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Florian Hecker is an electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

composer. He was born in Augsburg

Augsburg

Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...

, Germany in 1975. His electronic music trends towards noise music

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 is often released via the Mego

Mego (label)

Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...

label. He has been working with computer music with artists such as Russell Haswell

Russell Haswell

Russell Haswell is a multidisciplinary artist.He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity...

, Peter Rehberg

Peter Rehberg

Peter Rehberg is an author of electronic audio works.He has collaborated with: Jim O'Rourke, Christian Fennesz, Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne, Stephen O'Malley , Tina Frank, Matmos, Tujiko Noriko, Kevin Drumm, Marcus Schmickler, Michaela Schwentner , Matt "Skitz" Sanders, Russell Haswell, Florian...

, Yasunao Tone

Yasunao Tone

Yasunao Tone is a Japanese artist who has worked with many different types of media throughout his career. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, and he graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and...

, Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

among others. For his recording SUN PANDÄMONIUM, he received the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica

Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...

in 2003 http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/ArtistPage#hecker. He also creates sound installations, most notably for Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch , is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.-Life and career:...

Selected discography

(1998) Hecker: IT ISO 161975 (Mego
Mego (label)
Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...

) CD
(1999) Hecker: [OT] Xackpy Breakpoint (OR) CD
(2003) Hecker: SUN PANDÄMONIUM (Mego) CD
(2003) Hecker: 2 Track 12 (Mego) Mini LP
(2004) Hecker: PV Trecks (Mego) CD
(2004) Yasunao Tone
Yasunao Tone
Yasunao Tone is a Japanese artist who has worked with many different types of media throughout his career. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, and he graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and...

& Hecker: Palimpsest (Mego) CD
(2006) Electronic Music Soundtrack for "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001" by Angela Bulloch
Angela Bulloch
Angela Bulloch , is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.-Life and career:...

Do (Editions Mego
Editions Mego
Editions Mego is a non-funded independent record label, founded 1 January 2006 by Peter RehbergIts aims are to maintain the back catalogue and legacy of the Mego label, as well as releasing new works.- Releases :...

) CD
(2006) Hecker: Recordings for Rephlex (Rephlex) CD
(2007) Haswell and Hecker: Blackest Ever Black CD/LP (Warner Classics)
(2007) Hecker: Hecker/Holler Tracks 2LP (Semisigure)
(2008) Haswell and Hecker: Upic Warp Tracks CD (Warp Records)
(2009) Hecker: Acid in the Style of David Tudor

Exhibitions

(2008) Florian Hecker Exhibition: 'Pentaphonic Dark Matter' (Sadie Coles Gallery, Heddon St).

External links

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