Fragment Factory is an independent record label and mail-order house based in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 2009 by Michael Muennich (*1980). The label specializes in releasing experimental electronic music in the broadest sense, including

Electro-acoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

Sound Art Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...

Noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...

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

cassette Cassette may refer to: Technology * Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback ** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in th ...

vinyl Vinyl may refer to: Chemistry * Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a particular vinyl polymer * Vinyl cation, a type of carbocation * Vinyl group, a broad class of organic molecules in chemistry * Vinyl polymer, a group of polymers derived from vinyl ...

, CD /

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and comprises works by international sound artists from the US, Canada, Asia, UK & Europe.Complete listing of Fragment Factory releases on Discogs, retrieved in August 2016, http://www.discogs.com/label/Fragment+Factory

Selected discography

* RAG46 Christina Kubisch - Schall und Klang CD (2019) * RAG45 Antoine Chessex - Subjectivation LP (2018) * RAG41 Eryck Abecassis & Francisco Meirino - La Gueule Du Loup CD (2017) * RAG39Alice Kemp - Fill My Body With Flowers And Rice LP (2016) * RAG36

Leif Elggren Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of ...

- Das Baank LP (2016) * RAG32Enema Syringe - Upshutlenvolte 7" (2014) * RAG29Schimpfluch-Gruppe - Nigredo C46 cassette (2013) * RAG26 Aaron Dilloway & Tom Smith - Allein Zu Zweit C48 cassette (2013) * RAG23Joachim Montessuis - Chapel Perilous LP (2012) * RAG20

John Duncan John Duncan may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John Duncan (painter) (1866–1945), Scottish painter * John Duncan (artist) (born 1953), American artist and musician * Big John Duncan (born 1958), Scottish punk musician * John Duncan (harpist) ...

/ Michael Esposito /

Z'EV Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser, February 8, 1951 – December 16, 2017) was an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of indust ...

- There Must Be A Way Across This River/The Abject LP (2011) * RAG19

GX Jupitter-Larsen GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled ''Juppiter-Larsen'') is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who has been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, ma ...

& Muennich - Die Arbeiter Von Wien 7" (2011) * RAG16 Michael Esposito &

Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States. 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 wor ...

- The Icy Echoer 7" (2010) * RAG10Circuit Wound - They Thrive In Complacency C20 cassette (2010) * RAG09Yoshihiro Kikuchi - Texts' Absence / Optical Gloom / Audible Lights C40 cassette (2010) * RAG07Dried Up Corpse - Nothing From Nothing C20 cassette (2010) * RAG06

Bryan Lewis Saunders Bryan Lewis Saunders (born 1969, in Washington, D.C.) is an endurance artist, a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and self-portrait painter known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and stand-up trag ...

& Raymond Dijkstra - Le Bobcat C40 cassette (2010)

References

External links

Official label website

Fragment Factory online store

Fragment Factory on Discogs

Fragment Factory on Facebook

Website
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