Franz Pomassl

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Franz Pomassl

Background information
Genre(s)	Avant garde Improvisation Glitch Noise
Occupation(s)	Musician Artist
Instrument(s)	Homebuilt analog instrumentation
Label(s)	Laton Club Rus Raster-Noton Mille Plateaux Ash International Sabotage Nexsound

Franz Pomassl is an electronic sound artist and DJ residing in Vienna, Austria, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton and Club Rus experimental techno labels.

Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital noise artists, including members of Pansonic and Carsten Nicolai,^[1] as well as collaborated with a number of important artists across disciplines, including Carl Michael von Hausswolff, J. G. Thirlwell and Kodwo Eshun. In addition to Laton, he has released with seminal electronic labels, such as Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Ash International, Craft, Sabotage and Nexsound.

1 Methods
2 Discography
3 Sound installations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Methods

Pomassl improvises using all manner of homebuilt analog 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.^[2]

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 audio^[3] and uses these tools to "elaborate and process radical moments", such as aircraft blackbox data collected from crash sites.^[4]

[edit] Discography

[edit] 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

[edit] EPs

Soundtrack #2
Austria: Ego Vacuum/Sabotage, 1999, Ego 02

[edit] 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: Ash International, 2003, Ash 5.8
MUTEK 2005 Canada: Mutek Records, 2005