Discography
K.T.Toeplitz
I belive everything is not there.... some recordings are probably missing - from my collection but from my mind as well. Anyhow, in a more or less chronological order those are the recordings of Kasper T. Toeplitz. Some under my name, some are compilations, other are group projects..... On some I play myself - either electric bass or computer - other are music which i composed, played by other musicians.
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P_LAB + Z + KASPER T. TOEPLITZ what Vital Weekly says about it : This is quite cute: 'You mean recall having kindly written about my cd-r, 'Wipe Out' way back in Vital Weekly number 486', the letter says, but no, I don't remember what I wrote about last week, let alone August 3 2005. Even after re-reading that review, I have no real clue as to how it sounded, but apparently indeed I liked it. Paul Collins, who wrote that, played on and on with a band called Ultradig and Caandides, and in the last two years with Lukas, Adrian, and Bladine, making up the group P_Lab, who played on March 14 of this year with Kasper T. Toeplitz a concert, which also included texts by Emmanuel Zwenger, the Z in the listing. There is no mentioning of instruments on the cover of this release, but hearing this music, which they describe as 'minimal drone noise', I assume it's an all laptop affair, plus perhaps some out board electronics to further color the detail of the affair. Most of the times it's quite a loud affair of heavy drones which come close to the world of noise, but luckily it's never really loud. For me the first piece, at forty five minutes already quite a beast, would have been enough to get the drift, so the next one, another twenty-five minutes may seem superfluous. The writer only appears, it seems, in the final piece, which curiously then only takes one and half minute. Quite a decent release, nothing new under the sun, but executed with quite an amount of style and care, which works out long and well. (FdW) CDR by Care Not Care
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Kasper T. Toeplitz PERDU (solo electric bass) I don't know when this music was recorded, why it was composed, what for, when... I know it is me playing and I know it is only my bass, I know there is no other sounds (as I never use pre-recorded sounds). I found this recording on a blank CDr, at home. nothing written on - what is this? Yes, it is me, for sure and it was obviously a composed piece - the structure is quite unusual. I did not touch, edited or mixed it in any way. And not being able to remember what it was, I called it "mystery bass"
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ELEMENTAL II _ composed by Eliane Radigue Solo electric bass : K.T.Toeplitz "Elemental II" est la première pièce qu'Eliane Radigue ait jamais écrite pour un instrument sans utiliser de sons préenregistrés, sans utiliser son synthétiseur ARP. rosa_06 |
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INOCULATE? Instabilité entre son et silence, entre stagnation et pression de l'air ; ou encore fantômes digitaux, rémanences de ce qui n'a pas eu lieu - et l'électronique "live" qui sculpte cette matière. Instruments démultipliés à l'excès ou au contraire réduits au souffle le plus ténu, distordus et parasités par eux-mêmes autant que par la grouillante immobilité de la danseuse, corps à entendre. Une lenteur toujours en déséquilibre aux brusques accélérations, un statisme rempli d'électricité, un mur de son. label ALaMuse ALM 003 |
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Dark Matter "Mo.N.D." Kasper T. Toeplitz : bass, computer, tam / Antoine Chessex : sax, electronics label Radical Matters rmwe#099 FREE DOWNLOAD !!! |
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Kasper T. Toeplitz & Z'EV _ "Fleur de peau" a collaboration between KTT and Z'EV. Kasper plays bass and computer, Z'ev only skins - drums. We have a piece by Z'EV, who plays skins and 'symphonic bass-drum' and Kasper Toeplitz on bass and computer. At the basis there is a live recording from January 2010 in Paris which was mixed and assembled by Toeplitz in the time after that. The one piece, forty-five minutes, is divided in some clear distinct parts, like a strong opener with Z'EV clearly on the skins and Toeplitz on the bass, followed by a long section in which things get a bit blurry: who does what here? Not that it really matters of course, but here the abstraction level goes up. Then, after say some thirty minutes, the two leap into a fierce piece of drumming and distorted bass sounds, almost like a noise/tribal, ending on a similar note in the last five minutes. Quite an odd piece, I must say, or perhaps not something one expects to work very well, but actually it does. Moving from the very loud and demanding passages into a more calm land somewhere in the middle. Excellent. realeased by agxivatein |
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EPHEMERIDES NOCTURNES dvd the first release of the work of the duo of Strom Varx (photography) and Kasper T. Toeplitz (bass) which we called "audial photographic experiment". Slow sub-bass movements of sound with a slightly moving stillness of the images. released on ZORA Recordings, ZORA_02
more about EPHEMERIDES |
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ARCHIPEL ELECTRONIQUE vol. 1 a compilation of (some of the) french "new" electronic scene, on the "D'autres cordes" label, run by Franck Vigroux. Includes works by franck vigroux, jerôme montagne, erikm, christophe ruetsch, annabelle playe, samuel sighicelli, bérangére maximin, sébastien roux and kasper t. toeplitz. my piece is calle "Territoire Fracas" d'autres cordes records 2011 |
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PURE NOISE A CD by 3 composers but which I consider very much a s being "mine": _First piece is "Ragnar_2" by Ulrich Kreiger, with Ulrich playing sax and me playing bass all of it is, well, noisy!! All 3 pieces were commissioned by Art Zoyd Studio AZ_2010
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KERNEL _____ "KERNEL#2 (second version)" The fourth CD of KERNEL - with still the same musicians, Eryck Abecassis, KTToeplitz & Wilfried Wendling - is a re-creation of their first CD, KERNEL#2, two years later. Exactly the same score, but a differnet interpretation - a much longer one (53 minutes) and with much more density to it. Actually this CD defines very much what KERNEL is about - live interpretation of written scores of electronic music. Comparing the 2 versions is something... !!
A page about KERNEL is here rosa_06 |
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KERNEL _____ "D.R." This is the third CD of KERNEL - with still the same musicians - Eryck Abecassis, KTToeplitz & Wilfried Wendling On this CD, two electronic compositions : 1/ DUST RECONSTRUCTION (KTToeplitz) 2/ DROWNING REPORT (E Abecassis) A page about KERNEL is here rosa_05 |
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CRUNCHY CRUNCH (Fractal Music #4) a compilation CD, concept by Joël Hubaut, realesed by
features a 1 minute piece by KTToeplitz, played on electric bass "Royaumes Inconnus"
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[60]Project _ Mathew Atkins A CD by Mathew Adkins made out of short pieces/sounds made by 66 artists : A_dontigny, AGF, Lars Akerlund, Michael Alcorn, Javier Alvarez, Miguel Azguime, Natasha Barrett, François Bayle, Gonzalo Biffarella, Ludger Brümmer, Mira Calix, Christian Calon, Lawrence Dhomont, Lawrence english, eRikm, Dror Feiler, Christian Fennesz, Ambrose Field, Iris garrelfs, Gilles Gobeil, Kink Gong, Jonty Harrison, Tim Hecker, Erdem Helvacioglu, Zoë Irvine, Christina kubisch, Diane Labrosse, Andrew Lewis, Mats Lindstrom, Francisco Lopez, Eric Lyon, Stephan Mathieu, Adrian Moore, Ake Parmerud, Gert-Jan Prins, Maja Solveig Ratkje, Pedro Rebelo, Steve Roden, Sébastien Roux, Scanner, Janek Schaefer, Conrad Schnitzler, Si-cut.db, Wayne Siegel, Rodrigo Sigal, Sogar, Pete Stollery, Paulina Sundin, Kees Tazelaar, Terre Thaemlitz, Todor Todoroff, Kasper T Toeplitz, David Toop, German Toro-Perez, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Hans Tutschku, Rodrigo Cichelli Velloso, Marc Weiser/Rechenzentrum, Yeoh Yin Pin, John Young, Christian Zanesi
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KERNEL _ The DEEP Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Wilfried Wendling : The second recording of KERNEL, ensemble of live electronic music. ref: ZORA_R01 KERNEL is here ZORA_Records is here |
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FROZ#3 _ composed by KTToeplitz "Saxophone Extrême" a CD played by Serge Bertocchi The saxophonist Serge Bertocchi did a CD a compositions played on the Tubax, which is a new model of Contrabass sax. Those include my own Froz#3 and other pieces by people such as G. Scelsi, M. Monnet, A. Stroe, M-H Fournier.... Bach even!! 2 versions of Froz#3 do exist - the one recorded here, which is a "CD-only" version, and a "live" version that Serge plays ... you can listen to an mp3 version here
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La chute de la maison Usher _ ART ZOYD ART ZOYD one more project with Art Zoyd. Actually the music for it was written around 2001, but the project was premiered only in 2008. Only one piece written by myself, Froz#4. of course the "maison Usher" here is the silent movie by Jean Epstein (1928) - and the music was played live with the film. More about Art Zoyd here ref in-possible records |
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KERNEL _ KERNEL#2 Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Wilfried Wendling : computers & analog electronics The first recording of KERNEL, ensemble of live electronic music. ref: r.o.s.a._04 |
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Le Chant d'Enoch _ composed by KTToeplitz Compilation Cité de la musique : Les instruments du Musée de la musique Le Chant d'Enoch is part of the music written for the ART Zoyd's project "ARMAGEDDON" |
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Mean Density 11.8 _ composed by KTToeplitz Compilation CrO2: a tribute to analog My track, "Mean Density 11.8" is an electronic piece, in which i use (among other tools) the recording of Titan, a moon of Saturne. 11.8 being the mean density there. Other tools include a soprano sax (not that you would recognise it) which is a recording of one or two notes played by Ulrich Krieger, noise generators (Litter library), maxMSP, Amber X, the TimeWARP recreation of the ARP synth, and a crackle box - thanks to mats Lindström, from the EMS studio, in Stockholm. |
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Le champ des Larmes _ ART ZOYD a project with ART ZOYD - half of the music is written by myself (the rest is written by Gerard Hourbette). It is played by Art Zoyd, which for this project is 4 persons - 2 keyboards (+ sensors) and 2 percussions; all of them play some electronics. STYX is written for 4 kaoss-pads (and MaxMSP of course). Certainly the best project i have done with Art Zoyd. More about Art Zoyd here in-possible records |
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disambiguation _ LE DEPEUPLEUR Zbigniew Karkowski & KTToeplitz : computers Following ZKT a new Dépeupleur CD - but very different. A study in noises, mostly greys. Not harsh, certainly not melodic - a kind of noisy purity
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ZKT _ LE DEPEUPLEUR Zbigniew Karkowski & KTToeplitz : computers Recordings Of Sleaze Art third release. LE DEPEUPLEUR is a long term project with Zbigniew. Some could call it "noise" but i belive it is not about noise, it's about composition ref: r.o.s.a._03 |
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CAPTURE _ composed by Kasper T Toeplitz Computers (softVNS & MaxMSP) Capture is played by 3 dancers-musicians: Carole Garriga, Myriam Gourfink, Cindy Van Acker, ref: r.o.s.a._02 |
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ELEMENTAL II _ composed by Eliane Radigue Solo electric bass : KTToeplitz The CD which started the Recordings Of Sleaze Art label. It took me a really long time to convince Eliane to write a piece for me: before that she never composed anything for a musician - well, she did a piece played by Gérard Fremy, "Geelriandre", but it was for tape and piano. So "Elemental II" was the first time she did a piece without any prerecorded sounds, all played live and by someone else. Since then she wrote a piece for Charles Curtis, solo cello. But "Elemental II" was the first one. The bass is plugged directly into my computer, running a MaxMSP patch i wrote. 50 minutes of suspension... ref: r.o.s.a._01 |
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TOPOGRAPHIE DES TERROR Laurent Dailleau / Kasper T Toeplitz _ computers Again a conceptual project - but a nice one. The idea came from Laurent - to make a CD in which each of us only plays one one channel - kind of Velvet Underground's "The Gift". I then proposed than each of the - mono - parts pans from one side to the other for the duration of the music (which is 45 minutes, more or less). And then that we use exactly the same instrumentation - Macs and MaxMSP here. Of course when working on ours parts we could not know what he other was doing. Turned out quite well. we then played it again live - not the same music, but the same idea. It works. ref: Tiramizu 2004 _ Tiramizu web-site is HERE |
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MSG#9 _ composeed by KTT for ensemble & live-electronics Warsaw Autumn 2003 _ compilation my piece is written for a small ensemble - strings, percussions and live electronics
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LE DEPEUPLEUR _ ERRATUM ERRATUM 4 _ Compilation
LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here
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PURR#2 _ solo BassComputer , composed and played by KTT 33 RPM - Ten hours of sound from France _ compilation you can find much more about this compliation here . about my own piece, PURR#2, some comments are really great: |
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PURR#1 _ computer, composed and played by KTT Compilation. My track was commissioned by them, it was played live in 4 wagons - i did not went to see it, but I was told it was good
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LE DEPEUPLEUR Zbigniew Karkowski & KTToeplitz : computers First LE DEPEUPLEUR CD. LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here CrossFadeEnterTainement, or CFET. ref: PP008. contact: CFET@CFET.COM |
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METROPOLIS, APPARS ART ZOYD _ METROPOLIS my first project with Art Zoyd - the music for the famous silent movie
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YAM ALMOST MAY Phill Niblock : Touch Food playing the Niblock's solo bass piece. ref TOUCH TO:59 |
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BIEL Who, what composition for small orchestra, samplers and electronics. probably the only time I did use samplers (they are so much "art zoyd" and art zoyd commissioned the piece)
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The groovers "Sophisticated Boom Boom" I play some cello on this one. A garage band - rock. Cello is good for this - even if you cannot play it, everybody loves it. |
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XXX Zenial, Reworked
rework of Zenial's pieces by many artists
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No Scale State Of The Union _ Compilation a triple CD - each composer had to write a one minute piece. I wrote mine when staying in New York
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DEPEUPLEUR_3 A compilation, with a track by Le Dépeupleur LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here
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Io CASINO - Mundo das ferramentas I was invited to play bass on Io's second CD.
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HORIZON NOIR François Bon & Kasper T Toeplitz
a collaborative work, based on poetry by Baudelaire
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ANTICHTON Victor Nubla Me playing bass - live recording
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LE DEPEUPLEUR _ Zbigniew Karkowski & KTToeplitz : computers First time ever i used the computer as instrument. Did not knew i would stick to it that much! LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here
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Senssurround Orchestra _ Meltdown Of Control a sort of "orchestra of noise", done when i was stayin in Japan. A lot of noise, a lot of players:
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NEON GREEN
Collaboration between Tetsuo Furudate and KTT recorded in Tokyo.
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FISSURE first solo CD - very classical if you ask me. 3 pieces which blend in a continuity, the main one being a solo voice piece (sung by Isabel Soccoja) based on texts by Paul Celan.
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ERRE End ID compilation made in Japan, when i was staying in Kyoto - it was compiled by koji Mazutani. Was supposed to be about the end of the XX century
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Illumination Rounds _ Sleaze Art CD of Sleaze art, orchestra of electric guitars and basses which i led for some years
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PREY RIEN Ep not only Vinyl, but a real Ep - 45rpm and all this!!! playing bass with Prey Rien (Bernard Perrot - it was his project - and fred Bigot on guitar). With a version of "THE MIXER" by Jonathan Richman - yes, THE MODERN LOVERS. Hey Girls!! ref FFFascination 008 54/55 av du Golf, 06250 Mougins, France |
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Macromassa Puerta Heliogàbal Project of Victor Nubla, he invited me to play bass on it, as a "special guest". I remember it was a nice session, in Bercelona, and I played quite well - there is a cool bass solo on the "hidden track".
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SLEAZE ART Noiseville, Blindness & Insight Sleaze Art orchestra of guitars & basses - in vinyl! this was the beginning of the second (and last?) incarnation of Seaze Art. A great project!
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PRAY RIEN "Froid" RADIO BONDAGE compilation Pray Rien -a pop group, and me playing bass
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STIHLL _ composed by KTT for 8 saxophones "Point de lune et autres créations" compilation of saxophone music Different (french) composers writing for saxophones - anything from solo to ensemble - Blanc, Carlosema, Petit, Rolin, Rossé and KTT. ref: ADDIM 70 |
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MEMORY-CENDRES _ composed by KTT for small ensemble "Présences '92" A compilation of the "Presences" festival, organised by Radio-France - the 1992 edition as you can guess. The europe of young composers, it says..... My piece was written for the 'Accroche Note ensemble - that's voice, bass clarinet, percussion and double-bass. At the time I was aa "young composer" very classical in fact. It is contemporary music - just an extension of classical. i would not write like this any more, for sure. It was the favourite of my mother - I mean if she had to choose between MY pieces. it might still be. Because of the voice, no doubt.
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NEMESIS _ The White Horse _ compilation I play bass on a composition, "NEMESIS" by Alain Basso
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WASTED _ composed and played by KTT "Pièces pour standarts et répondeurs télephoniques" compilation A compilation with a stupid, "arty" idea - musics for answering machines. Yeah, Touch did the same thing lears later, but this one was done in 1992. Of course the pieces are short. "WASTED" is 38 seconds long, and it's basically a bass feedback played backwards. Other people on this compilation are Albert Marcoeur, Jerôme Noetinger, Heiner Goebbels, Karl Biscuit , Le Quan Ninh, Bernard Perrot, Jacques Rebotier, Christian Boltanski, Christian Marclay. I did not listen to it in years.. ref: Nouvelles Scènes NS01 |
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ORGONE (Sleaze Art) Paysage Foudroyé (solo bass) composed by KTT DITHYRAMBE _ LP Vinyl. A strange LP, kind of collaboration with the parisian group Shubb_Nigurath. they play one piece, Sleaze Art, in its very first incarnation of 5 electric basses, plays "ORGONE", then there is a solo voice piece, written by Jean-Luc Hervé, of Shubb-Nigurath, and finally "Paysage Foudroyé" which is a bass solo (which i play). it was released by Musea, a label of progressive music - and Sleaze Art was not exactly their cup of tea - they were much more into Shubb-Nigurath. All the people from this scene, at the time were heavily into Magma, Art Zoyd and Univers Zero. I was not into this - i never liked Magma. I would not imagine, at the time, collaborating, years later, with Art Zoyd! ref Musea |
