Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow) formed themselves in 1985 during electro-acoustic research within Phillip Wachsmann’s legendary Electronic Music Studio (now demolished) at the City Literary Institute, Keeley Street, London WC2.
Primarily their (pseudo-medical) aesthetic was to explore as fully as possible an inner visceral “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 ‘directly injected’ contact microphones. This was given full expression in “theatre of cruelty” style audio-visual performances they called Live Electronic Dissections and in numerous studio recordings that took place at the Institution of Rot in Finsbury Park, London and later released on highly collectable limited edition cassettes.
https://nostalgiedelaboue.bandcamp.com/album/live-electronic-dissections-1-5
Live Electronic Dissections #2 (extract) as Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow), Cockpit Theatre, London, 13/7/1986
Live Electronic Dissections #4, as Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow), Central Space, London 28/7/1989
“[Musical Instruments] will be used for their qualities as objects and as part of the set. Also, the need to act directly and profoundly upon the sensibility through the sense organs …“
Antonin Artaud, The Theatre of Cruelty (Musical Instruments, in First Manifesto),1932
INSTITUTION OF ROT 