Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sanding machine, hammer, Tochnit Aleph catalog (Number 001-147)
Site-specific intervention. Variable dimensions
Rumpsti Pumsti. Berlin, Germany
2016

Commissioned by Tochnit Aleph


Tina Petráš
Alexander Schneider
Daniel Löwenbrück

In October 2016, Daniel Löwenbrück deactivated an exemplar of each publication of the Tochnit Aleph catalog – which includes audio works by Roman Signer, Dorothy Iannone, Hermann Nitsch, Artur Żmijewski, Henri Chopin, Selten Gehörte Musik, Rolf Julius, etc -. Each object was altered using sanding machines and a hammer. Without an audience present, the action was documented with two dynamic microphones. The remains of the archive, consisting of dust, pieces of plastic, paper, and fragments of magnetic tape, were exhibited, while the recordings of the action now form a sound work published as the next number of the Tochnit Aleph catalog (TA148).

TOCHNIT ALEPH 1994 – 2016

TA001 – cancelled
TA002 – COLUMN ONE ‘Odysee’ 10″
TA003 – CON-DOM ‘Sermon’ 7″
TA004 – DACHISE ‘Sugar Path / Eager’ 7″-BOX
TA005 – COLUMN ONE ‘THX-1138’ PIC-12″
TA006 – COLUMN ONE ‘Live im Hybridraum’ 2xMC
TA007 – ASTRO ‘M.S.G. of Electronics Wave’ LP-BOX
TA008 – EMIL BEAULIEAU ‘Plan A: Destruction of Output’ 7″
TA009 – NID ‘TARM-STAD / EJ TARM-STAD’ MC+CD
TA010 – VARIOUS ‘First Contact’ CD-ROM
TA011 – DOG ‘No Bitches in Season’ CD
TA012 – MERZBOW ‘Paradise Pachinko’ CD
TA013 – DACHISE ‘Imbeciles in Love’ CD 1
TA014 – LUXURY DISCREET SURROUNDINGS ‘Hello Mr. Reagan’ VHS
TA015 – APHASIA / DACHISE ‘First’ CD
TA016 – LUXURY DISCREET SURROUNDINGS ‘Attack is Now Suicide’ VHS
TA017 – JOHN WATERMANN ‘Neurotic Jesus Cash Boy’ CD
TA018 – ZONE NORD ‘Salbutanol’ CD
TA019 – DOGLIVEROIL ‘Postcard of an English Shithouse’ CD
TA020 – MONO ‘T-9’ CD
TA021 – SUDDEN INFANT ‘Sidewalk Social Scientist’ LP
TA022 – THE MACHINE GUN TV ‘Live in Berlin 20.10.99’ CD
TA023 – SUDDEN INFANT ‘Rare Noise’ 2CD
TA024 – THE HATERS ‘Der denkende Ross Tat es’ CD
TA025 – RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK ‘Asshole/Snail Dilemma’ CD
TA026 – SUDDEN INFANT ‘Punk as Fuck!! Live 080700!!!’ CD
TA027 – ASTRO ‘Bio-Galaxy’ CD
TA028 – THE MACHINE GUN TV ‘Cue’ 7″
TA029 – DAVE PHILLIPS ‘III+’ CD
TA030 – K2 ‘OOGONIA’ CD
TA031 – MONO ‘T-11’ CD
TA032 – EVIL MOISTURE ‘Blood Sauce’ 3″CD
TA033 – HANATARASH / EB.ERSONNA / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK ‘Tiefpunk’ 12″
TA034 – POP ‘Album’ 12″
TA034 – POP ‘Album’ CD
TA035 – ASTRO ‘Resonance Universe’ CD
TA036 – COSTES ‘Bible and Machine gun’ CD
TA037 – C.C.C.C. ‘Live at Broken Life’ CD
TA038 – cancelled
TA039 – CON-DOM / SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE / C.C.C.C. ‘Old Street in Taiwan’ CD
TA040 – GOOD LOOKING COMMUNISTS LP
TA041 – DAVE PHILLIPS ‘Live Aktion 011116’ CD
TA042 – NORI NORI DAISUKE ‘Phréres Simplites’ CD
TA043 – DAVE PHILLIPS ‘Tapes’ CD
TA044 – DROR FEILER ‘The Return of the Real’ CD
TA045 – DAVE PHILLIPS ‘The Hermeneutics of Fear of God’ LP
TA046 – PSYCHO-PHYSICAL RESEARCH ‘11.9.01 A Subject Object Provocation’ CD
TA047 – EVIL MOISTURE & HANATARASH ‘Fatanarchy on Eartube’ CD
TA047 – EVIL MOISTURE & HANATARASH ‘Fatanarchy on Eartube’ 2LP
TA048 – VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘The End of Fear of God’ CD
TA049 – RAIONBASHI ‘Kollekte 040218’ CD
TA050 – CATAPLEXY ‘Field of the Unlight’ ONE-SIDED 7″
TA051 – THE HATERS ’25TH Anniversary Disc’ CD-ROM
TA052 – 23 BRUTAL-HUMOUROID DRAMAS BY RUDOLF EB.ER CD
TA053 – THE NAUTILUS DECONSTRUCTION ‘Abschied von Mir. und wie Ich jetzt bin’ 2CD
TA054 – THOMAS ANKERSMIT / JIM O’ROURKE – SPLIT-LP
TA055 – cancelled
TA056 – GENETIC TRANSMISSION ‘H.H.H.H.’ 3″CD
TA057 – SUDDEN INFANT ‘Anarchy in the UK 2003’ CD
TA058 – OHNE ‘020504’ CD
TA059 – DAVE PHILLIPS / SCHIMPFLUCH-COMMUNE BERLIN CD
TA060 – RAIONBASHI ‘Dear Michael…’ MC
TA061 – CRANK STURGEON ‘Ottoman Empirical raga’ CD
TA061 – TOCHNIT ALEPH 10.BURZTAG AMPLIFIED VEGAN VOKÜ MC
TA062 – cancelled
TA063 – RAIONBASHI / JAMES TWIG HARPER CD
TA064 – RAIONBASHI ‘Kollekte 050529’ CD
TA065 – RAIONBASHI ‘In der not… Frisst der teufel fliegen’ CD
TA066 – VARIOUS ‘Libertarians under friendly fire’ CD
TA067 – G*PARK ‘Bernel und Hofmann’ CD
TA068 – SCHNÄBI GAGGI PISSI GAGGI LP
TA069 – DEAR DANIEL & MICHAEL… CD
TA070 – G*PARK ‘1983-1988+’ 6CD-BOX
TA071 – HECKER ‘Live @ ZKM’ MC
TA072 – TOCHNIT ALEPH 072 UNTITLED COMPILATION CD
TA073 – HENRI CHOPIN ‘La Plaine des Respirs’ LP
TA073 – HENRI CHOPIN ‘La Plaine des Respirs” CD
TA074 – GENETIC TRANSMISSION ‘CHRZĄSZCZ BRZMI W TRZCINIE’ CD
TA075 – EVIL MOISTURE ‘Amanita Burger’ CD
TA076 – STEFAN ROIGK ‘UP.RISING’ ONE-SIDED LP
TA077 – DROR FEILER ‘ZVUG’ 3″CD
TA078 – THE NAUTILUS DECONSTRUCTION ‘OPA-FLAGGE (SPUCKE) CD
TA079 – G*PARK ‘Reuters’ LP
TA080 – JUNKO & MATTIN LP
TA081 – DAVE PHILLIPS / SCHIMPFLUCH-COMMUNE CHIANG MAY CD
TA082 – SUDDEN INFANT ‘Taipei / Paris / Berlin’ DVD
TA083 – RUNZELSTIRN & MASONNA & GURGELSTOCK ‘Clitoris Projectile Pump Action’ CD
TA084 – HECKER ‘Live @ WDR’ MC
TA085 – K2 ‘Brainwash Education’ CD
TA086 – JÜRGEN ECKLOFF ‘Instruction 37/57’ DVD
TA088 – DEFLAG HAEMMORHAGE / HAIEN KONTRA ‘LUXURY’ CD
TA088 – DEFLAG HAEMMORHAGE / HAIEN KONTRA ‘HUMILIATED’ CD
TA089 – RUSSELL HASWELL ‘Recorded while actually happened’ MC
TA090 – SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE ‘Paris Aktionen’ LP
TA090 – SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE ‘Paris Aktionen’ CD
TA091 – JUNKO ‘Sleeping Beauty’ CD
TA092 – cancelled
TA093 – HERMANN NITSCH ‘Eight Symphony’ 2CD
TA094 – RUDOLF EB.ER ‘Lesson 1: How to Mix Colour’ DVD
TA095 – JUNKO & MICHEL HENRITZI ‘Berlin No TsukiI’ CD
TA025.10 – RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK ‘Asshole/Snail Dilemma’ LP
TA096 – MARCELLVS L. ‘KLAVIERWELLEN’ LP
TA097 – VALERI SCHERSTJANOI ‘Lautinhalationen’ BOX
TA098 – VALERI SCHERSTJANOI ‘Lautinhalationen’ CD+DVD
TA099 – ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI ‘Singing Lesson’ LP
TA100 – RUDOLF EB.ER ‘Meditation on a Broomstick’ CD
TA101 – WOLF VOSTELL ‘DE-COLL/AGE MUSIK’ CD
TA102 – VALERI SCHERSTJANOI ‘Tumult of the Voice, Please!’ CD
TA103 – TOINE HORVERS ‘Selected Recordings of Performances & Installations’ CD
TA104 – HARTMUT GEERKEN ‘Aus der Höhle’ 7″
TA105 – PETER BEHRENDSEN ‘Tschuon’ CD
TA106 – THE NEW BLOCKADERS / VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN BOX
TA107 – GERHARD RÜHM ‘Verlautbarungen’ CD
TA109 – VALERI SCHERSTJANOI ‘Zaum 1981-1989’ LP
TA110 – STEFAN ROIGK ‘The Rising of Matteo’ CD
TA111 – RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK ‘Für Sau.Re Milch und Dirndl’ DVD
TA112 – RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK ‘Erbrechspiel für 3 Mädchen’ DVD
TA113 – ZEITKRATZER ‘Grand Orchestra’ CD
TA114 – ARF ARF DVD
TA115 – MARCUS SCHMICKLER ‘Politik der Frequenzen’ LP/CD
TA116 – DOMINIK STEIGER ‘AD HOC MUSI 1980-84’ LP
TA117 – FRANZ MON ‘Stimmen Lauter Stimmen’ LP
TA118 – MICHAEL BARTHEL ‘STAPEL. EFEU-FÄHRTEN’ CD
TA119 – G*PARK ‘GOUR’ LP
TA120 – HERMANN NITSCH ‘Streichtquintett Berlin 2006’ 3CD-BOX
TA121 – ROMAN SIGNER ‘KANALGERÄUSCHE’ LP
TA122 – ANTOINE CHESSEX ‘Selected Chamber Music Works 2009-2013’ CD
TA123 – DOMINIK STEIGER ‘Dominik Steiger als Kind’ DVD
TA124 – BROUTIN ‘Etude No.1’ LP
TA125 – WOLF VOSTELL ‘FLUXUS Concert SARA-JEVO’ LP
TA126 – GERHARD RÜHM ‘MASOCH’ CD
TA127 –
TA128 – DOROTHY IANNONE ‘DEAR Dieter’ LP Multiple
TA129 – DOROTHY IANNONE ‘Ewig Grün’ LP
TA130 – SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK ‘1. BERLINER DICHTERWORKSHOP’ CD
TA131 – SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK ‘NOVEMBERSYMPHONIE‘ 2CD
TA132 – SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK ‘DAS MÜNCHNER KONZERT‘ 2CD
TA133 – ROLF JULIUS ‘Lullaby for the Fishes‘ LP
TA134 – MAX E. KELLER ‘Vier Poli

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