Pomassl is an electronic sound and recording artist and DJ residing in Vienna, Austria, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton experimental techno label. Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital electronic artists, including members of

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

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and Kodwo Eshun. In addition to Laton, he has released with seminal electronic labels, such as Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux,

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, Sex Tags Mania, Craft, Sabotage and

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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, dadaist 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 blackbox data collected from crash sites.Austrian Radio: About 'Aircra'
/ref>

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: Mille Plateaux, 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 Kodwo Eshun) (Austria
Craft/Sabotage
1999, Craft. 38)

Sound installations

* ''Ohne Titel'', 2010 with Peter Kogler, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * ''Dreamlands Burn'' (2006–2007) : Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary * ''Runaway'' (2006) :

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

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

, Germany :

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* ''Avanto'' (2002) : Muu Galleria, Helsinki, Finland * ''Frequenzen Hz - Audiovisuelle Räume'' (2002) : Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * ''10 Ans De Fri-Art - Etat des lieux #3'' (2001) : Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

* ''Manifesta 2 - Luxembourg'' : Manifesta -

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, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

References

External links

Laton music label

Sabotage and Craft music labels
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