Chop Shop

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Chop Shop a.k.a. Scott Konzelmann, is a noise musician who has released recordings on Pure, RRRecords, Banned Prodution, V2_Archief and Generator Sound Art.

Chop Shop creates sound using salvaged materials and speakers to create drones and other sounds specific to the speaker created.[1] Often the speaker features prominently in the packaging as a photo or daguerreotype. Chop Shop is known also for innovative packaging using leather, tar paper, steel plates, etc.

Konzelmann is also part of Generator Sound Art, Inc. in New York City[2]. In 2005 Chop Shop was part of the Activating the Medium Festival[3].

[edit] Discography (selection)

  • Steelplate - 1991 (2 10" EPs bound to 10" square plate of steel) RRRecords.
  • Tension Charge Discharge - 1994 (3" CD in metal mesh package) V2_Archief.
  • Plays Emil Beaulieau - Red & Buried (5" CD) Pure[4].
  • Smolder - 1998 (3" CD on copper plate wrapped in lead) V2_Archief.
  • Discrete Emission (7" record in riveted tar paper (or limited sewn leather) sleeve -- one side plays "in," one "out") Banned Production[5].
  • Powerdrunk (5" CD in tar paper sleeve) Banned Prodction.
  • Rusty Hum (3" CD) Banned Prodction.
  • Hello (business card-size CD) Banned Production.
  • Kaput (3" CD "packaged in a gauze wrap surgical taped to a sheet of cracked safety glass.") Generator Sound Art.
  • Perpetual Tension (Concert for Speaker Constructions) - Live performance April 29th, 1994 at Roulette, NYC (5" CDR) Generator Sound Art.
  • Breakthrough (5" CDR - "A repackaged edition of the limited 1992 cassette release of the Orgonon field recordings") Generator Sound Art.
  • Oxide (5" CD) 23five - 2008 [6][7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chop Shop (23five.org). Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  2. ^ Generator online. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  3. ^ Activating The Medium. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  4. ^ RRRecords Label Catalogue. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  5. ^ "Chop Shop" at Banned Production. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
  6. ^ Oxide Review at Brainwashed.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  7. ^ "Oxide" at 23five.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.


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