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Thomas Köner
Thomas Köner (born 1965 in Bochum, West Germany) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. The BBC, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between installation art, installation, sound art, ambient music and as one half of Porter Ricks dub techno. A noted characteristics of Köner's dark ambient style are low drones and static soundscapes evocative of desolate, Arctic places. For his audio-visual works, he was awarded Golden Nica Award, Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale Award, Tiger Cub Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam, ARCO Award Best Young Artist in Madrid, among others. During Köner's solo exhibition of his video-art at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, the museum described him as a major innovator in the contemporary music scene, as well as noted his collaborative practice which has led to his working with musicians, filmmakers and vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ( Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. ''Nosferatu'' was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel '' Dracula''. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although these changes are often represented as a defense against copyright infringement, the original German intertitles acknowledged ''Dracula'' as the source. Film historian David Kalat states in his commentary track that since the film was "a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences... setting it in Germany with German named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Stadt
Die, as a verb, refers to death, the cessation of life. Die may also refer to: Games * Die, singular of dice, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers Manufacturing * Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semiconductor wafer * Die (manufacturing), a material-shaping device * Die (philately) * Coin die, a metallic piece used to strike a coin * Die casting, a material-shaping process ** Sort (typesetting), a cast die for printing * Die cutting (web), process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials * Die, a tool used in paper embossing * Tap and die, cutting tools used to create screw threads in solid substances * Tool and die, the occupation of making dies Arts and media Music * ''Die'' (album), the seventh studio album by rapper Necro * Die (musician), Japanese musician, guitarist of the band Dir en grey * DJ Die, British DJ and musician with Reprazent * "DiE", a 2013 single by the Japanese idol group BiS * die!, an inactive German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unerforschtes Gebiet
Unerforschtes Gebiet is the seventh solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Originally released in 2001 only as a limited number picture disc LP (700 numbered copies; repressed in 2004, this time not individually numbered). Re-released on CD in 2003. "Unerforschtes Gebiet" is German for "unexplored area," typically the blank areas of old maps. The picture on the disc is a map of the Arctic region, the center hole coinciding with the North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Mag .... The B side has the same image, mirrored. Track listing ; Original LP, catalogue number DS43 #"Unerforschtes Gebiet A" – 21:17 #"Unerforschtes Gebiet B" – 21:31 ; CD re-release, catalogue number DS56 #"Unerforschtes Gebiet A" – 21:17 #"Unerforschtes Gebiet B" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mille Plateaux (record Label)
Mille Plateaux is a German record label founded in 1994 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, as a sublabel of Force Inc. Music Works. Its releases in the fields of minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music have a lasting influence. History Origins and Activities (1994-2004) The name Mille Plateaux was taken from ''Mille Plateaux (A Thousand Plateaus)'', a philosophy book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, published in 1980. Their idea of the rhizome has been applied as the label's concept of publishing a large variety of forward thinking electronic music from different contexts. In 2000, Mille Plateaux released their '' Clicks & Cuts Series'', which featured both Mille Plateaux and non-Mille Plateaux glitch music artists. This series is widely perceived to be a cornerstone of glitch music. Bankruptcy and Various Revivals (2004-2011) In early 2004, Mille Plateaux's parent company Force Inc. went bankrupt due to the collapse of Germany's main indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaamos (Thomas Köner Album)
Kaamos is the sixth solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It is also the first album Köner released on the label Mille Plateaux. "Tabula Smaragdina" was recorded live in Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France in October 1997. It was used as the music to the Jürgen Reble film ''Chicago''. "Kaamos" is Finnish for "polar night." "Tabula Smaragdina" is Latin for "emerald tablet," it is a mysterious ancient alchemical Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ... text. Track listing #"Kaamos" – 12:24 #"Kaamos" – 6:21 #"Kaamos" – 12:00 #"Tabula Smaragdina" – 24:52 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaamos (Thomas Koner album) 1998 albums Thomas Köner albums Albums produced by Thomas Köner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuuk (album)
Nuuk is the fifth solo album from German ambient music producer Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1997 as a part of the Driftworks 4-CD box set (along with albums from Nijiumu, Pauline Oliveros & Randy Raine-Reusch and Paul Schütze), it was re-released in 2004 by Mille Plateaux with a DVD containing films made from still images to accompany the music. Nuuk is the capital city of Greenland. Polynya is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. Amras is a fictional character taken from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his ''The Lord of the Rings'', and which his son Christopher summarized in his compilation of ''The Silmarill .... Track listing #"Nuuk (Air)" – 4:50 #"Polynya I" – 6:33 #"Nuuk (Day)" – 7:27 #"Amras" – 5:37 #"Nuuk (Night)" - 4:15 #"Polynya II" - 7:25 #"Nuuk (End)" - 6:00 ; 2004 DVD #"Nuuk (Suite)" #"Nuuk (Air)" #"Nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrite (album)
''Aubrite'' is the fourth album from German Ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It was recorded between April 1994 and March 1995. Roland Speckle helped with production of the album. "Aubrite" is the name for small meteorites. Nuuk is the capital city of Greenland. Taklamakan The Taklimakan or Taklamakan Desert (; zh, s=塔克拉玛干沙漠, p=Tǎkèlāmǎgān Shāmò, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Такәламаган Шамә; ug, تەكلىماكان قۇملۇقى, Täklimakan qumluqi; also spelled Taklimakan and Te ... is a desert in Central Asia. Grohuk is a small town on Spitsbergen. Track listing #"Nuuk" – 8:20 #"Aubrite" – 9:13 #"Grohuk (Day)" – 11:23 #"Takla Makan" – 6:46 #"Grohuk (Night)" - 13:20 References 1995 albums Thomas Köner albums Albums produced by Thomas Köner {{1990s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permafrost (album)
''Permafrost'' is the third solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Considered by many as his greatest work, he further develops the icy drone style of previous works, making its climax in the title track. In 1996, the album was re-issued by Mille Plateaux along with his previous album, Teimo, on one disc. Track listing #"Nival" – 5:57 #"Serac" – 5:38 #"Firn" – 5:34 #"Permafrost" – 10:09 #"Meta Incognita" - 7:03 #"…" - 3:24 Notes ''Nival'' is a synonym for ''snowy''. A ''serac'' is a group or column of ice intersecting crevasses on a glacier. ''Firn'' is a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is at an intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice. ''Permafrost'' is soil at or below the freezing point of water (0 °C or 32 °F) for two or more years. In practice it is a large stretch of land (found mostly in Siberia) with soil frozen all over deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teimo
Teimo is the second solo album from German Ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Köner has already fully developed his characteristic drone style here. It is also the record which made Köner known in electronic scene and together with next album, "Permafrost" (which were later re-issued in 1996 on one disc by Mille Plateaux - ''Teimo & Permafrost'') is considered by many critics and fans as his best work. Köner used a variety of techniques to record sound on "Teimo". One of which was recording gongs underwater, thus creating an almost disorienting yet beautiful drone. Track listing #"Ilira" - 3:25 #"Andenes" - 10:06 #"Teimo" - 5:14 #"Nieve Penitentes 1" - 3:04 #"Nieve Penitentes 2" - 4:43 #"Nieve Penitentes 3" - 4:27 #"Teimo (Schluss)" - 4:22 #"Ruska" - 3:40 Notes "Andenes" is a village in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunatak Gongamur
Nunatak Gongamur is the first studio album by the electronic artist Thomas Köner. It was released in 1990 on the Barooni record company. The album contains only one electronically controlled timbre, the gong. Roland Speckle helped with the production of the album. A nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ... is a mountainous rock summit not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier, and is found mostly on the North Pole. Track listing #"Untitled" – 3:23 #"Untitled" – 6:03 #"Untitled" – 4:28 #"Untitled" – 5:22 #"Untitled" – 6:24 #"Untitled" – 3:28 #"Untitled" – 5:06 #"Untitled" – 3:25 #"Untitled" – 3:28 #"Untitled" – 3:12 #"Untitled" – 4:04 References External links Discogs entryType Records reissue {{Authority control 1990 al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
