Częstochowa
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,
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) is an artist,
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, journalist, radio-producer and photographer. Under monikers such as ''Random Inc'', ''Random Industries'' and ''Bizz Circuits'' he released several albums for influential electronica label
Mille Plateaux
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. He also composed music for German independent label
Kompakt
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under the name ''Klimek''. Followed up by releases on New Yorker
Anticipate Recordings
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and Belgian
Sub Rosa
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label. He has collaborated with Ekkehard Ehlers under the name ''Autopoieses'' and with Israeli audio-visual artist Ran Slavin as ''b.Z_ToneR''. For his project ''Not By Note'' he received in 2011 an honorary mention in the category ''Digital Musics & Sound Art'' at
Prix Ars Electronica
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.
His album "Walking in Jerusalem" was included by
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magazine in their list of top 15 electronic records of the year 2002.
Meissner performed at many notable music and sound art festival like
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Sónar
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Marta Collica
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. For the opening of the 2010 New York edition of the Unsound Festival Meissner performed with Polish classical music ensemble Kwartludium at the David Rubenstein Atrium of the
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. Under the name ''Solid State Transmitters'' they played selected compositions from the catalogue of
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– a music label formed in 1978 by Black Flag member
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. An ''
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'' reviewer wrote about this concert the following:
Since 2010 Meissner has been writing and directing documentary radio features for German public radio stations such as
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. He also composed soundtracks for some of those broadcasts. Meissner dedicated several of his long form broadcasts to the history and current affairs of United States. The topics ranged from urban explorations in Detroit, portraying native Hawaiian protesters at
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Anticipate Recordings
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)
* ''Dedications'' — 2007 (Anticipate Recordings)
* ''Music To Fall Asleep'' — 2006 (
Kompakt
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)
* ''Milk & Honey'' — 2004 (Kompakt)
as Random Inc
* ''Walking in Jerusalem'' — 2002 (
Mille Plateaux
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)
* ''Jerusalem: Tales Outside The Framework Of Orthodoxy'' — 2001 (Ritornell)
as Bizz Circuits
* ''Bizz Circuits Play Intifada Offspring Vol. 1: Nishbar Li Ha'Zayin'' — 2004 (Mille Plateaux Media)
* ''The Very Best Of Bizz Circuits'' — 2002 (Deluxe)
as Random Industries
* ''Selected Random Works'' — 2000 (Ritornell)
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