Chop Shop
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Chop Shop a.k.a. Scott Konzelmann, is a noise music
ian who has released recordings on Pure
, RRRecords
, Banned Production, V2 Archief
and Generator Sound Art.
Chop Shop creates sound using salvaged materials and speakers to create drones and other sounds specific to the speaker created. Often the speaker features prominently in the packaging as a photo or daguerreotype
. Chop Shop is known also for innovative packaging using leather, tar paper, steel plates, etc.
Konzelmann is also part of Generator Sound Art, Inc. in New York City. In 2005 Chop Shop was part of the Activating the Medium Festival.
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
ian who has released recordings on Pure
RRRecords
RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
, RRRecords
RRRecords
RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
, Banned Production, V2 Archief
V2 Institute for the Unstable Media
V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, or simply V2_, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
and Generator Sound Art.
Chop Shop creates sound using salvaged materials and speakers to create drones and other sounds specific to the speaker created. Often the speaker features prominently in the packaging as a photo or daguerreotype
Daguerreotype
The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate....
. Chop Shop is known also for innovative packaging using leather, tar paper, steel plates, etc.
Konzelmann is also part of Generator Sound Art, Inc. in New York City. In 2005 Chop Shop was part of the Activating the Medium Festival.
Discography (selection)
- Steelplate - 1991 (2 10" EPs bound to 10" square plate of steel) RRRecordsRRRecordsRRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
. - Tension Charge Discharge - 1994 (3" CD in metal mesh package) V2 ArchiefV2 Institute for the Unstable MediaV2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, or simply V2_, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
. - Plays Emil BeaulieauEmil BeaulieauEmil Beaulieau, or more fully, “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist” is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow, Pain...
- Red & Buried (5" CD) PureRRRecordsRRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
. - Smolder - 1998 (3" CD on copper plate wrapped in lead) V2 ArchiefV2 Institute for the Unstable MediaV2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, or simply V2_, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
. - Discrete Emission (7" record in riveted tar paper (or limited sewn leather) sleeve—one side plays "in," one "out") Banned Production.
- Powerdrunk (5" CD in tar paper sleeve) Banned Production.
- Rusty Hum (3" CD) Banned Production.
- Hello (business card-size CD) Banned Production.
- Kaput (3" CD "packaged in a gauze wrap surgical taped to a sheet of cracked safety glass.") Generator Sound Art.
- Perpetual Tension (Concert for Speaker Constructions) - Live performance April 29, 1994 at Roulette, NYC (5" CDR) Generator Sound Art.
- Breakthrough (5" CDR - "A repackaged edition of the limited 1992 cassette release of the Orgonon field recordings") Generator Sound Art.
- Oxide (5" CD) 23five - 2008