Fragment Factory is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 based in Hamburg, Germany, founded in summer of 2009. The label is operated by the sound artist Michael Muennich and specializes in releasing Experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 in the broadest sense, including Electro-acoustic music, Noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 and its several sub-categories. The output of Fragment Factory has been published on different formats, such as cassette

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

, vinyl, CD(R)

CD-R

A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....

 and comprises works by Michael Esposito

Michael Esposito

Michael Esposito is an experimental artist and researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena .-Biography:Michael Andrew Esposito was born in Gary, Indiana in 1964. He is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse...

, GX Jupitter-Larsen

GX Jupitter-Larsen

GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture...

, John Duncan

John Duncan (artist)

This page is about John Duncan the contemporary artist. For the Symbolist artist see John Duncan .John Duncan is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna...

, Bryan Lewis Saunders

Bryan Lewis Saunders

Bryan Lewis Saunders is a performance artist, videographer, and performance poet widely known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and Stand up tragedy....

, Z'EV

Z'EV

Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...

, Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm

-Biography:Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers...

 and others.

Selected Discography

• [FRAG20] John Duncan
  John Duncan (artist)
  This page is about John Duncan the contemporary artist. For the Symbolist artist see John Duncan .John Duncan is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna...
  
   / Michael Esposito
  Michael Esposito
  Michael Esposito is an experimental artist and researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena .-Biography:Michael Andrew Esposito was born in Gary, Indiana in 1964. He is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse...
  
   / Z'EV
  Z'EV
  Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...
  
   - There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject LP (Aug 2011)
• [FRAG19] GX Jupitter-Larsen
  GX Jupitter-Larsen
  GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture...
  
   & Muennich - Die Arbeiter Von Wien 7" (May 2011)
• [FRAG16] Michael Esposito
  Michael Esposito
  Michael Esposito is an experimental artist and researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena .-Biography:Michael Andrew Esposito was born in Gary, Indiana in 1964. He is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse...
  
   & Kevin Drumm
  Kevin Drumm
  -Biography:Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers...
  
   - The Icy Echoer 7" (Nov 2010)
• [FRAG15] Sutekh Hexen - Ritualistic C10 cassette (Nov 2010)
• [FRAG10] Circuit Wound - They Thrive In Complacency C20 cassette (Jul 2010)
• [FRAG09] Yoshihiro Kikuchi - Texts' Absence / Optical Gloom / Audible Lights C40 cassette (May 2010)
• [FRAG07] Dried Up Corpse - Nothing From Nothing C20 cassette (May 2010)
• [FRAG06] Bryan Lewis Saunders
  Bryan Lewis Saunders
  Bryan Lewis Saunders is a performance artist, videographer, and performance poet widely known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and Stand up tragedy....
  
   & Raymond Dijkstra - Le Bobcat C40 cassette (Mar 2010)
• [FRAG03] Richard Ramirez
  Richard Ramirez (musician)
  Richard Ramirez is an American noise music artist from Houston, Texas, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups and Houston Noise Bands, including Black Leather Jesus, Priest in Shit, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, Oasis of Fear and the "static noise" solo...
  
  / Final Church - Split CDr (Dec 2009)

External links

• Official website
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