Pharmakustik

Siegmar Fricke started his first musical experiments in 1981 using tape-recorders and shortwave-radio signals to create collages of musique-concrète that have been recorded on various cassettes. After intense activities in the European tape-scene between 1985 and 1993 Siegmar Fricke founded the project Efficient Refineries together with Miguel A. Ruiz (Orfeon Gagarin) from Madrid. Further CD-collaborations with the Italian sound-artist Maurizio Bianchi were realized: ENDOKRANIOSIS (on Tibprod/Norway), STROMA~KONKRET (on Monochrome Vision/Russia) and PRIMORDIUM (on Theeasternfront/Israel).Siegmar Fricke characterizes his musical works as "Pharmakustik": Pharmakustik might be a new path of sound-innovation in today's technological music that often lacks the approach of profound sound-experimentations by focussing just on preset-sounds, melodies and familiar song-structures. Pharmakustik instead consists of reduced and syncopated rhythmic patterns, clinically filtered ambiences generated by sampling-technology, electro-modulated voices and linear structure; in detail all single audio-elements are completely modulated by various electronic devices. The current working-principle is characterized by organic improvisational studies: inside the Pharmakustik-studio several analogue and digital machines are playing simultaneously and the acoustic results are recorded straight to disc. Afterwards these basics are re-treated with a wide range of computer-plug-ins and then mastered. In addition, intense studies of medical texts and terms are made to embed the resulting audio-works into a concept and to find subjective titles/concepts for them. The main aim is to create music far beyond existing musical borders: pharmakustik free-form electronics on a high abstraction-level without any involvement of conventional equipment or familiar structures. Some pharmakustik-netreleases such as CEREBROPHONIE (published in January 2008 on the Russian D.N.A.-label) involve magnetophone-treatments in the style of late 60s-psychedelia and musique-concrète. SF also continously works on the acoustic treatment of basics delivered by Maurizio Bianchi.Siegmar Fricke has just released his newest netalbum CHEMODULATOR on BYPASS (China); this work contains sequential organics of machinistic fluidity...music of 100% innovation never heard before in this form. A new genre is born: Plasmoglitch.