Anechoic Chamber episode 1: Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Welcome to the premiere episode of the Anechoic Chamber podcast: free-form audio devoted to both new and under-explored ideas on the margins of arts and culture. Our guest for this first episode is Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Swedish artist / composer / curator / filmmaker. CMVH has spent over four decades exploring the threshold states of experience, utilizing everything from geography to intense, concentrated physical sound as a means of interrogating both self and audience. Some of his signature actions have included the co-founding of the nations of Elgaland / Vargaland, the "Red" series of environmental photography, the curation of the "Against All Evens" festival, and experimentation with electronic voice phenomena [EVP]. Hausswolff's resistance to easy categorization, and affirmation of the easily eroded boundary line between art and life, have made him an ideal subject to kick off this series. Topics under discussion: the "Zurich-Zurich" and "Alger-Lagos" films of Phauss / external and internal travel / ancestors / early gallery activities in Gothenburg / criticism of art school / Fylkingen and EMS - Swedish cultural institutions / the 'sound art' boom / arts community in Thailand / EVP + "it's more interesting to say 'yes'" / music from ashes / past and future of the avant-garde All audio selections provided by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Phauss web links: https://cmvonhausswolff.net https://ocean-archive.org/collection/72 https://elgaland-vargaland.org Anechoic Chamber links donate: tbwb@protonmail.com all other queries: core@tbwb.net