- Chop Shop
Chop Shop a.k.a. Scott Konzelmann, is a noise musician who has released recordings on Pure,
RRRecords , Banned Prodution, V2_Archief and Generator Sound Art.Chop Shop creates sound using salvaged materials and speakers to create drones and other sounds specific to the speaker created. [cite web |url=http://www.23five.org/archives/chopshop.html |title=Chop Shop (23five.org) |accessdate=2008-01-14 ] Often the speaker features prominently in the packaging as a photo or
daguerreotype . Chop Shop is known also for innovative packaging using leather, tar paper, steel plates, etc.Konzelmann is also part of Generator Sound Art, Inc. in New York City [cite web |url=http://generatorsoundart.org/main.html |title=Generator online |accessdate=2008-01-14 ] . In 2005 Chop Shop was part of the "Activating the Medium" Festival [cite web |url=http://www.23five.org/atmlist.html |title=Activating The Medium |accessdate=2008-01-14 ] .
Discography (selection)
* Steelplate - 1991 (2 10" EPs bound to 10" square plate of steel)
RRRecords .
* Tension Charge Discharge - 1994 (3" CD in metal mesh package) V2_Archief.
* PlaysEmil Beaulieau - Red & Buried (5" CD) Pure [cite web |url=http://rrrecords.com/label-az.php |title=RRRecords Label Catalogue|accessdate=2008-01-14 ] .
* Smolder - 1998 (3" CD on copper plate wrapped in lead) V2_Archief.
* Discrete Emission (7" record in riveted tar paper (or limited sewn leather) sleeve -- one side plays "in," one "out") Banned Production [cite web |url=http://www.bannedproduction.com/chopshop.html |title="Chop Shop" at Banned Production|accessdate=2008-01-14 ] .
* Powerdrunk (5" CD in tar paper sleeve) Banned Prodction.
* Rusty Hum (3" CD) Banned Prodction.
* Hello (business card-size CD) Banned Production.
* Kaput (3" CD "packaged in a gauze wrap surgical taped to a sheet of cracked safety glass.") Generator Sound Art.
* Perpetual Tension (Concert for Speaker Constructions) - Live performance April 29th, 1994 at Roulette, NYC (5" CDR) Generator Sound Art.
* Breakthrough (5" CDR - "A repackaged edition of the limited 1992 cassette release of the Orgonon field recordings") Generator Sound Art.
* Oxide (5" CD) 23five - 2008 [cite web |url=http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6858&Itemid=1 |title=Oxide Review at Brainwashed.com|accessdate=2008-05-17 ] [cite web |url=http://www.23five.org/reviews/chopshopoxidereviews.html |title="Oxide" at 23five.org|accessdate=2008-05-17 ]References
External links
* [http://generatorsoundart.org/ Generator Sound Art]
* [http://www.bannedproduction.com/ Banned Production]
* [http://www.23five.org/archives/chopshop.html 23five.org]
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