My Inhaled books #37

Inhaled books #38
Bernard Stiegler - La technique et le temps I-III
Read this in a strictly counter-Heideggerian mood since 1994.

My Inhaled books #37

Inhaled books #37
Paul de Man - The Resistance to Theory
Reading this in a really counter-khôratic mood since 2007.

The 45SIS, No.4, 2017: Guerino Mazzola

Antony Gormley, Rhizome III (1999)

Dear Readers,

[#a general remark#] I am very proud to present the fourth installment of The 45SIS (45 sentences, infinite sounds) featuring this time Prof. Guerino Mazzola. Guerino Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist and jazz pianist. He graduated at the University of Zürich in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Crystallography and completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1971. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society. In 2003, he habilitated in Computational Science at the University of Zürich. Currently Currently he is Professor at the School of Music at the University of Minnesota. Since 2007 he is the president of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. The 45 SIS is a questionnaire consisting of 45 sentences to be completed. This feature tries to close or at least bridge the gap between contemporary philosophical theories and contemporary sound-production by asking their most important contributors. The public reception and perception of sounds/music seems to be stuck in a weird consumer-convenience and commodity-oriented approach since ages. But music and sound are and should be more than this: an excess of the minimal and the maximal: the invisible and the secret, maybe. Over the months and years a serious encyclopedia of debatable positions in the aforementioned field will be build up by giving leading artists and theorists a space to present themselves without further commentary by the editor. 

[#the portrait#] I discovered the works of Guerino Mazzola (CV, see above) a few years ago in a moment of discontent with the various canonized and often way to specialized theories of music lacking either analytical rigor, historical depth, or real experiences as performers or as listeners. My interests circled back then mainly around the problem of how to formalize music (in all its dimensions) and of how to find and define valid quality criteria after the highly conflictual post-Schoenberg-Webern-Berg event cluster Cage-Young-Varèse-Xenakis-Nancarrow-Scelsi-Partch-Feldman-Messiaen-Stockhausen-Nono-Boulez and the respective effects on the increasing tensions between free form music (eg. Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor), electronic music and classical score bound music. But the most difficult and most decisive problems or questions remained unsolvable for me despite various attempts with different theories: how can the different phenomena or paradigms called music be theoretically reunified and recalibrated without regressing towards random Geschmacksurteilen ? And what are musical thoughts (breaking with the lazy habit to regress towards "Begriffslosigkeit", "Unaussprechlichkeit" and "blumige Sprache") and/or what is formalized in and as music ? You can imagine how lucky I was to have discovered Mazzola's seminal work The Topos of Music. Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory and, Performance (Basel Boston Berlin 2002) that offers one of the deepest, innovative and most interesting reformulations of musical theory today, helping to interrupt and/or overcome false tensions or divisions, miscanonized hierarchies and constricted eurocentrisms finding new answers to the very difficult questions sketched above by introducing new concepts and mathematical models. Prof. Mazzola presented a short sketch or very plastic image of his theoretical project in a youtube video posted in 2014. Here he says:"Music is like a dancer. It moves continuously and touches the stage floor in discrete points. The musical score represents the discrete trace, while gestures represent the continuous perspective . Correspondingly, a mathematical theory of music needs two approaches: a discrete, and a continuous one. The discrete approach is algebraic. It is framed by the topos of presheaves over the category of modules. It comprises models of harmony, counterpoint, rhythm or melody, and it presents classification theorems of local and global musical structures. Alexander Grothendieck called this the Mathematics of the New Age. The continuous approach works with gestures in the topos of presheaves over topological categories and uses algebraic topology, differential geometry, and homological algebra. It describes musical performance and gestural creativity and complies with Yuri Manin's vision of new foundations of mathematics built upon homotopy categories."(quote youtube). You can follow the unfolding of this immense project in a very impressive number of seminal publications since the 1980's. I quote the CV given on Prof Mazzola's homepage at the University of Minnesota, because I am a little afraid that I might forget or leave out something important, here one can read: "Mazzola has profiled the European school of mathematical music theory since 1980 and has written six books on the subject, among them The Topos of Music, published by Birkhäuser, and proposed by the American Mathematical Society as the mathematics book of the year 2005. His French book, La vérité du beau dans la musique, is about the philosophy of music and was published in 2007 by Delatour. Mazzola’s approach to music includes sophisticated mathematics of topos theory, but also classical tools from group theory to homotopy theory. His book Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz - Towards a Theory of Collaboration was published in 2009 by Springer and applies mathematical gesture theory to free jazz. His book Musical Performance was published in 2010 by Springer; it is the first comprehensive treatment of performance theory, including philosophical and empirical approaches, qualitative methods from musical ontology, and quantitative methods from differential geometry and their implementation in the performance software rubato. His book Musical Creativity was published in 2011 by Springer; it is co-authored with Joomi Park and Florian Thalmann and describes creativity in a tutorial for students, a theoretical part and a number of advanced case studies. His book Computational Counterpoint Worlds, co-authored with Octavio Agustin and Julien Junod, and his book Computational Musicology in Hindustani Music, co-authored with Soubhik Chakraborty et al. are published in 2014 by Springer. His next book, The Topos of Music II: Gestures, to be published in 2016 by Springer, and co-authored with René Guitart et al., will present latest developments in musical gesture theory and its philosophical implications. It is planned as a follow-up of The Topos of Music. Co-authored with PhD Students Maria Mannone and Yen Pang, a first introduction to Mathematical Music Theory: Cool Math for Hot Music, is published by Springer Fall 2015."(quote: Prof. Mazzola's homepage University of Minnesota). Not to forget his most recent one under his supervision (co-authored with Maria Mannone, Yan Pang, Margaret O'Brien and Nathan Torunsky) called All About Music: The Complete Ontology: Realities, Semiotics, Communication, and Embodiment published by Springer in November 2016.

[#discography/links/contacts#] I highly recommend to take also a deeper look into his discography (click here). For the titles of the Computational Music Series edited by Guerino Mazzola and Moreno Andreatta (click here). Here you can find Prof. Mazzola's Minnesota Homepage (click here), his personal Encyclospace Site (click here), and the very interesting affiliated research platform (with articles, soundfiles etc.) called Glass Bead (click here), his youtube channels you can find (here and here).

[#the presentation#] The white font shows the grid of my 45SIS-questionnaire, that will remain unchanged for each featured artist. This makes each contribution at once singular and comparable. The answers by each featured artist or scholar in this case Guerino Mazzola always be presented in green font.[SKG]

This is The 45SIS, No.4

brilliantly completed

by Guerino Mazzola

[1]“Music” and “Musician” are concepts about human communication.

[2] I dislike the term “Sound-Art”, because it neglects the structure that music adds to sound to become an art.

[3] A Sound Artist becomes an "alternative truth": sound per se is not art.

[4] Inventing/finding sounds is not an alternative tool for creating music.

[5] Thinking in music forced me organize, not only invent sounds.

[6] The obvious tensions between classical systems of musical notation and composition, sound-sourced field-recordings, free-improvised-real-time-composition, and technology based sound processing can be solved when rethinking creativity beyond specific technology.

[7] Composition is encoding gestures, not only writing abstract symbols, the latter being "paper music".

[8] The main theoretical aporia, existential tension or trigger that keeps me producing and/or made me produce (and/or: writing about) sounds is the art of making organisms that are expressed with sounds.

[9] The immense scope and variety of musical inventions forced into canonized music history and its basic distinction of music and non-music in the XX.Century (say) since “Arnold Schoenberg” and the counter-explosions of new underground music paradigms, non-europeans traditions and playing techniques since the 1940’s has neglegted the afrological extension of musical creativity that is a logic of the gestural making.

[10] Time, Space and Volume need to be extended: we need complex time (real + imaginary).

[11] A musical instrument is the interface technology between the musician's body and the body of sound.

[12] The musical encounter of my dreams would be a music theory that complies with scientific quality, not just rhetoric surface, such as Schenker or Schoenberg.

[13] The point zero is now: all Eurological variants have been tried out, it is time to rethink the musical presence in complex space-time.

[14] Sounds should work as invisible sculptures of intelligent gestural utterances.

[15] Sounds(capes) should ?

[16] Sounds and destruction are related if you forget about the music which organizes sounds.

[17] The human voice will not disappear if lived as an inner human gesture.

[18] Listening is imagining the musicians' sonic space.

[19] The commodity factor of New Music is the abstraction from listening, being replaced by talking, not understanding, by those who have no musical dimension at all.

[20] Programs and algorithms are useful as preliminary tools for musical structuring, and experimenting, but not to replace human substance.

[21] Names, words and titles of compositions are funny ornaments.

[22]Duplication, sampling, sound-sourcing and manipulation are only interesting if embedded in a musical logic.

[23] Replay-Machines help listening again and again…….

[24] Knowledge that is scientifically valid interferes with musical creativity.

[25] The materiality of sounds is only relevant if it expresses human gestures; counterexemples: abstract electronic sounds.

[26] To connect sound and psychology is ok, for mp3 technology, for example, but not as a foundation of musical creativity.

[27] The eye, the ear and the brain are abstractions of the gestural body, not its foundations.

[28] Sonic processes can realize Adorno's mimesis if organized as an art of the making.

[29] Life and Death are very different: death is the most trivial thing, silence is not death if you use it as a carrier of thoughts (Miles Davis!)

[30] My deepest musical experiences are audible thoughts in performance.

[31] The distinction sound/music/noise is essential, see my previous thoughts.

[32] The gestural creation of music is subject to a constant underestimation of abstract music theories created by non-performing scholars.

[33] Live performances should be interfaces between the creative making and the creative listening.

[34] Sounds can travel from hand to hand, ear to ear, through space and time, but do not make sense if done so without a gestural intelligence.

[35] The so-called composition 4’33” was not the first of this type (Alphonse Allais 1897: marche funebre pour un grand homme sourd) is a window to people who talk about music without understanding anything.

[36] Privacy, Secrecy & Sounds don't relate to each other.

[37] Singularity, originality is now a big challenge for all musical genres that seek for extensions.

[38] The total liberation of sounds must be a consequence of the total liberation of music theory from the outdated old approaches; have a look at mathematical music theory, for example.

[39] Free form music or sound leads into a music where the musicians have the full responsibility.

[40] Cryptic minimalisms and techno are musics for living deads.

[41] Outsider sounds is a question where you stand: inside or outside, better move!

[42] Electronics, electro-acoustic, Modular Synths or interstellar travels are all tools for musical creators, not for infants.

[43] Sounds must be organized in time-space manipulations that express musical insights.

[44] The severest misconceptions about me and my sounds, my music, and my theories are given by people who listen only to themselves and their prejudices.

[45] The sentence(s) I wanted to see published for an eternity is/are this one about the artistic existence of a performer:

The performer

in his 

beautifully determined 

responsibility, 

displays a 

balanced dancing 

presence.

Antony Gormley, Rhizome I (1998)

Cordial thanks 

for your contribution,

Prof. Guerino Mazzola !

MY READING TRACES #19

Jacques Derrida - Spectres de Marx

MY READING TRACES #18

Jacques Derrida - Points de suspension

My Inhaled books #36

Inhaled books #36
Paul de Man - Aesthetic Ideology
Reading this in a really counter-khôratic mood since 2007.

My Inhaled books #35

Inhaled books #35
Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari - Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?
Read in various editions since 1992 - mais où est Félix, ici ?

My Inhaled books #34

Inhaled books #34

Gilles Deleuze - Le Pli. Leibniz et le Baroque

Read supliminally since 2002

My Inhaled Books #34

Inhaled books #34
Walter Benjamin - Abhandlungen
Among my earliest pre-philosophical readings kickstarted in 1991

My Inhaled books #33

Inhaled books #33
Martin Heidegger - Gedachtes
Masterly collection of illegibilities; a companion since 2007

My Inhaled books #32

Inhaled books #32
Martin Heidegger - Das Ereignis
Masterly collection of illegibilities; a companion since 2009

My Inhaled books #31

Inhaled books #31
Maurice Blanchot - L'entretien infini
Half inhaled half exhaled since 1996

My Inhaled books #30

Inhaled books #30
Jacques Derrida - Resistances de la psychanalyse
Read deeply until its final submission ;) since 1996

My Inhaled books #29

Inhaled books #29

Jacques Derrida - Marges De la philosophie

Read marginally since 1992.

My Inhaled books #28

Inhaled books #28
Jacques Derrida - Glas
Read glasweise since 1996.

My Inhaled books #27

Inhaled books #27

Immanuel Kant - Kritik der Urteilskraft

Read  into pieces since 1991.
Strangely this book reflects sunlight like mad !

My Inhaled books #26

Inhaled books #26
Martin Heidegger - Über den Anfang
Read and fingerprinted since 2005.

My Inhaled books #25

Inhaled books #25

Jacques Derrida - La dissémination

Read and khorâted since 1995.

My Inhaled books #24

Inhaled books #24
Jacques Derrida - Positions
Read and sun-withered since 1994.

My Inhaled books #23

Inhaled books #23
Martin Heidegger - Besinnung
In heavy use since 1997.

My Inhaled books #22

Inhaled books #22
Martin Heidegger - Die Geschichte des Seyns
In heavy use since 1998.

My Inhaled books #21

Inhaled books #21
Jacques Derrida - Politiques de l'amitié
Read and sun-withered since 1994.

My Inhaled books #20

Inhaled books #20

Jacques Derrida - Force de Loi

Kickstarted my serious doubts about "Derrida" in 1994.

My Inhaled books #19

Inhaled books #19

Jacques Derrida - Donner le temps I. La fausse monnaie

Entered my neural system in 1993.

My Inhaled Books #18

Inhaled books #18
Maurice Blanchot - L'écriture du désastre
Half-inhaled, half-exhaled since 2000.

My Inhaled Books #17

Inhaled books #17
Maurice Blanchot - Le pas au-delà
Half-inhaled, half-exhaled since 2000.

My Inhaled books #16

Inhaled books #16
Kodwo Eshun - More Brilliant Than the Sun
Among my earliest and dearest inhaled since 1995.

My Inhaled Books #15

Inhaled books #15
Walter Benjamin - Über Kafka
Among my earliest and dearest inhaled since 1988.

My Inhaled Book #14

Inhaled books #14
Walter Benjamin - Das Passagen-Werk
Among my earliest and dearest inhaled since 1988.

My Inhaled Books #13

Inhaled books #13
John Cage - Silence
Among my earliest inhaled since 1988.

My Inhaled Book #12

Inhaled books #12
Friedrich Hölderlin - Hyperion.
Among my earliest inhaled since 1988.

My Inhaled books #11

Inhaled books #11
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake.
Among my earliest inhaled since 1988.

My Inhaled books #10

Inhaled books #10
Deleuze & Guattari - L'Anti-Oedipe
Among my earliest inhaled since 1990.

My Inhaled Books #8

Inhaled books #8
Jacques Derrida - De la Grammatologie.
In heavy rotation since 1991.

My Inhaled Books 7,2

Inhaled books #7,2
Tom Cohen - Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 2: War Machines.
In heavy rotation since 2005.

My Inhaled Book #7,1

Inhaled books #7,1
Tom Cohen - Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 1: Secret Agents.
In heavy rotation since 2005.

My Inhaled Books #6

Inhaled books #6.
Jacques Derrida - Psyché. Inventions de l'autre
In use since 1992.

My Inhaled Books #5

Inhaled books #5.

Jacques Derrida - Spectres de Marx

I read this one here since 1994.

My Inhaled Books #4

Inhaled books #4.
Paul de Man - Allegories of Reading.
In heavy use since 1996.

Noise Admiration's Best of 2016

No hierarchies implied here, says Droopy, only a list - in a random order - numbers are included only for the sake of legibility ! And of course each artist can be found on my blog. Don't hesitate to use the tag "Sounds of the Day" [SKG]

(1) Favorite Artists 2016
1. Der Zyklus

2. Orphan Swords

3.  eMMplekz

4. Thomas Tilly

5. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

6. Wata Igarashi

7. Ekoplekz 

8. Michael Pisaro
9. Jeph Jerman
10. Jung an Tagen
11. Tvlpa
12. German Army
13. Blitzkrieg Baby
14. Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
15. Inventing Masks 
16. Peder Mannerfelt 
17. Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay
18. Cave Bacchus
19. Nuel 
20. Takahiro Mukai
21. Nate Wooley
22  Leedian
23. Jonathan Fitoussi
24  Trepaneringsritualen
25. Phurpa
26. Yves Malone
27. Hoops
28. Karl Fousek
29. Benge
30. Jana Winderen 
31.  Marielle V Jakobsons
32. Ak'chamel the Giver of Illness 
33. TALsounds
34. Bang ! Bros
35. Good Willsmith
36.Davey Harms
37. KILT
38. Will Montgomery
39. Skullflower
40. Espectra Negra
41. AGF
42. David Burraston
43. Schperrung
44. Kösmonaut
45. Siavash Amini

(2) Favorite Releases 2016

1. Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have (2016)
2. Andrew Pekler - Tristes Tropiques (2016)
3. eMMplekz - Rook to TN34 (2016)
4. Gonçalo F Cardoso & Ruben Pater - A Study into 21st Century Drone Acoustics (2015)
5. Ekoplekz - Cryptik Stepperz(2016)

6.Wata Igarashi - Mood of the Machines EP (2016)

7. Ghèdalia Tazartès, Paweł Romańczuk, Andrzej Załęski - Carp's Head (2016)
8. Raffaele Mariconte - So(E)nology (2016)
9. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Green Graves (2016)
10. Peder Mannerfelt - Transmissions From A Drainpipe (2016)
11. Leedian - thjss (2016)
12. Cave Bacchus - Destroyer of Naivetés (2016)

13. Lucio Capece - Factors of space inconstancy (2007/2016)

14. Orphan Swords - The Rise Of Liquid Alternatives (2016)
15. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - A Day in the Life of a Listener (2015)
16. Seth Cluett - Forms of Forgetting (2014)
17.  Chris Cobilis, Kenneth Goldsmith, Spektral Quartet - This Is You (2016)
18. Beyond Solutions - Sleeping Surfaces (2016)
19. Frank Rosaly - Neolithic Extraction - The Malo Remixes (2016)
20. Jung an Tagen - Das Fest der Reichen (2016)
21. Botany - Deepak Verbera (2016)
22. Nzʉmbe - Titubeo (2015)
23. Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality of Death (2015)
24. German Army - Worthless Spectrum (2016)
25. Blitzkrieg Baby - Cannibal Commando (2015)
26. Graham Dunning & Tom Wallace - Dawn Into Dusk (2016)
27. Der Zyklus - Renormalon (2016)
28. Collin McKelvey - First Accent of a Rustic Flute (2016)
29. Suryummy - Genesis Clarity (2016)
30. Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - As The Low Hanging Fruit Vulnerabilities Are More Likely To Have Already Turned Up (2016)
31. Jesse Osborne-Lanthier & Grischa Lichtenberger - C.S.L.M. | Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes (2016)
32. Anemone Tube - Golden Temple (2016)
33. Död - Muscle Trax (2016)
34. Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay - Amalgam (2016)
35. Jon Brooks - Walberswick (2016)
36. Tvlpa - Mountain of the Opposer (2016)
37. Tvlpa - Mästarkraften (2016)
38. Russell Haswell - As Sure As Night Follows Day (2016)
39. Inventing Masks - Inventing Masks (2016)
40. Jonathan Fitoussi - Imaginary Lines (2016)
41.  Nicola Ratti - Pressure Loss (2016)
42. Decimus - 7 (2016)
43. Strategy - Information Pollution (2016)
44. Nuel - Hyperboreal (2016)
45. Radere - I Can't Sleep, I Can't Wake Up (2016)
46. Bruital Orgasme - Méthodologie Contextuelle (2016)
47. Karl Fousek - Pattern Variation (2015)
48. Angus Carlyle - In The Shadow of the Silent Mountain (2016)
49. Iain Armstrong - Sacred & Profane (2016)
50. Takahiro Mukai - Bubble Over (2016)
51. Ian William Craig - Zugzwang for Fostex (2016)
52. Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain (2016)

53. Head Dress - Slow Chime (2016)

54. Yves Malone - Today is the Last Day of the Rest of your Life (2016)

55. Pascal Battus - Désincatation, Indécantation (2015)
56. Hoops - Knowledge Mastery Series, No. 1-25 (2016)
57  Stefan Fraunberger - Quellgeister #2(2016)
58. Jamie Drouin - Attraction (2016)
59. Jana Winderen - The Wanderer (2016)
60. Lash, Farmer, Feeney - Performance (2016)
61. Jeph Jerman - 34°111'3"N 111°95'4"W (2016)
62. Karl J. Paloucek - Oscillation Side (No.16)
63. Sarah Hennies - Gather & Release (2016)
64. Futeisha - Alegrías y duelos de mi alma (2016)
65. Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body / Lines Describing Circles (2016) 

66. Norman Westberg - The All Most Quiet (2016)

67. Marielle V Jakobsons - Star Core (2016)

68. Marc Kate - Lavender Languished (Marc Kate Remix) (2016)

69. Bean Snack - Crispy Duct (2016)

70. Steve Roden - A minute is actually an immense space of time (2016)

71. Bethan Kellough - Aven (2016)

72. Howling Larsons & N Lymperopoulos - Parmenides Proem (2016)

73. Gaap Kvlt - Jinn (2016)

74. Suzuki Junzo - If I die before I wake (2016)

75. Lawrence English - Approaching Nothing (2016)

76. Weasel Walter - Curses (2016)

77. Tristan Perich - Noise Patterns (2016)

78. Garde Forestier - s/t (2016)

79. M. Geddes Gengras - Interior Architecture (2016)

80. David Toop - Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016)

81. Schperrung - Houses of Horizons (2016)

82. Bhaavitaah Bhuutasthah - Awakening the Happiness of the Self Revealed (2016)

83. Robert Curgenven - Climata (2016)

84. Robert Crouch - A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth (2016)

85. Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's Of Imhotep (2016)

86. Chemiefaserwerk - Idatec (2016)

87. SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (2016)

88. Matthew P. Hopkins - Traipse (2016)

89. Nils Quak - Ad Interim (2016)

90. Kaumwald - Rapa Nui Clan (2016)

91. Lesley Flanigan - Hedera (2016)

92. Phurpa - Chöd (2016)

93. D.Corbone / Honzo - Malicidium (2016)

94. Random Gods - Genezon.avi EP (2016)

95. Sissel Wincent - Randomness (2016)

96. Pär Grindvik - Isle of Real (2016)

97. Aïsha Devi - Of Matter And Spirit (2015)

98. eRikm - Doubse hysterie (2016)

99. Mondkopf - The Last Tales (2016)

100. Vanessa Rosetto - Adult Contemporary (2016)

101. David Burraston - T.H.Cycle (2015)

102. Sarah Davachi - Dominions (2016)

103. Daniel Wohl - Holographic (2016)

104. Aymeric de Tapol - Les Horizons (2015)/Walking on a Spoon (2016)

105. AGF - Kon​:​3p>UTION to: e​[​VOL​]​ution / DRONE theories / Unity XEN / Greim EP (2016)

106. Erik Levander - Halv (2016)

107. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Förensligandet (2016)

110. Yoshio Machida - Music from the SYNTHI (2014)

111. Helm & Decimus - We Will Meet at Other Human Parties (2016)

112. Hypoxia - Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief (2016)

113. Lundin Oil - Between the Shields (2016)

114. Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais - Zauberberg (2016)

115. Lavender - Horizons Beneath the Surface (2016)

116. T'ien Lai - Da'at (2013)

117. Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin - As Strong As Death Is (2016)

118. Matt Shoemaker - isolated agent | stranding behavior (2016)

119. Grøn - Gestures (2016)

120. Troller - Graphic (2016)

121. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - The Rarity of Experience (2016)

122. Matthew Bourne - Moogmemory (2016)

123. Black Spirituals - Black Interiors (2015)

124. Thanet - System (2016)
125. Datach'i - System (2016)
126. Heinrich Mueller & The Exaltics - Project STS-31 - Spiralgalaxie (2016)

127. Weasel Walter - The Inevitable (2016)

128. Strøm - X (2016)

129. NYZ - DRN4 (2016)

130. NYZ - Alg 118b (2016)

131. Matthew P. Hopkins - Blue-Lit Half Breath (2016)

132. Akira Rabelais - The little glas (2015)

133. Paul Jebanasam - Continuum (2016)

134. Qebrμs & Qebo - Earth and Egnamis Alliance (2016)

135. The Black White State - Choices (2016)

136. Zweitesystem - Antimatter Audio Launch Codes (2016)

137. Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates (2016)
138. Thomas Tilly - Script Geometry (2016)

139. VHVL - evn (2016)

140. N.M.O. - Nordic Mediterranean Organization (2016)

141. Jay Daniel - Broken Knowz (2016)

142. Hieroglyphic Being - This Isn't Your Typical 90's Era Techno / IDM Revisionist View (2016)

143. Nick Keeling - Black Diamond Eulogy  (2016)

144. Olivia Block - Dissolution (2016)

145. Joe Colley - No way in (2016)

146. Christian Mirande - Trying To Remember A House (2016)
147. Aymeric De Tapol - Walking On A Spoon (2016)
148. Radere - Sloth Period (2016)
149. Espectra Negra - Alchemy and Death (2016)
150. Qebrμs & Qebo - Earth and Egnamis Alliance (2016)

151. XDCVR - Modern Captive Bolt Device (2016)
152. Helena Celle - If I Can't Handle Me At My Best, You Don't Deserve You At Your Worst (2016)
153. Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Aulos' Second Reed  / Oh Sylvia (2016)
154. Schperrung - Houses of Horizons (2016)
155. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II (2016)
156. Sarah Davachi - Dominions / Vergers (2016)
157. Ak'chamel [the Giver of Illness] - The Man Who Drank God (2015) / Transmissions from Boshqa (2016)
158. S/QU/NC/R - OUA_BF / MRS Trilogy (2016)

159. Julien Bayle - Inner (2016)

160. Russell E. L. Butler - The First Step (2016)

161. Stephan Mathieu - Radiance Series I-XII (2016-)
162. Siavash Amini, Matt Finney - Familial Rot (2016)

163. Siavash Amini + Zenjungle - Topology Of Figments (2016)
164. JS Aurelius - Goofing Drones (2016)

164. Acronym - Ashes (2016)

165. Derek Rogers - Silence is Being Substituted (2016)

166. Forresta - Bass, Space and Time (2016)

167. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - The Boundary Between The Living and the Deceased dissolved (2016)
168. Jeremy Bible - Music for Black Holes (2016)
169. Bryen Telko - Find any tape header (2016)
170.Thomas Tilly - Test/Tone Documents (2007/2016)

(3) Album of the Year 2016
Hoops - Knowledge Mastery Series, No. 1-25 (2016)
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(4) HNW-projects of the Year 2016
1. Condo Horro & Unser Verhängnis
2. Volhnn 
3. Black Matter Phantasm & WunderKammer

(5) Main Discoveries 2016
1. Pharoah Chromium
2. TALsounds
3. David Burraston
4. Peder Mannerfelt
5. Lesley Flanigan
6. Drumcell
7. Stuart Chalmers
8. SNTS
9. Jakob Pek
10. Venetian Snares
11. bossFYTE
12. Richard Devine
13. Ingenting Kollektiva
14. Donato Dozzy
15. Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
16. Solar Return
17. Hoops
18. Hive Mind
19. Leedian
20. Pod Blotz
21. Dopplereffekt
22. Heinrich Mueller
23. Eli Keszler
24. Seth Cluett
25. Benge
26. Schpe
27. Louie Rice
28. Richard Kamerman
29. L'Avenir

30. Dat'achi

31. DJ Stingray 

32. Strøm 

33. Norbert Möslang
34. Hanno Leichtmann
35. David Edren
36. Sun Hammer
37. Stephan Mathieu
38. Rashad Becker

39. Dave Swensen 

40. Joshua Bonnetta

41. Ondness

42. MrDougDoug

43. ssaliva

44. Chemiefaserwerk

45. Danny Clay

46. 0comeups

47. Electric Sound Bath

48. Flavien Gillié

49. Amulets

50. Kowton

51. The Field

52. Alex Keller

53. Orphax

54. XDCVR

55. Monte Burrows

56.Micromelancolié

57. Kosmönaut

58. Alexandre St-Onge

59. Derek Rogers
60. AGF
61. Qebrμs & Qebo
62. Schperrung
63. Blitzkrieg Baby

64. S/QU/NC/R

65. Julien Bayle

66. Abul Mogard
67. Siavash Amini
68.Abdulla Rashim

69. Rafael Anton Irisarri
70. Ak'chamel the Giver of Illness


(6) Life-Savers and/or other usual antidotes 2016

1. Martin Heidegger
2. Morton Feldman
3. Paul de Man
4. Tom Cohen
5. James Joyce
6. Pascal Quignard
7. Friedrich Hölderlin
8. Walter Benjamin
9. Jacques Derrida
10. John Cage
11. Detroit Techno is back !