Kasper T. Toeplitz : Recorded Works

CD's, LP's, Cassettes and Downloads/Streamings - more or less the complete discography

some more recordings (mostly live) on my YOU TUBE & BANDCAMP channels

 

   
   
 

"Nulle Part et Partout"

Kasper T. Toeplitz : Composition, Gongs & Electronics

Music for Gongs and Electronics, as played for the NULLE PART ET PARTOUT dance project by Myriam Gourfink. Music by Kasper T Toeplitz, as played on April 1st, 2023 at LE PACIFIQUE, Grenoble.There are two versions of the piece

Dowload Bandcamp

 

"ECARTS"

Fred Marty : contrebasse
Kasper T. Toeplitz : live electronics

Contrabass (Fred Marty) & Live electronics (Kasper T. Toeplitz),

Recorded live at Sleaze Art studio, February 10, 2023 

Dowload Bandcamp

 

"THE BORDER" compilation

"PERSISTENCE" by
Kasper T. Toeplitz : composition & Bass

Bocian Records made a very very nice gesture with this new ”The Border" compilation (on BandCamp) which is meant to help the humanitarian organisations working on the polish-belarussian border, helping refugees
Bocian Records presents a compilation with recordings from few of his favorite artists who were kind enough to agree to make their work available to support the Border Group.
Kasper T. Toeplitz composed and recorded for this project a bass solo "”Persistence”

Dowload Bandcamp

 

"VENTS STELLAIRES"

Kasper T. Toeplitz : composition & electronics
Zinc & Copper : Robin Hayward, Tuba ; Hilary Jeffery - Trombone ; Elena Kakagliou - French Horn

Bocian Records made a very very nice gesture with this new ”The Border" compilation (on BandCamp) which is meant to help the

CD ZORA Records

 

 

"ARCHE"

Kasper T. Toeplitz : composition & solo Bass

Bocian Records made a very very nice gesture with this new ”The Border" compilation (on BandCamp) which is meant to help the

CD ZORA Records

 

 

 

 

"ELEPHANT & CAT"

Kasper T. Toeplitz : composition & solo Bass

   
   
   
 

Marinos Koutsomichalis  & Kasper T. Toeplitz
”w piwnicy”

Kasper T Toeplitz- digital electronic sounds
Marinos Koutsomichalis - digital electronic sounds

   
 

"IRE - BESTIA"

ENSEMBLE IRE plays :

_Phill Niblock "NOIZZZE + IRE"
Hélène Breschand - electric harp
Kasper T. Toeplitz - electric bass
Franck Vigroux - electric guitar

_Toeplitz/Vigroux "BESTIA "
Kasper T. Toeplitz - electric bass
Franck Vigroux - synths

LP on Matière Mémoire

 

FORMANEX : 20 years of Experimental music

_a box of 10 CD's and 20 years of FORMANEX's (the group set up by Julien Ottavi, Anthony Taillard and Emmanuel Leduc) work in experimental music. Different compositions by people such as AMM, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Ralf Wehowsky, John Tilbury, Phill Niblock, Onnsemble, Seth Cluett, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Julien Ottavi and myself.

The CD #9 is all my work, with two pieces, "SZKIC" and "Demonology #11"

you can see the scores of those pieces on the page "Scores and Compositions"

the box was released on Mikroton

 

INTERFERENCES

 

_Cello_Titan (cello, Brice Catherin, & Live-electronics)

_Reflux-Reformation (Percussions, Tom de Cock, & Live-electronics)

_Secteurs d'Interférence (Flute, Erik Drescher, & Live-electronics)

Compositions & Live-electronics, Kasper T. Toeplitz

 

released by in-possible records.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

OCTOPUS

Hélène Breschand plays:

”OCCAM OCEAN XVI” (for acoustic harp)
by Eliane Radigue


and 


”CONVERGENCE, SATURATION & DISSOLUTION” 
(for electric harp and live-electronics) 
by Kasper T. Toeplitz 

released by Bocian Records

   
 

INERT/E

Congruences Contrariées

INERT/E is a duo of Lars Akerlund and Kasper T. Toeplitz
Since " Congruences Contrariées" is the third release of INERT/E, the duo of Lars Akelund and Kasper T. Toeplitz. They present there is what is at the core of this project : long waves of electronic sound architecture - "Congruences Contrariées" the only composition on this CD, last for over one hour, one track of electronic waves, sometimes quiet sometimes more agressive, a balance between the beauty of noise and a static calm. This time INERT/E did not use any fancy synths or any instruments nor "real" sounds : all the music and all the sounds were created on computers ; a "pure" electronic music.

released on Zora Records

   
 

Kasper T. Toeplitz / zeitkratzer

Agitation /Stagnation

a double CD of my work for Zeitkratzer. The composition for the ensemble is on one CD, on the second one there is the "electronic score" of the piece, as it was given to teh ensemble. You can play both CDs at the same time

 

 

released by Bocian Records

 

INERT/E

time profiles

INERT/E is a duo of Lars Akerlund and Kasper T. Toeplitz,This is our second release, a double CD. Each of the two CDs support one long track, respectively

"La perte du temps est la plus irréparable, et c'est celle qui inquiète le moins"

and

"Profils Irrationnels"

released on Zora Record

   
 

ESPACE

 

a duo of VOMIR and KTT. Only electronics, rather harsh. Two of the 3 tracks were recorded Live, one in studio. THe names of the 3 tracks are ESPACE, ESPACE and ESPACE

   
 

ART ZOYD

Phase V

My final collaboration with Art Zoyd & Gérad Hourbette, Phase V, which we started as a duo project which then collapsed. Finally when the 5 CD box was released, only one of my compositions stayed in : "Faze 5 _extérieur" which begins the long suite "Paysage des enfers "

 

released by In-possible records

   
 

Luzifers Abschied

 

a project by Akousmatikol, freely based on "Samstag aus Licht", part of Stockhausen's opera "Licht : die sieben Tage der Woche"
With Lunurumh (voices), Michel Doneda (sax soprano), Le Quan Ninh (percussion), Jason Van Gulick (drum), Antoine Chessex (sax tenor), Paolo Sanna (water phone) and Kasper T. Toeplitz (bass)


 

Kasper T. Toeplitz

AMAS

Pogus is very delighted to release this new CD by Kasper T. Toeplitz: AMAS - which could be translated as accumulation, heap, pile, maybe cluster, like the verb "to amass".
AMAS is one lengthy composition consisting of long electronic parts; as described by Toeplitz, it is “a growing organism: my idea when working on it was to take some ideas from Don Buchla’s "philosophy" as a starting point - ideas from the "West-Coast" school of music: in building the "engines" which produce sounds, the shaping of the sounds is rather made by modulations and adding harmonics (kind of distortions) than the more "classical" (East-Coast) method of using filtering. But the Buchla/West-Coast influence is also on the structure of the music itself, the work considered as a living organism rather than a strict composition; or perhaps rather like a fixed time and a walk with a given direction, but all the steps are not fixed.

CD POGUS

   
 

Kasper T. Toeplitz
"DATA_Noise"

Electronic composition played live by Kasper T. Toeplitz and Myriam Gourfink. Noise and stillness. Also generative video, and the noise of circulating data

Kasper T. Toeplitz - live electronics, generative video, lights
Myriam Gourfink - stillness

a page about DATA_Noisephoto by Marc Coudrais
cover by VeroWei

CD ROSA 11

 

Kasper T. Toeplitz
"GRIS"
Music for live electronics, bass and lithophone. The music was written (and played live) for the dance piece named "GRIS" choreographed by Myriam Gourfink. Immobility by Margot Dorleans, Carole Garriga, Deborah Lary and Véronique Weil. A huge electronic mass with the raw sound of stones hit by stones inside of it, a blast of energy beforean eternal immobility. 

Kasper T. Toeplitz - composition, live-electronics, bass
Philippe Foch - lithophone

Immobility by Margot Dorleans, Carole Garriga, Deborah Lary and Véronique Weil.

photo by Hervé Véronèse
cover by VeroWeil

rosa_10, CD

 

ART ZOYD

"44 1/2 - Live and unrealeased works"

a giant box of 12 CDs and 2 DVD, among which there are some of my compositions for ART ZOYD

 

 

released by In-Possible Records

 

Kasper T. Toeplitz & Anna Zaradny

Stacja nigdy w Zyciu

Two pieces, seemingly appearing out of the void, culminate – and fade away. It's at "Station Never in Life" ("Stacja Nigdy w ?yciu" in Polish) where Kasper T. Toeplitz and Anna Zaradny meet for their first duo LP. The recording features Anna Zaradny on saxophone, playing the instrument in her unique way, Kasper T. Toeplitz on bass as well as both of them using computers. This is at the same time and old project and a brand new one, or perhaps one in perpetual becoming: the two artists have already played together in many occasions in the past, but this time what is played is a project of a long-term collaboration, a way to explore the passing of time, trying new forms each time, working on the architecture of the proposed music but also the one of the venue in which the sounds will exist: a perpetual reconstruction of a crushed architecture. 

Vinyl LP AussenRaum

 

Zbigniew Karkowski


"Fluster" - for solo electric bass
composition : Zbigniew Karkowski
solo bass : Kasper T. Toeplitz

a one hour- long extreme bass solo written by Zbigniew Karkowski. "Fluster" was commissioned by GRM

 

CD release by Bocian Records

 

Kasper T. Toeplitz
"ALMASTY"

rosa_09, CD A

composition : Kasper T. Toeplitz

Solo bass, one long piece, very textural, very polyphonic or rather very polytimbral. You probably could not say it is a bass.

long composition for solo bass - one long piece, very textural, very polyphonic or rather very polytimbral. You probably could not say it is a bass, but it is not important

cover by Daria Gabriel

 

SLEAZE ART
"INFRA-BLAST"

composition : Kasper T. Toeplitz

Eryck Abecassis: bass
Fréderick Galiay : bass
Jb Hanak : bass
Kasper T. Toeplitz : bass 

Second CD of the bass-quartet version of Sleaze ART. A short (30 minutes) violent piece, angry and powerful. Recorded live

CD released on In paradisum

 

SLEAZE ART
"INFRA"

composition : Kasper T. Toeplitz

Eryck Abecassis: bass
Fréderick Galiay : bass
Jb Hanak : bass
Kasper T. Toeplitz : bass

"Un mur du son, un monolithe sonore - des basses et toutes les vibrations qui en découlent - Infra renvoie plus loin et plus bas que les fréquences basses elles-mêmes" 

CD on Bocian Records

 

Kasper T. Toeplitz, Jean-Noël Cognard, Jac Berrocal
"Disséminés ici et là"

LE SON DU GRISLI : Enregistrés le 18 juin 2014 à Evreux, puis Disséminés çà et là, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Jean-Noël Cognard et Jac Berrocal. Ainsi la basse de Toeplitz, derrière le sifflement des cymbales. Ronflant, elle déroule la trame et le son même de la rencontre : boulevard sous néons sombres sur lequel Berrocal pourra s'exprimer librement – c'est parfois, par quelques câbles no wave, Don Cherry solidement attaché à un totem fiché de travers. En fin de première face, les musiciens grondent toujours, mais en insistant maintenant : noise'n'roll tranchant… Qui tranchera d'ailleurs avec la seconde face : sur un écho léger, le trompettiste y improvise du bout des lèvres quand Toeplitz nourrit quelques parasites et Cognard invente une adéquate ponctuation : c'est alors une danse contournée qui préside aux débats, chassée bientôt par un blues étouffé par d'autres grondements sourds. Et « c'est l'heure », déjà : celle de l'après-écoute, celle où le trio concrétise son vœu du jour : Toeplitz, Cognard et Berrocal, Disséminés, çà et là. 

Kasper T. Toeplitz - basse, électronique
Jac Berrocal - trompette & voix
Jean-Noël Cognard - batterie, objets

vinyl by Bloc Thyristors

 

UNTITLED #274 


composed by FRANCISCO LOPEZ for electric bass and played by KASPER T. TOEPLITZ. 

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music. For more than thirty years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

Important Records

 

My Daily Noise

Daniel Buess : percussions
Kasper T. Toeplitz, : bass

CD of the duo of Daniel Buess & Kasper T. Toeplitz, playing loud, aggressive music which sometimes is very peaceful, using symphonic bass drums, giant springs, metal percussions, noise effects, low strings, lots of sub-bass and tons of distortion.

 

CD on ZORA_Records

 

LEON + KTT

a bass trio of LEON (swiss bass duo) and Kasper T. Toeplitz. A private release and the beginning of a very nice trio project.

 


 

Blast of Silence

Kasper T. Toeplitz / Julien Ottavi

a collaboration between Julien Ottavi and myself - Julien plays voice, laptop and crotales (which are also called ancient cymbals I guess) and I play Bass and electronics. Recorded in Nantes (APO33) mixed in Paris and released by the Polish label Bocian Records - on clear vinyl !!!!

 

LP on Bocian Records

 

NO BULLSHIT - a sonic tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski 
and audio DVD with over 5 hours of music

including

LE DEPEUPLEUR (Kasper T. Toeplitz & Zbigniew Karkowski)

"Unifomly Luminous"

 

NO BULLSHIT

 

Zbigniew Karkowski
_ Unreleased Material
a CD released after the passing of Zbigniew Karkowski, with tracks by
ZK & Daniel Beuss - live from LUFF does Tokyo
Ilios - Kelkajan_Fortjan_Muziko
ZK & Julien Ottavi - Xuang
ZK & Lars Akerlund - Mittelpunkte for ZK
ZK & Sin:Ned - Act of Noise

and
the recording of the very last concert by LE DEPEUPLEUR 

"Thinking the unthinkable"

LE DEPEUPLEUR was Zbigniew Karkowski & Kasper T. Toeplitz

Fibrr Records

 

Akerlund / Toeplitz
"INERT / E"

rosa_08, CD

. ayered soundscapes.

a page about INERT/E

cover by Paul Collins

 

P_LAB + Z + KASPER T. TOEPLITZ
this is a home-made (all covers are different!) release of a concert KTT did with Paul Collins' trio P_Lab in Caen, on march 14, 2012. great, somewhat "drony" music, all improvised.

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

 

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"

 

Label Radical Matters

 

Eliane RADIGUE
"ELEMENTAL II "

rosa_07, CD

Aposition isstill strictly the same.

cover by Thomas Kieffer

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

KERNEL
"KERNEL #2 (second version)"

rosa_06, CD

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 diffrent interpretation - a much longer one (53 minutes) and with much more density to it.

Actually this CD and this composition define very much what KERNEL is allabout - live interpretation of written scores of electronic music. Comparing the 2 versions is something... - exacltly the same music, never the same !

a page about KERNEL

cover by Anne Delrieu

 

KERNEL
"D.R."

rosa_05, CD

This is the third CD of KERNEL (the second one, DEEP, was released on ZORA Records) - with still the same musicians - Eryck Abecassis, KTToeplitz & Wilfried Wendlin. And still live electronic music preformed live on computers

On this CD, two electronic compositions :
1/ DUST RECONSTRUCTION (KTToeplitz)
2/ DROWNING REPORT (E Abecassis)

a page about KERNEL

photo Leen Varx
cover by Anne Delrieu

   
   
   
   
   
   
 

KERNEL
"KERNEL #2"

rosa_04, CD

KERNEL is an ensemble of live electronic music. All of it is written down, on scores, and is interpreted by the musicians - all in real-time: no sound files, no samples, no sequencers. Analog equipement can be used, even if the core of each musician's set-up is the computer. Each of them has to write its own computer program, as this is considered being part of the interpretation of the written score.
The musicians are Eryck Abecassis, KTToeplitz & Wilfried Wendling KERNEL#2, written by K.T.Toeplitz, is the first piece to be played by KERNEL.
The only used sources are noises, filtered, processed, perveted. A 43 minutes long architechture of noises.

a page about KERNEL

cover by Anne Delrieu

   
   
   
   
   
   
 

Le DEPEUPLEUR
(Kasper T. Toeplitz & Zbigniew Karkowski)
"ZKT "

LE DEPEUPLEUR is the electronic project of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kasper T. Toeplitz. Both musicians use computers, and create electronic sounds - no samples, no "found" sounds - it's all "pure" electronic. Even if their names can (also) be found in the "noise" circles - they did collaborate with musicians such as Merzbow, Tetsuo Furudate, CCCC or Francisco Lopez, to name a few - they are both composers having done, and still doing fully written down pieces for orchestras, ensembles etc
"ZKT" is a long, one-hour piece structured in two parts - its ending being an eternal resonance. Re-read Beckett.

a page about LE DEPEUPLEUR
cover by Thomas Kieffe
r
rosa_03, CD

 

Kasper T. Toeplitz
"CAPTURE "

rosa_02, CD

CAPTURE is a piece which is as much music as choregraphy as video, and whose interpreters interpret this piece  in its globality (dance, music, images) and not by separating the different artistic fields . The final form is as much a concert than a dance piece or even a live video installation. All of it. Of course the CD version gives you only the music - a long ascension whose only sound generator is a white noise - carefully sculpted by numerous filters, all activated in real-time by the movements of the 3 dancers

cover by Thomas Kieffer

 

Eliane RADIGUE
"ELEMENTAL II "

A composition for solo electric bass, written by Eliane Radigue, and played by KTToeplitz. It was the first time Eliane wrote something for a musician, all her previous pieces were for her synths. Since then she only composes instrumental music, for different musicians.

cover by Thomas Kieffer

rosa_01, CD

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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