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Can you believe it, but there were about a dozen people or so swimming in that half way down the beach...total off their heads.
Needless to say l didn't manage the whole 7K...but around 1000 metres...my excuse was it looked like rain...l know that's hard to believe in Wales in October. :-)
Günter Müller / Hans Joachim Irmler / A23H
There are two more unreleased live recording special mixes of Taste Tribes, one at Faust-Studio and one by Günter Müller in the archives.
Subterranean Collectives: Taste Tribes and the Entelechy of Sound:
If 7k Oaks openly aligned itself with Joseph Beuys’ “social sculpture,” Taste Tribes may be seen as its more subterranean counterpart—less oriented to ecological symbolism and civic space, more attuned to the cryptic energies of the urban periphery, where graffiti marks the wall and sound marks the ear as parallel inscriptions of collective life. Both ensembles were founded by Alfred 23 Harth in 2007: 7k Oaks in Rome with Massimo Pupillo, Luca Venitucci, and Fabrizio Spera, and Taste Tribes with Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) and the Swiss electronic improviser Günter Müller, later joined by Wolfgang Seidel (Eruption). Their emergence corresponded to a moment when Harth, after years in Asia and collaborations in Japan, returned to re-situate himself within European avant-garde traditions—yet not simply to return but to reimagine them through dialogue across generations and geographies.
The very name Taste Tribes emphasizes plurality, nomadism, and the refusal of hierarchy. “Tribes” designates both solidarity and fragmentation—temporary affiliations forged in ritual rather than fixed institutions. Their covers, emblazoned with four graffiti-like figures across both the 2008 and 2023 releases, act as surrogate signatures. Not portraits in any conventional sense, these glyphs instead function as visual analogues of alter-egos, painted marks that echo the very logic of improvised sound: provisional identities traced against a mutable background. Just as graffiti asserts a presence in anonymous public space, the Taste Tribes inscriptions claim the space of sound as a site of ephemeral authorship—collective, corrosive, and resistant to commodification.
Where 7k Oaks invokes Beuys explicitly—through its name, its ecologically charged dedications, and even track titles like Soziale Plastik—Taste Tribes embodies a more veiled articulation of the Goethean–Steinerian–Beuysian lineage. Goethe’s concept of entelechy described the inner formative principle by which the plant “makes itself out of itself”—an organic self-unfolding irreducible to mechanical repetition. Steiner, taking Goethe as the “Copernicus and Kepler of the organic world,” emphasized that Goethe had discovered the hidden laws of living form, just as astronomers had charted the laws of the cosmos. Beuys, inheriting this current of thought, transposed it into the social domain: art, like life, was no longer an object but a vital process; every human action could become sculpture, a force within the living organism of society.
It is precisely at this nexus that Taste Tribes situates itself, though in sound rather than in visual or ecological form. Their improvisations are not “pieces” but processes of emergence, sonic entelechies that unfold from within rather than being imposed from without. Noise-fields, electronic scatterings, the guttural breath of Harth’s reeds, the drone and churn of Irmler’s organ, the digitized flicker of Müller’s electronics—each gesture seems to contain the seed of its own self-determination. Improvisation here is not chaos but a morphology, akin to Goethe’s archetypal leaf, in which variation is the manifestation of a deeper, lawful principle.
In this light, the graffiti-figures that adorn their albums are more than decoration. They may be understood as glyphs of entelechy—graphic correlates to the music’s organic unfolding. Just as Beuys’ “7000 Oaks” made visible the slow work of transformation in the city’s ecological and social landscape, Taste Tribes inscribes transformation sonically: an acoustical “urban forest” grown from noise, feedback, and communal breath. If 7k Oaks plants the tree, Taste Tribes tags the wall—both reimagining art’s place in lived space, one through ecological grafting, the other through acoustic insurgency.
Ultimately, Taste Tribes challenges the listener to hear improvisation not as arbitrary play but as a social and organic law of becoming. Their soundworld exemplifies how the avant-garde, in the wake of Goethe, Steiner, and Beuys, continues to insist on creativity as an irreducible vitality: anarchic yet ordered, ephemeral yet archetypal. By foregrounding ritual over authorship, graffiti-mark over signature, process over object, Taste Tribes demonstrates that in the realm of sound as in life, the most radical art is not constructed—it grows.
I finally found some real evidence of steelmaking at Allenport - a couple of rusted rolling mill rolls hanging out in the sunshine. Can I get one of these as a lawn ornament?
My first visit at this beautiful city.
I fell in love with lisbon...
I don't know how many times i walked up or down the hills :)
Thanks for your visit at my photostream...
7K views & Explored! Thanks for looking! 85mm f1.8, E-TTL Flash bounced off the celling. f4.0, 1/200, ISO200
The russian word "Soyuz" means "Union". The first Soyuz manned mission took place in 1967 and different variants of the ship have been used for more than 50 years since. All Soyuz spacecraft are based on the same basic design, by Sergei Korolev, and consists of 3 parts: the orbital module (in the front of the spacecraft), the descent or reentry module (middle section) and the service module (the rear section, has the solar pannels and engines).
Korolev wanted a multipurpose ship, capable of transporting people and cargo to low Earth orbit and even devised a version capable of carrying astronauts to the moon (which unfortunately was never used). The Soyuz has served as multipurpose ship in countless missions, allowing, for example, the continued operation of the Mir space station (Mir means "Peace") for many years.
The Soyuz (variant Soyuz-MS) is still in active service and is now the spacecraft used for transport people and supplies to and from the International Space Station.
The Soyuz LEGO Model
This is a LEGO model of a Soyuz 7K-TM ship, a variant of Soyuz used in 1975. The model has about 500 pieces and includes a stand for its exhibition. The three modules can be separated, so you can simulate the separation of the descent module, which is the only part of the spaceship that returns to Earth.
The model reproduces in detail most of the external components of the ship such as engines, radiator, solar pannels, docking system, exterior hatch, periscope and parachute cover. Also the radars, windows and antennas are easily recognizable..
The descent module can be opened and it fit two or three minifigs of cosmonauts (cosmonaut is the russian word for astronaut).
You can support this project at LEGO Ideas
ideas.lego.com/projects/7d3cbb83-4f79-4469-98c9-d54ea4dd17e8
The background image of the main picture and the last picture is from NASA: A bank of clouds over the western Pacific Ocean was photographed by Astronaut Frank Borman and James A. Lovell during the Gemini 7 mission (1965). In the background the moon can be seen.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/gemini/gemini7/hires/...
This month, November 2014, celebrates my 10th year here in the flickr-verse; while things aren't quite what they used to be I still enjoy my time here, and are very active in many groups.
A big thank you to all the people I have met and continue to meet and share photography with.
You rock!
Thanks to PW
An ongoing project that explores photography as evidence, best viewed as a slide show
This image was made with my iPhone sitting in the car in the usual peak hour traffic that can be such a drudge. The light and clouds were amazing. Like so many images made this way I saw an opportunity and took it.
Post production included colour temperature, levels, sharpening using Lightroom.
A-7K.
185 TFW / 174 TFS.
Sioux City ANGB, Ohio.
June 1990.
Joined Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge at Johnston Aug 2013.
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