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PAN (record Label)
PAN is a Berlin-based record label founded in 2008 by Bill Kouligas. The label is known for its interdisciplinary approach to the fields of contemporary art and music, and has collaborated with institutions such as London's ICA. PAN has signed and distributed records by acts including Yves Tumor, Amnesia Scanner, Anne Imhof, Arca and Eartheater. In 2017 PAN released its first compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from ..., '' Mono No Aware'', a collection of ambient songs by artists under the PAN label. References German record labels 2008 establishments in Germany Experimental music record labels {{music-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include Indeterminacy in music, indeterminacy, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements. The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing Indeterminacy (music), indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953, Pierre Schaeffer had begun using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, etc. It is related to an ''interdiscipline'' or an ''interdisciplinary field,'' which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between Outline of academic disciplines, academic disciplines or School of thought, schools of thought, as new needs and professions emerge. Large engineering teams are usually interdisciplinary, as a power station or mobile phone or other project requires the melding of several specialties. However, the term "interdisciplinary" is sometimes confined to academic settings. The term ''interdisciplinary'' is applied within education and training pedagogies to describe studies that use methods and insights of several established disciplines or traditional fields of study. Interdisciplinarity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an modernism, artistic and cultural centre on The Mall (London), The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson (arts benefactor), Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Eric Craven Gregory, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that empha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Tumor
Sean Lee Bowie (born February 14, 1990), best known by the recording alias Yves Tumor, is an American musician and producer of experimental music, born in Miami, Florida, and currently based in Turin, Italy. To date, they have released five studio albums: ''When Man Fails You'' (2015), '' Serpent Music'' (2016), '' Safe in the Hands of Love'' (2018), '' Heaven to a Tortured Mind'' (2020), and '' Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)'' (2023). Life and career Raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tumor started making music at age 16 as an outlet away from "dull, conservative surroundings." Tumor is self-taught, and plays drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards. Describing their experience growing up in Tennessee as unpleasant, Yves moved at age 20 to San Diego, and then after college, to Los Angeles. They met Mykki Blanco in 2012, later touring for two and a half years throughout Europe and Asia. In the early 2010s, Tumor recorded as Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesia Scanner
Amnesia Scanner is a Berlin-based electronic music duo created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala, currently signed to the German experimental electronic music label PAN. Following the release of a live album in 2014, they released their debut physical EP ''AS'' as a vinyl exclusive in 2016. They have also collaborated with Holly Herndon Holly Herndon (born 1980) is an American artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany. After studying composition at Stanford University and completing her Ph.D. at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, she ... and Mykki Blanco. The duo had a previous project called Renaissance Man. Discography Studio albums *'' Another Life'' (2018) *'' Tearless'' (2020) *Strobe.rip (2023) (with Freeka Tet) *HOAX (2024) (with Freeka Tet) EPs *''Angels Rig Hook'' (2015) *''AS'' (2016) Mixtapes *''Cyber Monday'' (2015) *''LEXACHAST'' (2016) (with Bill Kouligas, reworked and released as an album in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Imhof
Anne Imhof (born 1978 in Giessen, Germany) is a German visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt and Paris. She is best known for her endurance art, although she cites painting as central to her practice. Life Imhof was born in Giessen and grew up in Fulda. She received private drawing lessons from a teacher at a boarding school in England. She moved to Frankfurt, living in a commune and making music in her twenties. She worked as a bouncer for a club called Robert Johnson. She graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2012. Professional career Solo shows 2012 * Audition Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim 2013 * SOTSB njjy, New Jersey, Basel * Parade, Portikus, Frankfurt 2014 * Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Projectroom, Nîmes * Rage II, Liste Performance Program, Basel * Rage I, Deborah Schamoni, Munich 2015 * DEAL, MoMA PS1, New York 2016 * Angst, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland * Angst II, Hamburger Bahnhof, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arca (musician)
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez (born October 14, 1989), known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Ghersi first released the EP ''Baron Libre'' (2012) under the name Arca and subsequently released the EPs ''Stretch 1'' and '' Stretch 2''; the latter experimented with hip hop and brought her attention from prominent music publications. She released her first two albums, ''Xen'' and ''Mutant'', in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Her eponymous third album, '' Arca'' (2017), became the first to prominently feature her vocals. From 2020 to 2021, Ghersi released the ''Kick'' quintet, starting with the album '' Kick I'' (2020) and ending with '' Kick IIIII'' (2021); these recordings drew from styles such as IDM, reggaeton, avant-pop, techno, and ambient. Ghersi has frequently incorporated themes related to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eartheater (musician)
Alexandra Drewchin (; born March 16, 1989), known professionally as Eartheater, is an American multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and vocalist. Born in Pennsylvania to a Russian father and an English mother, she has been performing since 2009, and is currently based in Queens, New York. Her music has been released on independent labels Hausu Mountain and PAN. Career Eartheater has released five full-length solo albums and one mixtape. ''Metalepsis'' (March 2015) and '' RIP Chrysalis'' (November 2015) were released on the Chicago-based label Hausu Mountain. Reviewing her first album, Colin Joyce of ''Pitchfork'' noted that "''Metalepsis'' is music that's built to overwhelm and envelop you, and maybe even, as Drewchin's moniker suggests, swallow worlds whole." ''Irisiri'' (June 2018) was released on Berlin-based PAN. Andrew Ryce of ''Resident Advisor'' described the album as "baffling and inspired in equal measure", and ''Pitchfork'' named it one of "the best experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If the recordings are from several artists, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mono No Aware (album)
''Mono No Aware'' is a compilation album of ambient songs by various artists, released by the Berlin-based record label PAN. Titled after the Japanese term of the same name, meaning "the pathos of things" or "an empathy towards things", ''Mono No Aware'' features previously unreleased tracks by artists under the PAN label, including Yves Tumor and Jeff Witscher. Release ''Mono No Aware'' was first released on vinyl record as a "special art edition" at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair in February 2017, limited to 100 copies. The album later received a general release on physical and digital media on 17 March 2017. Reception Mark Richardson of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a positive review, writing that "Each piece of the 80-minute compilation has its own unique identity, yet together it feels like the work of one mind." ''Crack Magazine''s Tom Watson, in his review of the album, wrote that, "Often, ''mono no aware'' achieves something transcendental with music that is hypnotic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melody,The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening, and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre evokes an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and some works use sustained or repetition (music), repeated notes, as in drone music. Bearing elements with new-age music, acoustic music, instruments such as the piano, string section, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fader
''The Fader'' is a magazine established in 1999 as an outlet for Cornerstone Agency, a marketing and public relations firm established by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. The magazine covers music, style and culture. History and work It is owned by The Fader Media group, which also includes its website, thefader.com, as well as Fader films, Fader Label and Fader TV. It was the first print publication to be released on iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s .... The Fader Fort The magazine hosted The Fader Fort, an annual invitation-only event at Austin, Texas's South by Southwest (SXSW). Since its founding in 2001, the four-day party features live performances. Fader Fort NYC is a party produced during the annual CMJ Music Marathon. The festival has featured over 900 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
