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http://haswellstudio.com official, current and archival information regarding multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell...
...info on HASWELL & HECKER can be found at http://myspace.com/haswellhecker and http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/
"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: 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: 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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