Andy Guhl
Andy Guhl is a Swiss musician, sound artist and architect
Andy Guhl is a Swiss musician, sound artist and architect
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Ear Lights, Eye Sounds. Expanded Cracked Everyday Electronics (Book)
** 2024 Stock ** This book about the experimental musician Andy Guhl at first looks loud and somewhat confusing, but this is part of its programmatic intent. It is a reference to Guhl’s musical credo: for four decades, he has often moved on the border between music and noise with his disassembled and rewired everyday electronic devices. In addition, two important design decisions remind the reader that a book, like live music, has a temporal dimension: the left hand pages show full-bleed still i…
Flatwise Huddle - Performing And Expanding Cracked Everyday Electronics 1968-2016
Andy Guhl’s career as an improvisational musician went from strength to strength in the 1970s but it wasn’t until 1983 that the Swiss experimenter and architect stopped using any traditional instruments in order to embrace electronic collage, a technique that incorporates the use of modified radios, turntables, transmitters and other objects in a sort of ante-litteram circuit-bending. A similar approach emerged in collaboration with Norbert Möslang as part of Voice Crack, a collective active fro…
Sound_Shifting
CD comes with a 90-page catalogue released on occasion of the exhibition Sound-shifting by Möslang/Guhl at the Chiesa San Stae as part of the Swiss contribution to the 49th Venice Biennal 2001. During the preparations for their installation on the occasion of the 49th Venice Biennal in the Church San Stae in Venice, the Swiss artists Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, also known as the band Voicecrack, the artists did a series of video takes. This painterly series constitutes the main bulk of this a…
Presque_chic
Poire Z is almost like a super group, as it’s collaborative work between drummer Gunter Muller, electronics by Erik M and the cracked everyday electronics of Moslang and Guhl – the latter two known as Voice Crack. Presented here are two lengthy and heavy weighted pieces recorded at two different festivals. Overall the music is densely layered (although I can’t say if this is a straight recording or a mixed multi-track version; I assume the first) which moves into various places and spaces. Small…
Oystered
Released in DVD case size super jewel box.
Structures with monochromes on reports of the Golden Number 1,618033989.
Recorded July 23, 2002 at Big Jesus Burger, Sydney.Mixed and mastered October/November 2002.
Deep voices
Recorded live during the "Total Music Meeting '77", Berlin, Quartier Latin on November 2nd and 3rd by Bernhardt Arndt.