Pomassl is an electronic sound and recording artist and DJ residing in

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, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton

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label. Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital electronic artists, including members of Pansonic and

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,Mutek 2005 artist profile: Franz Pomassl
/ref> as well as collaborated with a number of important artists across disciplines, including

Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, ar ...

, J. G. Thirlwell and

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. In addition to Laton, he has released with seminal electronic labels, such as

Raster-Noton Raster-Noton was a German electronic music record label. It was established in 1999 in Chemnitz, Germany. It emerged from the fusion of Rastermusik, founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider in 1996, and Noton (''Archiv für Ton und Nich ...

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Ash International Touch (sometimes mistakenly written 'Touch Records' and sometimes written Touch Music, which is technically the publishing side of the company) is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. Touch was founded in 1982 by Jon ...

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, Craft, Sabotage and Nexsound.

Methods

Pomassl improvises using all manner of homebuilt

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electronic equipment, often inserting or connecting patch cables with parts of his body to introduce a deliberate and violent character of noise into dancefloor rhythms.Live reviews: Mutek 2005
''Grooves 18'', Ron Schepper and Alex Reynolds In addition to being notable for absurd, violent,

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ist performances that satirize the artificial interaction between player and electronic instrument, he also creates custom instrumentation to examine the edges of human-perceptible audioAustrian Radio: Artist profile
/ref> and uses these tools to "elaborate and process radical moments", such as aircraft

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data collected from crash sites.Austrian Radio: About 'Aircra'
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Discography

Albums

* Skeleton (Austria
Craft/Sabotage
1995, Craft. 07) * Skeleton 2 (Austria
Craft/Sabotage
1997, Craft. 19) * Trail Error (Austria
Laton
1997, Laton 006) * Aircra (Austria
Laton
1999, Laton 018) * 2001 (Austria
Laton
2001, Laton 021) * Retrial Error (Rmxs + Original) (Austria
Laton
2002, Laton 011) * Retrial Error (Rmxs) (Austria
Laton
2002, Laton 012) * Amalgama (Austria
Laton
Unreleased, Laton 033) * Skeleton (Norway

2007, MANIA 10) * Spare Parts (Germany
Raster-Noton
2007, Raster-Noton R-N088)

EPs

* Soundtrack #2 (Austria
Ego Vacuum/Sabotage
1999, Ego 02)

Compilations

* Picknick mit Hermann! (Austria: Rhiz, 1997, Rhiz 001) * Clicks & Cuts 3 (Germany:

, 2002, MP 116 CD) * Prototype: Armaments And Armatures Against Electronic Music (Austria: Laton, 2003, Laton 025) * freq_out (UK:

, 2003, Ash 5.8) * MUTEK 2005 (Canada: Mutek Records, 2005)

Collaborations

* ARCHITECTRONICS (in collaboration with

) (Austria
Craft/Sabotage
1999, Craft. 38)

Sound installations

* ''Ohne Titel'', 2010 with Peter Kogler,

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, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * ''Dreamlands Burn'' (2006–2007) : Műcsarnok /

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* ''Runaway'' (2006) : Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava,

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* ''PORTAL II'' (2003) : Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel,

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: Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden * ''Avanto'' (2002) : Muu Galleria,

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* ''Frequenzen Hz - Audiovisuelle Räume'' (2002) :

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* ''10 Ans De Fri-Art - Etat des lieux #3'' (2001) : Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain,

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, Switzerland * ''Manifesta 2 - Luxembourg'' :

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- European Biennial of Contemporary Art,

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References

External links

Laton music label

Sabotage and Craft music labels
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