#totstellen

[sternschnuppen-jaegerin]

Es gibt einen Kampfmodus und einen Fluchtmodus. Und dann gibt es noch mich. Den ich-bin-jederzeit-kampfbereit-außer-wenn-Gefahr-droht-dann-stelle-ich-mich-einfach-tot-Modus.

Mein Gedankenchaos

[grmmsk]

RADIO BEKOLA #179 - DRIFTS

Another transmission with long movements and no announcements by GRMMSK. This time DRIFT by TOTSTELLEN and EVAPORI. Plus something for the workers out there.

Totstellen - Walk through it (TOTSTELLEN/EVAPORI - DRIFT, double mini-CDr, [totes format], 2005)

Evapori - Drift I (TOTSTELLEN/EVAPORI - DRIFT, double mini-CDr, [totes format], 2005)

Evapori - Drift II (TOTSTELLEN/EVAPORI - DRIFT, double mini-CDr, [totes format], 2005)

Totstellen - Abseits (TOTSTELLEN - III, tape, selfreleased, 2002)

Download.

[grmmsk]

TOTSTELLEN - KSR (digital release)

KSR by TOTSTELLEN

finally here's TOTSTELLEN's release "KSR" in form of a [free download] or in a physical version. it has been released by TOTES FORMAT and athen's 1000+1 TiLt in 2009. the sound has been recorded and edited in 2002/3 in hamburg. --- "the fragmented architecture of the ruins of capitalism, is to be taken as a completly new and unknown landscape. a nutrient medium, freed from its past „logic“ force, it can be the breeding ground for an evolving & to be developed utopia in which profit is not the only value. ksr10 & ksr8, were two abandoned office buildings. both have been a resort, a precious null, in a system devoted to the increase of profit. such places are confronted with the strong law of large numbers, which decreases the possibility of their existence, the longer you seek for them." --- reviews of KSR: --- "Collapsing old buildings feature in a rare outing for the video format courtesy of German based artist Totstellen. A ten minute film of various mechanical dinosaur beasts tearing apart steel reinforcement and crumbling concrete in a way that's weirdly compelling. Not auto destructive art but architectural destructive art, a 60’s tower block in Hamburg that was the last squat in the city, the images and sounds of it being slowly brought to ground via hydraulic jaws and pneumatic drills as captured by Totstellen in a bid to try and make sense of why his former home was being flattened in the name of capitalism. Some sounds are manipulated, some looped, some processed, some added to but when its raw it works best. Working with primitive and borrowed equipment Totstellen wandered the place alone in the days before its end mixing the sounds he found there with the ones from the actual demolition; hence plenty of sawing metal, pounding drills, donkey engines puttering, the crunch of glass underfoot and at its heart stillness and the shrill squeal thats feedback teetering on the edge of rupture. Fifty minutes worth of field recordings that I feel are only slightly marred by a slightly overzealous wish to introduce industrial noise elements during the first track ’10’ [the second track being ‘8’]. Still, there’s plenty to admire here, not least the sleeve which is a rough cut from a buildings blueprint which has been overprinted with a stark image of steel reinforcing. More Einstürzenden Altbauten than neubauten really. Think TNB symphony or musique concrete meets concrete." (IDWAL FISHER) --- "KSR consists of recordings of empty office buildings KSR 8 and 10, where a lot of money has been raised and now they are abandoned. The field-recordings are edited with a four-track recorder. Also Totstellen uses instruments made from objects found in these empty buildings. The recordings were made in 2002 and 2003 in Hamburg. The atmosphere of the music in noise and industrial. KSR 8 ends with a lot of feedback tones. KSR 10 is is more quiet and you will walk into different rooms and atmospheres. This one also shows a film with shots of the demolition of one of those buildings. A beautiful piece of music about critics to the ruins of capitalism. Highly recommended!" (VITAL WEEKLY, jkh)