Photo: Matthias Leitlein As you might know, we're usually not overtly sentimental. So this anniversary nearly slipped through our fingers. But then it didn't and now we're proud to announce that Psycho & Plastic is officially 10 years old!On this website, we list 15. May 2011 as our first gig. But there were a few [...]
New Video: Ice-O-Lation
https://youtu.be/zmG57Q59Axc Funded/supported by Goethe Institut Cairo’s Digital Residency program. Here's Ice-O-Lation, the third and last video Thomas Georg Blank created from footage recorded within the game Occupy White Walls. This video premiere marks one year since we released our ambient album Placid House and more than one year of the social distancing and isolation that [...]
New Video: Out of the Woodwork
https://youtu.be/32beXLY-kMo Funded/supported by Goethe Institut Cairo’s Digital Residency program. Fresh off the YouTube premiere, here's Out of the Woodwork, the second of three videos Thomas Georg Blank created. Once again, all footage was recorded within Occupy White Walls, the virtual art gallery sandbox game.The series "Dwelling within the walls of impenetrable spaces watching worlds disintegrate" [...]
New Video: Presence of Absence
https://youtu.be/7w_bwRPtmDs Funded/supported by Goethe Institut Cairo's Digital Residency program. Our new video for Presence of Absence is online now! This is the first of three videos our artist friend Thomas Georg Blank created from footage recorded within the virtual art gallery game Occupy White Walls. The second video in the series "Dwelling within the walls [...]
Placid House Video Premieres
On May 06 ambient album Placid House will be one year old. We started working on those eight tracks just over a 12 months ago, when the first Covid lockdown in Germany took hold. Since then, Placid House has quickly become our most successful and most celebrated release yet. To mark the occasion of its [...]
Asche on BBC Radio Merseyside
On March 05th, our music was played BBC Radio Merseyside once more! The latest broadcast of our Liverpudlian friends over at PMS - The Popular Music Show, the UK's longest running alternative music programme on the radio (since 1978!), included Asche from our recent EP Soundtrack 1: Schwelen. Click HERE to listen back to the [...]
Radio Lotte Interview
Recently, we were interviewed for Radio Lotte's "Das geheime Zimmerarchiv" via conference call - in German. First broadcast online and in Weimar on Sun Feb 28th, you can listen to the archived show HERE.Since our first show/interview on Radio Lotte was in 2011, we speak about artistic transformations and evolutions in the last 10 years, [...]
Soundtrack 1: Schwelen out NOW!
Happy Release Day! our new EP Soundtrack 1: Schwelen is officially out on all digital platforms today! To start listening right away, follow THIS LINK. You'll find links to your favourite services there.The four tracks on the EP are taken from the soundtrack for contemporary dance performance SCHWELEN. Artists collective systemrhizoma commissioned us to compose [...]
New EP on Jan 22 – Soundtrack 1: Schwelen
Happy New Year! Remember last summer, when we composed the soundtrack for contemporary dance performance SCHWELEN by systemrhizoma? Now we've turned parts of that soundtrack into an EP to kick off our creative year. Soundtrack 1: Schwelen is released on our label GiveUsYourGOLD on January 22nd 2021. You can already pre-order it on Bandcamp and [...]
SCHWELEN Trailer
https://player.vimeo.com/video/459407043 Here's the official trailer video for systemrhizoma's SCHWELEN, including the first glimpses of our soundtrack. Remember, performances at Sauerland-Theater Arnsberg start this week, on September 24. and run until September 27. Make sure to get you ticket here!Hier ist der offizielle Trailer zu systemrhizomas SCHWELEN, inklusive der ersten kleinen Eindrücke unseres Soundtracks. Zur Erinnerung. [...]
