Florian Hecker

Event: Supersimetria

2012-01-15T18:26:00.053+01:00

26-27-28.01.2012: Supersimetria
Espai Cultural de Barcelona
Plaza de Catalunya 9 08002 Barcelona  

more here

Event: MIT Saarinen Chapel

2011-11-30T20:43:00.000+01:00

03.12.2011: Performance MIT Chapel

MIT Saarinen Chapel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building W15
48 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET)

Release: 2⁄8 Bregman 4⁄8 Deutsch 7⁄8 Hecker 1⁄8 Höller

2011-11-01T17:32:00.001+01:00

Presto!? is happy to announce the release of
‘²⁄₈ Bregman ⁴⁄₈ Deutsch ⁷⁄₈ Hecker ¹⁄₈ Höller’, a double 10” Vinyl set

The title ‘²⁄₈ Bregman ⁴⁄₈ Deutsch ⁷⁄₈ Hecker ¹⁄₈ Höller’ indicates the percental inputs of the eight pieces, intertwines practical, theoretical and conceptual proportions and its audible dramatizations

⁶⁄₈of the pieces are untitled, ²⁄₈ and are titled ‘Gelbgrün’ and ‘UpDown’

⁸⁄₈play on 45 RPM

(press text)

more information here

Release: Kanal GENDYN

2011-09-26T13:41:00.002+02:00

Editions Mego is happy to announce the release of 'Kanal GENDYN', a Vinyl and DVD set by Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker, for 15th November 2011.

This is the first full length release by the artists following their highly acclaimed albums, 'Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings)' (Warner Classics, 2007), and 'UPIC Warp Tracks' (Warp, 2008) in addition to their remix's of Popol Vuh, and Voice Crack.

In the late 90s, early 2000s, it became common for bands, or solo artists to perform live - often alternative - soundtracks to feature films or silent classics. Critical of obvious instrumentation and the combination with known classic film, the artists Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker chose to create a real-time soundtrack, to an unscored film, 'Kanal Video' (1992, 60 min.) by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss.

Core to Kanal GENDYN is Haswell & Hecker's ongoing research on the legacies of polymath Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) and in particular his concept of the Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis, an abstract sound synthesis procedure that creates 'sound out of nothing'.

In an interview with Peter Hoffmann, the artists recall: “This video, which consists of an hour long ‘ride’ through the Zurich sewage system, with a remotely controlled maintenance vehicle equipped with a video camera to survey the sewers for eventual irregularities of defects — struck us both as an ideal piece to be projected in a ‘nightclub’ or music venue with a GENDYN only performance. We found twisted relations with such an hour long ‘tunnel vision’. Once with the seemingly endless amount of computer generated video projections used as visuals accompanying raves and techno parties during the 1990’s — and also to the accounts of visual hallucinations induced by Mescaline as described by Heinrich Klüver in the 1920’s — with the so called ‘form constants’ — where he mentions amongst others, ‘tunnel like’ patterns. The particularities of GENDYN, with its ever changing and meandering waveforms appeared to us as an ideal counterpart.”

Kanal GENDYN was performed on the occasion of the event ‘Musterraum 9. Dual Presentation — Peter Fischli & David Weiss — Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker’ at Musterraum, Munich, 30.01.2004. Originally constructed as an experimental building, ‘Musterraum’ — German for sample or reference room — was a freestanding cube with a base area of 10 × 12 meters. Built as a test and reference space for the planning and construction of the adjacent Pinakothek der Moderne.

Two stereo feeds were crossed for quadraphonic (4.0) diffusion using a L&B F12 / B12 loudspeaker system. Performed concurrently to the Peter Fischli & David Weiss, ‘Kanal Video’ (1992, 60 min.) screened on three facing walls.

Kanal GENDYN is released as stereo vinyl LP + 4.0 DTS 24 Bit / 48 KHz DVD (audio only) set. The cover features 10 stills from the original Fischli & Weiss video, included inside is a 30 x 30 cm 170 gramm paper insert with a further, full-page still, plus extensive sleeve notes by musicologist and software developer Peter Hoffmann, and everything was designed by NORM, Zurich.

Its also worth noting that, with a running time of over a hour, this is one of the longest single LP releases you will come across! Cut by Rashad 'the Master' Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, September 2011.

Vinyl = Kanal GENDYN Stereo [A = 29:53.39] + [B = 32:59.69]

DVD = Kanal GENDYN 4.0 [62:53.10] (AUDIO ONLY)

Recorded and produced by Russell Haswell & Florian Hecker, 2004–2011
Stereo Version mixed by Haswell & Hecker @ CCMIX (Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis), Paris, March 2004
Digitally Mastered by Russell Haswell @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk, England, July 2011
DVD authored by GOP , Köln, September 2011

(presstext)

order here

Show: Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever / Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

2011-09-09T17:50:00.001+02:00

10.09. - 13.11. 2011:
Göteborgs Konsthall & various other venues

more information here

Release: Bregman / Deutsch Chimaera - 47 minutes in bifurcated attention

2011-07-19T11:22:00.001+02:00

19.07.2011: RADIO WEB MACBA announces the release of

'Bregman / Deutsch Chimaera - 47 minutes in bifurcated attention'.

A high resolution mp3 file and an accompanying PDF are available for download here:

http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/interruptions_4_florian_hecker/capsula

Release: Speculative Solution

2011-05-11T18:14:00.005+02:00

11.05.2011: Editions Mego and Urbanomic are pleased to announce the release of ‘Speculative Solution’, a CD and book with contributions by Florian Hecker, Elie Ayache, Robin Mackay and Quentin Meillassoux. Originally commissioned by Urbanomic and developed over the last year, this collaborative project brings together Hecker’s sonic practice and psychoacoustic experimentation with philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of ‘hyperchaos’ – the absolute contingency of the laws of nature.

In an apparent departure from Hecker’s previous release ‘Acid in the Style of David Tudor’ (eMEGO 094, 2009), the four titles featured in ‘Speculative Solution’ contain a series of micro-chronics and sequences of auditory contingencies, ranging from extreme stasis to the most dynamic intensities, crisp dramatisations of what Meillassoux calls in his text ‘extro-science worlds'.

As Mackay states in his contribution to the book, Hecker’s composition “participates in a circuit in which it, the accompanying texts, and diverse other objects, enter into a perpetual catalysis that must annihilate all priority, representation, reference, and even entity.’. Both ‘scripture and prescription’, ‘Speculative Solution’ invites its users to integrate its sonic and textual components, as they enter into an accelerative cycle, becoming “truly ‘literalist’ marks which have no reason to be as they are, and which could have been – and still could be, at every moment – otherwise”. With ‘Speculative Solution’ Hecker proposes that the concepts of absolute contingency and hyperchaos offer a rigorous new alternative to the employment of chance and randomness in avant-garde composition.

It is recommended to listen to ‘Speculative Solution’ on loudspeakers at high volume. Headphone use is not advised. Frequent recitation of the included texts is also indicated.

‘Speculative Solution’, is Hecker’s 13th release with (Editions) Mego. It comes in an embossed, deluxe box with a bilingual (English / French) 160 page book and 5 metal balls (ø 3,969mm). Available only in this format. (Presstext)

order online here or here

Event: Lampo, Chicago

2011-04-29T15:45:00.001+02:00

30.04.2011: Performance at Lampo

Lampo @ Graham Foundation
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago,
Illinois 60610
Telephone: 312.787.4071

Event: Tate Modern Live: Push and Pull A two-day performance event

2011-03-18T12:00:00.000+01:00

18.03.2011 - 19.03.2011: In 1963 Allan Kaprow created the performance environment Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hoffmann, for which he created two furnished rooms and invited visitors (via a set of instructions) to rearrange the furniture as they saw fit. The artist completed his instructions by stating, ‘Each day things will change’ This idea forms the point of departure for a two-day performance series to explore contemporary theory as dialogue and ways in which it can be communicated in a performance situation.
Participating artists are Gregg Bordowitz, Ruth Buchanan, Andrea Geyer and Josiah McElheny, Melanie Gilligan, Florian Hecker and Mark Leckey, Rabih Mroué, and Sarah Pierce.

18.03.2011: 20.30 - 21.00: Florian Hecker and Mark Leckey

Tate Modern Level 4
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended
Price is per session. A discounted combined ticket for £16 for all three sessions can be bought - please call 020 7887 8888 to book this.

Release: Sun Pandämonium: Deluxe Vinyl Reissue

2011-03-01T14:26:00.005+01:00

01.03.2011: Deluxe vinyl reissue of Sun Pandämonium
"The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 800 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly- lined inner sleeve. It is packaged with six monochrome lacquered sheets which are housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with the original artwork by Tina Frank & Florian Hecker." (Presstext)

More information at http://www.pan-act.com/

Event: Vaihe 01, Kiasma, Helsinki

2011-02-25T14:23:00.000+01:00

25.02.2011: Vaihe 01: Florian Hecker & Tommi Keränen,
18h Kiasma Theatre

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2, FIN-00100
Helsinki, Finland

Event: 11, Ausland Berlin

2011-02-11T14:10:00.000+01:00

11.02.2011: Hecker, Alberto De Campo @ 11, Ausland, Berlin. 21h

http://www.1111111111111111111111.com/

PDF: Urbanomic Documents: Conversation with Quentin Meillassoux

2011-01-01T13:54:00.037+01:00

Urbanomic Documents aim to expose exploratory, informal processes of transdisciplinary research and development, through working papers, sketches and conversations relating to projects in progress.
Download Q. Meillassoux / F. Hecker / R. Mackay chez Meillassoux, Paris, 22.7.2010 here

Event: Instal 10, Glasgow

2010-11-05T09:24:00.040+01:00

13.11.2010: Speculative Solution will be performed at Instal in Glasgow, Friday 12 - Sunday 14th November 2010

INSTAL 10
Braver Newer Musics
Friday 12, Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 November 2010
Tramway, Glasgow

Full programme online here

Event: Äänen Lumo, Helsinki

2010-11-04T16:23:00.009+01:00

9.11.2010: Several hand-held devices, Tuning Forks (Bohlen-Pierce Scale) and New Synchrophones can be lended at the Kiasma desk from 9 November as part of the Äänen Lumo Festival For New Sounds.
Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2, FIN-00100
Helsinki, Finland

Event: MIT hosts tribute for Maryanne Amacher

2010-10-20T10:52:00.037+02:00

22.10.2010: MIT hosts tribute for Maryanne Amacher: with Florian Hecker, Kevin Drumm, Jessica Rylan Piper, Anne Hilde Neset et al.

This event will be held in MIT's Bartos Theater, located on the Lower Level of the Wiesner Building (E15) at 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events_amacher.html

Event: Push and Pull: Performance Series

2010-10-12T09:33:00.013+02:00

12.10.2010: 3 Channel Chronics

8.30 pm, MUMOK Factory Tickets: € 9,- / All-Inclusive Ticket: € 55,- (contains all performances, installations and the exhibition of the serial Push and Pull )

More information here

Show: Push and Pull

2010-09-21T16:18:00.010+02:00

06.10.2010 - 31.10.2010: Push and Pull

MUMOK

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

1070 Vienna

Austria

Show: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. LABoral, Gijón / Spain

2010-09-21T15:32:00.001+02:00

06.10.2010: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace is a selection of works

drawn from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial  Gijón, Austurias / Spain

October 6, 2010 - February 21, 2011

Mon, Wed–Fri, 10:00 am–7:00 pm  Sat–Son, 12:00 noon–8:00 pm

Podcast: Ràdio Web MACBA

2010-09-20T16:00:00.001+02:00

21.09.2009: COMPONENT AMB PROCESSOS: PERSPECTIVES SOBRE MÚSICA GENERATIVA I DE SISTEMES #1.

El primer episodi presenta dues obres ben diferents, una de l'artista alemany Florian Hecker i una altra del japonès Ryoji Ikeda.

http://rwm.macba.cat/ca/recerca?id_capsula=739

Event: The Real Thing

2010-09-01T23:14:00.004+02:00

03.09.2010: Speculative Solution will be presented as part of 'The Real Thing': Urbanomic : Late at Tate: THE REAL THING

Friday September 3rd 2010 1800-2200 hrs
Tate Britain, London

Release: Event, Stream, Object

2010-08-21T13:03:00.016+02:00

Event, Stream, Object. Katalog. Frankfurt 2010. Texte von TJ Demos, Susanne Gaensheimer & Robin Mackay. 120 S. mit 21 s/w-Abb., Ln. - Text in dt. & engl. Sprache

ISBN: 978-3-86560-862-8
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010

Event: Performance and Book Presentation

2010-08-09T17:35:00.019+02:00

18.08.2010: Performance and book presentation at

MMK Zollamt, Wednesday, 18. August 2010, 20.00h

Event: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2010-06-12T18:19:00.003+02:00

19.06.2010: Performance at Renée Green's: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Sat, Jun 19, 2010 • 4pm - late (TBC) • Galleries FREE w/ gallery admission

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94103-3138

Event: LIFE IS LIVE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN!

2010-06-04T18:59:00.005+02:00

06.06.2010: Florian Hecker, Russell Haswell perform at HAU 2 as part of the event LIFE IS LIVE - MUSIC, DISCOURSE, PERFORMANCE / VOLUME # 2: LISTEN WITH PAIN! ABOUT MUSIC AND TORTURE

10.00 pm - 11.00 pm: Russell Haswell
11.00 pm - 00.00 am: Florian Hecker

HEBBEL AM UFER
HALLESCHES UFER 32
10963 BERLIN

Event: Sounding Code, Berghain, Berlin

2010-05-31T13:32:00.000+02:00

02.06.2010: Hecker, Marcus Schmickler, Nonprivate (Cylob Industries) perform at Berghain, Berlin. Start 21.00h

Berghain
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
10243 Berlin - Friedrichshain

Show: IKON Gallery

2010-05-24T09:36:00.000+02:00

27th May - 20th June 2010

IKON Eastside
183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE
Open Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 5 PM, Free Entry

Release: 3 Track 12"

2010-05-13T12:56:00.003+02:00

13.05.2010: Editions Mego release 3 Track 12"

Tracklisting:

A1 (5'12")

A2 (2'40" + 0'48")

B1 (23'32")

More info here

Show: MMK Frankfurt

2010-04-30T08:00:00.003+02:00

08.Mai 2010 - 22.August 2010

Opening: 7.Mai 19h

MMK MUSEUM FÜR MODERNE KUNST
FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Domstr. 10
60311 Frankfurt/Main

Release: Neu CD

2010-04-26T09:37:00.011+02:00

24.04.2010 Galerie Neu release Neu CD

1. Wq Acid VII 9’52”
2. Yin Pitch Detection Synthesis Kissing 17’26”
3. Neu Ext 3’00”
4. ≤ ∑ 3’25”

NEU CD comes with a 6 page leporello featuring the product photography of the original CD case design by Peter Saville. A laser cut block of open porous foam, housed in a transparent, smoke grey acrylic cover.

CD Presentation

2010-04-16T08:50:00.010+02:00

NEU CD

CD Presentation:
24.04.2010, 14:00–16:00 h

Installation 2 x 3 Kanal
23.04.–24.04.2010

Galerie Neu
Philippstr. 13
10115 Berlin

Show: Chisenhale Gallery

2010-02-05T22:00:00.003+01:00

11th February 2010 - 28th March 2010

Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
England

Talks and Events:
Saturday 27 February, 2pm
Independent writer and curator David Bussel leads a tour of the exhibition

Thursday 18 March, 7pm
Robin Mackay, philosopher and editor of the journal Collapse, will discuss how Florian Hecker's engineering of perception-as-hallucination invokes a fundamental philosophical question that haunts the scientific discipline of psychoacoustics: What is an (auditory) object?

Show: Bawag Contemporary

2009-11-02T08:04:00.001+01:00

4th November 2009 - 29th November 2009

BAWAG Contemporary
Barnabitengasse 11 - 13
1060 Vienna
Austria
open Mon. - Sun. 14-20 Uhr
www.bawagcontemporary.at

Show: evento 2009

2009-10-05T09:28:00.002+02:00

09. October 2009 - 18. October 2009: The artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux

evento 2009 will take place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux. This first edition will present artistic, theoretical and performative interventions by over 50 participants, articulated by the notion of Collective Intimacy, the concept proposed by Didier Fiúza Faustino.

Free access to all the exhibitions, discussions and concerts.

Download program here

http://evento2009.org

Show: Corps Sonore, Architecture et Son

2009-09-21T09:22:00.004+02:00

September 25th, 2009 - November 28th, 2009
Archizoom
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
SG 1211 (Bâtime SG)
CH - 1015 Lausanne

Horaire d’ouverture :
Lundi – vendredi 9h-19h
Samedi 14h-18h

Review: Double Negative

2009-09-17T09:29:00.006+02:00

09.2009: Tom Holert reviews Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker's No night No day in the September issue of Artforum

Aphex Twin § Hecker, Sacrum Profanum, Kraków

2009-09-17T09:14:00.005+02:00

18. & 19.09.2009: Aphex Twin § Hecker perform two nights at the 7th Sacrum Profanum Festival at the Nowa Huta’s industrial complex.

Arcelor Mittal Poland Oddział w Krakowie
ul. Ujastek 1

http://www.sacrumprofanum.pl/en

Event: Aphex Twin § Hecker, Dour Festival

2009-07-18T21:48:00.000+02:00

19.07.2009: Aphex Twin § Hecker perform at Dour Festival

http://www.dourfestival.be

Event: Aphex Twin § Hecker, Melt Festival

2009-07-16T21:41:00.001+02:00

17.07.2009: Aphex Twin § Hecker perform at Melt Festival

Ferropolis
Ferropolisstraße 1
06773 Gräfenhainichen

Show: Transitory Objects

2009-07-01T18:51:00.007+02:00

Transitory Objects

OPENING HOURS: Tue–Sun, 12:00 noon–6:00 pm,  August: Wed–Sat, 12:00 noon–6:00 pm

DURATION: July 3 - February 14, 2010

LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,  Himmelpfortgasse 13, 1010 Vienna

Event: Urbanomic Studio, Falmouth, 27.06.2009

2009-06-10T15:52:00.007+02:00

27.06.2009: Urbanomic Falmouth presents UF8, Sound Out Of Line

http://www.urbanomic.com/

Event: Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker: No night No day

2009-05-31T23:59:00.005+02:00

04.06.2009:
Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker: No night No day

Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary for the 53rd International Art Exhibition / Biennale di Venezia
Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, curated by Daniel Birnbaum
Duration of the Biennale: June 7 - November 22, 2009

GALA PREMIERE of No night No day:
Thursday, 4 June 2009, at 8:00 pm
ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES
Friday, 5 June and Saturday, 6 June, at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm
free admission (limited to Biennale preview-card holders and subject to seat availability)

DURATION: June 4, 2009 - June 6, 2008

LOCATION: Teatro Goldoni, Venice

Event:UPIC Diffusion Session # 21, 31.05.09

2009-05-23T11:55:00.001+02:00

31.05.2009: Haswell & Hecker present their 21st UPIC Diffusion Session at Serralves em Festa, Fundação de Serralves, Porto.

Fundação de Serralves
Rua D.João de Castro 210
4150-417 Porto
Portugal

Event: Aphex Twin & Hecker, WARP 20, Cite Cité de la Musique, Paris

2009-05-06T21:08:00.002+02:00

09.05.2009: Aphex Twin & Hecker perform at WARP 20, Cite Cité de la Musique, Paris

Cité de la Musique

Parc de la Villette
75019 Paris
France

Tel: 01 44 84 45 00 Web: www.cite-musique.fr/

Release: Acid In The Style Of David Tudor

2009-05-04T09:46:00.001+02:00

04.05.2009 Editions Mego release Acid In The Style Of David Tudor.

Tracklisting (CD):

Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 1
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 2
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 3
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Ten

More info here

Digital download on iTtunes here

Event: Aphex Twin & Hecker, Lev Festival

2009-05-01T21:01:00.001+02:00

02.05.2009: Aphex Twin & Hecker perform at L.E.V. Festival, Gijon

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121 - 33394 Gijon [Asturias] - Spain

Show: The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum

2009-04-03T09:44:00.000+02:00

04.04.2009 - 05.07.2009
5 Channel Artificial Neural Synthesis (2008) is part of the exhibition
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

Mori Art Museum
53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1
Roppongi Minatoku Tokyo
Japan 106-6150

Event: Aphex Twin & Hecker, STRP Festival

2009-04-02T09:59:00.000+02:00

04.04.2009: Aphex Twin & Hecker performance at STRP Festival, Eindhoven

STRP Festival
Klokgebouw
5616 SH Eindhoven

http://www.strp.nl

Event: Aphex Twin & Hecker, BLOC Weekend

2009-02-24T15:56:00.000+01:00

14.03.2008: Aphex Twin & Hecker performance at BLOC Weekend
also performing, William Bennett, Russell Haswell, amo

Minehead Resort
Somerset
TA24 5SH

http://www.blocweekend.com

Release: Hecker Live @ WDR

2009-02-23T18:05:00.005+01:00

23.02.2009: Tochnit Aleph releases Hecker - Live @ WDR Cassette

Produced and performed by Florian Hecker. Recorded live at WDR Mehrzweck-Sendestudio, Cologne 26.09.2007. Edition of 200 Copies. Pro-duplicated & printed 60 minute cassettes with luxurious embossed silver-foil print cover. Product code: TA084

Tracklisting:

A1. NACHRICHTEN (03:05)
2. (02:17)
3. STANDARD MAP & CUSP MAP, REARRANGED PT. I (24:24)
B1. STANDARD MAP & CUSP MAP, REARRANGED PT. II (20:14)

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #20

2009-02-23T15:46:00.000+01:00

07.03.2009: Haswell & Hecker present their 20th UPIC Diffusion Session in the Le Corbusier exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery

Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Centre
Silk Street London
EC2Y 8DS

Tickets: Free to same day ticket holders Time: Midnight

Event: CHARACTERS, FIGURES AND SIGNS

2009-01-29T11:49:00.000+01:00

21.02.2009: A collaboration between Jennifer Lacey and Florian Hecker will be performed at Tate Modern as part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live Characters, Figures and Signs

Tate Modern

Bankside
London SE1 9TG

020 7887 8888

Show: Bulletinboard Blvd., Pro Choice Vienna

2009-01-28T11:05:00.004+01:00

28.01.2009 - 06.03.09

Pro Choice
Zedlitzgasse 3
1010 Vienna
Austria

+43 650 840 78 12 prochoice.wien@gmail.com

Open Sat. 3-6 and by appointment

Event: Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

2009-01-23T11:41:00.000+01:00

23.01.2009: Soundtrack for Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Automne /Hiver 2009-2010

Performance: SND STUDIOS SHEFFIELD 03.12.2008

2008-12-03T14:40:00.006+01:00

03.12.2008

'THREE PIECES FOR UNATTENDED, SOMEWHAT ATTENDED AND ATTENDED COMPUTER'

featuring performances from EVOL, Mark Fell and Florian Hecker

Event: Vienna Art Week, Odeon, Vienna

2008-11-26T14:31:00.005+01:00

20.11.2008: 'Rearranged Playlist as Auditory Stream Segregation'

DONNERSTAG, 20. NOV. 2008
21.30 Uhr, Odeon Theater, Taborstrasse 10, 1020 Wien

Published Article: Dark Matter Compiler

2008-11-14T11:48:00.001+01:00

13.11.2008: Dark Matter Compiler, an article by Nick Cain on
Florian Hecker is featured in The Wire, Issue # 298, December 2008

Show: Sadie Coles HQ, London

2008-10-13T12:42:00.003+02:00

14.10.2008 - 22.11.2008

Sadie Coles HQ
35 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BP
Open Tue-Sat 10-6

Published Article: Chaosmos

2008-10-13T12:37:00.003+02:00

10.10.2008: Chaosmos, an article by Ines Gebetsroither on Florian Hecker is featured in Spike, art quaterly, Issue 17.

http://spikeart.at/

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session # 19. 16.10.2008

2008-09-14T18:08:00.003+02:00

16.10.2008: Haswell & Hecker present their 13th UPIC Diffusion Session at
the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival supporting Corrupted feat. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka

http://www.luff.ch

Show: Biacs3 – Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville

2008-09-14T17:38:00.013+02:00

01.10.2008: Rotating Psychoacoustic Tuning Curves,
a new piece commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is part of the compositions for The Morning Line by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda/Lasch and Arup AGU, an architectural structure with a 48 loudspeaker spatialisation system.

Biacs3 – Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2 / Camino de los Descubrimientos
Seville, Spain

October 2, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Release: Formulas For Now

2008-09-01T12:03:00.004+02:00

01.09.2008

More than 100 contributors from the fields of art, science, mathematics, performance, music, architecture, design, literature and sociology have devised or chosen their own personal formula to express their understanding of contemporary life

ISBN 0500238502
ISBN-13 978-0500238509

21.0 x 16.8 cm, Hardback, 160pp

Published Article: "Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite" online as PDF

2008-08-28T17:32:00.001+02:00

28.08.2008: Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online as PDF

DOWNLOAD PDF

Online Mix: Afro Noise I by DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett)

2008-07-21T12:43:00.004+02:00

20.07.2008: A 49:40 minutes long mix by DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) with excerpts from Florian Hecker, Whitehouse, East African witchcraft and Ghanaian funeral field recordings, feline recordings is online now

DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) - Afro Noise I (excerpt) 8:14 - mp3/256kbps

Show: Manifesta 7

2008-07-14T15:03:00.002+02:00

19.07.2008 - 02.11.2008

MANIFATTURA TABACCHI, PIAZZA MANIFATTURA 1, 38068 ROVERETO, ITALY

http://www.manifesta7.it/

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' CAC Vilnius

2008-06-06T11:21:00.002+02:00

06.06.-17.08.2008
Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2
LT- 01130 Vilnius
Lithuania

Opening hours: TUESDAY - SUNDAY 12:00 - 19:30

Show: Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39

2008-05-29T07:59:00.000+02:00

04.06. - 08.06.2008

'Asynchronous Jitter', a 4 Channel Sound Piece with a 15 Channel computer controlled spatialisation system, will be presented at Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39

http://art.ch/go/id/elj/

Event: Utopia of Sound Symposium Vienna 29.05. - 31.05.2006

2008-05-21T07:31:00.000+02:00

30.05.2008
Florian Hecker performs at the Utopia of Sound Symposium, Akademie der bildenden Künsten Wien. Also performing Michel Chion, Terre Thaemlitz

Academy of Fine Arts | Atelierhaus | Lehàrgasse 6 | EG Nord

7:30 – 10:00 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Online Video: Artreview.com

2008-05-20T15:02:00.001+02:00

17.05.2008
Florian Hecker performing on opening night of the Reykjavik Arts Festival at the Domo club before his performance was cut short by an audience intervention

Event: Experiment Marathon Reykjavík 16.05.2008

2008-05-14T13:20:00.001+02:00

16.05.2008:
Florian Hecker with Ben Aranda and Francesca von Habsburg

One of the highlights of the Reykjavik Arts Festival will be the Experiment Marathon Reykjavík at the Reykjavík Art Museum (RAM) organized by the Serpentine Gallery, London. From May 15, the RAM will become a laboratory in which leading artists, architects, film-makers, academics, and scientists will create an environment of invention through a series of installations, screenings, performances, and experimental films.

Reykjavík Art Museum/Hafnarhús
May 15 – August 17
Tryggvagata 17, 121 Reykjavik
Open 10 am – 5 pm
www.listasafnreykjavikur.is

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/experiment_marathon_reykjavike.html

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session #18. 11.5.08

2008-05-11T13:08:00.001+02:00

11.05.2008
HASWELL & HECKER present their eighteenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the 'let's go MENTAL', Lopud Seminar 2008. Lopud Island, Croatia.

http://www.tba21.org/

Event: UPIC Diffusion Session # 17

2008-05-09T13:06:00.000+02:00

09.05.2008
HASWELL & HECKER present their seventeenth UPIC Diffusion Session at the Skaņu mežs festival, Riga, Latvia.

9pm Big Hall. 9.5.08.

http://skanumezs.lv

Gepostet von

Event: Haswell & Hecker, Whitehouse 08.05.2008

2008-05-08T13:04:00.001+02:00

08.05.2008
Haswell & Hecker are the support act at the penultimate WHITEHOUSE live action!

ve action!
* NOTE: This is NOT a UPIC Diffusion Session

kuratiert von Peter Rehberg (eMego)
live: Whitehouse (UK) + Haswell & Hecker (UK / D)
dj ddkern vk 7.-/ak 8.-

rhiz - bar modern

Guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 Vienna - Austria - EU
phone: ++43 1 409 25 05

http://rhiz.org/

Release: POPOL VUH (Haswell & Hecker Remix)

2008-03-31T10:55:00.002+02:00

31.03.2008: Editions Mego release Popol Vuh 'Haswell & Hecker & Mika Vaino Remixes' 12"

Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools. This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker. (Presstext)

Show: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph

2008-03-06T10:59:00.001+01:00

06.03.2008-26.10.2008

Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lendkai 1
A-8020 Graz

Tue-Sun 10am-6pm

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (IV)

2008-02-27T11:06:00.000+01:00

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"

The fourth and final part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (III)

2008-02-22T11:04:00.000+01:00

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"

The third part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' Kunstverein Hannover

2008-02-16T13:22:00.003+01:00

16.02.2008 – 06.04.2008

Kunstverein Hannover e.V.
Sophienstraße 2
30159 Hannover

Opening hours:
tue.-sat. 12-19 h, sundays and holiday 11-19 h

Release: UPIC WARP Tracks (Warp Records) 04.02.2007

2008-02-04T14:05:00.003+01:00

04.02.2008: Warp Records release Haswell & Hecker: Upic Warp Tracks
Limited CD & Digital Download
Tracklisting (CD)
Alpha (1.29)

Beta (6.11)

Gamma (9.50)

Buy online here

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (II)

2008-02-04T00:32:00.000+01:00

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"
The second part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

Published Article: Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite (I)

2008-01-27T14:07:00.000+01:00

"Redécouvrir la polyagogie de la matière abstraite"
The first part of Thomas Duzer's translation of Robin Mackay's Text in collaboration with Haswell & Hecker is now online on the brilliant Anaximandrake Blog.

http://anaximandrake.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/01/17/blackest-ever-black-1.html#footnote-8-referrer

http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/archives/2008/01/empirisme_des_m.html

Announcement: Haswell &Hecker: UPIC Warp Tracks (Warp Records) 18.12.07

2007-12-18T14:25:00.000+01:00

18.December 2007:
Warp Records announces Haswell & Hecker: UPIC WARP TRACKS
Released 4th February 2008
Limited CD & Download

http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1371

Release: Haswell & Hecker: Visionaire Magazine # 53 'Sound'

2007-12-18T14:09:00.000+01:00

18.12.07
Haswell & Hecker: Franz Graf Acid / Acid for Franz Graz
is featured in Visionaire 53 Sound.

Visionaire 53 Sound. consists of five 12-Inch vinyl picture
disc records packaged inside a dome case.
Limited edition of 4000 numbered copies.

http://www.visionaireworld.com/

Event: CREATE UCSB Santa Barbara

2007-12-07T11:00:00.000+01:00

07.12.2007: Florian Hecker speaks at CREATE

Friday December 7 at 6 PM
Studio Xenakis - Music 2215
University of CA, Santa Barbara

Event: Spheres of Interest Lecture: Florian Hecker and Chris Watson

2007-11-30T11:09:00.000+01:00

30.11.2007: Acoustic Landscapes and Noise

Florian Hecker and Chris Watson
Friday, 30 November at 5:00pm
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street campus
Free and open to the public

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco 94133

Release: Hecker, Höller, Tracks

2007-11-12T11:50:00.000+01:00

12/11/2007: Semishigure releases Hecker, Höller, Tracks
as Gatefold Double Vinyl.

Tracklisting (LP)

Side A:
I (9:03)
Side B:
II (15:25)
Side C:
III (8:23)
IV (1:28)
V (1 :47)
Side D:
VI (8:23)
VII (1:01)
VIII (1:47)

Published Article: Haswell & Hecker and Robin Mackay collaboration 04.11.2007

2007-11-06T14:11:00.000+01:00

COLLAPSE Volume III
November 2007.
Paperback 115x175mm 515pp
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-2-0

Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on Speculative Realism held in London earlier this year.

Sound artists Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker contribute some strange and beautiful images taken from the electronic 'score' of their new sound work Blackest Ever Black, an 'introduction to synaesthesia' created using composer Iannis Xenakis's computerised UPIC system to transform contemporary images into sound. An accompanying text by Robin Mackay analyses the affinities between Xenakis's conception of a musical 'polyagogy' and Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism'.

If you are able to post a notice in your place of work or study, please download and print the flyer for Collapse Volume III from http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/docs/a4flyer-c3.pdf

COLLAPSE is available in the following fine bookstores: Vrin, Paris; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) bookshop, London; Tate Modern bookshop, London; Gleebooks, Sydney.
http://www.urbanomic.com/

Release: NEU CD / NEU LP

2007-10-11T08:04:00.001+02:00

Galerie Neu presents Hecker NEU CD & NEU LP
designed by Peter Saville

Frieze Art Fair Stand B4 11-14 October 2007

Tracklisting (CD)

1. Wq Acid VII (9:52)
2. Yin Pitch Detection Synthesis Kissing (17:26)
3. Neu Ext (3:00)
4. ≤ ∑ (3:25)

Publishes Essay: John Miller 'The Placement of Sound: Florian Hecker's Spatial Music'

2007-10-08T19:47:00.003+02:00

Ed. by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V., on the occasion of the exhibition "ars viva 07/08 - Sound" with texts by Arend Oetker, Stephan Frucht, Christina Werner, Markus Heinzelmann, Stephan Berg, Kestutis Kuizinas, Christoph Gurk, Stefanie Kreuzer, Jennifer Allen, John Miller, Douglas Park (german, english)

28 x 21 cm, 144 s., 54 col. and 12 b/w. ill., softcover with dustjacket

ISBN 978-3-86588-424-4

Show: Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound' Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

2007-10-07T22:50:00.000+02:00

Ars Viva 07/08 'Sound'

07.10.2007 - 06.01.2008

Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich
Gustav-Heinemann-Strasse 80
51377 Leverkusen

Performance: WDR Radio Concert

2007-09-26T12:03:00.000+02:00

26/09/2007: 23:00:00h: Live broadcast of two binaural pieces.
WDR 3 Open "Studio Elektronische Musik"

WDR 3 Radio Frequencies

Release: KTL Forest Floor / Hecker (Filter Mix)

2007-09-14T15:16:00.000+02:00

14/09/2007:

Editions Mego release CDR of the KTL live show with Russell Haswell.

The disc features a Remix from Hecker for KTL

Tracklisting: (CD)
1. 20070529 Luminaire, London (Salvage Mix) (52:21)
2. Forest Floor (Filter Mix) (2:01)

http://www.editionsmego.com/

Published On-line Galleries: Flickr

2007-07-10T14:12:00.000+02:00

Images from previous UPIC DIFFUSION SESSIONs are now on-line on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9254121@N03/

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=haswell+hecker&page=2

Show: Galerie Neu, Berlin

2007-07-07T12:36:00.000+02:00

Opening 07.07. 07 19-21h

Galerie NEU
Phillipstr. 13
10115 Berlin

http://www.galerieneu.com/

Announcement: Hecker, Höller, Tracks

2007-06-29T22:34:00.000+02:00

Coming up: Hecker / Carsten Höller 2LP 29.06.2007

The double-LP from Hecker with pieces made for Carsten Höller will be released this summer on Semishigure in an amazing full-colour gatefold sleeve with exclusive photos by Carsten Höller. There will be 500 copies printed of this record, but the first 25 will come as a special edition with the front image of the record printed as a limited photograph (appr. 40 x 40 cm), signed & numbered by the artist, in a specially designed box together with the record. Please email us to inquire for prices and to reserve copies.
(Presstext)

Published Review: Financial Times, June 16 2007

2007-06-22T14:13:00.000+02:00

Mark Espiner reviews UPIC Diffusion Session # 11( Aldeburgh).

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d0a220cc-1ba6-11dc-bc55-000b5df10621.html

Release: Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings)

2007-06-11T21:21:00.000+02:00

11/06/2007 Warner Classics release Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black on CD and LIMITED EDITION 2x VINYL.

http://www.warnerclassics.com/release.php?release=4752

Tracklisting (CD):

1 Movement 1 31:38
2 Movement 2 12:46
3 Movement 3 8:45
4 Movement 4 19:44
(*Note: pause)
5 Appendix 1:05

Published Online Videos: Excerpts of UPIC Diffusion Sessions

2007-06-06T14:14:00.000+02:00

Several short Video Excerpts of previous UPIC Diffusion Sessions have been posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIfsmnVcnc8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TknLoXgCN3o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=udvepMRZUAY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_iOZzMuPGG0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uT3mnWpbo6k

Haswell & Hecker URLs

2007-05-30T16:24:00.000+02:00

http://haswellhecker.blogspot.com/

http://myspace.com/haswellhecker

http://haswellstudio.com/

Performance: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor'

2007-03-30T17:00:00.000+02:00

30/03/2007: 'Acid in the Style of David Tudor' 6 Channel Live Performance, as
part of Talk/Show at Tranzit in collaboration with Kunstverein Munich.

ANARCHITEKTUR (DE), PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA (MEX/UK), JEREMY DELLER (UK), STEPHAN DILLEMUTH (DE), LUCA FREI (CH), FLORIAN HECKER (DE/AT), SCOTT KING (UK), LOCAL MODERNITY / HEIKE ANDER (AT/DE), MICHAELA MELIAN (DE), ANDREAS NEUMEISTER (DE), PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED / KIT HAMMONDS (UK), ANNA SANDERS FILMS (F), FEAT. LIAM GILLICK (UK), DOMINIQUE GONZALES-FOERSTER (F), PIERRE HUYGHE (F), PHILIPPE PARRENO (F), SEAN SNYDER (USA/DE), JAN VERWOERT (DE)

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