STUMM433 – Mute box set featuring over 50 Mute artists – Laibach launch with a short film
MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW)ANNOUNCE ‘STUMM433’
– A BOX SET FEATURING OVER 50 MUTE ARTISTS
– PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
LAUNCHING WITH A SHORT FILM BY LAIBACH
“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise” – John Cage
MUTE have announced the latest release in the MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW) series: STUMM433, a box set collating an unprecedented selection of Mute artists past, present and future, out in May 2019.
From The Normal, the artist that started Mute, to the label’s newest signing, K Á R Y Y N, STUMM433 will feature a huge array – over 50 – of Mute artists including Depeche Mode, Yann Tiersen, Liars, Silicon Teens, Irmin Schmidt and many more, all presenting their own interpretation of one piece of music: John Cage’s game changing composition, 4’33”.
4’33” is among the most important of all contemporary music compositions. Composed and premiered in 1952, 4’33” is a piece for any instrument or combination of instruments. The score instructs the performer or performers not to play their instrument for the duration of the piece (generally four minutes and 33 seconds). As challenging and thought-provoking now as it was when it was premiered, 4’33” completely changed popular thinking on silence, sound, composition and listening.
Daniel Miller explains, “John Cage’s 4’33” has been present in my musical life for as long as I can remember as an important and inspiring composition. When the idea of every Mute artist doing their own interpretation of the piece came up during a conversation with Simon Fisher Turner, I immediately thought this was the perfect way to mark the label’s MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW) series.”
Each artist has created a visual to accompany their performance of 4’33” and the box set launches with a video from Laibach. Filmed and recorded during “Chess Game For Four” at the HDLU’s Bačva Gallery Space in Zagreb (a reference to the famous photo of ‘Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz)’ in Pasadena museum and Cage’s Duchamp-inspired “Chess Pieces” in particular, the Reunion, which featured a specially constructed electronic chess board), Laibach’s interpretation of 4’33” features the Croatian performance artist Vlasta Delimar and a Slovenian designed levitating turntable. Watch the short film here: https://youtu.be/mM90X-9m_Zc
Net profits from the release of STUMM433 will be split between the British Tinnitus Association and Music Minds Matter, charities chosen to honour Inspiral Carpets’ founding member Craig Gill who suffered from anxiety and depression as a result of his tinnitus in the years up to his untimely death. The box set will be released in May 2019 with more details being shared over the coming months. To register interest in STUMM433 and be first in line to pre-order and receive exclusive updates on the contributions, sign up at http://mute.com/stumm-433
Artists featured include:
A Certain Ratio, A.C. Marias, ADULT., The Afghan Whigs, Alexander Balanescu, Barry Adamson, Ben Frost, Bruce Gilbert, Cabaret Voltaire, Carter Tutti Void, Chris Carter, Chris Liebing, Cold Specks, Daniel Blumberg, Depeche Mode, Duet Emmo, Echoboy, Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure, Fad Gadget (tribute), Goldfrapp, He Said, Irmin Schmidt, Josh T. Pearson, K Á R Y Y N, Komputer, Laibach, Land Observations, Lee Ranaldo, Liars, Looper, Lost Under Heaven, Maps, Mark Stewart, Michael Gira, Mick Harvey, Miranda Sex Garden, Moby, Modey Lemon, Mountaineers, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, NON, Nonpareils, The Normal, onDeadWaves, Phew, Pink Grease, Pole, Polly Scattergood, Renegade Soundwave, Richard Hawley, ShadowParty, Silicon Teens, Simon Fisher Turner, The Warlocks, Wire, Yann Tiersen
STUMM433 is part of a series of special events and releases that started in 2018 and will continue through 2019 beyond, the STUMM433 vinyl box set is manufactured in partnership with The Vinyl Factory Manufacturing.
Mute Synth 4.0, the third handheld analogue synth collaboration between Mute, Adrian Shaughnessy and Dirty Electronics is out now. This new digital / analogue synth features inputs, a digital wavetable synthesiser, an analogue noise circuit, and programmable sequencer. Further information can be found HERE.
A series of special vinyl editions for Mute 4.0 were released in 2018 with further releases due throughout 2019
OUT NOW:
Silicon Teens – ‘Music For Parties’ “probably the world’s first teenage electronic pop group”, on MUTE 4.0 orange vinyl
Fad Gadget, Mute’s first signing – ‘Fireside Favourites’ on MUTE 4.0 orange vinyl
Josh T. Pearson’s lauded ‘Last Of The Country Gentlemen’ on gold vinyl
Apparat – ‘The Devil’s Walk’ on violet vinyl
VCMG (Vince Clarke and Martin Gore) – ‘Ssss’ on MUTE 4.0 orange vinyl
A Certain Ratio – ‘The Graveyard & The Ballroom’ on MUTE 4.0 orange vinyl
Barry Adamson’s Memento Mori Anthology 1978-2018
A Certain Ratio’s ACR:SET compilation
Yazoo’s Four Pieces vinyl set and Three Pieces (CD set) on Mute / BMG
Grinderman’s debut album, released on limited edition green vinyl on Mute / BMG
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ OST The Proposition, on vinyl for the first time via Mute / BMG
Mick Harvey & Christopher Richard Barker’s concept album – The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War
Irmin Schmidt’s new album – Klavierstucke 5
Laibach’s new album – The Sound of Music
Chris Carter Miscellany, a new solo box set featuring an album of unreleased tracks
Lee Ranaldo Electric Trim, Live at Rough Trade East.
FORTHCOMING:
Lost Under Heaven’s second album, Love Hates What You Become
Mark Stewart – definitive reissue of his debut solo album, Learning To Cope With Cowardice
Yann Tiersen’s new album, ALL
K Á R Y Y N, Mute’s latest signing will release QUANTA 11:11
Erasure, Wild! Deluxe – 30th Anniversary edition on Mute / BMG
Mute and Thames & Hudson recently worked together on Mute: A Visual Document, a visual history of the label. One of Uncut and Rough Trade’s Books of the Year, it was described by the shop as “Beautifully bound, this book is as iconic and dynamic as Mute’s musical past”. Learn more about the publication here: http://smarturl.it/MuteBook
Bloomsbury Publishers recently launched an academic book, Mute Records: Artists, Business, History, examining the label via detailed analysis by academics from around the world. Edited by Middlesex University’s Zuleika Beaven, Marcus O’Dair and Richard Osborne, more information can be found here: https://bloomsbury.com/uk/mute-records-9781501340604/
MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW) acknowledges the launch of a label that started out of necessilty rather than design (to release the 7” single by The Normal, ‘T.V.O.D.’ / ‘Warm Leatherette’, recorded by Daniel Miller on a KORG 700S keyboard with a TEAC four-track recorder), and marks the past four decades, but crucially, looks forward to the label’s many years to come as it travels unapologetically into tomorrow.
New Mute merchandise has recently been made available, see the full range here: https://www.mutebank.co.uk/
Order Mute 4.0 releases here: http://smarturl.it/MUTE4.0
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