RK Faulhaber is not qweqe.
If you own any of the pre-1996 cassettes, please email me here.
Cassette releases to date ----------------------------------------
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World Power (1987) C60: Edition less than 10. No cover graphics.
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Root (1989) C60: Edition less than 50. Early copies were on high bias tape with titles.
Latter editions had no titles and were on normal bias tape.
Cover graphics included a line drawing resembling a finger print.
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Interludes (1989) C90: Edition less than 10. Cover graphics were a of simple, abstract shapes.
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Black Birds Basking (1989) C60: First edition of 50 were mass produced, high bias tapes with a title label on one side.
Cover was a black and white photo copy of abstract line drawings on gold colored paper.
Latter editions (less than 20) had different graphics, no titles and tapes were normal bias.
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#WPCD1 / #WHKC1 (1990) C60: No known copies released. Cover graphics included a line drawing resembling a symbol of an electronic vaccum tube.
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#WPCD2 (1991) C60: No cassette copies released. Graphics were never completed. A cd-r of this has been circulated privately to fewer than 10 people.
The actual title is "CODEX #WPCD2".
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Conversions (1996) C60: Edition of less than 20. Full color insert featuring
a photograph of a boundary marker in the San Francisco Bay.
This cassette may still be available from Fisheye Distribution.
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Properties of Materials (1996) C60: Edition of less than 20. Full color insert featuring
a photograph of a factory from New Jersey's "rust belt".
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Bathyscaphe and Other Electronic Works (2007) C20 PsychForm Records. Edition of 50.
Since this cassette was not self-produced, it qualifies itself as RK Faulhaber's debut commercial release.
Performances -----------------------------------------------
RK Faulhaber performed several times with Vacuum Tree Head in the early 1990s.
He has also performed many times with irr. app. (ext.) including the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The Wooden Octopus Skull Noise pFestival (Seattle), and the Brainwaves 10th Anniversary Festival (Boston).
Since 2006, he has performed many times along side Chandra Shukla as part of XAMBUCA.
He performed as part of Nurse With Wound in June of 2006 at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. He was also master of ceremonies for that event.
Collaborations and appearances --------------------------------------
RK Faulhaber appears on several irr. app. (ext.) recordings and on the first two Vacuum Tree Head CDs.
Recent collaborations include:
"The Sleeping Moustache" with M. S. Waldron, Steven Stapleton,
Jim Haynes, and Sigryggur Berg Sigmarsson,
"Wiping With Pride" with XAMBUCA,
"Dicentra2" with XAMBUCA
The voice of RK Faulhaber appears on Andrew Liles' album "Black End". His voice will also appear on a Nurse With Wound album to be released in late 2007.
A first official CD release of works inspired by ocean life, composed between Aug '06 and Oct '07 remains incomplete. It is uncertain whether or not this will ever see the light of day.
All musical activity ceased 9-20-07 at 11:10PM.