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Sep 3, 2022

Interview with Mark Owen

From Tresor: True Stories - an excerpt of a longer interview with Mark Owen, who was stationed as a British soldier aged 17 in Berlin when the wall came down.
A scan of a book. On the left hand side is an image of part of the old Tresor club space - a reddish light is streaming through iron bars onto shelving. At the bottom right is a black and white photo of the Berlin Wall and some men walking in front of it. The rest is an excerpt from an interview with Mark Owen: "I was stationed in Berlin as a very young soldier in the British Royal Army. I used to guard the wall and other stuff like the military train that used to go from West Berlin to West Germany. In 1991, we found Tresor. It had been just a few weeks that it had opened and we found that. Fuck me. What a place. Everyone in our regiment, they had to be vetted before we showed them down there, we didn't want to blow it. We guarded that place, you know, immensely. We didn't allow any Tom, Dick and Harrv down there. We had to look after it because of that. A lot of the time the guys couldn't understand us for shit and we couldn't understand them. But we had something in common. It just clicked. And honestly, they looked after us. Everyone was the same. It doesn’t matter who you were, we were all equal, you know, the city of the new found freedom and it was a party on, full on. The ceiling in the place would drip on us, like stripes on the ceiling and a strobe. All it was back then was a strobe light. And honestly the ceiling used to sweat. The noise in that place was unbelievable. We were, you know, blessed to witness that from its birth. We were a blessed group of people that witnessed something new. It was completely new, the wall had fallen, the city of the newfound freedom. And I was lucky enough to be there and with the lads that were with me, you know, truly blessed, honestly. I left in 1992 and went back in 2018 and the grounds of the old location was somewhere I went. I wanted to see it. Fucking hell, it was like a country in a different world, you know what I mean. It’s all high-rises, a completely new place. But when I went to the new Tresor, I felt quite emotional, I had a lump in my throat. It was a really strange experience, spiritual in a way. Tresor, that was my temple."
Jun 5, 2020

Limbs Traffic

A album of music, composed and produced by myself over a two year period. Record cover by Martin Steuck.
Digital intricate line drawings
Rowing Moth
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Seule Sioule
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Big Plants
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Feedback and Phasers
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Heavy Limbs Traffic
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Roadworks
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Rats
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Catching Salmon
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A Via N Will
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QEP
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Apr 20, 2020

Passthrough

Open source software that provides midi routing between connected ports on monome norns. it is similar to midi thru on hardware devices although it comes with some extra functionality.
https://github.com/nattog/passthrough