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.The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, environmental soundscape, musique concrete, electro-acoustic, and audio-montage as cinema for the years from 1982 to present, each of which utilise graphic design and text for contextual juxtaposition with the recordings, as well as having a diverse but concrete philosophical and sometimes quasi-religious framework to place them in.
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  • grimel0rd

    has about the same effect on me as movies by David Lynch...

    23 Nov 2011 Reply

  • Serbanned

    rofl

    23 Oct 2011 Reply

  • ketchup-chips

    Can someone recommend me stuff of his that is in a similar vein to A Thirsty Fish?

    24 Mar 2011 Reply

  • Goomba4001

    Can you even hear the difference between a 44.1kHz sampling rate and a 1000+ sampling rate with fifty year old ears?

    31 Jan 2011 Reply

  • Lucky_D

    Z´EV + FLOWER & CORSANO DUO > 25 JUL 2010, 18h30 - Ténis do Parque de Serralves http://www.last.fm/event/1597854+Z%27EV+at+Museu+de+Arte+Contempor%C3%A2nea+de+Serralves+on+25+July+2010 / http://www.serralves.pt/actividades/detalhes.php?id=1827

    16 Jul 2010 Reply

  • half_past_q

    Заслуженно культовая фигура. Сейчас думаю, что тут дело не только в качестве звука, МакКензи создаёт ландшафты которые хотят чтоб в них поверили, и если изначально быть настроенными скептически - у вас может не получиться. Абсолютно не фоновая, тяжёлая музыка в то же время манящая Не забывайте переводить фокус и моргать )

    30 May 2010 Reply

  • t__k

    he (they) do(es) have a point...computer speakers (or worthless earbuds) dont hold a candle against a beefed up stereo system, or seeing (hearing) them (him) live. of course, all largely propaganda (of course). have you been paying attention? i'm going to the other side of the playground.

    1 May 2010 Reply

  • Fractilion

    oh yeah. i am proud to say that i am a Hafler Trio fan that "doesn't get" Hafler Trio by the fact that I play your MP3s. I am more than happy to keep it that way. While I am doing this, I will be purchasing your albums, even despite your lack of respect for me, the listener. I do this because of my appeciation of your ideas. If adding +10,000 more samples to the sampling rate is going to alter the "esoteric" effects of your music, McKenzie, please explain how in the form of yet another release accompanied by a 20+ page essay. I will be sure to purchase it. you are the pimp, i am the whore. keep them coming.

    27 Apr 2010 Reply

  • Fractilion

    Redintegrate = best?

    27 Apr 2010 Reply

  • dsunger

    Trying to remember the name of a Hafler Trio track-- It was edited together out of a BBC new report. If you aren't listening closely it sounded like nothing was wrong, but if you listened closely you realize that it doesn't make any sense. I heard it on the college radio in the late 90's, but can't remember the title or album.

    23 Apr 2010 Reply

  • bashiechan

    Mckenzie banned me from his IRC channel when I told him I dowloaded his album off Soulseek =D

    30 Mar 2010 Reply

  • IdleCrocidile

    NOT background music. Nor music to fall asleep to. As I fell asleep to Walk Gently through the gates of joy(not by boredom..just tiredness) and fell into a dream seemingly directed by Maya Deren and Lynch in his more sinister moods... The dream was about some little girl called MENACE..and I awoke to the sound of steel crickets grating themselves through my brain. Background music.. NO. You have to appreciate several, several books,ideas and concepts before even thinking of approaching this material. With that said... it's worth the jump IF you listen to music for experience rather than for enjoyment..

    5 Dec 2009 Reply

  • polymorphous71

    Salvation lies within --->http://www.last.fm/group/Oblique+Satellites

    28 Nov 2009 Reply

  • serv2r

    just stfu every1 dont judge me cuz if u met me ud b like i like her shes awesome bet u didnt meet the jonas brothers n hug em and also they prob didnt talk to u so waht

    25 Aug 2009 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    /"You are perfecly free to listen to any Halfer trio album you wish at your own responsibility. "/ - thank you. /"All it takes is a bit of time, openness and a certain quality of attention. And the desire to get there, seeing that you aren´t there yet."/ if the idea is that someone scrobbling music on Last.fm always surfs the internet, drinks beer, eats pancakes and masturbate to some porn at the same time then I do think that it's silly. why would I want to do that to H3o? it's hardly ideal background music.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    you are completely missing a point here.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply

  • adroneuphor

    hello there dr. I won´t argue with you, you are creating a problem out of something that isn´t one. You are perfecly free to listen to any Halfer trio album you wish at your own responsibility. However i will say this: it is possible to experience something quite unusual and interesting while listening to h3o, something you won´t find in any other artists. This is what it is about. All it takes is a bit of time, openness and a certain quality of attention. And the desire to get there, seeing that you aren´t there yet. Now good luck. I am out of here.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    more, if i can take a liberty of arguing with silliness, I must say that: [1] Andrew McKenzey is himself encouraging lazy way of dealing with sound-art by distributing his work, and [2] he's himself concerned with making money by selling it. and trying to diagnose things: how man who for so many years dealt with breaking boundaries in music using new media and unconventional ideas with a humor sometimes, becomes serious fascist on the war with the internet - I think that [1] he grew old and starts to fight things that he doesn't sees a way to join or [2] Annie Sprinkle put a rod up his ass and it stayed there to these day.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    In short: [1] if McKenzie have a problem with the use of copyrighted images and Last.fm doesn't want to do anything with it, he should probably sue them. Anyway it's problem between Last.fm and an artist. [2] I don't think that H3o have anything to say in question of existence of this profile. I'm rather sure that it's existence doesn't break any existing copyright law. Still, it's a problem between Last.fm and an artist. As to problems between artist and his listeners: [3] Thank you for sharing McKenzie's opinion with us. I, personally, took it under consideration and chose to ignore it. And [4] yes, I think that ignoring artist extravagant wishes is not necessarily crime against his art. I did read Blake's poems from normal printed book, not from his hand illustrated manuscripts and still I'm sure I've did really read Blake's poems and don't really feel much sorry for it. [5] Sorry for my English.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    Kafka wanted to have all of his books burned after his death. Hope you respected the wish and never read one.

    15 Aug 2009 Reply
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