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Analogsat & Gommoral feature Autark‘s first video release. By complex algorithms the visuals melt into the music: While in „Solitons“ the volume amplitudes trigger the motions of preselected images, in „Spectrometer“ the waveforms of the single tracks are positioned in space. In „Spectroscope“ six separate audio tracks are analysed by a spectroscope, which results in six overlapping pictures generating a single video. By determining the visualised shape, the sound almost turns into a bodily experience.
John E. Flash is back with his debut album. Unlike his former works on autark, in tracks like "Leaf" he introduces dubbier sounds this time. Yet, other tracks like "Der Usurpatorkomplex" stand out due to their cold, post clicks'n'cuts aesthetics. "Flora & Fauna" rises from a soundscape consisting of recordings made in Austrian forest while "One Five Six" and "Folie à deux" are jaunts through razor-edged electronica.
Autark aa11 05.03.2010 Various Artists Playground cover by Susanna Flock
The four tracks of the playground EP were generated during playground festival in Innsbruck Austria in September 2009. Byetone, Schlammpeitziger, Christian Stefaner-Schmid and Fritz Teufel met the challenge to explore the city of Innsbruck by means of field recording devices. The collected audio material was processed to pieces of music in public, i.e. in a shop-window of a highly frequented commercial street, which was occupied for a week and also provided a basis for a media art exposition, discussions, talks, screenings and parties. A documentation of the entire festival is available at playground.autark-net.org.
Autark aa10 05.12.2009 Various Artists 10
01 Krowley – Nocturne mp3 , ogg 02 Sunom – Herbst mp3 , ogg 03 Lt.Thrombose – Beat ich hab dich lieb mp3 , ogg 04 HP.Stonji – Temo mp3 , ogg 05 Christian Stefaner-Schmid – Extreme mp3 , ogg 06 John E. Flash – Flackert mp3 , ogg 07 May He Hetal? – F11 mp3 , ogg 08 Krach der Roboter – Deutschlandfunk mp3 , ogg 09 Guy Bored – Alles was unmittelbar erlebt mp3 , ogg 10 Chra – Before mp3 , ogg
Autark's tenth release is a showcase of the labels past work. Ten new tracks by all past artists (even if one renamed himself) and a single new one mesh synthetic and naturalistic sound in multiple styles from dubstep to noise, from idm to electronica, from lofi to hifi, from...
Autark aa09 15.09.2009 Sunom Contradictions EP written + produced by Thomas Medicus cover picture by Valentin Dander
After some years of dark mars voyages, Innsbruck-based Sunom has located rather tranquil music styles on other planets. The journey led to more individual and experimental sounds, such as hashed beats and breaks or liquid spheres and even raspy singing. Never the less he only profits from the earth‘s air which transports acoustic noise by 1234,8 kilometers per hour. This phenomenon has already been used by other musicians.
Autark aa08 05.06.2009 Krach der Roboter All Clear EP written + produced by Krach der Roboter cover by Anna Schmitzberger
These sounds are recordings of the noises that occured while Krach der Roboter was manufactured. The order they are assembled in is based on excerpts from the code of Krach's operating system. This complex calculation process took from 2000 to 2004, because computer chips were not elaborate back then and often crashed.
Autark aa07 15.03.2009 Lt. Thrombose Go and Get Lost ! written + produced by Andreas Stecher cover by Daniel Leidenfrost
01 Untitled mp3 , ogg 02 Captain Lofi mp3 , ogg 03 Loving My Experiments mp3 , ogg 04 Go and Get Lost! mp3 , ogg
Sometimes 19-year-old Innsbruck based Lt. Thrombose submerges the listener in a fog of multi-instrumentation. Sometimes his tracks are right in your face, with huge and distorted synth lines and straight beats. And sometimes there are more sublime beats and eccentric voice samples. In the end stands an unambiguous advice: Go and get lost!
radical constructivist, atheist, skeptic. convinced of the independent existence of machines. does not make much difference between man and machine and is not tempted to find this differences. quite the opposite is the case and already found in the possibillity of conditioning man and machine likewise, by similar methods. that's why for hornyphon, music is a constructivist process, using constructivist methodes. the result has nothing to do with what one likes to call "feelings". for hornyphon it would be pointless to stick with the same "sentiments" and to tonally evoke and invoke the same "sentimental patterns" over and over again. this would be careless, even reckless. listeners are persuaded to observe themselves, in order to become an audience, respectively consumers of the second order and hence become aware of their self-referentiality and self-organisation. no need to be afraid of breaks. the decomposition of hornyphon's music, in the form of free tonality, is nothing else but a shifting of values, perceptions and patterns, by sometimes less than a semitone. more thought, less music.
Autark aa05 15.11.2008 May He Hetal? Realoase written + produced by Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer, Sebastian Six
Modified keyboards and handcrafted interfaces, build the fundament for the music of may he hetal? Through this way, they are able to worm out some unexpected and opinionated sounds. Out of this soundpool rises their music, which is located somewhere between Ambient, Elektronika and Noise.
Autark aa04 05.10.2008 CHRA Verstreichen EP written + produced by Christina Nemec cover artwork by Susi Klocker
1+2: additional processing by Mika Vainio 3: inspired by Walter Benjamin 4: inspired by Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West
CHRA ist the soloproject of Vienna-based Christina Nemec. She likes to play and stretch low frequency sine waves, granulated through a small program called soundeffects, and manipulated via logic, ableton live, 4-track-recorder, sampler – like a roadmovie for your ears. Main topics: landscapes, territories, silence, unexpected things and history.
Autark aa03 15.06.2008 John E. Flash Mountainscape EP written + produced by Martin Huber
John E. Flash is one of the carriers of autark. As host and DJ he has been around in the Innsbruck area for a couple of years. Now is the time to add a new part: the producer. Mountainscape is an attempt to merge several influences such as electronica, techno and hip hop to a whole. John E. Flash takes off his alpine boots and produces sound far away from montane romanticism.
Autark aa02 05.04.2008 Krowley Four Pieces produced by Felix Trawöger
With sweet 17 Innsbruck based analog fanatic Krowley launches his first 4-track-EP. Instead of becoming a Schönberg piano prodigy, he found his love in experimental electronic music, but always flavoured with a very special organic ambience. His sound‘s an oscillation between dubstep, electronica and downbeat with heavy influence of acoustic instruments under reference to renaissance music.
Autark aa01 05.03.2008 hp.stonji Piano Expeditions EP produced by Hans Platzgumer & Jens Döring
01 Piano Expeditions I mp3 , ogg 02 Piano Expeditions II mp3 , ogg .. Cover jpg .. Infosheet pdf
Hans Platzgumer and Jens Döring are hp.stonji. So far they've been known from their albums on Zurich's Spezialmaterial and the Viennese label Konkord, as well as from their countless other projects (solo or with others, e.g. Cube & Sphere, hp.zinker, Queen of Japan, e.stonji). hp.stonji's music is an organic blueprint of the music called electronica. But it might as well be fat and dirty. Autark's prologue "Piano Expeditions" is a journey into the atmospheric deeps of modern ambient music as cold and warm it can be.