Praxis 55Ales Buess & Daniel Buess“Skin Craft” – RIND & NOLMLP – 2016 “Skin Craft” – RIND & NOL (Praxis 55) by Alex Buess & Daniel Buess Two powerful compositions by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess, rearranged by Cortex.RIND is a work using three large self-built cow skin frame drums, 1 horse skin container drum, […]
Big three day Festival in Memoriam Daniel Buess in Stuttgart September 23-25.
A Tribute to Daniel Buess Record release of “Skin Craft” – RIND/NOL – works by Alex Buess and Daniel Buess Präsentiert von Ensemble Phœnix und Klappfon Freitag 10. Juni + Samstag 11. Juni Doors: 20:00 CHF 18.- / 15.- (pro Abend, nur Abendkasse) ___ PROGRAMM FREITAG 20:30 – Ensemble Phœnix Basel Francisco Meirino: «Epidemic» (2016 […]
Praxis 48CortexVacuum Theory12″ – 2011 Vacuum Theory (Praxis 48) by Cortex A momentous, heavy, noisy and radical release by former 16-17 members Alex Buess and Daniel Buess. CORTEX appeared in 1998 out of Alex and Daniel Buess musical collaborations.They were both musicians of the legendary free-noise-core combo 16-17 andalso worked together since many years realizing […]
Praxis 3116-17Mechanophobia12″ – 1999 Mechanophobia (Praxis 31) by 16-17 700 copies. 16-17 started in 1983 in Basel, Switzerland as a three-piece “industrial punk jazz” outfit with Alex Buess, Markus Kneubühler and Knut Remond. They released a number of cassettes, before debuting with their self titled album in 1987. Two years later this was followed up […]
After reading somewhere in a short review that Cortex were “newcomers to the scene” I compiled the currently available titles of either Alex Buess or Daniel Buess on the frontpage of the Praxis online shop. Granted the new Praxis release is the first under the Cortex name (although the project exists since 1998), but especially […]
Bio: CORTEX appeared in 1998 out of Alex and Daniel Buess’ musical colaborations. They were both musicians of the legendary free-noise-core combo 16-17 and also they have been working together for many years realizing Alex’ percussion-compositions. After the 16-17 Mechanophobia-Tour in 1998 where Daniel played drums, Buess & Buess started to work on CORTEX, a […]
Cortex: Beware of the Arm of Flesh
Beware of the Arm of Flesh (praxis_digital_01000) by Cortex Cortex was founded in 1999 by Alex and Daniel Buess. Various projects form part of the Cortex biography: radio productions for Radio DRS, various appearances at festivals (including Taktlos, Tonart, Lucerne Festival) and collaborations, among others. with the Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu and his ensemble Hyperion. […]