analyze photos of electronic musicians

LL Cool K

So those huge machines that make us think retro wd be signifying the PHUTURE in the early 50s when that was taken. And Karlheinz looking out into it again. I think Aaron Funk might be skitting the "look into the future" pose. His zebra and starfish are cutely surrealist tho.

Actually I think the photo's from 1964... which would be "Telemusik", NHK Studios, Tokyo... guessing here

Mixmaster Morris:

http://www.samurai.fm/mixmastermorris/mixmastermorris_profile.jpg

How old is this guy btw? The above pic is presumably a newish one, but I remember seeing pics of him in 1993 or 1994 where he already looked old.

Okay, according to Wikipedia he was born in 1960, so I guess at 33 he would've looked old to the 14-year old me.

http://www.djspooky.com/photos/pbs/djspooky_PBS_2.jpg

lol he's got one of his boring essays hung up behind him

http://www.sentireascoltare.com/CriticaMusicale/Monografie/jan-jelinek/front.jpg

young stockhausen: i would totally hit it

today i realised that i'm a geek.
loving these photos on the thread despite not knowing most people pictured.
also this is probably the reason why the latest Thomas Dolby live DVD is just so great.
one of the extras is Thomas giving a tour/explanation of the kit he has used for his recent tour.
gadget overload.

so, here's another ..

http://themicronauts.free.fr/themicronautsih8_20050304.jpg

I love that fact that I know these people's work, but I have no idea who they are from looking at them.

(expect rodelius, I met him after a concert once, nice man... Is black dude w. hat Carl Craig?)

http://www.softlmusic.com/pics/basinski3.jpg

(sorry i'm not doing any analyzing, just posting)

black dude w/ hat is dj spooky

am0n FTW

Autechre dude on the right is looking into the future, dude on the left is looking at you i.e. the now. I wd like to go walking with these guys and just hang out, like. The Autechre picture is about roots.
-- Noodle Vague

nicely done

that mixmaster morris pic is frightening. i had no idea he was so old

Whatever happened to Oval?

i don't know why but i am comforted by the fact that Mixmaster Morris hasn't given up the drugged out early 90s hippie-futurism schtick. <3

Whatever happened to Oval?

The Sharkjump known as Clicks and Cuts Vol 1-4

See also Glitch

See also Navel Gazing

The machine fetish pics are always a little bit like the archetypal guitarist's pose with his weapon pushed into the camera, but at the same time Jelinek and Micronauts guy are slightly consumed or enwombed by their gear. Is that really what Basinski looks like? Not at all how I'd imagined him. I like that he's looking slightly bemused by the box in front of him like "WTF do I do with this?"

Maybe with the guys pictured without instruments there is some slight suggestion that the music, or their essence as music-makers, is outside of the actual machines themselves. Like primarily their music is a Platonic Form that happily exists prior to making or recording it.

I like this thread. They are mostly good portraits, all else aside. I've wallpapered the Stockhausen.

http://www.artthrob.co.za/04aug/images/calix01a.jpg

chantal passamonte

(she gets more press that young stockhausen...)

http://wizardishungry.com/lol/ianjon.jpg

lol doing something dirty and primitive in a cave. Nice colours. Jon is looking into the future or playing video games. What do hand scrawls say? "BAD"? "Phiend"?

friend

tan sauconies indicate lingering emo tendencies

"ban"?

Anyway, young Stockhausen, o_O!!! HA CHA CHA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/poleamsee.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/POLEBEIBROTZEIT.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/POLEIMWALD.jpg

These are the three promo pics that came with the new Pole album, Steingarten. They're kinda weird, I've always thought of Pole as a very urban-sounding artist. I guess Steingarten has a bit more "natural" sound to it that his previous LPs though.

It's a pity Photobucket doesn't allow me to post bigger versions of the pics, but I can tell you he looks quite happy or bemused in the last two.

ugh makes pole look like the world's dorkiest classical cellist or somethng

Are the poses meant to be funny/ironic? The one on the pier looks like a catalogue shot. They all do rilly.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2088891173_5f106fc23f.jpg

Ir was kinda funny opening the pics, because I'd never ever seen a pic of Pole before (even though I've listened to his music for years), and this certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I think it's kinda nice how they go against the grain of typical electronic artist pics though - especially the second one, where he looks like some cozy, middle-aged German family man out on a picnic with his beer tankard.

It's not really against the grain tho, look at Autechre, BoC, Mira Calix, even Roedelius on this thread. Instrumental music has looooooong history of pastoral associations is perhaps another part of why.

What I meant by against grain (besides the fact that it makes a lot more sense for BoC than Pole to pose in the woods) is how decidedly goofy and uncool he looks in these. I wish I could post bigger versions of these pics so you could see them better, is there some better site than Photobucket that'd allow it?

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2126637.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934A2752006EF5F0ED1C512D6F3592C6A55A5397277B4DC33E

we can tell how uncool he looks in those pics just fine

http://www.uplink.co.jp/factory/log/merzbow.jpg

I don't know who that is, but he looks more like a rocker than an electronic artist.

(It's Masami Akita aka Merzbow)

That makes sense, noise is basically electronic music for metalheads, right?

You have much to learn, young grasshopper.

http://www.scotdebt.net/images/main/page_images/head_in_hands2.jpg

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20070320elpepucul_8/LCO340/Ies/Jean_Michel_Jarre.jpg

(The bald dude is M. Mayer, Tuomas, before you ask.)

Well, I've never met anyone who'd come to electronic music via the dance side of it, who'd be interested in noise. All noise fans I know are rockers and (ex-)metalheads.

Tuomas do you know who El Tomboto is

Is that the long-haired guy in the pic above?

Tom D: that Silver Apples picture! Really beautiful!

http://www.synthtopia.com/artists/images/rockmore.gif

compare & contrast w/mayer, now there's a smug looking rictus.

Kind of interesting you should mention that, because When I saw Theo Parrish DJ in the summer, I found him to be exactly like Michael Mayer, who I saw like a month before.

I'd never heard him DJ beforehand, or otherwise really, so correct me for an shortsightedness, but he mixed just like him, doing really quick 4-16 bar fades and just working the knobs for the 8 or so minutes in between. Also, the records also kept skipping, to which Theo kept making these absolutely great ridiculous faces like he had bit into a lemon or something. Interestingly enough, more or less the same thing was the case when I saw Michael Mayer, just without the funny faces, but they seemed to take the same attitude to DJ'ing.

That's my unnecessary anecdote.

i kind of hate how handsome matthew dear is.

http://www.outlar.com/images/artists/MatthewDear1.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/5.jpg

Villalobos looks like Adrian Brody in the beach shot. If those are in Chile then they are presumably taken in the Atacama, home of totally radical telescopes and lagoons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert

yea i was wondering if it was the atacama. i just didn't see any water when i was there. but i think there might be other places in chile/atacama that look more like the villalobos photo.

he does look like adrian brody in that photo.

Hmmm. Yeah, maybe. It does have a coast and lakes though: http://www.atacamaphoto.com/atacama/atacama-6.htm

you're right. those photos are amazing, btw.

i don't know what i was thinking... i even went to a coastal town! (iquique).

http://www.avantofestival.com/2006/k/sahkometsa2.jpg
http://www.divus.cz/images/umelec/Kurenniemi_1.jpg
Erkki Kurenniemi

maybe someone should try and come up with a meta-analysis when every electronic artist ever has been posted...

a dutch one:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME07/IMAGES/Natlab_electronics02.JPG

and a bit of a shame that it took this long, but finally here he is (confidently looking into the future ;-)

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5126/eno73aoo9.jpg

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/eno75c.jpg

http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/modules/input_output/Pop/images/B_Eno75.jpg

Eno looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Silencelamp7.jpg/200px-Silencelamp7.jpg

He is the second hottest man on this thread.

http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/lauriespiegelstudio80s.jpg

http://www.writersblock.net/000/lib/studo2.gif

http://raymondscott.com/electron.jpg

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/clavivox/manhattan.gif

analyze photos of electronic musicians

silverapples.jpg

-- Tom D., Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

LOL, that's a scan I did of the insert from my copy the first record. has GIS picked up on that already?

here's the rest:

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9259/silverapples1el5.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5945/silverapples2fy9.jpg
http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9840/silverapples3sk2.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8985/silverapples4wj4.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9715/silverapples5es6.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/3066/silverapples6su7.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4927/silverapples7xg3.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9599/silverapples8xl7.jpg

http://www.de-bug.de/texte/images/db_images/4178.jpg

that isn't elaine, is it?

oh it's perrey oh god forget I said ANYTHING oh dear PARDON

it's eliane

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/1523446683_31beac4337.jpg
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/wp-content/imagebank/ars7.jpg

for a sec there i thought it was marge schott, racist ex-owner of the Reds.

http://www.gigolorecords.com/images/large/hell_press_photo___gq__car.jpg

http://www.mobeus.org/archives/juanatkins/Picture01.jpg

^^ haha it's j.f. sebastian

that's juan atkins right?

Does he have a studio in his mom's attic or something?

http://lucferrari.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/historique-John-Cage-couche-1958-1024x746.jpg

More high jinks with Karlheinz, here literally carrying Toru Takemitsu.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/38/cf/6138cf0c19cfa3e1dfc39eeba222a952.png