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About Me

Monium is a label dedicated to the exploration of analogue and digital approaches to sound, performance, recording, film and text based in Birmingham (UK).
Founded in 2007, Monium is a creative space for artists to explore unique and distinctive music that melds precise work and spontaneous enthusiasm with a sense of continuity.
The artists on Monium represent a diverse range of practice but all are united by a spirit of exploration focused on creativity and self-expression. Their work traverses a wide range of areas from rhythmic composition to abstract sound fields, and features extended improvisation as a recurrent theme.
Monium releases material in a variety of formats (including CD, CDr, Super 8 film and vinyl) and design presentations in order to foster an eclectic and encompassing environment within the label, and to disseminate creativity with as few of the attendant issues related to production as possible.
There is more information about the artists, releases and upcoming concerts on the Monium website .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/1/2007
Band Website: monium.org.uk
Band Members: Black Galaxy...
Kreepa...
Kreepa / Black Galaxy...
Migrant...
Photon Hex...
John Richards...
Simon Mabbott...
Nicholas Bullen...
Alienist...
Rainbow Grave...
Night Land Wanderer...
Influences: Scrying glasses, dusk, Morse Code, silence, signal processing, Alchemical transformation, coded language, eye collage, Super 8 photon hex, the Botanist of Metals, arcane explorations, Autumn, animals that talk, caves, demagnetisation of brains, the tap of a ventriloquist’s dummy from under the bed, embracing chaos, celebrations in Valhalla, dream shadows, eternity, found objects, freeform freakouts, lunar cycles, laments, landscape in the arts, meditative cinema, metallic symphonies, moon madness, new forms of beauty, night, outer space Gamelan, the impossible, the mystery of forests, ullulation at dusk, the sea at night, black sun, possessed puppets, metaphysical tourettes, mysteries, brain fever, robots on the rampage, primitivism, galactic Theremins ...

John Cage, Nurse with Wound, Morton Feldman, Crass, Angus Maclise, Phill Niblock, Ryoji Ikeda, Lee Perry, La Monte Young, Jonathan Coleclough, Delia Derbyshire, King Tubby, Annea Lockwood, Organum, Skullflower, Hafler Trio, Iannis Xenakis, Sun Ra, William Basinski, Throbbing Gristle, John Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros...

Stan Brakhage, Margaret Tait, Maya Deren, Harry Smith, Sandra Lahire, Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Alain Resnais, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Derek Jarman, Joseph Losey, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni...

Marcel Duchamp, Cornelia Parker, Joseph Cornell, Susan Hiller, Tristan Tzara, Yves Klein, Nikki de Sant Phalle, Folk Art...

M R James, J G Ballard, Arthur Cravan, Italo Calvino, Arthur Machen, Robert Desnos, Jean Genet, Iain Sinclair, children’s literature...

Sounds Like: Ghost fog, oneiric night clouds, earth drones, dreamspace reveries, tone drifts, metallic abrasions, klang storms, shadow dynamism, bowed metals, nocturnal sonorities, seance beats, radiator vibrations, difference tone flaneurism,immersive sound fields, contact mic abuse...
Record Label: Monium
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Monium: Update (April 2008)

Monium has been undertaking a period of hiatus during the winter in order to develop new material and approaches& Releases 2008 will bring full-length releases on Monium by Black Galax...
Posted by Monium on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:07:00 PST

Monium: The Wire Web Exclusive

Monium was the subject of a ’Web Exclusive’ on the website of The Wire magazine as a follow-up to the ’Epiphany’ article by Nicholas Bullen (on the ’Reality Asy...
Posted by Monium on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:15:00 PST

Monium: Previous Releases (Available)

mon003: Kreepa - ’Inside-A-Sekt’ A concoction of audio scenes for late night listening, with lonely instruments in alien landscapes, diseased difference tones, off kilter improvisations, c...
Posted by Monium on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

Monium: Latest Releases (07/08)

Monium has released 2 new ’limited edition’ releases: Spectrum Noh - ’Allantide’ 3" CDr Various Artists - ’NOWON’ CDr The releases are only available at live conce...
Posted by Monium on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:28:00 PST

Monium: Previous Releases (Deleted)

mon001: Black Galaxy - 'Grey Scale: 1' Black Galaxy re-configure rhythmic elements from compositions as part of the ongoing 'Grey Scale' series. Shadow-inflected minimal rhythmic revisions are filter...
Posted by Monium on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:24:00 PST