 macumbista's Profile |
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| Age: | 35 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Berlin, |
| Country: |  Germany |
| Zodiac: |  Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) |
| Last Login: | Nov 30, 2007 (274 days back) |
About Me |
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Please visit my blog , where I regularly post information on my various projects, as well as record, show, festival and exhibition reviews and news of sound art, experimental, drone, noise and hardcore/metal music. Derek Holzer is a sound artist with a background in radio, webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and on the use of free software such as Pure-Data. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR and Gruenrekorder labels. Holzer has also performed live, improvised electronic music in many venues and festivals in Europe, the US and Brasil including FILE (Sao Paulo, BR), WRO (Wroclaw, PL), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht, NL), Garage (Stralsund, DE), Videomedeja (Novi Sad, SCG), BEK (Bergen, NO), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), RAM6 (Vilnius, LT), Arts+Communication (Riga, LV), Kuda.org (Novi Sad, SCG), Earational Festival (S'Hertogenbosch, NL), Medienturm (Graz, AT), Kunstraum (Innsbruck, AT), Art Museum of Nantes (Nantes, FR), Montevideo (Amsterdam, NL), Kraakgeluiden (Amsterdam, NL), Denver University (Denver, USA) and others. Upcoming Performances: Homepage: Online works include: Discography: 2007 - V/A - connected dots. connected ideas - Frozen Elephants Music 2006 - V/A - Recorded in the Field by... - Gruenrekorder [ reviews ] 2005 - V/A - Untitled Songs - Sirr|ecords [ reviews ] 2005 - V/A - Phonography.org 7 - Phonography.org / and/OAR Records 2004 - Derek Holzer & Oloolo - Kosta - Nexsound [ review ][ review ] 2003 - V/A - RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab - RIXC |
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My Interests |
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Sound art, experimental, drone, noise and hardcore/metal music, urban intervention, field recording, mail art, radio waves, naïve electronics, outsider magicians, dark shamans, serious pranksters, deserts, glaciers, rainforests, caves and post-Soviet landscapes |
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I'd like to meet:Idiosyncrists, alarmists and animists. Extraterrestrials or those in contact with them, the dead or those in contact with them. Myself 10 years ago, you ten years from now. Fakers, charlatains and bunko artists of all stripes and colors. Chaos magicians, ex-KGB agents and anyone who has travelled outside the earth's atmosphere. Owners of any single piece of the True Cross. Anthropophagists and the women who love them. Snake handlers and polygamists. Time machine operators. The ghost of Nikola Tesla. |
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Music:[experimental] Skullflower, Hototogisu, Birchville Cat Motel, Sogar, Sebastien Roux, Toshimaru Nakamura, Stephan Mathieu, Alog, Deathprod, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Daniel Menche, Supersilent, Motion, Eliane Radigue, Fennesz, Growing, Minamo, Mokira, Murcof, Oren Ambarchi, Otomo Yoshihide, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Richard Chartier, Toshiya Tsunoda, Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker, Rosy Parlane, Peter Wright, Greg Malcolm, Jakob Kirkegaard, BJ Nilsen, Chris Watson, Keiji Haino, Jazkamer, Thilges3 [riffage] Isis, Wolves in the Throne Room, Black Boned Angel, Monno, Venom, Slayer, Neurosis, 13, ASVA, Amen Ra, Boris, Burzum, Corrupted, Earth, Om, Leviathan, Xasthur, Deathspell Omega, Fantomas, Immortal, Carpathian Forest, Haemoth, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Velvet Cacoon, Man is the Bastard, Painkiller, Pig Destroyer, Sleep, Sunn 0))), Zeni Geva, Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Noxagt, Naked City, Electric Wizard, Crossed Out, Grief, Dropdead, Knut, Zozobra, Liars, Spektre, The Angelic Process [beats.breaks.bass] Aaron Spectre, Drumcorps, DJ /Rupture, Dalek, Techno Animal, The Bug, Bong Ra, Soundmurderer, Skream, Doormouse, Enduser, Shitmat, Ove_Naxx, WordSound label, Slaughter Mob, Grim Dubs...the Dirty South, the London Grime, the Berlin Breakcore and all those other trendy ghettos |
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Movies:Walerian Borowczyk, Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Andrei Tarkowski, Alexander Sokurov, Claire Denis, Emir Kusterica, Stanley Kubrick, Jan Svankmeyer, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Greenaway, Roman Polanski, Bill Viola, Matthew Barney, Richard Kern, Vera Chytilová, Kenneth Anger, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Chan-wook Park, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Nicholas Provost, Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Stan Brakhage, Dusan Makavejev, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman |
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Television:Gives you gangrene |
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Books:Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Amis, Roland Barthes, Yukio Mishima, William Faulkner, Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Bataille, Kathy Acker, Denis Johnson, Barry Gifford, Milan Kundera, William T. Vollmann, Elias Cannetti, Leif Elggrin, William S Burroughs, Stuart Home, Aleister Crowley, Peter Carroll, Robert Anton Wilson, the Whole Earth Catalog, the AMOK Catalog, Tesla biographies, too many electronics spec sheets for my own good, studies of music theory (still unopened), my English/German dictionary plus assorted phrasebooks in Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Serbian, Latvian... |
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Heroes:The Black President The Black Tarantula The Black Mamba The Black Scientist The Black Ark The Man in Black The Other Man in Black |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| Occupation: | sound artist, reality engineer, cannibal |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Two bodies, 12 loudspeakers, one dark room |
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| ABOMINATIONS Live in Fylkingen, Stockholm SwedenDespite a pretty small audience, the ABOMINATIONS set at Fylkingen worked out pretty well. Not a small part of this success was due to the long hours pu... Posted by macumbista on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:55:00 PST |
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The Great Dark North |
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| ABOMINATIONSMétal de la mort électroacoustique. Sun Ra spielt Free Death. Heretics roasted alive. Esoteric analog drones and non-linear distortion meet animalistic vocals and percussive brutalityMarce... Posted by macumbista on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:25:00 PST |
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Abominations @ Club Transmediale |
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| * Abominations @ Club TransmedialeAbominations confirmed their participation in the program of Club Transmediale 2008 today. The venue will be (as always) the Maria am Ostbahnhof club. The lineup is a... Posted by macumbista on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST |
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Totally Bent + Music of Abjection |
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| Totally BentLast week, I got an email from an Australian woman named Kat McDowall, who basically said she was trying to mic up her breasts and wanted some help. Not being one to say no to these kinds ... Posted by macumbista on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:49:00 PST |
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TONEWHEELS Warszawa performance photos |
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| Derek Holzer: sounds, electronicsSara Kolster: graphics, projectionsTONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic mus... Posted by macumbista on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:55:00 PST |
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Another Sign: the End is Near |
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| ...for laptops! Posted by macumbista on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:42:00 PST |
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Some Fan Mail for ABOMINATIONS |
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| * Some Fan Mail for ABOMINATIONS---Stefan Roigk wrote:This project exists as an injection of the energy and power of extreme music (noise, grindcore, power violence, death metal, doom, black metal...)... Posted by macumbista on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:04:00 PST |
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Two shows next week: Berlin & Tallin |
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| Berlin : Solo with optical synthesizer and duet with Craig Hilton, 25 October, K-ITAAlso playing:C. HiltonRedfrikLes Coules Succulents CollectiveExtreme Hair stenchTallin : Solo for optical synthesize... Posted by macumbista on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:34:00 PST |
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I am the Passenger (next Saturday in Warsaw) |
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| New live set with opto-electronic tonewheels and overhead projector graphics, next weekend in Warsaw at the city tram repair depot (an amazing location!)SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW at K-ITA in BERLIN this T... Posted by macumbista on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:41:00 PST |
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ABOMINATIONS |
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| Esoteric analog drones and non-linear distortion meet animalistic vocals and percussive brutality. Sounds like: Métal de la mort électroacoustique. Sun Ra spielt Free Death. Heretics roasted alive.ABO... Posted by macumbista on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:11:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Fela, BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, Daniel Menche, ISIS, Bontakun, minimatika, kevinp, AMENRA, Corrupted, 13, S I X E S, abominations, SPASTIC DEMENTIA (Marcelo Aguirre), SWANS (Official), jgrzinich, Crippled Black Phoenix, GRAILS, BLACK BONED ANGEL, Charred Remains A.K.A. Man is the Bastard, Yellow Swans, Wolves in the Throne Room, White/Light, KK NULL, yannick franck, Blossoming Noise, :: Erica ::, greg malcolm, Drumcorps, Kathy Acker, Mister Trippy, Justin, ASUNDER, C Spencer Yeh, Daniel M. Schiller, Deathspell Omega, KNUT, Nexsound, SIRR, Frozen Elephants Music, penelopex, Ohmnoise, Sage, K:ITA, pato, Manngard, Pilot Tender Foot, trikband, Jez riley French, twentytwentyone, vr/tmaog, seltsam&strahler, aenigmaplasme, i/dex, Jacob Kirkegaard, michael, goh lee kwang, Sten Ove Toft, Antena, rue23, Gruenrekorder, PHIL MAGGI, Mina Fina, ROOM40, Alexandra von bolz´n, Pola, i e v a, kim
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