#pharmakustik

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Pharmakustik & Thorsten Soltau - Murgang 1971

Geräuschmanufaktur

2019

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Pharmakustik & Thorsten Soltau - Periapsis 2251

Holy Geometry

2018

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Brent Gutzeit / Nullpart - December 5

December 5 brings together two uncompromising forces in contemporary experimental sound: Milwaukee non-music artist Brent Gutzeit and the German formation Nullpart. A split-single in form, but unified in its sense of descent, erosion, and political unease, the release captures an aural topography where democratic values slide, bend, and collapse under pressure.

Gutzeit’s contribution, “Collapse,” unfolds like a controlled implosion in five shifting sections. Gloomy micro-pulsations open the piece, scattered like sparks along a frayed wire. Hiss and crackles accumulate, then give way to ultradense ambient surfaces that rise almost imperceptibly in volume. High frequencies drift in and out—at times nearly beyond perception—before the composition lurches into motoric convulsions, a final spasm of mechanical insistence. “Collapse” charts a dramatic architecture of failure, one slow structural giving-way after another.

Nullpart answers with “Backslide,” an unnerving continuum of audiochemical ambience. Heavily modulated textures warp and ripple in unstable directions; vertigo-sound with no stable center. The track feels like losing ground in real time—an undefined, uneasy drift punctured by dark psychomotoric pulsations. If Gutzeit documents the moment of collapse, Nullpart explores the disorientation that follows. The title December 5 remains deliberately enigmatic, a date suspended without context. Yet the political charge of the release is unmistakable: a sonic portrait of democratic erosion, a steep audio slope downward. These two tracks, taken together, map the contours of a world slipping away from its own ideals. 

Cover art by Siegmar Fricke

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(JMY89) Brent Gutzeit / Pharmakustik - Detritus

released November 3, 2023

CDR edition of 23

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Pharmakustik/Narcolapse 2010

NARCOLAPSE 2010 is the electromorphing result of original musique-concrète-recordings developed by Siegmar Fricke between 1981 and 1985; these recordings contained sources like shortwave-radio-signals, electroacoustic material and piano-treatments. After an intense archive-research in between April and June 2010 these recordings have been assembled, dehissed and optimized in frequency response. Resulting from the remastering-process of those recordings, a new complex intermodulatory texture has been created: The six narcotic sound-pools of NARCOLAPSE 2010 unify for the first time different musique-concrète basics by SF; completely re-arranged, filtered and combined with new electromodulated recordings.

https://archive.org/details/isor008Narcolapse2010

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👁 BESTATTUNGSINSTITUT (Siegmar Fricke) = Pre-Pharmakustik | 📷 taken in 1988 | original unreleased slide 🎞rescanned for promotion Betattungsinstitut compilation by Verlag System (Spain) #bestattungsinstitut #siegmarfricke #pharmakustik #picture #photo #industrial #noise #darkambient #experimentalsound #experimentals #electronicmusic #vynilrecords #vyniladdict #cassettetapes #cassettecollection https://www.instagram.com/p/B86G2cCqVqi/?igshid=1td4g2en590lg

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Herr Penschuck + Pharmakustik 'Modulierte Materialität' 

Vernissage @ Staublau / 11 May 2019

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Nonmotor, by Brent Gutzeit & Pharmakustik

2 track album

NEW RELEASE!!!!!

Brent Gutzeit & Pharmakustik - Nonmotor  (JMY34)

Numbered limited edition of 20 CDR in digipak featuring 20 unique front and back cover photos by each artist.