Violin Music for Restaurants by Jon Rose, Featuring the legendary Jo "Doc" Rosenberg, RéR BJRCD USA 1987. I made the cover photo in Chicago 1986 (uncredited, but it's ok).

The text reads "Sexy! Sassy! Excitement! Romance! Hot! Hot! Hot! Great Food! Dance!"

Where Saws Sing and Fiddles Bloom - Där sågar sjunga och felor blomma: saws, percussion, gopychands, instruments made by Hal Rammel, with Hal Rammel. Surrealistförlaget/Cloud Eight Audio Chicago 1990.

Rammel and Bergmark 1990 or 1996?. Photo © by Gina Litherland.

The Great Invisible Duo piano, didjeridoo, percussion, saw, with percussionist Thomas Magee (Mission Hills, California) Surrealistförlaget 1990.

JB and TM in Los Angeles '90.

JB and TM in Los Angeles '05. Photo: © Nano.

Fretlessarméén with Terje Mentyjærvi and Harald Beckstrøm, Moss, Norway 1996. Out of print.

Fretlessarméén på Kafé Halina, Moss, Norge.

Birmingham Improv Festival Recordings 96, (TransMuseq Records TQ20014, cd 1997). Compilation of the BirminghamImprov Festival 96. Includes work by Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Yuri Zmorovitch, Boris Rayskin, Craig Hultgren, Johannes Bergmark, Arkady Kirochenko, Contra Contra Bass, The Gold Sparkle Band, Atlanta Comprovisors and others.

Skræp Experimental Music Forum Cd #3 SKRÆPCD01 with Jindřich Biskup (DK/CZ) and Martin Klapper (DK/CZ) (Copenhagen 1998).

The piece "Bianca", a sample of the quartet version of Cloudchamber, and the piece "Bromsmedalj (coda)" with Andreas Hedwall and Leo Svensson, is out on SOUNDS -99 BTCD09/10/11 Blue Tower Records I am also playing in four big group pieces, and I have this text in the sleeve notes.

Last Moments ! with Jindřich Biskup (DK/CZ) and Martin Klapper (DK/CZ) (Multiple Living cd Praha/København/Stockholm). Typographic design: Klapper. Recording: Sören Runolf. Track Names: It Was Supposed to Be Don't Ever Let Them In! News from the Sewer Ramona the Cyclops Flu Caught Me by Mistake Posterity Runny Honey It's Over Skinny! Released the 9/9 1999. Limited edition 99 numbered copies. Sold out. Review by Eugene Chadbourne.

Sound Art ISBN 91-85470-83-X Infogram 045/1, a collaborative book and 2 cd project in cooperation with STIM/Svensk Musik, released October 2001. Feature with pictures, text and sounds. Main text by Teddy Hultberg. (Rumour says it now exists in dvd form - but it doesn't seem to be listed on Svensk Musik?)

"Katarina's Soviet Experiences" Text-sound-composition, 18:00, described and heard here, commissioned by the author Maria Zennström, I made music and, in close collaboration with her, sound editing of her selected readings from her debut book with the same name, in 2001. This is released on Bonnier Audio together with three other debutants, "4 NYA" IFCD22 ISBN 91-7953-089-3 2001, as well as on a cd with a film based on the same book. See a web film version by Per Zennström on his blog!

The piece Saw Octet described and heard here in a re-mastered stereo version on the cd Eight Times Falling EM2004 on Elektron with the other graduates from the Composition class 2000 at EMS, 2001: Niklas Peterson, Daniel T Eideholm, Jan Liljekvist, Bo Halén, Lennart Westman , Paul Savage, Mikael Konttinen. More info on Elektron Records. Review on Sonoloco.

The piece Little Mess Mohfat has a text by Luis d'Antin Van Rooten (1906-1973) in French, which is read by me for the cd by Lukas Simonis and Pierre Bastien Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (read the very interesting story behind the project!), InPolysons IPS0402, 2002.

Eine kleine Eierschneidermusik (Eggslicer Quintet), a piece with Hugh Davies, Martin Klapper, Mats Lindström and Adam Bohman, on a cd FMRCD104-0402 by Hugh Davies, released 2002, accompanying his book Sounds Heard, Soundworld Publishers, 10 Baddow Road, Chelmsford CM2 ODG, Great Britain. Description on page 52-54. Can be ordered from FMR Records. I recommend this essay about Hugh Davies by Hal Rammel, where this book and recording is also mentioned.

Psst ... shsh!, One ringtone on the joint Touch & Ash International project: Ringtones TONE14, CD in digipac [99 tracks] Editors: JP Wozencroft & MSCHarding 2002.

Cloudchamber: Safaris FYCD1020 released on Fylkingen Records in June 2002. Johannes Bergmark - constructions (whalefish, finger violin, blowfish, metal harp), analog and modular synthesizers, clavinet, voice, saw, unspecified objects Martin Küchen - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, metal barrel, sandwich grill, miscellaneous percussive junk, bow, guitar, trumpet, voice Sören Runolf - electric guitar, amplified objects, electronic processors, virtual modular synthesizer, cello 1. A Homely Safari 2. The Molly Hotwall Adventures 3. People's Safari of America 4. On a Tranquillizing Safari 5. Holes Through Holes 6. Half-Leopards and Semi-Turtles 7. Holy and Blind Duration 72:13 Review on Sonoloco The cd was nominated as "the best jazz [sic!] record of the year 2003" in Orkesterjournalen, jazz magazine in Sweden.

From the Coffin, One piece described and heard in its full version here (with sound) on the Ash International double CD: KREV X MM11 Editors: JP Wozencroft & MSCHarding, England 2002.

Bergmark & Klapper : 58 Tracks From A Common Orbit mg005 Johannes Bergmark (right): Finger Violin, voice, micro moog, harmonium, clavinet, Blowfish, objects, junk, Whalefish, gopychand, khamak, fuzz box, toys, Brillolin, arm trainer, radios, Veloncell Marcel, antique corn grinder + dissection Martin Klapper (DK/CZ) (left): amplified objects, toys, tapes, Casio SK-5, polystyrene, glass, water + assemblage Recorded by Johannes Bergmark and Sören Runolf in 2000 at Fylkingen, Stockholm (piece no. 1-43) and Artcinema OFF-OFF, Copenhagen (piece no. 44-58). Edited by Johannes Bergmark. Cover art by Martin Klapper. All tracks by Johannes Bergmark (STIM) & Martin Klapper (KODA). We suggest random playing of this CD. Released by musica genera in Szczecin, Poland, May 2003. Mp3s of five pieces here. Review by Eugene Chadbourne. Review by The Improvisor.

Kalvdans, by Fågelpingis NP01, Nipstvångsministeriet 2004. More about it here (and a sound sample as well)!

Fågelpingis (Jacob Ullberger - Tomas Halling - JB) talk about that you have to be BUDDIES with death ...

Jag vill ha barnbarn! NP02, Nipstvångsministeriet 2004, film by Fågelpingis on dvd and vhs with hand-made individual covers. Can be seen in web format here!

... from the film Jag vill ha barnbarn! (I Want Grandchildren!)

The piece "Eh-Ah" on the compilation cd "GO-TO-CAT-MAN-DO" Mono 001, MonotypeRec, Warszawa, Poland 2005, a medley of variations on the theme of occasional songs of Nepal. Other contributions are: Wolfram - T Za Siódmą Górą - Nepalaia One Inch of Shadow - Piesn 9 Stworywodne.Jaszczury - Untitled Patryk Zakrocki - Nepal Francisco Lopez - Untitled #165 Alexei Borisov - Saunabar Skretch Rmx Vion & Mem - Kontra Emiter - Untitled V/Vm - Untitled Robert Piotrowicz - At The Body Speech Mp3 samples of my piece and some others to be heard here.

DVD: Najo Team: "Steps", Szczecin, Poland 2005 (sound editing at Notam, Oslo, Norway), a short film made with Nano. Première at the π Private Impact festival by OFFicyna in Świnoujście, Szczecin and Berlin. This is the first film of The Najo Team, duration 5'00". Our feet, filmed from the head, climbing some stairs discovering small sand castles in which some metal pieces are hidden. After a few we meet and build up the angel chimes, light the candles and it starts playing. The piece is inspired from our performance "Knot Dance".

© Najo.

Dvd: "Fish Soup"; music for a short installation film by Kathleen Fox, Kent, England. "The imagery in ‘Fish Soup’ was generated by the random movement of organisms living in mud, an ancient timeless dance, evocative of the primal soup from which all life forms developed. There is a limitless cyclical element manifested in the flow of imagery which has no specific beginning or end, the video itself set on a continuous loop to enhance the concept of time as infinite." Kathy Fox The music was made by me, using the Whalefish. It formed part of the exhibition 'Natural Order: Art, Science and The Clarity of Mud' and at 'The 5th International Symposium for Surrealism' at West Dean in '07. It was also shown at a festival of Surrealism that the Leeds Surrealist Group organized. Here you can see the film itself (low resolution).

A photo by Kathy Fox of the film while on the computer screen.

The viewing box Fox made to house it. The box is covered with rabbit skin fur, and can only be watched one person at a time as a private experience.

. . . I N . . . P R E P A R A T I O N . . . (more or less)

Dvd with no name yet, music for an installation film by Kathleen Fox, Kent, England.
for the following exhibition:

Freud Museum London

The exhibition is centred in a collection of mounted boxes that use light, sound and texture to introduce themes of eroticism and death that underpin the realm of the unconscious. The work aims to model and explore Freud's spatial concept of the conscious and unconscious mind - for which he used the metaphor of a house and its component rooms.

Set in a space that was previously Freud's bedroom, the exhibition is divided into two areas; the conscious and the unconscious, with a sensor standing between the two. The positioning evident in Freud's hypothesis will be reversed: the first area to be entered will be the room of unconsciousness, furnished to give the impression of a domestic space. The viewer is then invited to pass through a membrane into a second darkened 'conscious' room, which houses the mounted boxes whose contents are only revealed on close inspection through small apertures.

The installation questions the way in which the thresholds between the conscious and the unconscious are negotiated and how the viewer is impelled into spaces that are simultaneously real and imaginary. It invites re-assessment of how Freud's therory has been utilised and developed within surrealism, something which will be a central theme of the accompanying one day conference, to be held on Saturday 09 October.

The artist has exhibited and published her work internationally, often within the context of surrealist group activities, notably the exhibition 'As far As My Legs Can Carry Me' at the Terezin Memorial Museum in the Czech Republic (2008).
The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of the Henry Moore Foundation and Norwich University College of the Arts.
For further information please contact info@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002
The Freud Museum London website.

Kathy Fox invited me to make music for a film she is displaying in the exhibition. I won't publish it until you've seen the exhibition, but meanwhile, look at another similar collaboration we did here.

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