Death Magazine 52 - Live at Duma Express, Birmingham 1983 Between 1982-84, Death Magazine 52 made live performances and studio recordings using tapes, electronics, percussion and other instruments. The band had a floating membership and made noisy and physical performances, which often provoked extreme audience reactions. See also: https://deathmagazine52.bandcamp.com/ |
Poster for Death Magazine 52 and Whitehouse at the Mermaid, Birmingham 1983 This was a key moment in the Birmingham industrial and noise music scene in the early 1980s, which went on to spawn bands like Napalm Death, Godflesh and khost |
New bandcamp page includes 2024 facsimile cassette re-release |
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2012 double vinyl release on Harbinger Sound
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Death Magazine 52 double vinyl release seen in the wild, Japan - 2014 |
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The Curfew Recordings were made at a disused industrial site on the river Tyne in 1984 and feature John Smith (then publisher of Interchange magazine), Sean Dower (ex Death Magazine 52 and later of Bow Gamelan Ensemble) and John Mylotte (of Metgumbnerbone). The recordings were made inside a steel-plated silo (approx 10m tall and 18m wide) once used for bitumen storage. The instrumentation is acoustic and the recording are unprocessed (the space however adds a remarkable reverb). Instrumentation included: bull roarers, spirit whistles, human thy-bone trumpet, chimes, pipes, gongs, flutes, drums, projectiles, scraped and bowed objects and other materials like glass, metal, bones and wood. This is the first digital transfer of the original tapes to become available. CD on Harbinger Sound (Harbinger 110) Link to review by Idwal fisher |
The set for A Damn Near Run Thing at London's South Bank Centre 1988. Dower performed with the Bow Gamelan Ensemble between 1988 and 1992. Founded in 1983 by artists Richard Wilson, Anne Bean and Paul Burwell, the ensemble made large scale audio-visual spectacles that fused performance, sound, pyrotechnics and sculpture. Artists such as z'ev and Sean Dower were regular collaborators. |
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Archive video 'A Damn Near Run Thing' 1988 This was Dower's first performance with the Bow Gamelan. After the departure of Bean and Wilson in around 1990, Dower continued to collaborate with Burwell, touring internationally as the Bow Gamelan for several years after. |
Sonofapup - electronic music since 1995
Sonofapup began working with Amiga computers and midi, together with outboard synths and drum machines in 1995 and went on to embrace the developing technology of software-based instruments, samplers and recording on various digital platforms.
Listen at: https://sonofapup.bandcamp.com
"Dick Donkeys Dawn, a whirling dervish of a documentary, cut fast and full of strange, demented, decadent people. It was hilariously entertaining" - Ken Russell, 2004 See separate page on Dick Donkeys Dawn |
Above: cover art for Dick Donkeys Dawn, the DVD "Dick Donkeys Dawn, a whirling dervish of a documentary, cut fast and full of strange, demented, decadent people. It was hilariously entertaining" - Ken Russell, 2004 |
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I Want to Dance 2001 - Video with sound, 5.43 min. I want to dance was produced for 'Song Poems', curated by artist Steven Hull. Song Poems involved collaboration between about 100 writers, musicians, video makers and graphic artists and resulted in exhibitions and performances in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas and a box-set of CDs and artwork. |
Audiopathology, 2001. 5 videos, total running time 22 mins. Five music videos with sound and video made concurrently by the artist. Exhibited in a specially constructed space with projection screen, sound system, sound insulation and safety lights. |
Above: video still from Ronnie and Jimmy, 2001 |
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Vizualiser Videos #1-4 (2004)
Vizualiser Videos #1-4 (2004) |
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The 'Vizualiser Videos' were auto-generated from sound using basic software plugins that were modded by the artist All music by Sonofapup |
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The Ultimate Brown Sound Record - 2010
The Ultimate Brown Sound Record, 12" brown vinyl record - 2010 (Limited edition of 200) The record contains 7.24 minutes of brown noise on each side. |
The Ultimate Brown Sound - presentation booth at Netwerk Centrum, Aalst Belgium 2010 Contnuous loop video (7.24 min per side): listen on youtube |
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Taxi Argument - 2015
Taxi Argument by Sean Dower: track 71 on Open The Window |
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OPEN THE WINDOW Linear Obsessional's third annual "open access" release is built around a simple premise: Open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear, interacting with it live or editing and processing the recordings later. From this concept has emerged this 85 track, 2 hour 50 minute compilation of extraordinary recordings from all over the world. Released December 24, 2015 Compiled and Edited by Richard Sanderson for Linear Obsessional recordings. Download includes a 62 page PDF booklet of contributor notes, photographs and an essay |
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ON AIR / OFF AIR - 2015
ON AIR / OFF AIR at Beaconsfield Gallery, London
Link to more information and images here:
ON AIR / OFF AIR |
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Excerpts of quadraphonic recordings made at Beaconsfield, London |
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Tracklist - 2019
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Tracklist 2019. Photocopy of hand-typed A4 sheet, 297mm x 210mm (unlimited edition) Distributed at the exhibition 'PLUNK, BOUM, KRASH, ZZZT' at Laure Genillard, London 2019 |
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