings this one is recommended."
http://www.earlabs.org/release/review.asp?reviewID=1458
Published On-line Review: allmusic.com. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 5.11.09
"In filmmaking lingo, a "wild track" is a soundtrack recorded without picture, during production. On Wild Tracks, sound artist Russell Haswell has culled 73 minutes' worth of excerpts from much longer recordings made in the field, but those are not "field recordings" -- i.e. they were recorded as possible soundtracks for film and other art projects, not as actual field recordings. What's the difference? Some of them are more staged and others sound harsher than what you would expect from a field recording CD. And yet, the album fits that category pretty well nonetheless. The recordings cover a wide range of situations, sound levels, and textures, making for an eclectic album built on contrasts. There's a near-silent recording of scatter-birds (propane-fueled noise-makers to scare birds out of sown fields) and a noisy helicopter ride. There are recordings of small insects (wasps, flies, even ants) and recordings of waterfalls -- the scale varies wildly. The recordings are presented as is, unedited, uncompressed, uncured of the technical mishaps and intrusions from wind or passing aircrafts. The diversity of the material and sudden shifts in dB levels between tracks make Wild Tracks an uncomfortable listen -- and a different beast compared to Haswell's previous releases -- but a number of pieces are very successful at taking the listener elsewhere and putting a magnifying ear in unexpected places. Worth noting are: a recording of wasps entering and exiting their nest, recorded up close and from below with great stereo separation, giving you the impression (when listening with headphones) of being surrounded ("Wasp-War"); a hydrophone recording of ants rebuilding their colony after insertion of said hydrophone ("Ant Colony"); a magnetic field fluctuation detector recording flies being zapped by a hand-held device ("Electroswat"); and a snow fall recorded with hydrophones ("Falling Snow #4"). Also worth noting is the fact that the CD is packaged with a full-size poster/booklet in a Kidzbox®, which looks like a DVD case with a handle." by François Couture
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfpxz9ald6e
Published On-line Review: Norman Records. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 16.10.09
Norman Records say this about WILD TRACKS:
"Russell Haswell is a fellow I find to be both consistently uncompromising and interesting in everything I’ve had the fortune to hear by the man. Stomping his way through life he seems to have a kind of ESP appreciation of the sonics of our planet like a Chris Watson wearing oil stained overalls. The sounds of ‘Jamaican Blowholes’ sounds like Lord Vader on his deathbed... If you want to hear the sounds of evil wasps mixed with the sound of an Apache helicopter then look no further. Both are flying machines, one organic and one man made, I can hear the connection. I‘m enjoying the rhythms that the rotating blades and headphone pilot communication that ‘Helicopter Trip’ are providing me. Big boys toys! ‘Electroswat’ is like having a big buzzy bee trapped in your processor, and then we’re into more subdued sound for a while before reaching ‘High Force From Above’ which sounds like water crashing from a waterfall into a stream of liquid chaos. ‘Summer Hill Force Against Gibson’s Cave’ ups the noise factor somewhat again with cascading and crashing water noise. ‘Trappers Bait Digital Caller’ has some bird (I think) squeaking that reminds me of being a teenager and very into techno while my brother and I battled for custody of our midi hi-fi where I wanted to play Jeff Mills tapes and he wanted to play back his mock fox calls on loop which he mimed onto tape to play in a field while he shot some bunnies which didn’t go down that well with me being a veggie. 'Falling Snow' captures the gloopy melting crystals of snow changing from a solid into a liquid, secret rhythms of the natural world are revealed. There is little here that has the in your face aggro noise that I was expecting but I just get the vibe that he enjoys the sounds he hears around him and thinks they are wroth sharing with those that ore open to listening. It’s basically just fun and not anally academic and I bet he’s a good laugh to go out on the lash with. ‘Wild Tracks’ is housed in a KIDZBOX™ case which is one of those plastic cases with a handle that my son buzzes off carrying his Bob The Builder and Thomas The Tank Engine DVD’s around in. Out on Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego label which is proving to be very reliable these days."
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/111385
Published On-line Review: BOOMKAT. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 16.10.09
RUSSELL HASWELL - Wild Tracks
Emego
CD // £12.99
ELECTRONIC
Released: Oct 2009
Catalogue Number: EMEGO099
Album of the Week
"Comes packaged in a unique 'KIDZBOX™' and includes a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes. Reknowned extreme sound fetishist Russell Haswell returns with his first release of 2009, following from last year's awesome 'Second Live Salvage'. 'Wild Tracks' is a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations, collecting 15 tracks of 'deliberate recordings' amounting to 73.59.96secs made with other multi media / film projects in mind. The 'Wild Tracks' recordings don't feature any overdubs or compression and document a wide variety of audio experiences including a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony, a horde of flys feasting on a rotting pheasant carcass, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia and two waterfalls in Co. Durham, all detailed on the rear of an accompanying a2 poster, and housed inside the unique KIDZBOX™ packaging (the first commercial to do so, according to Emego!). These sleevenotes are your guide for the release, specifying the techniques and types of microphone used, for instance a hydrophone was used to record 'Falling Snow *4, 20dB (Extract)' and a parabolic dish was used to record 'Local Gamekeepers Shooting A Few Fields Away'. Making the distinction between this and average field recordings, Haswell states "They are not field recordings...they include, and document the noise pollution any regular 'field recordist' would remove or avoid!", so don't expect Chris Watson levels of detail or even the same sounds, you're within the ears of Russell Haswell so be prepared for extreme dynamic level changes. The experience of 'Helicopter Trip' is as visceral as any of Russell's previous recordings, and does beg the question whether this is an elaborate ruse designed to fool us into thinking we're not listening to synthesized sound, but if we trust Editions Mego and the recordist, there's only a few very minor edits made throughout the entire disc. This is certainly a release for those who like to savour and relish intense sound experiences and could possibly qualify as one of the most unexpectedly fascinating releases we've had all year."
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=232912
Published On-line Review: OTHER MUSIC. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 16.10.09
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks Editions Mego CD
"A disc from notorious noise demon and occasional Merzbow collaborator Russell Haswell called Wild Tracks should be fairly obvious in its extreme qualities. I must admit, I ventured into the album expecting a veritable onslaught of cacophony, but within a few minutes I realized that harsh computer noise was the last thing Wild Tracks was about to provide. Instead, Haswell trades his virtual machines for insects, snow and helicopters, and uses the outside world to create the dynamics he loves in sound art. So we go from near silence to hearing a propane gas cannon and the chattering of birds, then into the whistling of a Jamaican blow-hole, the crunchy stutter of tiny footsteps in an ant colony and the buzz of wasps. It is field recording, but done in Haswell's typically mischievous guerilla style, eschewing the usual pastoral beauty of the birds and bees recordings for gunshots and aircraft engines. When the album does finally come to a close, however, we do reach a pair of quite ineffably beautiful tracks -- one of falling snow, amplified by twenty decibels and one of whistling winds. Both have a calm and solitude in their familiarity, but Haswell enhances the odder qualities giving it a spine-chilling edge impossible to ignore. Coming housed in a giant plastic handled case, this is no doubt a beguiling release but one that should amaze more on each subsequent listen. Recommended." [JT] (Released 2009)
http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Show_Info.cgi?ID=9570702.14552&catalog_id=88222
Published Review: THE WIRE 293. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 15.10.09
It seems David Keenan doesn't bother to listen to albums, if the sleeve notes describe its contents!
The reviewer once played on the same bill as OASIS!?
Russell Haswell Wild Tracks Editions Mego CD
"Packaged in an elaborate plastic Kidzbox DVD case, Wild Tracks almost looks like some kind of children’s game from the 1980s that you would find hanging on the racks in a cool toy store. And it sounds like it was a lot of fun to make, consisting of extreme environmental recordings made by Russell Haswell in a variety of unlikely situations, sticking microphones into anthills, recording falling snow, capturing the sounds of “Local Gamekeepers Shooting A Few Fields Away”. It combines the disobedient thrill of being where you shouldn’t with an endearing, almost childlike inquisitiveness.
Haswell makes a point of insisting that these recordings are not actually field recordings but rather soundtracks with the visual component removed, previously used as part of various multimedia and film projects. He calls them “deliberate recordings”, but seeing as most field recordings are just as deliberately conceived, it feels a bit like splitting hairs, albeit with a tiny microphone attached.
Throughout Wild Tracks Haswell seems to work as a lightning rod for displays of military hardware, with the sound of attack helicopters and air defence fighters interrupting a few of the recordings and giving the CD an atmosphere of covert infiltration and Cold War paranoia. The extensive sleevenotes illuminate some of the more minimal tracks, as when he suggests headphones for “Wasp War” so that you can experience the feeling of wasps flying straight into your skull, and compares the later arrival on the scene of two attack helicopters as sonically comparable to the surround sound mix of the Antarctic husky/alien hunt-down scene from John Carpenter’s The Thing. But despite Haswell’s protests and his admirable determination to avoid “rainforest and nocturnal amphibian type material”, Wild Tracks fails to transcend its straightforward documentation of environmental sound, making for a series of field recordings that are interesting in terms of their ideas and execution but with little in terms of extended sonic appeal."
David Keenan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keenan
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Published On-line Review: VITAL WEEKLY. Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS CD. 07.10.09
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"Nicely packed in a Kidzbox (trademarked but I have no idea when and where they are used - I don't see them with the kids I spot every now and then), this is a new direction for Russell Haswell. "Wild track: sound recorded during production without picture' according to Vincent LoBrutto in 'Sound-On Film'. Moving away from his computer based (noise-) music, Haswell goes into the territory of field recording here: "'deliberate recordings' made with other multi media/film projects in mind". No post processing, overdubs or compression. Yet Haswell wants us also to understand that these recordings are about 'noise pollution' and recordings of sounds other people working in the same field of recording would want to avoid. We have here helicopter trips, flies (on a rotting pheasant carcass), rocket launch, Jamaican blowhole and 'exceptionally loud propane gas cannon bird scarer' - all tracks are named after what we hear. For those who love pure sound - and that includes me - its quite alright that it doesn't include the rainforest or 'nocturnal amphibian type material': this material sounds truly fascinating too. Excellent recordings (made with all kinds of different microphones and various recording machines), which hardly sounds like pollution at all. Maybe Cage was right when he said 'all sound is music'? Haswell has some pretty nice pieces going here and its a brave step outside his normal routine so far." (FdW?)
http://www.vitalweekly.net/699.html
On-line Track: Russell Haswell: Jamaican Blowhole. 28.09.09
Adventures In Modern Music 24 September 2009
Published 28/09/09 | The Wire On Air
featured: Russell Haswell: Jamaican Blowhole From Wild Tracks (Editions Mego)
Hosted by Derek Walmsley. With Noel Hawks of Pressure Sounds live in the studio
Listen to 'Adventures In Modern Music 24 September 2009'
File: Mp3, 49kbps mono
Length: 90:56 (32.09MB)
Download = http://www.thewire.co.uk/files.php?file=1205&action=download
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3066/
Announcement: Russell Haswell curates: LISTEN @ Aldeburgh. 29.08.09
Saturday 7 November 2009
Aldeburgh Snape Maltings: Hoffmann Building.
Autumn season, Faster Than Sound
Faster Than Sound: LISTEN
Curated by Russell Haswell
Bernie Krause, Chris Watson, Russell Haswell, Tony Myatt.
Curated by audio and visual artist Russell Haswell, who has presented installations for both art gallery and concert hall internationally, this promises to be a pioneering residency that brings spectacular sounds from the natural world to the Hoffmann Building.
Chris Watson and Bernie Krause are both electronic music pioneers and leading sound recordists in their fields; whether consciously or not, we have heard their work in recordings for David Attenborough, or for the world's largest collection of recordings of (now destroyed) rain-forest. But there is more to them.
They are bio-acoustic and natural history specialists and, as an electronic musician, Krause is also known for bringing the Moog synthesizer to Europe, and was also a 'synthesist' on Apocalypse Now. Chris Watson was a member of 'Cabaret Voltaire' from 1972-81, and also of 'The Hafer Trio' from 1981-84. With the assistance of Tony Myatt and interference from Russell Haswell, they will present an acoustic habitat in the Hoffmann Building, a fully immersive ambisonic/surround sound event that will astound and amaze!
See also: Wednesday 4 November - free pre-event talk with the creative team.
Britten Studio, Snape 6pm.
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/faster-sound-listen
Event: Russell Haswell premier @ REM | Electronic Music Series. 27.08.09
Russell Haswell's 'A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS (EXTRACT)' is premiered at the REM | Electronic Music Series event:
Feldwiederbänder im REM Zoo.
REM CONCERT 69 | 27.AUGUST 2009, 20.00 UHR
Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art
Teerhof 20 28199
Bremen Germany
Fon: +49–(0)421–59 83 9-0
Fax: +49–(0)421–50 52 47
E-mail: mail(at)weserburg.de
http://weserburg.de/index.php?id=98&L=1
Announcement: Russell Haswell: WILD TRACKS, CD (editions Mego). 29.07.09
Cat. No.: eMEGO 099
Artist: Russell Haswell
Title: WILD TRACKS
Format: CD
Barcode: 9120020387736
Release Date: October 2nd 2009
1. EXCEPTIONALLY LOUD PROPANE GAS CANNON BIRD SCARER
2. JAMAICAN BLOWHOLE
3. ANT COLONY (FEATURING EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON F2 FLYBY)
4. WASP-WAR (FEATURING APACHE AH Mk 1 DUET)
5. HELICOPTER TRIP (EDIT)
6. A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS (EXTRACT)
7. ELECTROSWAT (PLAYLIST RE-EDIT)
8. LOCAL GAMEKEEPERS SHOOTING A FEW FIELDS AWAY
9. MISSING / HITTING BEER CAN TARGET
10. ROCKET LAUNCH
11. HIGH FORCE FROM ABOVE
12. SUMMERHILL FORCE FROM INSIDE GIBSON’S CAVE
13. TRAPPERS BAIT DIGITAL CALLER
14. FALLING SNOW #4, +20dB (EXTRACT)
15. DRAMATIC WHINING WIND
Total Playing Time: 73.59
Recorded in Suffolk, Co. Durham, St. Lucia & Jamaica 2007-2009.
Edited, compiled and mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk
WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!
"wild track: Sound recorded during production without picture."
(SOUND-ON FILM. VINCENT LoBRUTTO?. Praeger, 1994. p.287)
Russell Haswell returns with a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations (‘Live Salvage’ & ‘Second Live Salvage’).
WILD TRACKS is a collection of ‘deliberate recordings’ made with other multi media / film projects in mind. These recordings do not contain any overdubs or compression, and document a wide variety of audio experiences. Taking you to a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony and to the entrance of wasp nest in Suffolk, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia, two waterfalls in County Durham, as well as the sound of freshly fallen snow, flies being electrocuted and contributions from various military tactical airlift planes, air defence fighters and attack helicopters.
The recordings on WILD TRACKS were realised using a variety of techniques including using hydro-phones to record falling snow, recording gamekeepers many fields away with a parabolic dish, as well as binaural, ‘near-field’ & ‘direct’.
At Editions Mego, we understand this to be the first commercially released audio CD to be packaged in a KIDZBOX™ containing a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes.
Unlike any other release this season!
http://www.editionsmego.com
Announcement: Russell Haswell: Warp20 (Box Set). 02.07.09
To commemorate Warp's 20th anniversary, they will release a deluxe special-edition, Warp20 (Box Set).
The package features new songs, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected as some of his personal favorites by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans on Warp20.net. It also includes a beautifully produced book showcasing the label’s rich design history, along with an exclusive hour-long mix and a locked-groove vinyl set.
included somewhere inside:
Russell Haswell 'Cabasa Cabasa' (Original by Wild Planet)
Unreleased 1999 kyma experiment mix.
Decomposed and Deranged by Russell Haswell in Sheffield 1999.
http://warp.net/records/warp20/warp20-box-set-first-tracklistings-confirmed
Published Review: THE WIRE #305. RUSSELL HASWELL: Recorded While it Actually Happened. C60 Cassette (Tochnit Aleph). 20.06.09
Russell Haswell
Recorded While It Actually Happened
Tochnit Aleph MC
"Most albums of field recordings evince a sense of wonder, however latent, at the sonic richness of the natural world, and a desire to document it and shape it into narrative episodes. With a title both matter-of-fact neutral and breathlessly schlocky, Russell Haswell’s Recorded While It Actually Happened adopts a more dystopian approach. The entirety of its first side is taken up with a 30 minute recording entitled, presumably accurately, “A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass”. Perhaps because it’s a mono recording on a miniature microphone, it isn’t terribly rich in environmental detail, but the scene is effectively conveyed. The buzzing of the flies soon becomes psychologically relentless, as banal in sound as the activity is gruesome. It’s not without moments of mordant wit – at one point a chorus of birds burst blithely into song, and later on a crow also squawks approvingly. Chris Watson gets thanked in the sleevenotes, as do Napalm Death, Carcass and Entombed. Horrorcore field recordings – to my knowledge, an entirely new genre. Lurking on side two is the 13 minute “Electroswat”, a succession of bursts of digital noise which string themselves into spluttering barrages before collapsing in fizzling heaps. It’s followed by “Reverse Electroswat”, a 16 minute remix which refines its source matter into erratically modulated streams of bristling, sharp fragments."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #21. 31.05.09
HASWELL & HECKER present UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #21 at the largest contemporary arts festival in Portugal, SERRALVES EM FESTA!
SUNDAY 31.05.09
TIME: 22:00 - 23:00
Place: Ténis
http://www.serralvesemfesta.com/gca/index.php?id=443&continuas=
Published Review: VICE MAGAZINE vol 7 #4. RUSSELL HASWELL: Recorded While it Actually Happened. C60 Cassette (Tochnit Aleph). 18.05.09
RUSSELL HASWELL
Recorded While it Actually Happened
Tochnit Aleph
10/10
"Like Bear Grylls with a really expensive microphone, Russell Haswell goes back to nature on this recording of events that took place deep in the Suffolk countryside during 2007 and 2008. For 30 minutes, “A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass” documents in remarkable detail the devouring of a dead bird by numerous flies (if anyone from the RSPB is reading, Haswell did not kill the bird—it was already dead when he found it). As the insects tuck in and zip off, this cacaphony of buzzing ebbs and flows, and the macabre mood is brightened by sporadic birdsong. The second side of this extremely yellow 60-minute cassette features “Electroswat”, a recording of flies being electrocuted; the juicier the fly, the louder the squelch. After that comes “Reverse Electroswat (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB)”, which is “Electroswat” played backwards. To those who’ve followed Haswell’s career, this gnarly piece sounds a lot like those live laptop performances he was doing five or six years ago—one in particular, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in September 2003, springs to mind. Anyway, here’s the quote for the poster: More fun than Animal Collective!" SUBURBAN DWIGHT
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n4/htdocs/records-845.php
Event: On/ Off - Mark Stewart from the Pop Group to the Maffia (World Premiere). 28.04.09
Russell Haswell will DJ at the after-party for: On/ Off - Mark Stewart from the Pop Group to the Maffia (World Premiere). Genesis Cinema + Rhythm Factory, London, Tues 28th April, 7.30pm http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/index.php?/programme/C16/#onoff
Published Review: THE WIRE 303. BLOC WEEKEND. 17.04.09
Russell Haswell is highlighted in the Wires review of the BLOC WEEKEND 09. "Russell Haswell is a terrific wild card on Sunday, playing John Carpenter style soundtracks, drone and brutalist rhythm, in dramatic and highly effective style that deliberately exacerbates the awkward transitions between loud and soft. A small but mashed-up crowd quickly tune in with the stark contrasts and jagged disjoints in the set. If this degree of rhythmic perversity can find an audience at BLOC, then there’s every reason to think the festival will continue to be a serious proving ground for the evolution of electronic music." Derek Walmsley
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Published Review: THE WIRE 303. Haswell & Hecker: Barbican Art Gallery. 17.04.09
The WIRE review: Haswell & Hecker: Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK.
"The current exhibition in the Barbican’s art gallery, a survey of the works of venerated Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier, has spawned a number of supplementary film screenings, panel discussions and concerts. Among them was a day of ‘immersion’ in the works of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, who was employed as an assistant by Corbusier in Paris from 1947 to the late 50s. The day’s events included performances of several Xenakis works and culminated in a late night ‘diffusion session’ by Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker.
The session’s material is composed using Xenakis’s UPIC software, which translates lines drawn on a graphics tablet into sound. These sessions usually take place in darkness, accompanied by laser light shows. The gallery setting meant that tonight the lights had to stay on, though a solitary beam was permitted to fire wavering green lines at the ceiling’s darker recesses. What the performance lost in sensory overload, however, it gained in conceptual resonance.
Its unsocial past-midnight start time encouraged a good chunk of the audience to locate spots around display cases or in front of paintings and photographs in which to slump uncomfortably. Those with the energy to remain upright could wander around the space, exploring the permutations of sounds and track their movements between the ten speakers scattered around the gallery space.
One of the exhibition’s points of focus is the Philips Pavilion, commissioned for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. The building was the cause of the breakdown in the relationship between Xenakis, who was largely responsible for its design, and Corbusier, who claimed the credit for it. The pavilion greeted its visitors with an extravagant aesthetic experience: a light show, film footage, and music (Xenakis’s Concr ete PH and Edgard Varèse’s Poème Électronique) relayed through hundreds of speakers embedded in the structure.
Like the material on Haswell & Hecker’s 2007 album Blackest Ever Black, the duo’s performance was a multichannel barrage of synthesized tones, ascending and deteriorating in swooping arcs, skidding around the gallery and bouncing off its concrete walls. The setting contextualised the music in an explicit historical narrative, reminding us of the origins of Xenakis’s aesthetic, a favour Haswell & Hecker repaid by illustrating how the generations who have followed him have developed his ideas." Nick Cain
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Published On-line Photo: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 02.04.09
Evidence Photo of Russell Haswell @ BLOC, Minehead, March 2009. Photo by i,max:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_imax/3390429905/
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 02.04.09
more videos on YouTube? of Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. Barbican Art Gallery.Event: Haswell & Hecker's Blackest ever Black is together with Iannis Xenakis Mycenae Alpha subject of the 65th edition of the Reihe Elektronischer Musik, Bremen. 26.03.09
Iannis Xenakis (Frankreich): Mycenae Alpha (1978)
Haswell & Hecker (England / Deutschland): Blackest Ever Black (2007)
Klangregie: L.v. Haußen, J.v. Hasselt und C. Ogiermann
REM Konzert 65 | 26.März 2009, 20.00 Uhr
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany.
http://www.weserburg.de/index.php?id=98
Event: Urbanomic Event UF5 Saturday 21st March. 21.03.09
21 03 09 URBANOMIC FALMOUTH.UF5. RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
8.00 INTRODUCTION
8.05 INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL HASWELL [RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON 20 03 09]
8.35 A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS [30:00.00]
9.05 ELECTROSWAT [13:46.23]
9.15 REVERSE ELECTROSWAT (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB) [16:00.00]
NO ENTRY AFTER 8.10
Premiere of Russell Haswell's A Horde of Flies Feast on a Rotting Pheasant Carcass and Electroswat. Recordings made in the field ('near-field' & 'direct-contact' + 'artificial-worldizing'). With Installation by Urbanomic.
Urbanomic Studio, The Old Lemonade Factory, off Windsor Terrace, Falmouth, TR11 3EX.
http://www.urbanomic.com
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 19.03.09
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. Barbican Art Gallery.Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #17. 19.03.09
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #17. Skanu mežs festival, Riga.Haswell & Hecker UPIC Diffusion Session @ Skaņu Mežs 2008 from Vladekk on Vimeo.
Published On-line Photo: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 15.03.09
Evidence of Russell Haswell @ BLOC posted on SURGEON's BACK TO THE GRINDER BLOG.
http://dj-surgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/russell-haswell.html
Event: Russell Haswell @ BLOC WEEKEND. 13.03.09
Russell Haswell is DJ-ing at BLOC WEEKEND, alongside DJ Benetti in the Cocadisco Room.
http://www.blocweekend.com/
Release: Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. C60 CASSETTE, TOCHNIT ALEPH TA089. 01.03.09
A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS [30:00.00]
ELECTROSWAT [13:46.23]
REVERSE ELECTROSWAT (+RNE+WS+TS+VERB) [16:00.00]
All Recordings made in the field. ('near-field' & 'direct-contact' + 'artificial-worldizing'!). Edited, Compiled and Mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk, UK. 2007-2008. Edition of 200 Copies. Pro-duplicated & printed 60 minute cassette.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/haswell/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #20. 3.2.09
Haswell and Hecker
UPIC Diffusion Session #20
7 March 2009
Barbican Art Gallery
Tickets: Free to same day ticket holders
Time: Midnight
subject to availability
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker employ composer Iannis Xenakis’s UPIC ‘graphic input’ computer music composing system in a multi-channel electroacoustic diffusion concert and use surround sound and laser lighting to create an immersive multi-sensory environment.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8664
Published AD: COLLAPSE V. 3.2.09
the new issues of COLLAPSE contains a Tochnit Aleph advert for their next 2 cassette releases!
Featuring four in-depth interviews along with numerous absorbing essays and new work by three major contemporary artists, this impressive 587-page volume manages the unlikely feat of continuing Collapse's tendency to expand with each subsequent publication!
http://www.urbanomic.com/
Announcement: Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. (TOCHNIT-ALEPH) 10.10.08
early 2009 Tochnit-Aleph will release the LIMITED EDITION C60 Compact Cassette Russell Haswell: RECORDED WHILE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/
Published On-line Chart: blogglebumcage.blogspot: Top Ten of the Year 2008: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 1.10.08
Russell Haswell - Second Live Salvage 2LP (Editions Mego) makes the blogglebumcage.blogspot: Top Ten of the Year 2008."Like the alva noto album, this is a beautifully cut two-record set that adds a distinct physicality to that most virtual of genres - computer music. Russell Haswell is a bona fide sound artist - his work mostly consists of site-specific installations and performances and is not really designed for home listening. Haswell's Live Salvage albums compound this fact by presenting documentary-style live recordings as his most high-profile commercially available releases.
From a purely sonic standpoint, it's an approach that works wonders. Like his sometime collaborator Florian Hecker, Haswell is a hardcore proponent of academic-grade music software. Again like Hecker, he uses this definitively cerebral sound source to unleash an astonishingly visceral sound, the elemental power of which is truly transcendent. It makes sense that, to facilitate the transformation from bits-and-bytes to true, air-shaking sonic chaos, Haswell has to situate his music in a room. Heard on headphones, straight from the hard-drive of Haswell's laptop, this stuff wouldn't have half the force it does.
Second Live Salvage is sourced entirely from audience recordings of Haswell performances. The sound quality is variable but none of the recordings take the edge off Haswell's raw power - quite the opposite, one suspects. This is the sound of computer music getting out of the ether and bringing the house down."
http://blogglebumcage.blogspot.com/
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #13 added to VIMEO! 25.10.08
Haswell & Hecker: Diffusion Session #13 from Sheikh Ahmed on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/1641100
Published On-line Review: stabbedintheface.blogspot: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 23.09.08
O BOM GARFO online blog reviews Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage:"Let me, before any explanation, jump right away to the bone of it all : Second Live Salvage is a hell of a fucking great record. That said we can pursue with the introduction.
Released by Peter Rehberg´s Mego Second Live Salvage is multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell second solo effort, after his well known and celebrated collaborations with the likes of Masami Akita and Florian Hecker.
Based on recorded improvisations in various locations Second Live Salvage includes some of the most intelligent, inventive and stimulating pieces of noise music in years. In an era where noise has become sort of a musical institution, just like any other pop genre, it's great to know that are still artists testing and smashing the boundaries of noise as a genre.
In Haswell´s music we find the brutality of the most abrasive noise (with clear connections to Japanese noise) and the legacy of electroacoustic-music, following the concepts of notable XX century composers like Iannis Xenakis or Alvin Lucier. Haswell´s music is one made of apparent ambiguities, and perhaps that's where relies the magic of his music - even thought the sounds are violent and extreme they are profoundly human in the way they communicate emotions and there are always multiple layers of interpretation in each sound. What is also very interesting here is how the exploration of the idea of "truth" and music in a "live act" are connected to the idea of "salvage" present in the title and how they are expressed in the way the audience and the space where each track was recorded are included in the pieces as an actual element of composition.
A must have that should appear in any "best of 2008" list."
http://stabbedintheface.blogspot.com/2008/10/russell-haswell-second-live-salvage.html
Published Review: GUARDIAN: Girls Aloud, The Promise. 25.10.08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/25/popandrock1
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #17 + #19 added to You Tube! 20.10.08
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #17.Skanu mežs festival, Riga.
Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #19.Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=haswell+hecker&search_type=&aq=0&oq=haswell
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #19. 16.10.08
HASWELL & HECKER present the nineteenth multi-channel UPIC Diffusion Session + LASER supporting Corrupted feat. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka
The circle of corruption night at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 16.10.08.
http://www.luff.ch/en/festival/2008/music/thursday/
Event: Russell Haswell @ steirischer herbst 2008. 07.10.08
Tue 07/10, 9.30 pm
Devices, Suitable for (Almost) Every Purpose
Intensification: Get High!
Russell Haswell (GB)
Curated by Heike Schleper (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)
http://www.steirischerherbst.at/2008/english/calendar/calendar.php?eid=105
Published On-line Review: dustedmagazine: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 23.09.08
Dusted Magazine online reviews Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4550
Published Article: "Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite". 28.08.08
Thomas Duzer's translation (French) of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online as PDF.
http://anaximandrake.blogspirit.com/list/traductions/Mackay_Blackest_Ever_Black.2.pdf
On-line Blog: microbionic: "No overdubs". 28.08.08
Second Live Salvage is discussed @ microbionic.blogspot:
http://microbionic.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-overdubs.html
On-line Forum: TRONIKS: RUSSELL HASWELL "SECOND LIVE SALVAGE". 20.08.08
Second Live Salvage is discussed @ TRONIKS/Chondritic Sound NOISE forum:
http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17959
Published On-line Review: THE BLOGGLEBUM CAGE: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 09.08.08
THE BLOGGLEBUM CAGE online blog reviews Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage:
"Russell Haswell is certainly a dude with spotlessly dark credentials; a fan of black metal and Whitehouse. And yet, there's something else happening on his latest double LP, Second Live Salvage. First of all, Haswell takes an restlessly cerebral approach to his noise. These visceral sound-art erruptions are powered entirely by high-end, academic computer music software.
The other interesting thing about Second Live Salvage is that it's a collection of live recordings sourced from audience members. The official-bootleg concept takes Haswell's music away from it's digital source and puts it in a room. This only adds to the elemental power of his mind-bending noise constructions. Second Live Salvage is viciously intelligent.
It also has a great cover, which is possibly a pastiche of Keith Jarrett's new age jazz classic The Koln Concert."
http://blogglebumcage.blogspot.com/2008/08/white-noise-pink-noise-and-new-age.html
Release: Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000. iTunes. 14.07.08
Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000, is now available for download for the first time at iTunes:
Release: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage. 2xLP. + Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000. MP3 & FLAC. 30.06.08
Second Live Salvage released today on 2xLP by editionsMEGO!
+ Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000, released for download for the first time, on MP3 & FLAC at BOOMKAT...
"This release follows up on Haswell's release eight years ago of the first Live Salvage album, which compiled live recordings made between 1997 and 2000. Since then, Haswell has released collaborative works with Merzbow (on Warp's Satanstornade) and Florian Hecker - the Gilbert to his George, the Eric (or indeed Burt) to his Ernie. Fortunately, Haswell has also been playing live extensively, amassing a new cache of live recordings to throw our way. At this stage, it would probably be worth pointing out to those of you who have not yet guessed it, that Russell Haswell is a noise musician, one who straddles both the cerebral noise world of the eMego camp and the more brutish, DIY, Japanese-inspired aesthetic. The range of terrifying timbres on show during Second Live Salvage is headspinning: there are recordings that sound like a swarm of giant bees let loose in a cathedral, others that resemble the sound of a dentist's drill as heard through the vibrations in your own jawbone, and of course, plenty of moments in which you feel compelled to check that you are in fact listening to a record and not, instead, being run over by a train. There are plenty of noise artists out there who know how to play with the extremities of sound, but it takes someone as talented as Haswell to make it a truly transcendent experience. While so many musicians just throw feedback and distortion in your face, this one makes noise sound like an entity unto itself - not a by-product of some aggressive signal processing or merely something that's too loud - this doesn't sound like music that's the product of distortion pedals and so forth: Russell Haswell gives birth to noise, as if it was never anything other than noise. It's absolute, tyrannical and annihilatingly powerful. Unbelievably good - a massive recommendation." BOOMKAT.
Second Live Salvage 2xLP: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=110277
What was said about Russell haswell: 'Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000': "play this to a Slipknot fan and watch his head fall off." unknown web source
"It reminds us of death. But death sells! As will 'Live Salvage' - though mostly to smug wanker's who like to confuse their less 'artistic' friends with a barrage of outré unpleasantness." Muzik
"This is fine granulation work. I will play it for my lectures on 'Noise Resources in Electronic Music'." Curtis Roads
"The abstract noise excesses contained on this CD present a clear sign of an attitude critical of technology, and in addition help rehabilitate the somewhat forgotten expression, "Fuck You"." de:bug
"a fearsome, skull shattering, flesh shredding display of electronic hostility." the WIRE
"Notes reveal that seven people attended the digital apocalypse that was '11:18:24, 2000, LOK, München'. Now you can experience the terror in your own home." NME
"Haswell has made a record that not only demands but also commands your attention" Other Music
Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000 MP3 & FLAC: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=110612&highlight=110621
Published Review: SPEX. Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 14.06.08
SPEX magazine reviews SECOND LIVE SALVAGE:
"Der Auseinandersetzung mit der subtilen, sachlichen Gefährlichkeit von Ryoji Ikeda soll an dieser Stelle die erneute Erwähnung eines Künstlers folgen, der sehr wohl auf urwüchsigen Krawall setzt, um von sich reden zu machen: Obwohl Russell Haswell stets dem Elektronischen verbunden bleibt, produziert er doch eine Musik, die sich ästhetisch nicht nur am naheliegenden Noise-Sound aus Japan und Europa, sondern zudem an der Fäuste ballenden Art extremer Rock-Spielarten speist. Die Compilation »Second Live Salvage« (Editions Mego) präsentiert Haswell in mehreren sehr unterschiedlichen Episoden seiner Erschütterungswut, die er zuweilen mit so viel rostiger Substanz überlädt, dass er sein eigenes Equipment einer wahren Belastungsprobe unterzieht. Interessant ist, dass die vorliegenden Aufnahmen erst im Nachhinein und oftmals gar aus zweiter Hand zusammengetragen wurden: Im Mastering-Prozess hat Haswell versucht, aus dem Gedächtnis die Atmosphäre des jeweiligen Auftritts zu rekonstruieren. Das Ergebnis schließlich hat was von einem ruppigen, liebevollen Bootleg, wird aber leider nur zu Promozwecken ganz angemessen im anachronistischen Tape-Format herausgegeben. Die offizielle Variante erscheint auf Vinyl."
http://www.spex.de/t2/429/kolumnen.html
Published Review: THE WIRE 293. Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2xLP. 09.06.08
Full page review of eMEGO 013 Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage 2x12" vinyl appears in July 2008 issue of The Wire. *NOTE: the WIRE reviewed SECOND LIVE SALVAGE from the 'cassette only' PROMO, on an old Walkman (is it a SONY?) as they dont have a cassette deck! We have no idea of the quality of their headphones, speakers and/or the listening environment!
http://www.thewire.co.uk
Published Blog: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, PROMO CASSETTE. 03.06.08
MIRE Blog entry, draws attention to the Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, PROMO CASSETTE.
"...a promo release for the forthcoming Russell Haswell Editions Mego double LP Second Live Salvage (fearsome, thrilling noise architecture). The Wire office has been without a tape deck for a short while, so I had to do my own salvaging, retrieving mine from the loft to play it on." DEREK WALMSLEY
http://www.thewire.co.uk/themire/
Announcement: Flying Swimming CD Compilation: 'Composition 3'. 03.06.08
Haswell & Hecker contribute to the upcoming Flying Swimming CD Compilation: 'Composition 3', the other contributors are Trevor Wishart, and Rashad Becker. Released early August 2008.
LIMITED EDITION: 500 copies!
http://www.ffss.info
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Session #9 on You Tube! 27.05.08
LOVEBYTES have uploaded the first TEN minutes of HASWELL & HECKER's: UPIC Diffusion Session #9.
Announcement: Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, 2x12" vinyl. 12.05.2008
eMEGO 013 Russell Haswell: Second Live Salvage, 2x12" vinyl LP goes into production!
5 solo live recordings + one 'bonus recording': RUSSELL HASWELL & TOSHIJI MIKAWA(of INCAPACITANTS).
Release Date: 30.06.2008!
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/CataloguePage#emego013
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #18. 9-12.5.08
HASWELL & HECKER present their eighteenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the 'let's go MENTAL', Lopud Seminar 2008. Lopud Island, Croatia.
http://www.tba21.org/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #17. 9.5.08
HASWELL & HECKER present their seventeenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the Skaņu mežs festival, Riga, Latvia.
9pm Big Hall. 9.5.08.
http://skanumezs.lv
Event: Haswell & Hecker support WHITEHOUSE. 8.5.08
Haswell & Hecker are the support act at the penultimate WHITEHOUSE live action!
* NOTE: This is NOT a UPIC Diffusion Session.
kuratiert von peter rehberg (eMego)
live: whitehouse (UK) + haswell & hecker (UK / D)
dj ddkern vk 7.-/ak 8.-
rhiz - bar modern
guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 vienna - austria
phone: ++43 1 409 25 05
http://rhiz.org/
Exhibition: TELEPORT FÄRGFABRIKEN. Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden. 02.04.2008
David Falconer/Russell Haswell exhibit a collaborative artwork in TELEPORT FÄRGFABRIKEN.
The grand opening exhibition of Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden.
Curated by Jan Åman and CM von Hausswolff.
Artists include: Adelle Lutz, Albin Karlsson, Angelo Plessas, Anita Gordh, Andreas Angelidakis, Annika Larsson, Armin Linke, Bajki, Brody Condon, Carsten Höller, Carsten Nicolai, CCA Kitakyushu, Chris Anthony, CM Lundberg, Cory Archangel, David Lynch, Elaine Tin Nyo, Ernst Billgren, Erika Blumenfeld, Finnbogi Pétursson, François Roche, Farshid Moussavi, Fredrik Wretman, FRONT, Young Hea Chang & Heavy Industries, Henrik Samuelsson, Helene Billgren, John Duncan, Joachim Koester, Jana Winderen, Jenny Wiklund, Jesper Waldersten, Jörgen Svensson, Jurij Leiderman, Jan Håfström, Erik Håfström, Jan Svenungsson, J.G. Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jean Pierre Khazem, Katarina Norling, Karl Holmqvist, Kerry Skarbakka, Lena Bergendahl, Leonid Tischkov, Linda Jansson, Liz Cohen, Leif Elggren, Mats Theselius, Manu Luksch, Marie Sester, Maurizio Cattelan, Max Book, Miriam Bäckström, Militärligan, Miltos Manetas, Mathias Johansson, Mai Ueda, Michael Esposito, Nanna Hellberg, Nico Dockx, Nils Furto, Nathalie Djurberg, Ola Pehrson, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Peter Geschwind, Payam Sharifi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dave Falconer/Russell Haswell, Selmer Nilsen, Mike & Doug Starn, Städelschule, Emanuel Swedenborg, Tiina Aste, Tobias Rehberger, Tobias Bernstrup, Ulf Linde / Marcel Duchamp, Veronika Valk, Jorge Garcia-Robles / William S Burroughs...
http://www.fargfabriken.se/index.php?tabell=content&id=191
Release: Haswell & Hecker remix POPOL VUH. 31.03.2008
eMEGO 090
Popol Vuh: Mika Vainio / Haswell & Hecker Remixes 12"
Release Date: 31.03.2008
2 tracks:
Nachts: Schnee (Mika Vainio Remix)
Aguirre I (Haswell & Hecker Remix)
Cut by Rashad Becker @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin December 2007
Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools. This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker.
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/CataloguePage#emego090
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #15 & #16. 25+26.1.08
HASWELL & HECKER present numbers fifteen and sixteen, of their UPIC Diffusion Session's at the NETMAGE08 Festival. Bologne the 25th and 26th of JANUARY. http://www.netmage.it/net008b.htm
Published Article: VICE Magazine: Electric Independence. _.1.08
Piers Martin rants and raves about general HASWELL & HECKER activities and releases in the latest UK issue of VICE. http://www.viceland.com
Published Review: THE WIRE _. UPIC WARP TRACKS + UPIC Diffusion Session #14 _.1.08
The WIRE reviews UPIC WARP TRACKS + UPIC Diffusion Session #14 in their latest issue!
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #14. 19.12.07
On the evening of 19 December, White Cube will present a special concert with Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker in collaboration with Cerith Wyn Evans, performing material employing composer Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC system.
The performance on 19 December will take place at 7pm at White Cube Hoxton Square. Please contact party@whitecube.com to check availability.
http://www.whitecube.com/
Published Chart: THE WIRE 282. 2007 Rewind - Records of The Year. 18.12.07
Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) (Warner Classics) is awarded 40th position, in The WIRE 2007 Rewind, 50 Records of the Year!.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Release: Haswell & Hecker: Visionaire Magazine # 53 'Sound'. 18.12.07
Haswell & Hecker: Franz Graf Acid / Acid for Franz Graz is featured in Visionaire 53 Sound.
Visionaire 53: Sound
A portable record player with over 100 minutes of sound on 5 12" vinyl record picture discs and 2 CDs.
Visionaire 53. SOUND consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs), containing approximately 100 minutes of sound content featuring audio experiments, unreleased songs, samples, and spoken word pieces. The 5 records are packaged inside a domed case that also houses a custom-made MINI Clubman "Vinyl Killer" Record Player: a battery-operated toy car containing speakers and a needle. As the little car drives along the record's groove, it plays each track, acting as a fully portable record player and sound system. The issue also includes 2 CD's with all the sound content, and a booklet of credits and instructions. Sound is a limited edition of 4,000 numbered copies and retails for a starting price of $250. However SOUND is included in a standard subscription to Visionaire at no additional cost.
Contributors include: Musicians David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Liza Minelli, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Malcolm Mc Laren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew WK, Danger Mouse; Artists Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Sunno))), Gang Gang Dance; Haswell & Hecker, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara; Fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander Mc Queen, Stefano Pilati; and many more...
http://www.visionaireworld.com/
Announcement: Haswell &Hecker: UPIC Warp Tracks (Warp Records). 18.12.07
Warp Records announces Haswell & Hecker: UPIC WARP TRACKS.
ALPHA
BETA
GAMMA
Released 4th February 2008.
Limited CD & Download.
http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1371
Published Article: substantials #03 (with CD). 30.11.07
substantials #03 (with CD)
Russell Haswell is featured in the CCA Kitakyushu publication 'substantials #03'
ISBN 978-4-901387-72-9
November 30, 2007
pp. 107 with CD
Keiji Haino
Dickson Dee
William Bennett
Russell Haswell
Toshiji Mikawa
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/
Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER, and Robin Mackay collaboration. _.11.07
COLLAPSE Volume III
November 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 515pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-2-0
Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on Speculative Realism held in London earlier this year.
- Sound artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker contribute some strange and beautiful images taken from the electronic 'score' of their new sound work Blackest Ever Black, an 'introduction to synaesthesia' created using composer Iannis Xenakis's computerised UPIC system to transform contemporary images into sound. An accompanying text by Robin Mackay analyses the affinities between Xenakis's conception of a musical 'polyagogy' and Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism'
Collapse III will probably appear in early November rather than mid-October as planned.
If you are able to post a notice in your place of work or study, please download and print the flyer for Collapse Volume III from http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/docs/a4flyer-c3.pdf
http://www.urbanomic.com/
Published Feature: THE WIRE NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE 285. 18.10.07
The WIRE has a four page feature on Russell Haswell, with pictures by Juergen Teller in ISSUE 285.
on the cover: Underground Resistance;-)
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #13. 11.10.07
Haswell & Hecker support PAN_SONIC (first London show in years!) with multi-channel UPIC Diffusion Session #13, at the Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1. Thursday 11.10.07. £12 via ROUGH TRADE SHOPS +
hear the RADIO ad here: * RESpanHHad.mp3:
http://www.blastfirstpetite.com
http://www.seetickets.com or phone 08712300010
Event: 'Haswell & Hecker diffuse...' 21.9.07
'Haswell & Hecker diffuse...' their own and other artists work as part of 'Lopud Seminars' September 20-23, 2007 on the isle of Lopud, Croatia.
http://www.tba21.org
RELEASE: KTL: Eine eiserne Faust in einem Samthandschuh CDR 14.09.07
Editions Mego release CDR of the live show where KTL were joined by "Special Guest" Russell Haswell.
20070529 Luminaire, London (Salvage Mix) (52:21)
Forest Floor (Filter Mix) (2:01)
Track 1 recorded at Luminaire, Kilburn, London 29th May 2007. Crude LINE & MIC recordings salvaged and mixed by Russell @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk 20th Aug 2007 Special guest: Russell Haswell: Electronics, Crystal Microphone & Computer
Track 2 remixed by Florian @ Hecker Studio, Kissing, August 2006
Limited Edition of 300 copies available on KTL Japan tour September 2007
http://www.editionsmego.com/
Event: Public Experiment: Sound 7.9.07
Haswell & Hecker participate in Park Nights, Public Experiment: Sound. Friday 7 September. 7 - 9 pm. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
This event explores the architecture of the Pavilion through vibration, tone, duration and sound investigated in its most basic form: the compression of air through space. Architects, musicians and artists create a sonic laboratory by devising and performing hand-held experiments that explore the physicality of the space through the bodily and psychological perception of sound.
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/08/park_nightspublic_experiment_s.html
Published Review: THE WIRE 283. Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) _.9.07
THE WIRE review Blackest Ever Black in the september issue. "The digital purism and intellectual strictness of their process should work against it, but in these examples of sight turned into sound, Haswell and Hecker have created an uncanny synaesthesia - a kind of stealth psyshedelia."
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Published On-line Review: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) _.8.07
Tiny Mix Tapes on-line review Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) and give it 4.5 out of 5! "...Xenakis would certainly be proud of their achievements, most assuredly of this recording."
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Haswell-Hecker
Published Chart: THE WIRE 282. _.8.07
Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) makes the WIRE Magazine's 'Office Ambience' chart. http://www.thewire.co.uk/
Published On-line Videos: UPIC Diffusion Sessions on You Tube! 1.7.07
Numerous audience-member made videos of various Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Sessions have started to appear on You Tube:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=haswell+hecker&search=
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #12. 20.6.07
Opening of Your black horizon Art Pavilion by David Adjaye & Olafur Eliasson. Opening reception with Branka Šulc, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Culture of Croatia, Olafur Eliasson, Artist, David Adjaye, Architect, and Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Followed by a celebratory village fest with food and music. • OPENING: Jun 20, 2007, 6.00 pm
Late night concert by Florian Hecker and Russell Haswell in the Renaissance Fortress. Starting at 10.00 pm. Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #12
UPIC Diffusion Session #12, a multi-channel sound performance, utilizes material generated at the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris, using the UPIC system of sound synthesis developed by Xenakis. UPIC is made of a drawing tablet in the size of a large sheet of paper, and allows the user to “draw” a sound composition: the lines drawn with an electronic pen are directly translated into sound. Haswell and Hecker create a diffusion of a composition arranged for the specific situation in the courtyard of the Renaissance Fortress, and construct an immaterial space, superimposed to the existing architecture. Under the official patronage of the Minister of Culture of Republic of Croatia and City of Dubrovnik, with kind support by Lopud town council.
http://www.tba21.org/pavilions_lopud.php
Published Article: Financial Times Aldeburgh Review. 16.6.07
"...It led me back to the sonic Stonehenge, where I saw the highlight of the event: Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker and their performance of Blackest Ever Black..."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0a220cc-1ba6-11dc-bc55-000b5df10621.html
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #11. 15.6.07
At the SONAR 2007 festival in Barcelona, Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the eleventh, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material they generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' while in residency at CCMIX Paris in 2004.
17:30 Friday 15th June @ SONARCOMPLEX
http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/news.cfm?id_noticia=325
Announcement: Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics) 11.6.07
Warner Classics release Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings) on JEWEL CASE CD and LIMITED EDITION GATEFOLD DOUBLE VINYL, with sleeve notes by Curtis Roads, Monday 11 June, 2007.
http://www.warnerclassicsandjazz.com/release.php?release=4752
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #10. 9.6.07
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the tenth (but first 'outoor'!), multi channel electroacoustic UPIC diffusion session at the Aldeburgh festival event, FASTER THAN SOUND, at the Bentwaters Airbase, in suffolk. Saturday 09 June 2007.
http://www.fasterthansound.com/
Podcast: KTL 20070529 Luminaire, London, UK. 30.5.07
Russell Haswell improvised electronics and computer as special guest with KTL (Peter Rehberg & Stephen O'Malley) at the Luminaire, Kilburn.
A 71.4 MB mp3 podcast is hosted at KTL LIVE ARCHIVE:
http://www.editionsmego.com/20070529%20Luminaire%2C%20London%2C%20UK.mp3
+ FAIL ME photo set at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/failme/sets/72157600284594112/
Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #9. 19.5.07
Haswell & Hecker UPIC Diffusion Session #9 in on-line photo archive:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovebytes/sets/72157600230935592/ Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #9. 18.5.07
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker will present the ninth, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material they generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' while in residency at CCMIX Paris in 2004.
In true Xenakis spirt the event will include laser and stroboscopic lighting.
18 May 8-9pm Strictly no admittance after 8pm Workstation Studio, Shoreham Street, Sheffield. £8 / 6. http://festival2007.lovebytes.org.uk/event.php?ref=18200001-UPIC-Diffusion-Session-9
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #8. 12.5.07
Haswell & Hecker present UPIC Diffusion Session #8 at ZKM Karlsruhe, 8 channel electroacoustic diffusion + 2 colour laser. 'between two deaths: the festival'. ZKM_Media Theater, Karlsruhe. Saturday, May 12, 2007, 8 pm – 3 am.
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5713
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #7. 5.5.07
HASWELL & HECKER: UPIC Diffusion Session # 7.
5th May, 8 - 10 p.m., Städelschule, Dürerstr. 10, Frankfurt am Main, DE.
http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1177077868.txt
http://lectures-staedelschule.blogspot.com/
http://www.nacht-der-museen.de/frankfurt/index3.php?&PHPSESSID=c9a8ef431c66eabc7c45f21a12070621&class=mus&site=37
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #6. 30.4.07
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present a multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the Donau Festival, Krems, Austria. Halle 1, MONDAY 30 APRIL 2007, 8:30PM.
Part of 'The Throbbing Gristle Project' including, Boredoms, KTL and Phil Niblock.
http://www.donaufestival.at/content-1/festival/program/07/w2/haswell-hecker-1
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #5. 14.3.07
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the first of this year and fifth in total, multi channel electroacoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the Zürich Kunsthalle. WEDNESDAY, 14 MARCH 2007, 8 PM
http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch
RELEASE: Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics) 26.2.07
Warner Classics sign and announce the 2007 release of Haswell & Heckers' Blackest Ever Black album, entirely recorded on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at CCMIX in Paris in 2004.
"...New to the label are the artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker. Their debut album, Blackest Ever Black to be released in early 2007, pushes the boundaries of contemporary classical music, while never losing sight of the tradition they are working within. Using the unique UPIC system of sound synthesis conceived by legendary Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, Haswell & Hecker create their sound-world using visual images - an electronic pen is used on a drawing tablet and the lines are directly translated into sound. Dan Fox, writing in frieze of his experience of hearing Haswell & Hecker live, said, 'I heard the sound of the blackest ever black and listened to the shape of leaves... [they] explore deeply human questions of how our senses apprehend and interpret the world.' Following the critically acclaimed Gyorgy Ligeti Edition and recordings of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Elliott Carter, Warner Classics is proud to continue its affiliation with some of the most challenging and important music being created in the world of classical music today."
Source: Warner Music International
http://www.wmg.com/news/article/?id=8a0af8120e11a13f010e5c7071d74aa5
Event: CCA KITAKYUSHU JAPAN. 17-20.1.07
Russell Haswell takes part, alongside William Bennett (WHITEHOUSE) and Toshiji Mikawa (INCAPACITANTS), in Sound Workshop + Concert at CCA and IKKI in Kitakyushu, Japan, 17th - 20th January 2007.
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/
http://www.susanlawly.freeuk.com/
http://www.japanimprov.com/incapa/index.html
Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #2. 1.12.06
Haswell & Hecker feature in a on-line photo archive of the XXXXX series of events held in London earlier this year!
http://plot.bek.no/~crash2005/xxxxx_2006/xxxxx_image-html/heckerruss02.html
Published On-line Gallery: UPIC Diffusion Session #4. 16.10.06
Haswell & Hecker feature in a on-line photo-set of the Frieze Music event at the London Hippodrome, proving Haswell & Hecker did appear in the audience using the front of house MIDAS desk to diffuse their set. Thats why they didn't appear on-stage. Also note their laser and ring of strobes! + obviously the hooded man pics are Sunn 0)))
http://flickr.com/photos/failme/sets/72157594327029492/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #4. 13.10.06
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the fourth multi channel electro-acoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' in Frieze Music at London Hippodrome for the Frieze art fair 2006. Also Sunn 0))) play after Haswell & Hecker! Friday 13 October, £14 + booking fee. http://www.seetickets.com
http://www.friezeartfair.com/music/
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER CD booklet text: Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor _.09.06
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker contributed the booklet text for Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed by Jimi Tenor CD which has just been released on Deutsche Grammophon and includes versions of the major work of Steve Reich, Edgar Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Erik Satie etc...
http://www.jimitenor-recomposed.de
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #3. 27.09.06
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the third multi channel electro-acoustic diffusion session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' for VOLUME III on 27th September, 8pm at Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Ticket info/ booking: +353 (0)1 881 9613/14http://www.templebargallery.com/2006programme/0609vol01.htm
http://www.project.ie/cgi-bin/eventdetail.pl?id=508
On-Line Shop: Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997-2000 (Mego 012)
Editions Mego are maintaining the back catalogue of the shut-down Mego Label.
Mego 012 Russell Haswell: Live Salvage 1997-2000 is now available from:
http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/PurchasePage
Event: Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist 24-hour Interview Marathon. 28-29.07.06
Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist interview over 50 people (including Russell Haswell) in 24 hours, inside Koolhaas' Serpentine Gallery Pavillion.
NB: the Serpentine Gallery London Marathon runs for 24 hours non-stop from Fri 28/07 6pm till Sat 29/07 6pm
"the list does bear some potential (Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Ken Loach...) and whatever it may come to lack in edification will most likely be made up for by the fun of seeing what happens before dawn... Russell Haswell at 3:30am followed by Damien Hirst at 4am." http://www.kultureflash.net/
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/marathon/index.html
http://www.timeout.com/london/park_night/3185/Serpentine+Gallery+24-hour+Marathon.html
Event: Cut & Splice: Acousmonium @ ICA. 6.5.06
Russell Haswell provides after-show Hard-Disc-Jockey [HDJ] set at the ICA bar following concerts presented by CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF, ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI, MICHEL CHION and FLORIAN HECKER utilizing the 80 speaker GRM Acousmonium.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/
http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/cutandsplice/saturday.htm
Published Article: HASWELL & HECKER mini interview. _.5.06
A mini interview with HASWELL & HECKER is published in MAY issue of COMPUTER MUSIC Magazine (UK) on page 71 as part of a Sonic Art feature entitled 'The Art of Noise'! .
Event: DESCENT: Haswell/Manheim/Marhaug @ SAGE Gateshead 16.4.06 CANCELLED!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Russell Haswell, Kjetil Manheim (original MAYHEM drummer!) and Lasse Marhaug headline DESCENT as live improvised noise trio at SAGE Gateshead.
The Sage Gateshead, Hall Two, Sunday 16 April 4:00 pm.
DESCENT. This all-day event gathers an international cast at Sage to celebrate the use and abuse of noise, drones and feedback in music. The astounding (and deafening!) line-upincludes: an exclusive appearance by Russell Haswell/Kjetil Manheim/Lasse Marhaug, a trio renowned individually and coming together to create an awesome free noise rock tirade; Japanese noise legend and Zeni Geva mainman K K Null; Austrian soundscapist and mainstay of the revered Mego label, Pita; from Ohio, one-man drone-rock orchestra Burning Star Core; Load Records' feedback abuser Prurient; London-based experimental veteran Z'ev; and Newcastle's own drone-rock monolith Jazzfinger. + HIAZ and BRUCE GILBERT added to the bill!!!
http://www.thesagegateshead.org/whats_on/event.aspx?e=&eid=632788030449258759&ts=632808000000000000&spid=5044&id=5045&df=632807424000000000&dt=632808287990000000&g=&p=&f=
http://no-fi.org.uk/
http://blog.manheim.no/
http://www.moonfrost.net/mayhem/members/manheim.htm
http://www.lassemarhaug.no/
Published Article: frieze magazine. _.04.06
frieze magazine Issue 98 April 2006 pages 39-40
Seen and Heard: Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system by Dan Fox. A text-only version can be found at http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/seen_and_heard/
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #2. 24.03.06
UPIC Diffusion Session 2 @ XXXXX
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present the second session of material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' at the XXXXX festival at the ICA, London.
ICA london march 24 entry £15 booking 02079303647
http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk/
http://www.ica.org.uk/
http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/upic.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/UPIC.htm
Event: Sunn 0)))/Earth/Consumer Electronics 14.02.06
Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #1. 14.12.05
UPIC Diffusion Session 1
Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker present material generated on Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System'.
Somewhere in london, 7PM 14th DECEMBER 2005! Check http://cubittartists.org.uk/upcoming.html for further details!
http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/upic.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/UPIC.htm
Event: ASAGIRI JAM. 1.10.05
© Doris Woo ASAGIRI JAM
Russell Haswell plays a Hard-Disc-Jockey [HDJ] set in JAPAN somewhere near Mt. Fuji Saturday 1st October 2005.
http://www.smash-jpn.com/asagiri/timetable.html
Curated Event: ATP:ETS:2. 17.09.05
All Tomorrows Parties: EASY TO SWALLOW: 2. Curated by Russell Haswell
Saturday 17th September 2005. KOKO, Camden, London.
LEE DORRIAN (dj)
PITA (live)
EARTH (live)
AUTECHRE (live)
ROBERT HOOD (dj)
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/index.php?event=21
Vinyl Reissue: Haswell & Hecker: Revision. 29.06.05
Haswell & Hecker: Revision (Mego) single-sided 12” Vinyl, in clear sleeve + large sticker! Edition: 500!
Haswell & Hecker: Orange-Time-Shock-Format-Wave-Re-Composition (Remix for VOICE CRACK)
http://www.mego.at/mego069.html
http://www.warprecords.com/?mart=MEGO069
Curated Event: ATP:ETS. 2.06.05
All Tomorrows Parties: EASY TO SWALLOW. Curated by Russell Haswell
Thursday 2nd June 2005. SEOne Club, London Bridge, London.
CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF (live)
YASUNAO TONE + HECKER (live)
MARK STEWART AND THE MAFFIA (live)
APHEX TWIN ()
WHITEHOUSE (live)
SURGEON + REGIS PRESENT: BRITISH MURDER BOYS ()
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/line_up.php?event=17
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