David Jackman
David Jackman is a British musician and video artist who is primarily concerned with Drone and in the 1980s was active during the Industrial Movement. He also performs with other musicians, but mostly alone, under the name Organum in appearance.
Musical Career
Between 1969 and 1972 he was a member of Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra. In 1979 he began to tape Undergounds to drive in the course of developing small runs of cassettes under the pseudonym Monoplane. At that time, his pieces were made from multi- layered tape loops, which he transferred to a tape recorder. Since 1983, he used the pseudonym Organum and under that name published records on different labels in Europe and his own label Aeroplane Records. Most of his publications are short and appeared on one-sided singles or EPs. He attributes this to his listening behavior from the time of double albums that are not pledged to him as the format.
Music
David Jackman sees itself explicitly in the tradition of the drone. His music is influenced by Celtic and Native American drone, as well as the Japanese gagaku. As a further influences he calls the weekly listening to the AMM sessions in the early 1970s. The Music of Tibetan Buddhism inspired him because of their untempered Texturhaftigkeit .. In particular influences appear as Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham.
Work together
Organum was a platform for musicians such as Z'EV, Nurse With Wound, Christoph Heeman, Robert Hampson, Jim O'Rourke, Michael Prime of Morphogenesis, Eddie Prévost (AMM ), Andrew Chalk and the noise artist The New Blockaders. The single Breakthough was made for the noise performance band The Haters ( GX without Jupitter - Larsen, but liked the music ). Prévost, Stapleton and Heemann published Organum albums on their own label.
Artwork
With his artwork itself Jackman refers to the sculpture -minimalists. Most are colorful surreal and meticulously prepared collagen or vice versa rather functional artwork, to the complete absence of artwork for some of his productions. The extensive complete discography (as of 2006) with reproductions of all artworks can be downloaded in a ten-part PDF of the homepages.