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...replaced every few years--meaning cardiac patients wouldn't need their chests cut open periodically to replace the batteries in their pacemakers. "These are places where there's no source of power but plenty of vibrations," says Roy Freeland, CEO of the British vibration-power start-up Perpetuum. "You can just fit and forget...
...legendary electronic cacophonists are recreating their sinister studio constructions on stage, collapsing several buildings in the process. Blixa and the boys have settled down a bit on their last album, Perpetuum Mobile, but the live show should still be a matchless, if somewhat torturous, evening. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
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...first time I heard a Neubauten song, I was scared out of my wits—their 1985 album, “Halber Mensch,” opened with a maelstrom of shrieking in semi-decipherable German. Einsturzende Neubauten’s new album Perpetuum Mobile is mellower. While there’s a surprising absence of drills and metal chainsaws, their fondness for power tools and machines is still carried by the airy bellows of plastic tubing, three air compressors, electric fans and large amplified metal springs...
There’s something intimate and oddly beautiful about Perpetuum Mobile. As vocalist Blixa Bargeld softly utters “was habe ich? / was habe ich nicht” (what do I have? / what don’t I have?) in “Selbstportrait mit Kater,” memories harken back to ’70’s Berlin when the then-young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile?...