Photo: Bryony McIntyre

Aufgehoben

Event

Music Lover's Field Companion 07
13 May 2007  •  The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead

Themes

Iconicity | Sunglasses Noise | No Signal Orthodoxy | The Craft

Aufgehoben have patented a preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which 2 drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush; a mass projection of layered sound, processed live and cranked way the hell into the red.

For years they didn’t perform live at all, preferring to create via untethered improvisation and then studio manipulation, with hours laboriously spent pouring over the recordings, layering and reassembling them into furiously crushing laminal ur-rock, interspersed with passages of more brooding black space, which hover with menace on the periphery of furiously crushing laminal… 

  • Photos

    • Members of aufgehoben playing guitar and drums on stage at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Gary smith playing guitar in the foreground at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Gary Smith playing a guitar at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Aufgehoben on stage among drum kits and amplifiers at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • A man playing drums in Aufgehoben at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Drums guitar and electronics being played at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Gary smith playing guitar in the foreground at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Aufgehoben on stage among drum kits and amplifiers at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Aufgehoben at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • Aufgehoben performing in green light at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    • David Panos in a white jumper backstage at MLFC 07
      Bryony McIntyre
    Credits / license

    • Copyright Bryony McIntyre

  • Audio

    Credits / license

    • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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