'Heard Laboratories, performed,' on Chicago Sound Map performs compositions by Olivia Block and Ernst Karel (Kuro Neko Music 2009)
short excerpt available at Kuro Neko Music
EKG: planned 10" vinyl record, never materialized, released in 2008 in MP3 format as part of WFMU's Free Music Archive
Sound Safari: Bath, Maine, led by Sharon Lockhart and Ernst Karel, recorded by a group of Harvard students over the course of a long March 6, 2008, in Bath, and edited collaboratively: Sound Safari: Bath, Maine by sensoryethnographylab
EKG & Giuseppe Ielasi, Group (Formed Records 2006)
'Detach' (track 1):
Fern Room: stereo version of a through-composed quadraphonic sound installation in the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, November 8, 2001 - January 6, 2002, commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio for the Florasonic sound installation series and presented in conjunction with the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. This stereo version was originally released as a limited edition CDR on BOXmedia (2002).
part 1:
part 2:
The compilation Winter Construction (Dead CEO, 2001) containing tracks by Ernst Karel/Brent Gutzeit/Jason Soliday and Boris Hauf/Ernst Karel/Michael Hartman (OrErAr) is available on freemusicarchive.org.
EKG's debut recording, Shift or latch, a 3" CDR released by Crank Satori in 2001, is out of print, but available at the jokebux.klingt.org.
A selection from Shift or latch is included in this mix by Mike Shiflet of music from 3" CDRs (EKG is at 34:00):
Brent Gutzeit's Living under a thin film (1999), featuring collaborations with Ernst Karel, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Tetuzi Akiyama, and others, available to stream or download at brentgutzeit.bandcamp.com.
video from first Television Power Electric CD, from session recorded 25 October 1998 at ODUM, Chicago (Kuro Neko Music)
'needlefoam' from Blowhole's 1995 performance on the second stage at Lollapallooza (opening for Coolio), recorded with handheld cassette recorder, is online at Lunhare, which has re-released Blowhole's Reassembled on CD-R:
The LP Gathering was co-released in 1995 by Giardia Recordings, Fusetron, and Carburetor Records, with hand-painted covers by Jeph Jerman. Full details, images, and audio for download are here(choose 'megaupload' on the download page; the others are defunct).
Explicit Catharsis, Blowhole's 1994 (or so) cassette released by Union Pole, from Olympia, Washington, is now available, with cover image and track names, on Union Pole's website. Side A is the NW group, and Side B is mainly electrified trumpet and bass duos (Ernst Karel/Patrick Barber) from a live performance which may have taken place in Vancouver BC.