Farmers Manual

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Farmers Manual
Farmers Manual performing at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, February 2002
Farmers Manual performing at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, February 2002
Background information
Also known as farmersmanual
Origin Vienna, Austria
Genre(s) Experimental, Electronic, Extreme Computer Music
Years active 1995–present
Label(s) Mego, Tray, OR, and more
Associated acts CD_Slopper
Gcttcatt
pxp
Martin Ng
Russell Haswell
Website web.fm
Members
Mathias Gmachl
Stefan Possert
Oswald Berthold
Gert Brantner
Nik Gaffney

Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the nineties. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very lively viennese electronic music scene of the 90s, Farmers Manual were succefully crossing the boundaries between electronic music, live visuals, experimental graphic and web design.

Their CDs, published through avant-garde labels such as Mego, Tray or OR, often contained multimedia content. Their most significant release might be RLA (which stands for "Recent Live Archive"), a DVD released on Mego in 2003, which contains the bands extensive backcatalogue of live concert recordings from 1995-2003, compressed in mp3 format - totalling 3 days and 20 hours of audio content and released under a Copyleft licence.[1].

As visual artists, Farmers Manual have been included in numerous international festivals, such as FCMM (Montreal, 1999), Avanto (Helsinki, 2001), Art+Communication (Riga, 2006) [1].

Contents

[edit] Selected Discography

  • (1995) Farmers Manual: Does Not Compute (12", Tray)
  • (1996) Farmers Manual: FM (12", Mego 017)
  • (1997) Farmers Manual: fsck (CD, Tray)
  • (1998) Farmers Manual: Explorers_We (CD, OR)
  • (2000) CD_Slopper: SaskieWoxi (CD, OR)
  • (2001) Gcttcatt: Amperase (CD+, Mego 021)
  • (2002) pxp: while(p){print"."," "x$p++} (CD, Wavetrap)

Note: this album, by Farmers Manual member Oswald Berthold, was awarded a Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2002[2].

  • (2003) Farmers Manual: RLA (DVD-Video/ROM, Mego 777)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Buttimer, Colin (2003-06-05), Farmers Manual - RLA (recent live archive) DVD, BBC, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/zcf9/>. Retrieved on 26 December 2007 
  2. ^ "Here was a jutting mass of digitized disturbance that fueled our direct reckoning with destabilized mathematics. (...) Spam data malformations. Direct waveform bitstream. Seizure. Disengage. Smitten." - Hecker, Florian; Herrington, Tony & Humon, Naut (2002), Prix Ars Electronica 2002 - Jury-Statement, Ars Electronica Archive, <http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prixJuryStatement.asp?iProjectID=11720>. Retrieved on 26 December 2007 

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