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March 8, 2018December 1, 2025

LIMPE FUCHS ~ WALKER STREET 55

LP
Original Artwork by Limpe Fuchs.
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or009
Date of Release: 8 March 2018 / SOLD

Music: “Walker Street 55”
Live Recording at Blank Forms, hosted by Artists Space, New York City
12 October 2017
Recording Gus Callaham

Artwork:
Mixed Media

Limpe Fuchs is a Musician and visual Artist active for over 50 Years.
She’s been Part of the legendary Avant Garde / Krautrock group Anima Sound / Anima with her then husband Paul Fuchs. Limpe Fuchs is currently still very active in giving concerts and in making her own instruments which she uses in her concerts. She’s been creating visual artworks for many years, but she has only very rarely came into public with this work.

A	Walker Street 55, Part I	25:04
B	Walker Street 55, Part II	21:03

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Limpe Fuchs ~Walker Street 55	SOLD

Artwork Description: A free bricollage made by Limpe Fuchs, of hand drawings and cut out historical material. Among others, original posters of 1966 Anima Sound Live performances from the archive of Limpe Fuchs. Each cover contains handpainting on the back of the covers (not shown here)

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March 5, 2018December 1, 2025

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA & JON MUELLER ~ PRIMA MATERIA

LP
Handmade Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra and Jon Mueller.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or011
Date of Release: 22 March 2018 / SOLD

“These Pieces are the Result of a long Process which lasted 10 Years or more. I’ve been in Touch with Jon off and on, exchanging Music for each to work on. Working on Tracks and leaving them to rest. On the Surface, nothing much happened. The Music was somewhere filed up, almost forgotten. We didn’t make music together for Years to come. Then early 2018 there was a sudden Breakthrough. The Pieces now published on this LP are the Result from this… I strongly see a great Analogy with certain alchemic and hermetic Processes . In Hermetism there’s the Process of slow cooking. Cooking the content of a Pot, with the Lid on, to preserve it’s full Potency and to build up Power. The Content of the Pot is mixed, transformed, sublimated without anyone seeing it, or being aware of it. The Lid is only taken off when the Content is ready. The same Process was applied to my Collaboration with Jon Mueller, without us being aware… Time had silently transformed and sublimated our Collaboration. Roasting the Salamander, thus transforming the Prima Materia.” (RD)

About Jon Mueller:
Jon Mueller has been a Drummer and Percussionist since 1985. In 1990, he studied Music Theory at Columbia College and took private Drum Lessons from Hal Russell. In 2018, he took private Voice Lessons from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. Covering a Variety of Genres and Techniques over the Years, his aim has been to use Drums, Percussion and Sound as a Way to express something felt but not easily defined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have described his Performances as ‘cathartic’, ‘intense,’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo Performances have taken Place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, SXSW, Alverno Presents, Hopscotch Fest, and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal.
From 1999 – 2009 he owned the Recording Label and Promotion Company Crouton, which published and promoted over 40 Releases in deluxe Presentations from Artists out of the Avant Garde. Crouton also organized Events in the Milwaukee and Chicago Areas with Artists from around the World. These were documented by the Press and even filmed as Part of a PBS Documentary on Jazz Musician Ken Vandermark.
Mueller has given Talks about Listening and Creativity at Loyola University, Viva! Art Action, Translator Lab, Wesleyan University, and PechaKucha.
He has published two Works of Fiction, Pianobread and Endings, and contributed Non-Fiction Writing to ChangeThis, Pear Noir!, and more.
More Information: Rhythmplex

About Raymond Dijkstra:
Raymond Dijkstra is a Multidisciplinary Artist working in the Fields of Music and Visual Art. His Discography entails over 120 Titles of mostly Vinyl Records. Between 2008-now he has been working on an ungoing Catalogue of 3″ and 5″ Vinyl Records, published by Editions Le Souffleur. These miniature Music Pieces of 1 minute (on 3″) and 2,5 minute (on 5″) comprise Music only made with Acoustic Instruments and Acoustic Found or Household Objects, without any use of Audio Effects, thus creating A Musique Brut Type of Music, which Dijkstra designates as Expressionist Music. These Experimental Acoustic Pieces (till this date 58 in total of which some contain up to 3 or 9 Records per Title) form together Raymond Dijkstra’s ‘Catalogue du Bruit’ (Catalogue of Noise). Each Title came with Handmade Hardcover Mini Boxes and a Wooden Dowel attached to the Innersleeves; aswell as Handmade Artwork, often including Collage and sometimes Needle and thread, and even a Box with Mackerel Fish Skin (De Slaap) (which innerflesh had previously been devoured by the artist and after the meal, the skin was dried for over half a year in his atelier before being used for the artwork of this title ) among others. Dijkstra sees Catalogue du Bruit as the Centrework in his œuvre of which all different Branches of his Art and Music grows, both to future- and past works. His Music ranges from the aforementioned Expressionist acoustic music to different Types of Electronic Music. In his Electronic Music he has rarely used normal Synthesizers but prefers to work with rudimentary 1950’s and 60’s Oscillators and Filters.

Prima Materia	18:40
Roasting the Salamander	21:04

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Raymond Dijkstra & Jon Mueller ~ Prima Materia		SOLD

Artwork Description:

Raymond Dijkstra Artwork:
Gatefold Cover of Grey Cardboard with Construktivist and Cubist handdrawn Pencil Lines / Thread and Needle.

Jon Mueller Artwork:
Green/Black Mat Board, Black and Metallic Gold Acrylic Paint, Photo Corners, Pure Essential Oil, Poly Sleeve.
Improvised Symbols on Each Cover were executed using Broom Stick Fibers.

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February 13, 2018December 1, 2025

THE TENSES ~ DOWN / UP

7″
Handmade Artwork by The Tenses.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or012
Date of Release: 31 March 2018 / SOLD

The Tenses (Side Project of Smegma) are Ju Suk Reet Meate and Jackie Oblivia Stewart.

The Tenses -is a Title of a Story in the Book “The Dream World of Dion McGregor” from 1964. It is a unique Book in that the Stories are not “Written”, but Transcribed from Stories told while asleep.

In 2008 we began a new Live Act using Musical Concepts developed with Smegma. The Tenses are a more intimate ” Live ” Experiment ,that is GREATLY INFLUENCED by the Room/Audience “ Feel”. Moving Images that reflect our Influences and creative Patterns are projected on or behind us. Our creative Intent is only one Aspect. We Attempt to collaborate in” The Moment .”

The Tenses have performed successfully in Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Cork, London, Brighton, Helsinki, Brussels, Paris , Geneva and others , so far.

The Tenses, using Concepts developed over 40 years of organized and spontaneous Sound making , attempt a new Focus on “live Performance” in which the Room or Space has a major effect on the unfolding Sounds. Usually a Movie is also shown that may suggest Themes. If it all works there is Magic.

More Information: The Tenses Website

A	Down	3:29
B	Up	4:11

Recorded January 2018 in Portland Oregon by Ju Suk Reet Meate

Ju Suk – Conch Shell, Clay Flute, Tape Loop, String Bass, Toy Noise Makers and Electric Lap Steel with Effects Pedals

Oblivia – Bells, Toy Noise Makers, Bell Tree and Record Player with Effect Pedal

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The Tenses ~ Down / Up

		SOLD

Description:
Collage on Paper

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February 13, 2018December 1, 2025

BRYAN LEWIS SAUNDERS ~ THE DEAF MONTH VINYLS

LP
Acrilyc Paintings by Bryan Lewis Saunders.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or010
Date of Release: 24 June 2018.

The Deaf Month Vinyls is a Collection of Recordings done by Bryan Lewis Saunders during his Month long Experiment of External Ear Blocking in 2011.

“The Third Ear Experiment, produced by Brant Withers, was an attempt to connect my eustachian tubes to my pineal gland by physically rerouting the way in which sound entered my body. For 28 days straight, from October 25th to November 21st 2011, I blocked up my external ears and attached a copper funnel to my mouth and set out to see and hear what would happen. The experiment was both extremely torturous and meditative. Each day gave birth to a multitude of new ideas of which I was unable to document thoroughly. The act of documentation itself was often a hindrance to the experience so I made quick notes and as many sketches and paintings as possible for future illustration and investigation and I could easily spend the rest of my life in doing so.” (BLS, 19 September 2012)

“I didn’t even know I was going to swallow anything, or have problems swallowing anything when a human arm appeared from another dimension. Not a cloud or “thin air”. I saw where it came from and where it went back to. Anyway, it grabbed me by the Adam’s apple and started tugging on it up and down. I thought it was trying to kill me, so I twisted my body and tried to turn my head away from it when a Vicks lozenge popped down my throat. The human arm then disappeared back behind this plane of geometry we can’t see. It saved my life. At least it thinks it did. There is a higher power for goodness. A spiritual strong arm of safety. I saw it and I felt it and it left one little mark. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have bruises.” (BLS, 13 November 2011)

Literal Silence (Side A, Track 2)
“I am now experiencing “Literal Silence”, for the first time ever in my life. The shape of it inside my skull is growing. If I don’t move a single muscle and sit or lay perfectly still, I experience silence. I can hear my heartbeat at times and I can also hear the tension in my neck muscles when I move. It’s beautiful. The world can be a very quiet and peaceful place. But my mouth hurts like shit.”
(BLS, 26 October 2011)

Bike Breath Balance (Side A, Track 7)
“My first bike ride to test my equilibrium. I hear a low hum inside my silence and I am breathing pretty hard. I feel like I’m moving two pedals forward and less than a half a pedal back at first, until I get in the groove of it. There is a copper screen inside the funnel to catch bugs with and prevent foreign objects from flying in.”
(BLS, 27 October 2011)

Third Ear Phone Call (Side A, Track 9)
“I’ve made one phone call to Nicole and tried to talk through my third ear. She was upset for several reasons as you can imagine. I recorded the conversation without telling her, and she has since allowed me to put it up.”
(BLS, 28 October 2011)

More Information on the Third Ear Experiment: Bryan Lewis Saunders Website

Bryan Lewis Saunders is an American Artist who works in a broad Array of Art Disciplines among which are Visual Art, Spoken Word and Art Performance. The Experiential Element is a crucial Factor in all his Works. He’s been making Self Portraits on Paper for each day since 30 March 1995. Since 2006 BLS has documented his dreams off / on for each day through Audio Recordings. In 2011 BLS underwent a Self induced Experiment in which he ingested different Types of Mind altering Substances for 11 Days and ‘documented’ each Day in a Series of Drawings. In 2014 BLS and John Duncan collaborated on a Performance titled Under the Influence of Torture in which BLS was tortured on Stage by JD with electrical Shocks and other Torturous Treatments.
In 2014 Bryan Lewis Saunders was portrayed in the Documentaries Art of Darkness by David Parker and Self Portrait Portrait by James Hollenbaugh

An interview with BLS about the Deaf Month Vinyls: https://artfully2017.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/bryan-lewis-saunders-deaf/

A1 Stage 1_Aural Eigengrau	01:59
A2 Stage 2_Literal Silence	01:59
A3 Stage 3_Purgatory	02:00
A4 Stage 4_ Elements of Sound	02:00
A5 (Silence)	01:00
A6 Document 5_Saliva Sucking	01:00
A7 Document 6_Bike Breath Balance	0:52
A8 Document 11_Glans-Brain	02:00
A9 Document 7_Third Ear Phone Call	05:08
B1 Document 9_Bellflower Speaks	04:00
B2 Birth of the Otic Vesicle	12:04

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Bryan Lewis Saunders ~ The Deaf Month Vinyls

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Work in Progress:

Work in Progress 10/25

Work in Progress 01/25

Artwork Description: Acrilyc Paintings by Bryan Lewis Saunders

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February 8, 2018December 1, 2025

MODELBAU ~ XEROX

LP
Handmade Artwork by Frans de Waard.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or008
Date of Release: 17 February 2018.

“Modelbau is not Frans de Waard’s latest in a series of names used to create music, but it is indeed the latest one for a solo vehicle. Each of the names, and that includes my own name, stands for something particular, an idea, and something not found in the other monikers I am using. Modelbau is, like Freiband, not a proper German word (it should be Modellbau, but I thought that looked ugly) and as such is probably already a lo-fi name, and as such also very personal. As a musician I have no a particular instrument, nor do I favour any technique, and I think one should use what is needed for a particular project or a piece of music.
When I started Modelbau, I wanted to use various lo-fi sound sources, such as Dictaphones, walkman, shortwave radio, small synthesizers and such like. This would not be a project for improvisation, but more or less planned pieces of music. All of which to be released in the digital domain only. That was in 2012. Now, in 2018, almost nothing is left of this outline, and yet the music is very much what I envisaged as Modelbau. These days Modelbau uses pre-recorded cassettes, iPad apps, sound effects, laptop, shortwave radio, small synthesizers, ancient 2bit sampling device; everything is recorded on the spot, as is, and without multi-tracking and very minimal editing (save for fades and mastering) released as downloads, but also on cassette, CDs and CDrs. ‘Xerox’ marks the very first release on vinyl. Whenever Modelbau plays a concert (all of which are recorded) preparations are made, and these are also recorded; sometimes these preparations can have the length of a concert, but they can also be single pieces of a few minutes. All of these recordings are archived and whenever a release is prepared, the latest sessions are listened to again. ‘Does it stand the test of time’, is it still interesting and thus: can it be released?” (Frans de Waard)

A1	Xylophone	17:32
B1	X Marks	8:38
B2	Xelem	9:46

Recorded by Frans de Waard December 2017 – January 2018

http://www.fransdewaard.com

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Modelbau ~ Xerox

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Artwork description:
Model construction elements (plastic) on painted paper

January 5, 2018December 1, 2025

Distortion as a Self Reflection

I like to stand up for Degeneration…

Recording of Music should not merely be a dry Registration of an Event. It’s Qualities (like Color or Imperfections) should reflect the Music and it should give the right Atmosphere for the Mind to thrive in.

I always find that Distortion is a genuine Part of my Music… I’ve never been a Supporter of clean Music. Even the cleanliest Music often benefits from a slight Amount of Distortion, wether it being Hiss or just because of primitive Equipment. Minimal Music with Distortion always sounds better than the Same recorded super clean. An old Recording of an Opera has a certain Charm over it which is never possible to attain with perfect recording Techniques.
In the second Half of the 80’s there was an interesting Shift in Music. Psychedelic Bands suddenly started to do Albums which were recorded in the Studio with perfect Sound. Away with the Distortion and Imperfections went the Filth and Psychedelia in the Music. You can even feel how the clean Sound affects the Musicians who’s playing became more controlled. Those Bands which sounded weird, degenerated and dirty sounded like a caged impotent Beast on their Studio Albums.
For me, Distortions in all it’s minute Forms, wether it being Feedback, overloaded Sounds, Overmodulation, Hiss, bad Microphones, Deterioration of Tape, cracking Volume Faders, Disbalances of any Kind, failing Equipment, false Instruments etc, etc. are like the Flaws in the Psyche, translated to Sound. Like the overloaded high pitched Feedback you hear in your inner Ear when your Brain is overstimulated. The Swirling in your Head, of Sounds going in endless spiraling Circles, or Sounds spiraling into Oblivion, it is never a clean organized Sound. The Brain subconsciously is aware of all the Dirt Particles and other Imperfections in both Sound, Image, Touch and any other sensory Experiences. Sound and Image are distorted. Smell and Touch are as well. Everything is out of Position to a certain Degree. And Nothing is clean.
My Music should be a Reflection of my Innerworld. Since it’s not clean… my Music is not clean…
It’s like becoming in a State wherein it’s no longer clear if I started the Sound or if I’m being lead by it. Creativity, Confusion, Chaos… In this State I’m seldomly capable of giving the right Amount of Attention to my Recordings which would otherwise lead to more perfect Recordings. So yes, the Recordings are bad and full with technical Failures, but more than that, it’s a Reflection of the State of my Psyche at that specific Point in Time… The bad Recordings and imperfect Recording Surroundings (the Studio, recording Space etc.) therefor become not only a Reflection of my State while playing, it also interacts with me whíle playing… The Hiss, Feedback and Distortion, it subconsciously inspires me, stimulates me.
A sudden Burst of overmodulated Sound in my Plate Reverb can throw me in a mental Deep. Feedback may take me with it in a Spiraling Course. The constant Hiss already lays down a nice Carpet of Disfunction…
A Misstep, a Fall, a Mistake, a faulty Judgement, a Projection of the Self, a Cup which slides out of your Hands scattering on the Floor, a Crack in the Wall of your Livingroom, waking up screaming from a bad Dream, bad Memories, a Misunderstanding, a faded Color, being attacked by vicious Dogs on the Street, an Error in your Head, Discomfort, a Man talking on an imaginary Televisionscreen on your Bedroom Wall, looking at Yourself from two Meters above your body while sitting in Schoolclass, a distorted Image from the Past in an otherwise normal Environment in a small Town somewhere in the North of the Netherlands, your House burning, a Car Crash. The Colors of Reality would simply vanish when trying to hold on to Something which is destined to go…
Failures in Sound are for me a Reflection of Failures in the Mind. People always tend to strive for Perfection and Cleanliness… That’s why Plastic was invented. The Dirt in Sound is for me like the Yellowing of the Colors in 15th Century Paintings of Dutch Masters. And German Expressionist Painting would never have the same Impact when there would not have been a certain Degree of Disfunction. Even the Ruins of Persepolis look better than they would have ever in their full original Glory…

(Rayastre)

January 1, 2018December 1, 2025

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA ~ GROMMEND, BLAFFEND, BROMMEND, DONDEREND, SPUGEND, FLUITEND

LP
Handmade Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or007
Date of Release: 10 January 2018 / SOLD

“These crude Electro-Acoustic Works are constructed from Material derived from Experimentations with 1950’s Test Equipment and 1950’s Audio Effects in Conjunction with Acoustic Instruments of Choice. Brüel & Kjaer Tube Filters and Oscillators, Philips discrete Oscillators, a modular solid State Vocoder, Rohde & Schwarz UBM Tube Feedback Filters, Krohn-Hite Tube Filters, EMT 140 Tube Plate Reverbs, AKG BX20 Spring Reverb, Tapedelays, Pianoharp, Glass and Metal Frottage, etc. The Music shows the rudimentary electronic Treatments done and the acoustic Sounds recorded and electronically manipulated in real Time, exploring the different Possibilities of the Equipment in an improvisory, searching Manner.” RD

bhaavitaaH bhuutasthaH Studio 2016

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA ~ DE STAAL

3×10″
Handmade Artwork by RD.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 1.
d’or006
Date of Release: 10 January 2018.

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA – DE STAAL (3×10″ on ASTRES D’OR)

A1	De Staal I
B1	De Staal II
C1	De Staal III
D1	De Staal IV
E1	De Staal V
F1	De Staal VI

Raymond Dijkstra ~ De Staal

De Staal	3×10″ Original Artwork by RD Edition of 1.	SOLD

Artwork Description:
Wooden Box. Outside Front: Frame, Glass. Collage and Drawing. Mixed Media.
3 Vinyl Records in Hardboard Innercover. The Hardboard Innercover is attached to a wooden Dowel and can be slid out of the wooden Outerbox.
Signed, dated, numbered by RD

More Pictures and Soundfiles follow

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December 13, 2017December 1, 2025

ASRA, LA POUPEE VIVANTE ~ LE FEU

LP
Handmade Artwork by Asra, La Poupée Vivante.
Signed by the Artist
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or005
Date of Release: 18 December 2017.

LE FEU (The Fire)

“When I projected upon me, the Image I thought I saw and thus acted accordingly,
I shattered, what I imagined was, a mirrored Image, which in it’s turn, revealed a Projection… upon a Projection… upon a Projection… upon a Projection…”

“From which Illusion my Being is consumed!
In retracing the Image to the Violence of the heavy Wind.” (RD)

A1	Le Feu I	18:04
B1	Le Feu II	19:55

Raymond Dijkstra: Voice, Strings, Effects
Timo van Luijk: Synths, Effects

Recorded 2014 at Kulta Saha, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.
Mixed, mastered and cut on vinyl by Raymond Dijkstra at bhaavitaaH bhuutasthaH Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Timo van Luijk: http://www.lasciedoree.be
Raymond Dijkstra: http://www.le-souffleur.nl

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Asra, La Poupée Vivante ~ Le Feu	SOLD

Description: 13 Works by Timo van Luijk; Ink – Doubleprint Monotype).
12 Works by Raymond Dijkstra; Fire, Paint, Ink, Thread and Needle.

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November 11, 2017December 1, 2025

DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG ~ TILL UND FRITZ AUF REISEFAHRT NACH KLOPSTOCKLAND

LP.
Original Artwork.
Signed by the Artist
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or004
Date of Release: 30 December 2017

Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg

Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg is a German Politician active for the Neo-Communist Party KED, Film Director, Writer, Artist and Musician.
He is also the Founder of one of the longest existing Industrial / Post-Industrial Music Labels (early 1980’s till this Date); the Legendary Label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien for which he has released Albums of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Laibach, Hafler Trio and Werkbund.
He has long running Musical Collaborations with Asmus Tietchens, Felix Kubin and Timo van Luijk (Af ursin) as well as being Part of Werkbund.

“Sieg der Vernunft” is an ideological and philosophical Film von Euler-Donnersperg made for his political Neo-Communist Party KED in 2015.
Zeit Online (1-5-2015): “Victory of Reason is the Name of the Work, which has a reference at the Title of Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi Party Rally Film ‘Sieg des Glaubens’ (Victory of Belief) (1933). But of course, the Film understands this and Itself – according to Hegel’s Hypothesis that all World History repeats itself as a ‘lousy Farce’.”

DvE-D addressing the Party at the first screening of Sieg der Vernunft (Photo courtesy of Peter Blase)

Till und Fritz auf Reisefahrt nach Klopstockland
is the Monumental Journey of Till and Fritz, the two Sons of mr. von Euler-Donnersperg, to the imaginary Land of Klopstockland; Till und Fritz are both returning Characters in Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg’s Phantasmagoric Universe.

Klopstockland is rumored to be the Republic as envisioned in “Die Deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik” (The German Republic of the Learned), the Enlightened Utopia of German Poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, who lived from 1724-1803. Klopstock was a lyrical Poet whose subjective Vision marked a Break with the Rationalism that had dominated German Literature in the early 18th Century and is seen by some as the direct Inspiration of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Die Deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik (1774) is a Concept that employs an educated Elite in Power of the Country for the Princely Ruler was regarded as incapable of Government. The Republic is to be ruled by Aldermen, Guilds and the People, with the First – as the most learned – having the greatest Powers, less to Guilds and People. The “Mob”, however, would get at most a Crier at the State Parliament, because Klopstock did not trust the People any popular Sovereignty. Education is the highest Good in this Republic and qualifies its Bearer to higher Offices. According to the scholarly Handling it goes in this Republic extremely Pacifist: As Punishments between the Learned estimated Klopstock “Turning the Nose up at a Person, Mocking, Laughter and Frown”.

Music Recorded 1995 / 96 at Suchtraum Hamburg – Altona by DvE-D

Box includes printed, signed / numbered inlay card designed by DvE-D

A1	Till und Fritz auf Reisefahrt nach Klopstockland – Die Abfahrt ins Ungewisse	26:18
B1	Till und Fritz auf Reisefahrt nach Klopstockland – Die Ankunft im Nirgendwo	25:44

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Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg: http://siegdervernunft.blogspot.nl/

Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg ~ Till und Fritz auf Reisefahrt nach Klopstockland

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Description:
Perspex Transparent Plates held together by 4 Iron Bolts. In between is a transparent Polyvinyl Innercover with an LP.
2x Original Photographs glued on the Perspex Plates (Front & Back)
Signed, dated, numbered by DvED

NB: the following Pictures have a brown Background because of the Transparancy of the Artworks. When you click on the Numbers next to the Pictures, you can see the same Work with a different Background.