The Scott Haggart / Lary Seven / Felix Kubin Trio will further expand the territory of DISKONO 017 – a conceptual 12” vinyl record assembled over the course of seven years.
The original edit is “psychotopologically derived from a 0.7 millisecond recorded extract of a DISKONO performance (2000).” Obsessively and secretly expanded is a 0.7-millisecond sound into a 1:17 second composition that took many years to superimpose and further re-sample the original fragment into a strict bombardment of fractal concrete sound. Within a “tradition of discrete spectrality” and with the satisfactory feeling brought about by orchestrating a 1:17 second work, it become inevitable for Scott to extend the invitation to six others thus creating alternate versions (seven in total) using the original as source material/inspiration. Strict adherence was required by the invited artists Lary Seven, EVOL, Felix Kubin, White Daughter, Charlie McAlister, and Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen to a rule of such versions being 1:17 seconds in duration so as to absurdly explore the potentials of this 0.7-millisecond sound. – DISKONO
“Here the label’s taking a decidedly different direction… this one’s all DISKONO member Scott Haggart doing an art-record consisting of a one-minute [seventeen-seconds] conceptual piece on the a-side (cut mid-record for maximum [sonic] effect), then a series of re-workings of said by Lary Seven, EVOL, Felix Kubin, White Daughter, Charlie McAlister, and Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen on the flip… Where the original is a statically-charged burst of raw electricity, the reworkings take in just about every conceivable sound-alteration method; from Lary Seven’s “magnetic” reworking to EVOL’s woozy sliding pitch-scale, to Felix’s crackling chatter.”
– Keith Fullerton Whitman
Founded in the spring of 1998 and described as a “a Scottish multi media cabal masquerading as a record label,” DISKONO was initially based in Central Scotland but befitting its constitution as a complex carbohydrate, the constituent pieces of its chemical structure are now strewn all over the globe; New York, London, Brussels, etc. The known and affiliated elements of DISKONO were/are Klaus Oldanburg, Ruth Random, Findo Gask, Dr. Barnes Advocaat, Gunter Saxenhammer, Ttocshagg Forfib, Joel Ongthorne, Kosten Koper; although these may be pseudonyms for the same person or persons. Together or alone, they/he/she operate a record label releasing sound art & “avant-garde flicks of the wrist” as well as curated savory and pretentiously artistic projects such as the exhibition Revisionland by Alejandra and Aeron of Lucky Kitchen (which won an Award of Distinction in Digital Music at Prix Ars Electronia 2002) and physical remix series of 7″ records with Aerospace Soundwise, The British Composer of the Year Winner for Sonic Art (2008) Janek Schaefer. DISKONO also released music by figures such as Felix Kubin, Alejandra and Aeron, Pimmon, JaDa, People Like Us, Francisco Lopez, Boards Of Canada, Goodiepal, V/Vm, Hrvatski, Aavikko.”
“Diskono consciously foster the spirit of vigilance and insurrection, through inspired logical chicanery and stolen rhetoric from texts such as Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle and Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution Of Everyday Life (in which the French commentator called, among other things, for revolution to rescue artistic creativity from the morally corrupting influence of commerce).” – The Wire
Lary Seven is a multimedia alchemist able to coax profane, inscrutable sounds and images from numerous and mysterious devices. His work has been described as that of a magician or scientist — one who may not always be certain of the outcome, but who is determined to see it through to its (il)logical end. Since the late seventies, Lary has been building, soldering, photographing, recording, mixing, filming, playing, collecting, re-interpreting and creating in order to make something happen. He’s the founder of the Analogue Society and co-founder of Plastikville Records and Directart Productions Ltd. Lary has released work on Touch, Diskono, Ectoplasm, Plastikville and Plastiktray records. He has performed in many countries in Europe as well as in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Seven lives and works in Manhattan’s East Village and is one of the last remaining vestiges of a once-vibrant community. For this presentation, Lary Seven will have an undefined interaction with:
Felix Kubin, born in 1969, lives and works against gravitation.
His activities comprise futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio plays, performance projects, workshops and cultural activities as a curator. In 1998 he founded his own record label Gagarin Records. For 20 years, he has released a vast number of albums and played more than 70 international festivals for electronic contemporary music, among them Sonar, Mutek, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Donaufestival and Wien Modern. He likes to move between hi and low culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main concern is the shifting of contexts and expectations.
“Refreshingly perverse” (WIRE, UK)
“Felix Kubin is a Devil in Gods clothes. He plays organs like Jussi Tennilä (Siilinjärven Ponnistus) does slalom, fastly but surely, strongly but lovingly. If there’d be one man to send to the aliens as an example of the mankind, that’d be Felix Kubin.“ (Aavikko, Finnland)
“Wearing a fetching green suit, an endearing glint in his eye and surrounded by antique technology (not a laptop in sight), Kubin’s concise, offbeat pop songs each contain more tunes than an entire bierkeller jukebox“ (Tom Mugridge, MZK magazine, UK)
“Noise, rhythm, melody and madness“ (These Records, UK)
“Hamburg’s purveyor of dadatronic experimentalist pop music”
(Radio CBC, Brave New Waves)
“There’s a twinkle in his eye when Retro-Futurist Felix Kubin, born 1969 in Hamburg, invites you to embark on a tour of his unique world of Avantgarde-Electro-Pop. Dada-Humor is the cherry on his cake, NDW and Kraftwerk his rearguard as he rushes to meet the future, a whirlwind on the manual, a futuristic ambassador of light, a hammering fist in the garden of fear. In his luggage there’re the old synthesizers and the new problems that he negotiates in film music, short films, sound installations, multiphonic concerts and audio plays. It’s not for nothing that his own label is named, after the Russian cosmonaut, Gagarin Records.” (Someone)
http://gagarinrecords.com/
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2259/
http://diskono.net/