artist: LEIF ELGGREN & MICHAEL ESPOSITO
title: Fire Station 6
label: Firework Edition
country: Sweden
format: CD
title: Fire Station 6
label: Firework Edition
country: Sweden
format: CD
Recorded 28 November 2007 in Fire Station 6, Hammond, Indiana, USA.
EVPs from Phantom Airwaves case file PAW067.
As is always the case with EVP (Electro Voice Phenomenon) recordings, repeat play
is necessary in order to catch their fleeting occurrences. While the EVPs are repeated for
the listener to take note on these releases, further study is still warranted. It should be noted
that Esposito's releases are not only intended to be viewed as documents of the
phenomenon, but as sound art works as well.
Recommended for enthusiasts of the Touch / Ash International EVP-oriented releases (i.e.
Ghost Orchard & Friedrich Jürgenson), investigators of the EVP phenomenon, and followers
of Firework Edition Records.
Leif Elggren is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late
1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to
work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and
composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels
such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often
conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance,
usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range
from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of
art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down,
hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons.
Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of
Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. Elggren spent five years at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, specializing in drawing, design and bookprinting.
In the late ‘70s he began to associate with performance groups, meeting people like
Hausswolff and Thomas Liljenberg. With the latter he formed Firework in 1978, a duo that
put up exhibitions and performances. Around the same time he purchased a press and
started to publish art books. In 1988 he formed the duo Guds Söner (The Sons of God) with
Kent Tankred, whom he had met four years earlier. The duo excels in creating long,
puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and
soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence, love, the quotidian, food and
royalty.
Elggren released his first 7" records in 1982 and 1984 on Hausswolff's label Radium. A first
solo LP, Flown Over by an Old King, came out in 1988. The inception of Firework Edition
in 1996 allowed Elggren to release more of his music and the growing popularity of
installation art in avant-garde music circles (thanks to its ties with experimental electronica)
has given his work more international exposure since the late ‘90s. Other key solo works
include Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (2000). Together with
Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in
2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from
Norway). In 2007 he appeared (with John Duncan) at the Netmage festival in Bologna
organized by xing and executed "Something Like Seeing in the Dark". Leif Elggen is also a
member of Guds Soner (or The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred.
Michael Esposito is a specialized audio scientist in the area of Electronic Voice
Phenomenon. A former Psy-ops officer in Iraq, Michael has both a technical background
and understanding of the human mind. Michael Esposito is the audio specialist and co-star
of the popular DVD 'Dead Whisper' and gives talks on Ghost Hunting using scientific
technology that is more and more proving the existence of the afterlife. The realm of the
'paranormal' is rooted in quantum mechanics. Michael Esposito is a long time colleague of
Medium / Psychic Robbie Thomas, who is currently touring America with plans to tour in
Australia in 2008.
EVPs from Phantom Airwaves case file PAW067.
As is always the case with EVP (Electro Voice Phenomenon) recordings, repeat play
is necessary in order to catch their fleeting occurrences. While the EVPs are repeated for
the listener to take note on these releases, further study is still warranted. It should be noted
that Esposito's releases are not only intended to be viewed as documents of the
phenomenon, but as sound art works as well.
Recommended for enthusiasts of the Touch / Ash International EVP-oriented releases (i.e.
Ghost Orchard & Friedrich Jürgenson), investigators of the EVP phenomenon, and followers
of Firework Edition Records.
Leif Elggren is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late
1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to
work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and
composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels
such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often
conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance,
usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range
from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of
art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down,
hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons.
Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of
Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. Elggren spent five years at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, specializing in drawing, design and bookprinting.
In the late ‘70s he began to associate with performance groups, meeting people like
Hausswolff and Thomas Liljenberg. With the latter he formed Firework in 1978, a duo that
put up exhibitions and performances. Around the same time he purchased a press and
started to publish art books. In 1988 he formed the duo Guds Söner (The Sons of God) with
Kent Tankred, whom he had met four years earlier. The duo excels in creating long,
puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and
soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence, love, the quotidian, food and
royalty.
Elggren released his first 7" records in 1982 and 1984 on Hausswolff's label Radium. A first
solo LP, Flown Over by an Old King, came out in 1988. The inception of Firework Edition
in 1996 allowed Elggren to release more of his music and the growing popularity of
installation art in avant-garde music circles (thanks to its ties with experimental electronica)
has given his work more international exposure since the late ‘90s. Other key solo works
include Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (2000). Together with
Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in
2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from
Norway). In 2007 he appeared (with John Duncan) at the Netmage festival in Bologna
organized by xing and executed "Something Like Seeing in the Dark". Leif Elggen is also a
member of Guds Soner (or The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred.
Michael Esposito is a specialized audio scientist in the area of Electronic Voice
Phenomenon. A former Psy-ops officer in Iraq, Michael has both a technical background
and understanding of the human mind. Michael Esposito is the audio specialist and co-star
of the popular DVD 'Dead Whisper' and gives talks on Ghost Hunting using scientific
technology that is more and more proving the existence of the afterlife. The realm of the
'paranormal' is rooted in quantum mechanics. Michael Esposito is a long time colleague of
Medium / Psychic Robbie Thomas, who is currently touring America with plans to tour in
Australia in 2008.