Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in
Vienna in the beginning of the 1990s. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner, and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very lively Viennese electronic music scene of the 1990s, Farmers Manual were successfully crossing the boundaries between electronic music, live visuals, experimental graphics, and web design for Zeta Industries.
Their CDs, published through avant-garde labels such as
Mego,
Tray or
OR, often contained multimedia content. Their most significant release might be ''RLA'' (which stands for "Recent Live Archive"), a DVD released on Mego in 2003, which contains the band's extensive backcatalogue of live concert recordings from 1995 to 2003, compressed in MP3 format - totalling 3 days and 20 hours of audio content and released under a
Copyleft licence.
As visual artists, Farmers Manual have been included in numerous international festivals, such as
FCMM (Montreal, 1999), Avanto (Helsinki, 2001), Art+Communication (Riga, 2006
Selected discography
* (1995) Farmers Manual: ''Does Not Compute'' (12", Tray)
* (1996) Farmers Manual: ''
No Backup'' (CD+,
Mego 008)
* (1996) Farmers Manual: ''FM'' (12",
Mego 017)
* (1997) Farmers Manual: ''
fsck'' (CD, Tray)
* (1998) Farmers Manual: ''
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'' (CD, OR)
* (2000) CD_Slopper: ''SaskieWoxi'' (CD, OR)
* (2001) Gcttcatt: ''Amperase'' (CD+,
Mego 021)
* (2002)
pxp: ''while(p)'' (CD, Wavetrap)
Note: this album, by Farmers Manual member Oswald Berthold, was awarded an Honorary Mention at
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...
2002.
* (2003) Farmers Manual: ''RLA'' (DVD-Video/ROM,
Mego 777)
* (2017) Farmers Manual: ''fmoto'' (Files
bandcamp
References
Further reading
*
External links
Farmers Manual website*Farmers Manual'
Recent Live Archiveof live recordings and associated paraphernalia.
Farmers Manual catalogueon
bandcamp.com
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Farmers Manual discographyon
discogs.comFarmers Manual biographyon mego.at
Recent Live Archive (and various other)on
archive.org
Free improvisation
Electroacoustic improvisation
Experimental musical groups
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