Rod Summers - The Sound Of An Unsound Mind (Vec Audio, cass, 198?)

Narrative, sound poetry cassette by Rod Summers previously shared on No Longer Forgotten Music.

Rod Summers (born 1943), born in Dorset, England, is a sound, visual, conceptual artist, performance poet, dramatist, mail artist and book artist, publisher, archivist, and lecturer on intermedia. He is based in Maastricht, Netherlands.

The results of Summers' multiple, art-related activities have often appeared as part of his concept of VEC (Visual, Experimental, Concrete), which he originated in 1973. In 1999CNN International featured Summers in its Art Club show as a representative of avant-garde art in the Netherlands. In addition, over the last 20 years, Summers has performed his work at various festivals in Europe and Iceland, including the Reykjavik Art Festival (1991), the Polypoetry Festival of Sound Poetry (Bologna, 1993), and the International Sound Poetry Festival (Bologna, 1997), among others.

Summers features among the "second wave" of intermedia artists, the first wave including Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, and the Fluxus artists of the 1960s. He differs from Higgins and members of the first generation, however, in that he is less theoretical and more experiential in his approach to his art. There have been no VEC manifestos published by Summers, although one may intuit what it encompasses by examining the activities undertaken and products issued under its sign...

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Mail art by Rod Summers documentation (partial) 

Taken from http://mailartarchive.com/2012/02/13/raiders-of-the-lost-artefacts/rod-summers/

Taken from http://www.logolalia.com/mailart/archives/2007_11.html

Taken from http://www.logolalia.com/mailart/archives/2007_11.html

Taken from http://nashmailart.blogspot.com/p/page-10.html

Taken from http://nashmailart.blogspot.com/p/page-10.html

Taken from http://mailartists.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/rod-summers/

Taken from http://a1mailart.blogspot.com/2013/11/rod-summers-collage-collaborations.html

Taken from http://a1mailart.blogspot.com/2013/11/rod-summers-collage-collaborations.html

Taken from http://bluetempera.blogspot.com/2013/10/rod-summers-netherlands-for-mail-art.html

Taken from http://bluetempera.blogspot.com/2013/10/rod-summers-netherlands-for-mail-art.html

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JOHN BENDER ‎– MEMORIES OF MINDLESS MECHANICAL MONOLOGUES 1976-1985 - VINYL-ON-DEMAND ‎– VOD95 (7 × VINYL, LP, COMPILATION, BOX SET, LIMITED EDITION, NUMBERED, 2012) (MP3 320)

DEDICADO A TOD@S VOSOTR@S POR LAS 300.000 VISITAS QUE NOS HABÉIS HECHO. MIL GRACIAS A TOD@S !!!!!

DEDICADO TAMBIÉN A NUESTRO SEGUIDOR DAVID, DE LA REPÚBLICA CHECA, POR HACERNOS LLEGAR ESTE MATERIAL.

El seguidor y amigo David, de la República checa, que nos pidió una serie de material de Conrad Schnitzler y que debidamente hemos compartido en nuestro blog Electronic Orgy, nos ha mandado este material como agradecimiento y, como no podía ser de otra manera, nosotros se lo hemos aceptado y os lo ofrecemos a todos para vuestro deleite y disfrute. Desde aquí le mandamos una ovación a este agradecido seguidor.

Entremos en materia...

Se ha divulgado muy poco la obra de este genio de Cincinnati, Ohio. John Bender realizó varias cintas y unos cuantos LP entre finales de los 70 y principios de los 80 en su propio sello "Record Sluts" editándolas en series limitadas, con las cajas y fundas hechas a mano, y distribuyendo sus referencias a través de venta por correo. Su estilo era comparable a artistas como Pseudo Code o los primeros Minimal Man (del difunto Patrick Miller). Sonido electrónico oscuro, minimalista y electrónica "lo-fi".

El sello Vinyl On Demand, rescató en 2012 gran parte de la obra de John Bender en una soberbia caja de 7 Lp's. Son 87 temazos que van desde finales de los 70 hasta 1985.

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Tracklist:

I Don't Remember Now, I Don't Want To Talk About It 1978-1980

A1 Side One 0:37
A2 Victims Of Victimless Crimes 4:14
A3 Time Stops, We Move On 4:42
A4 It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Baby 5:57
A5 It's Something To Do 5:17
B1 One Side 0:48
B2 Victims Of Victimless Crimes 4:15
B3 Walk Down Wet Street 5:32
B4 You Put These Things Inside My Head 9:26

Plaster Falling 1979-1981

C1 Meeting Station 3:28
C2 Plaster (Long Version) 9:08
C3 Woman 3:42
C4 People Feeling (Long Version) 7:14
D1 Something (Long Version) 6:12
D2 Understood (Records) 3:52
D3 Before You (Knuckles) 4:21
D4 Cities Of The Plan (Long Version) 4:39
D5 Walk Down Wet Street (Long Version) 6:04

Plaster: The Prototypes / Beep Squeek Hum Squawk 1978-1981

E1 Philosophy 4:17
E2 I Know 5:21
E3 No2u 4:34
E4 Reason 9:00
E5 Nervous 5:07
F1 Beep Squeek Hum Squawk Part I.II 6:40
F2 Beep Squeek Hum Squawk Part I.III 6:05
F3 Beep Squeek Hum Squawk Part I.IV 6:50
F4 Beep Squeek Hum Squawk Part II.I 2:48
F5 Beep Squeek Hum Squawk Part III.IV 5:25

Packing List 1982

G1 Packing List 1 1:46
G2 Pieces Of A Puzzle 4:26
G3 Packing List 2 1:40
G4 Three Minutes 4:03
G5 Sun Is Bright 4:31
G6 Sand Is Everywhere 1:25
G7 Packing List 3 4:37
G8 Dreams 3:21
G9 Take It Out To Bring It In 3:59
H1 Let's Be Friends 7:16
H2 Buy American (Edit) 6:29
H3 Packing List 4 1:12
H4 Data How Are You, Tone (Edit) 7:01
H5 Noone Knows You 7:54

Pop Surgery 1982-1983

I1 Meat (Long Version) 5:14
I2 Glacial (Long Version) 8:45
I3 Thought (Long Version) 3:34
I4 Mallinder (Long Version) 2:42
I5 Hand 1:10
I6 Day (Long Version) 4:14
J1 Dance 2:22
J2 Glass 2:25
J3 Blue 3:59
J4 Cows 1:48
J5 Amalgamelon 3:23
J6 Unrelated (It's Obvious) 3:10
Do The Cage / At The 4th St. Cage 1983
K1 Do The Cage 1 2:05
K2 You Said You Were Mine 1:35
K3 Looking For A Play 1:50
K4 I Know You Know 2:31
K5 First Time I Saw You 2:23
K6 I Found The Truth 1:48
K7 So Sad 3:27
K8 Never Wanted To Go 5:08
K9 You Never Know (Edit) 7:07
L1 At The Cage 1 7:16
L2 Took Me By The Hand 7:04
L3 Never Could 6:36
L4 You Look At Me I Look At You 2:42
L5 Last Time I Saw You 5:12
L6 48 Hours 1:05

Johnny Vortex - The Cassette / Boon Ober Babasooma 1976-1985

M1 Intro 1:20
M2 Cast Of Characters 3:10
M3 The Deal 2:50
M4 Shoes 3:40
M5 Run To Rapture 4:42
M6 Carnival 5:11
M7 Postscript 3:01
M8 Phone Sex 3:44
N1 Facial 1:50
N2 Love & Power 6:12
N3 Interlude 0:47
N4 Whole In The Window 4:51
N5 Taste Of Life 3:22
N6 Hardfreeze 5:01
N7 No2u 4:33

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M. Finnkrieg & Henry Hektik & Thomas Sutter - Berlin Diary: Volume 1 - Victory Weapon One (Regicide Bureau, C60,1987-1988)

"Exciting release from M. Finnkrieg and Henry Hektik + Tom Sutter from Regicide Bureau....

This was an 8 Tape series recorded at Deaf Eye Studios in Berlin during the late 80's...

These cassettes were extremely limited .... available directly from the artists...now defunct

This is the first tape... volume one

Personnel

M Finnkrieg - Synths, Rhythms, Programming, sampling

Henry Hektik - Synths, Rhythms, Programming, Tapes

Thomas Sutter - Synths, Voice, Guitar, Tape

Deaf Eye

Rathenowerstr.  46

1000 Berlin 21

West Germany"

Ripped by anemiccinema.

This tape was previously shared on Mutant Sounds and I am still searching for other editions.

According to the info I found, Thomas Sutter is from St. Louis, Mike Finnkrieg is based in Berlin, Henry Hektik is also German I'd say.

Thomas Sutter (Regicide Bureau) is prolific tape trader and home taper, the label Regicide Bureau included a great amount of 1980-2000+ releases. His own cassettes are on classic Sound of Pig, Deaf Eye, Ecto Tapes, Harsh Reality Music and HalTapes; documentation of his collaboration includes Charles Rice Goff III, If, Bwana, Minoy, Hal McGee...

Here is another compilation track probably dated 1989, one of many collabs with M. Finnkrieg - LINK.

 I remember very well Finnkrieg's, Sutter 's and Central's 

WAR GODS track from Thee Exchange Ov Magnetic Energies limited edition compilation (International Terrorist Network) which induced me to keep these guys in mind and try to get more musical material by them... Anyway, Mike Finnkrieg is owner of Deaf Eye label and was in duo group along with Henry Hektik called Subtle Reign which was active shortly in the 80s releasing two tapes (or maybe more) that are highly rare. 

Among other works, Henry had done his tracks available on the plate of Audiofile Tapes, IRRE Tapes, Epitapes for compilations....

An electro orientated release.

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PROLETKULT - EL ELOGIO DE LOS NUEVOS MATERIALES (WEIMAR 002, 1987)

Ante todo, agradecer al amigo Tingis del blog "LA PELLE MUTA" por hacerme llegar este material.

ProletKult, o “proletarskaya kultura”, es el término ruso para “Cultura Proletaria”, acuñado en la Unión Soviética en 1917 por Alexander Bogdanov para referirse a un movimiento ideológico que pretendía convertirse en la expresión auténtica del marxismo en la cultura. 

En lo que se refiere a música, se trata de un proyecto musical de Juan Pablo Monreal, su segundo trabajo como Proletkult, editado en "Weimar Tapes". Proletkult es su etapa más vinculada a la electrónica, aunque luego vendría Zell Republik, algo más áspera. Mi compañera Mors Mea compartió hace unos meses una cassette de Zell Republik. Actualmente no se dedica a la música, sino a cirugía plástica y estética.

Por cierto, si alguien tiene (original o digitalizada) esta cinta, le agradeceremos que nos lo haga saber, la estamos buscando: http://www.discogs.com/Proletkult-Una-Linea-Es-Una-Fuerza/release/4907421

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Tracklist:

A1 Theatrum Machinarum Generale
A2 Manifesto Programatico I/II/III
A3 Theatri Statici Universalis
A4 Anartismo Est Non-Art
A5 Theatrum Instrumentorum Et Machinarum
A6 Proyecto
B1 Onaggio A Majakovskij
B2 Theatrum Arithmetico Geometrico
B3 Proun
B4 De Be Metallica
B5 Mundo Sin Objeto


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Monotonik / Goljak Nightmare - Demo Recordings 1981-1983 (not on label, cass)

Goran Jermić is born in 1956 in Zagreb, Croatia and shows affection towards music and electronics from an early age which resulted the project Monotonik (1980/81) when he was only 16 years old...

He was also making home-made synths and oscillators. Goljak Nightmare is also him but few years later.

Jermić stopped creating music as the 80s passed by until the end of 90s when he devotes himself to music again. He changes his name into Monofonik in 2004 which sound is a bit different, alternative electro pop as he call it..

More info on Croatian

The cassette I am sharing doesn't have original artwork (so I made one) and consists of more than just two tracks (it's actually compilation of demo recordings by Jermić's projects) but they are lost. A pity!

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Uvegraf ‎– A.C.I./ Enucleación (Cassettes Proceso Uvegraf ‎– CPU-1) (Cassette, C40, 1985) (FLAC + 6 BONUS TRACKS)

El amigo Salva Canals nos ha pedido una serie de cassettes del sello CPU y nosotros, como siempre, convertimos los deseos en realidades.

Esta cinta de UVEGRAF es, para mi, una obra maestra de la electrónica creativa de los años 80 y, por lo tanto, quiero darle difusión desde este blog. Así que aquí teneis los temas "Alteración corneal irreversible" y "Enucleación" comprendidos en esta cassette de 1985 y seis bonus tracks que acompañaban esta copia en FLAC que he conseguido en Soulseek.

Disfrutadla !!!!!


Tracklist:

1- Alteración Corneal Irreversible
2- Enucleación

Bonus tracks:

3- Refractiva Ocular 1
4- Área pupilar
5- Exangüe
6- Posición eje a tabo 0 1 100
7- 10 000 Visiones Del Dr  Castro Viejo
8- Enucleación (Excerpt)


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Enrico Piva - Late November Dream (EGK - EGK 022, C60, 1987)

Italian artist specifically from Brescia who left us amazing sound works. It's a real pleasure for me to have opportunity to share this cassette, thanks to Francisco Lopez, which was released 1987 on EGK, Spanish Esplendor Geometrico's label.

Enrico Piva (1956-2002) was one of the original investigators in the panorama of Italian independent music of the eighties dressed in the full figure of the outsider and, creating musique concrète, conceptual, field recording, minimalism electronic, post-industrial noise and has published twenty audiocasettes for various Italian and international labels between 1981 and 1990. 

For example as Unit 06 contributing on TRAXTRA compilation by mail-art TRAX platform for exchange and collaboration across great geographical distances, held by Vittore Baroni,  Piermario Ciani (1951-2006) and  Massimo Giacon from project Spirocheta Pergoli from 1981-1987. All interested in closer look of  TRAX's concept - CLICK HERE or HERE.

On the basis of artistic studies, Piva produced drawings, lithographs, research photography (scotography) and video, as well as literary texts, including unpublished experimental text "Piscine sommerse ed altre immersioni" which is among other works related to Enrico Piva presented HERE (sadly only in Italian!).

Enrico Piva (left) and Vittore Baroni, Ponte Nossa 1985

DISCOGRAPHY:

AMOK

Amok (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

Apostasy (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records Italy 1981 [distributed in small numbers also titled as Knuckle Duster] 

Iteratio (C60 cassette) Mea Kulpa Rec. 1983 Italy 

Travel Nybro (C60 cassette)-Kant, Hegel Asylum 1984 Italy 

Return to Hamelin (C60 cassette) RAT Multimedia Productions 1984 Italy 

Warm Leeches Dance (C60 cassette) ADN Tapes 1985 Italy 

Mouches Volantes (C60 cassette) recorded 1986 and later offered to the American tape label Cause And Effect but probably never really pressed but just one demo copy] 

Modules (different sound supports: 4 x C60 cassette to listen in synchronicity 1/4’ 4 tracks 19cm/s work from 1989 offered to the dutch label V2 Organiasatie but never pressed distribuited in at least 2 cases as one personal piece] 

ENRICO PIVA

Four Months Later (C60 cassette) Cthulhu Records 1987 Germany 61 

Late November Dream (C60 cassette) EGK 1987 Spain 

Poplars Clattering (C60 cassette) Ladd-Frith 1988 USA [distributed in few copiess, with possible variants, also with the title Submerging Menhirs Hegel-Kant Asylum 1987 Italy] 

Double Bind (C60 cassette) Staaltape 1989 Netherlands 

                                            Forma Mentis (C60 cassette) 1990 SPH Portugal 

FEHLER A

                                Fortsetzung a (box object) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy [limited edition 

10 copies tape in black painted clay + booklet] 

LOCUS SOLUS

                                          Luoghi di culto (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

L'OEIL À POLIS

Aqua (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

M.ANTIPYRINE

Antipyrine as Himself (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

READY-MADE 

Videovoicereadymade (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

SOKOL MOVEMENT 

Nachtmusik (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

Scotoprova per Edo by Enrico Piva

~COMPILATION TRACKS~

*TRAX 1081 Vietato ai Minori (C52 cassette and magazine) TRAX 1981 Italy [untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 1281 Technodeath (C50 cassette more booklets in box) TRAX 1981 Italy 

[untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 0282 Horrorbox (C60 cassette in box with postcards and inserts) TRAX 

Italy 1982 [untitled track Amok] 

*TRAX 0682 Notterossa (C60 cassette and booklet) TRAX 1982 Italy [untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 0982 Xtra (LP album) TRAX 1982 Italy [as TRAX Unit 06 Enrico Piva participate in the songs "Nastro rosso" (with Massimo Giacon and Spirocheta Pergoli), "Combination" (with Giancarlo and Martina B/Sides) and "I Love 62 Cancer" (with Ado ... 001 Scaife and Cancer)] 

*Area Condizionata 1 - Italian Industrial (C60 cassette and magazine) Area Condizionata Italy 1983 [a piece by Amok, "In exitu Isräel de Aegypto"] 

*Born Out Of Dreams (LP album) Frux 1984 UK [a song by Enrico Piva, "Flogging hour in the HKA"] 

*Manifest Mailart 1 (2 x C60 cassette) Idiot Press 1987 Norway [a piece by Amok, "Return to Hamelin"] 

*Journey Into Pain (4 x cassette C60) Beast 666 Tapes 1989 Japan [a piece by Enrico Piva, "35 Kgs"] 

///various other unreleased tapes with partially unrealesead material are inside the archives of Vittore Baroni, Giancarlo Toniutti, Massimo Toniutti, Walter Rovere and probably other mailers of Piva

Saluti da HKA by Enrico Piva (scotography)

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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - NH HN (GRAFIKA AIRLINES ‎– GRA 5, CASSETTE 1981) (RE-UPLOAD IN FLAC)

Atendiendo la petición de nuestro seguidor Oscar Mariscal, hemos ripeado de nuevo esta cassette, pero esta vez en FLAC. Una soberbia cassette del artista sonoro italiano Maurizio Bianchi, gestado en su propio estudio casero y editado por el sello belga Grafika Airlines en 1981. Un tema por cara cuyas iniciales responden al nombre del cassette. Sonido electrónico altamente industrial creando paisajes sonoros densos y fríos, como solo sabe hacer Bianchi, uno de los nombres más grandes de la experimentación electrónica mundial.

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Tracklist:

A Neuro Habitat
B Humus Nucléaire



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El Coleccionista De Poliedros - Cacofonías Egipánicas (Laboratorios del sueño, C60, 1986)

El Collecionista De Poliedros (Juan Escolano) is creating sounds by electronic and non-electronic

 intruments, the final product are harsh industrial sounds and contemporary environments.

 His music is essentially random and improvised with the help of

 electronics that is #1 and the most important factor as well as utilization of

 noise and different objects of daily use that may cause noise mainly

 based on the experiments carried out by the Italian and Russian Futurists and later by Dada movement. 

Juan has been in fields such as collage, painting, mail art, sculpture, graphics,

music fanzines, books of expression, etc...

Cacofonías Egipánicas is recorded live by mic stand with very basic and simple systems.

~ MINI MANIFESTO ~

The sound is beautiful and is part of our life, it surrounds and envelops us. Don't hate, learn to listen, to love and create positively!

Sound elements:

Keyboards, distortion and ambient tape, radio waves, bottled water, voice, laboratory atmosphere, "metal to metal" (metal percussion).

The tracks that make up this cassette are drawn from 3 different cassettes: 

1) "Mare Vaporum": Tracks 2 and 8.

2) "Event fluidos": Tracks 3, 4, 5 and 6.

3) "Gracias a las máquinas": Tracks 1 and 9.

 

SIDE A

A1 Transformaciones

A2 Poema Nibelungo

A3 Torsion Agitacion (El trabajo de las maquinas)

A4 Suturas de materia

A5 Golpea tu cerebro

SIDE B

B1 Canto de agua. Rasgaduras de viento

B2 Moria (Khazad-Dum)

B3 Baader Meinhoff

B4 Transformaciones 2 Emocion-intencion

Finally, I apologize for not having time to split the tracks.

Saludos!

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JAVIER HERNANDO - QUEBRANTOS (CONV ‎– CNV61, 4 × File, MP3, 320 kbps) (2010)

Otra joyaza de Javier Hernando, en este caso un repaso a sus trabajos realizados entre 2002 y 2004. No se trata de un disco físico sino de una edición descargable del sello CONV que incluye un pdf con la carátula para imprimirla, recortarla y construirla. Cuatro temazos como cuatro soles que van coronados con una frase de María Zambrano en la contraportada: "La música que crea un transfuturo (lejano) que nace del corazón o de las entrañas del abismo del ultraolvido."

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Various - Informátor 00II (not on label, cassette compilation, C90, 1989)

 I came across this compilation on some blog which name I can't recall at the moment with desire to post it on Youtube but briefly after posting few tracks, I was advised by Michael that the track index is messed up so with respect to him for sending me the correct tape, the compilation titled Informator 00II can be spread to the world.

The contributing projects with tracks recorded from '84-'89 are 

A: Odvážná Srdce, Tristan 43, Sidonová, Veselí Filištínové, Benedikt, A-64, Trpák, M.I.O.S., Brusičova Parta, Biskup & Klapper, Keilwerth, Maxa
B: Stredni Evropa, Vlajka, Sidonova, Bongo Muž Hlava, Mondrian, A-64, Pastorek, Queuer, Osvobozená Domácnost, Maxa

It was distributed by Corrosive Tapes - Belgian tape label begun circa 1986 run by dr pIOtr AAkOUn.
From May 1987 Piotr got in touch with the czech industrial scene - among them musician Tonda Hlavka who supplied him with tapes for distribution beyond the iron curtain.
The label stopped activity in early 1992.
Several tapes were published later by Slavek Kwi using the Corrosive Tapes moniker.
In 2013 the label got re-activated in collaboration with complasToc (Mathieu Delvaux). 

For more Czechoslovakian underground: 

CS Industrial 1982-2010

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