The Commune Of Nightmares, by DAVID WALLRAF

The Commune Of Nightmares

by DAVID WALLRAF

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1.	He Bit His Tongue In His Sleep 04:22	buy track
2.	Where Nothing Happens But The Wallpaper 04:14	buy track
3.	She Calls In The Airstrike 04:45	buy track
4.	Behind The Billionaire's Graveyard 06:25	buy track
5.	They Sidestep Extinction 03:40	buy track
6.	Surrounded By The Smell Of Servitude 04:46	buy track
7.	In Nightmares Screened By Algorithms 09:20	buy track

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The new album The Commune Of Nightmares by noise artist David Wallraf is a tapeloop-based musical game of cadavre exquis, a technique developed by surrealist artists.

David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the repressed and uncanny sonic residues of quotidian life, crafting soundtracks for the creeping disaster we inhabit. His works have been released on numerous international tape labels. A recent interest of his is the live scoring of silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. His PhD thesis Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German, an English translation is in progress.
The Commune of Nightmares stems from the idea that nightmares are the logical reverse of ‘capitalist realism’: an uncanny undercurrent of daily experiences and an algorithmic haunting of dreams that at the same time is a shared – communal – experience of everybody. All songs are based on tapeloops that were cut arbitrarily from a stash of cassettes, some of which found on the street, others from a stockpile of 4 track tapes recorded in the late 90s and early 2000s – a musical game of cadavre exquis played with random strangers and former versions of DW.

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released January 26, 2024

All music composed and recorded by David Wallraf in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, first half of 2023

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