Serious Serious

24/02/2023

For Guiding Light V, Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle are supported by Aziza Harmel and Andreas Harrer in weaving together tender gestures, brainstorms and melodious energy. They navigate themselves through various moments of sometimes weird, sometimes eerie fragments to form and perform a complex, intensive structure of audiovisual delight.

Feb 27 - Mar 4

Ticket info: saal.ee

23/02/2023

Guiding Light V premiering at Kanuti Gildi SAAL on February 27. Additonal shows on Feb 28 + March 2, 3, 4.

More info: saal.ee

16/01/2023

This photo was taken of "Guiding Light IV" (Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle) last summer. On February 7th the concert is coming to SAAL!💫

It's a continuation of a practice that can be defined as deep “hanging out” that is neither predetermined nor random. The band plays with extremes and contradictions such as „realness“ and „artificiality“ as both visual and performative tools in order to continually question the essence of their work. To hang out deeply isn’t merely a genre of music but a form of labor that embodies inexplicable sounds, intimate or sometimes banal situations, and carefully assembled visuals. One could think of this concert as tracks that would form one song—a song that is shaped by the constellation of the voices of the three protagonists and the kind of exteriorization and meaning that they commonly convey.

More information and tickets: https://saal.ee/en/performance/guiding-light-iv-1764/

25/10/2022

NEW! DJ Zoologist “He Who Makes A Beast Of Himself Gets Rid Of The Pain Of Being A Man”

Shipping out as of today. Also available at Biit Me Record Store & Sonic Belligeranza Megastore. Blu-ray disc in 7" sleeve. Two different label options, shipped randomly (unless asked nicely). Playstation-friendly!

Mixed by DJ Zoologist (aka DJ Balli)
Images by Mauricio Corradini
Digital glitch by KUZU

SRS17, 2022

serious-serious.net/SRS16

11/10/2022

Dropping an excerpt from DJ Zoologist's (aka DJ Balli's) upcoming audio-visual mixtape. Out via Serious Serious on October 25 as (Playstation-friendly!) limited edition Blu-ray

10/10/2022

Guiding Light merch: white and black T’s. Check out our Bandcamp or drop a message or come to Guiding Light IV show on Oct21 at

01/08/2022

SBRANG GABBA GANG: Gabber Reconstruction of the Universe by Riccardo Balli (Lupetti editore 2019, English Edition) presentation with the author + Hardcore Techno Living Sculpture Alessio Solletti.

Music by DJ Balli and DJ Renzooh.

More info about the book:
Movements that dig velocity. Movements that worship war. Movements that have been accused of being fascist. Sbrang gabba gang is the sound of two cultural movements violently crashing into each other at breakneck speed. What happens when the Italian futurist avant-garde clashes with gabber, a belligerent strain of hardcore techno and the Netherland’s first proper youth culture?

Sbrang gabba gang will introduce you to the strange custom of forming human pyramids at gabber raves, futurist after-shave cocktails and Pietro Cannata, the man who took a hammer to the toes of Michelangelo’s David.

In Sbrang Gabba Gang, Riccardo Balli explores the parallels of gabber and futurist ideas by way of personal accounts, literary mash-ups of Futurist manifestos and a storyline that follows the vandalistic shenanigans of a posse of gabber-futurists consisting of Dominator Marinetti, Luigi “Holy Noise” Russolo, Luciano “Thunderdome” Folgore and Giacomo Balla/Balli.

These ideas further come to life in a series of anaglyphic images to be explored with special magenta-green 3D glasses attached to each volume.

26/07/2022

From the guitar subconsciousness: Kisling’s 11-track composition ‘Old Life’ is out on Serious Serious on July 26

Liner notes by Lona Gaikis

Guitars, violin by Artjom Astrov
Mastered by Andreas Harrer

Cover photo by Horst Dobnig
Graphic design by Florian Pfaffenberger

SRS16

The old life is a dream life.

22/06/2022

Welcome to our summer edition label night - first100 tix available for a reduced price

04/05/2022

PEOPLE IN THE SUN

“Guiding Light IV” is a 1GB USB edition produced by Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle. It's release has accompanied the same-titled performance premiered at Kunsthalle Wien on March 17, 2022, in

28/04/2022

Tracklist to follow

27/04/2022

“JINGLE” video taken from “Guiding Light IV” (SRS15 2022) by Artjom Astrov, Kisling & Till Megerle.

https://youtu.be/1Eprenxf33E

Taken from “Guiding Light IV” (SRS15 2022) by Artjom Astrov, Kisling & Till Megerlehttps://serious-serious.net/SRS15

31/03/2022

"Сердце кровью обливается" вдохновлено антивоенным перформансом Евгении Исаевой в марте 2022-го года на Невском проспекте.

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"The heart is bleeding" was inspired by an anti-war performance by Yevgenia Isayeva in March 2022 on Nevsky Prospekt in St Petersburg.

https://youtu.be/-U2OaDxcSME

Песня с альбома "Дай воды попить!"https://artjom.bandcamp.com/album/gimme-a-sip-of-water"Сердце кровью обливается" вдохновлено антивоенным перформансом Евген...

23/03/2022

MUSICK

Video taken from “Guiding Light IV” (SRS15 2022) by Artjom Astrov, Kisling & Till Megerle

https://youtu.be/B4gv5mRxXoo

“Music for a While” from Oedipus, 1692, composed by Mr. Henry Purcell.

Taken from “Guiding Light IV” (SRS15 2022) by Artjom Astrov, Kisling & Till Megerlehttps://serious-serious.net/SRS15“Musick for a While” from Oedipus, 1692, ...

22/03/2022

“Guiding Light IV” is a 1GB USB edition produced by Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle. It's release has accompanied the same-titled performance premiered at Kunsthalle Wien on March 17, 2022, in the context of the exhibition “Do Nothing, Feel Everything” curated by Aziza Harmel and Laura Amann.

https://serious-serious.net/SRS15

15/02/2022

Artjom Astrov, Kisling, Till Megerle “Guiding Light IV”
Concert, March 17, Kunsthalle Wien MQ

The project Guiding Light started as a series of videos released by the music label Serious Serious in 2021. The concert is a continuation of a practice that can be defined as deep “hanging out” that is neither predetermined nor random. The band play with extremes and contradictions such as „realness“ and „artificiality“ as both visual and performative tools in order to continually question the essence of their work. To hang out deeply isn’t merely a genre of music but a form of labor that embodies inexplicable sounds, intimate or sometimes banal situations, and carefully assembled visuals. One could think of this concert as tracks that would form one song—a song that is shaped by the constellation of the voices of the three protagonists and the kind of exteriorization and meaning that they commonly convey.

https://kunsthallewien.at/en/event/guiding-light-iv/

     Guiding Light IV    Concert 17/3 2022 8 pm Museumsquartier Guiding Light IV Concert with Artjom Astrov, Michaela Kisling & Till Megerle The project Guiding Light started as a series of videos released by the music label Serious Serious in 2021. The concert is a continuation of a practice ...

02/01/2022

Guiding Light by Kisling, Till Megerle, is part of Glitter 2 (unclassified) - posters by and for artist-bands and artists, who work with sound and music, Fluc, Vienna, 2021

Posters for:
Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai / Beat of the traps aka Mike Kelley, Anita Pace, Stephen Prina / Billy Bultheel & Viviana Abelson / John Cage, Poster Design by John Wiese / Chris & Cosey aka Carter & Tutti aka Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter / Hanne Darboven / DAS HUND aka Jen Lewandowski & Samuel Levack / Dirty Mirrors aka Jen Kesseler, Bill Komoski, John Miller, Aura Rosenberg, Dan Walworth / Dislexic Duo aka Axel Koschier & Alexander Jackson Wyatt / Forever Traxx aka Roland Gaberz / FRAGIL aka Camillo Grewe / Armin Lorenz Gerold / Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / In my talons aka Florian Pfaffenberger, Bootleg Version of a poster designed by Henning Bohl / IVONA aka Florian Paul Ebner & Constanze Ruhm, Poster by Michelle Karussell / Kisling, Till Megerle, Artjom Astrov / Klitclique aka $CHWANGER & G-UDIT aka Judith Rohrmoser & Mirjam Schweiger / LAIBACH aka LAIBACH KUNST / Felix Lee / Les Reines Prochaines aka Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin, Sus Zwick, Muda Mathis / Lonely Boys aka Daphne Ahlers & Rosa Rendl / Mala Sirena founded by Florian Paul Ebner & Constanze Ruhm, Poster by Michelle Karussell Choristers between 2017 - 2021 Katharina Aigner | Ana de Almeida | Sophia Ausweger | Mirela Baciak | Catharina Ballan | Kai Bannert | Anna Barbieri | Anna Barfuss | Juliane Beer | Flora Besenbäck | Charlotte Bohn | Dorothea Brunialti | Brigitta Burger Utzer | Kristina Cyan | Diedrich Diederichsen | Verena Dengler | Anna Dopler | Annamaria Doppler | Sarah Drath | Christoph Dreher | Hicran Ergen | Zuzana Ernst | Elli Ferriol | Vasilena Gankovska | Kelly Ann Gardener | Birke Gorm |Djamila Grandits | Djoana Gueorguieva | Leander Gussmann | Anita Hafner | Ipek Hamzaoğlu | Nick Hanzo | Julia Hartig | Jessyca R. Hauser | Katharina Hausladen | Jessica Johanna Hempel | Nicoletta Hernandez | Pille-Riin Jaik | Ulrike Johannsen | & many-many more…