Hafler Trio

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The Hafler Trio (H3O for short) is an English music project that is assigned to conceptual art and that has presented countless experimental publications since 1984, which can best be classified in the field of ambient and musique concrète and which often have a philosophical background.

Despite the misleading group name, the Hafler Trio mainly consists of Andrew M. McKenzie (* 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) and changing partners. McKenzie released his first single at the age of 14, then founded the punk band Flesh before turning to experimental electronic music and in 1980 the Hafler Trio , which has released a large number of releases on various labels since 1984. The publications are usually supplemented by explanations of the sound experiments they contain.

The name Hafler Trio is said to go back to David Hafler, who is said to have developed a surround sound system from three loudspeakers in the 1940s. In addition to McKenzie, Chris Watson of Cabaret Voltaire was a founding member. The third member at the foundation, Dr. Edward Moolenbeek, it turned out to be a joke: the name comes from a supposed expert in psychoacoustic research around 1930.

In addition to Andrew McKenzie, numerous well-known musicians have contributed to the releases of the Hafler Trio, including: a. Adi Newton ( Clock DVA ), Z'ev , David Tibet ( Current 93 ), Genesis P-Orridge ( Psychic TV ), Annie Sprinkle , Jónsi Birgisson ( Sigur Rós ), Michael Gira ( Swans ), Claude Vivier, Erla Þórarinsdóttir, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and John Lacey (COUM Transmissions). On Murray Fontana Orchestra McKenzie is supported by Nurse with Wound , Snuff was created with Willem De Ridder . In 2003 and 2005 publications appeared in collaboration with Autechre .

The Hafler Trio also recorded a soundtrack for Brion Gysin's “ Dreamachine ”, which contained extensive documentation on the reproduction of such a device; some replicas were even sold by the group itself.

In 1992 Hafler Trio released a 31-scene film called Just Because A Cat Has Her Kittens in the Oven Doesn't Make them Biscuits , which was distributed by Temple Press Ltd., the publisher affiliated with Temple Records . The film also contained lyrics by Z'ev and Genesis P-Orridge.

Most of the publications of the Hafler Trio appeared only in very small editions, many more recent publications even only in direct sales by Andrew McKenzie. However, some albums have also been reissued in large numbers by large labels such as Mute Records .

Discography (selection)

  • 1984: "BANG!" - to Open Letter (republished 1993)
  • 1985: Soundtrack to “Alternation, Perception & Resistance” - a Comprehension Exercise
  • 1985: Seven Hours Sleep (re-issue 1993)
  • 1985: Hotondo Kiki Torenai
  • 1986: The Sea Org
  • 1986: Brain Song
  • 1987: A Thirsty Fish (re-issue, 1993)
  • 1988: INTOUTOF
  • 1989: Ignotum per Ignotius
  • 1989: Present Brion Gysin's Dreamachine (with Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth ) (LP and CD, re-issue of the limited edition ‹100 pieces› cassette, "Untitled", published in 1987)
  • 1990: Dislocation
  • 1990: A Bag of Cats
  • 1991: Redintegrate 1, 2 & 3
  • 1991: Kill The King
  • 1991: The Hafler Trio Play The Hafler Trio
  • 1991: The Hafler Trio Play The Hafler Trio Play The Hafler Trio
  • 1991: masturbatorium
  • 1992: Mastery of Money
  • 1992: FUCK
  • 1993: Four Ways Of Saying Five
  • 1994: How To Reform Mankind
  • 1994: Negentropy
  • 1994: One Dozen Economical Stories by Peter Greenaway
  • 1995: Walk Gently Through the Gates of Joy
  • 1996: # 1: various methods of attaining immortality | # 2: three different kinds of seed
  • 1996: Infidelity to Reason
  • 1996: The Day I Married The World
  • 1996: Right Here Where You Are Sitting Now
  • 1996: An Utterance of the Supreme Ventriloquist
  • 1996-1998: WHO SEES GOES ON
  • 2000: Hljóðmynd
  • 2000: Mein (unreleased; bootleg)
  • 2002: Cleave: 9 Great Openings [Trilogy In Three Parts, Part The First]
  • 2002: La Chanson Dada
  • 2002: Whistling About Chickens
  • 2003: No Man Put Asunder: 7 Fruitful and Seamless Unions [Trilogy In Three Parts, Part The Second]
  • 2003: No More Twain, Of One Flesh: 11 Unequivocal Obsecrations [Trilogy In Three Parts, Part The Third]
  • 2003: the moment when we blow the flour from our tongues
  • 2003: A Small Child Dreams Of Voiding The Plague
  • 2003: The Birds Must Be Eliminated
  • 2003: The man who tried to disappear
  • 2003: A house waiting for its master
  • 2003: Wolf Sheep Cabbage # 1 - evidence pertaining to the destroyer
  • 2003: Wolf Sheep Cabbage # 2 - evidence pertaining to the creator
  • 2003: kisses with both hands from gods little toy
  • 2003: How to slice a loaf of bread
  • 2003: æ³o & h³æ (with Autechre )
  • 2003: NORMALLY. being by that entity formally known as THE HAFLER TRIO
  • 2004: anything that someone else tells you is not good enough
  • 2004: how to slice a loaf of bread (lengthwise)
  • 2004: the concentrated recapturing of thought
  • 2004: scissors cut arrow
  • 2004: WHERE ARE YOU? the partial results of an investigation by THE HAFLER TRIO
  • 2004: I never knew that's who you thought you were
  • 2004: The Nearness of Doings That be Things (live on Resonance 104.4FM)
  • 2004: only the hand that erases can write the true thing
  • 2004: EXACTLY AS I SAY. a rapid learning method devised partly by THE HAFLER TRIO
  • 2004: The Water Has No Hair To Hold On To
  • 2005: Á ég að halda áfram?
  • 2005: Being a firefighter isn't just about squirting water
  • 2005: EXACTLY AS I DO. the revised handbook of essential practice by THE HAFLER * TRIO
  • 2005: æo³ & ³hæ (with Autechre)
  • 2005: If Take, Then Take — Tricks, Half-Tricks and Real Phenomena
  • 2005: Wolf Sheep Cabbage # 3 - evidence pertaining to the preserver
  • 2006: Colin Potter & The Hafler Trio "A Pressed On Sandwich"

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