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SPASTIC DEMENTIA

freeforming brutality

About Me

Marcelo Aguirre hails from Argentina and has resided in the city of Berlin for the past six years. A self-taught percussionist and vocalist, his playing manifests a spectrum of influences, ranging from spacious, delicate pulsation, to bursts of pure tone color into free music or charged noise, with a focus on continuous sound and changing dynamics. He curated and co-curated events at the Podewil Contemporary Arts Center in Berlin, 2003-2004 (Sculpture Musicale; Violet Music I & II; der negative horizont ). He is also active writing about experimental music since '92 for diverse magazines and creating his small homemade, work-in progress label minúscula. His involvement on various intermedia projects include live improv with Anna Barth's Butoh dance performances; the cut-up quartet Val Afumo alongside visual/performance artists Peter Morrens , Juha Valkeapää and musician Andréas Fulgosi providing music to avantgarde cinema; and the duo The Inner Metal with Karen Scheper merging sound performance with live drawings/environments. Actively working with California composer Michael Jon Fink , has toured venues in Berlin, Paris, Lier, Brussels, Berkeley and Los Angeles, while has/keeps working with composers/improvisers John Duncan , Hans W. Koch , Bettina Wenzel , Steffen Basho-Junghans , Mark Trayle , Daniel Varela, José Marchi , John Hegre , Raymond Dijkstra , Timo van Luijk , Z'EV and Ulrich Krieger .
PICKAXE
Feudal Esophagus’ Membranes Tour 2008
Marcelo Aguirre: drums, vokills, tapes
Ulrich Krieger: sax and saxtronics, grunts
Michael Jon Fink: el. gtr with double bottleneck, bass
Chas Smith: self-made titanium/aluminum steel guitar
track on Mattin's net label desetxea 117
free download at
www.mattin.org/desetxea.html
note: most of the files are ogg
you can use VLC to listen
COMPOST est
Joachim MONTESSUIS: ordinateur, guitare, voix
Philippe SIMON: guitare
Jérôme PORET: basse
Marcelo AGUIRRE: batterie, voix
COMPOST's outrageous first live performance online. Live stream HERE or better sounding download (192kbps/ 320kbps) HERE . PLAY LOUD!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Members: Compatible Irritation : Chrome Alta Densidad / Hour of Light : Giradischi Unrecordable / Stick : Blasphemous Glue / Emperor Clear : Warrior All Rights
Influences: Last Days of Humanity, Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi, Holostoy Vistrel, Gorgasm, Nuclear Death, Olivier Messiaen, Sarcofago, Baudouin Oosterlynck, The Gerogerigegege, Harry Partch, Gore Beyond Necropsy, The Black Dog, Sinawi Music of Korea, Musica Elettronica Viva, Mayhem, Edition RZ, Akio Suzuki, Rubber O Cement, Dead, Chrome, Slayer, Henry Flynt, Defecation, Krzysztof Penderecki, Big City Orchestra, Jacques Berrocal, Heldon, Incapacitants, Arti e Mestieri, Cornelius Cardew, Ascension/ Descension, Brodequin, Demetrio Stratos, Celtic Frost, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Anal Cunt, Malignancy, Maciunas Ensemble, Adam Bohman, Museo Rosenbach, Luc Ferrari, Alan Kaprow, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Jani Christou, Brast Burn, Cold Blue, Peter Hollinger, Time Machines, Hermann Nitsch, Loos, Deficit des Annees Anterieures, Napalm Death, Marcel Broodthaers, Morbid Angel, Yoko Ono, Eliane Radigue, Bruce Russell, Carcass, Morphogenesis, Brice Marden, Friction, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Organum, Jean Tinguely, Joe Jones, Swans, Milford Graves, Philip Corner, Hijokaidan, Juan Hidalgo, Christopher Hobbs, Michael von Biel, The Hafler Trio, Takehisa Kosugi, Han Bennink, Javanese and Balinese Gamelan, Hawkwind, Hildegard von Bingen, Joan La Barbara, Morphogenesis, Divine Eve, Dick Raaijmakers, Ved Buens Ende, Slowscan, Gagaku, AMM, Profanatica, Sun Ra, Syllyk, Brutal Truth, The Gyuto Monks, Ludichrist, Walter Marchetti, Impetigo, Kaoru Abe, Scott Walker, Darkthrone, Peter Van Riper, Soft Machine, Folke Rabe, Jon Gibson, RLW, Lol Coxhill, Christian Wolff, Keiji Haino, Alastair Galbraith, Rompeprop, Dick Higgins, Ya Ho Wha 13, Agitation Free, Ornette Coleman, Deicide, Terry Fox, Rudiger Carl, Dubravko Detoni, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Blue Cheer, Maurizio Bianchi,Emperor, Mu-ziq, Forever Bad Blues Band, Pustulated, James Tenney, Alan Lamb, Reynols, Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Henry Cowell, Alice Coltrane, This Heat, John Duncan, Ake Hodell, Junko, Terry Riley, Autechre, Gut, Controlled Bleeding, George Crumb, Cecil Taylor, Harry Bertoia, John Stevens, Aeon, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Rotten Minds, The New Blockaders, La Monte Young, Los Angeles Free Music Society, Katharsis, Ellen Fullman, Neu!, Cock and Ball Torture, Z'EV, Toshi Ichiyanagi, David Tudor, The Blue Humans, Al Hansen, Paul Panhuysen, Slaughter (Can.), Deux Filles, Henning Christiansen, Dissecting Table, Plastic Ono Band, Logos, Sainkho Namtchylak, The Scratch Orchestra, Plastic People of the Universe, Hal Russell, Sand, DG 307, Algarnas Tradgard, Borbetomagus, Albert Ayler, Picchio Dal Pozzo, Beherit, Absu, Yamada Chisato, Angus McLise, The Red Krayola, Mauricio Kagel, Iannis Xenakis, Mortem, Un Drame Musical Instantane, Malcolm Goldstein, Cryptopsy, Crawl Unit, Daniel Menche, Fatima Miranda, Gesualdo, Laurie Spiegel, Bolt Thrower, Giuseppe Chiari, Sanctification, Abruptum, Strafe Fuer Rebellion, Master, Foetopsy, Cranioclast, Sadistik Exekution, Arthur Doyle, The Dead C, Ike Reiko, Sonny Sharrock, Noise-Makers Fifes, Ben Patterson, Taj Mahal Travellers, Terrorizer, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, SxOxBx, Igor Wakhévitch, Krisiun, Horde Catalytique Pour La Fin, Étant Donnés, Disgorge, Charles Gayle, Gorguts, Demilich...
Sounds Like:

Pregnant Testicles' grind holocaust,
live @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin Nov. 16th 2007

Type of Label: None

My Blog

ZEV - SPASTIC DEMENTIA DUO: looking for venues early september 2008

Anyone with a clue or interest in helping out: we are looking for concerts in Berlin between September 1st. and September 7th 2008. Unreleased live recordings available on request.
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:51:00 PST

Radio WNE Feature --> 3 X Maggot’s Feast

Third time feature on Radio WNE webradio from Paris who captured some instants of cognitive madness on my apartment past March 12th 2008. Twin vocal eruptions alongside visiting parisian noize-poetry ...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:59:00 PST

What the macumbista says about the beast and its repugnance

Marcelo Aguirre - Repugnant Beast Recalcitrate (desetxo117 OGG)Marcelo moved from Buenos Aires to Berlin six years ago, and since then he has concentrated on his auto-didactic approach to drums and vo...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:24:00 PST

Maurizio Bianchi interview on 8clusters8

I finally should make public my blog on music, unpublished articles or interviews, 8clusters8,which was started in the early days of 2007 but for various reasons never got updated nor told about. It i...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Wed, 02 May 2007 03:12:00 PST

desetxea 117 - Repugnant Beast Recalcitrate

track on Mattin's net label desetxeafree download at www.mattin.org/desetxea.htmlnote: most of the files are ogg you can use VLC to listen...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:09:00 PST

virtual concert "too early" & another written/ visual stuff @ mex

The mex platform for interdisciplinary arts based in Dortmund, Germany, run by the intermedia artist Jens Brand since the last 14 years (who is giving the curator's chair to Maija Julius from January ...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:29:00 PST

Article on John Duncan by yours truly, now online

This article was published and PRINTED. Yeah, we are lamentably getting rid of mountains of paper as independet printed magazines are rapidly extinguishing, leading to and because of plenty of online ...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:36:00 PST

Henning Christiansen and Al Hansen in Paris Transatlantic

Two LP reviews on the Dutch, Fluxus related label Slowscan, in the September issue of Paris Transatlantic.go here: http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2006/09sep _text.html..3
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:16:00 PST

Ecstatic Peace!'s 2006 Live Performances Poll

Here's my contribution to Ecstatic Peace!'s 2006 Live Performances Poll If you haven't seen these acts live yet go check this sheet out!1)magnus jogger/ han jean trulec/ deborah callabria @ mutationen...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:53:00 PST

Geert Feytons of Noise Maker's Fifes (27-12-1967 / 22-07-2006) RIP

I had run into Geert and Marc Wroblewski past May 31st, when they performed at Ausland in Berlin, after having had email exchanges concerning dates in this city for NMF, something I never achieved to ...
Posted by SPASTIC DEMENTIA on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:47:00 PST