Perlonex
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The electro-acoustic trio PERLONEX was founded in late 1998
and has performed and toured in Europe
and North America
extensively since then. Ranging from prominent contemporary music festivals to underground noise
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clubs, from art galleries to obscure improv backrooms the wide variety of venues they have played marks out the musical spectrum of the group.
Through the interplay and friction of gradually shifting layers of sound, sonic interferences, interwoven loops and hidden repetitive structures PERLONEX is plumbing the depth of a rather complex sound material.
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
and has performed and toured in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
extensively since then. Ranging from prominent contemporary music festivals to underground noise
Noise
In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...
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Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
clubs, from art galleries to obscure improv backrooms the wide variety of venues they have played marks out the musical spectrum of the group.
Through the interplay and friction of gradually shifting layers of sound, sonic interferences, interwoven loops and hidden repetitive structures PERLONEX is plumbing the depth of a rather complex sound material.
Selection Of Festival Appearances
FAM (Berlin), Garage (Stralsund), Loop Festival (Berlin), Interzone Festival (Berlin), Ludwig’s Lust (Hamburg), Postfuhramt (Berlin), Gaudeamus Festival (Amsterdam), IZ(Z)VEN (Maribor-SLO), Rumor Festival (Utrecht), Musique Action Festival (Nancy), Int. Night of Noise (New York City), Aural Anatomy (Pittsburgh), Foton Factory (Bruxelles), Kryptonale (Berlin), Hoerkunstfestival (Erlangen), Fotones (Bruxelles), Fruits de Mheres (F), Stare Ueber Berlin (D), perlonex.tensions Berlin (D), Kill Your Timid Notion (Dundee, UK), SKIFF St.Petersburg (RUS), Stare Uber Berlin, perlonex.tensions Berlin, Fete De La Musique (Geneva), Jeunesse (Vienna), Open Music (Graz), Fete De La Musique (Luxembourg), Time Shifts (Berlin), Maerzmusik (Berlin), Angelica (Bologna),...Selection Of Club Performances
Kule Berlin, Bastard Berlin, Fabrik Potsdam, Club 2 München, Zeughaus Passau, Galerie 03 Würzburg, Zakk Bremen, CUBA Muenster, Extrapol Nijmwegen (NL), Felix Meritis Amsterdam (NL), Foton Space Bruxells (B), Instants Chavires Montreuil/Paris (F), Unten Saarbruecken, Worm Rotterdam (NL), The Skinny Portland/Maine, Flywheel Easthampton, Knitting Factory New York, MOCA Washington, Ethical Society Philadelphia, Speak in Tongues Cleveland, Artswatch Louisville, Ruby Green Gallery Nashville, Map Room Memphis, Nervous Center Chicago, Stormy Records Detroit, Southgate House Newport/KY, ABC No Rio New York,TUBE Munich, Staatsbank Berlin, Kontor/A-Musik Cologne, Recylart Bruxelles (B), Laznia Art Center Gdansk (PL), Offycina Szcezecin (PL), Belgie Hasselt NL), Museumsquartier Vienna (A), Association 102 Grenoble (F), Musée D’Art Contemporain Strasbourg (F), Apo 33 Nantes (F), Ausland Berlin, Boers Shouwbourg (Bruxelles), Cave 12 (Geneve), Dock (Kassel), The Centre for Contemporary Art/Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw (PL), Museumsinsel (Berlin), Podewil (Berlin), Ecole Nationale De Danse et Musique Montrieul/Paris, Madiatheque (Bouronne, F), Porgy & Bess (Vienna), IEM Cube (Graz), Salle Roland Knieps (Luxembourg), ...Discography
- Perlonex - Bad Alchemy #35 7” EP Bad Alchemy 2000
- Perlonex - Perlon CD Zarek 2000
- Perlonex - Peripherique CD Zarek 2001
- Perlonex - JuliJuni With Enemies Like These Who Needs Friends Split-LP Happy Zloty 2003
- Perlonex By The Idealist - Untitled 3" CDR Kning Disk 2005
- Perlonex + Keith RoweKeith RoweKeith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
/Charlemagne PalestineCharlemagne PalestineCharlemagne Palestine is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist...
- perlonex.tensions 2CD NexsoundNexsoundNexsound is a Ukraine based independent record label founded by Andrey Kiritchenko in 2000 and was also co-operated by Dmytro Fedorenko from 2003 till July 2007....
2006 - Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine - It Aint Necessarily So 2CD Zarek 2008