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Cover artworks on exhibition

Love my Computer
February-March 2001

Presentation of my CD and vinyl cover artworks for electronic music at the group exhibition Love my computer a qubo gas curated exhibition of music graphics at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing, France.

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Analog collages

For brand eins magazine
2001

Contributed analog collages to four issues of the high profile economy print magazine brand eins in 2001.

PDF file of each article with the illustrations here:

07/2001 Das Kreditkartenhaus
08/2001 Sterne lügen nicht
09/2001 Sicherheits-Risiko
10/2001 Das Gute Morgen

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Commercial for Gauloises Blondes

Starring a Cigarette Lighter
2000

Once again KolleRebbe hired me to produce a commercial for Gauloises Blondes. The client had a huge cigarette lighter, and they wanted to see it in the film.

Art direction by Eva Gödel.
Music by Marcus Schmickler, Piethopraxis.

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Cover artwork for "Bit Sand Riders"

Published by Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt
September 2000

Pluramon's Bit Sand Riders is a remix album. Noted artists including Mogwai, High Llamas, Matmos, Merzbow, Lee Renaldo contributed to this successful recording.

Via Forced Exposure: "The heterogeneous mixture of remixers and styles here is not accidental. By selecting remixers and their way of working (pluralistic), the individual components which are essential for the monistic Pluramon sound are highlighted clearly. There's the fat, dark rock of the Scottish band Mogwai, but also an airy track from Sensorama: working with guitar sounds & processing the sounds of the laptop master Hecker (Mego); or the melodic approach of the British High Llamas. As a band, Pluramon moves between electronic and guitar instrumentation and not least because of this is regarded as one of the most interesting acts internationally. Today, even the more obscure Lo-Fi bands work with digital equipment, i.e. with 'electronics'. Many of the discourses concerning this topic and the points which emerged from it have long been their focus. Unlike the first Pluramon album from the year 1996, when hard disc recording made the search for references to one's medium urgent, today music can be refined with the entire range of technical equipment in the digital domain. Therefore the latest Pluramon release Bit Sand Riders is a remix album. The bands who have been invited for the remix challenge are: The striking Sensorama of L'age d'Or as well as London's High Llamas; Mogwai, "the best guitar band 99" (Viva 2); F.X. Randomiz, the hyperactive electronic freak and M. Schmickler's label colleague; Hecker, processing sound in Mego style; Matmos, who is known for playful drum & bass from San Francisco on Matador; electro mastermind Atom Heart (Rather Interesting); the New Yorker Lee Ranaldo, the guitarist from Sonic Youth; SND, the minimal techno heroes from Sheffield; the noise evangelist Merzbow from Tokyo; and a remix from Pluramon themselves, on the vinyl version, there is an additional mix of Cristian Vogel which has already been released on 12"."

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Video clip for Sensorama "Flicker"

Music video
2000

DOP Bettina Herzner and I developed the idea of two very different worlds influencing each other. We shot on 16 mm at the banks of the river Rhine, and deep underground in an ancient basement in Cologne.

Sensorama's remix track of a Pluramon song was released on  Bit Sand Riders, Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt.

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Motion Design exhibition

Typography and Images in Motion
May 27th until July 2nd, 2000

Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheffer invited me to show my motion design projects as part of the the exhibition Schrift und Bild in Bewegung [Typography and Images in Motion] at Gasteig in Munich, Germany.

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Cover artwork for "BART"

Published by erstwhile records, New York
2000

Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler recorded Bart over the course of two long studio sessions. A brilliant amalgam of the two musicians' strengths, Bart utilizes both improvisation and studio postproduction techniques to create a lasting work, combining the feel of a classic INA-GRM record with the raw, crackling energy of a free improv session.

And, for the cover artwork I used very old sheets of Letraset.

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Cover design for "Reservoir"

Published by Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt
March 2000

Pluramon's remix EP Reservoir feature remixes by Techno heroes Christian Vogel and Thomas Brinkmann.

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Motion Design for "Fast Forward"

VIVA ZWEI title sequence
2000

Designer Andrea Duyster and I created a new on-air opener for a legendary TV show by Charlotte Roche for VIVA ZWEI, a German music TV channel. We visited Charlotte Roche at home and shot hundreds of photos, and edited them frame by frame. See if you'll find the hidden mail address.

Music by Marcus Schmickler, Piethopraxis.

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Video clip for Pluramon "Formant"

Music video
1999

For the shooting of this video clip we went to the phantasmagorical house one of an old friend of mine, Christian Boros in Wuppertal. His wonderful art collection plays more than a supporting role. Shot on small digital video camera.

Music by Pluramon. The track was release on Render Bandits.

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