Industries is an electronic music project by Markus Hetheier. His music explores and subverts musical structures and ranges from field recordings, distorted sounds to harmonic melodies and large beats.
Together with Norrisette, he co-runs the queer electronica night FLUFF which recently received funding through Factory International’s Factory Sounds programme.
Besides being an electronic musician, he is also undertaking a practice-based PhD at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) investigating queer sonic geographies of Manchester.
In addition, he has years of experience working in the arts ranging from the administrating and coordinating creative projects to facilitating participant engagement through sonic practices with a focus on community.
Releases
- Air, May 2020.
- Reform, June 2020.
- A Walk, January 2021.
- Angst 4 – In Gefahr (Remix), 2021.
- Flowers of Evil – Mop the Floor (Remix), 2022.
- Wales, 2023.
Performances
- Nacht der schönen Künste (Manufaktur der schönen Dinge, Saarbrücken, Germany): Offenes Feld, eine Reise, July 2015.
- Nacht der schönen Künste (Garelly-Haus, Saarbrücken, Germany): Gegenstille: Klang. Kunst. (Elektronische Heimfolkmusik), July 2017.
- Sounds From The Other City festival, May 2018.
- Your Stage (Contact, Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse, Manchester), June 2019.
- Festival of Music and Culture (The Ferret, Preston), July 2019.
- Refract:19 (Waterside Arts, Sale), July 2019.
- Chorlton Arts Festival (Unitarian Church, Chorlton), September 2019.
- Solo gig (Automat, Saarbrücken, Germany), February 2020.
- Solo gig (Haverne Hookah Lounge, Saarbrücken, Germany), February 2020.
- DJ set (Stadtschenke a Choperia, Saarbrücken, Germany), February 2020.
- Live streams: concert & DJ set from home; digital concert presented by The Vale and DJ set for first ever Silver Pride UK.
- Performed live set at FLUFF #1 at Fuel Café Bar, Manchester, November 2021.
- Performed live set at FLUFF #2 at Fuel Café Bar, Manchester, February 2022.
- Solo gig (Eastern Bloc, Manchester), March 2022.
- Supported foodman (The White Hotel, Salford), April 2022.
- DJ set (School of Digital Arts, Manchester), June 2022.
- Performed live set at FLUFF #4 at Fuel Café Bar, Manchester, July 2022.
- Joint headline gig with Raaz (Terminus, Saarbrücken), August 2022.
- DJ set supporting Norrisette (Aatma, Manchester), October 2022.
- DJ set at Over_Rhythm (XLR, Manchester), October 2022.
- Live set at BLEEP electronic open mic night by Manchester Electronic Music Collective (The Peer Hat, Manchester), November 2022.
- Live set at School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester, December 2022.
- Live set at FLUFF #7 at Fuel Café Bar, Manchester, February 2023.
- DJ set at Sounds from the Other City festival takeover at Feel Good Club, Manchester, April 2023.
- DJ set at FLUFF x Tales from Other Worlds stage at Sounds from the Other City festival, Salford, April 2023.
- DJ set at The WRD launch event at Contact, Manchester, July 2023.
- Supported System Exclusive at The Castle, Manchester, September 2023.
- Supported Mary Ocher (The Peer Hat, Manchester), January 2024.
- DJ set at Kiss Me Again (SOUP, Manchester), with Phia Sky representing FLUFF, February 2024.
- Headline set at Electronic Open Mic (EMOM) Manchester at Fuel Café Bar, Manchester, March 2024.
- Live set at Electric Sandwich as part of Chorlton Arts Festival at The Carlton Club, Manchester, May 2024.
- Soundscape performance at Intangible Sounds organised by DVRK Arts Collective and Manchester Music and Sonic Studies research groups as part of Manchester Histories, June 2024.
- Live set at FLUFF #12 at Mirage Bar, Manchester, June 2024.
- DJ set FLUFF Pride Summer Party at SOUP, Manchester, August 2024.
- DJ set at Fat Out Fest at Islington Mill, August 2024.
- Upcoming: Randomised Structures EP Launch at PINK, December 2024.
Commissions and interdisciplinary collaborations
- Julia Stina Schmidt: I joined her collective SYND:IKAT creating blut/gebrandmarkt, a dance-sound performance.
- Volker Schütz: Hören und Sehen – Audiovisuelle Performance mit einem Oszilloskop, February 2019).
- Interactive soundscape performance at RELAX (Waterside Arts, Sale), October 2019.
- Bella Probyn: Open Field, collage of poetry and image, January 2020.
- Bella Probyn: Birdsong. Ready for bed. Sun setting., audio-visual installation/commission for whatstick theatre using video submissions of people filming the landscape outside their window and talking during lockdown, May 2020.
- Volker Schütz and Johannes Maria-Schlorke: Monument artwork for Geisterspiel exhibition at Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, September 2020.
- Soundscape composition for Brighter Sound’s Soundpaths project that is part of Sick Festival’s MINDSCAPES programme, March 2021.
- As if radio… livestream of unedited A Walk jam and soundscape by Nevsky Perspective and me as part of a longer ecological radio broadcast in conjunction with COP26 in Glasgow, November 2021.
- Set up, curate and promote FLUFF, a regular night for queer electronic music producers in Manchester in collaboration with Norrisette, Manchester, November 2021-present.
- Delivered Soundtrail mapping activity during Day Out at Drinkies programmed by The Loiterers Resistance Movement and produced by Walk the Plank, June 2022.
- Helped arranging stems for and performing as part of Danny H.’s Binaural Beats project which we presented as band to a live audience of 60 people who listened to the performance through headphones which were mixed live, June 2022.
- A Walk 1 was exhibited at the Sound Experiences: Memory, Creativity and Participation Audire Conference in Braga, Portugal, where I was also part of the sound artists panel, June 2022.
- Created live soundscape performance in response to Delia Derbyshire Archive at Telling Stories conference at the School of Digital Arts, February 2023.
- A Walk 1 was exhibited as part of the Manchester School of Arts (MSARC) practice-led showcase Process and Practice, March 2023.
- Promoted FLUFF x Tales from Other Worlds stage at Sounds from the Other City festival in Salford, May 2023.
- Soundscape performance exploring queer sonic geographies of Manchester as part of Intangible Sounds event organised by Manchester Music and Sonic Studies (MASSmcr) and Dark Arts Collective at HOME, Manchester, June 2024.
- Participated in week long British Council funded artistic and cultural exchange called Spotlight on Culture with MC:2 in Grenoble, France, and presented my creative findings including soundmap drawings and soundscape composition in self-produced sharing event called Spotlight on Sonic Relations in Manchester, 2024.
- Part of Factory International’s Factory Sounds 2024 cohort with queer electronica night FLUFF to bring it to more venues in Manchester, namely Mirage Bar at Islington Mill and SOUP.
- Curated FLUFF stage for Fat Out Fest at Islington Mill, 2024.
- Organised fluffoween at Islington Mill with funding from Manchester Pride Superbia and support from Homobloc, 2024.
- Wrote, produced and composed soundscape and Open Field poem for Yorkshire Dales Guided Meditation in collaboration with Insider Retreats.
- Ran workshop on DIY Culture & Building A Network using the experience from running FLUFF as part the Rebecca.Never.Becky Creative Sessions at The Yard, 2024.
Symposiums and talks
- Symposium Klang und Identität (Sound and Identity), November 2014,
- Talk Queering Hip Hop: The Subversions of Race and Gender in Mykki Blanco’s Wavvy at Intersections conference at the Women & Gender library in Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017
- Organised and facilitated symposium Sound Studies, 2017.
- Talk Between Anarchy and Particiption: DIY Culture in the Electronic Music Industry in Manchester at The Present and Future of Electronic Music Conference at UCLan (Preston), 2018.
- Talk Voicing Manchester’s streets through soundmaps and psychogeography at MASSmcr (Manchester Music and Sonic Studies) as part of their Digital Worlds: Music, Sound and Sonic Spaces webinar series at MMU (Manchester Metropolitan University), 2021.
- Presented Soundpaths: voicing Moston’s streets through sound at Postgraduate Arts and Humanities (PAHC) Symposium 2021.
- Presented Between anarchy and participation: DIY culture in Manchester’s electronic music scene at Sonic Rebellions conference in Brighton, 2022.
- Presented Putting research into practice: using practice-based research to develop a creative toolkit for participatory music workshops at Postgraduate Research (PGR) Conference, 2022.
- Presented Listening to the city: A workshop plan for post-disciplinary participatory practice-based research at PAHC Symposium, 2022.
- Guest lecture Producing a digital soundmap informed by psychgeography to voice the streets of Manchester at University of Manchester for the Producing Digital Projects lecture, 2022.
- Was invited to be on the sound artist panel for the Sound Experiences: Memory, Creativity and Participation Audire Conference in Braga, Portugal, 2022.
- Presented ‘Preserving sonic heritage. The soundscape of Delia Derbyshire’s work’ at the Telling Stories: An International Conference on Music Archives and Heritage Narratives conference organised by the Manchester Digital Music Archive (MDMA), the School of Digital Arts (SODA) and Manchester Music and Sonic Studies research group (MASSmcr), 2022.
- Presented ‘Queer resistance: DIY culture in Manchester’s electronic music scene’ at Music, Research, and Activism Conference at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 2023.
- Presented my practice-based PhD project as the Contact Lunchtime Lecture series, Manchester, 2023.
Photograph by Rob Conroy.