I've set a selection of albums to zero or "name your price" for all those who haven't listened to them yet. You can find them below: WERKSHOW – 25th Anniversary of the Nexialist Organization by Nexialist Organization Well Tempered Room by M. Kammerbauer Anatomic Music by Fragment King Generating Space by Torso Live At Kino Aero / Live At Elektroanschlag by Fragment King Live At A2 by Fragment King Live At SI by Fragment King Pathomechanical Studies by Fragment King

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...

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 ...

"Architecture as text, text as sound, sound as architecture." This principle defines the Nexialist Organization since its inception in the year 2000. To mark its 25th anniversary, WERKSHOW looks back at decades of transdisciplinary inquiry and sonic constructivism. WERKSHOW is a comprehensive archive that goes far beyond a standard "best-of" compilation—it is a sonic DNA analysis of more than a quarter-century of work. Inside the Vault: 100 Tracks & 10 Films This release is the definitive sonic and visual DNA code of the Nexialist Organization, documenting the evolution from human-machine synthesis to spatial analysis: Digital Edition: Features 30 curated tracks, including 10 exclusive "Anomalies". The Full WERKSHOW: The physical edition contains the complete archive of 90 audio tracks and 10 films in addition to the Digital Edition. Physical Archive: A custom night-black USB edition (strictly limited to 10 copies). Exclusive Art: Includes a custom art...

WERKSHOW: 25 Years of the Nexialist Organization – A Monumental Archive Release Spanning Universes! Architecture as text, text as sound, sound as architecture: This guiding principle has defined the Nexialist Organization since its inception in the year 2000. To mark our 25th anniversary, I am looking back at decades of transdisciplinary inquiry and sonic constructivism. With WERKSHOW, I am releasing a comprehensive archive that goes far beyond a best-of compilation—it is a sonic DNA analysis of more than a quarter-century of work. Inside the Vault (100 Tracks & 10 Films): This release bundles milestones that document the evolution from human-machine synthesis to spatial analysis: Full albums, including Angel Position: The "opus magnum" recorded under the Fragment King alias as a synthesis of lyrical defiance and conceptual critique; Generating Space: An experimental study in sonic architecture under the alias Torso, where digitally processed sound explores imaginary spat...

Working with Z'EV was key to the Nexialist Organization – aimed at creating projects at the intersection of architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. We collaborated on recordings and performances from our first meeting in 2005 until his passing in 2017. Marcelo Aguirre (Spastic Dementia, Evil Spirit, Æternum Sacro) was key to facilitating a collaboration between us. THE.BÄND initially featured Z’EV, Alexandra von Bolz’n, Marcelo and I, as Fragment King. The project combined percussion, bass, and voice into an extreme, physical form of metal-drone performance art. The Bänd emerged in 2008 from a collaboration between legendary percussionist and sound artist Z’EV, drummer Marcelo Aguirre,  vocalist Alexandra von Bolz’n, and bassist Fragment King. Their partnership began with a live performance in Berlin and developed into a long-distance creative exchange between Germany and England. Critical Void, Munich, 2013. photo: Andreas ...

Nexicon was an extension of the Nexialist Organization ethos, conceived as a transdisciplinary platform connecting architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry.  A collaboration between the Nexialist Organization and Annihilvs, Nexicon merged improvised digital sound and live performance into a raw experiment in real-time composition and technological deconstruction. Nexicon consisted of Mark Kammerbauer, Lee Bartow, and Tim Spann. The project represented a digital tour-de-force of improvisational sound — non-linear, non-semantic, and uncompromising. The trio sought truly spontaneous uses of digital tools, often pushing their equipment to destruction. This is what free jazz might eventually sound like in fifty years. Simple Things Are Often Monstrous von Nexicon   The recordings of Nexicon range from introspective and mysterious to violent and explosive. Initially intended as a one-off live appearance at Pyramid in New...

The Nexialist Organization, founded in 2000, was intended as a transdisciplinary platform connecting architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. One of its key projects of the early years was Torso. I recorded and produced material extensively for this project. This blogpost deals with one set of recordings in particular: An experimental study in sonic architecture, Generating Space transformed digitally processed sound into an exploration of imaginary spatial perception. Generating Space is an experimental audio–spatial study in which generated and processed sonic environments serve as perceptive catalysts for the creation of imaginary architectural spaces. The process reverses conventional creation: imagined structures become the origin of the sounds, forming the tectonic substrate that defines the audible phenomena. The compositions employ a minimal, industrial, and digital ambient aesthetic — clicks, noise, an...

In 2021 the Fragment King recording titled RETREAT was released by Annihilvs Power Electronix, the label of Theologian mastermind Lee Bartow. It comprises multiple tracks in tape cassette format plus additional digital exclusive remixes by Snowbeasts and 2W (Thierry Arnal). What did reviewers have to say about RETREAT?   Sean Reveron, CVLT NATION: "Unholy hell yes this is some dubbed out dirge that will make hairs on your neck stand up! I can’t get enough of the FRAGMENT KING project because it’s that RAD!" Roland Torres, SILENCE AND SOUND: "All in tense minimalism, FRAGMENT KING alias Mark Kammerbauer floods the space of guitar notes crawling on porous surfaces, impregnated with industrial engines. RETREAT is not without evoking the universe of Godflesh in delightful mode, flagging on piles of pointillist notes supported by spectral rhythms with mechanical consistency. FRAGMENT KING develops an underground world with abstract hallucinations, bending under the weight o...

Since I wear a cap with the Nexialist Octomeron and people asked me what it is about, it's my turn here to elaborate. The Nexialist Octomeron is a geometrical shape with eight corners. It was developed as a graphic symbol in the course of the ANGEL POSITION album project. Its origin is a photo of a building in the Dutch city of Almere. The moment I saw the Woontoren Silverline residential tower by Claus en Kaan Architecten in 2006, I knew it would be relevant to me at some point in the future. In 2007 I began writing and recording songs for what later became the ANGEL POSITION album produced for my music alias, Fragment King. The planned CD release of the album with MHz Records required illustrations, and one particular inspiration was soon found in the BLEACH anime. In one episode, Gin Ichimaru releases his Zanpakutō and, in follow his Bankai form, Kamishini no Yari. It cuts through the surrounding city with such force that the severed parts are lifted from the structures that su...

I just found out there are still tapes available with our 2011 recording "The Garden", a nearly 20 minute track we released under the name "The.Bänd". They can be ordered through the Z'EV online archive. Percussion, Arrangement, Lyrics: Stefan Joel Weisser / Z'EV Vocals: Alexandra Von Bolz´n Bass, Synthesizers: Mark Kammerbauer / Fragment King   Link: https://www.thezevarchive.com/ Bandcamp digital version: https://zevalexandravonbolznfragmentking.bandcamp.com/    

NEON is a video of a neon lamp dying. The camera attempts to focus repeatedly while the intensity of the neon light emitted changes periodically. The variances unfold a space of mystery. The sound is the sound of the camera recording and resetting focus in relation to changes in luminescence.

This post simply sums up many of the Fragment King media sites and those featuring associated projects and Nexialist Operations: Fragment King at Bandcamp: https://fragmentking.bandcamp.com/ Fragment King compilations and collaborations at Bandcamp: https://nexialist.bandcamp.com/ Cooperation with Z'EV at Bandcamp: https://zevalexandravonbolznfragmentking.bandcamp.com/ Fragment King and Nexialist Operations at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ Alternative video channel at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/nexialist/videos Fragment King entry at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/14856-Fragment-King

The Cellmaker's Sinister Jazz von Fragment King Sometime in the 90s one of my architecture-co-students happened to work in a local record store. We would talk about music and literature more than about architecture. Eventually he suggested I pick up Flann O'Brien's "Third Policeman". Today I'm not quite sure how this came about, perhaps we were talking about David Lynch or renowned Irish authors, who knows. Ah, now I remember. The thing was that a house played a role in the novel, and in-between the walls of the house was an entire other "hidden" house. In the 2000s, when I recorded this track, the title became an inspiration. The track itself is a structure continuously unfolding in time in a manner similar to O'Brien's mysterious house unfolding in space in impossible ways.

Live At SI von Fragment King This track is special to me in a number of ways. Black Iron Prison was only played live, since it is the superimposition of the sequencing parts of two independent tracks. There is no "original" studio recording version. It was exclusively released on the LIVE AT SI tape cassette issued by Nexialist in 2001 in the "Halforganic" series. Live, it turned into a juggernaut that paved the way towards the angry metal noise machine that Fragment King would soon become. And then, the title ... it is, of course, a reference to Philip K. Dick and his novel VALIS. Dick writes about the idea of the Black Iron Prison in a way that resonated with me as a reader. The feeling of being caged in is a powerful and pervasive one – the superimposition of multiple forms of incarceration of the mind and the soul – and music seems to be the only force that can liberate one from this feeling. Dick states: "Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, [Horselover...

The Navidson Record von M. Kammerbauer When I discovered Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves" in a bookstore during my early zeros US "interlude" I was completely fascinated by his idea of a house that was bigger on the inside than on the outside – and the way the book was structured and designed. My copy eventually fell apart, drenched by water and warped by reading it on the train. Back then, it inspired me to design a set of recordings that eventually became "Schismotecture" or "The Navidson Record". The featured track is from those recordings and the title, "The Five An A Half Minute Hallway", is another reference to Danielewski's book. This one and the other tracks of the album proper (the Bandcamp version features a further architectural audio experiment from a different project, "Game Piece for Architecture") feature an ambient and noisy blend of industrial with a mysterious character evoking the emotions tri...

Vital Weekly presented a double review in their Episode no. 1356 and I like it. Thanks so much! Podcast link to follow right after the review. FRAGMENT KING - ANGEL POSITION (CD by Nexialist) FRAGMENT KING - RETREAT (cassette by Annihilvs) "In 2014 there was the MHz label run by Maurizio and Boris from Klangstabil, and one of the final releases was "Angel Position" by Fragment King. Hearing this album now, there are two questions that come to mind: 1) Isn't this too harsh to be on MHz, knowing Maurizio and Boris a bit? The answer is no. Because Klangstabil can do pure noise and the song-structured stuff they've become 'famous' with. As with Klangstabil, it's about crossing borders, incorporating different styles, and getting something out that shouldn't stay locked inside.     Fragment King is Mark Kammerbauer, and this is his main project regarding music. He did things in the past with Leech from Navicon Torture Technologies and a colla...

Review time again! Side-Line Reviews listened to RETREAT by Fragment King, released as a cassette and digital package by Annihilvs Power Electronix . Here is what they say: Fragment King – Retreat (Album – Annihilvs Power Electronix ) Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Mark Kammerbauer released this new opus last year. “Retreat” features seven songs plus one remix. Content: “Retreat” gets us back to the early days of Industrial/Experimental music. Next to the 80s influences the work also features very personal input; kind of inhibited, intimate atmosphere. The work has been composed by guitar playing manipulated into Industrial sound effects with menacing sound atmospheres on top. Vocal parts accentuate a cellar-like sensation. The last song is a remix by Snowbeasts which sounds pretty different, exploring Electro-Minimalism. + + + : This album evokes to me good-old souvenirs. I got the feeling of awakening in the 80s when ...

Review time! Side-Line Reviews listened to the Fragment King 25th Anniversary Special Edition CD of ANGEL POSITION and here is what they say: Fragment King – Angel Position (Album – Nexialist) Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This work is a re-release of the album from 2014 and which is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Fragment King. The project driven by Mark Kammerbauer has released multiple works during the past years. Content: The work features the original songs of the album. Kammerbauer creates a true bombast by mixing guitar playing and effects together with Industrial noises. The work has something chaotic and yet structured. It remains a bit to the bombast of The Swans and the cellar atmosphere of Sleep Chamber. The last song is a remix by Bazooka. + + + : Fragment King became an expert in the creation of overwhelming, bombastic, sound atmospheres. The way he manipulates guitar sounds into industrial noises...

Any day is a good day to remember Z'EV, percussionist, poet, artist. He was born as Stephan Joel Weisser and passed away in 2017. He continues to be a formative and seminal sound artist of Industrial Culture. Z'EV is widely recognized for his experimental percussion performances and recordings. His CDs were released on labels such as Cold Spring, Soleilmoon, Tzadik or Subterranean. He avidly worked together with numerous artists, performing and recording across the globe. "The foundation of my work, regardless of genre, is process." (www.rhythmajik.com) Z'EV and I first met in 2005 at a festival in Prague. After our respective gigs we spent the evening sitting next to each other and talking. In 2008 we met again in Berlin. After his festival show he announced that he, Marcelo Aguire and I would perform together. And so it happened. The three of us together with vocalist Alexandra von Bolz'n played at Gallery Wallywoods. We continued to work together afterwards...