David Jackman

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David Jackman is a British musician and video artist who became active in the 1980s as part of the industrial movement. He also appears with other musicians, mostly alone, under the name Organum .

Musical career

Between 1969 and 1972 he was a member of Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra. In 1979 he began to sell small runs of cassettes under the pseudonym Monoplane in the course of the developing tape undergound . At that time, his pieces were made from multiple layers of tape loops , which he transferred to a tape recorder. Since 1983 he has been using the pseudonym Organum and has released records under this name on various labels in Europe and on his own label Airplane Records. Most of his releases are short and appeared on one-sided singles or EPs. He justifies this with his listening behavior from the time of the double albums, which he did not like as a format.

music

David Jackman sees himself expressly anchored in the tradition of the drone . His music is influenced by Celtic and Indian drone , as well as the Japanese gagaku . He also mentions listening to the AMM sessions weekly in the early 1970s as other influences . The music of Tibetan Buddhism inspired him because of its untempered texture. In particular, Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham appear as influences .

Working together

Organum became a platform for musicians like Z'EV , Nurse With Wound , Christoph Heemann, Robert Hampson , Jim O'Rourke , Michael Prime from Morphogenesis, Eddie Prévost (AMM), Andrew Chalk and the noise artists The New Blockaders. The single Breakthrough was made for the noise performance band The Haters (without GX Jupitter-Larsen, who liked the single). Prévost, Stapleton and Heemann also released Organum albums on their own labels.

Artwork

With his artwork Jackman refers to the sculpture minimalists . Most of them are colorful, surreal and meticulously made collages or, conversely, emphasize factual artwork, up to and including a complete lack of artwork for some of his productions. The extensive complete discography (status: 2006) with reproductions of all artworks can be downloaded from the homepages in a ten-part PDF.

Discography (selection)

  • 1982: David Jackman & Philip Sanderson - 0 ° North (cassette, airplane)
  • 1983: Pulp / Icon (cassette, C30)
  • 1986: Nurse With Wound / Organum - A Missing Sense / Rasa (United Dairies)
  • 1987: Organum / Eddie Prévost - Crux / Flayed (Silent Records)
  • 1987: Vacant Lights (Airplane)
  • 1987: Ikon (Airplane)
  • 1988: Submission (United Dairies)
  • 1989: Sol Mara (cassette, cathedral beard)
  • 1992: Live Vol. 1 (cassette, airplane)
  • 1994: Sphyx (airplane)
  • 1994: Veil of Tears (CD, Matchless Recordings)
  • 1999: Birds' Wings Were Glued to Their Bodies and Their Feet Froze to the Ground (CD, Die Stadt )
  • 2004: Organum / Z'EV - Tocsin -6 Thru +2 (CD, Die Stadt)
  • 2006: Amen (CD, Die Stadt)
  • 2006: Sanctus (CD, Robot Records)
  • 2007: Omega (CD, Die Stadt)
  • 2008: Organum / Z'EV - Temporal (CD, Die Stadt)
  • 2010: Sorow (CD, Siren Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview 1997
  2. ↑ ibid.
  3. ↑ Organum Discography Part 5
  4. ^ Discography on Brainwashed.com
personal data
SURNAME Jackman, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Organum (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century