2004-2024 ANATOMIC MUSIC

A special edition of ANATOMIC MUSIC celebrating the 20th anniversary of these recordings is available at Bandcamp. All selections written and produced by Fragment King / Mark Kammerbauer. All tracks were originally recorded in 2004 within the Anatomic Music sessions at White Furnace Lodge, including guitar/ bass guitar/ vocals and effect treatment, the "digiscrub" method of digitally deconstructing session material, and the "studio" approach to the various audio recording formats and media. Select tracks are previously unreleased. Original liner notes: anatomic music is a composition and recording project employing specific design strategies inherent in architectural design. for one, the origin of the compositions is an exploding singular moment in time unfolding itself outside its nontopological point of origin (the human brain) into the topological space surrounding any sound projection device. in this sense, anatomic music captures the idea of the "entwurf", the design strategy as originated in thought as opposed to the design originated in pure necessity. the idea constitutes the paradox instrument of event before motivation and thus becoming meta-motivation. the metaphoric motivation of the innards, the only space the individual truly controls, drives the digital and performative concept of the music pieces, beginning from the "written" sequencing to the "performed" session and the amalgamation of these aspects in the digital suite. the sessions are separated into typological groups. each group was created based on digital processing, followed by various steps of performative transformation with electronic and electro-acoustic instruments, field recordings, bass guitar and vocals, including the generating of new material upon each work stage. beginning from the electronic versions, the following groups were created: anamnesis and section (purely electronic versions), depositio (the placing of the dead body, stainless steel tables in tiled rooms are the altar slabs of now, its symbolic representation is a choice of aesthetics, science becomes religion) and forensics (clinical observation in its totality requires a certain amount of emotional distance from the researched object, this step equals an act of self-recognition within the research process and is comparable to the turning of the mask as described by vilem flusser). Tracks 1-2 recorded in 2004 at White Furnace Lodge within the Anatomic Music sessions and remixed/ remastered in 2009. Yeah, so technically, they aren't 20 years old. So sue me. Tracks 3-15 recorded at White Furnace Lodge and produced in 2004 within the Anatomic Music sessions. Tracks 16-19 recorded at White Furnace Lodge and released for various remix/ compilation projects in 2004. Track 20 recorded live at Luitpold Lounge, Munich, 2004. Preceded by a lecture by Architect Peter Haimerl during the Architekturwoche A2 event curated by Elisabeth Hartung. Cover illustration exclusively created for Nexialist and Fragment King by graphic artist Liis Roden linktr.ee/7115