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just uploaded: ‘raw material 5’

sound work made in october 1988 (unedited)

by Les Horribles Travailleurs

leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/track/raw-material-5

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some of the 107 tapes by O/R/G/V/M/C-Z recordings \ Les Horribles Travailleurs. period: 1982-1993

sound collages, field recordings, raw sound material, experiments - not released

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just uploded: a soundwork titled ‘The sheer beauty’

leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/track/the-sheer-beauty

part of: ‘FOX appendixes’ is a series of sound works that emerged during the creative process, while Max Kuiper worked with the material used in the releases. This album will grow gradually and be completed in the near future. - The Reynke series (2015 to present) comprises four releases by Max Kuiper and Thorsten Soltau over ten years. thorstensoltau.de/the-reynke-serie/ Labels: Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere (Belgium) audiovisualsatmosphere.bandcamp.com/album/fabella-the-original-reyneke-demos Chondritic Sound (US) chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/animi-sub-volpe-latentes Sentimental Productions (Ukraine) leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/album/vox-catuli I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free (Germany) ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.bandcamp.com/album/within-sacred-circles

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Image:

Bestiary Northern Italy, ca. 1290 MS M.459 fol. 11vica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/22/145750

© The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York

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Just uploaded: ‘Lumière médiévale’

leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/track/lumi-re-m-di-vale

part of:

‘FOX appendixes’ is a series of sound works that emerged during the creative process, while Max Kuiper worked with the material used in the releases. This album will grow gradually and be completed in the near future.

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The Reynke series (2015 to present) comprises four releases by Max Kuiper and Thorsten Soltau over ten years. thorstensoltau.de/the-reynke-serie/ Labels: Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere (Belgium) audiovisualsatmosphere.bandcamp.com/album/fabella-the-original-reyneke-demos Chondritic Sound (US) chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/animi-sub-volpe-latentes Sentimental Productions (Ukraine) leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/album/vox-catuli I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free (Germany) ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.bandcamp.com/album/within-sacred-circles - image: Robert Fludd

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Just uploaded:

Les Horribles Travailleurs - 'Storms of signals'

leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/track/storms-of-signals

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'multitudes' by Les Horribles Travailleurs

blacksmithnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/track/multitudes

is one of the 184! tracks of  this compilation:

‘WITH LOVE AND NOISE: the mima kass benefit collection’

blacksmithnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/with-love-and-noise-the-mima-kass-benefit-collection

released January 26, 2026 on BLACKSMITH NOISE RECORDS

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This afternoon: Release of z\w\a\r\t magazine nr. 31 – ‘theory of spaces’

Order it here:

leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/album/z-w-a-r-t-magazine-nr-31-theory-of-spaces

The magazine includes stills from the four video’s that are part of the installation. photos of the installation, the text ‘theory of spaces’.

The z\w\a\r\t room installation can be visited at the Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven,

14 dec 2025 – 1 feb 2026

A room with 4 videos, sound and materials.

Titles of the videos:

1.’Shadow Hospital’

2.’Doode stad, Verborgen leven’ (Dead city, Hidden life)

3.’Derive’

4.’Visions of Solange’

‘portable sound installation’ – radio and fm modulators – in all rooms:

Max Kuiper\Les Horribles Travailleurs

7 january 2026: Sound performance by Les Horribles Travailleurs

Opening of the Group exhibition. Sunday14 dec - 16:00

\ Artists: Hans de Wit, Hans Vijgen, Jolijn van den Heuvel, Max Kuiper, Tim Breukers Albert van Abbehuis Bilderdijklaan 19, Eindhoven, NL www.albertvanabbehuis.com/

Guest curator: Hans de Wit hansdewit.net/ “’The Rooms’ showcases works across various disciplines that stem from a fascination with the surrounding "small" world, yet have the power to transform the "wide" world. The exhibition opens up spaces for reflection, where one story isn't replaced by another, but where space is consciously left for one's own thoughts. Inspired by French author Georges Perec's book ‘Life: A User’s Manual’, guest curator Hans de Wit reflects on what a house—a villa with several rooms—can unleash in the lived experience of both artist and viewer.” (text by v Abbehuis\translation z)

Facebook event page z\w\a\r\t 31:

Event in Eindhoven, Netherlands by Z\w\a\r\t magazine and Max Kuiper on Sunday, December 14 20257 posts in the discussion.

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tape nr. 74, 1987 (not released)

O/R/G/V/M/C-Z recordings

Cover  art based on a photo by mk of black plastic, circa 1981\2

Circa 1993\4 the name of the sound project was changed from O/R/G/V/M/C-Z recordings to Les Horribles Travailleurs

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Monday 21 july: release of a collaborative album!

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Just uploaded \ Start of a new album

‘Theory of Spaces – a first long sentence’

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Growing album – more works will be uploaded

Image:

R\A\W M\A\T\E\R\I\A\L \ # 1206 \ digital collage \ Max Kuiper \ 24\sep\2012

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2023

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Les Horribles Travailleurs \ 2018

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sound recording made this evening at a deserted industrial area on the edge of the city near harbor. cell Phone placed in the metal tube that was lying there.

3 layers of the same recording. One without editing, one with treble, one 12 tones higher.

“Franz Kafka was preoccupied with noise as a literary object for his entire mature writing life, from 1912 until his death in 1924. Early on, Kafka described how everyday household sounds and city noise broke his concentration and prevented him from writing. Near the end, disruptive sounds were still invading and unsettling his creative process, but they had become inextricable from writing. Many of the central figures in Kafka’s late works, from Josefine the singer to the burrowing creature, are defined by their struggle with noise. Though it originally stood in the way of writing, noise became the condition of...”

Unfinished fragment from

“Chapter 1 Dreaming in Sound: Listening to Kafka Cinematically’ of the book ‘Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism’

Kata Gellen.

Copyright Date: 2019.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv37wprjj?turn_away=true

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Distorted Diary presents:

‘Rooms to Breathe’

a mix by Les Horribles Travailleurs

“Sources are all works by Les Horribles Travailleurs - a rearrangement of segments\elements of various projects, dating from 1983 to the present, some parts reworked.

I consider it an independend, new sound work

All sounds: Les Horribles Travailleurs.

Some segments are from an album with contributions by 15 people\projects, who\that are mentioned in the liner notes here:

support artist:

Les Horribles Travailleurs

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Distorted Diary presents:

‘Rooms to Breathe’ a mix by Les Horribles Travailleurs

“Sources are all works by Les Horribles Travailleurs - a rearrangement of segments\elements of various projects, dating from 1983 to the present, some parts reworked. I consider it an independend, new sound work

All sounds: Les Horribles Travailleurs. Some segments are from an album with contributions by 15 people\projects, who\that are mentioned in the liner notes here: https://leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/album/correspondances-z-w-a-r-t-magazine-nr-19

support artist: https://leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/music

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just uploaded: ‘Schwarze Luft’

composition by Les Horribles Travailleurs

\ Image: Max Kuiper\ Black Air installation \ These are the complete sound works that were partly integrated into the ‘Black Air’ installation of z\w\a\r\t magazine. Segments and\or elements of these works were woven into the Air Noir sound work. Released on tape as part of z\w\a\r\t magazine nr. 29 – Black Air issue. Additional, elements where used for the sound performance by Les Horribles Travailleurs during the opening of the exhibition. \ z\w\a\r\t installation, which is part of the ‘Black Air’ group exhibition. Casino Luxembourg – Fo.rum d’art contemporain, 41, rue Notre-Dame, L-2240 Luxembourg Artists: Aldo Tambellini, Otto Piene, Ibrahim R. Ineke, Semiconductor, Ayako Kato, Max Kuiper, Lisa Slodki, Hans de Wit Curator: Amelia LiCavoli Exhibition from 05.10.2024 to 05.01.2025 “Black Air takes its name from a 1968 electronic environment of video and pneumatics by Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene. In addition to this re-activation, a new publication, site-specific installations, and performances have been commissioned. Ibrahim R. Ineke’s painting and artist’s book set the human scale. Semiconductor maps scientific data from expanses of dark energy within superclusters of galaxies, and visualizes them as sculptural reliefs, accompanied by sound. Ayako Kato performs a physical exploration of metaphysical black air throughout space and time. Max Kuiper constructs a mixed-media installation of sound, video projections, and transparent sheets with encased materials and prints. A suspended video installation by Lisa Slodki depicts a series of dynamic vignettes captured during a search for ether. Landscapes by Hans de Wit indicate bursts of radiation, churning air, and biological antennae, suggesting that the earth’s surface is more like a lung than a hard crust. Together these artworks demonstrate the amorosity of black air—which becomes visible or tangible only through its interactions, relationships, and effects.” Source + more information:

Black Air

Air is black. It is without colour, without luminosity, and without form. Its blackness is not void, but constitutes pure potential, raw cre