sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience and a consciousness, vibration. dp re/searches and ponders existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life and living, that activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of civilisation, inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis, liberating, cleansing. therapeutical stimulation is acknowledged.
sonic activism, ritual protest music, humanimalism
dp might touch topics such as environmental sensitisation, sentient perception and awareness, existentialism and existential e/quality, but it’s also how these and related topics interconnect that interests, the hyperconnectivity some call chaos. dp rings in the era of humanimal
methods are audio de/construction, composition, sonic rituals, psycho-acoustics and performance. tools are voice, body, field recordings, electronics, objects, video
dp has been sonically active for 37+ years, has appeared on over 250 releases and has played over 700 concerts in 50+ countries
keywords: ritual protest music, sonic activism, humanimalism. composition, sound art, psycho-acoustics, experimental, noise, musique concrète, performance. voice, body, microphones, objects, electronics, field recordings, video
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dp@tochnit-aleph.com
interview by emocaust videozine sept 2024 (video in english and spanish)
amazonia revisited dec 2023 (podcast)
interview by dawid kowalski oct 2023 (text in english & polish)
interview by musique machine january 2022 (text in english)
noisextra conversation february 2022 (podcast in english)
interview by chain DLK august 2021 (text in english)
'objecthood 7' macba web radio special by roc/evol april 2020 (podcast)
'insekter' on swedish national radio feat. dp april 2021 (podcast in swedish with interviews in english)
interview by arvo zylo/chicago april 2020 (text)
macba feature on Terike Haapoja with sound by dp/barcelona april 2020 (podcast)
radio wdr3 on the schimpfluch & tochnit-aleph affiliation/germany feb 2020 (podcast in german)
mandy wong on video action/university of alabama dec 2019 (text)
radio sygma/moscow may 2019 (podcast) soundcloud version mixcloud version
electronic tuesday/praha september 2018 (podcast with interview and new excerpts)
15 questions/berlin february 2018 (interview in english)
radio international/kyiv november 2017 (radio piece)
fyh/poland august 2017 (interview in polish)
animals sounds/london may 2017 (podcast & interview)
heathen harvest/california may 2017 (interview in english)
bnr/sofia may 2017 (interview in bulgarian)
sygma/moscow september 2016 (interview in russian)
pan african space station/cape town september 2016 (radio session/spoken word piece)
continent/new york august 2016 (text piece)
guests from chaos/greece april 2016 (podcast)
a propos de minos/nancy feb 2016 (radio live action & impro session)
the wrong rock show/cape town december 2015 (podcast)
vice/milano august 2015 (interview in italian)
african paper/berlin august 2015 (interview in german)
blackened disco/moscow june 2015 (podcast)
coltra/moscow april 2015 (interview in russian)
radioart106fm/israel august 2014 (podcast with humanimalism manifesto read by meira asher)
the wire: listen july 2014 (article)
ràdio web MACBA 'on duration' curated by dp (february 2014) (podcast)
noisepaper/tashkent june 2013 (interview in kyrillic)
ethical magazine/spain may 2013 (interview in spanish, pages 18 - 29) english version
norient/bern june 2012 (interview & podcast)
wfmu blog/USA april 2012 (interview)
luff does tokyo festival/CH+JP april 2012 (schimpfluch interview)
soma/sao paulo october 2011 (interview in portuguese)
time out/tel aviv december 2010 (interview in hebrew)
delirious insomniac/chicago april 2010 (guest podcast)
tbwb/nyc june 2006 (interview)
dp has performed, recorded & worked with: Rudolf Eb.er, Marc Zeier, Francisco Meirino, Daniel Löwenbrück, Joke Lanz, GX Jupitter-Larsen, The New Blockaders, Phil Vane, Reto Kühne, Tom Smith, Reto Mäder, Antoine Chessex, Christian Weber, Masonna, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Randy H.Y. Yau, Scott Arford, John Wiese, Mark Durgan, Damion Romero, Ben Jones, Has Gaylani, Kid Commando, Leticia Castaneda, Tomasz Twardawa, Neil Campbell, Eric Boros, Stephen Thomas, Monno, Lucas Abela, Mario Löffel, Mike Reber, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Rani Zager, Eran Sachs, Alex Drool, David Opp, Alexei Borisov, Olga Nosova, Aspec(t), Pei-Wen Liu, Chris Galarreta, Michael Esposito, Mei Zhiyong, Dave Noyze, Meira Asher, Thomas Tilly, Justin Allart, Hiko (Gauze), Joachim Nordwall, Leif Elggren, Les Horribles Travailleurs, Les Voda, Arvo Zylo, Mike Shiflet, Yann Marussich, and many more…
dp is guilty of hypocrisy by adding to the pollution problem through travelling to play live in: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tasmania, Ukraine, USA, Viet Nam
and at these Festivals: Luff Lausanne, Avanto Helsinki, Liquid Architecture Sydney, CCC Bern, Observatori Valencia, Ieperfest Ieper, Beyond Music Los Angeles, New Music For A Final Mess San Francisco, Crashcourse Berlin, Harbinger Soundclash Vol. 1 London, Termite Club Leeds, Kokeko Paris, Overgaden Sound Art Copenhagen, Opdrift/Drifting Mankind Enschede, No Fun Fest New York, Nojzfest Ljubljana, Avmotional Bukarest, Musica Genera Sczcecin, Liquid Architecture Melbourne, Alt Music Auckland, Biennale Athens, Triebjagd Bern, Theremin Moscow, Primate Arena Tel Aviv, Ertz Bera, Neon Marshmallow Chicago, Colour Out Of Space Brighton, Cocart Torun, Altera Napoli, Asim’tria Cusco, Saint Ghetto Bern, Industrial Noise Fest Curitiba, Akouphène Geneva, Supersimetria Barcelona, LUFF Tokyo, Bergen International Festival, Theaterspektakel Zürich, Rue Du Nord Lausanne, Tam Tuumb Rome, Sonor Festival Nantes, Noisefest Kortrijk, Shards Of Ordnance Birmingham, Sound Around Kaliningrad, Screamscape Fribourg, Openair Wipkingen, Flussi Avellino, Tokyo Noise Zürich, Epicurean Escapism Berlin, Bruisme Poitiers, Ende Tymes New York City, IOIC Silent Film Marathon Zürich, Bruitisme La Chaux de Fonds, ZNFI Trbovlje, NNOI Festival, Wolimierz Borderline Noise Festival, Ondulor Festival Geneva, Festivalkongress Fieldrecording Bremen, Textures Festival London, Kyiv International Biennal, Bruitisme Bordeaux, Synthposium Moscow, Lie Burn Man Jerusalem, Hradby Samot Moravany nad Váhom, Musica Festival Strasbourg, Borsig Amp Fest Berlin, Xciting Festival Stuttgart, Hlukovæ Mysteria Ostrava, Fab-In Festival Łódź, Videoex Festival Zürich, Renaissance Festival Geneva, Wroclaw Industrial Festival, Sonoscopia Porto
dp has released on these fine labels: Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Ideal Recordings, Monotype Records, Rrr, Alku, Entr’acte, Fragment Factory, Heart & Crossbone, Ini Itu, Nihilist, Scrotum Records, Noise Below, Absurd, Urbsounds, Banned Productions, Second Sleep, FOAD, Subjam, Aaltra, Noisendo, The Tide Of The End, Cruel Bones, The Epicurean, Silken Tofu, Nazlo Records, Total Black and many more.
1969 | born in Zug, Switzerland, from a british father and a french mother |
1974 | first 7" bought (Abba 'Waterloo') |
1976 | first album bought (Kiss 'Alive I') |
1980 | first live concert attended (Kiss & Iron Maiden) |
1981 | plays cardboard drums at one-off concert of punk band 'Neo Pogos' |
1984 | first musical activities (on real instruments) with Reto Kühne, short involvement with Messiah (Thrash Metal) and first experiments with a microphone and a tape-recorder. |
1986 - 1987 | member of Bunch of Lies (B.O.L.) with Reto Kühne, Erich Keller and Nasty |
1987 - 1988 | founding member of Fear of God with Reto Kühne, Erich Keller and Osi Oswald, Hardcore/Grindcore |
since 1987 | organises concerts, at first mainly hardcore/metal (a.o. first swiss appearances of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass, Godflesh etc.), later on experimental music |
1988 | resides in Zürich |
1988 - 1994 | work for RecRec, independant label and music-distributor in Zürich |
1988 - 1999 | Tower of Beef/D&S/Doug&Chuck, with Stephen Thomas; noise-rock, studio-works, dance/ballet & film-music, collages, plunderphonics |
1990 - 1994 | participant of „Psychic Rally“, radioshow on LoRa (Alternatives Lokalradio) Zürich with Rudolf Eb.er & Joke Lanz |
1990 - 1996 | participant in Joke Lanz‘s Sudden Infant, some performances and releases |
1991 - 1993 | PK with Reto Kühne (Fear Of God, Messiah) & Roger Drein, conceptual & ritual music, improvisations and field recordings, various studio-works, no releases (yet) |
since 1991 | member of Schimpfluch-Gruppe, a loose collective dealing with psychophysical tests and trainings, with Rudolf Eb.er/Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Joke Lanz/Sudden Infant, Marc Zeier/G*Park, Daniel Löwenbrück/Raionbashi |
1994/95, 2001, 2004 | field recordings in Thailand |
1995 | resides in Aarau |
1995 - 1996 | Shitfun, live-project with Joke Lanz and Mario Löffel, electronic rhythms, feedback manipulations, noisescapes, 2 gigs |
since 1995 | turntablism as eva d., all styles my style |
1996 | Schimpfluch-Gruppe tours in England and Taiwan with Rudolf Eb.er |
1997 | Schimpfluch-Gruppe tour of Japan with Rudolf Eb.er. heavy back injury. |
1999 - 2002 | “Zeitgenossen“, monthly radio-show for new music with Reto Mäder (rm74) on Radio Kanal K/Aarau |
2000 | founder of OHNE, with Tom Smith (ex-To Live & Shave in L.A., ex-Pussy Galore), Daniel Löwenbrück (Tochnit Aleph label, Raionbashi) and Reto Mäder (rm74, Hinterzimmer) |
2001 | first live-appearances since back-injury. Auszeichnung des Aargauer Kuratoriums “Beitrag zum künstlerischen Schaffen” |
2002 | tour through Europe, especially eastern countries, with OHNE. |
2003 | resides in Zürich. dp solo-appearances in the US and UK. reformation of FEAR OF GOD (a mistake that lasts 6 months). participation at “EMA – electronic music archive”, curated by Norbert Möslang for Kunsthalle St.Gallen |
2004 | dp Euro tour. OHNE at ‚Avanto Art’ in Helsinki. ‘dead peni’ is born, a doom/metal/sludge one-man-project |
2005 | dp US tour with Lucas Abela. dead peni mini-tour. tour-soundengineer for MONNO. swiss tour and duo ’AC/DP’ with Antoine Chessex. co-curator with Tochnit-Aleph for LUFF (Lausanne Underground Film Festival)’s ‘Nuits Bruit des Corps’. participation in ‘Camp Victory’ a noise-opera by Gilles Aubry and Stephan Montavon, 3 performances in Lausanne. collaborative works with Francisco Meirino. |
2006 | dead peni tour with ‘Allee der Kosmonauten’ (Berlin). Schimpfluch-Gruppe (Eb.er, Lanz, Phillps, Löwenbrück) in London. dp tour of Japan and South Korea. 6 months grant for a recording studio in Zürich from the city’s culture departement. AVmotional festival in Bucharest. collaborative works with Randy Yau, Antoine Chessex. |
2007 | Schimpfluch/dp & R&G tour of Australia and New Zealand. dp at festivals in Valencia, Sczcecin and Athens. field recordings in Vietnam |
2008 | collaborative studio and live works with Marc Zeier/G*Park including participation at Colour Out Of Space Festival (Brighton). new band “Ketsu No Ana” with dp on bass & vocals |
2009 | tour and duo with G*Park in Northern Germany; dp tour of Holland; dp tours of Russia & Italy; Ketsu No Ana live dates in Switzerland |
2010 | field recordings in Indonesia; dp US tour; dp and Francisco Meirino tour of Spain, dp tour of Israel, music for flim “La Chienne” by Klaudia Reynicke |
2011 | lives and works in Tel Aviv for 2 months. 40 concerts/60 days dp tour of Latin America. field recordings in Amazonia. festivals in Napoli, Torun, Bern & Lausanne |
2012 | festivals in Barcelona, Bergen, Tokyo. dp tours of Japan & Norway. 'Extreme Rituals: A Schimpfluch Carnival' Festival in Bristol, dedicated to the legacy of Schimpfluch |
2013 | festival in Rome for the 100th anniversary of Luigi Russolo's "Art of Noises”. dp tour of france. the "atonal" concert series begins (first called ‘entart’), hosting new live music in Zürich. the ScHimpfluch Associates label is founded with Rudolf Eb.er |
2014 | dp tour of China/Taiwan & UK, festival in Birmingham |
2015 | dp tour with Anemone Tube in Germany and Holland. festivals in Kaliningrad, Fribourg, Zürich & Avellino. 'ritual protest music' tour of Europe with Mei Zhiyong. field recordings and concerts in South Africa. |
2016 | tour of France with William Nurdin. KREV 25th anniversary participant at Cabaret Voltaire Zürich. tour of USA as Schimpfluch-Gruppe with Joke Lanz & Rudolf Eb.er. festivals in Zürich, Berlin, New York City, Poitiers, Helsinki, Moscow. |
2017 | dp Balkan tour (Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia). dp tours in Poland & Ukraine. festivals in Trbovlje, Grosswoltersdorf, Wolimierz, Geneva, Bremen, Kyiv, London. first perverts in white shirts live appearance. |
2018 | dp tour of Russia. festivals in Zürich, Bad Bonn, London, Moscow and Zürich again. |
2019 | dp tours of Spain, Israel, Central Europe. IOIC tour of South America. schimpfluch AA tour with Rudolf Eb.er & Alice Kemp. festivals in Moravany nad Váhom, Jerusalem, Augsburg, Strasburg, Stuttgart |
2020 | dp tour of Canada (cancelled). festival in łódź. most live activities cancelled by covid. |
2021 | festivals in ostrava, zürich. limited live activities due to covid. |
2022 | festival in geneva. limited live activities due to covid. |
2023 | field recordings on borneo. tour of poland. |
2024 | dp tour of china and vietnam. festivals in porto and berlin. dp tour of armenia & georgia, dp tour of italy |