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1,000,000 RANDOM DIGITS 
1|pre|ID 10
Elemental synthesis method, Artist Book and installation. Based the original Rand Corporation Book.

2 TO THE POWER OF 2 
2|alpha|ID 65
Music:
piano & violin duo with piano-duo projection. 2*2 quartet: 2 pianos and 2 violins tuned 1/2*2 tone apart.
Image:
audio-visual life-size projection of a piano duo flipped horizontally next to the piano duo.
Performance:
Opera House.

59 STONES 
3|out|ID 15
single channel DVD (stereo) and installation that was conceptualized and shot in Southern Sweden with Per Svensson.

A MACHINE WHICH WILL COMPUTE ALL POSSIBLE MUSIC AND THEN STOP. 
4|alpha|ID 29
SuperSynthesis : black box for the computation of all possible music.

ALT 
5|out|ID 38
analog computer & algorithm works for the French label Baskaru

AMERIKA 
6|out|ID 41
Music:
An overture with 4 "radikal" variations on 4 songs from the Great American Songbook, realized at the Wilshire Royale in Los Angeles, on a 1954 Wurlitzer Spinet Piano, in a found unison corrected tuning system. Density decreases while otherness increases, akin to a journey from the Earth to the far end of the solar system. All to fit exactly the length of a Bluebook Compact Disc of 74 minutes.
Image:
Media variable square. Principal photography shot at the Mojave National Preserve.
Text:
4to printed in 3 primary colors. Contains spirit communications with Karla & Karl May.

AUS DEM EINEN TAG - FROM THE ONE DAY - VENU DE UN JOUR 
7|post|ID 17
Intuitive Music played LIVE on one dual FB01 at the 7am, 3pm and 10pm internet concerts (netcasts) from 12/14/2004. Electronic Sound Color Continuum of Timpani, Xylophone, Plugged Strings, Vibraphone, Metallophone, Bells, Cymbal, Toy Airplanes, Sirens, Morse Code, Glass & Natural Harmonica, wind, water organ, reed, vocal formants and human vocals.

BIRTH OF PRIMARY CINEMA FROM THE SPIRIT OF SOUND 
8|out|ID 39
The first embodiment of Primary Cinema is a DVD published in the style of a shrink-wrapped vinyl record with accompanying booklet in 4to.

C64 
9|pre|ID 8
64 pure electronic music studies for 1 to 4 original SIDs played via a Commodore 64 running 64Forth based on the IBM Randu Pseudo Random Number Generator

CLOUD BASED PSYCHOSTOCHASTIC SOUND SYNTHESISIS LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTED AS COLDFUSION - JAVA - COLT - SQL - CSOUND 
10|rec|ID 55


COMMERCIAL ALBUM 
11|pre|ID 49
The Rothkamms reveal the works of a real German composer (aka N. Senada), who met the residents of San Francisco (and of New York) and composed some fine commercial music, hereby compiled into the true Commercial Album.

CONTROL (T) 
12|pre|ID 53
book

CRAFTWORK - TUBEWORLD 
13|rec|ID 33
Techno Pop for the 2.0 computer world generation of today. Translated via the Casio CZ-101 synthesizer. Includes such favorites as "The Internets" and "I'm the operator of my mortgage calculator".

DX7 PRESET VARIATIONS 
14|rec|ID 32
32 Variations, each 138 seconds in length, for the 1983 Yamaha DX7 FM Synthesizer and it's 32 Preset Voices.

ENO MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS 
15|pre|ID 58
algorithmic reenactment

FB01 
16|out|ID 1
pure electronic music for 4 to 6 FB01s and occasional HP Sine Wave generator played via Oxygen8 controllers through an Atari STEEMulator running IFORMM

FB02 
17|out|ID 2
pure electronic music for 4 to 6 FB01s played via Oxygen8 and UC-33 controllers through an Atari STEEMulator running IFORMM in the Uniform Pitch Randomization Stochastic Tuning System with the base of 64 divisions to the 1/2 tone

FB03 
18|out|ID 31
pure electronic music in the 1/f Stochastic Tuning System for 3-6 IFORMM data processing electronic music instruments containing the MS20, Oxygen8 and UC-33 controllers as input to an Atari STEEMulator running IFORMM to output a dual FB01 configuration.

FISCH III,3+4 
19|alpha|ID 60


FISCH III,5 
20|alpha|ID 61


FISCH IV 
21|alpha|ID 62


FLUXRECORDS.COM 
22|out|ID 3
portal

FRANK GENIUS IS STAR STRUCK 
23|out|ID 19
early american samples

FRANK HOLGER ROTHKAMM PLAYS WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 
24|rec|ID 51
Frank Holger Rothkamm plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zwölf Variationen in C über das französische Lied „Ah, vous dirai-je Maman“ KV 265 [Tuning/Monologue/Performance]

GHOST OF NEW YORK 
25|out|ID 16
pure electronic music for 2-4 original TX7s played on the IFORMM data-processing instrument system.

GRADUATION 
26|rec|ID 66
DVD.

IFORMM ATARI 
27|out|ID 7
black box data processing electronic music instrument system. The tri-fold unity of tuning system, synthesis method and physical instrument.

IFORMM.COM 
28|out|ID 11
Forth/Formula/Atari based Legacy System for generating MIDI + Bit-Graphics + Csound. Aesthetics of Retro-Computing. Open Source Code. Csound Interface + Server Side Csound Rendering Engine.

JUST 3 ORGANS 
29|out|ID 6
auto-operatic music for 3 to 6 original Yamaha Electone Organs (1982 model 205D)

K5 
30|post|ID 4
pure electronic music for 4 to 6 K5s or K5Ms in twin mode played via Oxygen8 and UC-33 controllers through an Atari STEEMulator running IFORMM

K5 AS THE FIFTH STATE OF MATTER 
31|out|ID 67
Lecture/Performace/Reception

KOMISCHE KRAUTS 
32|post|ID 42
Alchemical-Switched-On-True-Analog-Synthesis: Arp Solus & Moog Electric Blue. Quadrophonic.

LAX 
33|out|ID 35
Los Angeles (Xtreme|Xperimental) Works 1998-2000

LIGHT MUSIC 
34|pre|ID 14
A specific system of 4 dimming lights transmits music as a quartet of lights.

LODGE FOR UTOPIAN SCIENCE 
35|alpha|ID 22
A tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organisation physically located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County and on the internet as LFUS.ORG whose board of Officers consists of the Principal, a Keeper, a Remembrancer and a Treasurer.

METAPHYSICS 93 
36|post|ID 43
Brooklyn Techno Works (1993-1995). epic trip of 74+ minutes.

MOERS WERKE (MOERS WORKS II) 
37|pre|ID 57


MOERS WORKS 
38|out|ID 34
earliest tape works from 1982-1984

MS365 (MANHATTAN SOUNDCAM) 
39|alpha|ID 25
A autonomous (cybernetic) programmed server computer in Manhattan will record a total of 525600 minutes of stereophonic audio (the entire span of the year), in yet-unknown increments of time (called chunks) that are comprehensible by humans; with daily releases of all chunks as mp3 encoded sets. At the end of year the computer will distribute and superimpose all chunks into 4 units of 1*z hours; a Compact Disc per season.

MUSIC AFTER SCULPTURES 
40|alpha|ID 59


MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH 
41|out|ID 36
Letterpress Concept EP on reverse cronology

NANOMUSIC 
42|OUT|ID 23
The music of very shot time spans. First examples published on FB01.

OPUS SPONGEBOBICUM 
43|out|ID 27
or 40 Veränderungen über die Geheimformel von SpongeBob Schwammkopf xor 40 Variations on the Secret Formula from Spongebob Squarepants

ORGAN SCHLAGER 2020 
44|pre|ID 45
12 very fine examples of the world's dumbest organ music with a beat.

PIL FLOWERS OF ROMANCE 
45|alpha|ID 64
Public Image Limited Emu Procussion

PLANET GENIUS 
46|out|ID 37
1991-1992 techno works, released in 1994 as a multiple with book. Foundation of Flux Records. Withdrawn and out of print.

POCKET CALCULATOR MUSIC 
47|pre|ID 47
Book and Calculator for an experiental music

PSYCHOSTOCHASTICS 
48|rec|ID 56


REFLP 
49|out|ID 24
rothkamm's REFLP is a monophonic "Historical Reference Long Player" to the FB01 Compact Disc; a compilation of 6 obscure modernist tracks from the dawn of pure electronic music in the 1950s. The LP mirrored the CD in sequence, mood, technique and structure. Although entirely digital in nature, REFLP had been especially composed to give the authentic feel of a vinyl record. rothkamm fulfilled here the second principle of supermodernism: "Nod to the First Pioneers".

RENO 
50|out|ID 44
Music:
electro-house works leading to a central masonic trance track. loopable.
Image:
Dimension variable square. Contains a disco-ball.
Sculpture:
Reno is a octagonal sound proof structure (dimensions variable) with a sound/light system and disco-ball inside.
Text:
Cardewist/Maoist

SCHOOL OF VELOCITY 
51|rec|ID 20
Rothkamm (*1965) plays in slow motion neo-platonic imperfect copies of Carl Czerny's (1791–1857) School of Velocity on a restored Gabler Bros. (1922) baby grand piano that is regulated, voiced and tuned to the spirit of a Bösendorfer Imperial Grand, whereby the lowest 3 notes of the Gabler are tuned down to C0, F#0& G0.

SIGNIFICANT SINGULARITY PREDICTION 
52|alpha|ID 48


SOLO FOR BASS DRUM (PENTALOGY I) 
53|pre|ID 54
Music:
iformm/web/csound pink computations
Image:
Dimension variable square.
Exhibition:
5.1 sound system hidden in boxes in top corners of the ceiling. Pink water-based paint on white Primer for walls and ceilings. Enamel paint for fixtures. Pink floor (carpet/hardwood/concrete paint). If carpet then visitor must take shoes off before entering the exhibition.
Text:
existentialist

SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN 
54|cd|ID 69
Songs of Robin Gibb hidden in the empty grooves of the Bee Gee's vinyl record.

STERNENFORMEL 
55|rec|ID 63
On accord of an apparition of Karlheinz Stockhausen on February 26 I started working on his "Sternenformel" (für 1 Synthesizer Spieler mit Sprechstimme und 5 Lautsprechergruppen) (Star Formula for 1 synthesizer player with speaking part and 5 speaker groups).

SUPERMODERN FOOD 
56|beta|ID 30
A supermodern food blog [ supermodernfood.blogspot.com ] about minimal cuisine.

SUPERMODERN.COM 
57|out|ID 21
Naming topology of all IP addresses that send email. A regular expression classification of all internet names. A honey pot. A highly secured email and data repository.

THE CREATION OF THE EVER REPEATING CYCLE OF THE YEAR BEING MAPPED INTO THE EVER REPEATING CYCLE OF THE DAY 
58|pre|ID 9
A autonomous-cybernetic programmed server computer will record a total of 525600 minutes - or 365 days, the entire span of the year - in monophonic audio of an always-on original 1952 Hewlett-Packard Vacuum-Tube Wide Range Oscillator, a Sine Wave Generator. At end of each day the recording will be added to that of the previous day, thus creating a 24 hour sound work with 365 layers of polyphony. This creation of the ever repeating cycle of the year being mapped into the ever repeating cycle of the day will be netcast.

THE RESTORATION & REFORMATION OF A 1935 SPANISH COLONIAL REVIVAL STYLE HOME IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS CONCEPTUAL ART PRACTICE 
59|post|ID 50


TRIPHONY 
60|out|ID 13
the experience of an extended stereophonic projection in tedrahedronic space.

TUNING 
61|out|ID 46
based on a woman tuning a piano in New York

WIENER PROCESS 
62|rec|ID 52
psycho-stochastic 60 minute forms with no time.

ZAHRA FUGUES 
63|out|ID 40
26 4-voice fugues and other baroque oddities, realized on a 1932 Steinway Model M located on the upper East Side near Central Park and played in a monophonic fashion 1 voice at a time without any pedal.
Installation:
4 video projections on 4 walls with 4 speakers.

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