Oliver Stummer

A Light at the End of the Orgy...

2010-01-02T12:46:00.001-08:00

A Light at the End of the Orgy…
3raum, Arena Wien 15.01.10 21h

Breakcore/Drum and Bass/Dub/IDM

Live:
- HECATE
(Belphegor Sukkubus) Berlin - ZHARK INT
- TOMOROH HIDARI
(Master of ‘Pataphysics) Vienna – Record Label Records

- DEATH IS NOT A COLOR (Digital epileptic breaks-metal) Vienna
- BOBBY VELVET (US/A) (a’capella from hell) Vienna
- DYSTOPIAN DUB DEVELOPMENTS (Death Reggae and Glitchy Doom Dub) Vienna

DJs:
BITKID Vienna; ADAM STRANG Vienna

…to celebrate 35 years of Tomoroh Hidari (NEW: now with Mag.Phil.!)

DEATH IS NOT A COLOR (AT)
Epileptic breaks meet with monolithic bass to beat down a pack of lowlife ravesynths
drumandbass or something of the like.sometimes leans more towards breakcore, then again back to drumandbass. sometimes gets recognised as digitzed metal.
http://deathisnotacolor.org

BOBBY VELVET (US/A)
A`capella from hell…
Bobby Velvet, the US anarcho-crooner, found himself lost in Vienna at some point, where he decided to take a loopstation, microphone and don his ancient ritual gown, to please us with his sonic assaults.

HECATE (US)
As Head Mistress of Zhark International, Hecate has been responsible for relentlessly fostering and producing the most evil breaks and noise since 1996. Besides being named "most prolific female producer" in hard electronic music, she has broadened her scope of damage to genres including Death and Black Metal in recent years.
http://myspace.com/hecate
http://zhark.org/home.php

TOMOROH HIDARI
Savant-terrible and probably not the head and bottom of the Delusory ´Pataphysical Institute of Whateverism. Maketh electronic music and claims to be the instigator of Fringe-Core. Anyway, nothing that can be written about him, can prepare you for his musick. But you can listen on fine releases on labels such as: Isolate und Record Label Records, zhark,etc.
So better not mention the war and overcome to enjoy a special celebrations live-set, which should include some friends, and will lead on to a special live-jam session by Dystopian Dub Developments.
http://tomoroh.com
http://www.digitalvomit.com/dvr042

DYSTOPIAN DUB DEVELOPMENTS (AT)
Nietzschean Jam Collective, who are said to play death-reggae as well as anything that happens, and that might be called Dub/Doom/Kraut/Drone/’pata-Music. Including, but not limited to: Alive, Adam Strang, Death is Not A Color, DFKT, Emerson Spitfire, Mario Stereo, Tomoroh Hidari and Umberto Gollini on the Guestlist.
http://www.myspace.com/dystopiandubdevelopments

Djs: Adam Strang: http://www.myspace.com/adamstrang
Bitkid: http://www.bitkid.com/

Tomoroh Hidari - And Music Became Its Own Grandma... (DVR042) - free album out now for download!

2009-08-07T03:31:00.000-07:00

I have a new album under my tomoroh hidari alias out on international label/artist collective Digital Vomit. (I got into contact with these fine people when i played my dublin gig). I allready contributed tracks to some of the fine (often themed) compilations Digital Vomit have released, and this is my debut full length release on that label.
7 Tracks I improvised live during various concert appearances, which are mostly in a mid-to-downtempo realm, somewhat inspired by electro and techno, with glitch-, microsound- and ambient influences and dubby basslines/delay effects.

Here's the link: Digital Vomit

here's what you're too afraid to ask:
Release date: 'p 24. (St. Pissedoux, caporal of free men) Tatane 136 (E.V. 06 Aug. 2009)
Pressing: unlimited MP3 album
All tracks were programmed, improvised and performed during different live-acts by Tomoroh Hidari
'p 129 - 134 (E.V. 2002-2007)
Even though originating from times before the private 'pataphysical turn of Nemo von Nirgends,
this was compiled and remastered at The Delusory 'Pataphysical Institute of Whateverism 'p 136 (E.V. 2009)
Titles were inserted afterwards and are therefore not Pataphors….

Tracklisting

1) A First Dance About Architecture
2) Reprise 1: Moderato Furioso
3) Valentina Tereshkova
4) Proto-Nothing (Schizoid Version)
5) Grandfather Paradox
6) Reprise 2: More Dancing About Architecture
7) Mnemosyne's Illicit Child

Everybody Loops - Music for kids (also suitable for adults) Share

2009-05-28T02:32:00.000-07:00

The good folks at digital vomit and hicc.org have initiated an album of music for children. (the second incarnation)...
a plethora of electronic musicians from all kinds of genres have contributed, including yours Hidari.
furthermore, it's available for free download... so get ready for children songs that are acid, idm, breakcore, noise, etc.

grap it via archive org: http://www.archive.org/details/EverybodyLoops

here's a page for it: http://www.digitalvomit.com/dvr019-various-guide-to-successful-party-training-volume-2 (the name has changed from party training, to everybody loops...)

finally, here's a superfluous list of all artists and songs:
Track Artist Title
1 WSicko Bong
2 N/A faery2
3 M.A.N 12.30
4 Automatic Tasty while you were sleeping
5 Macalla dictum
6 solipsys yipyip
7 Keith Hic & Cyan Chimes at CP
8 N/A whatisafaery
9 Tomoroh Hidari - The Original Smurfcore
10 Macalla itchywawa
11 Dalit LoliPop Man
12 Onken The Amazing Chocolatier [mOrphalized mix]
13 gabba_abba _-_old_kidz_on_da_farm
14 N/A the wolf 1
15 M.A.N and Sarah Rees My little friend
16 Martin_Crowley -Hedgehog_
17 Poostosh Vs. Andy N A lesson in interesting writing
18 Automatic Tasty bicycle song
19 JonBob HEY BOOBOO
20 Minimal Impact Casio Headbutt Science Lesson
21 N/A faery1
22 M.A.N 8.50am
23 Meep meep_-_eh-oh!
24 DJDonnaSummer djds - got me burnin
25 Macalla mr. wolfenstein
26 N/A the wolf 3
27 Ruairi Mc Dermott (Robo Stud) Kids Track
28 Subsonika ABC
29 Macalla zamanurfaceisgone
30 M.A.N. 10.40am
31 Uncivilized Versus The Possum Play-Doh
32 Automatic Tasty little
33 N/A theend
34 Bearats Window Song
35 Macalla scarecrows dream
36 Felix Helix Ernie and Bert go
36 7U? A click and clap 2 step apology for recent bovine abductions

2009-04-25T11:23:00.000-07:00

Tomoroh Hidari

Todtnauberg - a 'Pataphysical Approach

Ambient Acid Breaks from the Delusory 'Pataphysical Institute of Whateverism....
Dedicated to Martin Heidegger and his mustache!

Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) may be one of the most important works of western philosophy in the 20th century, and earned its author, controversial philosopher Martin Heidegger, fame amongst phenomenologists - the book itself was heavily influenced and even dedicated to Edmund Husserl -, existentialists (see: Sean Paul Sartre "Being and Nothing) and even structuralists like Jacques Derrida. Tomoroh Hidari's "Todtnauberg", named after the small village in Germany where Sein und Zeit was written in 1927, does not attempt to set Martin Heidegger's complex philosophical ponderings to music, but rather takes a 'pataphysical approach: Instead of trying to understand Time and Being as transcendental universalia, they are musically created and treated as special cases, one-off instances of a kind. Musically and personally reflecting life as the ever changing excretive winds of King Ubu, where patterns and structures are arbitrary means to an end, seemingly repetitive circles within a theatre of the absurdish scheme serving to create odds to an end.

SOMMEIL: A CONCERT FOR SLEEP

2009-04-07T04:33:00.000-07:00

I recently submitted some material from my first "his Namelessness Is Legion" album "Resonant Mindlessness", out on mahorka (see links at the bottom) to Tanner Menard's
SOMEIL: A CONCERT FOR SLEEP, which will take place in New Orleans on 11th of April.
Here is some info from Tanner's Blog, (which you can read here):

SOMMEIL: A CONCERT FOR SLEEP, beginning at 10:00 pm

on Saturday April 11th and ending at 7:00 am on Sunday April

12th: $15 including breakfast. All participants are asked to

provide their own sleeping bag and pillow.

You can also spend meditation time in the Sleep Space on April

11th from noon till 9:00 pm: $5 per hour and $3 per half hour.

From 6:00-9:00 pm the gallery will particpate in the St Claude

Arts District Gallery Opening Saturday. All proceeds benefit

Antenna Gallery.

Tanner Menard, Antenna Gallery and Experimedia Records

presents Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep, an international collaborative

experiment. Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning

at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending on Sunday April

12th at 7:00 am. Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while

live ambient and environmental music is performed through the

night by Tanner Menard.

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be Menard’s reinterpretation of

the sleep concert experiment, first created by Robert Rich in 1982

and will be presented at the Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy

St New Orleans, LA 70117 in the heart of the St Claude Arts

District. The concert will be realized with Rich’s permission and

guidance. Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience

is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow

and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves

over the course of the night and into the morning. People attending

the event are asked to be willing to sleep during the event or

at least to remain silent during the course of the nine hour experience.

Not merely a recreation of Rich’s original idea, Sommeil is

a conceptual, global remix of a performance type that addresses

one of the most basic functionalities of ambient and environmental

sound; music by which to sleep.

In the spirit of remix and the Creative Commons movement, Menard,

a Louisiana native, has compiled submissions of audio material

for the concert from nearly seventy artists across the globe.

These artists answered a call for submissions marketed online by

Experimedia Records which asked for music and field recording

to be used, remixed and mashed up during this nocturnal event.

Submissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural

and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers

and computers. Submitters have included radio scientists,

geologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers,

installation artists as well as several well known figures in the

ambient music scene. During the course of the evening, Menard

will remix these sleep submissions into a constantly evolving

sonic texture that will lull the audience to sleep. A quad-channel

surround sound system will be provided by Piety St Studios for

maximum sonic enhancement of the sleep space and ambient

video lighting will be provided in the form of a video loop by the

internationally acclaimed VJ CHIKA. Experimedia Records has

generously agreed to release multiple out takes from this concert

on its Internet label under a free Creative Commons license.

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be nine hours of uninterrupted

music beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending

at 7:00 am on Sunday April 12th at Antenna Gallery . Tickets to

the evening event will be $15 and will include a light breakfast

at waking time. During the day of April 11th Antenna Gallery

will be opening the space to allow people who do not wish to

sleep through the night to hear the original submissions from the

international community of artists. We are asking $5 per hour to

experience the meditative environment of the sleep space and $3

per half an hour from noon to 9:00 pm on Saturday April 11th.

At 6 pm we will also be participating in the St Claude Gallery

Opening that falls on the second Saturday of each month. All

proceeds will benefit Antenna Gallery. Please visit tannermenard.

archaichorizon.com to follow the event as it unfolds.

CURATOR AND SOUND ARTIST

Tanner Menard was born on September 20th, 1978 the same

month that Brian Eno published his essay entitled ‘Ambient

Music’. Cosmically connected to this conceptual shift in musical

consciousness, Menard’s music has always soared over minimalist

and ambient landscapes. At the age of 11 Menard composed

his first works for piano and quickly established a reputation as

a composer of minimalist music for orchestral forces. His work

‘joe’s last mix’ has been performed around the globe at a number

of distinguished festivals and was released in 2003 on Kafua

Records in Japan. In 2002 his sonic world was shaken by his experience

working with Naut Human, the well known Curator and

label owner at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco. There

he discovered the world of ambient and experimental electronic

music. In 2005 he served as an artist in residence at Arizona State

University where he collaborated with Jeph Jerman, Gary Hill

and Daniel Bernard Romain for his installation ‘envyronie’ which

combined orchestra, live electronics and desert recordings. His

collaboration with Jerman inspired a series of environmentally

based works and has subsequently marked the departure from

his classical and experimental backgrounds in favor of a world of

ambient landscapes and piano inspired sound meditations. Menard’s

music is released on Install Records, Archaic Horizon net

label, Friendly Virus net label, Kafua Records and Experimedia

(tbr) and his orchestral music has been published by Loose Filter

Music. His music has also appeared on the radio, on tv, in plays,

art galleries and major concert halls across the world and his blog

‘Tanner Menard’ is rapidly gaining international notoriety for such

collaborations as Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep and reviews and

interviews with an international pool of artists and label owners.

SUBMISSIONS

Tanner Menard and Experimedia Records have assembled a roster

of nearly seventy artists from around the globe including radio

scientists, geologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers,

installation artists as well as several well known figures in

the ambient music scene. These artists submitted material for Menard

to remix during the course of Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep.

Submissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural

and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers

and computers. A complete list of artists will be available

at the concert and will later be published on Tanner Menard’s

blog. Select works, remixed by Menard will appear on a release on

Experimedia Records in the months following the event.

VIDEO ARTIST

CHiKA is a graphic designer and a live computer visuals artist

working within New York’s expanding cinema community and VJ

scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and

original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations.

She has performed at The Museum of Modern Art, The Hammer

Museum, Mutek, The Mapping Festival, Decibel Festival, the

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève , Platform Bohenstrasses,

Théâtre Maisonneuve, Asia Contemporary Week, San Francisco

Art Institute, Eyebeam, Monkeytown, The Issue Project, Galapagos

Art Space, Tonic, Eyewash as well as private parties, festivals,

events, galleries and night clubs.

Since CHiKA started performing live in the summer of 2004,

she has become very active in the experimental music and video

underground scene in NYC. She is a member of the Share community,

which is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration

and knowledge exchange in new media communities. The

first SHARE evening happened in New York in 2001. There are

now about 20 SHARE communities across the world.

She was recently featured on Club Chroma (www.Joost.com), Eyewash

3 DVD by Forward Motion Theater and published in Super

10, Art Book in 2008. CHiKA also collaborates with electronic

musicians and DJs on various projects. Log Log on to http://www.

imagima.com for more information.

GALLERY

Antenna is operated by the artist-run non-profit collective Press

Street who’s mission is to promote art and literature in the community

through dynamic projects, collaborations and publications.

Antenna is located at 3161 Burgundy St New Orleans, LA

70117 in the Bywater.

LABEL

Experimedia is a record label, arts organization, and online record

shop based out of Ohio, United States which is involved in the

digital and physical publication, promotion, and distribution of

exploratory music and visual arts. The Experimedia catalog covers

a broad stylistic palette of exploratory music including ambient,

electronica, electro-acoustic, experimental, dance, sound-art, microsound,

glitch, avant-garde, abstract, minimalist, and more.

The Experimedia online mailorder shop has recently expanded

to include the availability of releases from other select labels and

artists. This is intended to make more conveniently available some

of the worlds most innovative experimental music. By including

labels from overseas countries such as Japan, England, Germany,

Austria, Australia, and many others we intend to make music from

around the globe and within the United States more readily and

conveniently available throughout the world.

Experimedia also acts as a community based platform for creative

and conceptual media projects based upon collaborative research

and project development efforts. The projects.experimedia.net domain

and the Experimedia Projects Wiki have been developed to

facilitate the collaborative information gathering and organization

for these research efforts. The goal is that the Projects Wiki will

become a large resource of relevant information to the exploratory

sound and visual arts community as well as a historical account

of the collaborative efforts involved with Experimedia related projects.

If you are an artist interested in contributing research data

to our Projects Wiki or would like to initiate and curate a project

within our framework please feel free to contact Experimedia.

http://tannermenard.archaichorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/js_cache/sommeilprfinal.pdf

and here's a list of all the artists who submitted works:

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep, Contributors List

Counterspark
Tim Gray
Paul Rudy
Bill Sallak
Joshua Cohen
Ben Owen
Andrew Dalio
Nicholas Szczepanik
Jay Hixson
Tony Obr aka tsone
Holland Hopson
Olivier Nijs
Samuel Andre
Adam Pacione
Rumatov
Taishi Kamiya
Matthew Kemp
Diemo Schwarz
Max Alexander + Davy Bisaro
i8u
Richard Kemp
Stefanie L Ku
Garland Villanova
Oliver Stummer
Tychonian Soundworks
Harry Towell
Venus Vulture
Manrico Montero Calzadiaz
Kala Pierson
Emily Steigerwald
Phillip Klampe
Layden Bryant
Brian Kline
Coin Gutter
Molloy and his Bike
Tomorrow’s Man
Corespondents
Pilote
John Watson
Lori Beckstead + Dave Rose
Boomstix
Clint Sand
Mike Mc Morris
Fabio Anile
Elika
Emmanuel Mieville
Sorin Paun aka minim.all
Strom Noir
SYN -
Jay Downs
Danielle-Robyn Farah
Nico Bally
Ian Hawgood
Mathieu Ruhlmann
Entia Non
dreamSTATE
Nicholas Gish
Christopher Horgan
Phillip Wilkerson
Stephen Spera
Jonas Ruchenhever
Chad Viator
Jeff Betchel
Daniel del Rio
Jeremy Bible + Jason Henry
Jen-Kuang Chang
Will Hitz
Osvaldo Cibils
Christopher Hipgrave
Brian Ruskin
Altus
Nigel Samways
Anders Östberg
Marcel Gherman
Craque
Antonio Della Marina
Yard
Trepanning Trio
Stephen Parsick
Mario Sarramián
Liduino Pitombeira
Specta Ciera
Marinos Koutsomichalis
Martin Franklin
Meri von KleinSmid
Brandon Tallent aka Resynthesize
Jeff Gburek
Steven Curtin
Jeph Jerman
Daniel Lercher
Richard Lainhart
JM Charcot

Alien Audio Absurdities and Dubnihilism up for free download

2008-11-11T03:43:00.000-08:00

Alien Audio Absurdities (originally 2001) and Dubnihilism (originally 2000), two albums "from the vault" are up for free download at www.recordlabelrecords.org
They will be available fro free for two months (Alien AA until Dez.13th), Dubnihilism until Jan.3rd),
after which they will be available on RLR and Itunes for $6 each.

About Alien Audio Absurdities:
information about this recording: This is an older Tomoroh Hidari release completed previous to the 2004 Isolate Records CD 'The Necrophonicon'. It was never given a physical or proper digital release so Oliver has asked for me to make it availible here.

skug - Reviews

Tomoroh Hidari
Alien Audio Absurdities
http://listen.to/hidari

skug #51 | Text: Heinrich Deisl | Mon 23. Sep. 2002

Zwei Sachen: Tomoroh Hidari kann dem skug-Affiliates- und dem Grazer »Austrian Audience«-Umfeld zugeordnet werden. Nicht, dass das kryptisch daher kommen soll: Vielmehr sind es Referenzpunkte. Tracktitel wie »Schizoid Breakbeat Polka« und »Jolly Speedcore-Metal Ballad« stecken das Sound-Programm ab als lakonischen Verweis auf mehrfach gebrochene So-als-ob-D'n'B-Electronica mit vielen verwischten Hi-Hats, ziemlichem Hall und verqueren Beat-Strukturen, die eine Festplatte peristaltisch halt so von sich gibt. Teilweise hart am Fricklertum vorbei, ist »A.A.A.« ein Dekonstruktion reinster wohldosierter Stromstöße, die mit kaputten Beats das weiterführt, was in der elektronischen Ursuppe zwischen APX Twin und Mego-Masse herumwuselt.

Oliver Stummer on Dubnihilism (originally: Hypnopaedic Rhymes for Dubnihilistic Education) was the direct precursor to Alien Audio Absurdities. It was created during summer/fall of 2000 in vienna. I played all the guitars, some bass guitar, sampled some cello and jawharps, and also made heavy use of a borrowed nordlead1 and a virus, both played by hand and recorded to hd. The beats, some basses and basically all the rest was done on a p2 pc, with sound treatment in granulab (and probably others similar freeware programs) and programming/arrangemnt in acid. To be honest, it was a very low-fi affair, and im personally amazed listening to the material again for the first time in years � how fresh it still sounds. (Tomoroh Hidari, at the Court of the Nihilist Jester, 2008)

Robbie/F. grey on Dubnihilism:This album will only be a free download for 2 months. After that it will be available on Itunes and here for $6.
When i first met Oliver on SoulSeek i downloaded whatever of his own music he had shared at the time. Most of it i had listened to and enjoyed thoroughly, but there was this one LP that sounded drastically different than the rest. It was a strange mixture of dub music from all eras, early Lee Perry, mid 80s roots influenced production, and massively dipped in DSP creating a psychedelic soup that rivaled most Meat Beat Manifesto work. Dubnihilism is very head of it's time. Elements of modern electronic production ala Flying Lotus and Rustie can be heard on this record 7-8 years before these techniques caught on. One of the glitchest and most unpredictable Dub albums you will hear drawing influences from all eras of the musical genre. Oliver knows his dub music well and it shows in this LP. Robbie stumbled upon a mysterious myspace website of one titled the Dubnihilst. We still haven't figured out if this is Oliver playing a trick on us or not. (to be continued...)

Also Spoke Zerothruster 12" finally out!

2008-10-29T01:58:00.000-07:00

and you can prelisten, order and marvel at it here:
http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/rlr09.html

here's a review from Ant at Normann Records:

"Got an ace 12" on Record Label Records from Tomoroh Hidari. 'Also Spoke Zerothruster' is housed in a strange brown sleeve that has like weird grass in it. It's like a compressed cow pat. The grooves on the vinyl inside reveal an awsomely twisted techno hybrid full of sharp and futuristic electroid sounds and beats that hark back to golden era Gescom. 'Nothing' is totally hypnotic with it's robotic electro rhythms and shards of noise and wicked synth sounds. 'Extinction Event' is a sinister track with tumbling disjointed beats and fractured percussion. It's abstract but there is groove their that kind of suggests jungle but never quite gets there which I like. 'Who Shot The Jazz Drummer?' is even more abstract but use or imagination and it's a piece that'll take you places with is seedy jazz undertone and interesting sound design. A pretty damn fresh 12" with hand numbered print. Highly Recommended." Ant of Norman Records

The Past Inside The Future - A Tribute To Philip K. Dick

2008-06-30T03:34:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 22. of June this year, Austrian weblabel bruit.at, who released my "13 Objects"
released their first label compilation, entitled:

The Past Inside The Future - A Tribute To Philip K. Dick
http://bruit.at/?rid=16

including my track: "Exegesis 6: The Empire Never Ended".
Read what bruit have to say:

Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982) is considered one of the most influential and visionary science fiction writers of our time. His novels and short stories embrace topics of philosophical, religious and political matter and therefore transcend all genres.

Aside his literary achievements Dick was inapt to master the hurdles of everyday life. It is this character trait that seems to make it easy to adopt Dick as an idol. His ability to turn around his deficits and make use of them in his work shows his unparalleled creativiy - a special well of inspiration.

Over the past years Philip K. Dick was considered a "patron" to electronic musicians specially. The filmic atmosphere perceived while reading his novels seems to be a notable inspiration for composition in this music genre.

Philip K. Dick as a source of inspiration: For our first label-sampler we have asked 19 artists to contribute works based on a part of Dicks opus they considered important. As the outcome covers a broad spectrum of electronic music from abstract explorations to subtle beat-excursions to spoken word there remains the unifying perimeter of the often questioning and melancholic outlook on Dick's world.

Please enjoy our first label-sampler, "The Past Inside The Future - A Tribute To Philip K. Dick"

All Participating Artists In Order Of Appearance:

Firnwald
Dr.Nachtstrom
Das Gritli Moser
Pita
Der Reisende
TV Victor
Vgalaxy Orchestra
Herwig Holzmann
SSH Visor
Jon Eriksen
Sascha Neudeck
Tomoroh Hidari
v93r
red.chamber
Karlheinz Essl
Tofita Extofita
KABELTON vs. elle p.
Hano Aaruk vs. Wortwerft
Rokko Anal

Kreuzweg Ost's "Edelrost" at #3 of Cold Springs Download Charts ...and more signs of life!

2008-05-07T09:13:00.000-07:00

Cold Spring Records, who released Kreuzweg Ost's Edelrost Album on CD in 2005 have recently opened up their digital download store, and this month Edelrost features on third rank of their download charts. While a new Album of Kreuzweg Ost is in the works with Silenius and Ronald busy composing - as they still write the larger part of the music, with my contributions to rhythms and music increasing - and me bringing all into shape, with the main tasks of finalising and finishing everything still a few months ahead of me.
I won't tell too much about the album right now, but from the material so far, i'm positive that lover's of Edelrost will love it.

Dystopian Dub Developments (formerly known as Dondrine D.D.) have also taken up a lot of my time recently, as we have been working together to get the outfit "stage-fit". Since it all had started out as monthly jam sessions, without any intentions to form a band, the growing demand to be able to play shorter, more focussed gigs has led to a consolidation of sorts. there are now 5 permanent members and only occasional guests, and we even do rehearsal some times...:)
We have just recently played gigs at both Arena Wien and Flex Wien, and have another gig upcoming on may 23. in Innsbruck.
And the monthly jam was revived beginning of march at Orient Occident, a nice bar at Naschmarkt wien, where you can come see us play every 1st saturday of the month.

We are also looking to play some gigs all around europe the next few months, so please go over to www.myspace.com/dystopiandubdevelopments and contact us for booking inquieries,.,, (or just mail me.)

The below mentioned 12" Also Spoke Zerothruster" is about to come back from the pressing plant, so final details on release date, etc. will be available very soon...

thank you, drive throuh...
ö.

"Also Sprach Zerothruster" 12" out soon; "Tetroid 2012" out Now

2008-03-25T05:09:00.000-07:00

"Also Sprach Zerothruster" Forthcoming 12" on Record Label Records

California based Record Label Records (run by fellow Isolate Orphan Fluorescent Grey) will be releasing my 1st 12", entitled "Also Spoke Zerothruster".
It features 4 tracks covering a variety of styles. from the opener "Shranzhall" (now going up on my myspace player...), which shows dubstep the finger (sort of), to techno-industrial-esque "nothing" (a nihilist reply to coil’s "something") on side a, then starting side b with a breakbeat-laden epic "Extinction Event" before leaving you in dsp-space-is-the-place-land with the electroacoustic jazz of "Who shot the Jazz-Drummer?".

Each 12" will come with an indivdual A4 Rohrschach picture.

The planned release date is may 1st. Check RLR for the TBC.

Tetroid 2012 - A Tetris-Clone-Music-Sampler out on Entity.be

Get it at: entity.be

Pasted from the info file:

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ABOUT TETROID 2012:
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Tetroid 2012 is a game and electronic music compilation,
intended to promote "experimental" electronic music, by
means of an addictive catalyst.

The game was programmed by Carsten Waechter (aka Toxie
from the Apocalypse Inc demogroup).
http://www.ainc.de

Each level in the game features music and sound effects
by artists that may or may not have appeared in the
Entity netlabel catalog.
The general art direction was orchestrated by Jan Robbe
(aka Erratic/Atomhead, Entity netlabel).
http://www.entity.be

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Apocalypse Inc/Carsten Waechter
Atomhead/Erratic
Esther Venrooy
Tirriddiliu
Flimmer
Idle Sunder
Critikal
Elín
fp + om
Takeshi Nakamura
Quest.Room.Project
Disastrato
Binray
The Ambling Band
Zavoloka
Tomoroh Hidari
Ronny Ragtroll
Photophob
BLAERG
Isopussy
S.A.T.K.A.
Sedarka

"13 Objects..." out soon and Scanned Synth Mini Competition

2007-12-07T08:43:00.000-08:00

"13 Objects, Or A Dadaist, A Surrealist And A Group Of Random Bystanders Marvel At The Ferocious Whateverism Of The 'Pataphysician", my latest offering, will be released on "Bruit.at" December 16th. (read more about this release in the post below...!)
I will also perform live as Tomoroh Hidari in Graz at the Bruit Labelnight on Dec.20th, which is part of the interpenetration festival.

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Humanoid Sound Systems, who released Scanned Synth Pro earlier this year (including a shootload of presets designed by myhumbleselfish), are holding a competition which will let you win a cope of this novel vsti.
to enter download the free scanned synth mini and produce a track with it, and it alone (well beats and basic effects are allowed.
Head over to their forum at KVR for rules of entry.

"If Art Is The Answer..." Art's Birthday 2008

2007-11-30T02:32:00.000-08:00

Since Art seemingly has a Birthday*, or at least since it appears to be Art to celebrate Art's Birthday, and/or all is Fluxus, as some once said, I decided to not let that day go by this coming year again...

http://www.kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2008/

takes you to celebration central, provided by ORF Kunstradio, and will give you all the information, and a chance to deposit your present for Art.

My present comes in the form of the second ever piece of RFAM I created (the first being the track "HaarPsychorps" on the Update compilation), a nice little diddy I came to call "If Art Is The Answer, What Is The Question".
(Click on the name to get to the download page)

Being true RFAM andthus completely compliant with all its rules and regulations, this piece - as you surely can easily hear - focuses more on theoretical aspects of art, then on sonic or musical pleasure.
Were it not for the fact that RFAM in it's very nature is a grain-of-salt statement, such music should better not be made by professional musicians.

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Art's Birthday 2008 – 1,000,045 Years of Art

In 1963 the French Fluxus artist, Robert Filliou, declared January 17 to be the 1,000,000th birthday of art which for some decades now has been celebrated worldwide. As in the previous years, in 2008 artists all over the world will organise a networked birthday party for art. In many places the motto of this year’s celebrations will be “Forever Young”.

13 Objects - a few thoughts on stealing from the demiurges

2007-11-17T06:32:00.000-08:00

I'm have just finished work on my next release, an EP, due out beginning of December on Austrian web label BRUIT.

13 Objects (Or: A Dadaist, A Surrealist And A Group Of Random Bystanders Marvel At The Ferocious Whateverism Of The 'Pataphysician) is a collection of three electro acoustic tracks, primarily inspired by Music Concrète.

I have a long standing admiration for the early Demiurges of Electronic and "Noise" Music, with Todd Dockstader, Pierre Henry, Iannis Xenakis, Georgy Ligeti, Luc Ferrari as well as Edgar Varese being my favorite artists in that genre. As I have worked with "found sounds" before and held plans to do an electro acoustic piece for some time, it deemed a good idea, to finally go for it.

First I laid out a simple set of conceptional rules, mostly following the concept of early Music Concrète and Tape Music, but integrating, rather than denying, modern computer technology at creative sound - design levels :

- 13 Objects was made completely from the sounds of various house-hold items recorded as “found sounds”.
- The DAW was used similar to the combination of a multitrack tape machine, a mixing desk and moderate outboard gear (Dynamic, EQ and Reverb)
-The gathered “raw” sounds were treated with a variety of processing tools and methods and shaped into “sound objects” that formed the idea pool for composition.
- Only moderate editing (cutting, fading, panorama & volume) of the sound objects was allowed in the DAW.

While these rules may seem restrictive at first glance, they opened up a wide field of creative possibilities, and proved very inspirational during the process. As the freedom to choose from any tool available was replaced by a focus on certain methods of treating sounds I was forced to explore those more deeply.

The excitement began as early as recording the raw material, searching my flat for items that made interesting noises. Finally I settled with (quite randomly, actually) 13 objects:
A coffee machine (cooking) - which a little later "died" of overheating, as I forgot it on the stove, while working on Track 3 - , a cookie tin, a pan, a coat hanger (stretch version, - with spring), a small metal cup, a big metal cup filled with water, an oven tray, a flute (not used musically), an empty chips-packet, a broken window (further smashed with the microphone), a piggy bank (half full), a handful of coins and the roost of a fan.

These were treated as to emit "interesting sounds", not any sort of "musical motive" and recorded. After hours of editing and looking for the best recorded snippets, the actual work of composition started whith taking these sounds to a variety of programs and treating them to create "sound objects". - In music a sound object (objet sonore: Pierre Shaeffer), a generalization of the concept of a musical note, is any soundfrom any source which in duration is on the time scale of 100 ms to several seconds. (Wikipedia)

Actually, some of my sound objects lasted over a minute, but since a subtle modulation of the sounds over time and a certain evolving quality was of musical interest to me, a certain amount of time must be allowed for sounds to evolve and mutate.

Most of the software used is actually freeware, thus it seems to make sense to, not only, disclose some of the methods involved in composing 13 Objects, but also to point out 3 great application for interesting computer music.

- Cecilia: This is the most versatile of the 3, a front end to the mighty Csound music-programming language, with easy to use (and understand) "modules" allowing the use of a variety of synthesis forms, such as fft analysis and resynthesis, granular synthesis, time-domain convolution and much more.
Cecilia is available for macintosh (newer version) as well as windows (older version).
http://www.csounds.com/cecilia/

- Spear: a beta-version of a fft-analysis and resynthesis program also capable of phase-vocoding.
It's interface allows for selection and transformation of selected regions of partials, different playback speeds and pitch-shifting, and there are obviously plans for further editing tools.
Spear is also available for windows and macintosh
http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

- Granulab: A piece of true vintage computer music software. I have been using granulab since I started out on the computer in the late 90s. long before many commercial products (like NI Reaktor) came along, allowing to use granular synthesis, this software was available and even running in realtime. It can create fascinating soundscapes out of almost everything, and we all should hope for a granulab 2.0!
Granulab is available for Windows only.
http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Granny.htm

The rest was no piece of pie, but a very interesting (if time consuming) and inspirational, process. Working with these sound objects, trying out various combinations and approaches, I sensed three tracks "emerging" from the various sketches I was laying out. As I never indented to replicate the sound of my inspirational masters, but adapt their methods to my own Tomoroh Hidari sound, I was not only musician, but had to be listener as well, judging the pieces and taking aesthetical decisions.
While two of those focus on an ambient backdrop, creating a space for single "solo" sounds to create an exegesis of fundamentally imaginary tales, track Nr.2 (as it is now), was from the beginning built around more rythmic elements, providing an endoskeleton around which noises and atmospheric sounds could run rampant.

Enough Dancing about Architecture....

The final result will be out on BRUIT in the upcoming weeks, watch this space and tomoroh.com for news.

Some further links:

Bruit (Weblabel)
Music Concrète (Wikipedia)
Electroacoustic Music (Wikipedia)
Csounds.com
Pierre_Schaeffer
Edgard_Varèse
IRCAM

Vienna Abstract Special on Überklang.net

2007-10-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

Überklang.net, the Graz, Austria based Radioshow and podcast by Dr. Nachtstrom, will present you with a special on their next show called "Vienna Abstract".

Besides a look at new releases from cult label "Editions Mego" (Fennesz, Farmers Manual, KTL, Pita, Sluta Leta, etc.) and a portrait of the great Sasha Neudeck, it will also feature my latest two releases, Tomoroh Hidari's "Todtnauberg EP" (Available HERE) and "...that Night She Emitted a Different Silence" from my his Namelessness Is Legion project.

The podcast will be available from Sun. Nov 4th (The day I will incidentally play live with "Aeon", the stoner/doom/drone project I'm in with Adam Strang aka Ernst Gerdenich at Fluc Wanne, Wien, along Xanopticon, et.al)

Click the headline or HERE to go the überklang's posting about this programme!

A new update for Scanned Synth Pro

2007-09-16T09:01:00.000-07:00

Humanoid Sounds have released a major update to their Scanned Synth Pro Vsti (for which I've been doing betatesting and sound programming), which makes this novel synth even more exciting.
Here's the news:

Hello All,

There is exciting Scanned Synth news!

Scanned Synth Pro V1.1.1 is now available to all new and previously
registered users of SSP. This includes an additional 55 waveforms
that can be used for the Hammer Shape, Mass Shape and Centre Wave
parameters. This massively increases the number of timbres that can
be produced (55 x 55 x 55 times!). There is also an added LFO type
called "Random" that allows you to modulate parameters randomly to
create unpredictable results. This update is *not* available in
Scanned Synth Mini.

You can download the demo from the products page to try out the new
features if you are not already a registered user.

Existing users should log in to the support system to get this
exciting new update.

Kind Regards,

John Proctor
Humanoid Sound Systems
http://www.humanoidsounds.co.uk

And here is a review I've written at KVR Audio

"Todtnauberg EP" and "...that Night She Emitted a Different Silence" reviewed in Vital Weekly

2007-08-31T05:42:00.000-07:00

My latest two releases, the Tomoroh Hidari "Todtnauberg EP" and "...that night she emitted a different kind of silence" done under my his Namelessness Is Legion alias got reviewed in the latest edition of "Vital Weekly"...
read here what they had to say, and don't forget you can download the hNIL release for free, and also prelisten Todtnauberg for free (before you support your favourite weirdö by buying it at it's cheap price):

here goes the review:
TOMOROH HIDARI - TODTNAUBERG (MP3 by Indiestore)
HIS NAMELESSNESS IS LEGION - ...THAT NIGHT SHE EMITTED A DIFFERENT SILENCE (MP3 by Mahorka)
Todtnauberg is a small German village where Heidegger wrote his famous work 'Sein Und Zeit', but that's about the only connection to the release by Tomoroh Hidari, but the ever changing 'excretive winds of King Ubu' are the inspirations. Tomoroh Hidari has released music on labels as Isolate Records, Lee, Mekobira and others - even when I never heard of those three. All other information is kept secret, but I believe one Oliver Stummer is behind this. The four tracks presented here rhythmic and dark. Forceful beats that are hardly to dance along too, because the musical background is dark and creepy. The whole thing is a bit too synthetic and remote for me. Chaos rules in these beats, but I pass.
The same Stummer recorded also as His Namelessness Is Legion a MP3 release called '... That Night She Emitted A Different Silence', which I thought was of much more interest. No rhythm on the foreground, but lots of guitars, treated on the computer. Microsound bumps into ambient and industrial music. Densely layered, at times noise based heaviness, digital clicks and droney. The odd thing is however at the end, with '...And The Quick Kill The Dead', with has vocals (sounding a bit like Edward Ka-spel), and could almost pass on as a popsong. Very nice release. (FdW)
Address: http://www.indiestore.com/tomoroh

Address: http://www.archive.org/details/mhrk054

his Namlessness Is Legion: New Album

2007-07-30T04:41:00.000-07:00

Out now on Mahorka Records is "that night she emitted a different silence" the new album and part two of the Liz-Anna trilogy by my ambient/industrial/drone project his Namelessness Is Legion"

Three tracks with a total running time of 54:21 will take you onto a trip through a surreal film noir:

Electronic sounds, guitar drones and loops build up atmospheres to the brink of breaking down, before it all ends with almost a pop-song...

a new challenge for liz-anna, as we find ourselves wandering aimlessly through labyrinthine debris of post-modernity. fragmentary sonified data surfaces like hallucinatory residuals of meaning on an aural ursuppe, cooked up from the victims of the rock'n'roll suicide. We encounter the ghosts of futures past...

1. A Field Trip with Dr. Hoffman
2. Altamont
3. ...and the Quick Kill the Dead

(p&c)2007 Oliver Stummer for hNIL at M.A., Vienna
http://tomoroh.com

Animated GIF image by leska.

Get it from Mahorka via this link!!

Todtnauberg EP

2007-07-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

In line with the digital evolution I'm proud to announce the first Internet only release of Tomoroh Hidari, available via Indistore. (that's a link)
4 Tracks with an Acid-, Ambient- and Oldschool influence, that make up the almost Heideggerian "Todtnauberg EP".

TOMOROH HIDARI
The Todtnauberg EP

Tracklist:
1. Todtnauberg Pt.1 Seyn
2. Hiding out in a Sidereal Safehouse
3. Delusions of a Virgin Milf
4. Todtnauberg Pt.2 Zeyt

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A Chance to win Ghos Busters III - for the quick and german-speaking

2007-07-17T13:30:00.000-07:00

datenschmutz.net, by richie pettauer, features a review of the recently released cd "ghos buster's iii" and a chance to win a copy!
released on record label records this cd features a track and some reaktor ensembles by my tomoroh hidari alias.

so head over to datenschmutz's blog - and, given you're capable of speaking/understanding german - find out how you can win this nice compilation.
The deadline is July 31.st 2007

Dondrine Dub Developments 1st Biennial Report

2007-07-10T09:49:00.000-07:00

Two years ago I initiated a monthly jam session at cozy Viennese bar "dondrine"
Coming Saturday we're celebrating the two year anniversary of what finally emanzipated itself as "Not a Band, Not A Soundsystem - A Development" aka a group of regulars able to jam the sh*t out of every opportunity to play.
After Gigs at an ex-sex-shop turned into Camp Defizit, Flakturm Ahrenbergpark, Stadtwerkstatt Linz and an upcoming show at Music et Lumiere at LAMES, we can proudly proclaim ourselves: Here to stay.... (and the sessions at dondrine will go on).
For more information on DDD and short soundsamples visit our myspace
For selected recordings of full sessions head over to play.fm

booking via: dondrinedubdevelopments[at]gmail[.]com

it's done

2007-06-30T09:41:00.000-07:00

so, this oliver stummer blog is here now, to give you some collected information, let you know of what's going on and coming up, etc.
for now, please check the links for a plethora of information and music(k)...