Mika Vainio, Ilpo Väisänen
Pan sonic (they were also called Panasonic before legal issues took away letter A) are two guys from Finland, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen, who started out with long-term, low-frequency, high-decibel experiments and organizing rave partys where "hardly anything happens ever" (a.k.a. Finland). The minimalistic music of Pan Sonic is composed "from a forbidding array of pure tones, sinewaves, pulses, electronic squelches and ultrasonic waveforms," and a humorous attitude, "skilfully arranged into an accessible rhythmic package" mainly taken from the bowels of custom-built sinewave generators. Given songs titled "Kurnutus" or "Rutina" (that is "Croaking" and "Crackle"), the environmental buzz, crackles and hums emanating from the speakers are harldy a surprise. Despite suggesting a harmless set of natural (sounding) frequencies, Pan Sonic have built up a reputation for fearsome live volume levels and atonal indulgence.
Discogs
http://www.phinnweb.org/panasonic/GREAT stuff!!!
minimal enough?
get your hands (ears) on Pan Sonic - Alku
(pretty hard to get any more minimal than this I think, maybe John Cage's 4'33" can compete
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we are all atomic and subatomic particles and we are all wireless...
wow they are still alive. bought their records 6-7 years ago...
