Alfred Harth
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Alfred 23 Harth is a German
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artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist
musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner. He is now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H.
exhibition in 1958 in Frankfurt/Main.
With his essay "On Synaesthetics" in 1967 he opened his creative horizons to a large variety of artistic fields. He included classical string players in his free improvisation
group Just Music
in 1967 and opened the same year the platform centrum freier cunst in Frankfurt—a meeting point for live free music, art exhibitions, experimental poetry, action, and happening
events.
At the age of 23 he formed the group E.M.T.
with artist and pianist Nicole Van den Plas from Belgium
and Sven-Åke Johansson
from Sweden
. E.M.T. included dada
and fragmented classical works from Grieg, Schubert, and others. In 1976 he joined the loft jazz
scene in New York
a second time and recorded the first LP of the Duo Goebbels/Harth
including works from Hanns Eisler
and later Johann Sebastian Bach
. The same year he started to work with video
.In 1979 he began to compose for the theatre
and made punk
jazz. In 1982 he co-founded Cassiber
and initiated Duck and Cover for which he designed a composition in 1983 and co-organized the Marry the World By Conference Call in 1984 at the waschSalon gallery in Frankfurt/Main which he maintained with his then-wife from 1984 to 1991.
In 1985 he adapted the number 23
in his name and short name A23H. He recorded the LP Nouvelle Cuisine with Gestalt et Jive
, and composed a minimalist video installation
Sam Lang and in 1986 contributed an Amphibian Match to the underwater concert initiated by Micky Remann in Frankfurt/Main. The same year he produced a remix
album Anything Goes. He wrote a manifest Paradigmenwechsel in 1988 in which he proclaims the Instant City Happiness I-culture. The same year he founded the post modern group Vladimir Estragon
comprising Einstürzende Neubauten
drummer FM Einheit. In 1989 he created the performance Wenn Gott tot ist, dann ist er im Himmel with a sound collage of original interviews with Jean Baudrillard
, Villem Flusser, Friedrich Kittler
, and a performance with Russia
n poet Dmitri Prigov
at the Documenta Archive in Kassel
in 1990.The same year he exhibited William S. Burroughs
' Painting on Paper in Frankfurt/Main and had a retrospective
of his own visual arts called 2324 FU at the Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt. He is a member of Lindsay Cooper
's group OH MOSCOW (1987 - ). In 1992 he met his wife, Korean artist Yi Soonjoo, and was portrayed by Moscow
TV in the short film Balance Action which was shown at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
.
In 1994 Harth was a member in the artist group Delicatesy Avantgarde with exhibitions in Gdansk
and made a street installation
"Wilhelm Leuschner
zum Gedenken" in context with his art project Gedankenhotel, 1993-1995, and had a retrospective Tensides at the Deutsches Filmmuseum. He made a remix album Pollock using out-of-print Alfred Harth LPs in 1996 and in 1997-8 he re-arranged, conducted, and performed the West Side Story at the main theatre in Frankfurt. In 2000 he formed Trio Viriditas in New York together with Wilber Morris
and Kevin Norton
. In 2001-02 he had a grant at Samzie Space in Seoul
and created the LaubhuetteStudio Seoul. In 2003 he started composing a five item CD series "Mother-Of-Pearl" about Korea
comprising a DVD T_error (2005). Since early 2004 Harth is a steady member in Otomo Yoshihide's groups and in 2007 he created the European quartet "7k Oaks" together with Massimo Pupillo (Zu
), Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci in Rome
. In 2008 he had a premiere with the trio "Taste Tribes" together with Guenter Mueller and Hans Joachim Irmler from the legendary group Faust
in Switzerland
. In 2009 Harth formed the duo "Gift Fig" together with composer Carl Stone
by the premiere of Adler_Kino 1166 - 1215 in Frankfurt/Main at the festival ROT. At ROT he as well celebrated the revival of his early ensemble Just Music
after 42 years of its foundation.
A23H founded many other bands and composed for film, TV, theatre, ballet, and radio plays.
- A23H/Thomas Cremer/Dieter Herrmann/Johannes Krämer/Thomas Stoewsand/Witold Teplitz/ Peter Stock/Franz Volhard :
E.M.T.
- A23H/Sven-Åke Johansson
/Nicole van den Plas :
Duo Goebbels/Harth
:
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ("So-called left-radical brass band"):
Cassiber
- A23H/Christoph Anders/Chris Cutler
/Heiner Goebbels
:
Duck and Cover - A23H/Tom Cora
/Chris Cutler
/Fred Frith
/Heiner Goebbels
/Dagmar Krause
/George Lewis
:
Gestalt et Jive
- A23H/Steve Beresford
/Anton Fier
/Peter Hollinger/Ferdinand Richard
/Uwe Schmitt :
Duo Alfred 23 Harth/John Zorn
:
Duo Brötzmann
/23 Harth :
Lindsay Cooper
's OH MOSCOW - A23H/Lindsay Cooper
/Hugh Hopper
/Marilyn Mazur
/ Phil Minton
/Elvira Plenar/Sally Potter
:
Vladimir Estragon
- A23H/FM Einheit/Ulrike Haage/Phil Minton
:
Domestic Stories - A23H/Chris Cutler
/Fred Frith
/Lutz Glandien
/Dagmar Krause
:
Trio Trabant a Roma - A23H/Lindsay Cooper
/Phil Minton
:
QuasarQuartet - A23H/Simon Nabatov
/Vladimir Tarasov
/Vitold Rek)
Imperial Hoot - A23H/Guenter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn
:
Trio Viriditas - A23H/Wilber Morris
/Kevin Norton
)
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra (ONJO) - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/ Sachiko M
/Axel Dörner/Mats Gustafsson
/Toshimaru Nakamura
/Cor Fuhler
/Tsugami Kenta/Aoki Taisei/Okura Masahiko/Ishikawa Ko/Unami Taku/Takara Kumiko/Kahimi Karie
/Mizutani Hiroaki/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)
Otomo Yoshihide's Invisible Songs - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro/Kahimi Karie
/Leonid Soybelman
/Kondo Tatsuo/Nasuno Mitsuru/Kawai Shinobu/ Yamamoto Seiichi/ Jim O'Rourke
Expedition - A23H/Chris Dahlgren/Jay Rosen
/Hans Tammen
Homura Trio - A23H/Yoriyuki Harada/Choi Sun Bae
7k Oaks - A23H/Luca Venitucci/Massimo Pupillo
/Fabrizio Spera
Taste Tribes - A23H/Guenter Mueller/Hans Joachim Irmler/samples by Eruption & Kawabata Makoto
MOTHER-OF-PEARL-SERIES (1.-5.,made in Korea
), 2003-2006 http://a23h-pearl.blogspot.com/:
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner. He is now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H.
Overview
Harth was artistically initiated by visiting a dadaDada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
exhibition in 1958 in Frankfurt/Main.
With his essay "On Synaesthetics" in 1967 he opened his creative horizons to a large variety of artistic fields. He included classical string players in his free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
group Just Music
Just Music (band)
Just Music were a West German avant-garde music ensemble, an interchangeable collective of classically trained instrumentalists founded at the centrum freier cunst, Frankfurt/Main in 1967 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth. An inherent anti-commercial bias kept them at arm's length from the...
in 1967 and opened the same year the platform centrum freier cunst in Frankfurt—a meeting point for live free music, art exhibitions, experimental poetry, action, and happening
Happening
A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art. Happenings take place anywhere , are often multi-disciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience...
events.
At the age of 23 he formed the group E.M.T.
E.M.T.
E.M.T. were an international experimental and free improvising music group with German multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth, Swedish drummer and composer Sven-Åke Johansson, Belgian keyboarder and artist Nicole Van den Plas and guests.-History:...
with artist and pianist Nicole Van den Plas from Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson is a Swedish drummer and composer associated with free jazz and free improvisation. He was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T..- External links :*...
from Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. E.M.T. included dada
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
and fragmented classical works from Grieg, Schubert, and others. In 1976 he joined the loft jazz
Loft jazz
The Loft jazz scene was a cultural phenomenon that occurred in New York City during the mid-1970s, at venues such as Environ, Ali's Alley, and Studio Rivbea, all in former industrial loft spaces in NYC's SOHO district...
scene in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
a second time and recorded the first LP of the Duo Goebbels/Harth
Duo Goebbels/Harth
The Duo Goebbels/Harth , combining German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels and German composer, multi-media artist and saxophonist Alfred 23 Harth became famous for its adaptation of and departure from European composers, especially Hanns Eisler, implemented in a...
including works from Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...
and later Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
. The same year he started to work with video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
.In 1979 he began to compose for the theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and made punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
jazz. In 1982 he co-founded Cassiber
Cassiber
Cassiber were a German avant-rock group founded in 1982 by German composer and saxophonist Alfred Harth, German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels, English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and German guitarist Christoph Anders...
and initiated Duck and Cover for which he designed a composition in 1983 and co-organized the Marry the World By Conference Call in 1984 at the waschSalon gallery in Frankfurt/Main which he maintained with his then-wife from 1984 to 1991.
In 1985 he adapted the number 23
23 (numerology)
The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some modification of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.-Origins:...
in his name and short name A23H. He recorded the LP Nouvelle Cuisine with Gestalt et Jive
Gestalt et Jive
Gestalt et Jive were a multinational avant-rock group founded in West Germany in 1984 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth, comprising Steve Beresford , Anton Fier , Alfred Harth , Peter Hollinger , Ferdinand Richard and Uwe Schmitt .In 1980 Harth produced the LP Es herrscht Uhu im Land on...
, and composed a minimalist video installation
Video installation
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has increased in popularity as digital video production...
Sam Lang and in 1986 contributed an Amphibian Match to the underwater concert initiated by Micky Remann in Frankfurt/Main. The same year he produced a remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
album Anything Goes. He wrote a manifest Paradigmenwechsel in 1988 in which he proclaims the Instant City Happiness I-culture. The same year he founded the post modern group Vladimir Estragon
Vladimir Estragon
Vladimir Estragon were an avant-rock group founded in Germany in 1988 by German composer and reed player Alfred Harth with FM Einheit, Ulrike Haage, and Phil Minton...
comprising Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...
drummer FM Einheit. In 1989 he created the performance Wenn Gott tot ist, dann ist er im Himmel with a sound collage of original interviews with Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
, Villem Flusser, Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich A. Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.-Biography:Friedrich Adolf Kittler was born in 1943 in Rochlitz in Saxony...
, and a performance with Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n poet Dmitri Prigov
Dmitri Prigov
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was a dissident during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986....
at the Documenta Archive in Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
in 1990.The same year he exhibited William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
' Painting on Paper in Frankfurt/Main and had a retrospective
Retrospective
Retrospective generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. For example, the term is used in medicine, describing a look back at a patient's medical history or lifestyle.-Music:...
of his own visual arts called 2324 FU at the Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt. He is a member of Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
's group OH MOSCOW (1987 - ). In 1992 he met his wife, Korean artist Yi Soonjoo, and was portrayed by Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
TV in the short film Balance Action which was shown at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world and one of the major international platforms for the short form...
.
In 1994 Harth was a member in the artist group Delicatesy Avantgarde with exhibitions in Gdansk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
and made a street installation
Street installation
Street installations are a growing trend within the "street art" movement. Whereas conventional street art/graffiti is done on surfaces/walls "street installations" use 3-D objects/space to enhance/interact/interfere with the urban environment . Like graffiti, it is non-permission based and once...
"Wilhelm Leuschner
Wilhelm Leuschner
Wilhelm Leuschner was a social-democratic politician who opposed the Third Reich....
zum Gedenken" in context with his art project Gedankenhotel, 1993-1995, and had a retrospective Tensides at the Deutsches Filmmuseum. He made a remix album Pollock using out-of-print Alfred Harth LPs in 1996 and in 1997-8 he re-arranged, conducted, and performed the West Side Story at the main theatre in Frankfurt. In 2000 he formed Trio Viriditas in New York together with Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
and Kevin Norton
Kevin Norton
Kevin Norton is a percussionist and composer active in the New York City jazz and contemporary music scenes. He has performed and recorded with a diverse group of musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Paul Dunmall, Milt Hinton, Fred Frith, David Krakauer, Joelle Leandre, Frode Gjerstad and Wilber...
. In 2001-02 he had a grant at Samzie Space in Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
and created the LaubhuetteStudio Seoul. In 2003 he started composing a five item CD series "Mother-Of-Pearl" about Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
comprising a DVD T_error (2005). Since early 2004 Harth is a steady member in Otomo Yoshihide's groups and in 2007 he created the European quartet "7k Oaks" together with Massimo Pupillo (Zu
Zu (band)
- Biography :Hailing from Ostia, a town near Rome, Zu are an atypical trio made of drums, electric bass, baritone saxophone and electronics. Formed in Rome in 1997, they began as composers and players for theatre performances. The band is composed of three members: Luca Mai on baritone saxophone,...
), Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. In 2008 he had a premiere with the trio "Taste Tribes" together with Guenter Mueller and Hans Joachim Irmler from the legendary group Faust
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. In 2009 Harth formed the duo "Gift Fig" together with composer Carl Stone
Carl Stone
Carl Stone is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East.Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton...
by the premiere of Adler_Kino 1166 - 1215 in Frankfurt/Main at the festival ROT. At ROT he as well celebrated the revival of his early ensemble Just Music
Just Music (band)
Just Music were a West German avant-garde music ensemble, an interchangeable collective of classically trained instrumentalists founded at the centrum freier cunst, Frankfurt/Main in 1967 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth. An inherent anti-commercial bias kept them at arm's length from the...
after 42 years of its foundation.
A23H founded many other bands and composed for film, TV, theatre, ballet, and radio plays.
Group formations and discography (selection)
Just MusicJust Music (band)
Just Music were a West German avant-garde music ensemble, an interchangeable collective of classically trained instrumentalists founded at the centrum freier cunst, Frankfurt/Main in 1967 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth. An inherent anti-commercial bias kept them at arm's length from the...
- A23H/Thomas Cremer/Dieter Herrmann/Johannes Krämer/Thomas Stoewsand/Witold Teplitz/ Peter Stock/Franz Volhard :
- Just Music ECMECM (record label)ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
1002, 1969 - Born Free CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, 1970
E.M.T.
E.M.T. were an international experimental and free improvising music group with German multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth, Swedish drummer and composer Sven-Åke Johansson, Belgian keyboarder and artist Nicole Van den Plas and guests.-History:...
- A23H/Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson is a Swedish drummer and composer associated with free jazz and free improvisation. He was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T..- External links :*...
/Nicole van den Plas :
- Canadian Cup of Coffee FMPFMP (Free Music Production)Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....
, 1974
Duo Goebbels/Harth
Duo Goebbels/Harth
The Duo Goebbels/Harth , combining German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels and German composer, multi-media artist and saxophonist Alfred 23 Harth became famous for its adaptation of and departure from European composers, especially Hanns Eisler, implemented in a...
:
- Vier Faeuste fuer Hanns Eisler FMPFMP (Free Music Production)Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....
, 1976 +Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
,2007 - Vom Sprengen des Gartens FMPFMP (Free Music Production)Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....
, 1978+Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
,2007 - Indianer fuer Morgn Riskant, 1981
- Zeit wird knapp Riskant, 1981
- Frankfurt/Peking Riskant, 1984
- Live in Victoriaville victo,LP + CD, 1987
- Goebbels Heart evva, 1992
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ("So-called left-radical brass band"):
- Mit Gelben Birnen TrikontTrikontThe leftist publishing house Trikont was founded in 1967 in Munich. The name "Trikont" means "three continents", in German a not very common synonym for Third World Countries....
, 1977/80 + DoubleCD in 1999
Cassiber
Cassiber
Cassiber were a German avant-rock group founded in 1982 by German composer and saxophonist Alfred Harth, German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels, English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and German guitarist Christoph Anders...
- A23H/Christoph Anders/Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
/Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, music director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
:
- Man or Monkey? (2xLP Riskant, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
+ CD Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
, U.K.United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
)), 1982 - Beauty and the Beast (LP Riskant, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
+ LP and CD Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
, U.K.United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
), 1984
Duck and Cover - A23H/Tom Cora
Tom Cora
Thomas Henry Corra , better known as Tom Cora, was a United States cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock...
/Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
/Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
/Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, music director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
/Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups like Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Art Bears. She is also noted for her coverage of songs by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler...
/George Lewis
George Lewis (trombonist)
George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
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- Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.2ReR QuarterlyThe RēR Quarterly was an English "quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine. It was published at irregular intervals between 1985 and 1997 by Recommended Records and November Books, and edited by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler...
Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
, 1986
Gestalt et Jive
Gestalt et Jive
Gestalt et Jive were a multinational avant-rock group founded in West Germany in 1984 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth, comprising Steve Beresford , Anton Fier , Alfred Harth , Peter Hollinger , Ferdinand Richard and Uwe Schmitt .In 1980 Harth produced the LP Es herrscht Uhu im Land on...
- A23H/Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford is a British musician who graduated from the University of York. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, double-bass and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music...
/Anton Fier
Anton Fier
Anton Fier, , is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge , worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos...
/Peter Hollinger/Ferdinand Richard
Ferdinand Richard
Hervé Richard , better known as Ferdinand Richard, is a French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer.Richard was a founding member of the French avant-rock group Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973, and remained with them until they broke up in 1986...
/Uwe Schmitt :
- Nouvelle Cuisine Moers MusicMoers MusicMoers Music is a German jazz record label based in the city of Moers....
, 1985 - Gestalt et Jive Trio Creative Works Records, 1986
Duo Alfred 23 Harth/John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
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- Anything Goes Creative Works Records, 1986
- Plan Eden Creative Works Records, 1987
Duo Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...
/23 Harth :
- Go-No-Go FMPFMP (Free Music Production)Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....
, 1987
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
's OH MOSCOW - A23H/Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
/Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...
/Marilyn Mazur
Marilyn Mazur
Marilyn Mazur is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with...
/ Phil Minton
Phil Minton
Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's...
/Elvira Plenar/Sally Potter
Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
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- Oh Moscow! (victo, 1989)
Vladimir Estragon
Vladimir Estragon
Vladimir Estragon were an avant-rock group founded in Germany in 1988 by German composer and reed player Alfred Harth with FM Einheit, Ulrike Haage, and Phil Minton...
- A23H/FM Einheit/Ulrike Haage/Phil Minton
Phil Minton
Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's...
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- Three Quarks For Muster Mark enja/tiptoe,LP +CD 1989
Domestic Stories - A23H/Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
/Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
/Lutz Glandien
Lutz Glandien
Lutz Glandien is a Berlin-based German avant garde composer and musician. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories and P53...
/Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups like Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Art Bears. She is also noted for her coverage of songs by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler...
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- Domestic Stories Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
,1991
Trio Trabant a Roma - A23H/Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
/Phil Minton
Phil Minton
Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's...
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- State Of Volgograd FMPFMP (Free Music Production)Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....
, 1994
QuasarQuartet - A23H/Simon Nabatov
Simon Nabatov
Simon Nabatov is a jazz pianist.He began playing at three and his first composition was at six. He began his professional career in Rome in 1979 and later attended the Juilliard School. In 1984 Keyboard Magazine named him Best Pianist. In 1989 he left New York City, where he had settled, for Cologne...
/Vladimir Tarasov
Vladimir Tarasov
Vladimir Tarasov is a Russian animator and animation director. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute from 1965 until 1970....
/Vitold Rek)
- POPendingEYE free flow music, 1992
Imperial Hoot - A23H/Guenter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn
Christoph Korn
Christoph Korn is a German audio and media artist working with diverse artistic forms of expression: Composition and Installation, video, text, net art and improvisation...
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- Secrets of Development Blue Noises,1999
Trio Viriditas - A23H/Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
/Kevin Norton
Kevin Norton
Kevin Norton is a percussionist and composer active in the New York City jazz and contemporary music scenes. He has performed and recorded with a diverse group of musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Paul Dunmall, Milt Hinton, Fred Frith, David Krakauer, Joelle Leandre, Frode Gjerstad and Wilber...
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- waxwebwind@ebroadway clean feed, 2002
- Live at Vision Festival VI clean feed, 2008
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra (ONJO) - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/ Sachiko M
Sachiko M
Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine waves...
/Axel Dörner/Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
/Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending...
/Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano . He explores the possibilities of the piano, manipulating it’s sound with use of various string stimulators like ebows, rotating threads and spinning disks...
/Tsugami Kenta/Aoki Taisei/Okura Masahiko/Ishikawa Ko/Unami Taku/Takara Kumiko/Kahimi Karie
Kahimi Karie
Kahimi sings in English, French, and Japanese with whisper-like vocals.-Albums:* 1997 - Larme de crocodile * July 15, 1998 - K.K.K.K.K. * May 24, 2000 - Tilt...
/Mizutani Hiroaki/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)
- ONJO doubtmusic, 2005
- Out to Lunch doubtmusic, 2005
- ONJO live Vol.1 series circuit doubtmusic, 2007
- ONJO live Vol.2 parallel circuit doubtmusic, 2007
Otomo Yoshihide's Invisible Songs - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro/Kahimi Karie
Kahimi Karie
Kahimi sings in English, French, and Japanese with whisper-like vocals.-Albums:* 1997 - Larme de crocodile * July 15, 1998 - K.K.K.K.K. * May 24, 2000 - Tilt...
/Leonid Soybelman
Leonid Soybelman
Leonid Soybelman is a Berlin-based musician and film composer of Jewish origin, leader of the band Ne Zhdali. The guitarist and singer, he also collaborated with Alec Kopyt in the "Poza" project, with bands Auktyon, The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet and many others...
/Kondo Tatsuo/Nasuno Mitsuru/Kawai Shinobu/ Yamamoto Seiichi/ Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
- "Sora" East Works Entertainment, 2007
Expedition - A23H/Chris Dahlgren/Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen is a media critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University.Rosen has been on the journalism faculty at New York University since 1986; from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department.He has been one of the earliest advocates and supporters of citizen...
/Hans Tammen
- Expedition ESP-DiskESP-DiskESP-Disk is a New York-based record label, founded in 1964 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.From the beginning, the label's goal has been to provide its recording artists with complete artistic freedom, unimpeded by any record company interference or commercial expectations—a philosophy summed-up by the...
, 2006
Homura Trio - A23H/Yoriyuki Harada/Choi Sun Bae
- "Homura" off note, 2007
7k Oaks - A23H/Luca Venitucci/Massimo Pupillo
Massimo Pupillo
Massimo Pupillo is an Italian film director.Pupillo is best known for his work as a horror film director in the 1960s and 1970s. His 3 most famous horror films were all made in 1965. He directed Terror-Creatures from the Grave in 1965 which starred Barbara Steele...
/Fabrizio Spera
- "7000 Oaks" Die Schachtel, 2007
- "Entelechy", Die Schachtel, 2011
Taste Tribes - A23H/Guenter Mueller/Hans Joachim Irmler/samples by Eruption & Kawabata Makoto
Kawabata Makoto
Kawabata Makoto is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple.- Band history :Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in...
- "Taste Tribes" For4ears, 2008
Discography of special projects (selection)
- "Es herrscht Uhu im Land“ JAPO/ECMECM (record label)ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
,1981, - A23H/Christoph Anders/Heiner GoebbelsHeiner GoebbelsHeiner Goebbels is a German composer, music director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....
/Paul LovensPaul LovensPaul Lovens is a musician. He plays drums, percussion, singing saw and various selected and unselected cymbals. He has also performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra....
/Rolf Riehm/Annemarie RoelofsAnnemarie RoelofsAnnemarie Roelofs , also spelt Anne-Marie Roelofs and Anne Marie Roelofs, is a Dutch trombone player and violinist, and is a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She is a member of several musical groups and has performed in Holland and England.-Biography:Roelofs... - "This Earth!“ ECMECM (record label)ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
1264,1983, - A23H/Paul BleyPaul BleyPaul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...
/Trilok Gurtu/Maggie NicolsMaggie NicolsMaggie Nicols , is a Scottish free-jazz and improvising vocalist, dancer, and performer.-Early life and career:...
/Barre PhillipsBarre PhillipsBarre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France.... - "Sweet Paris“ free flow music, 1991
- "Pollock“ Orkestrion Schallfolien, 1996, - A23H/Peter Fey/Frank Rothkamm/Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- print-on-demand internet-label "recout.de“http://www.recout.de/mailorder_ah.htm : 1996-2000
- cottage industry label LaubhuetteStudio, since 2002 http://laubhuettestudio.blogspot.com/
MOTHER-OF-PEARL-SERIES (1.-5.,made in Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
), 2003-2006 http://a23h-pearl.blogspot.com/:
- 1. "eShip sum“ /
- 2. "nu:clear re:actor“
- 3. DVD "T_error“ / CD "kr ./. jp“ /
- 4. "Seoul Milk“
- 5. "NUN"
External links
- Alfred Harth biography since the year 2000 http://www.alfredharth.blogspot.com