Der Tapeman & Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt
Split Album : "Year of the Earth Dog"
Der Tapeman
Helge Neidhardt aka Der Tapeman has fought the noise war since the late 80s when he played guitar in the noise rock band Knochen=girl. There he also started to use tapes and methods to alter sounds through them. In the early 90s he started to perform solo, using the name Der†Tapeman and wearing a mask. Since the 2000s he worked primarily as a concert organizer, first for noise in his own venue, later for classical music and other. While working for a church congregation in the 2010s he discovered his love for metal music and since then tried to apply his tape techniques to metal.
Der Tapeman is one of the longest running noise acts in Berlin, but is still an insider tip. Making noise and fooling around with tapes is just what he does.
www.soundcloud.com/der-tapeman
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Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt
Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt aka MoreBlackThenGod, Berlin based American performance artist, musician, free improvisor and composer of experimental music, and independent video content producer. He is also the musical theatre writer/composer of experimental “Drone Drama (Music For The Dead)”, now currently being filmed by California-based visual artist Cecelia Chapman. Artistic director of the music labels Hortus Conclusus Records & Friends of Sagittarius Records and Friends of Sagittarius Festival, artistic director and curator of Magic Mitte Cinema. The compositions by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt are performed and recorded live using the accidental guitar method invented by the artist, the sounds created are “raw, roots, mysterious, power, grit, obscure, industrial, ambient, epic, and tranquilizing aesthetics”. He has published over 500 album, collaboration, and compilation releases. Performs and releases under the names: MoreBlackThenGod, Drone Messiah, The S&M Trio, The S&M Accidental Orchestra, The Return of The Think Thing, Tradishion, Hildeguard, Hortus Conclusus Live, PNYX and MC Plane of Existence.
www.stadtsprachen.de/en/author/sean-derrick-cooper-marquard/