John Wiese
John Wiese is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering the US, UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek.
John Wiese is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering the US, UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek.
The disappearing act
Gerritt runs the Misanthropic Agenda label out of Berkeley, California. Los Angeles resident John Wiese is a member of LHD and Sissy Spacek, and both have been freelance members of drone metal unit Sunn O))). 'The Disappearing Act' displays the pair'…
Untitled
This album is a return to brutality for Drumm and a continuation of the intense lo-end evil of Wiese. Needless to say it is amazing and an essential purchase for noise fans, Mania-inducing heavy waves of suffocating bass frequencies with ripping and …
Nerima
Hey there, looking for a healthy dose of electrocution? We got it right here! Two titans of noise, Pain Jerk (aka Kohei Gomi) and John Wiese, continue their trans-Pacific affairs. While the previous episodes have been mail collaborations with Mr. Wie…
C-Section
British free jazz phenomenon Evan Parker with electronic and tape noise artist John Wiese in a set of real-time evolving improvisations intended for maximum volume. Vinyl version of the CD released earlier this year, but slightly different containing…
Compound
The cooperative of composer/improvisers John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) presents in a terrific session recorded in August 26, 2007 at The Compound, San Francisco. The work reveals further unexpected developments and s…
Soft Punk
After almost ten years of performing solo and over fifty releases in every conceivable format, Wiese finally unleashes his debut full-length. Twelve songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut and paste assemblage …
Tiny Red Tables b/w Big American Hole
Last copy available "at one point during the free noise tour evan parker pulled out a little black notebook and read back to us all the names of weird bands we'd been discussing. really funny / embarrassing coming from the mouth of e.p.we played at t…
Zombie
A very unusual album by John Wiese, almost the furthest perimeter of what we’ve come to expect. For years Wiese has developed a highly personal approach to sound, steering clear of nearly every convention of musical language — repetition, melody, ins…
Circle Snare
His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, & MSP folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent & vital arsenal. A finely detailed & dimensional evolution of an already unique voice.
Mondo Paradoxa
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KKNULL is a master of feedback studie…
LMJW
Beautiful new collaboration between John Wiese and Lasse Marhaug. Two tracks of harsh and heavy noise for 10 minutes of music, recorded in Oslo in January 2008. Limited edition one-time pressing of 200 copies. Highly recommended.
Tumbler
Total Head Crush Destruction from Mr Wiese (also of Sissy Spacek and LHD, works with Sunn 0)), etc,etc), if your head was made out of a boulder the sounds here enclosed are still designed to leave behind nothing but blood stain dust. Side A is the…
Spectral Hand
John Wiese is one half of Bastard Noise, Sissy Spacek and frequent collaborator with the likes of Sunn 0))), Wolf Eyes and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Two new tracks between his more "pure" harsh noise work and an ambient space drone sound. Limited…
Live in Nottingham
Cool pairing of glacial ice king and droning, groaning Yeti. Seems to be C. Spencer Yeh improvisations and John Wiese processes. Recorded direct from the board for maximum clarity, detail and quality.
New York-Atlanta
Two best sets from 2007 tour by developing audio partnership, direct soundboard recording. Steel string binds knobs, vocal cries machine code, fuzz and foil avalanche, fireworks and drought. Epic movements in entirety, minimal editing meddling. Words…
Equinox
Recorded July 2004–December 2005 (by mail). Track 2 is not listed on the release. The first 5:02 of the track is silent. Released in a jewel case with a folded 6-panel booklet-poster. Jewel case sealed with sticker. Also includes promo-insert.
Collection
This CD is a collection of the Wolf Eyes w/ John Wiese 7" and two CD-Rs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese this year, and finally available all together.
Teenage hallucinations: 1992-1999
Teenage Hallucination is a compendium of Wiese's initial recordings as a teenager to his seminal early vinyl appearances. From pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts, Wiese steadily developed his highly personal and specific …
Black magic pond
Compounded recycling report from the East Coast and debut solo outing on Blossoming Noise, following LHD's release 'Young & Restless'. In Wiese's output, Black magic Pond sits somewhere between the density of Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash bu…