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 HASWELL & HECKER
Russell Haswell (b.1970 Coventry, UK) and Florian Hecker (b.1975 Kissing, DE) first met in the suburbs of Vienna in 1996. Their first collaboration was in performance together in Frankfurt supporting Autechre in 2001. Since then they have performed together numerous times and have also conducted remix projects for such historical and pioneering music groups as Voice Crack (CH) [[http://www.mego.at/mego069.html]] and Popol Vuh (DE). In 2003 they began a research project together centering around the use of Iannis Xenakis' UPIC 'graphic input' computer music composing system during a residency at CCMIX Paris. The results from which are currently being presented to the pubic as live multi channel electroacoustic diffusion concerts. Independent of each other they have both received Awards at the Prix Ars Electronica for Digital Music. Haswell with 'Live Salvage 1997 - 2000' and Hecker, 'Sun Pandämonium'. Between them the have collaborated in concert, on record and/or exhibition with a superabundance of musicians and artists as Aphex Twin, Carsten Höller, Masami Akita, Oswald Berthold, Cerith Wyn Evans, Kjetil Manheim, Whitehouse and Yasunao Tone. Hecker's latest full length solo compact disc 'Recordings for Rephlex' has just been released. Current information on Haswell can be found at [http://www.haswellstudio.com/]
WHITEHOUSE
- founded in London in 1980
- recently featured as world's #1 extreme music artists on the BBC Radio One
extreme music documentary 'This Is Hardcore'
- one of the 50 most influential groups ever according to Alternative Press
- one of the world's most 20 outrageous groups according to Kerrang! magazine
(10/2004)
- 18 albums recorded, most recent being 2007's revolutionary "Racket"
2006
- live actions have been performed worldwide including all over Europe, USA,
Canada, Australia and Japan
WILLIAM BENNETT
- founding member of group in 1980 at age 18
- pioneer of noise and extreme electronic music
- also international DJ in recent years
- arts symposium talks
- has recently written feature articles for Bizarre and Vice magazines
PHILIP BEST
- extreme electronic music virtuoso
- joined group at age of 14 after running away from home for live action
performance at Spanish Anarchists Centre in London in 1982
- recently completed doctorate in English literature
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