Image Movement will host Infinite Greyscale Records & Mouse on Mars on Tuesday 27 September, from 8:30. First off the band will re-inact the recording session in a live performance, followed by the official record release and video presentation (& drinks, naturally).
Image Movement • Oranienburger Str 18 • Berlin • Admission free
I made a video, with Jamie Lemoine, for the Mouse on Mars record on Infinite Greyscale. Warning: contains flashing lights (and not much else).
I finally got around to opening the Farbvision shop. Some terrific new editions made with Matt Calderwood, Declan Clarke, and Natasza Niedziòłka. More to come. These are two-colour Risograph prints made with the artists onsite at Farbvision. Priced at only €75 each, these prints are a steal. I'm really excited about this project. Check the shop for further details. We also have some of the Infinite Greyscale 10" records for sale, plus my fledgling range of athletic clothing.
New on Infinite Greyscale; Lichter by Mouse on Mars – 13 minutes of lurching, percussive mayhem. Check out the sample below. Physical release 2. September 2016.
Lichter is the first piece in a new series of electroacoustic dub compositions by Mouse on Mars. It is a massive, lurching, up-tempo percussive epic – a long-haul runaway train that keeps switching tracks without ever losing sight of its destination. Like much of Mouse on Mars’ output, Lichter deftly traverses a varied sonic landscape, encompassing elements of jazz, dub, krautrock juke and psychedelia. Lichter incorporates trigger robots built by Sonic Robots’ Moritz Simon Geist and features Andi Toma & Jan St. Werner’s long time collaborator Dodo NKishi on percussion. The basic layers were produced with a feedback software called smrph, and were edited, arranged and used as a foundation for various live and studio improvisations. The 13min track, Lichter, is a concentration of these various layers. Lichter is also a highly visual piece, and performed live it employs a bespoke network of light-bulbs triggered by data derived from the sounds and pulses of the composition. Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have been recording and playing live as Mouse on Mars since 1993, and have released over a dozen albums. In 2014 the duo celebrated their 21st birthday with a curated festival at Berlin’s HAU theatres, and an accompanying compilation which showcased the band’s numerous collaborations.
Incredibly excited to have the legendary singer and Stereolab front-woman Laetitia Sadier playing an intimate live set at Farbvision on Thursday, 30. June. (This event is now booked out).
We're going to be showing all of our books, records, and assorted ephemera at Berlin's Kunstbibliothek, in the Kulturforum. It's opening Tuesday 28. June, 6-8pm, and runs until 14. August 2016.
Very excited to have an eight page interview in the current issue of CCQ magazine. The text links my studio work, Farbvision, and the Infinite Greyscale label I run with Cornelius Quabeck. In addition there is a further four page interview by Tommy Støckel, written in his amazing Studio Font, as published by Infinite Greyscale and exhibited at Farbvision. And as if that wasn't enough the mag is giving away a CD of Jan St. Werner's storming live set here at Farbvision – 34 minutes of music not available anywhere else.
