Farmers Manual

Infobox musical artist
Name = Farmers Manual

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Img_capt = Farmers Manual performing at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, February 2002
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Alias = farmersmanual
Origin = Vienna, Austria
Genre = Experimental, Electronic, Extreme Computer Music
Years_active = 1995–present
Label = Mego, Tray, OR, and more
Associated_acts = CD Slopper
Gcttcatt
pxp
Martin Ng
Russell Haswell
URL = [http://web.fm web.fm]
Current_members = Mathias Gmachl
Stefan Possert
Oswald Berthold
Gert Brantner
Nik Gaffney
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Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the nineties. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very lively viennese electronic music scene of the 90s, Farmers Manual were succefully crossing the boundaries between electronic music, live visuals, experimental graphic and web design.

Their CDs, published through avant-garde labels such as Mego, Tray or OR, often contained multimedia content. Their most significant release might be RLA (which stands for "Recent Live Archive"), a DVD released on Mego in 2003, which contains the bands extensive backcatalogue of live concert recordings from 1995-2003, compressed in mp3 format - totalling 3 days and 20 hours of audio content and released under a Copyleft licence. [Citation
last = Buttimer
first = Colin
author-link = Colin Buttimer
title = Farmers Manual - RLA (recent live archive) DVD
publisher= BBC
date = 2003-06-05
year = 2003
url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/zcf9/
accessdate = 2007-12-26 ] .

As visual artists, Farmers Manual have been included in numerous international festivals, such as FCMM (Montreal, 1999), Avanto (Helsinki, 2001), Art+Communication (Riga, 2006) [http://rixc.lv/06/en/img14.html] .

elected Discography

* (1995) Farmers Manual: "Does Not Compute" (12", Tray)

* (1996) Farmers Manual: "No Backup" (CD+, Mego 008)

* (1996) Farmers Manual: "FM" (12", Mego 017)

* (1997) Farmers Manual: "fsck" (CD, Tray)

* (1998) Farmers Manual: "Explorers_We" (CD, OR)

* (2000) CD_Slopper: "SaskieWoxi" (CD, OR)

* (2001) Gcttcatt: "Amperase" (CD+, Mego 021)

* (2002) pxp: "while(p){print"."," "x$p++}" (CD, Wavetrap)Note: this album, by Farmers Manual member Oswald Berthold, was awarded a Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2002 ["Here was a jutting mass of digitized disturbance that fueled our direct reckoning with destabilized mathematics. (...) Spam data malformations. Direct waveform bitstream. Seizure. Disengage. Smitten." - Citation
url = http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prixJuryStatement.asp?iProjectID=11720
title = Prix Ars Electronica 2002 - Jury-Statement
accessdate = 2007-12-26
last = Hecker
first = Florian
author-link = Florian Hecker
last2 =Herrington
first2 =Tony
author2-link = Tony Herrington
last3 =Humon
first3 =Naut
author3-link = Naut Humon
publisher = Ars Electronica Archive
date = 2002
year = 2002 ] .

* (2003) Farmers Manual: "RLA" (DVD-Video/ROM, Mego 777)

References

Further reading

* Citation
url = http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/3/3245/1.html
title = Farmers Manual- Die digitale Boyz Band
accessdate = 2008-01-01
last = Medosch
first = Armin
author-link = Armin Medosch
publisher = Telepolis
date = June 4 1998
year = 1998

External links

* [http://web.fm/ Farmers Manual website]

*Farmers Manual's [http://rla.web.fm/ Recent Live Archive] of live recordings and associated paraphernalia.
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Farmers+Manual Farmers Manual discography] on discogs.com
* [http://www.mego.at/farmers.html Farmers Manual biography] on mego.at