Charnel Ground presents: JOHN WIESE + SECRET + HESKER + THOM FLORIS

John Wiese (US) John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, but is known for his collaborations with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Aaron Dilloway, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh as well as his work as a solo artist. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. While releasing albums on a variety of international labels, Wiese often releases work on his own label, Helicopter. Secret(e) Kevin Jansen (Svartvit, Coma Cluster, etc..) is an sound artist based in Den Haag, NL. Exploring the boundaries of sound & performance since 2009. Especially interested in the inner-world of objects & bodies, brought to the surface through contact microphones & extreme amplification. Sculpting corporeal sonic landscapes that pulsate with raw intensity. Through extensive manipulation acoustic sounds are held captive in the liminal space between their point of origin & grotesque indecipherable slabs of distortion. Hesker Raw, analog exploration of sonic abrasion, utilising archaic tape machinery to distort and fracture reality. Thom Floris Thom Floris is an experimental sound artist, his process mainly involves sampling memetic tropes and utilizing further DSP (Digital Signal Processing) in order to create blithering and frantic compositions.