Franz Pomassl

Infobox musical artist
Name = Franz Pomassl

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Instrument = Homebuilt analog instrumentation
Genre = Avant garde Improvisation Glitch Noise
Occupation = Musician Artist
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Label = Laton
Club Rus
Raster-Noton
Mille Plateaux
Ash International
Sabotage
Nexsound
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Franz Pomassl is an electronic sound artist and DJ residing in Vienna, Austria, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton and Club Rus experimental techno labels.

Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital noise artists, including members of Pansonic and Carsten Nicolai, [http://www.mutek.ca/2005/artist.php?lang=en&artist_id=pomassi Mutek 2005 artist profile: Franz Pomassl] ] as well as collaborated with a number of important artists across disciplines, including Carl Michael von Hausswolff, J. G. Thirlwell and Kodwo Eshun. In addition to Laton, he has released with seminal electronic labels, such as Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Ash International, Craft, Sabotage and Nexsound.

Methods

Pomassl improvises using all manner of homebuilt analog electronic equipment, often inserting or connecting patch cables with parts of his body to introduce a deliberate and violent character of noise into dancefloor rhythms. [http://www.textura.org/archives/concerts/mutek2005.htm Live reviews: Mutek 2005] , "Grooves 18", Ron Schepper and Alex Reynolds]

In addition to being notable for absurd, violent, dadaist performances that satirize the artificial interaction between player and electronic instrument, he also creates custom instrumentation to examine the edges of human-perceptible audio [http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/pomasslbio.html Austrian Radio: Artist profile] ] and uses these tools to "elaborate and process radical moments", such as aircraft blackbox data collected from crash sites. [http://www.kunstradio.at/1999A/04_03_99.html Austrian Radio: About 'Aircra'] ]

Discography

Albums

* Skeleton (Austria: [http://www.sabotage.at/ Craft/Sabotage] , 1995, Craft. 07)
* Skeleton 2 (Austria: [http://www.sabotage.at/ Craft/Sabotage] , 1997, Craft. 19)
* Trail Error (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , 1997, Laton 006)
* Aircra (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , 1999, Laton 018)
* 2001 (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , 2001, Laton 021)
* Retrial Error (Rmxs + Original) (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , 2002, Laton 011)
* Retrial Error (Rmxs) (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , 2002, Laton 012)
* Amalgama (Austria: [http://www.laton.at/ Laton] , Unreleased, Laton 033)
* Spare Parts (Austria: [http://www.raster-noton.net/ Raster-Noton] , 2007, Raster-Noton R-N088)

EPs

* Soundtrack #2 (Austria: [http://www.sabotage.at/ Ego Vacuum/Sabotage] , 1999, Ego 02)

Compilations

* Picknick mit Hermann! (Austria: Rhiz, 1997, Rhiz 001)
* Clicks & Cuts 3 (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 2002, MP 116 CD)
* Prototype: Armaments And Armatures Against Electronic Music (Austria: Laton, 2003, Laton 025)
* freq_out (UK: Ash International, 2003, Ash 5.8)
* MUTEK 2005 (Canada: Mutek Records, 2005)

Collaborations

* ARCHITECTRONICS (in collaboration with Kodwo Eshun) (Austria: [http://www.sabotage.at/ Craft/Sabotage] , 1999, Craft. 38)

ound installations

* "Dreamlands Burn" (2006-2007): Mûcsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

* "Runaway" (2006) : Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia

* "PORTAL II" (2003): Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany: Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden

* "Avanto" (2002): Muu Galleria, Helsinki, Finland

* "Frequenzen Hz - Audiovisuelle Räume" (2002): Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

* "10 Ans De Fri-Art - Etat des lieux #3" (2001) : Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland

* "Manifesta 2 - Luxembourg": Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

References

External links

* [http://www.laton.at Laton music label]
* [http://www.sabotage.at Sabotage and Craft music labels]