Tip! Noise artist David Wallraf returns with his second album on Karl - "Crudeltá Necessaria" deals with the role of cruelty in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the repressed and uncanny sonic residues of quotidian life, crafting soundtracks for the creeping disaster we inhabit. His works have been released on numerous international tape labels. A recent interest of his is the live scoring of silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. In the academic world, Wallraf graduated with a BA in musicology at University of Hamburg, MA in time based media at Hochschule für bildende Künste, PhD on noise at HFBK, his PhD thesis "Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen" (Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German. He also regularly gives lectures on power relations in music, noise-theory, sound art/studies and the politics of listening.

"Crudeltá Necessaria", the follow-up to last year's "The Commune Of Nightmares", deals with the role of cruelty in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini by blending noise, raw electronics and field recordings into a detailed dystopian sonic experience that "you don't have to be afraid of" - R. Mießner, taz