Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop Resonant Dowland | Matthias Engelke This is a new release in the Sound Art Series on the German label Gruenrekorder. This is a work of German composer and sound artist, Matthias Engelke, who performs the songs of Renaissance composer John Dowland. Engelke composes music for theater with […]
Januar 24th, 2021
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen Shizugawa | Andrew Littlejohn This resonant recording scores the aftermath of one disaster, but by extension speaks to those caught in the midst of another. Recorded in the flattened town of Shizugawa following the devastating tsunami of March 2011, Andrew Littlejohn‘s study traces what was […]
Januar 24th, 2021
Review | By textura SOUNDS LIKE…VIENNA | Julia Bünnagel As ever, appearances deceive. A photo on the back cover of Sounds Like…Vienna shows Julia Bünnagel standing behind a DJ-like setup at an outdoors city space, an image that suggests the twelve-inch release could possibly be a dance-related release from Gruenrekorder. But anyone familiar with […]
Januar 24th, 2021
Review | By textura The Nomadic Listener | Budhaditya Chattopadhyay The Nomadic Listener is a field recordings release with a difference. Rather than being a pure audio document of international locales, it’s an augmented book project by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay that ties sixty written reflections and abstract images to unedited field recordings, with audio details […]
Januar 23rd, 2021
Reviews | By Rigobert Dittmann / Bad Alchemy Magazin (109) Resonant Dowland | Matthias Engelke Ach, semper Dowland, semper dolens. MATTHIAS ENGELKE, manchen vielleicht bekannt als Hauskomponist der Choreographin Irina Pauls, vergegenwärtigt auf Resonant Dowland (Gruen 197 w/Booklet) den elisabethanischen Lautenisten und Songwriter John Dowland auf gleich mehreren Ebenen: Bildlich mit der Fotoserie ‚Licht/Light‘ […]
Januar 23rd, 2021
Reviews | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY Circles and cycles | Kg Augenstern First, let me say something about the package. I know I usually don’t, but in this case: great stuff. The first comes with a square 18×18 cm book with lots of photos and the other on a sturdy piece […]
Januar 23rd, 2021
Gruenrekorder @ Bepi Crespan Presents CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. https://www.citr.ca/episode/20201130 https://www.citr.ca/episode/20201204-1 https://www.citr.ca/episode/20201205 https://www.citr.ca/episode/20201207
Januar 23rd, 2021
Review | By Roger Batty / Musique Machine Michael Lightborne | Ring Road Ring Ring Road Ring is a twelve-inch vinyl release that brings together around half-an-hours worth of road field recordings captured by contact microphones attached to the concrete pylons around the Ring Road, which loops around the city of Coventry in the […]
Januar 22nd, 2021
Gruenrekorder @ Bepi Crespan Presents CITR’s 24 Hours of Radio Art in a snack sized format. Dark Ambient. Drone. Field Recordings. Noise. Sound Art. Or something. The Nomadic Listener | Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Januar 22nd, 2021
New Release: Field Notes #4: 20/21 is a free bi-lingual magazine published by the German label Gruenrekorder, edited by Daniel Knef and Lasse-Marc Riek. Generally speaking our magazine is concerned with the phenomenon of sound from the most varied perspectives: artists, musicians, journalists and scientists add to Field Notes with their essays, […]
Januar 15th, 2021