Illusion of Safety

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Gravelvoice two 03:53 Tools
Center 00:36 Tools
Live @ empty bottle chicago two-1-22-08 03:53 Tools
Shadowplay 05:14 Tools
I could be wrong 02:14 Tools
In 110 Countries 06:11 Tools
Get in That Room Eliam 02:45 Tools
Stillpoint 05:11 Tools
Fuck Reality 02:43 Tools
Fade-n-die 02:08 Tools
Untitled 18:30 Tools
Bad Carnival Acid 06:41 Tools
Haydn and the Jets 02:18 Tools
Sham 02:33 Tools
Closer to Home 04:35 Tools
Dissenting Voices 05:09 Tools
Scratching the Surface 12:26 Tools
Pecking Order 05:37 Tools
Techmort 03:10 Tools
The False Mirror 04:40 Tools
Ascariasis 02:32 Tools
Pain Event 02:46 Tools
Wherewithall (For Lauren) 03:58 Tools
Rim 11:26 Tools
Limerance 01:41 Tools
Not Good 03:15 Tools
Heal 03:40 Tools
Relapse 02:58 Tools
Xtreme State of fear 05:12 Tools
Wherewithall (For Lauren) (Wire Tapper Exclusive Edit) 03:58 Tools
Immanent 04:12 Tools
Speed Brutality Honesty 08:12 Tools
A Cross Between Wallpaper and God 06:01 Tools
Even Lower 02:43 Tools
Quick Fix 01:56 Tools
A Tragic Age-your Fifteen Minutes Are Up 05:09 Tools
We Can Now Tell You Two Things 04:32 Tools
3-20-88 03:06 Tools
Center (Backwards) 00:36 Tools
Dead Girl and the Man (trunk of the Car Over the Weekend) 09:32 Tools
The Doctor is in 06:00 Tools
Inhuman 05:17 Tools
Yo Fuera Asesino 04:48 Tools
Faden Die 05:44 Tools
Katalavox 00:00 Tools
Wasteland 07:53 Tools
Instinct 06:23 Tools
Fragments of Memory 03:57 Tools
Thermonuclear Holy War 03:30 Tools
Tower Of Sleep 03:37 Tools
Rolling 05:19 Tools
You Figure it Out 02:00 Tools
Directed Action 05:17 Tools
Center - Backwards 03:46 Tools
Corruption 05:32 Tools
Ceraunoscopy 04:00 Tools
Heartmath 05:45 Tools
Time Remaining 07:15 Tools
Anger and Hatred are very Powerful Emotions 03:24 Tools
40 Hour a Week Perk 01:14 Tools
The Prisoner 03:25 Tools
Horror Vacui 22:11 Tools
Dedicated To... Well, That Seems Rather Obvious 01:18 Tools
Experience 00:00 Tools
Gravity 03:34 Tools
Imposture 04:43 Tools
Con Ed 02:08 Tools
Co-Beligerant 06:05 Tools
Recognition 22:40 Tools
Third Rail 10:37 Tools
Apparent Crossing 02:38 Tools
revealing the process 06:27 Tools
The Patient Tolerated the Procedure Well 04:45 Tools
Popular Delusions 02:50 Tools
Erosion 07:52 Tools
Castrated Anxiety 05:36 Tools
looking forward to silence 04:43 Tools
Fondness makes the heart grow absent 04:20 Tools
Repairs 03:46 Tools
Music W/Out A Film II 04:43 Tools
Religious Sexual Spasm 01:29 Tools
Preface 09:14 Tools
Rendering 12:44 Tools
Partial Reconstruction 04:20 Tools
Autoprotect 03:39 Tools
Immerse 15:56 Tools
Best Left Unsaid 08:43 Tools
protoplasm 06:03 Tools
A Golden Circle 06:00 Tools
Devil Rocks 06:02 Tools
Puer 00:00 Tools
The Spanish Situation 04:16 Tools
Mother 05:23 Tools
Mors Justi 02:58 Tools
Toneline 3 03:00 Tools
projection needs a hook 03:06 Tools
Rainbow 01:20 Tools
The White Zone 08:51 Tools
Surface Tension 08:22 Tools
As If 03:42 Tools
Playground 14:32 Tools
Tenet 05:06 Tools
Enemy 10:08 Tools
Brainstorm For A Day 00:00 Tools
Outhouse 00:34 Tools
lost 07:46 Tools
History Is Written By the Winners 03:58 Tools
The most familiar Enemy 05:45 Tools
Beyond Exactly 06:38 Tools
tolerance 10:00 Tools
waiting room 06:36 Tools
discipline 05:44 Tools
Confusion / Flowering Blossom To The Full Moon 07:24 Tools
Game Over 08:35 Tools
Moment 04:02 Tools
Squirrel Cage 09:44 Tools
Holding 18:50 Tools
Lilt 23:07 Tools
In 70 Countries 00:00 Tools
Cast It To The Potter 03:55 Tools
Idealism After Six 00:52 Tools
Clearing 09:30 Tools
You're Going Down 03:37 Tools
No Thing 06:18 Tools
Identical Difference 09:28 Tools
P.O.E. 20:49 Tools
GBU Rehearsal 03:49 Tools
theme from belfast street riot 04:14 Tools
Helen Your Brain, Forever Since About Breakfast 11:41 Tools
Temple Set 07:50 Tools
Vasectomy 12:28 Tools
fragile 10:44 Tools
you stop it 01:32 Tools
Let's Cut The Small Talk 04:10 Tools
cockbeat 03:09 Tools
Diseased Mind 04:37 Tools
i was the killer 02:36 Tools
Dead Girl And The Man 00:00 Tools
Always Somewhere Else 10:15 Tools
Don't Take This As 03:11 Tools
ord 02:50 Tools
7-26-88 04:52 Tools
trumpet field 05:55 Tools
Eight 02:29 Tools
need to know 05:39 Tools
The Headache 00:00 Tools
prisoner 819 did a bad thing 06:19 Tools
New Game 05:01 Tools
The Boat Piece 04:27 Tools
Primordial 03:54 Tools
Brainstorm For a Day/unknown Quantity 19:54 Tools
Amenia 04:00 Tools
It Shall Be Done 03:53 Tools
Technical 02:08 Tools
James 05:35 Tools
Ethical Nihilism 14:59 Tools
remember 07:30 Tools
Fleshbinge 05:18 Tools
Clock Dominant 08:44 Tools
Cracks Appear 19:55 Tools
temporary amnesia 11:33 Tools
Activation Phase 08:32 Tools
Repairs (Safety First - Quietly As You Can) 06:59 Tools
Mixed signals/despues de la mentira 05:51 Tools
Tranethrash (John And Dagoth Meet - Jimmy's Clubbing) 04:14 Tools
about when 09:03 Tools
Theme from Bensenhurst race riot 03:22 Tools
Paradise (is) Unlivable 19:15 Tools
a purpose 07:13 Tools
devices to be used 03:21 Tools
Musicfuk II 04:59 Tools
U.S.W. test one 04:46 Tools
in nothing we believed 06:26 Tools
Historical PT I 07:11 Tools
Rules of the game 18:41 Tools
Vpro 4 04:32 Tools
Live in Lowell 19:54 Tools
Live @ L'emobineuse 2-22-08 04:53 Tools
The Line of Least Resistance 04:41 Tools
Historical PT II 14:22 Tools
Pretty Sticky 01:15 Tools
Seven Years Later 04:18 Tools
A Girl 01:04 Tools
Historical pt.1 07:09 Tools
Theme From Belfast Race Riot 03:11 Tools
Make Everybody Think You're (Of One Thought???) 03:52 Tools
Gravelvoice one 08:06 Tools
Ritual 04:18 Tools
U.S.W. test two 02:58 Tools
Rise Up And Slaughter Your Oppressors 02:23 Tools
Five Minutes Approving 07:56 Tools
Doesn't Your Work Interest You, Esther? 02:45 Tools
Historical Pt.2 14:18 Tools
Graintext (part one) 00:00 Tools
history is selective 07:43 Tools
Katalovox 03:14 Tools
Intention Without Obsession / In Your Eyes 03:46 Tools
Make Everybody Think You're; (Of One Thought ???) 03:53 Tools
Mr. Blankford's Lament 01:27 Tools
Out the Window 08:50 Tools
9.21.92 07:04 Tools
VPRO 1 10:58 Tools
Musicfuk 2 05:07 Tools
Graintext (part two) 00:00 Tools
Implying The Present Denying The Past 23:59 Tools
Mort Aux Vaches Trk. 1 25:43 Tools
4.27.01 live@Hoerbar 04:50 Tools
Flesh Binge 03:38 Tools
Graintext (part six) 00:00 Tools
7•26•88 00:00 Tools
Graintext (part three) 00:00 Tools
Musikfuck 05:20 Tools
Eyelids 04:42 Tools
Toneline 5 02:45 Tools
Graintext (part four) 00:00 Tools
Graintext (part five) 00:00 Tools
Too Late To Exist 04:06 Tools
Deadgirl And The Man (Trunk Of The Car Over The Weekend) 09:21 Tools
Quell 09:50 Tools
Who Loves Me Baby 03:51 Tools
Dark Current 05:50 Tools
Live Temple Set 03:28 Tools
4.27.01 live in Hamburg, Germany @ Hoerbar 04:45 Tools
Vpro 2 08:11 Tools
Ground One 08:10 Tools
Ready to Give Up 11:03 Tools
Sedation 05:53 Tools
Vpro 3 10:58 Tools
The Architects Office 09:00 Tools
8-13-88 04:56 Tools
The Inevitability Of Transformation 28:03 Tools
Vpro 5 07:31 Tools
Vpro 6 08:24 Tools
Microsleep 04:59 Tools
2.15.96 Live@WNUR 09:53 Tools
Live Den Haag Reprocess Schaumburg 06:59 Tools
We Numb 04:27 Tools
Rennes Part 1 Mix2 03:14 Tools
Zagreb 07:23 Tools
Mixed Signals / Despues De La Mentira 05:52 Tools
The Banishing Ritual 05:40 Tools
5.5.97 live in Stockholm, Sweden @ Fylkengen 08:13 Tools
Side A 06:51 Tools
Banished 04:08 Tools
5.5.97 Live@Fylkengen 08:11 Tools
Fade N Cry 07:30 Tools
8•13•88 06:51 Tools
Live Paris Reprocess Schaumburg 07:24 Tools
4.26.01 live in Rostock, Germany @ M.S. Stubnitz 10:16 Tools
Power-accident 06:51 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 1 09:24 Tools
7-21-87 06:17 Tools
10-30-88 10:21 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 2 07:02 Tools
2.15.96 Live In Evanston, Illinois, WNUR 13:22 Tools
Untitled 1 25:49 Tools
11-13-88 07:32 Tools
11-5-00 dead tech part 2 04:54 Tools
Machine 101 23:41 Tools
Eyeslids 04:42 Tools
Mort Aux Vaches Trk. 2 30:42 Tools
5.15.97 Live@Theatre de la Parch, 07:32 Tools
Jubilation 04:13 Tools
Finance 23:05 Tools
4.26.01 live@M.S.Stubnitz 07:02 Tools
5.15.97 Live In Rennes, France @ Theatre De La Parch 06:36 Tools
11-5-00 Deadtech Part 2 09:24 Tools
Mesea / Ritual 14:18 Tools
11-5-00 dead tech part 1 04:27 Tools
Side B 04:08 Tools
Surrender 31:02 Tools
Ios & Voe 36:16 Tools
Abura 06:26 Tools
Detailed Plans Abandoned 05:53 Tools
Deadgirl And The Man (version) 07:02 Tools
11•13•88 06:36 Tools
10•30•88 04:08 Tools
Devices 07:15 Tools
Roller Coaster 12:02 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 3 06:26 Tools
11-5-00 Deadtech Part 1 04:26 Tools
Dismal Water 07:30 Tools
7•21•87 02:23 Tools
Fin De Siècle (Part Three) 18:54 Tools
Access to Core 19:58 Tools
Impenetrable / Toneline 6 23:41 Tools
Untitled (Mix 1) 25:49 Tools
Mesea - Ritual 06:36 Tools
Sweet Dreams 00:00 Tools
Entitled 40:41 Tools
Special Passing 01:56 Tools
East Of Easement 04:11 Tools
Untitled (2) 23:05 Tools
My Mind Is Killing Me Side A 31:29 Tools
Ideology 22:17 Tools
Mae 02:23 Tools
Forgotten Baggage 00:00 Tools
Fin De Siècle (Part One) 21:22 Tools
Dedicated To… Well, That Seems Rather Obvious 01:18 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 4 04:26 Tools
Extreme State Of Fear 00:30 Tools
In Nothing We Believed _ Discipline 06:26 Tools
Francis Ford Studio Milwaukee 7 22 89 31:02 Tools
live 1-16-93 club lower links, chicago 11:49 Tools
Confusion 00:37 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 5 05:52 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 6 25:30 Tools
Untitled (3) 03:06 Tools
Animal Shelter 00:00 Tools
Untitled 2 25:30 Tools
Just 11:03 Tools
Flowering Blossom To The Full Moon 07:20 Tools
My Mind Is Killing Me Side B 07:20 Tools
7-26-88 / Devices To Be Used 11:09 Tools
Untitled (4) 14:18 Tools
Defy 03:02 Tools
U.S.W Test One 04:46 Tools
Unknown Quantity [Live] 11:03 Tools
Untitled (5) 19:58 Tools
Sirede 03:50 Tools
Improv 01.17.88 04:59 Tools
From Nothing to Less Track 7 05:52 Tools
Unresolved 06:07 Tools
Untitled 4 04:59 Tools
RVE 21:16 Tools
Crossing Now 10:51 Tools
Cancer 08:16 Tools
Untitled (Mix 2) 30:34 Tools
Re-entry Field One 05:11 Tools
Live In Lowell (RRR Loft, June 21st, 2000) 17:41 Tools
AciDiscipline 03:06 Tools
Impenetrable - Toneline 6 23:41 Tools
01 23:05 Tools
Untitled 13 03:27 Tools
Everythings 00:00 Tools
T.H.W. 02:45 Tools
Rennes Part 1 (Mix 2) 03:15 Tools
Historical Pt 2 14:22 Tools
Genometrics - Ground Two 07:18 Tools
off the mark 02:33 Tools
Untitled 12 01:59 Tools
Untitled 10 00:37 Tools
Rennes part 1 mix 2 03:15 Tools
Untitled/Devices 07:20 Tools
02 19:58 Tools
Brainstorm For A Day / Unknown Quantity 19:58 Tools
03 19:58 Tools
Untitled (6) 00:35 Tools
Historical Pt 1 03:06 Tools
Untitled 3 11:01 Tools
Untitled 11 05:14 Tools
Music without a Film II 02:45 Tools
04 13:44 Tools
Set One 12:02 Tools
7-26-88 and devices to be used 31:02 Tools
Probe trk.1 17:41 Tools
[untitled] 02:45 Tools
Untitled 5 07:33 Tools
untitled 6 08:53 Tools
7-26-88 live in Dekalb 03:15 Tools
Live 1/16/93 Club Lower Links, Chicago 11:01 Tools
Dedicated To....Well That Seems Rather Obvious 05:44 Tools
Make Everybody Think You're(of one mind) 05:44 Tools
Puer... 06:54 Tools
Nothing Promised He Delivers 03:06 Tools
untitled 8 01:20 Tools
untitled 7 02:03 Tools
Epilogue 14:22 Tools
Axis of Resolve 13:44 Tools
Part One 02:03 Tools
Could Be Wrong 02:03 Tools
Set Two 15:06 Tools
Mort Aux Vaches 04:11 Tools
Immerse (exc) 00:30 Tools
Doesnt Your Work Interest You, Esther? 04:11 Tools
Weeping 12:15 Tools
05 04:11 Tools
06 23:41 Tools
Ground Two 00:00 Tools
2 00:30 Tools
untitled 9 01:50 Tools
Flaggle 04:11 Tools
A Cross Between Wallpaper & God 19:59 Tools
11-13-88 pain studio live 04:04 Tools
Power Accident 00:35 Tools
Diffuse Partial Joy 05:43 Tools
4 - Identical Difference 13:44 Tools
Do Not Resuscitate 12:04 Tools
7-21-87 Live In Dekalb 05:44 Tools
2 - As If 03:15 Tools
Untitled (Live Sound Of IOS Post Effects) 13 00:35 Tools
10-30-88 pain studio live 03:46 Tools
01 Off The Mark 00:35 Tools
P.O.E 40:50 Tools
Ios & Life Garden 40:50 Tools
The Heada 25:30 Tools
Fade-N-Cry 02:58 Tools
In 70 Cou 04:59 Tools
Probe trk.2 40:50 Tools
1 23:41 Tools
Probe trk.4 23:41 Tools
Doesnt Your Work Interest You, Esther 02:45 Tools
3 02:45 Tools
Too Much Of A Good Thing Is Never Enough 02:45 Tools
Seething Restraint 04:04 Tools
Prologue 02:45 Tools
7 - Clock Dominant 02:45 Tools
Popular Destinations 04:04 Tools
Illusion Of Safety & Voice Of Eye 02:45 Tools
Ground Once 04:04 Tools
Part Three 04:11 Tools
U.S.W Test Two 02:58 Tools
Rotterdam 4.27.01 (21-27) 04:11 Tools
Fade'n'die 00:35 Tools
Grav 1+ 09:17 Tools
07 12:15 Tools
Probe 2 25:30 Tools
Extreme State Of Fear 1 05:44 Tools
15.96 Live In Evanston, Illinois, Wnur 05:44 Tools
27.01 Live In Hamburg, Germany @ Hoerbar 05:44 Tools
26.01 Live In Rostock, Germany @ M.S. Stubnitz 05:44 Tools
15.97 Live In Rennes, France, @ Theatre De La Parch 05:44 Tools
5.97 Live In Stockholm, Sweden @ Fylkengen 05:44 Tools
Traccia 04 05:44 Tools
New game : Studio Four track 03:46 Tools
Every Tyrant A City 03:46 Tools
Live at The Lab 12/12/08 00:35 Tools
Rotterdam 4.27.01 (28-36) 00:35 Tools
Probe 1 18:30 Tools
7•9•89 Chicago Laminating / 7•17•89 Club Lower Links Chicago / 7•22•89 Francis Ford Studio Milwaukee 19:59 Tools
cockbeat [schraube] 02:58 Tools
Historical pt. I 04:59 Tools
Probe 4 04:59 Tools
Deadgirl and the Man 12:15 Tools
i was the killer [schraube] 00:35 Tools
ord [schraube] 00:35 Tools
Traccia 01 00:35 Tools
Traccia 16 25:30 Tools
intention without obsession, in your eyes 03:46 Tools
Illusion Of Safety & Life Garden 25:30 Tools
T. H. W. 18:30 Tools
Temple Set Studio Four Track 18:30 Tools
The Prisoner (1992,Inside Agitator) 18:30 Tools
27.01 Live In Hamburg, German @ Hoerbar 03:46 Tools
8-13-88 Live in Pittsburgh 03:46 Tools
Intention Without Obsession _ In Your Eyes 03:46 Tools
Mort Aux Vaches (2) 03:46 Tools
tranethrash 04:14 Tools
Sweet Dreams / Unresolved 12:15 Tools
Probe trk.3 12:15 Tools
doesnt your work interest you, esther [schraube] 12:15 Tools
Autoportect 12:15 Tools
Probe 3 12:15 Tools
Musicfuck II 12:15 Tools
Traccia 06 04:59 Tools
Traccia 05 04:59 Tools
primordial [schraube] 04:59 Tools
5 04:59 Tools
4 04:59 Tools
Untitled 14 04:59 Tools
Traccia 12 04:59 Tools
6 04:59 Tools
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IMPRESSION Illusion Of Safety intrepidly charts the terra incognita where sound, silence, noise and music intersect. Using conventional instruments, sound generating devices and random objects, IOS hews sonic sculptures that deliberately provoke, mesmerize and even affront listeners. OVERVIEW Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke since 1983, working with numerous individuals in various combinations of one to 10 members. Their work has been continually evolving, never settling into an easy niche. Each collaborator has brought their own unique perspective to the project. Since 1991 IOS have released 20 CDs on labels such as Die Stadt, Silent, OddSize, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold, Tesco, Ossosnossos, and Complacency. At times their work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, electronica, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics. Unable to categorize their work into one style, each release, live performance, and sometimes individual piece often shifts abruptly from one atmosphere to another. CURRENT POSITION Daniel Burke is currently working with electronic synthesis, computer composition, and manipulation of historical musical references and highly amplified handled objects. Burke uses semi-recognizable preexisting structural elements and rearrangements of the “language of error” to convey external stimuli and personal internal context. The results are destroyed music, broken sound, disturbed ambience and the quest for the sublime. DANIEL BURKE'S ARTIST STATEMENT: The work represents not only my internal world but the world as I perceive it. I work toward truth and often use brutal honesty in mirroring my own state of mind and what I experience of society & civilization. The work represents my interest in the duality, contradictions, and ironies of the world we live in, the human condition and my own state of mind. I explore my fascination with the necessities of balance and the nature of dichotomy: chaos vs. tranquility, sacred vs. profane, subtleties vs. obviousness, and the ugly vs. an all pervasive beauty. My hope is that other people can relate to the work on an emotional, and intuitive level, while appreciating my aesthetic interest in exploring the ineffable. To illiustrate & illuminate psychological processes and personal/interpersonal relationship. To activate modes of perception to facilitate direct access of the psyche, emotion, and the infinite. transcendence Selected discography (CDs only): 1. Historical 1991 Staalplaat 2. Inside Agitator 1992 Complacency 3. Cancer 1992 Tesco 4. Probe 1993 Staalplaat 5. Fifteen/Finite Material Context 1993 Functional 6. Water Seeks Its Own Level 1994 Silent 7. Distraction 1994 Odd Size 8. Rules Of The Game 1995 em13n (3" CD) 9. In Our Little Bodies 1995 Old Europa Cafe (split CD with Randy Greif) 10. From Nothing To Less 1995 Complacency 11. Guru Means Slayer Of Darkness 1996 Manifold (split CD with Hands To and Beequeen) 12. Mort Aux Vaches 1996 Staalplaat 13. Of & The 1997 Soleilmoon (double CD) 14. Bad Karma 1998 Soleilmoon 15. Mort Aux Vauches 2 1999 Staalplaat 16. The Nature Of Sand 2000 Manifold (live IOS collaborations with Voice Of Eye & members of Life Garden from 1995) 17. ...odds 2001 No label (CD-R created to be sold primarily at live performances, a signed & numbered limited edition of 200) 18. In Opposition To Our Acceleration 2001 Die Stadt 19. More Violence And Geography 2002 Die Stadt (Re-issue of 1987 cassette) 20. Time Remaining 2003 Ossosnossos 21. Sedation & Quell 2008 C.I.P./Complacency 10" vinyl 500 copies 22. In Session 2008 CD on Waystyx 500 copies Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.