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
_Second is "Eau Blanche" which i composed, for many many many massed instruments
_Third is "OUSIA", a solo bass piece Droer Feiler wrote for me

all of it is, well, noisy!! All 3 pieces were commissioned by Art Zoyd Studio

AZ_2010

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
A page about KTToeplitz is here

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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
A page about KTToeplitz is here
A page about Abecassis is here

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CRUNCHY CRUNCH

(Fractal Music #4)

a compilation CD, concept by Joël Hubaut, realesed by
Station MIR

features a 1 minute piece by

KTToeplitz, played on electric bass

"Royaumes Inconnus"

[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

Empreintes Digitales

KERNEL _ The DEEP
composed by KTToeplitz

Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Wilfried Wendling :
computers & analog electronics

The second recording of KERNEL, ensemble of live electronic music.

ref: ZORA_R01

KERNEL is here

ZORA_Records is here

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

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

KERNEL _ KERNEL#2
composed by KTToeplitz

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

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"
Here it is played by Laurent Dailleau on solo Theremin with multiple pre-recorded theremins

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.

[walnut + locust] http://www.walnutlocust.com/

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
MOUVEMENT says:
Figure de proue de l’avant-garde musicale des années 1970-80, le collectif Art Zoyd revient avec Champ des larmes, oratorio électronique pour quatre musiciens et cinq sources vidéos, qui le voit renouer brillamment avec son inspiration des débuts.
Groupe français formé dans les années 1970, ayant navigué dans le sillage de ses amis Univers Zéro, Art Zoyd est surtout connu pour ses musiques composées pour des ballets contemporain, ainsi que pour des films muets – parmi lesquels Nosferatu, Faust ou Haxan –, livrant à chaque fois une interprétation remarquable et pertinente de l’œuvre originale. Les années 1990 avaient été, pour le groupe, plus que difficiles, entre hésitation et redite, et marquées par le départ de Thierry Zaboitzeff, l’un de ses deux leaders aux côtés de Gérard Hourbette, parti entreprendre une carrière solo décevante. Hourbette eut alors l’intelligence de faire appel au renommé Kasper Toeplitz, qui signe ici plus de la moitié des titres et permet à Art Zoyd de redevenir la formation avant-gardiste qu’il a longtemps été. Constitué d’acolytes des débuts (Patricia Dallio) ou de nouveaux venus à point nommé (Jérôme Soudan), le groupe présente Le Champ des Larmes comme un « oratorio électronique pour quatre musiciens et cinq sources vidéos », composé autour du thème des cinq fleuves traversant les Enfers. « Varier les limites d’un champ audible, les préciser ou au contraire en “flouter” les contours, accélérer un mouvement statique, varier le point de gravité d’une masse inerte, alourdir un mouvement continu, sont autant de comportements familiers à ma musique et autant de sensations assimilables à l’idée de l’eau », déclare Kasper Toeplitz, soulignant du même coup les analogies sensitives aux fleuves de l’Enfer qui sont à l’œuvre dans ce disque où se mêlent musique expérimentale, électroacoustique, field-recording et le ambient sombre. Car l’eau qui s’écoule à travers cette œuvre est un flot glauque, opaque et agité. Art Zoyd, dont l’univers a toujours été très sombre, signe ici l’une de ses compositions les plus dépressives et les plus tourmentées, d’une grande beauté sous l’épaisse couche de noir.

in-possible records

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

more about LE DEPEUPLEUR is here

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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
more about LE DEPEUPLEUR is here

ref: r.o.s.a._03

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

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

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

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
You can listen to an mp3 version of it here

LE DEPEUPLEUR _ ERRATUM

ERRATUM 4 _ Compilation

LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here

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:
__Kasper T. Toeplitz's "PURR#2" resembles a freeway accident victim's last moment of life
__The visceral energy of Kasper T. Toeplitz's "Purr#2," which begins as a furious maelstrom but fades into atmospheric ambience, is an anomaly, though the rest of 33RPM isn't devoid of pathos
__Toeplitz's bombastic "PURR#2", though impressively executed, sounds heavy-handed

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

LE DEPEUPLEUR

Zbigniew Karkowski & KTToeplitz : computers

First LE DEPEUPLEUR CD.

LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here

CrossFadeEnterTainement, or CFET. ref: PP008. contact: CFET@CFET.COM

METROPOLIS, APPARS

ART ZOYD _ METROPOLIS

my first project with Art Zoyd - the music for the famous silent movie

YAM ALMOST MAY

Phill Niblock : Touch Food

playing the Niblock's solo bass piece.

ref TOUCH TO:59

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)

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.

XXX

Zenial, Reworked

rework of Zenial's pieces by many artists

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

DEPEUPLEUR_3

A compilation, with a track by Le Dépeupleur

LE DEPEUPLEUR page is here

Io CASINO - Mundo das ferramentas

I was invited to play bass on Io's second CD.

HORIZON NOIR

François Bon & Kasper T Toeplitz

a collaborative work, based on poetry by Baudelaire

ANTICHTON

Victor Nubla

Me playing bass - live recording

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

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:
Zbigniew Karkowski, Atau Tanaka, Dror Feiler, Edwin Van Den Heide, Merzbow, KK Null, CCCC, Tetsuo Furudate, Ami, lots lots lots of people

NEON GREEN

Collaboration between Tetsuo Furudate and KTT recorded in Tokyo.

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.

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

Illumination Rounds _ Sleaze Art

CD of Sleaze art, orchestra of electric guitars and basses which i led for some years

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

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".

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!

PRAY RIEN "Froid"

RADIO BONDAGE compilation

Pray Rien -a pop group, and me playing bass

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.
"Stihll" is for a double sax quartet (2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors & 2 baritones). A short piece, 6'30" which was played in many occasions - seems the saxophonists like it. what could it mean - about the composition or about the saxophonists??? the CD was edited by the school of music of Haute-Saône - east of France

ref: ADDIM 70

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.

NEMESIS _

The White Horse _ compilation

I play bass on a composition, "NEMESIS" by Alain Basso

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

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