ANTS RECORDS

The work of LA based music-maker John Krausbauer has so

much to do with minimalism as with trance music as with

sound art experimentation and "performance based" sound

forms. And where, as he himself states, the "Trance-

Psychedelia is the aim and goal".

Firmly rooted in the 60s/70s Minimalist movement of LaMonte

Young and The Theater of Eternal Music, as well as the

trajectory out of that...(with the likes of Conrad, Flynt, Wada,

Palestine, Chatham; Oliveros, Radigue etc etc), "beats" also

touch the fields of experimental (or/and, as he said,

"experiential") music and doing this strongly recalls the

pioneering work of a master of the Italian scene like Pietro

Grossi (not by chance the "beats" exactly correspond to

Grossi's "Battimenti").

This is music that knowingly follows the most radical

"avantgarde" traditions, reworking those experiences thru the

lenses of decades of art/punk aesthetic sensibility married

with the most important issues of conceptualism.

"beats" is a composition-improvisation for three accordions.

Multiple pattern-variations in a closely tuned VHF range

produce a dynamic field of beating patterns, difference

tones, acoustic phenomena, and inner ear/auditory

hallucination.

For those interested in Minimalism and Fluxus, Conceptualism

and Sound Art, this will be a really great sonorous trip! Come

and listen!!

In recent years Krausbauer's focus has been on solo work, involving

ritual endurance happenings (live) with voice and violin, accompanied

by synth and strobes and on his compositions, mainly concerned with

systems-based phasing constructions. He's also member of the

Ecstatic Music Band, a collective exploring just tunings with

amplified strings at high volumes and long durations, with

stroboscopic lighting; The Essentialists, a country-blues-boogie-raga

guitar/violin duo; and most recently of the "Minimalist psych-punk"

group, Night Collectors.

track list

1) beats 25:51

released 26/05/2018