Ends' Ambient Sunday Live Streams

In February (2023) , an artist called Ends (Gabe Postle) began performing weekly ambient music streams on his Youtube Channel that each showcase a small galaxy of nicely-presented Max patches arranged across the screen, composited over some lo-fi 3D graphics.

Second episode recorded on Kiosk Radio for Gang od Ducks.

https://kioskradio.com/episode/2023-10-27/outsiders-gang-of-ducks-w-matteo-fabbri-pres-make-room-vol2

Karl Werner Lothar Koch (July 22, 1965 – c. May 23, 1989) was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident.

Karl Koch hacking in a phone booth for the KGB.

Chronology of a hacker. A document from 1989 written by Koch.

Mutoid Waste Company Berlin Winter 1990

The Wall had collapsed. The East German Volks Army and the Red Army had crumbled. The military remains of the Cold War were stacked in huge scrap piles of tanks, helmets, cooking stuff, pictures of Lenin, bullets, bombs, East German Air force planes and war machines. A scrap dream.
Trucks after trucks, tanks after tanks, planes after planes. Kilometers of the best waste.

Tankhenge, Stonehenge out of tanks set up sculpture garden on Potsdammer Platz with sculpture made from jet aircraft and pieces of defunct Berlin wall

No Man's Land opposite the Reichstag. Spot lit, full of dogs, razor wire and mines, it became the Mutoid yard for three years.

Born in 1988 and 1987, respectively, and based in Berlin, Americans Henkel and Pitegoff quickly gained notoriety with Times Bar, a one-year venture the pair began in the Neukölln district in 2011.

Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff

First episode recorded on Kiosk Radio for Gang od Ducks.

https://kioskradio.com/episode/2023-09-22/outsiders-gang-of-ducks-w-matteo-fabbri-pres-make-room-vol1

Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

Isherwood chose Berlin over England because of its vibrant queer scene. Paragraph 175 of German law still criminalized homosexual acts in the city, but there was a relative lack of interference from the authorities. As a result, Berlin’s exciting mixture of gay bars, nightclubs, and cabaret venues grew rapidly during the era of the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1933—until Hitler gained political control.

Note quoted from https://huntington.org/verso/christopher-isherwood-exile

The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn as a pleasure-seeking British expatriate on the eve of Adolf Hitler's ascension as Chancellor of Germany and consists of a "series of sketches of disintegrating Berlin, its slums and nightclubs and comfortable villas, its odd maladapted types and its complacent burghers."

When Isherwood first arrived, he went with Auden to a gay bar called the Cosy Corner in Berlin’s working-class district of Kreuzberg. The bar was crowded with young German men, many of them prostituting to make ends meet. In one of his albums from the 1930s, Isherwood kept a photo of working-class men from Berlin, showing the kind of crowd that he would have encountered in the city’s bars.

In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. Isherwood settled in California, where he studied under a Hindu monk, worked as a screenwriter, wrote novels, and maintained friendships with renowned celebrities, artists, and intellectuals. In spare, luminous prose Isherwood revealed his homosexual relationships in his diary. His devotion to his diary was a way of accounting for, and defining, himself.

“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read,” Goldin wrote. “The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.”

Nan Goldin. Max and Richard, New York City. 1983

A George Condo's interview from the Nineties

George Condo Untitled 1982