analyze photos of electronic musicians

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/8/8/3/2/652388_356x237.jpg

he gets laid more often than Aphex Twin (?)

http://a834.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_a5156324531229df9fac365684ba1881.jpg

he gets laid more often than Aphex Twin

i don't know who those people are

those pic links dont work for me baja

ok they do now

dude in plaid = Markus Popp, from Oval
bald dude = Hans-Joachim Roedelius, from Cluster

(your pics don't work for me either, just so y'know)

both of whom get laid more often than the Aphex Twin.

um. they work for me but only if i click on the address bar and hit "enter"

autechre

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2100010114_2392664998_o.jpg

boards of canada

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2328/2099231001_98a8ef3dcf_o.jpg

if i had to judge from that photo i'd say markus popp gets laid exactly never.

morelike anal-ize, amirite?

all of the little phrases this board uses are so cute.

The answer to this question is nerds.

And that's not a knock.

I want to be where the BoC are in that picture, right now.

Outdoors clothes/countryside pictures are always cool. Obv there is a sense of dichotomy being played with there: futuristic/natural etc. The continuing notion of folktronica I suppose. BoC like to hide their faces a lot. Autechre dude on the right is looking into the future, dude on the left is looking at you i.e. the now. I wd like to go walking with these guys and just hang out, like. The Autechre picture is about roots. The BoC pic is about margins or borders.

http://www.littlebig.org.uk/archives/Snares.jpg

http://totem1.totemstream.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/stockhausen.jpg

Wow he was hot as a young man.

LL Cool K

So those huge machines that make us think retro wd be signifying the PHUTURE in the early 50s when that was taken. And Karlheinz looking out into it again. I think Aaron Funk might be skitting the "look into the future" pose. His zebra and starfish are cutely surrealist tho.

Actually I think the photo's from 1964... which would be "Telemusik", NHK Studios, Tokyo... guessing here

Mixmaster Morris:

http://www.samurai.fm/mixmastermorris/mixmastermorris_profile.jpg

How old is this guy btw? The above pic is presumably a newish one, but I remember seeing pics of him in 1993 or 1994 where he already looked old.

Okay, according to Wikipedia he was born in 1960, so I guess at 33 he would've looked old to the 14-year old me.

http://www.djspooky.com/photos/pbs/djspooky_PBS_2.jpg

lol he's got one of his boring essays hung up behind him

http://www.sentireascoltare.com/CriticaMusicale/Monografie/jan-jelinek/front.jpg

young stockhausen: i would totally hit it

today i realised that i'm a geek.
loving these photos on the thread despite not knowing most people pictured.
also this is probably the reason why the latest Thomas Dolby live DVD is just so great.
one of the extras is Thomas giving a tour/explanation of the kit he has used for his recent tour.
gadget overload.

so, here's another ..

http://themicronauts.free.fr/themicronautsih8_20050304.jpg

I love that fact that I know these people's work, but I have no idea who they are from looking at them.

(expect rodelius, I met him after a concert once, nice man... Is black dude w. hat Carl Craig?)

http://www.softlmusic.com/pics/basinski3.jpg

(sorry i'm not doing any analyzing, just posting)

black dude w/ hat is dj spooky

am0n FTW

Autechre dude on the right is looking into the future, dude on the left is looking at you i.e. the now. I wd like to go walking with these guys and just hang out, like. The Autechre picture is about roots.
-- Noodle Vague

nicely done

that mixmaster morris pic is frightening. i had no idea he was so old

Whatever happened to Oval?

i don't know why but i am comforted by the fact that Mixmaster Morris hasn't given up the drugged out early 90s hippie-futurism schtick. <3

Whatever happened to Oval?

The Sharkjump known as Clicks and Cuts Vol 1-4

See also Glitch

See also Navel Gazing

The machine fetish pics are always a little bit like the archetypal guitarist's pose with his weapon pushed into the camera, but at the same time Jelinek and Micronauts guy are slightly consumed or enwombed by their gear. Is that really what Basinski looks like? Not at all how I'd imagined him. I like that he's looking slightly bemused by the box in front of him like "WTF do I do with this?"

Maybe with the guys pictured without instruments there is some slight suggestion that the music, or their essence as music-makers, is outside of the actual machines themselves. Like primarily their music is a Platonic Form that happily exists prior to making or recording it.

I like this thread. They are mostly good portraits, all else aside. I've wallpapered the Stockhausen.

http://www.artthrob.co.za/04aug/images/calix01a.jpg

chantal passamonte

(she gets more press that young stockhausen...)

http://wizardishungry.com/lol/ianjon.jpg

lol doing something dirty and primitive in a cave. Nice colours. Jon is looking into the future or playing video games. What do hand scrawls say? "BAD"? "Phiend"?

friend

tan sauconies indicate lingering emo tendencies

"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.

I think that Pierre Schaeffer pic is fantastic

Yeah, I semi-joke about the staring into the future pose but quite a few of these pics have a wonderful dreamy-but-focussed/intent look about them. A combination of the mad scientist thing noted above with sharply Mod dress sense, some feeling of "I am making Magick happen here". The flash reflection (I assume) in the Schaeffer photo composes the whole thing really well.

k I'm stupid, dreamy/intent = listening, doesn't it?

50s electronic musicians look like film stars!

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/tech_rockstars/image/moby03.jpghttp://gfx.dagbladet.no/fredag/2004/12/02/pc_halflife2.jpg

http://www.edition-peters.com/images/composers/Hays_D.jpg

anyone know where that villalobos picture is taken? i assume chile? i studied there in college and saw a few landscapes there were somewhat similar. same with this one:

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

http://www.diskant.net/images/zine/pjeck.jpg

http://www.phonurgia.org/img/jeckescolano2.JPG

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/03/08/kompakt460.jpg

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/30/19/30_19carlosgiffoni_z.jpg

http://brahms.ircam.fr/data/picture/i00000005.jpg

http://www.thewho.info/images/00LE-PST-PT.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/IMG_9231.jpg

one of the Autechre guys remind me of Zidane, or maybe Zdar.

love this one

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/2166635.jpg

HE IS ALIEN

wolfgang voigt looks like bowie in that photo.

needs nametag on left breast (xp)

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/IMG_9512.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/349477.jpg

http://www.robinsonarchive.com/images/photolarge_500/Carlos04.jpg

... never saw that photo before, it's great!!!

you gotta admit ricardo v does look like one smug fucker in that beach photo

I think that Pierre Schaeffer pic is fantastic

Best one on the thread, IMO!

With all the early electronic guys, there's a trichotomy of music studio + mad science lab + academic formality that is so incredibly cool. That Schaeffer photo basically represents my dream job.

Don't forget Giorgio...

http://www.discogs.com/image/A-150-4205-001.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/image/A-150-4205-001.jpg

Argh -- let's try this one mo' time...

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/p32131wzblo.jpg

http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/steveroachtimeroomsandiegooctubre78.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/IMG_9512.jpg

Who's the guy in this pic? I really like it - you rarely see pictures where someone's DJing so hard he's sweating all over. And no one's even looking at him. The lonely devoted worker.

Theo Parrish at DEMF this year.

http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/kraftwerk/kraftwerk_7.jpg

Richie Hawtin and his mum:

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/a26.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/685/000099388/delia.jpg

http://urzhiata.emoc.org/images/sonores/alchemists_of_sound.jpg

Daphne Oram reminds me more of Julia Child than anyone else

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/images/DO_BBCSM.jpg

http://emu.music.ufl.edu/femf/cnrphotos/lucierroad.jpg

http://www.djbroadcast.nl/imgcache/10c3a81c43fd83b19af6efd9e139c49f.jpeg

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/scifi/barrons.jpg

don't know who these guys are, but it did come up in a gis for charles wuorinen

http://www.davidsarnoff.org/images/HFO-Belar.jpg

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9840/silverapples3sk2.jpg

Also re: the first Murcof picture. He looks like a combination of a young Fidel Castro and Suge Knight.

Also I once noticed: Ellen Allien http://www.discogs.com/image/A-4281-001.jpg
Superpitcher http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:G48DwCBz0SDoHM:http://www.resonatormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/superpitcher.jpg
It's too bad I don't have any good photos of myself on my computer, because Superpitcher and I have a tendency for dogglegangerism.

DAmn, picture doesn't seem to be posting, well it's this and the two pictures don't even look as much alike as I once thought, so whatever.

Oh for chirssakes, nevermind.

http://www.capsule.org.uk/Assets/Images/Event/wolf_eyes.jpg

http://www.combo-organ.com/Farfisa/VIP/Tangerine%20dream%20

http://www.submodern.com/slowburn/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/tangerine.jpg

wow this one's awesome:

http://www.soweirdproductions.com/wp-images/blog-images/050516_ks_linz80.jpg

http://www.bigchill.net/images/mainpics/tonto_main1.jpg

awes

one more theo p.:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/493918809_78a975f5d4_o.jpg
compare & contrast w/mayer, now there's a smug looking rictus.

http://www.upfrontmag.com/assets/chris_liebing_speedy_j.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/2/2d/ThrobbingGristle1978.jpg

Tom D: that Silver Apples picture! Really beautiful!

http://www.synthtopia.com/artists/images/rockmore.gif

compare & contrast w/mayer, now there's a smug looking rictus.

Kind of interesting you should mention that, because When I saw Theo Parrish DJ in the summer, I found him to be exactly like Michael Mayer, who I saw like a month before.

I'd never heard him DJ beforehand, or otherwise really, so correct me for an shortsightedness, but he mixed just like him, doing really quick 4-16 bar fades and just working the knobs for the 8 or so minutes in between. Also, the records also kept skipping, to which Theo kept making these absolutely great ridiculous faces like he had bit into a lemon or something. Interestingly enough, more or less the same thing was the case when I saw Michael Mayer, just without the funny faces, but they seemed to take the same attitude to DJ'ing.

That's my unnecessary anecdote.

i kind of hate how handsome matthew dear is.

http://www.outlar.com/images/artists/MatthewDear1.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/5.jpg

Villalobos looks like Adrian Brody in the beach shot. If those are in Chile then they are presumably taken in the Atacama, home of totally radical telescopes and lagoons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert

yea i was wondering if it was the atacama. i just didn't see any water when i was there. but i think there might be other places in chile/atacama that look more like the villalobos photo.

he does look like adrian brody in that photo.

Hmmm. Yeah, maybe. It does have a coast and lakes though: http://www.atacamaphoto.com/atacama/atacama-6.htm

you're right. those photos are amazing, btw.

i don't know what i was thinking... i even went to a coastal town! (iquique).

http://www.avantofestival.com/2006/k/sahkometsa2.jpg
http://www.divus.cz/images/umelec/Kurenniemi_1.jpg
Erkki Kurenniemi

maybe someone should try and come up with a meta-analysis when every electronic artist ever has been posted...

a dutch one:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME07/IMAGES/Natlab_electronics02.JPG

and a bit of a shame that it took this long, but finally here he is (confidently looking into the future ;-)

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5126/eno73aoo9.jpg

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/eno75c.jpg

http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/modules/input_output/Pop/images/B_Eno75.jpg

Eno looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Silencelamp7.jpg/200px-Silencelamp7.jpg

He is the second hottest man on this thread.

http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/lauriespiegelstudio80s.jpg

http://www.writersblock.net/000/lib/studo2.gif

http://raymondscott.com/electron.jpg

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/clavivox/manhattan.gif

analyze photos of electronic musicians

silverapples.jpg

-- Tom D., Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

LOL, that's a scan I did of the insert from my copy the first record. has GIS picked up on that already?

here's the rest:

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9259/silverapples1el5.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5945/silverapples2fy9.jpg
http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/9840/silverapples3sk2.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8985/silverapples4wj4.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9715/silverapples5es6.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/3066/silverapples6su7.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4927/silverapples7xg3.jpg
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9599/silverapples8xl7.jpg

http://www.de-bug.de/texte/images/db_images/4178.jpg

that isn't elaine, is it?

oh it's perrey oh god forget I said ANYTHING oh dear PARDON

it's eliane

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/1523446683_31beac4337.jpg
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/wp-content/imagebank/ars7.jpg

for a sec there i thought it was marge schott, racist ex-owner of the Reds.

http://www.gigolorecords.com/images/large/hell_press_photo___gq__car.jpg

http://www.mobeus.org/archives/juanatkins/Picture01.jpg

^^ haha it's j.f. sebastian

that's juan atkins right?

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