Strategies Against Architecture

Box set containing:
3xCD ("Strategies Against Architecture" & "Strategies Against Architecture II") in double jewel case with 128 page book, featuring interviews, essays, discography notes plus photos + designs originally published in Klaus Maeck's book "Listen With Pain". In German/Japanese.
CD contains colour insert and fold-out booklet with extensive liner notes & photos. In English.
Video by Japanese film director Sohgo Ishii. NTSC VHS.

CD notes -

"Strategies Against Architecture":

Track CD1-1 - metal/drumkit/record player. Aug 81.
Track CD1-2 - hollow metal object. Aug 81.
Track CD1-3 - bass spring/metal/the sound of switching off studio effects and switching off the studio itself. Sept 81.
Track CD1-4 - originally "Steh Auf Berlin". Tools/metal plates/scratching metal/smashing glass. July 81.
Track CD1-5 - performing an autopsy on tape; reassembling it illogically using the subconcious. 10 Oct 82. Live Copenhagen Oct 82.
Track CD1-6 - amplified spring/glass. July 81.
Track CD1-7 - Steel Version. Released on first single. Recorded in a hollow overpass using the sound of the bridge itself and drumming on its steel sides. June 80.
Track CD1-8 - air conditioned duct. May 81.
Track CD1-9 - chanting/water/voice; so the rubber mike supports are the only instrument. July 81.
Track CD1-10 - Apr 81.
Track CD1-11 - 10 Oct 82. Live Copenhagen Oct 82.
Track CD1-12 - Aug 81.
Tracks CD1-13 - tape stolen in Orf. The main musical element is the fact that it was stolen in Vienna 18 Feb 82. Feb 82.
Track CD1-14 - this documents the way a song changes every time it is performed live (a mutation). 24 Jan 82. Live Oisterwijk. Jan 82.

"Strategies Against Architecture II":

Compilationwork, mixing and processing of the live recordings, reediting and mastering done at Tritonus, Berlin.
All songs published by FREIBANK, Hamburg, except track CD2-8 by Granit Music Corporation.
Art direction at HERZo, Hamburg 1991.