Torna in circolazione in digitale e in forma leggermente ritoccata il clamoroso progetto Techno mit Störungen che Jon Rose allestì a Wels (Austria) per il festival Music Unlimited l'anno in cui ne fu il curatore artistico, il 1995. Manca qualche minuto rispetto al documento uscito a suo tempo in cd per Plag Dich Nicht, e il flusso musicale - la cui durata reale fu oltre le due ore e mezza - è ora racchiuso in due sole tracce di circa trenta minuti ciascuna. Sufficienti per riportare la memoria ai fatti: "My concept was direct, to set up collisions between distinct methods of music making: technological produced sound would be interfered with by a series of interruptions from instrumentalists and singers. Heard in many Berlin clubs in the 1990s was sequenced dance music - otherwise known as Techno - it seemed that the punters preferred to dance to the machine more than the human… 30 years later where are we, who are we? In the middle of the Music Unlimited festival 1995, there was a bomb alert initiated by some local right wing thugs, the building had to be emptied; Connie Bauer and Evan Parker played on outside surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd.
In Techno mit Störungen, the ‘tech’ was represented by sequenced beats, vinyl record manipulation, CDs, and sampling through the skills of Frank Schulte, Otomo Yoshihide and Christian Marclay: the ‘störungen’ (on stage) by the virtuosity of Connie Bauer - trombone, Jon Rose - violin, Lawren Newton - voice, Phil Minton - voice, Chris Cutler - drums & low grade electronics, Peter Cusack - bouzouki & interactive birds, Iva Bittova - voice, Fred Frith - guitars, Uli Gumpert - piano and organ, Sainkho Namtchylak - voice, Rudi Widerhofer - spoken text, Evan Parker - soprano saxophone, Nick Collins - trombone propelled electronics, Peter Hollinger - drums, Marc Ribot - guitar. And causing disturbances from the audience were members of Laboratorio di Musica & Immagine: Paolo Angeli - bass tuba & voice, Olivia Bignardi - clarinet, Daniela Cattivelli - alto saxophone, Ferdinando D’Andria - trumpet, Silvia Fanti - accordion, Filomena Forleo - piano, Pierangelo Galantino - bass & voice, Salvatore Manu - trombone, Pino Ursu - percussion & voice, Stefano Zozanello - soprano saxophone & flute.
As you can hear, some of the artists preferred to go with the ‘techno’ rather than the ‘störungen’. Franz Brummer was on the mixing desk and made the DAT of this incomplete performance recording (tape ran out). David Humer built the traffic light system by which the sequence of events were organised (sort of). Wolfgang Wasserbauer was and remains the amazing director and energy behind Music Unlimited."
Veryan Weston è invece al fianco di Jon Rose in Tunings & Tunes, uno dei capitoli della loro lunga e fruttuosa esplorazione di scordature, accordature non canoniche, intemperanze e deviazioni dagli standard di melodia e armonia operate con strumenti storici particolari, unici e rari, spesso autentici pezzi da museo concessi per l'occasione. Le registrazioni sono state effettuate a Bruxelles nel 2001 e nel 2005, in situazioni di concerto o dal vivo in studio; le aveva raccolte in cd la slovacca HEyeRMEarS-Discorbie di Nové Zámky, ora sono disponibili in digitale via Bandcamp. Con le note originali di Rose da (ri)leggere da cima a fondo: "More improvisations using differing tunings derived from science, history and the imagination - punctuated by the odd traditional Euro-tune such as La Paloma, Lavotta, Humoresque, Santa Lucia, or the Chupeh Tanz."