★Firework Edition Records
Dance of the Aberrant
"Ominous whirling of a bullroare, demonic shrieks of wheeling swifts, the chug of a ghostly steam engine, regimented marching, harrowing intimations of the nightmares of history." The Wire
The Imitation Of An Action
These recordings are based on the idea of acoustic instruments imitating electronic sounds created by a live performer. The core, structure, and length of the pieces are defined by a graphic score that leaves room to the musicians for the imitation o…
A Higher State of Body and Mind
**200 copies** Lebanese saxophonist Christine Abdelnour brings an impressive, extended instrumental vocabulary to Joachim Nordwall’s cryptic electronics in this live recording made at Ystad Konstmuseum for Sweden’s Firework Edition Recordings.Falling…
Två porträtt
Två porträtt (Two portraits) is a record that includes two long sounding portraits of two, in different ways, significant figures from the 19th century Europe that in a first glance should not have much in common. But both Hanna Arendt and Friedrich …
Attempt No.6
"Attempt No. 6 is the result of a cooperation between Swedish organist Hampus Lindwall and the Stockholm-based artists Joakim Forsgren and Leif Elggren with the Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. in Halle (Saale), Germany. Upon the invitation of curator Mar…
Trop Tot
Highly recommended collaboration between these two sound artists. Noises, drones, ghosts and text. With the participation of Laura Daengeli. French texts translated by Rip on/off, taken from Leif Elggren's book "Un peu comme voir dans la nuit", Van D…
The Wraiths Of Flying A
A three-way collaboration by Chicago based sound artist and renowned researcher in the field of Electronic Voice Phenomena Michael Esposito, Hamburg based operator of the Fragment Factory label Michael Muennich and long-time conceptual/performance ar…
Lights People & CM Von Hausswolff
Recorded on 8-track at Mayhem, September 22 2010. Sune T.B. Nielsen, Toke Tietze Mortensen, TR Kirstein + CM von Hausswolff. Part of the dream invasion series.
The Phantoms Of Purgatory Souls
EVPs from Case File PAW159. Part of an ongoing collection of essays and observations into the nature and experience of Electronic Voice Phenomena. The collective, entitled The Phantom Monographs, will have future releases which will be available o…
Hypnosis
Texts and music by Andreas Führer and Leif Elggren.
Under The Couch
The booklet contains an essay by Lucia Farinati. - This recording was made under the famous couch of Dr. Sigmund Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of the Psychoanalysis, lived here 1938- 1939. The h…
Ghosts Of Case File 142
EVP research by Michael Esposito, Case File 142 from source recordings done by Francisco Meirino at an ancient school of anatomy, now a library, in Lausanne, Switzerland 2011. Assembled, edited and mastered by Francisco Meirino at Shiver Mobile, Nov-…
Reception
The Sons of God: 32 amplified iron plates. Mats Gustafsson: live electronics. Recorded by Olof Madsen on the 5th of March 2006 at Frgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden. Reception was a sound installation at Frgfabriken (February 18 - March 5, 2006). by the …
If other people exist then they are totally sealed secrets
'Kostis Kilymis - electronics, objects. Leif Elggren - voice, text and dance. 'I now feel - when listening to the recording - like we opened a dark negative window in that respectful old event hall, for the 14 minutes we played. Like corpses and s…
Jenseits ‚ Beyond : Sound Art - Volume Two (1989-2004)
Sound Art - Volume Two (1989-2004). Born in 1935, strongly influenced by John Cage and his ideas, he works in the fiels of electroacoustic musics and 'concrete poetry'. 'Jenseits von Licht und Dunkel' (2001), 'The enigma engines' (2004), 'Feast on Bo…
More Canned porridge
Sten Hanson has been working with experimental music, literature and art since the beginning of the 1960's, cultivating both instrumental, vocal and electro-acoustic music for performance on radio and television, on outdoor occasions or from the conc…
Canned porridge
The works here come from four decades, which in Swedish folklore is called an "adult man´s lifetime". Four decades is a long time, even if it may seem scarily short when you look back on it. Of course the artist is not the same person at 70 as at 30.…
Text-sound gems & trinkets
England's Bob Cobbing and France's Henri Chopin. A sound poet -- or text-sound composer as the Swedish like to call this art form -- of exquisite talent, Hanson has scattered an impressive number of works on compilation albums and the odd solo LP or …
Autobiography
a very nice selection of Sten Hanson early compositions, this CD display audiovisual performances assisted by computer and pieces for instruments and electronics. A must
Winter nightfall
lars-gunnar bodin (1935), mainly active in the electroacoustic music field, in concrete poetry, and he coined the term 'Text/sound Composition'. 1. Mare Atlantica (1997) 2. Divertimento for Dalle (1991) 3. GYZO (1998) 4. Wonder-Void, text-sound-suite…