{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} '''Sebastian Meissner''' (born 1969 in Częstochowa, Poland) is an artist, electronic musician, journalist, radio-producer and photographer. Under monikers such as ''Random Inc'', ''Random Industries'' and ''Bizz Circuits'' he released several albums for influential electronica label Mille Plateaux. He also composed music for German independent label Kompakt under the name ''Klimek''. Followed up by releases on New Yorker Anticipate Recordings and Belgian Sub Rosa label. He has collaborated with Ekkehard Ehlers under the name ''Autopoieses'' and with Israeli audio-visual artist Ran Slavin as ''b.Z_ToneR''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sebastian-meissner-mn0001370867/biography|title=Sebastian Meissner {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> For his project ''Not By Note'' he received in 2011 an honorary mention in the category ''Digital Musics & Sound Art'' at Prix Ars Electronica.
His album "Walking in Jerusalem" was included by The Wire magazine in their list of top 15 electronic records of the year 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/charts/2002-rewind|title=2002 Rewind |work=The Wire Magazine – Adventures in Modern Music|access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref>
Meissner performed at many notable music and sound art festival like CTM in Berlin, MUTEK in Montreal, Sónar in Barcelona, Unsound in New York, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków and Steirischen Herbst in Graz.
He recorded audio material with former Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds member Hugo Race and with Italian songwriter Marta Collica. For the opening of the 2010 New York edition of the Unsound Festival Meissner performed with Polish classical music ensemble Kwartludium at the David Rubenstein Atrium of the Lincoln Center.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.self-titledmag.com/2010/01/29/test-pressing-klimek-reveals-his-favorite-sst-records-alongside-an-exclusive-punk-mix-thatll-make-you-want-to-cockpunch-a-co-worker/|title=Klimek Reveals His Favorite SST Records Alongside An Exclusive Punk Mix That'll Make You Want to Cockpunch a Co-Worker – self-titled|date=29 January 2010|work=self-titled|access-date=30 November 2017|archive-date=8 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208124653/http://www.self-titledmag.com/2010/01/29/test-pressing-klimek-reveals-his-favorite-sst-records-alongside-an-exclusive-punk-mix-thatll-make-you-want-to-cockpunch-a-co-worker/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Under the name ''Solid State Transmitters'' they played selected compositions from the catalogue of SST Records – a music label formed in 1978 by Black Flag member Greg Ginn.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/urbaneye/04ubn3-1.html|title=Unsound of Music|date=4 February 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=14 October 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> An ''Artforum'' reviewer wrote about this concert the following:
{{blockquote|text=What Meissner and Kwartludium were about to attempt was nothing less than a new-music interpretation of some minor classics from the cult American hardcore and alternative-rock label. Beginning with Black Flag's "I Can See You," they moved on to Blind Idiot God's "Roller Coaster," Grant Hart's "The Main," and Husker Dü's "Something I Learned Today." Accompanying each piece with a slow-dissolving projection of some of the band's record-cover illustrations (Raymond Pettibon's designs for Black Flag being the most familiar to an art-world viewer), they gave each one a different, radical, and surprisingly effective spin.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/diary/id=24918|title=Michael Wilson on the Unsound Festival|last=Wilson|first=Michael|work=Artforum|access-date=2017-10-14}}</ref> }}
Since 2010 Meissner has been writing and directing documentary radio features for German public radio stations such as Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RBB and WDR3.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/dok5/voodoo-ikone-schwarze-madonna-czestochowa-polen-haiti-100.html|title=Feature "Die Vodou-Ikone " von Sebastian Meissner|last=Meissner|first=Sebastian|date=1 June 2017|work=WDR|access-date=16 October 2017|language=de}}</ref> He also composed soundtracks for some of those broadcasts. Meissner dedicated several of his long form broadcasts to the history and current affairs of United States. The topics ranged from urban explorations in Detroit,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/Detroit-Berlin-091614.aspx|title=Detroit techno saved Berliners from boredom. Now it's time we take a few lessons from Berlin.|work=Model D|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://non.copyriot.com/staying-underground/ |title=Staying Underground |last=Meissner |first=Sebastian |website=non.copyriot.com |access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> portraying native Hawaiian protesters at Mauna Kea in Hawaii<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hawaiianische-konflikte-wem-gehoert-mauna-kea.1247.de.html?dram:article_id=365707|title=Hawaiianische Konflikte – Wem gehört Mauna Kea?|work=Deutschlandfunk|access-date=30 November 2017|language=de-DE}}</ref> and capturing Voodoo rituals in New Orleans.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ndr.de/info/sendungen/das_feature/Voodoo-Queens,sendung637106.html|title=Voodoo Queens|last=NDR|website=ndr.de|language=de|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref>
== Selected discography == '''as Klimek''' * ''Songs of Love and Fear Vol.1 & Vol.2'' — 2015 (GOULDEN) * ''Excitement & War'' — 2015 (GOULDEN) * ''Live in Ramallah —'' 2015 (GOULDEN) * ''Movies Is Magic'' — 2009 (Anticipate Recordings)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.xlr8r.com/features/2010/01/strange-magic-klimek-expounds-on-the-themes-that-influenced-his-latest-album/|title=Strange Magic: Klimek Expounds on the Themes that Influenced his Latest Album.|work=XLR8R|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> * ''Dedications'' — 2007 (Anticipate Recordings)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/4925|title=Review: Klimek – Dedications|work=Resident Advisor|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> * ''Music To Fall Asleep'' — 2006 (Kompakt)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dale|first=Jon|date=July 2006|title=Music To Fall Asleep|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk|journal=The Wire|volume=269}}</ref> * ''Milk & Honey'' — 2004 (Kompakt) '''as Random Inc''' * ''Walking in Jerusalem'' — 2002 (Mille Plateaux)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2002/12/13/random_inc/|title=Random Inc: "Walking in Jerusalem"|date=13 December 2002|work=Salon|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6689-walking-in-jerusalem/|title=Various Artists: Walking in Jerusalem Album Review {{!}} Pitchfork|website=Pitchfork|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref> * ''Jerusalem: Tales Outside The Framework Of Orthodoxy'' — 2001 (Ritornell)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-858874021/walking-in-jerusalem-2004-bizz-circuits-play-intifada|title="Walking in Jerusalem (2004), Bizz Circuits Play Intifada Offspring (2004)" – Tikkun, Vol. 20, Issue 4, July/August 2005|website=|access-date=}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Borthwick|first=Ben|date=April 2001|title=Jerusalem: Tales Outside the Framework Of Orthodoxy|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk|journal=The Wire|volume=2006}}</ref> '''as Bizz Circuits''' * ''Bizz Circuits Play Intifada Offspring Vol. 1: Nishbar Li Ha'Zayin'' — 2004 (Mille Plateaux Media)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=MacDonald|first=Cameron|date=October 2004|title=Bizz Circuit|url=http://www.groovesmag.com|journal=Grooves Magazine|issue=15}}</ref> * ''The Very Best Of Bizz Circuits'' — 2002 (Deluxe) '''as Random Industries''' * ''Selected Random Works'' — 2000 (Ritornell)
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.sebastianmeissner.me Random Industries: Sebastian Meissner's web-page.] * [https://www.discogs.com/artist/109442-Sebastian-Meissner Discography] at Discogs. * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/autokontrast/albums Sebastian Meissner's photography] at Flickr. * {{IMDb name|3669139|Sebastian Meissner}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meissner, Sebastian}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Polish electronic musicians