Autopsia

European art project

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Experimental
electronic
contemporary classical

Years active1978–presentLabels

Produkcija Slovenija
Sound of Pig
Korm Plastics
Staalplaat
Flash and Bones Rec.
Gymnastic Records
Hypnobeat
Hyperion
Illuminating Technologies
Projekt
Old Europa Cafe

Members

Karl Rossman
Jan Kruml
I.n. Cognito
V. Kapsa

Past members

Dušan Đorđević-Mileusnić
Zlatko Sakulski
R. Milinković

Websiteautopsia.net

Autopsia is a European art project focused on music and visual production, gathering authors of different professions in the realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s and continued during the 1980s in the former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia has been based in Prague, Czechia.^[1]

At the beginning of its activity, Autopsia issued dozens of mini-recordings. In the period after 1989, twenty CDs were issued, at first for Staalplaat, then for German label Hypnobeat and London's Gymnastic Records. One of its compositions is a part of the soundtrack for Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1996).

Discography

Studio albums

Autopsia (1985)
Oscularum Infame (1987)
In Vivo 1981-1983 (1985)
In Vivo (1988)
International Aeterna (1988)
Death Is the Mother of Beauty (1990)
Palladium (1991)
The Birth of the Crystal Power (1993)
Humanity Is the Devil 1604–1994 (1995)
Mystery Science (1996)
The Berlin Requiem (2006)
Radical Machines Night Landscapes (2008)
Autopsia: Karl Rossmann Fragments (2008)
Damnatio Memoriae (2017)
Apophenia (2018)
Innenräume (2020)
Public Lesson in History (Exhibition Soundtrack) (2023)

EPs

The Knife (1989)
Requiem Pour un Empire (1991)
Waldsinfonie: The Silence of the Lamb (1993)
White Christmas (1994)
Secret Christmas History (1995)
The Secret Block For a Secret Person in Ireland (2002)
Reconstructed EP Vol.1 (2020)
Reconstructed EP Vol.2 (2020)
Reconstructed EP Vol.3 (2020)
Reconstructed EP Vol.4 (2020)
Reconstructed EP Vol.5 (2020)
God Has Come Again in the Form of an Oil Tank (2023)
Resurrection Machines (2023)

Compilations

Wound (1991)
Prager Kodex (1995)
In Vivo 1984–1992 (1998)
Colonia (2002)
Le Chant de la Nuit (2005)
Factory Rituals (2008)
Weltuntergang (2011)
Metal (2015)
In Vivo (2016)

Singles

"Radical Machine /1.0/" (2005)
"Silently the Wolves are Watching" (2007)

Other appearances

"Song of Hate" (Swallowing Scrap Metal; 1984)
"Lebensherrgabe" (SNX; 1985)
"Lebensherrgabe" (Sounds Beyond the Grave – International Compilation; 1986)
"The Eleventh Key" (19 Keys 19 Bands; 1986)
"Relax" (Notre Dame; 1987)
"Lebensherrgabe" (The Second Slovene Wave; 1987)
"Kissing Jesus In The Dark, Part I" / "Kissing Jesus in the Dark, Part II" (Yugoslavian Sound Poetry; 1987)
"Oh No! Hopeless!" (The Cassette Played Poptones; 1988)
"Does the Knife Cry When It Enters the Skin" (Journey Into Pain; 1989)
"Scars of Europe" (La Révolution... Électroacoustique; 1990)
"Show Me Your Wound (Live)" (Mjölnir; 1990)
"War in Heaven" (The Lamp of the Invisible Light; 1991)
"Does the Knife Cry When It Enters the Skin"(Journey Into Pain; 1992)
"His Secret Sin" (Made in Yugoslavia; 1992)
"Erwachen Des Waldes" (Chang'e – Hyperium Asia Compilation; 1993)
"Prologue" (Zauber of Music Volume II; 1995)
"In Hora Mortis No.12 (Autopsia Arrangement)" / "Crowd Together and Work Up at the Sky" (Prager Kodex; 1995)
"Damned" (Knights of Abyss; 1995)
"Stille Nacht (g)RAVE Remix" (Excelsis – A Dark Noël; 1995)
"Erwachen Des Waldes" (Hypnobeats; 1995)
"Je suis La Resurrection" (The Pillow Book OST; 1996)
"Erwachen Des Waldes" (Hyperium New Classics Vol. 1; 1997)
"Erwachen Des Waldes" (Hypnotic & Hypersonic; 1998)
"Stille Nacht (g)RAVE Remix" (Excelsis; 2001)
"Nachtlandschaft" (Statement 1961; 2004)
"Space Conquerer" (Энергия; 2007)
"Fragment II" (OEC 100; 2008)
"Pannonien" (Klangpostkarten Aus Südosteuropa; 2010)
"Hudci" (Unite – A Gathering Of Strangers; 2010)

Books

Autopsia written by Vladimir Mattioni, published by The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (2012) ISBN 978-86-84773-97-7
Apocrypha written by Autopsia, published by UPI2M Zagreb (2013) ISBN 978-953-7703-17-2
Thanatopolis written by Alexei Monroe, published by Divus London (2016) ISBN 978-80-86450-91-9