What began as a site-specific recording and eventually turned into source material for an album I was working on at the time – RETREAT –  revealed itself to be an appealing piece in its own right.  The opportunity to revisit the material recorded in 2019 came with a new computer and a new audio setup: I slightly edited the original, nearly 40-minute-long recording (trimming the beginning, the end and a brief intermission in the middle where I adjusted my equipment). And now there is a slab of buzzing bass drone feedback that is the purest expression of how Fragment King (one bass guitar, multiple effects, one amplifier, one room with preferably hard surfaces, and one human) sounds!  This is why I decided to make RETREAT available in a new and limited form and expand on its original 2021 tape release. This new edition of RETREAT features the following:   a 73-minute audio CDr (RETREAT RECALL) with on-disk print, containing four of the original tracks (in their pr...

How and why did the Nexialist Organization come into existence? It may have started with my childhood in the US Tri-State Area, where my father managed a racing team for the Pocono, Indy 500 and Can-Am races, with the high-octane deep bass growl of the Porsche 917 as soundtrack. It may have started in my teenage years after relocating to Germany when I discovered all forms of underground music from Grindcore to Industrial. It may have started in my years as an architecture student when I discovered Iannis Xenakis and how to create sequences using a PC. It was a small step from tape experiments to DAT demos, from live sets to vinyl releases – under the alias of Fragment King. Moving to the US after my uni years came with a plan: record music and release it. The Nexialist Organization was born and the Halforganic Series came to life. Many collaborations took place during these years and continued when I returned to Germany. The music shifted into metallic realms by using electric and bas...

Since a share of my work is urbanism in its audible, acoustic dimension, here are some Mayday listening suggestions: CRITICAL VOID is an urbanist research project turned into a site specific sound performance with bass drones and percussion rhythmajik: CRITICAL VOID by Z'EV, Fragment King (M. Kammerbauer), Alexandra von Bolz'n WELL TEMPERED ROOM is a multi-track electroacoustic ambient recording as a dedicated sonic environment: Well Tempered Room by M. Kammerbauer THE NAVIDSON RECORD revisits the mysterious, endless house of Mark Z. Danielewski's novel "House of Leaves" as a IDM ambient drone soundtrack: The Navidson Record by M. Kammerbauer GENERATING SPACE contains IDM ambient drone explorations intended as the reverse-engineered acoustic phenomena of imaginary architecture: Generating Space by Torso LIVE AT SI is a live performance recorded in Brooklyn in 2001: Live At SI by Fragment King LIVE AT A2 was recorded live during the Architekturwoche ...