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PureH track “Nova Zembla / ледник Иностранцева” on Sonospace – Soundmaps For The Dreamer II Compilation “To listen to the album is to travel from city to suburb, from forest to jungle, from layers so rich they seem beyond comprehension to tones so elusive they seem nearly inaudible (Simon Serc‘s “Nova Zembia”). We’ll be unpacking   Read More …

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PureH side project Cadlag – drone/noise sonic architectures of both inner and outer spaces/ambiences – a space born in sound and a sound born in space. “Votivkirche is easily the best album combining noise and drone I’ve ever heard. A cult-like potential born in a Catholic cathedral.” – review in Noise Beneath The Snow https://noisebeneaththesnow.com/2018/02/26/cadlag-votivkirche-album-review-noise-drone-recorded-live-in-a-cathedral/   Read More …

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Two Pharmafabrik tracks on Unexplained Sounds compilation 2018 Balkan experimental survey – Post industrial culture series: PureH – Krun Macula Recorded and Mixed Live at Black Box, 25-10-2013 Cadlag – θ(x,µ0)(L):=inf{t-0:X.(x,µ0),L t. Recorded and Mixed Live at Votivkirche, 24-05-2014 LINK: https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/2018-balkan-experimental-survey-post-industrial-culture-series

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PureH @ Festival KIBLIX – Zavetja Babilona – Shelters of Babylon 10. November 2017, 20:00 Kibla Portal, Maribor Slovenia Link: http://2017.kiblix.org/en/festival-kiblix/friday-10.-11/pureh-80/

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PureH music in a contemporary dance work “Alice”, with Scanner, Angel Haze, Alva Noto and Jean-Jacques Palix Next dates: 14, 15, 17, 18 novembre 2017 La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Mardi 16 janvier 2018 : : 20:30 Théâtre Edwige Feuillère, Vesoul Jeudi 18 janvier 2018 : : 20:30 La Rotonde, Thaon-les-Vosges Jeudi 26 avril 2018 :   Read More …

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PureH @ Šinafest – festival eksperimentalne umetnosti 8. September 2017, 21:00 Topilnica, Idrija Slovenia Link: http://www.shinafest.com/program.html KSVLKSV – Kaotičen strah v lastnem krogu se vrteč (Chaotic fear spinning in its own circle) is an enigmatic ambient-noise project of PureH (Pharmafabrik Recordings), active in 1990s: a sonic delirium of the Spirit, entraped in spontaneous convolution of   Read More …

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PureH track “The Last Evening” on IRMxTP Part II – The Lonesome Foghorn Blows (The Secret of Knowing Who Killed You) compilation LINK: https://indierockmag.bandcamp.com/track/pureh-the-last-evening ARTICLE: http://www.indierockmag.com/article28825.html

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PUREH – CMBR project (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation) audiovisual composition at Sound Thought 2017 – Festival of music and sound research, composition, and performance 10. May 2017, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland The theme, “Labora[R]tio: Collaborate, Articulate, Integrate“, will be explored by exhibiting the work of postgraduate researchers, academics, and contemporary practitioners, contextualized by   Read More …

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PureH live audio-visual set 6. April 2017, 23:00 AtelierSi Bologna, Italy LINK: http://www.ateliersi.it

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PureH at ToBe Continued – March 24th Stazione di Topolo, Italy ToBe Continued is an original concert lasting 24 hours (from 00.00 hours to the midnight of March 24th, GMT+1), during which musicians from many parts of the World will be connected to a website that will broadcast their concerts. LINK: http://www.stazioneditopolo.it/24h-2017/artista/PureH.html AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/TBC2017/Pureh-LiveForTbc2017.mp3

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Nouvel extrait en vidéo de notre future IRM x Twin Peaks – compilation 2017 signé PureH, c’est insidieux et capiteux, cinématographique à souhait, et c’est tout simplement l’un de nos titres préférés ! PureH met en musique et en images les confessions de Laura Palmer ! C’était l’un des moments clés de la fin de la   Read More …

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The chapel cavern from World War I, built by the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Battalion in 1917, Mrzli Vrh, Slovenia. On the altar there is an inscription: “Blessed Virgin be the protector of your folk.” Part of the Sacred Spaces compilation project, the sounds of the world’s churches, temples and prayers, looking at the role sound plays   Read More …

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Two PureH field recordings tracks on Sonospace – Earth (Listening) compilation: 1. Bora Scura – Vipava Valley 2. Riserva Naturale della Foce dell’Isonzo The main aim for this collection of recordings was to bring together great recordists from around the world and enjoy the sound of our planet. All profits from this album will be   Read More …

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PureH, Scanner, Mathieu Maurice and Jean-Jacques Palix music to a contemporary dance work “Alice”, choreographed by Josette Baïz & Groupe et Compagnie Grenade. 3 novembre 2016 à 20h30 Le Merlan, scène nationale I Marseille 4 novembre 2016 à 20h30 Le Merlan, scène nationale I Marseille 20, 21 décembre 2016 Odyssud I Blagnac 13 janvier 2017   Read More …

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PureH field recording “Škol” at Woodcraft productions “Forests of the World” compilation. “Forests Of The World” is a field recording project of sound professionals and artists from different countries aiming to capture the sound of forests around the world. LINK: https://woodcraftproductions.com/projects/forests-of-the-world/ https://www.discogs.com/Various-Forests-Of-The-World/release/8852945

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Two PureH-related releases, projects from 1993-1994, grindcore-noise stuff: Earslaughter: “Earslaughter brings a heavy and healthy dose of Death Metal influenced Grindcore, the traditional, ugly and pissed off way.” Extreme Smoke 57: “I am as well recommending you to experience this only when you’re in the mood for the most violent, hateful, chaotic, bestial, obliterating noise   Read More …

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PureH-related project Myrornas Krig/Cadlag at perAspera Festival 17th June 2016 22:00 perAspera Festival di Arti Performative Contemporanee Bologna, Italy La noise music si mescola ad elementi di composizioni classiche, esplosioni industriali e drone music, con proiezioni video live e danzatori in scena.

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A massive 200-minutes video clip made by PureH for Chillout room at ZNFI festival 2016.

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PureH – Raintrap at Festival Narave 12. April 2016, 21:00 Bežigrajska galerija Ljubljana Produced by processing the original sound source – field recording of rain in Panovec forest, Slovenia. No other sound source was used in the track. Raintrap was recorded for the Sonic Terrain compilation “World Listening Day 2015”. Screened on a Video Festival   Read More …

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PureH at Gravity Assist Artist Run, Satellite Show, Miami 1. December 2015 – 6. December 2015 SEDIMENT presents the installation, Gravity Assist, for Artist Run organized by Tiger Strikes Asteroid and The Satellite Show Miami from December 1st through December 6th at The Ocean Terrace Hotel, 7410 Ocean Terrace, Miami Beach FL. LINK: http://cargocollective.com/sedimentarts/GRAVITY-ASSIST-Miami-2015

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PureH track “Krun Macula” on To:Pluto Cassette Tape Compilation (Sediment Arts) Orders to: contact@pharmafabrik.com In July of 2015, the NASA satellite New Horizons imaged Pluto in an unprecedentedly close flyby. Mankind’s knowledge of what the Pluto system is will expand exponentially and yield exciting discoveries over the next days, months, and years. The fastest spacecraft   Read More …

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Mirror at 28e Festival Les Instants Vidéo L’homme est condamné à être libre. Condamné, car l’Homme ne s’est pas créé lui-même. Et pourtant, l’Homme est libre. Cette réflexion est inspirée des théories de Jean-Paul Sartre qui développe l’idée qu’une fois jeté dans l’arène, l’Homme est responsable de toutes ses actions. Cette création interroge le réel   Read More …

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Brainwave Sound System by PureH/Pharmafabrik: a sound therapy tool for relaxation and tinnitus treatment. Slovenian Innovation forum selected Brainwave Sound System among 40 of the best innovations. Brainwave Sound System is an application for mobile phones: EEG headset registers actions of brain waves and sends real-time data to the application on the phone. The application   Read More …

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PureH – “Raintrap” on World Listening Day 2015 – H2O Sonic Terrain Isomorphic resonance of discontinuously heterophonic rainwater modulations. LINK: https://www.discogs.com/Various-WLD-2015-H2O-Pt-IV/release/8060080

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Book of Slovenian labels: from Avsenik to… Pharmafabrik Recordings. LINK: http://www.ljudmila.org/subkulturni-azil/explorer.php?page=enciklopedija_slorock#frontier_087_zalozbe

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Field recording: Lost in Panovec forest, Slovenia Reimagined by Simon Serc. Part of our Sound Waves project for World Listening Day 2015 Cities and Memory is a sound project that records both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at at time. Every faithful   Read More …

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PureH – “Paracusia” at 12th Black & White Audiovisual Festival in Porto – Portugal Black & White is a festival that celebrates an essential aesthetic form in audiovisual Arts. Now on its 12th edition the B&W Festival will once again bring the spirit of independent production to the City of Porto. 20 – 23 May   Read More …

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PureH at Intermission: Audio Portraits of Place – Mapping The Air Space Between A-B The Programme will run 20-22 September 2014 www.stress.fm The section of the programme called ‘Psychogeographies’ explores the manifestation of time through place, interrogating sonic landscapes to reveal secret histories through anecdote, folklore and personal narrative. Through these works a deeper connection   Read More …

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PureH – “Paracusia”, contribution for the Sguardi Sonori 2014 Stars at the Pietro Canonica Museum at Villa Borghese, Rome from 03 September – 14 September 2014 10 – 19 October: Mole Vanvitelliana – Ancona 15 – 30 November: Museo Santa Croce – Genova December: Accademia Albertina – Torino In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Sguardi   Read More …

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Three PureH/Pharmafabrik videos at Digital Big Screen 2014 Video Art Festival 2. – 4. October 2014 Kino dvorana DDT Trbovlje, Slovenia LINK: http://digitalbigscreen.si/?page_id=92&lang=en

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PureH – “Bora Scura” on WLD 2014 – Entropy Compilation (Sonic Terrain 2014) PureH contribution for the World Listening Day 2014, recorded on the 12th of November in Ajdovščina, a town in Vipava Valley where extreme bora winds often occur and the speed of the wind can exceed 200 km/h.

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KSVLKSV (PureH noise project) contribution for the Minimal Bastard Noise: A Tribute To Primož compilation, with artists: ASTMA (Russia), BROTHER OF JUDO (Slovenia), COMPANY FUCK (Australia), [C. T. D.] (Serbia), DJ BALLI (Italy), DECA DEBILANE (Slovenia), DEZROY ADAM (Italy), DI KANG (Earth), FUKTE (Italy), GEN 26 & tn666 (Slovenia/Ireland/Germany), JAVA DELLE (Germany), KSVLKSV (Kaotičen strah   Read More …

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PureH @ Errant Bodies project space A collection of audio works from practitioners around the world concerned with and focused on The Stranger …. that is over there, that is right in front, that is moving away, that is fast approaching, at the next table, sitting across, staring into space, with nothing to do, that   Read More …

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PureH side project Cadlag (drone-noise) live in Votivkirche Vienna 24th May 2014 from 11pm (23:00Uhr) until 12:30am (00:30Uhr). Invited by the Curator of the exhibition: LEIBLICHKEIT UND SEXUALITÄT (25.04 – 15.06) http://www.corporeality-and-sexuality.org Votivkirche Alservorstadt Vienna, Austria votivkirche.at Google Maps Late opening hours for the exhibition with music and noise to comfort the disturbed and disturb the   Read More …

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PureH video “Odkrivanje / Discovering” at Videofestival Narave / Natures 11 A continuous elaboration of an audio theme with textures gliding with subtle logic towards a specific goal and appearing intangible and infinite. 15. – 19. April 2014 Bežigrajska galerija 2 Vodovodna 3, Ljubljana

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PureH – Interrupter (46051759:14505284) transmission at Echoes Radio (www.osso.pt/en/projects/echoes/), streamed by www.stress.fm between 7 and 9 of March.

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PureH drone-noise project Cadlag, Live Tape 2013 release Audio cassette + 5-inch reel tape + VHS video tape Pharmafabrik Recordings ‘Cadlag Live Tape’ review in Industrialised Culture Research Network: “This must have been “Nothing Short of a Total War” that would have put many industrial and Power Electronics groups to shame.” – http://icrn.blogspot.si/2014/08/review-cadlag-live-tape.html

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PureH – Set/Reset NC7945BDC transmission at Echoes – What does the internet sound like? (www.osso.pt/en/projects/echoes/), streamed by www.stress.fm between 30 of November and 1 of December.

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Pharmafabrik – Meermaschine 45°08’11.8320″, 14°15’26.5679″ transmission at Echoes Intermission (www.osso.pt/en/projects/echoes/), streamed by www.stress.fm between 20 and 22 of September.

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Dvorana 2 / Hall 2 Bežigrajska galerija 2 Vodovodna 3, Ljubljana 16.–20. april 2013

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PureH with ES57 Live 13.4.2013 Noise Fest Ljubljana In april 1994 two of the Extreme Smoke members Boco and Edi formed up with PureH member Simon to record the thirty-track ‘Who Sold the Scene?’ EP released on T.V.G. Records – “the most intense, unmarketable, offensive grind record of the time and one of the most   Read More …

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PureH – Matrix§44¹ – the hidden track on Fabriksampler V4 (2011) The Sound Projector review: “There seems to be a bonus track on my copy: the album sleeve states there should be nine tracks on the disc and mine has ten listed. This unnamed piece turns out to be the best track on the entire   Read More …

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PureH “Snow White” will be screened on the Festival delle Identita in Italy. http://www.festivaldelleidentita.it/i-video-del-festival-delle-identita/film-identita/

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PureH / Glaxprism will be screened on July 13rd 2012 at 9 p.m. during the Young Summer in Arena Arco del Sacramento – Benevento, Italy. Nelle serate estive del 13 e 14 luglio, nella suggestiva location dell’Arena Arco del Sacramento di Benevento, si è svolta la III Edizione del Festival delle Identità, evento ideato e   Read More …

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PureH / Glaxprism at the first event of the Identities Film Festival in Tolentino (Macerata), in collaboration with Tolentino Internationl Film Festival. June 10 at the Multiplex Giometti Contrada Peace Tolentino (MC) http://www.tolentinointernationalfilmfestival.it/program.html

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PureH – “Matrix§44¹” on Fabriksampler V4 DVD DVD video with exclusive tracks from Yoshihiro Kikuchi (Japan), KK Null (Japan), Franck Vigroux (France), Nova deViator (Slovenia), Chris Wood (South Africa), Mutant Beatniks (UK), Vega Stereo (Russia), Velge Naturlig (Portugal), Astma (Russia), Cezary Gapik (Poland), Neven M. Agalma (Slovenia), Pharmakustik (Germany), Mike Browning (USA) and Matrix441 (PureH).   Read More …

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PureH – “Matrix§44¹” – the hidden track on Fabriksampler V4 Fabriksampler V4 (2CD package) presents 20 different artists from around the globe, an extensive work which focuses on the combination of various forces, delivering a corpus of surprisingly uncanny sounds and audio experimentations, ranging from dark ambient, noise and drone features, with landscapes of shrewdly   Read More …

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With 11 tracks, all by different artists, it’s inevitable that some stand above the others. In this case, with happy abandon it can be said, that over half the songs here within fall into this category. Pure h’s Kogel transforms sound into a moving mass. Great use of bass, static and spoken word strengthens the   Read More …

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PureH – “Kogel” on Fabriksampler V2 DVD DVD video with exclusive tracks from Final – Justin K Broadrick (UK), PureH (Slovenia), WoO (Serbia), Go Tsushima (Japan), Alexei Borisov (Russia), Tania Stene – Aghast (Norway), Nordvargr (Sweden), The Cherry Blues Project (Argentina), Dodecahedragraph (Slovenia), Sunao Inami (Japan) and Lull – Mick Harris (UK). LINK: http://www.pharmafabrik.com/site/store.htm

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Fabriksampler V2 2008, Pharmafabrik Veljko Njegovan Kompilacije navadno preposlušamo in jih pozabimo. Komu se jih še ljubi poslušati, če si zlahka naredimo playliste po svoji izbiri? Toda Fabriksampler V2 je nekaj posebnega, saj združuje jagodni izbor izvajalcev iz sveta eksperimentalne glasbe. Še zanimiveje je, da je ploščo izdala založba iz domačih logov in da na   Read More …

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