analyze photos of electronic musicians

"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?

Well to be fair Stockhausen did put out some blinding Rockabilly 45s before he wrote Kontakte.

btw dudes in the cave are not electronic dudes but noise dudes with pedals in a cave.

Is dude in jacket Trent Reznor's under achieving little brother.

Stockhausen was a noise artist? I guess John Cage was a turntablist then.

How old is that Jarre pic? He looks so young in it.

Steve Reich was the first hip-hop megastar

Christ, according to the address the pic is from this year?! Isn't Jarre like 60 now?

http://www.black20.com/files/fck/nigel(1).jpg

Jean Michel Jarre, yesterday.

Whoa, it seems Jarre's put out a new single this year. Both the tune and the video feel like pretty attempts to stay hip with the kids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTa6U7pP6w

At least Kraftwerk retain some dignity as they practice the bobsleigh for the next winter olympics

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IO8M.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

^^^she gets laid more than...oh wait a mo

xenakis

http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/kids.gif

varese (lower right)

http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/varese_making_poeme.jpg

That Xenakis pic reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn1LW3wyRrc

i love pictures of merzbow

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/cyanofix/merzbow.jpg

http://www.blossomingnoise.com/profileimage/merzbow.jpg

http://www.brucehaack.com/images/m.jpg

http://www.bodyspace.net/imgs/entrevistas/murcof3.jpg

http://2007.newnew.cz/foto/murcof.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/cyanofix/merzbow.jpg

^^^ Merzissey

Don't turn a good thing bad, Curtis.

Bruce Haack=creepy dude

Who is dude from Bear Force One underneath the Haack picture?

murcof (fernando corona)

http://www.fabriclondon.com/press/beta/uploads/forthcoming/villalobos.jpg

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/tech_rockstars/image/moby03.jpg

Ha I'm amazed I recognized Pole instantly from those photos which is strange, because I've seen what he looks like, once maybe. Yeah, they do like like promo shots for some one releasing a new-age album or something.

I also guessed right off the bat that that picture of Murcof (it's him cause I checked) was Fax, because he looks mexican. Pretty damn good for such poor criteria!

Either way, everyone here is how I expected them to look except old man mixmaster morris of course. Stockhausen looks like Ian Curtis no? Ha, I'm sure he'll be getting a biopic now.
Seriously though, Edgard Varese is actually rather impressive in his appearance, combines the mad-scientist in his/her lab with the eccentric professor look and comes out like a true any Musique Concrete artist should (whatever that implies)

http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco19/grm/schaefferop.jpg

... tho I doubt he'd have been happy about being called an electronic musician

http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/images/henry260.jpg

... don't really know what's going on in that photo... esp. the 'tache

Playing some sort of Theremin-esque thing I guess.

lol Schaeffer's 1-octave keyboard.

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