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DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE described to be notoriously, responsible for 20 Years of Electro-acoustic Noise minimal, complex, silent, noisy, boring and exciting at the same time and all of this within the same track! (Bon Bon Records, SU) and digitale Musique Concrète in which the electro-acoustic element is totally gone (Vital NL). The missing link between Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Pierre Henry (discus mortus, F) wraps us in a Membran, that makes us becoming unsure, if it are the noises, that penetrate into the silence or rather a virulent, powerfull, lurking silence, that as a frightening alien, mute, unhuman is breaking into our loud "normality" (Bad Alchemy, D).
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DSM has lived and worked in Berlin, Barcelona, Bordeaux and now resides in Caen in the Normandy and in Nice, F. DSM has come accross most european countries, New York Montreal to Sao Paulo presenting their multi-disciplinary creations ranging from installations, performances, concerts to lectures. The edition of records, journals, books, articles and essays as well as internet sites has always been a major occupation. Since 2 and a bit years all concerts are done with Samuel Loviton and recently Guido Hübner composed for the berlin based Zeitkratzer ensemble "the CD-player in my life" and worked for a month in the studio for electro-acoustic music of the arts academy of Berlin and Isabelle Chemin illustrated texts of Jean René Lassalle and prepares one of her own for a forthcoming edition.

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Guido Hübner founded DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE once in the early 80's in Berlin. With a loose ensemble of individuals of different disciplines DSM worked since in many different forms of artistic expressions running from concerts and performances to mixed-media installations with topics in neurology and cognitive science. Works had been presented in most parts of Europe, in New York, Montreal and Sao Paulo. However, DSM is mostly recognised for it's musical output, having released numerous cassettes, vinyl and CD releases in it's 20 years on labels in Europe, Japan and the United States. The descriptive keyword for the music is "montage" framed by fragment and collage. Mostly, but not exclusively working with concrète and electronic sounds the interest of the experimental approach is to explore were a given combination of sounds is perceived as associated, united, blended together to appear as a continuity and were as disconnected, fragmented, divided components that evoke rupture and how both can be combined and shaped into a significant structure.
Besides it's numerous solo release and concerts DSM has collaborated with many artist such as ERG (usa), ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE (cz), THE OVAL LANGUAGE (ger), MSBR (jp), VESTIGE VERTICAL (ger), THIERRY MADIOT (f), RADU MALFATTI (aut), CLAUS VAN BEBBER (ger), TBC (ger), TORE HONORE BOE(norway)... In 2000 while also got granted a residence in the studio for electro-acoustic music of the arts academy of Berlin a piece for four instrumentalists with accompaining CD for each, entitled "the CD-Player in My Life" had been composed for the ZEITKRATZER ENSEMBLE (ger), as well as later on a piece for Saxophone and Electronics entitled "blasenleiden" for ULRICH KRIEGER (ger).
Since 1996 residing in Caen in the Lower Normandy, DSM had been based before in Bordeaux since '91 and Barcelona since '87. Isabelle Chemin, with who most performance and installation works since '85 had been created is living in Sophia Antipolis near Nice since '98. DSM was already working for variouse scientific/medical projects while residing in Bordeaux, those Isabelle Chemin is currently participating as consulting artist in the development of virtual environments for patience with social phobias, a collaboration of several european universities for which DSM creates as well the sound environment.

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