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Upcoming : STRP 2011
Posted on: October 30, 2011
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From November 18 to 27, this year’s leading Dutch music,art and technology festival will be held again in the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven: STRP Art & Technology. And as usual, I will be attending this festival.
STRP Festival has grown into one of the largest art/music/technology festivals in Europe. In this years EXPO an overview will be shown of 50 years of Dutch media and technology art. In the weekends an international music line up is planned in which Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin and SpeedyJ’s Collabs will appear. Not to be missed!
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New work by Holger Hiller
Posted on: October 30, 2011
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Today I stumbled upon http://www.holgerhiller.com, the site of (you guessed it..) Holger Hiller.
I have followed Holger Hiller’s work from his days with the ground breaking “‘Neue Welle” band Palais Schaumburg in the early ’80s:
His debut solo album “Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube” and especially his second album “Oben im Eck” belong to my favorite albums of all time.
They too were ground breaking, this time in the creative use of sampling to create whirling idiosyncratic songs and compositions.
In these Biography of A Song video’s some of the magic behind the “Oben im Eck” album is explained by Holger Hiller :
However, after the self entitled “”Holger Hiller” album in 2000, nothing was heard anymore of Holger Hiller. According to the bio on his site, he was “going through (a) financial and personal crisis” from 2001 to 2009 and had a long creative break.
Now he seems to be composing again, this time in a collaboration with well known German painter Albert Oehlen, another survivor from the ’80s.
See the page “Joint works with Albert Oehlen” in the News section of his site. The works consist of nine single-edition prints by Albert Oehlen, each juxtaposed and framed with a vinyl record of material specially composed by Hiller. This material is instantly recognizable as Holger Hiller “samplism” if you play the excerpts on the page. A complete recording of the 9 compositions doesn’t seem to be available online or offline. Maybe Hiller’s old record company Mute can release this new stuff, please?
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