Diastolic Murmurs

The Diastolic Murmurs (sometimes also known as Diastolic M) formed themselves in 1985 during electro-acoustic research within Phillip Wachsmann's legendary Electronic Music studio (now demolished) at the City Literary Institute, Room 53, Keeley House, Keeley Street, London WC2 Primarily their aesthetic was to explore as fully as possible the "occult" sound-world inherent in any given object or material (with a preference for the damaged, broken, and discarded) and their extraction or autopsy with the use of contact microphones. In the mid 1980's they performed what they termed "Live" Electronic Dissections, turning their microcosm into a macrocosm, acutely aware perhaps of Artaud's call for "sounds that cannot be endured" In their 30+ years career they have collaborated and performed with Dr Edward Scheer, Michael Prime, Furt, Clive Graham, and more recently with artist and writer Douglas Park, stylist and fetish film director Phoenix Blu-Coyle and (Dr) Jonathan Bohman of Secluded Bronte.