Peter Conheim

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Peter Conheim [1](born 1968) is a film and music archivist and multimedia artist who performs and records under the name The Jet Black Hair People.[2] He is also the co-founder of Wet Gate,[3] which uses only "found footage" and 16mm film projectors to create a live performance, sampling the sound from the film tracks in real time, as well as Mono Pause,[4] a long-running "situationist rock" performing group (and its Southeast Asian music spin-off, Neung Phak[5][6]).

He is the lead archivist behind the streaming "culture 'zine" byNWR.com,[7] for which he has restored some 15 feature films from original 35mm and 16mm source materials through his film preservation non-profit, Cinema Preservation Alliance.[8] The films he has rescued and preserved have premiered since 2016 at such venues as the Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Morelia Film Festival and at Bologna, Italy's Cinema Ritrovato. Among the titles he has restored since 2016:

  • SPRING NIGHT, SUMMER NIGHT (1967; Dir. Joseph L. Anderson)[9]
  • NIGHT TIDE (1963; Dir. Curtis Harrington)[10]
  • OBEDIENCE (1965; Dir. Stanley Milgram) – In progress; restoration to be completed late 2019
  • SANTO CONTRA CEREBRO DEL MAL (1959; Dir. Joselito Rodriguez)[11]
  • CARITA DE CIELO (1947; Dir. José Diaz Morales)[12]

Additionally, he is a long-time member of the long-running "culture jamming" performance and recording group, Negativland,[13] based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group's adventures with copyright are legendary, most notably a fight with U2's music publishers in 1992. Since 1999, he has been bass-playing sideman for singer Malcolm Mooney[14] from the Germany-based music legends, Can, in Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet. Since 2015, he has played bass with The Mutants[15][circular reference], one of the first bands to emerge from the mid-1970s punk music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He has numerous audio restoration, mastering and live recording credits through his Red Channels sound studio in El Cerrito. Projects over the years have included clients and artists such as:

  • DEVO
  • Superior Viaduct[16]
  • Sublime Frequencies[17]
  • The Screamers
  • Tuxedomoon
  • Steve Reich
  • The Mutants
  • John Saint Pelvyn
  • John Bender
  • Yoshi Wada
  • Church Police
  • German Shepherds
  • Noh Mercy
  • Crack: We Are Rock
  • Ron Anderson and Ruins
  • Fred Frith/Chris Cutler/Thomas Dimuzio
  • Nihilist Spasm Band
  • Sun City Girls
  • Porest
  • MX-80
  • O-Type
  • The Molecules
  • Moe!kestra

As a film and video curator, he co-owned a single-screen cinema from 2004 to 2009[18] and continues to present shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, as well as engaging in or assisting various film preservation endeavours. He co-created the 2003 clip-based documentary, Value Added Cinema,[19][20] and directed a 2005 short video observing Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin at work, Brand Impressions.[21] He previously served on the Board of Directors of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.[22]

Discography[]

Adapted from Discogs page[23]

  • O-Type - Darling (1988, Audio Restoration)
  • Fibulator - Unhammerlike (1994, Engineer)
  • Ron Anderson - Pack Small Are Half Inch (1995, Engineer)
  • Negativland - Dispepsi (1997, Authoritative Voice)
  • Mono Pause - Hearing Radio Through Your Teeth (1998, Voice)
  • Mono Pause - Set The Controls For The Head Of The Duck (1998)
  • Mono Pause - Peeping Through The Listen Hole (1999)
  • Various - 1999 (1999, Liner Notes)
  • Plunderphonics - 69 Plunderphonics 96 (2001, Co-Producer)
  • Crack (We Are Rock) - Silent Fantasy (2002, Recording)
  • Wobbly - Playlist (2002, Graphics)
  • Neung Phak (Mono Pause) - Neung Phak (Mono Pause) (2003)
  • Crack We Are Rock - Animal Trap (2003, Recording)
  • Various - Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1 (2004, Audio Mastering)
  • Neung Phak - Fucking USA (2005)
  • Negativland - It's All In Your Head FM (V1.0) (2006, Voice & Keyboards)
  • Malcolm Mooney And The Tenth Planet - Hysterica (2006, Bass)
  • Moe! Staiano / Moe!kestra! - An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein And Other Whereabouts (2006, Photography & Percussion on 'Piece No. 7 - An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein And Other Whereabouts (2001-2003)')
  • Various - Shadow Music Of Thailand (2008, Audio Restoration, Pre-mastering, Research Assistant)
  • Neung Phak - 2 (2012, recording & performance)
  • German Shepherds - Music For Sick Queers (2012, Tape Restoration)
  • Nōh Mercy - Nōh Mercy (2012, Tape Restoration)
  • Factrix / Cazazza - California Babylon (2012, Audio And Video Restoration)
  • MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack (2013, Restoration & Remix)
  • Los Siquicos Litoraleños - Sonido Chipadelico (2013, Mastered By)
  • MX-80 Sound - So Funny (2015, Co-Producer)
  • Porest - Modern Journal Of Popular Savagery (2016, photography and voice on 'Passport Please')
  • The Chopping Channel - Independent Therapy (2016, performed & co-written by)
  • Negativland - Presents Over The Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel (2016)
  • Angel Corpus Christi - therealangelcorpuschristi (2018, Mastering)
  • Negativland - True False (2019)
  • Negativland - The World Will Decide (2020)

Guest Appearances[]

  • Various - Knormalities (1998, on 'Brief Lallation')
  • Alboth! / Nels Cline / Moe!kestra! - Knormalities V.2 Exclamatories! (2000, Bass & Breaths on 'Godgloeiendeteringklootzak')
  • Various - Touch 00 (2000, Co-Writer on 'KZSU 14 Sept 99')
  • Thomas Dimuzio - Mono::Poly (2002, Film Projector, Minidisc & Processors on 'The Blunt End Is Used')
  • Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra! - Two Forms Of Multitudes: Conducted Improvisations (2003, Electric Bass on 'Conducted Improvisation Piece No. 5 (2002)')
  • Hell - International DeeJay Gigolos CD Seven (2003, Recording & Mixing on 'Animal Trap')
  • Various - String Of Artifacts (2005, on 'Lowland Cyst')
  • Porest - Tourrorists! (2006, Hungry Cannibal Choir on 'We Eat The People')
  • Various - Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music (2007, on 'Sadchatri 06')
  • Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Thomas Dimuzio - Golden State (2010, recording on 'ħ')
  • Various - Live From The Devil's Triangle Volume 15 (2012, Mixing on 'Sadchatri 012')
  • Porest - Flimsy Tomb (2017, Voice on 'Larry Burridge')
  • Mono Pause / Metabolismus - Don’t Low Up to the Amped Buenaes (2018, sounds on Side A)
  • The Residents - Freak Show (2021, Restoration on 'Ty's Freak Show')

References[]

  1. ^ "HOME - peterconheim".
  2. ^ https://youtube.com/watch?v=eggVl9epf8s
  3. ^ "Wet Gate".
  4. ^ "Mono Pause".
  5. ^ "Sawadee Krab... It's NEUNG PHAK".
  6. ^ "Sun City Girls: Abduction - Neung Phak".
  7. ^ "ByNWR | Home".
  8. ^ "Cinema Preservation Alliance".
  9. ^ "'Spring Night, Summer Night': One Film's Bizarre 50-Year Journey to its Long-Delayed New York Film Festival Premiere". 15 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Night Tide. 1961. Written and directed by Curtis Harrington | MoMA".
  11. ^ "Santo contra Cerebro del Mal | Santo vs Evil Brain".
  12. ^ "CARITA DE CIELO | Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival".
  13. ^ "Negativland".
  14. ^ "Malcolm Mooney".
  15. ^ The Mutants (San Francisco band)
  16. ^ "Superior Viaduct".
  17. ^ "SublimeFrequencies".
  18. ^ "Guild Cinema - Eclectic Cinema 7 Days a Week - Albuquerque, NM".
  19. ^ http://www.brandhype.org/MovieMapper/Resources/ValueAddedCinema.jsp[permanent dead link]
  20. ^ Zuvela, Danni (2003). "An Interview with the Makers of Value-Added Cinema: A Product Placement Compendium". M/C Journal. 6 (3). doi:10.5204/mcj.2183.
  21. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2010-10-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. ^ "Canyon Cinema".
  23. ^ "Peter Conheim". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
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