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HERMIT
Political Shitnoise
Cassette
On 25 November 2025, an audience performed a composition for voice that had been written by Hermit
especially for that event in Leipzig. After the audience's interpretation of the piece, a recording
of Hermit’s version was played.
From the Manifesto: (…) “Political Shitnoise” draws reference to an obscure underground art form developed by
outsiders and renegades of the 1990s cassette-trading network. This is is not intended to provide a nostalgic
or sentimental historical context, nor does it propose a framework for understanding the surprisingly diverse
socio-cultural dimensions of this environment. It does, however, seek to celebrate the long-lasting friendships
and connections established through this network and provide an opportunity for the communal sharing and engagement
that this performance allows. (…)
The cassette features both versions – the audience’s and Hermit’s – and is supplemented by an electronic piece.
Six panel fold-out cover presenting the Vocal Score and Manifesto. Edition of 50
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ÅSA LIE & JADRAN STURM
I WANT TO BE / FROM GLORIOUS LAND / FALLEN ANGEL
Cassette
The artist-duo Åsa Lie and Jadran Sturm worked from 1988 until 2016. They experimented with
multiple media, such as performance, installation, sound, video, text, and art in public space.
Their archive of audio recordings has remained untouched until now. For the first time, three pieces
are released on a cassette. These works illustrate the artist-duo's interest in language and words,
as well as in environment and place, incorporating all sounds as integral parts of a whole:
I WANT TO BE (1999) is a performance for voice, feedback and positioning, FROM GLORIOUS LAND
(2000) is a subjective monologue about a photograph, FALLEN ANGEL (1992) is a conversation in a bar
in Athens with friend and theologist Yannis Natsios about “Satan”, fused into the noises of life.
Six panel fold-out cover, numbered. Edition of 50
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MICHAEL BARTHEL
Harnregentraufe
Cassette
Ten miniatures of FULL BLADDER POETRY.
In 2017, some pieces of that collection were first performed on a meadow near Zernikow Mill in Brandenburg, where homemade toilets and bushes were available for relieving oneself.
Duncan Harrison from Brighton once asked about the meaning of "Harn", appeared in several texts over the last decade.
A place of closeness, warmth and trust. A wet and fragrant place of poetry and desire. A conceit and an assertion.
"Harnregentraufe" is played on a sweaty organ and called through old, rotten drain pipes.
In one of the pieces, ALICE KEMP performs a "Physical Poem": Recite Barthel as slowly as possible, with a full bladder.
Cover showing layout and poems on six panel fold-out cover. Limited to 50
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/ 10 Euro
HANS ESSEL
Forward / Backward
2x Cassette
The raw sound material is the recording of a network monitor of a Digital Equiment Corporation
workstation (1992). The sound is similar to the old analogue fax machines, a noisy twitter. Specific
patterns could be generated by moving the mouse, popup windows etc. The idea of the composition
Forward / Backward for music cassette is a piece of music on a MC which is played backwards
(reversed) when the cassette is turned over to play the B side (…) Four different compositions were
made in that way of concept.
The Edition includes two separate cassette in snap case with two different fold-out and double-sided cover. Limited to 30
Hans Essel (*1948) is a Darmstadt-based physicist and composer, focussed on new playing techniques
with violin/viola, as well as on live performances with reel-to-reel tape machines. After two solo LP’s on
Edition Telemark (Saitensack and Zeitfalten), Forward / Backward is his third solo release.
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/ 15 Euro
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Two im Teer
CD
TWO IM TEER (two in the tar) contains five cycles of poems spread over fourteen tracks, always implemented differently in terms of sound. Poetry and sound poetry turn into fragile and lonely noises. An excessive collage of voices, piano, and increasingly distorted and destroyed tape recorders. Solo and in duet with the voices of ALICE KEMP, MARA GENSCHEL, ANNA SCHIMKAT, and the violins of HANS ESSEL and INGE SALCHER.
Perhaps the nakedest, embarrassing and most indeterminable recordings until now.
In contrast to the previous poems, which used the topic of relationships as a symbol to describe social and political togetherness, the poems and pieces on TWO IM TEER are exclusively focused on the relationship between two people. Nevertheless, this "we" end up in an individual position. What remains is desire and failure.
For the first time, four English poems are released here, next to the German ones.
All poems and scores are printed to the six-panel cover.
A bacon rind inside.
Concept, Poems, Collages by Michael Barthel. Recorded in 2020.
Released on Recordings for the Summer, Limited to 300
PODCAST ABOUT THE CD, by YAN JUN.
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/ 12 Euro
ORDER: michael (at) tochnit-aleph dot com
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