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Live: Christoph Heemann SOLO Celer SOLO Plastic Palace People (Jim O'Rourke & Christoph Heemann) Artist info: Christoph Heemann  Born in 1964 in Aachen, Germany, Heemann began his musical work in 1983 as a founding member of the group HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA (H.N.A.S.), who released several albums of their surreal collagemusic between 1985 and 1993, drawing inspiration from such diverse elements as musique concrete, avantgarde, krautrock and improvised music. After the group disbanded Heemann continued working solo and with the group MIMIR (with Edward Ka-spel and Jim O'Rourke), the drone projects MIRROR (with Andrew Chalk), and IN CAMERA (with Timo van Luyck). Heemann's solo compositions have often been described as "ear-movies", in which he fuses field recordings, acoustic instruments, electronics, and electroacoustic sounds into audio narratives. Aside from this Heemann has done a series of musical collaborations (with Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski) and works as a producer (Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Limpe Fuchs, Current 93). He has run the Streamline label since 1994 Christoph Heemann photo by Susanna Bolle Christoph Heemann top photo by D Zepter Celer  Celer is Will Long, who currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, working in publishing, photography, music, and writing. He curates and manages the label Two Acorns, and handles all releases, communication, and distribution of Celer and Chubby Wolf, also performing live regularly as Celer, and collaborating with other artists. Celer has published more than 90 releases in North America, Asia, and Europe. Currently he is collaborating together many artists such as with Miko under the name Oh, Yoko, and with Christoph Heemann under the name Hollywood Dream Trip. He is involved in other individual projects with Hakobune, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Nicholas Szczepanik, Yui Onodera, Corey Fuller, and Tomoyoshi Date. [Celer Homepage](http://www.thesingularwe.org/celer/) Plastic Palace People (Jim O'Rourke & Christoph Heemann)  Comments on the CD "Plastic Palace People Vol. 1" .... “An album of previously-unreleased recordings that go back as far as 1991 when Jim O’Rourke had just graduated from music school and traveled to Aachen, Germany to meet Christoph Heemann - who had just set up his studio there. Both The Elvis Messiahs - Jim’s first band from school days - and Christoph’s H.N.A.S. were in their final stages, and both collaborators felt the desire to explore different directions, drawing inspiration from their wide ranging musical interests and varying backgrounds. Volume One presents an intense three-part journey, a mix of granular synthesis and concrete sounds, reshaped, reassembled: “But there was something high in the sky, swinging slowly down toward the mound. Something globular that wore what looked like a shining crown and shook like a mound of jelly. Nearer it came and nearer, swinging lower with each vibration of its circular bulk. It blazed suddenly into sharp visibility. It wasn’t a king, and it wore no crown. It was a floating spheroid, veined and translucent, filled with an intricate assortment of moving parts that gave off a continuous whirring sound...”