5 years Phonophon compilation out now!
The compilation to celebrate 5 years of Phonophon is finally here! Thanks to everybody that contributed, played, attended and supported us! The CD is yours for a donation of 10 Euro (or more) if you buy it at the next event, or 12 Euro (or more) to get it shipped anywhere in the world. All proceeds to directly into concerts, workshops and whatever other projects we might come up.
More information, sound bites, artist info etc. here: www.compilation.phonophon.de
Gruenrekorder @ Deutschlandradio Kultur
Freispiel | 29.12.2014 | 00:05 Uhr
Ursendung – Kurzstrecke 33 / Feature, Hörspiel, Klangkunst
Zusammenstellung: Jan Rohlf, Barbara Gerland, Ingo Kottkamp
Welchen Raum braucht das Denken?
Von Tobias Lehmkuhl
Ein akustischer Kurzessay
Aufbruch
Von Roland Etzin
Unsere alltägliche Umgebung, ein Dickicht aus Maschinen und komplizierten Gegenständen – überall brummt und summt es.
Alle Jahre wieder
Von Étienne Roeder und Lioba Keuck
Erfahrungen bei einer Agentur für Weihnachtsmänner.
Produktion: Autorenproduktion / Deutschlandradio Kultur 2014
Länge: 54’30
New Release:
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE: ‘ANOURAN LOVE SONGS’
Triple album on usb flash card – Gruen 152/14
Field Recordings
3 Tracks (228:06)
New Release:
David Michael & Slavek Kwi: ‘MMABOLELA’
Double CD – Gruen 144/14
Field Recordings
19 Tracks (157:16)
Rinus van Alebeek -Overseas- interview with Dinah Bird
DinahBird | A Box of 78s
In the second episode of -Overseas- I talk with Dinah Bird about her release on Gruenrekorder, called A Box of 78s. It is basically a story about a box that was bought some hundred years ago. The box contained records, 78rpm records and the first thirty years of its existence it was in use on Salt Spring Island, just of the coast from Vancouver. Dinah went there, with the box and a portable gramophone player. She came back with a lot of sounds and a couple of stories. Some of those stories you will hear in the interview.
Review | By Łukasz Komła / nowamuzyka.pl
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
„Song from the Forest” to nie jest zwykły soundtrack stworzony na potrzeby zwykłego filmu dokumentalnego. To fascynująca podróż w głąb lasów deszczowych Afryki Centralnej. Wszystko zaczęło się od filmu pt. „Song from the Forest”, który nakręcił niemiecki reżyser Michael Obert. Jesienią 2009 roku Obert wyruszył w stronę dorzecza Kongo, wówczas – jak sam twierdzi – przez przypadek usłyszał opowieść o białym mężczyźnie żyjącym od wielu lat w dżungli wśród Pigmejów Bayaka. Postanowił, że go odszuka. I tak też się stało. Po kilku dniach wędrówki Obert natrafił na plemię Pigmejów, którzy wzięli go za intruza i starali się przegonić wymachując włóczniami, po czym z zarośli wyłoniła się postać białego człowieka o dwie głowy wyższego od Pigmejów Bayaka i trzymającego na rękach dziecko. Stanął przed nim Amerykanin Louis Sarno. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
DinahBird | A Box of 78s
This is a very unusual record. On the one hand it’s a field recording/nostalgia construction. Bird inherited the titular box of some 50+ ancient records amassed by her grandmother who lived in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia and decided to take them from her home in England back to their original „home“, play them in their old environment, record the surrounding ambiance and talk with people there (including her great uncle) about what she was doing. Side A, called „Trackside“, documents this experience and is strangely captivating, the strains of the recordings (generally classical and opera) warble in the background, scratchy and cloudy, among the area sounds, with the voices of the inhabitants of the town of Salt Springs, who quiz Bird about her project, elaborate on their own daily activities, etc. It’s very easy to put oneself into Bird’s mind, to relive her own sense of family history and her rediscovery of the environs of her ancestors. All well and good. […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
DinahBird | A Box of 78s
Because of the nature of this release, including old 78s records being played on locations, it is released on vinyl, which a nice old, retro looking cover. Bird got a leather box of fifty old, 78rpms, which her grandmother, herself born in 1910, inherited. Her granny grew up in Salt Spring and after her death in 2000 the box got to Dinah, albeit in 2012. She went back to the beach of Salt Spring and played those records, while using also excerpts from her grandfather’s diary and talking to people who live there now. […]
Stefan Rois | Radio FRO 105,0
Ein Telefoninterview mit Antje Vowinckel.
Musik: Auszüge aus „Antje Vowinckel – Terra Prosodia“
Hermetische Schönheit
Die Berliner Audiokünstlerin Antje Vowinckel hat kürzlich auf dem SoundArt-Label „Gruenrekorder“ die CD „Terra Prosodia“ veröffentlicht. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit. die bereits im Rahmen der Prix Ars Electronica 2012 eine lobende Erwähnung erhalten hat, steht die menschliche Sprache. Allerdings versteht man kaum ein Wort. Es sei denn, man ist des Gaskonischen und des Schottisch-Gälischen mächtig und spricht obendrein Gutnisch, Provenzalisch, Wallis-Deutsch und Rumantsch. Antje Vowinckel hat Menschen in Schweden, Frankreich, Schottland und in der Schweiz besucht und sie gebeten, eine persönliche Geschichte zu erzählen. […]
New Distribution:
Manfred Waffender: ‘PLACES_IN_TIME | Thailand & Myanmar’
GrD 28/14
Field Recordings
DVD | 20 Tracks (110:00)
Review | By Moritz Holfelder / Bayerischer Rundfunk
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
[…] Dass zu einem Dokumentarfilm ein Soundtrack erscheint, kommt eher selten vor. Bei „Song from the Forest“ macht es aber absolut Sinn. Der Film erzählt die Geschichte von Louis Sarno, einem Amerikaner, der dreißig Jahre unter den Bayaka Pygmäen in der Zentralafrikanischen Republik gelebt hat. Nie zuvor hatte ein Außenstehender einen so intimen Zugang zu dieser sehr musikalisch orientierten Kultur. Regisseur Michael Obert porträtiert diesen Louis Sarno, der in den 1980er-Jahren in den afrikanischen Urwald entschwand, um die Klänge und Rhythmen des Pygmäenstamms der Bayaka aufzuzeichnen. Deren Musik zählt inzwischen zum Unesco-Weltkulturerbe und Louis Sarno als ihr Archivar. […]
Review | By Guillaume Belhomme / Le son du grisli
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Dans la besace de David Rothenberg, des animaux de toutes tailles (sauterelles, cigales, merles, grenouilles, une baleine à bosse même), auxquels le trio qu’il forme avec Pauline Oliveros (accordéon) et Timothy Hill (voix) devra répondre. Naïf peut-être, le projet manque surtout d’inventivité : ainsi Oliveros se contente-t-elle de souffler quelques notes en improvisatrice nerveuse, Timothy Hill de donner dans le chant de gorge ou d’en appeler à jadis plus inspirés que lui (Stephan Micus, Nana Vasconcelos…) quand David Rothenberg (dont l’Ipad fantasme parfois le synthétiseur datant) verse sans mesure dans un folk naturaliste (& découverte souvent). […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / nowamuzyka.pl
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Owady, klarnety i śpiew.
Rok 2013 był to wyjątkowy czas dla cykad – owadów rozpoznawalnych głównie po dźwiękach, wydawanych przez samce za pomocą narządów (tymbali) u nasady odwłoka, gdyż w Nowym Jorku można było spotkać ich miliony. Te muzyczne owady pojawiają się tylko raz na siedemnaście lat. W Stanach Zjednoczonych powszechnie nazywane są 17-letnią szarańczą. Z okazji tego wydarzenia David Rothenberg (klarnety, iPad, obiekty), kompozytorka Pauline Oliveros (akordeon) i wokalista Timothy Hill, postanowili uczcić ten moment serią koncertów w towarzystwie samych cykad. Okazało się, że muzykom to nie wystarczyło i udali się do słynnego studia Dreamland, aby zarejestrować wspólny materiał. […]
New Release:
David Prescott-Steed: ‘Sound Sites: Tropical Far North Queensland’
GrDl 145/14
Field Recordings
14 Tracks (51:49)
framework radio | #489
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
Phonophon | 29 November 2014 | 8:00 PM | Free
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Festival: 5 Jahre Phonophon
Fünf Jahre Konzertreihe *Phonophon* müssen gefeiert werden! Ein Nachmittag und ein Abend voller experimenteller Musik, Essen und guten Drinks.
Wir laden ein, um einfach gute Musik zu hören, zu trinken, zu jammen, sich über Instrumente zu informieren, Gear zu tauschen, zu essen, mit allen Leuten ins Gespräch zu kommen und, und, und.
Mit dabei sein werden u.a.:
Autumn Appreciation Society
Circuitnoise
Patrick Bessler
Phober
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Phonophon | 26 November 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Marc Behrens (D)
www.marcbehrens.com
* Brandstifter (D)
www.brand-stiftung.net
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
New Release:
DinahBird: ‘A Box of 78s’ (Gruen 148/14)
Sound Art
19 Tracks (23:14 – ∞)
Vinyl (300 copies)
Phonophon | 12 November 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Judy Dunaway (USA)
www.jeweltone16.org
* Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels daheim (D)
www.pinkelsdaheim.com
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Phonophon | 10 November 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Peter Wießenthaner/Gero Koenig (D)
www.chordeograph.de
* Patrick Bessler (D)
www.soundcloud.com
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
PHONOPHON & GRUENREKORDER @ SKOP
www.skop-ffm.de
SKOP lädt Euch zu der Veranstaltung: combinations ein. In dieser zweitägigen Veranstaltung werden Verbindungen unterschiedlicher Kunstformen vorgestellt. Klänge, über Hautwiderstände generiert, erzeugen und steuern eine Visualität; eine Ton-Bild-Komposition wird erspielt; Sprach-Ton-Kompositionen im Duo; Instrumentale Spielbewegungen erzeugen eine Licht-Spot-Bewegung; Performance kombiniert mit Videoanimation oder Bilder in immer neuen Zusammenstellungen, unendliche Variationsmöglichkeiten. Wesentlich für alle Programmpunkte – keine Konserven. Alle sound-light-animation performances in Echtzeit.
real-time +++ Echtzeit +++ combinations +++ Echtzeit +++ real-time
Samstag und Sonntag 8. und 9. November 2014 20:00 Uhr AVA Ostparkstraße 47 – 49
TeilnehmerInnen sind:
Claudia Robles-Angel – Kolumbien
Lucas Gutierrez – Argentinien
PHONOPHON/GRUENREKORDER – Deutschland
Gero Koenig – Deutschland
Peter Wießenthaner – Deutschland
Gabriele Eberspächer – Deutschland
Review | By VITAL WEEKLY
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Last year Gruenrekorder released the album ‘Bug Music’ by David Rothenberg. He has a love for the rhythms produced by birds, insects, etc and made a record based on these rhythms coming from nature, joined of vocalist Timothy Hill and guitarist Robert Jürgendal. The album by the Cicada Dream Band is a sort of a next step. The band combines the talents of Pauline Oliveros (V-Accordion), David Rothenberg (bass clarinet, clarinet, iPad, creatures) and Timothy Hill (voice). They made their recordings in august 2013 in New York. “2013 marked the arrival of millions of periodical cicadas to the New York Metropolitan area. […]
Review | By Ian Holloway / Quiet World & Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
[…] It works really well but it does seem more deliberate and, for lack of a better word, ‚composed‘ (which seems unlikely to me) than the previous. It’s a really lovely set. Rothenberg is centre stage and on fine form, Oliveros is a more withdrawn presence but her contributions are precise and work particularly well alongside Hill whose vocalisations are restrained and avoid the overt (and for me very annoying) vocal gymnastics that many avant-vocalists are prone to. Highly recommended and another in a long line of phenomenal releases from this eclectic and wonderful label.
Review | By Katrin Hauk / freiStil – Magazin für Musik und Umgebung / #57
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Dieses Trio formierte sich 2013 aufgrund eines einzigartigen Naturphänomens, das sich alle 17 Jahre im Gebiet rund um die Stadt New York abspielt. Während einer kurzen Zeit siedeln sich dort Millionen von Zikaden an. David Rothenberg – Musiker und Naturphilosoph, der sich in seiner Arbeit intensiv mit Naturklängen, wie Vogel- oder Walgesängen auseinandersetzt – griff diesen speziellen Moment auf, um eine Reihe von Konzerten zusammen mit der 82-jährigen „deep listening“-Ikone Pauline Oliveros und dem Obertonsänger Timothy Hill zu spielen. Mittels intensiven Hinhörens interagierten sie während dieser Konzerte spontan mit den klanglichen Eigenheiten und Rhythmen der Insekten. […]
Gruenrekorder @ TEN FAVOURITE LABELS 2014
Every November since 2005, textura has selected ten labels whose output dazzled us during the year. To that end, we posed a simple question as a way of making the selections: „Which labels‘ material excited us most during 2014?“ Naturally, there are many labels in addition to the ones chosen whose releases had that effect on us, but these stood out from the crowd:
BABEL • CANTALOUPE • DENOVALI • GRUENREKORDER • HUBRO • INNOVA • METALHEADZ • NEW AMSTERDAM • POPULIST • SCHOLE • WESTERN VINYL
Review | By textura
Hein Schoer | The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures
Hein Schoer’s The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures expands upon the cultural soundscape producer’s 2010 release Two Weeks in Alert Bay in about as dramatic a fashion as could be imagined. In contrast to the single-CD presentation of the earlier release, the new edition features a CD, 2 DVDs, and a 400-page book. As described in the earlier review, Schoer’s project presents a captivating sound portrait of the Kwakwaka’wakw, a First Nations community situated at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Canada’s West Coast, and its activities, myths, and ritual dances and chants. […]
Sonic drifting: sound, city and psychogeography | By Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
@ SoundEffects – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience
Heike Vester | Marine Mammals and Fish of Lofoten and Vesterålen – Recorded by oceansounds / Norway
@ www.freedolphinsbelgium.org
Norvège : Heiko, la petite baleine enceinte, trouble un peuple de baleiniers !
Review | By Hal Harmon / Musique Machine
Sebastiane Hegarty | Four walks around a year: spring
Gruenrekorder imprint presents Four Walks Around a Year: Spring by british artist, writer, and lecturer Sebastiane Hegarty. Spring is the first entry in the Four Walks Around the Year series. As the title implies, these recordings are represent four soundwalks at the Winnall Moors Reserve in Winchester, England. Each recording will coincide with one of the four seasons, this one being Spring. Over the span of 25 minutes we’re greeted by the sounds of: birds chirping in chorus, geese, human voices, rolling river water, footsteps, creaking wood planks, a metal shovel digging, and a myriad of other natural recordings. […]
A New Music, with Birds, Whales and Cicadas as Guest Stars
By Guido Mina di Sospiro on October 14, 2014 in News
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Music should not be heard, but listened to. Everywhere we go, there is music. It’s become such a widespread phenomenon, we hardly notice it any longer. It’s similar to cigarette–smoking in public places: some decades ago, it was such a common occurrence, nobody noticed it—except our eyes, throats, and lungs. Laws have been passed since, and smoking has been banned from public places. At times I wish piped music were banned from public places too. Everywhere we go, we are assailed by music we didn’t ask to hear and we normally don’t care for. […]
Review | By Aurelio Cianciotta / Neural
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek | Series Invisible – Collection 2
In almost twenty years of reviewing audio art and experimental music for Neural I have run into several extremely ‘tough’ projects that cross a broad range of styles, formats and media. In the newsroom was the prevailing belief that we were ready for anything. It seems we were not – in fact, we never imagined we could encounter an album such as this – one that cannot but produce a wry grin in response. The project consists of only descriptions of the locations and times of the recordings captured, their duration and information regarding their subsequent deletion. […]
How to Make Music With a Whale | By David Rothenberg
@ The New York Times
Review | By Hal Harmon / Musique Machine
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
[…] Certain passages almost sound like an orchestra or jazz band warming up. The source material certainly lends itself to many possibilities for the fertile mind to meditate upon. I could try to intellectualize the whole production, but ultimately for me it’s a snapshot in time, the highlighting of the mundane and unspectacular that I’m particularly attracted to. I will likely never go to India or visit Bangalore, but Chattopadhyay has created quite the vivid canvas for my imaginative mind to draw from. Another fine release from the good folks at Gruenrekorder.
Phonophon | 29 October 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Silken Tofu (Label)
www.silkentofu.org
* TZII (BE)
www.tzii.tk
* Filip Gheysen (BE)
www.filipgheysen.tumblr.com
* TraumaSutra (BE)
www.facebook.com/pages/TraumaSutra
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By textura
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
David Rothenberg received deserved attention for his 2013 Gruenrekorder release Bug Music (issued in tandem with the book Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise on St Martins Press), on which the woodwinds player used various insects as musical partners. Rothenberg’s latest, Cicada Dream Band, represents a natural progression in that while it perpetuates the creature-oriented theme of the earlier release it expands upon it in two critical respects. First of all, the material supplements insect sounds with those of frogs, birds, and a Humpback whale; and secondly, Rothenberg, credited with bass clarinet, clarinet, iPad, and creatures, is accompanied by Pauline Oliveros (V-Accordion) and Timothy Hill (voice) on the sixty-four-minute recording, which was culled from three-and-a-half hours of music laid down at Dreamland Studios in West Hurley, NY during August 2013. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
Selected recordings from the soundtrack of Michael Obert’s documentary on the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African rainforest. Some 25 years ago, Sarno, enchanted by music he’d heard on radio from this area, ventured there and ended up remaining, adopted by the Bayaka. The film, as I understand it, documents Sarno visiting New York City with his son, Samedi, 13 years of age. The soundtrack album presents fifteen tracks culled from some 1,500 hours of recordings. […]
Review | By textura
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
Louis Sarno’s story is an incredible one. As a young American, he heard a song on the radio that inspired him to venture to the Central African rainforest and locate the sounds‘ creators, the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. But unlike most travelers, Sarno never returned home; instead, he became a fully accepted member of Bayaka society, married a Bayaka woman, fathered a son, Samedi, and over the span of twenty-five years recorded over 1,500 hours of unique Bayaka music, fifteen selections of which appear on this hour-long soundtrack to Michael Obert’s award-winning documentary film Song from the Forest. […]
Review | Richard Allen / a closer listen
Hein Schoer | The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures
The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures is perhaps Gruenrekorder’s most elaborate production to date: a CD, audio DVD, DVD-ROM and softbound 419-page book, all enclosed in a black cardboard sleeve. It takes an entire day to peruse, but one would not be surprised to see it included in a college curriculum. Box of Treasures is the physical manifestation of The Sounding Museum, an exhibition at the North American Native Museum in Zürich. Aware that many might never be able to travel to the exhibition, Herb Schoer created this comprehensive physical reflection. The exhibition is centered time spent living with and recording the traditions of the Kwakwaka’wakw of British Columbia. […]
Review | Richard Allen / a closer listen
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
Listening to Song from the Forest, many older readers will think of the famous French duo Deep Forest. The duo helped increase interest in world music in the early nineties, but they also did the genre a slight disservice, creating an unfair association between native music and electronic beats. Song from the Forest – the soundtrack to the movie of the same name – is real world music, the sound of the Bayaka Pygmies as captured by Louis Sarno (with film direction by Michael Obert). Sarno is the real deal. 25 years ago (the same time as Deep Forest became popular) – he heard a song on the radio and traced its origin to the Congo. […]
Gruenrekorder @ The Wire
Derek Walmsley: The Field Recordist As Obsessive
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Lasse-Marc Riek | Helgoland
David Michael | The Slaughterhouse
Phonophon | 18 October 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Petra Dubach/ Mario van Horrik (NL)
www.home.tiscali.nl
* Siegfried Kärcher (D)
www.siegfried-kaercher.de
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Gruenrekorder – Phonophon @ RANDOM
1. Mannheimer Forum für experimentelle und zeitgenössische Musik
10. – 18. Oktober 2014
Drei Konzerttage, Composers Meeting, Netzwerktreffen.
Random bietet einen Querschnitt durch die aktuelle experimentelle und zeitgenössische (E-)Musik, beleuchtet Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der akademischen / subkulturellen Herangehensweise an sie, setzt Musiker untereinander und mit ihrem Publikum in Dialog und schafft neue Verbindungen zwischen Musikern, Einrichtungen und Institutionen nicht nur innerhalb Mannheims, sondern auch zwischen der Metropolregion und anderen Großstädten / Regionen Deutschlands.
20th PHONURGIA NOVA CALL FOR WORKS
„The Loud-speaker is probably the greatest common denominator in all our lives to-day. Video, multimedia, car radios, mobile phones are all crafting a new life for sound. In all domains sound is an objet of research, of reflexion. It is essential to open up creative, imaginative spaces for sound. And to encourage people to listen.“
Since 1986, the Phonurgia Nova competition, occupies a special place by virtue of its recognition of artists whose work exploits sound as an artistic medium. The 20th contest is open to all. An international jury panel will judge the entries. The main selective criterion remains the expression of an original „sound vision“
Deadline for registration : november 30th 2014.
Festival Phonurgia Nova (Paris, Gaîté Lyrique) : 24th and 25th january 2015
For further information, complete rules www.phonurgia.org
www.sonosphere.org enable visitors to have access to the previous awarded works.
Facebook: phonurgia nova awards
Phonophon | 08 October 2014 | 8:00 PM | 7 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Star Turbine (N)
www.starturbine.wordpress.com
* Bernd-Michael Land (D)
www.bernd-michael-land.com
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By Ed Pinsent / The Sound Projector
Lasse-Marc Riek | Helgoland
An absolutely first-class record is Helgoland (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 109) by Lasse-Marc Riek, and one of the finest field recording items to have reached us for a long time. I’d go so far as to say it sets a benchmark in the genre, both for the clarity of its intent, and the excellence of its realisation. Helgoland is Germany’s only ocean island, an archipelago in the North Sea which has, against all odds, developed into a haven and breeding ground for all manner of seabirds. The area is well-loved and visited by ornithologists, naturally, but Lasse-Marc is one of the few sound artists who has made it out to the island to capture a collection of recordings, apparently at some personal discomfort to himself (it involves crawling into caves and other tight corners), and he devoted two years of his life to this project. […]
Phonophon | 17 September 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Lerin/Hystad (S/N)
www.soundcloud.com
* ret p*air (D)
www.gruenrekorder.de
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Listening Wood
Im Klangkunst-Konzert am Sonntag, 21. September, trifft um 11 Uhr im Atelier von Konrad Franz in der alten Dorfkirche Hausen „Geräusch auf Klarinette“. Das konzertante Zusammentreffen zwischen den Klangkünstlern Lasse-Marc Riek/Eckhard Kuchenbecker und dem amerikanischen Jazzmusiker und Philosophen David Rothenberg verspricht einen ganz besonderen Vormittag. Das Trio nimmt die Zuhörer mit auf eine Hör-Reise des Ungewohnten und begibt sich in einen akustischen Dialog zwischen Musik und Geräusch, welcher das Holz neu zum Klingen bringen wird.
Mehr:
www.landkreis-miltenberg.de
Ort:
21.9.,11Uhr, Alte Dorfkirche, Hauptstraße 64, 63840 Hausen (Aschaffenburg) Tel.: 0171-9261550
Tickets:
Karten und nähere Informationen sind im Kulturreferat des Landkreises Miltenberg (Telefon: 09371 501501; E-Mail: kultur@lra-mil.de) sowie im Internet über ADticket.de und www.kulturwochen.landratsamt-miltenberg.de erhältlich.
Phonophon | 10 September 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Golem Mecanique (F)
www.golemecanique.bandcamp.com
* Waffensupermarkt (D)
www.waffensupermarkt.com
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
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Review | By Petr Slabý / HIS VOICE
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill | Cicada Dream Band
Filozof, milovník přírody a hudebník David Rothenberg byl letos v červenci výraznou postavou pražského festivalu vs. Interpretation, kde v rámci své prezentace představil také zbrusu nové CD Cicada Dream Band a na pódium si přizval také průkopnici elektroakustické hudby, akordeonistku Pauline Oliveros. Vokalista Timothy Hill a cikády se přidali pouze ze záznamu. Timothy Hill byl v The New York Times označen jako „virtuóz tibetské pěvecké techniky“, působí v alternativní keltsko-jazz-folkové formaci Sleeping Bee či v David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir a v neposlední řadě spolupracoval například s Johnem Cagem, Joem Manerim či Butchem Morrisem. […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno
Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack
One of the various releases this week that is supposed to be a soundtrack. Here no film either, but just the recordings made by Louis Sarno, made in Central Africa with Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and collectors. Sarno is not a visitor, but he lives there as a member and married, has a son and recorded 1500 hours of music and sounds. That’s what the documentary by Michael Obst is about, about this rather unique field recordist. Sarno, who guides us through music from Bayaka and the place they live in, documents each of the fifteen pieces here in word. […]
Reviews | By Ed Pinsent / The Sound Projector
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Christina Kubisch is an internationally renowned and prize-winning German sound artist, currently living in Berlin where she’s a member of the Akademie der Künste. Although classically trained, she was a radical experimenter in sound art in the 1980s, working with magnetic induction techniques, and using directed light as a sound source in her installations. The record Mosaïque Mosaic (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 131) is not a record of her installation work, but is an aural snapshot of her 2010 residency and exchange trip in Cameroon, where she also conducted a workshop with Eckehard Güther. […]
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
[…] It’s also very nice when Merzouga are able to play along in sympathy with an ancient voice from a vanished world, accompanying their song with a gently appropriate chord or two, but such moments are few in the overall fabric. There are a few lulls; at times it does seem to sink into an uncertain miasma of “process crackling”, letting the sample process itself dominate, and the actual playing they perform is extremely dour, brittle, and melancholic. At one level we can respond to the contrast between the modern, digital, ultra-clean sound of their playing and the crackly, faint, impressions left by the old recordings. A unique and fascinating release.
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
[…] Although the actual source material may seem mundane if we trot it out like a shopping list – wind, weather, rain, oceans, local wildlife, church bells, ferries, and people talking about their work as crofters or fishermen – the cumulative effect is very touching and deep, presenting a truly vivid and resonant documentary through these overlapping and fading sounds. What’s best of all is that it’s totally free from “editorialising”, which is what would happen if someone from the BBC ever got their hands on the project. The work is complemented by a booklet of full colour photos and notes from the artist. I’m beginning to think Gruenrekorder are currently presenting some of the best statements in the “genre” of field recording today.
New Release:
Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno: “Song from the Forest: The Soundtrack” (Gruen 150/14)
Soundscapes
15 Tracks (57′10″)
CD (1000 copies)
New Release:
Pauline Oliveros & David Rothenberg & Timothy Hill: “Cicada Dream Band” (Gruen 149/14)
Sound Art
11 Tracks (64′32″)
CD (1000 copies)
New Release:
Hein Schoer: “The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures” (Gruen 137/14)
Soundscapes
13 Tracks (149′22″)
Box (CD, DVD, Book) (500 copies)
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„Worin besteht das immaterielle Weltkulturerbe der Bayaka?“
Mehr Infos zum Film, zum Soundtrack und zum BAYAKA SUPPORT PROJECT unter:
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KINOSTART DEUTSCHLANDWEIT AM 11. SEPTEMBER 2014
„HYPNOTISIERENDER FILM“ – VARIETY„GROSSARTIG“ – INDIEWIRE
„EIN ERFOLG ALS BEMERKENSWERTER, SENSIBEL EINDRINGLICHER FILM“ – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
Als junger Mann hörte der Amerikaner Louis Sarno im Radio einen Gesang, der ihn nicht mehr losließ. Er folgte den geheimnisvollen Klängen bis in den zentralafrikanischen Regenwald, fand seine Musik bei den Bayaka-Pygmäen – und kam nicht mehr zurück. Heute, 25 Jahre später, ist Louis ein vollwertiges Mitglied der Gemeinschaft aus Jägern und Sammlern und löst nun das Versprechen ein, gemeinsam mit seinem 13 jährigen Sohn in seine alte Heimat zu reisen – nach New York.
SONG FROM THE FOREST ist ein Film über den Zustand der Welt und über einige der großen Themen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts – Heimat, Identität, Entfremdung, Interkulturalität, Globalisierung.
Spielzeiten und Kinos: www.songfromtheforest.com
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Feierliche Premiere in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Michael Obert und der Protagonisten Louis Sarno und Samedi im Delphi-Filmpalast in Berlin am 2.9.2014. Karten im Vorverkauf erhältlich!
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Review | By Ian Holloway / Quiet World & Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
[…] The voices guide the piece with the Hanushevsky’s bass giving the proceedings a real melancholy perfectly at home with the aged beauty of the recordings whilst also occasionally pushing itself to the fore and fluttering against your perceptions like one of the more broken of the elder recordings. Popplein’s electronics insinuate themselves in between the sounds adding subtle textures and colours with the realisation that its presence is all the stronger for it’s restraint. This is a glorious recording. It’s a communion with voices past, an exploration of the ethnographers curiosity and, most of all, a celebration of the vitality of sound.
Review | By Łukasz Komła / polyphonia.pl
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
Niektórzy nie mają możliwości odbywania dalekich podróży, a tym bardziej posłuchania nieznanych im języków, a lubią muzykę eksperymentalną. Jest na to prosty sposób – „Terra Prosodia”. Antje Vowinckel jest artystką pochodzącą z Berlina. Studiowała literaturę i muzykę (flet/ fortepian). Od samego początku jej działalność związana jest z radiem. Na swoim koncie ma mnóstwo produkcji radiowych przygotowanych dla takich stacji jak WDR, SWR i BR. Swoje prace prezentowała już na wielu europejskich festiwalach. W kręgu zainteresować Vowinckel jest też muzyka elektroakustyczna i sound art, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem muzykalności słowa mówionego, gdzie podstawowa melodia płynie z dialektu. […]
Review | By The Wire Magazine – Issue 364
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
The linguist Mario Pei insisted that few words were pure but were part of a messy, ongoing process that borrowed, clipped, recombined and corrupted, but kept moving forward. Pei, who died in 1978, seemed less concerned about the disappearance and marginality of languages. Antje Vowinckel’s “Terra Prosodia” is a sound composition derived from dialect recordings from the disappearing languages of Europe, including Gascon, Gutamal (from Gotländ), Provencal and Scottish-Gaelic. Her premise is that removing a language from its geographical context allows us to appreciate it as if musically. The brain homes in on forms with a natural mnemonic shape, which in turn will change relative to the native language(s) of the listener. […]
COMING SOON @ Gruenrekorder
SONG FROM THE FOREST: THE SOUNDTRACK
SELECTED RECORDINGS OF BAYAKA MUSIC BY LOUIS SARNO
CD / Gruen 150
Amsterdam ist begeistert, Warschau feiert, Shanghai ist aus dem Häuschen, Austin Texas jubelt!
Und endlich kommt
*SONG FROM THE FOREST* von Michael Obert
IN DIE DEUTSCHEN KINOS
„Hypnotisierender Film“ Variety
„Großartig“ Indiewire
„Ein Erfolg als bemerkenswerter, sensibel eindringlicher Film“ Screen International
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VORPREMIEREN
in Anwesenheit von Louis Sarno, Michael Obert und Team ein.
Karten sind ab heute im Vorverkauf erhältlich!
HAMBURG
am 01.09.2014 im Abaton Kino
Reservierung unter: 040 – 41320320
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am 02.09.2014 im Delphi Filmpalast
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KÖLN
am 03.09.2014 im Odeon Köln
Reservierung unter: 0221 – 313110
Im Anschluss könnt Ihr Eure Fragen an das Team stellen und exklusiv den Soundtrack zum Film erwerben. Erzählt es Euren Freunden, Familie und Verwandten, Nachbarn und Bekannten und genießt einen tollen Abend im Kino! Wir freuen uns auf Euch!
SONG FROM THE FOREST – Offizieller Deutscher Trailer
Phonophon | 06 September 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
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Review | By Martin P / Musique Machine
Stéphane Garin & Sylvestre Gobart | Gurs. Drancy. Gare de Bobigny. Auschwitz. Birkenau. Chelmo-Kulmhof. Majdaneck. Sobibor. Treblinka
This double cd album is quite a sumptuous package, containing an essay (reprinted with French and German translations) as well as numerous photographs. As you will no doubt have guessed from the title, the release concerns the geography of Nazi Germany’s attempts to eradicate undesirables: the camps and industrial apparatus that transported victims to death or imprisonment. So, the essay discusses Garin and Gobart’s intentions to avoid the “spectacular” iconography of these events and instead encourage a more meaningful, personal relationship with those memories. Thats clearly an excellent idea, but their solution is far from perfect. So, we have a series of rather beautiful, grainy photographs; taken at pertinent sites, but not adhering to the “standard” imagery associated with concentration camps/etc. Accompanying this are nearly two hours of field recordings, also from those pertinent sites. […]
Review | By PROGRESS REPORT
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
The coordinates in the title are referring to the precise location of Berlins Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem. This place stores over 16000 wax cylinders, a lot of them collected by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel, an Austrian 19th century born ethnomusicologist, who was collecting sounds from all corners of the world that came to him via pre-colonisation explorations from scientists discovering unknown places. There’s a number of things one can expect after having read the liner notes; recovering sound from old wax cylinders with the purpose to make an archival recording (this is actually being done by the museum, lots of these works have been digitalized over the last 15 years) with the aim to preserve it, but it of course also opens up possibilities to interpret those historical snippets and morph them into new abstractions. […]
A one hour radio special dedicated to field recordings and sound art, produced by Australia’s ABC Radio
Jay-Dea Lopez recently curated a show about field recording and “sound art” for Soundproof on Australia’s ABC Radio National. For one-hour Miyuki Jokiranta and Jay-Dea discussed the physicality of sound and soundscapes. Click on the links to listen to the discussion and enter the sound world of Hildegard Westerkamp, Andrea Polli, Richard Garet, Chris Watson, Heiki Vester, Jacob Kirkegaard. Jay-Dea’s selection of pieces showcases the diversity of interests and styles that is explored by contemporary field recordists and artists working with sound. You will hear sounds from deserts to Antarctic research stations to huskies and helicopters to Mexican train lines to Norwegian killer whales to the vibrations of German bridges. This show is now available to download directly from the ABC.
Andrea Polli | Sonic Antarctica
Heike Vester | Marine Mammals and Fish of Lofoten and Vesterålen
Paperback by Salomé Voegelin, pp.165-167
Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound
Eisuke Yanagisawa | Ultrasonic Scapes
Eisuke Yanagisawa’s recording of ultrasonic landscapes are not beautiful or particularly harmonious: they clip and grate, flange and crackle, whizz and hum, sounding more like scrambled signals than a soundscape, and yet they intrigue through what they hint at and make us hear between what actually sounds and our auditory imagination.
The ultrasonic recorder modifies frequencies beyond our hearing range into audible material, translating between an audible and an inaudible world, and granting access from one into the other—adding the unheard to what is audible and making the two compossible. These recordings present the inaudible as a variant of the same world and thus expand the threshold of its actuality and possibility into the invisible depth of the unheard—the impossible. […]
Review | By Martin P / Musique Machine
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
Here’s an intriguing release: the album notes inform us that Rothenberg has made every attempt to “play along” with insect song – playing along live in the field, playing along with recordings (raw or processed) and creating his own insect sounds artificially. He interacts using “bass clarinet, clarinet, seljefoyte and soprano saxophone”, aided and abetted by a few other hands on other instruments. The cd arrives in a playfully packaged digipak, with album notes and text for each individual track. […]
Knallfabet Podcast Juli 2014 :: Musik am Rande von Musik
Dirk Hülstrunk und Oliver Lauberger hatten Stefan Militzer und Roland Etzin, beide Klangkünstler und Mitgründer von Phonophon – Verein zur Förderung von Phonographie und experimenteller Musik – live ins Studio eingeladen. Sie plauderten mit ihnen über Soundscapes und Fieldrecordings, vergrabenen Mikrofonen, selbstgelöteten Synthesizer und andere elektronische Klangerzeugung, Sound im Alltagsgeräuschen und in der Natur, Autohupen und Fluglärm und überhaupt die Frage: Wo fängt Musik an und wo hört Musik auf? Antwort haben wir keine gefunden, aber das Gespräch hat uns wieder neugierig gemacht, die Welt mit anderen Ohren neu zu entdecken.
www.kulturnetz-frankfurt.de
Reviews | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
The Tower of Babel. A convenient Biblical story created to explain the existence of the multitude of languages we share. But what if we all spoke the same language? Wouldn’t it be much easier? If only we hadn’t pissed God off all those years ago with that silly tower. I love languages. I may not speak some of the European ones very well but I like to have a go when given the opportunity. And when the that fails there’s always finger pointing and sign language. Its all part of the fun and you usually get there in the end. Its not like I’m involved in foreign diplomacy here, I’m usually trying to buy a meal or get a bus somewhere. Travels abroad used to be a lesson in how much schoolboy French you could remember but now that everyone speaks English its less of a thrill. […]
Peter Kutin | burmese days
[…] This is a ‘journey’ work capturing many aspects of his trip, insects, forests, bowl rings, the imam’s 5.a.m call, street markets, work places, train journeys, gongs … the lone male singer on ‘Train to Rangoon’ is a happy one, the sound of the train wheels on the rickety track adding its own rhythm, the insects that open the piece are nearer pure electronics than cicadas, the bowl ring that rides out the last five minutes is spine tingling. Kutin is aided by Viennese turntablist dieb13 who had a hand in mixing it and Brendt Thurner who added various gongs and metallophone sounds. Their contributions augment and enhance the work. This is the only field recording album I’ve heard of that instructs the listener to play it back at high volume with good bass response. At times it does feel like you’re listening to glitch electronica or a Pan Sonic album but this only adds to its mystery and longevity. Burmese Days is a work worthy of many repeated plays. A true gem in the Gruenrekorder catalogue.
Review | By Stephen Fruitman / Avant Music News
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
The cornucopia that is Gruenrekorder continues to spill out the most imaginative field and sound art works. It does an absolutely phenomenal job of recording and playing with our world and everything in it. While its back catalogue has long been proof enough, just look at one of its latest batches, including the untreated, spellbinding Morne Diablotins by Rodolphe Alexis, a brightly-feathered, humid hike through Guadaloupe and Dominica, a small island in the Lesser Antilles; or The Hebrides Suite, quite the contrast insofar as its author, Cathy Lane, hopscotching across the isles, treated and arranged her field recordings into a kind of aural equivalent of the classic oral histories of Studs Terkel, I-Chinged into a Celtic circus under the same big top as John Cage´s Roaratorio. […]
Review | By freiStil – Magazin für Musik und Umgebung / #55
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
[…] So wird Stimme zu dem Instrument, das es immer schon gewesen ist. Und um dieses noch eindrücklicher zum Klingen zu bringen, hat Antje Vowinckel die Vocals nicht bloß portioniert, umgestellt und dezent effektiert, sondern sie auch mit Sounds unterlegt – Basslauf, E-Orgel, Summen, das Schwirren eines Pfeiles. Sie doppeln das Sprachmaterial perkussiv und melodisch, ahmen es nach, tragen es weiter, konterkarieren es. Leben ist Improvisation. Sprache ist Free Jazz. Terra Posadia ist aus einer herzerfrischenden Idee erwachsen, überzeugt ästhetisch auf ganzer Linie und öffnet zudem Raum für konzeptuelle und letztlich politische Fragen. Mehr ist nicht zu sagen.
framework radio | #477
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
„this is a special edition of framework dedicated to the life and work of long time supporter, contributor, and friend, joe stevens, who passed away last week after a battle with pancreatic cancer. his influence on this program will not be forgotten. his recordings have often featured on our airwaves over the past several years; in this edition we sample some of the works that were still waiting patiently for their chance.“
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Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Peter Kutin | burmese days
I haven’t read the Orwell novel from which this LP takes it’s title though, I’m guessing, it shares that author’s concerns about Western imperialism in Southeast Asia, even if abstracted beyond direct reference points. Kutin (field recordings), here, is assisted by Berndt Thurner on Burmese metallophones and Dieb 13 on electronics and turntables, melding their instrumental compositions with his recordings to form the two side-long works. And they sound pretty great, some of the finer integrations of field and instrumental sounds I’ve heard in a while. […]
Review | By Ian Holloway / Quiet World & Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Lasse-Marc Riek | Helgoland
Helgoland is Germany’s only offshore island and home to (according to Wikipedia) around 1000 people and, if this collection of recordings is to be believed, a hell of a lot of birds and a colony of grey seals. These recordings form part (all?) of Gruenrekorder’s head honcho Lasse-Marc Riek’s phonography of the island’s wildlife and it is a truly fascinating collection of sounds. I’m no bird spotter, I have a garden full of sparrows, jackdaws and magpies along with an occasional great spotted woodpecker (he’s awesome), but for the most part I’m happy to put out some feeders to help them along and then go back to my book and leave them be. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
I think my only prior exposure to Vowinckel’s work was on a shared disc, on Bowindo, with Alessandro Bosetti and a track on the Echtzeitmusik Berlin collection, so this is my first experience of her music in any depth. Here, the central idea is simple enough: the inherent musicality of certain dialects, in this case, six examples of speech forms in some danger of disappearing: Rumansch (Switzerland), Gutamal (Gotland, in the Baltic Sea), Provençal (France), Wallis-Deutsch (Switzerland?), Gascon (France) and Scottish-Gaelic. She asks native speakers to recount a personal story, records them and, often, edits and reconstructs this core material, including the repetition of phrases. […]
Phonophon | 25 July 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
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www.ayankoko.blogspot.de
* Sawada (JP)
www.snaredrumsolo.com
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Gruenrekorder @ Hidden Stage II / Sound Art Open-Air Festival
4-6 July 2014 – Program
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The School of Sound and the Barbican present
MUSIC OF THE WILD – The sound of the living world
Sunday, 6 July 2014 | 2:00 – 5:30 PM | The Barbican, Cinema 1 | London
Richard Blackford, Bernie Krause and Chris Watson
Three leading talents explore the converging spheres of sound and music
www.schoolofsound.co.uk
Review | By Alexandre Galand / Le Mot et le Reste
@ „Field recording, l’usage sonore du monde en 100 albums“
Stéphane Garin & Sylvestre Gobart | Gurs. Drancy. Gare de Bobigny. Auschwitz. Birkenau. Chelmo-Kulmhof. Majdaneck. Sobibor. Treblinka
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
David Vélez | The wait
“The wait” refers to time spent waiting in the darkness of the Columbian forest, making field recordings and wondering if one is going to be eaten by a jaguar, bitten by a pit viper, squeezed by an anaconda, brushed by a poison dart frog, kidnapped by guerrillas or otherwise injured or killed. An insurance waiver is probably required; it’s not all butterflies and monkeys, despite what the cover of the tourist guide might advertise. Fortunately, David Vélez was born in Bogotá, and he’s already survived a wild trip in the Amazon with Simon Whetham. In one sense, one might postulate that Vélez has become addicted to fear; in a more likely scenario, one might view him as one determined to face his fears. Face them he does in this collage of four recordings, two made at night and two in the morning. […]
Review | By Guillaume Belhomme / Le son du grisli
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek | Series Invisible – Collection 2
A leur collection de field recordings inaudibles mais quand même retranscrits sur papiers (date d’enregistrement et localisation, date d’effacement et localisation, enfin, durée de la chose effacée), Christoph Korn et Lasse-Marc Riek ajoutent aujourd’hui un second tome : Series Invisible Collection 2. Comme hier – le premier volume peut être consulté ici –, un petit livre noir atteste la brève existence d’une cinquantaine de captations interdites de conservation : un CD, qui aurait pu être vierge, aurait-il donné la preuve qu’il n’y avait désormais là – c’est-à-dire près de la mer à Cascais ou à la Baie des Trépassés, dans un appartement privé de Düsseldorf ou sur la tombe de Kafka à Prague… – plus rien à entendre, même pas la preuve de ce rien-là ? […] Pictures
Phonophon | 17 June 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
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Review | By Dietrich Heißenbüttel / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 03/2014
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Musikalische Wertung: 5 – Technische Wertung: 5 – Booklet: 5
«Yes – oui – yes – oui – yes – oui»: Die Stimme des Predigers überschlägt sich beinahe, dicht gefolgt von einer nüchtern vorgetragenen französischen Übersetzung. Bei «I set them on fire» antwortet das Publikum, dann setzt der Chor ein, begleitet von Keyboard und Schlagzeug. Ein Gottesdienst im englischsprachigen Küstenstädtchen Limba im Südwesten Kameruns bildet den Auftakt zu einer Rundreise durch die Soundscapes des Landes. Auf Einladung des Kunstvereins Doual’art – seit 25 Jahren eines der interessantesten Zentren zeitgenössischer Kunst südlich der Sahara – waren Christina Kubisch und Eckehard Güther 2010 für einen Workshop zum Thema Field Recording nach Douala, Kameruns größter Stadt, gekommen.[…]
Phonophon | 04 June 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
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Komplex, release concert | 11 June 2014 – 20:30
ausland | Territory for experimental music, performance and art
Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin
Roger Döring (de)
(clarinet, saxofon, bariton, accordion and more)
& Konrad Korabiewski (pl/dk/is/de)
(live electronics)
Komplex is a forthcoming vinyl album by Roger Döring (Dictaphone/Moser/Meyer/Döring) and the award-winning multimedia artist Konrad Korabiewski, released by the German sound art label Gruenrekorder.
The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet, trombone, and saxophones, Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition of Döring’s sound, and the particular acoustics of the recordings sites, which included a former herring factory by the sea in east Iceland. Musically Komplex moves seamlessly between ethereal ambient melodies or a somber, churning low end, or a hypnotic looping reverie that slowly disintegrates as if under the burr and scratch of a gramophone needle. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy dreams from the north.
In concert, Döring and Korabiewski deepen their musical dialogue, using live electronics to treat and highlight the physicality of acoustic improvisations on clarinet, saxophone, and accordion.
links:
Konrad Korabiewski (www.korabiewski.com)
Roger Döring (www.dictaphone-music.de)
Phonophon | 29 May 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Petrels (UK)
www.denovali.com/petrels
* Talvihorros (UK)
www.denovali.com/talvihorros
* Laid Eyes (UK)
www.vimeo.com/laideyes
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Hörsaal#05 | 25 May 2014 | 10:45 AM | Aschaffenburg
Klänge auf der Durchreise
Klangperformance an der Haltestelle am Mainufer
Eckhard Kuchenbecker und Lasse-Marc Riek präsentieren Klangbilder zum ersten Mal im öffentlichen Raum.
Für den 5. Hörsaal nehmen sie akustischen Bezug zum Ort der Haltestelle und laden auf eine ca. 50 minütige Hörreise von konkreten Geräuschen ein, welche die beiden Künstler live auf deren Klang untersuchen und in Verbindung mit dem Spielort und seinen Klängen in Verbindung bringen werden.
Eine konzertante Mischung aus originalen und modifizierten Klängen bilden den akustischen Fahrplan durch den 5. Hörsaal.
Hörsaal ist eine offene Veranstaltungsreihe, die durch Hörbeispiele zur bewußteren Wahrnehmung der hörbaren Umwelt anregt und akustisch sensibilisiert.
Bei sehr schlechtem Wetter wird die Veranstaltung verschoben.
Sitzgelegenheiten sind begrenzt vorhanden. Sitzkissen oder -decken bitte bei Bedarf mitbringen.
Der Eintritt ist frei.
Im Anschluß stehen Getränke und Gebäck bereit.
Weitere Informationen:
www.schlossjubilaeum-aschaffenburg.de
www.facebook.com/hoersaal.aschaffenburg
Phonophon | 17 May 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Piotr Kurek + Lutto Lento (PL)
www.piotrkurek.bandcamp.com
www.luttolento.bandcamp.com
* Radiolux (D)
www.privatelektro.de/radiolux.html
* RM74 (CH)
www.rm74.ch
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
New Release:
Exclusive download edition
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: “A Day in the Life of a Listener” (GrDl 143/14)
Field Recordings
6 Tracks (36′32″)
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
Peter Kutin | burmese days
We’re always looking for good music at A Closer Listen, but once in a while we realize that something is not only good, but important. Peter Kutin’s Burmese Days is one of these releases.
There’s a good reason we haven’t heard much from Myanmar (formerly Burma), where Western journalism is frowned upon, even forbidden. For six decades, a totalitarian system was in place. When a cyclone hit the region in 2008, the military regime refused Western aid, trotting out a few healthy citizens as “examples” of its efficacy while tens of thousands were dying off camera. When the military ceded control to the “people”, the nation became an ethnic war zone, and over 30,000 Rohingya Muslims were massacred. […]
Review | By PROGRESS REPORT
Various Artists | SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE
From what I gather, this disc was released to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that ran for several months in Dortmund, Germany, until early 2013. Both, as one might suspect, honour(ed) John Cage’s own ‘silent’ meisterwerk, ‘4:33’, and indeed the very concept of ‘silence’ the piece was designed to explore. Silence, of course, does not exist, yet constantly remains a motivation for us (as John Gray illustrates all too clearly in his excellent book, The Silence of Animals). Cage himself proved this before ‘4:33’, a piece inspired by his ongoing interest in Zen Buddhism and, more particularly, the anechoic chamber at Harvard University, which he visited in 1951 and understood after that despite the said chamber’s ability to absorb sound, his own blood circulation and other bodily sounds could still be heard. […]
Review | By MASSIMO RICCI / TOUCHING EXTREMES
Rodolphe ALEXIS | Sempervirent
It is not that arduous to separate the praiseworthy and the unserviceable in the world of location recordings. Rule of thumb: treat any environmental assemblage as an actual composition, and understand how it unfolds and works. The rest is explicated by a splendid phrase by Robert Lynd: “in order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.” Substitute to “birds” the word “life”, and you’re pretty close to the feelings induced by Sempervirent, published in 2012 and retrieved by mere chance inside a box lying in Touching Extremes’ dusty archives. The lone expression coming to mind after subjecting myself to three successive days with this marvel is a somewhat abused “balance of the self”. […]
Reviews | By Stephan Roiss
freiStil – Magazin für Musik und Umgebung #54
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
Drei jüngere Releases aus dem Hause Gruenrekorder porträtieren mittels field recordings unterschiedliche Ecken der Welt: Cathy Lane hat unter dem Titel the hebrides suite eine Liebeserklärung an die Hebriden abgegeben. Diese Gruppe von mehreren hundert Inseln nordwestlich des schottischen Festlands ist spärlich besiedelt, das Hörstück dementsprechend mit Beschaulichkeit angereichert. Der Auftakt-Track führt jedoch sogleich produktiv in die Irre und nimmt zugleich allen, die Kitsch von diesem Tonträger befürchten, mit eindrucksvoll kompiliertem Krach die Angst: schrille Alarmsignale, Bau- und Verkehrslärm, Lautsprecherdurchsagen einer Schiffcrew. Was dann folgt, liegt freilich über weite Strecken fernab der Industrie und der Welt der Technik, gibt sich vielmehr herzlich und spektakulär unspektaktulär. […]
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Das Gefilde, in dem sich das Hörstück von Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther bewegt, ist ein ganz anderes – sowohl geografisch als auch in Bezug auf das Geräuschmaterial. Die beiden KünstlerInnen legen mit mosaïque mosaic, wie sie es selbst in den liner notes nennen, ein „sound diary“ zweier Reisen nach und durch Kamerun vor. Der Stellenwert der Musik im öffentlichen Leben dortzulande hat deutlichen Niederschlag in der entstandenen Arbeit gefunden. Ebenso die Vielfalt an Sprachen und Dialekten. […]
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Rodolphe Alexis schließlich hat sich in die Karibik begeben und aus Guadeloupe und der Dominikanischen Republik Aufnahmen mitgebracht. Der Mensch und die Sphäre der Kultur kommen in den Tracks selbst nicht vor. Gesammelt in Nationalparks und abgeschiedenen Gegenden sind deren Protagonisten Vögel, Grashüpfer, Frösche, laufendes Wasser. Die Ausgangsfrage von Alexis‘ Reise ist diese gewesen: „What did the Caribbean islands look like before the arrival of Columbus?“ Mit morne diablotins hat er eine feinsinnige Antwort gegeben, allerdings auf eine andere Frage. […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / polyphonia.pl
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
W prawdzie album „Mosaïque Mosaic” ukazał się w ubiegłym roku, ale jak widać musiał poczekać na specjalną okazję. Christina Kubisch (ur.1948) to jedna z najważniejszych niemieckich artystek. Od końca lat siedemdziesiątych w swojej twórczości skupia się na instalacjach i rzeźbach dźwiękowych oraz pracuje ze światłem. Jej poszukiwania oscylują w obrębie muzyki elektroakustycznej. Na koncie ma niezliczoną ilość nagród i wyróżnień. Przez wiele lat wykładała na prestiżowych uniwersytetach. Obecnie mieszka w Hoppegarten koło Berlina. […]
Review | By Pierre Cécile / Le Son du Grisli
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
Eva Pöpplein (electronics) et Janko Hanushevsky (basse électrique préparée) forment Merzouga. Il y a peu, ils allèrent « piocher » dans le fond d’ethnomusicologie de la Berlin Phonogram Archive et, à l’automne 2012, donnèrent un concert en se servant de leurs découvertes.
Les fruits de l’expérience, étonnante, versent dans une ambient folkloriste ou des chants de la Terre de Feu, de Hongrie ou du Yemen (etc., of course), croisent l’électronique et la basse électrique dans un ballet qui mêle futur et traditions. […]
Reviews | By textura
Peter Kutin | burmese days
Gruenrekorder releases typically make a strong impression for being unusual and audacious, and, despite being dramatically different in concept, these recent recordings by Vienna-based composer Peter Kutin and Berlin-based sound artist Antje Vowinckel are no exception. Kutin’s is a vinyl release that roots its side-long compositions in 2012 field recordings from Myanmar, whereas Vowinckel’s CD features eight sparsely designed sound compositions oriented around dialects and disappearing languages.
The thing I like most about Burmese Days is that it plays like a formally composed symphony of sorts, with field recordings used in place of conventional instrument sounds and Kutin sequencing the field recordings so that each side creates the impression of being a multi-part suite. Adding to the material’s appeal are musical sounds contributed by Berndt Thurner and dieb13, whose Burmese metallophones and electronics-and-turntables, respectively, merge with Kutin’s field-recordings and electronics on the two settings. An accompanying press note accurately characterizes Burmese Days as something more akin to an abstract composition than a traditional field-recordings album. […]
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
Vowinckel’s Terra Prosodia (which received an honourary mention for the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica) is compelling also, albeit in a different way. The fascination here lies in attending to the vocal sounds as pure sound, as melodies that emerge simply through vocal utterance and the richness of human expression. There are currently approximately 6000 spoken languages, many of them destined to disappear. An arguable upside is that if a dialect or disappearing language is shared by a small number of people, those who don’t speak the language can experience the utterance as pure musical expression. […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / Nowamuzyka.pl
Peter Kutin | burmese days
Egzotyczny krajobraz Birmy to nie tylko piękno przyrody, lecz niedawno zakończony stan wojenny, walka miejscowej ludności o demokratyczne prawa, uliczne zamieszki i bezwzględna dyktatura władz. Peter Kutin to austriacki kompozytor, muzyk i producent z niemałym bagażem doświadczeń. Przede wszystkim należy Kutina kojarzyć z licznymi nagraniami z kręgu field recordingu. Jego fascynacja nagraniami terenowymi zaprowadziła go do różnych miejsc, takich jak strome pasma górskie, dżungla, pustynia, lodowiec, wulkan, uliczne protesty, światowe konflikty czy więzienie. […]
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace) | SURROUNDINGS
Slavek Kwi aka Artificial Memory Trace is a Czech sound artist who since 2000 lives in Dublin, Ireland. From the early 90′s he works under the alias of Artificial Memory Trace. He is interest in exploring electroacoustic sounds both in inside locations and outside. Thirty years span his musical activities travelling around the world and making field recordings which are shown through in sound installations with massive sound system. Also he’s interested in the investigation of free music as part of social research, using space and any object that contains as musical instrument. His work comprises both sound base and multidisciplinary projects. […]
Review | By Roger Batty / Musique Machine
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Morne Diablotins finds Paris based field recordist & sound artists Rodolphe Alexis offering up near on seventy three mintues worth of bird, amphibian, insects and environment recordings from the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Guadaloupe. With the release posing the question ‘What did the Caribbean islands sound before the arrival of Colombus?’ The CD release takes in eight tracks in all, and these last between just over the minute mark, to just shy of the twenty nine minute mark. These tracks take in untreated recordings made by Mr Alexis in early 2013, at various sites in the national parks of Dominica and Guadaloupe. […]
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
The Germans artists Eva Pöpplein (composition and electronics) and Janko Hanushevsky (composition and prepared electric bass) have been working together since 2002 in music improvisation and writing music for radio, theater and films. Their previous album ‚Mekong Morning Glory‘ (Gruenrekorder, 2011) was reviewed on loop. In our composition Pöpplein y Hanushevsky worked with historic wax-cylinder recordings of traditional indigenous music of differente parts of the world which were recorded by different expeditioners between 1905 and 1931 and were used by permission of Berlin Phonogram Archive, Ethnologicsches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Peter Kutin | burmese days
[…] And then Gruenrekorder also expands to the world of vinyl with a rather unusual disc. Peter Kutin is a member of Dirac (see Vital Weekly 708 and 729) and had a solo CD (see Vital Weekly 818), which sees ‘all field and studio recordings’ by him, but also with Berndt Thurner on original Burmese metallophones and Dieb13 on additional electronics and turntables. If I understood correctly Kutin is the composer of this work that is partly a mixture of field recordings from Burma with some additional music from the musicians, all ‘arranged and composed by Peter Kutin’. It’s a pretty interesting work; one that works pretty well. […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
Now that English is the world Esperanto, more and more languages will disappear; there is no ‘need’ for them anymore. Especially from more remote areas there are fewer people speaking local dialects/languages (let’s not go into the differences – you know what I mean). Antje Vowinckel sees an advantage here: if you no longer understand the language, it is possible to enjoy the musical quality of the language, the ‘melodic charm’ as she calls them. She travelled around Europe and recorded people narrating a short story about something personal and she made compositions with that, repeating phrases, sentences and vocalizations. […]
New Distribution:
Ulrich Troyer: “Sehen mit Ohren” (GrD 27/14)
Sound Art
1 Track (35′06″)
CD (500 copies)
Antje Vowinckel play as part of Sonic Vigil 8 | Sat 26 April 6pm
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
Organ and Objects /// music performance for electric organ, amplified slit drum, rasp, vibrating speaker, balloon, tape, cobbler tool
The performance was developped in Olevano Romano, a little Italian village with a long tradition of landscape painting. The visual impression is still romantic and idyllic, whereas the acoustic environment has changed. I tried to keep the contemplative impression of the landscape integrating at the same time the mechanical sounds of the acoustic environment into a musical grammar.
Phonophon | 16 April 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* thisquietarmy (CAN)
www.thisquietarmy.com
* André Foisy (USA)
www.andrefoisy.bandcamp.com
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
New Release:
Exclusive download edition
David Vélez: “The Wait” (GrDl 142/14)
Field Recordings
1 Track (45′43″)
New Release:
Exclusive download edition
Pierce Warnecke: “Darkness in Daylight” (GrDl 138/14)
Soundscapes
9 Tracks (47′01″)
SONIC MMABOLELA | 17-30 November 2014
2nd Annual Workshop/Residency for sound artists & composers at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Conceived and directed by Francisco López (www.franciscolopez.net)
Coordination and logistics by James Webb (www.theotherjameswebb.com)
‘Sonic Mmabolela’ is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semiprofessional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound experimentation and field recordings. It takes place at Mmabolela Reserve, in the Limpopo province of South Africa, right at the border with Botswana. It involves field work, studio work and theoretical/discussion presentations.
The workshop/residency has a special focus on creative approaches to the work with field recordings, through an extensive exploration of natural sound environments. It does not have a technical character but is instead conceived and directed towards the development and realization of projects of sonic creation by the participant artists/composers with the field recordings gathered.
Dates workshop/residency: November 17th – 30th, 2014
Deadline for registration: July 15th, 2014
[but open only until filling the limited maximum capacity of 14 participants]
Detailed information here: www.franciscolopez.net/field.html
SONIC VIGIL 8 | Call for audio and video works: Deadline April 24th, 5pm
A Festival of Improvised Music, Sound Art and Performance | May 2nd – 4th 2014
Sonic Vigil 8 is this year extending its reach into 3 days of activities and is delighted to announce this opportunity for your sounds or images to live two lives!
SONIC VIGIL 8 …………….out in the field | May 2nd – 4th 2014
A Festival of Improvised Music, Sound Art and Performance
Phonophon | 04 April 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Re-Drum (RU)
* JOUX JOUX (D)
* EMERGE (D)
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By maeror3 / darkroomrituals
Antje Vowinckel | Terra Prosodia
Мы часто слышим о том, что надо спасать вымирающие виды растений и животных, но мало кто говорит о том, что в спасении (или, хотя бы, в пристальном внимании) нуждаются языки. Являясь не только передатчиком информации, но и носителем ценного культурологического и этического кода той или иной человеческой общины, они составляют некий Гипертекст […]
Review | By Kevin Ei-ichi deforest / Senses & Society – Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2014
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
“Sound becomes the dominant medium that Air Pressure archives, represents and reflects on this now historic site of resistance. Accompanying the 10 track CD is an elegantly designed booklet containing interviews, writing from both contributors and documentary photos of the farmers inspecting their land, containers filled with organic produce, as well as the collaborators engaging with their subjects … […]
Review | By Steve Feld / Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute – Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2014
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
“The deeply professional and technically expert sound recording work here moves into additional non-narrative evocations through juxtaposition with five different kinds of interacting texts: essay fragments, diary entries, transcript of multivocal conversation, audiotrack transcription, and narrative track by track descriptive notes. Full-page color images, both graphs and photographs (mixing abstract and realist documentary genre conventions) are interspersed throughout. […]
Review | By Stephanie Takaragawa / American Anthropologist – Vol 115, Issue 4, 2013
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
Air Pressure highlights the tension between the sounds and lifestyles of the agricultural world and the air traffic, evoking “Japan’s longest and most violent post-war civil protest, as the farming community of Sanrizuka in rural Chiba prefecture were forcibly evicted to make way for the construction of Narita International Airport,” as is stated in the … accompanying booklet. […]
Review | By Salomé Voegelin / The Wire Magazine – Issue 361
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
With this album, released in Gruenrekorder’s Soundscape Series, Cathy Lane declares her longstanding love affair with the Outer Hebrides. She does so without simplifying phonography into the trope of the solitary wanderer, microphone in hand, staring at the might and magnitude of nature while remaining apart. On the contrary, while there is space in all six tracks to be alone with nature, this nature is not at a distance, but inhabited and lived – raw and harsh rhythms of weather meet those of language and bodies to produce memories in the present, spun from the pulse of life, death and the struggle for survival. […]
framework radio | #459
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
framework radio | #458
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Reviews | By Tina Manske / Musikmag
Das Label Gruenrekorder ist bekannt für seine Liebe zu Feldaufnahmen und Soundscapes. Eine Auswahl der neuesten Veröffentlichungen hat Tina Manske gesichtet.
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
Lange vergangen
Merzouga, das sind Eva Pöpplein und Janko Hanushevsky. Im Herbst 2012 traten die beiden in der Alten Feuerwache in Köln auf und präsentierten ihre Kompositionen, die sie mit Hilfe von alten phonografischen Aufnahmen aus dem Berlinischen Archiv des Ethologischen Museums versahen. Die Veranstaltung ist nun als CD erschienen, und es ist sehr interessant sich vor allem in die uralten Aufnahmen zu vertiefen, die hier zu hören sind, umrahmt von spärlichen Spielereien mit elektronischen Instrumenten und Bass. […]
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
Über Geschichte
Apropos Vergangenheit: für „The Hebrides Suite“ unternahm Cathy Lane einen Ausflug auf die Äußeren Hebriden, eine Inselgruppe von mehr als 100 Inseln 40 Meilen westlich von Schottland. Aus ihren dort gewonnenen Feldaufnahmen, Interviews mit den dort lebenden Menschen und Aufnahmen aus schottischen Archiven komponiert Lane eine Mixtur, die das Verschmelzen von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart möglich macht. […]
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Unmittelbar
Eine wunderbare Reise ist auch die CD „Mosaique Mosaic“ von Christina Kubisch und Eckehard Güther, auf der die beiden Künstler Feldaufnahmen aus Kamerun präsentieren. Kubisch war dort auf Einladung des Goethe-Instituts, um u. a. zusammen mit Güther einen Field-Recording-Workshop für junge einheimische Musiker durchzuführen. Die Teilnehmer führten die beiden an viele versteckte Orte, die sie für phonisch interessant hielten. Es zeigte sich, dass Kameruns akustisches Umfeld jede Menge Entdeckungen bot. […]
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Vor der Entdeckung
Weiter geht’s auf der Reise, jetzt in die Karibik. „Morne Diablotins“ Rodolphe Alexis versucht die Wiederentdeckung eines Landstriches. „Wie sahen die karibischen Inseln aus, bevor Kolumbus kam?“ fragte sich Alexis – bzw. wie hörten sie sich an? Er reiste in den Nationalpark von Guadeloupe und auf die Kleinen Antillen, wo es auf den Bergen noch Reste des Urwaldes zu bestaunen gibt. […]
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek | Series Invisible – Collection 2
Postmoderne Field Recordings
Und zum Schluss noch eine ganz besonders schöne Idee: in der „Series Invisible“ haben sich Christoph Korn und Lasse-Marc Riek zum zweiten Mal den Spaß gemacht, eigene Feldaufnahmen schriftlich zu kartografieren, um sie danach zu löschen und auch das Löschdatum mit in den Karteikarteneintrag hineinzuschreiben. Man liest in diesem schön schwarz gehaltenen Booklet also Dinge wie: „Location: Train Station, Record: 03.09.12, 2:15 PM, Bad Kleinen (D), Delete 03.09.12, 8:56 PM, Duration: 4’40”“ (die politische Konnotation des Ortes ist beabsichtigt). […]
Phonophon | 14 March 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Konkret zu Abstrakt (D)
konkretzuabstrakt.bandcamp.com
* Phirnis / Euphoric Hum (D)
soundcloud.com/phirnis
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
framework radio | #457
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
Gerald Fiebig & Alexander Möckl | Private Transport
GRUENREKORDER IM AUSLAND | 22 March 2014
Recorded in the field by…
Einlass 19:00 Uhr | Beginn 20:00 Uhr
mit: Antje Vowinckel, Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther, Peter Kutin, David Rothenberg & Lasse-Marc Riek!
Ein Gruenrekorder Label Tag im Ausland!
Eines haben die KünstlerInnen gemeinsam; sie arbeiten alle im akustischen Feld und haben bei Gruenrekorder veröffentlicht.
Gefundene Geräusche aus fernen Kulturen, Kompositionen aus dem Wort und Musik in die Welt der Insekten und Tiere!
Antje Vowinckel
Material aus Terra Prosodia
gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=10937
Christina Kubisch & Ecki Güther
Material aus Mosaïque Mosaic
gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=10742
David Rothenberg & Lasse-Marc Riek
Material aus Bug Music und Helgoland
gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=9530
gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=10129
Peter Kutin
Material aus E# :
kutin.klingt.org/EIS.html
Das Frankfurter Label Gruenrekorder verfolgt seit 2003 das Ziel phonographische Arbeiten und Sound Art Projekte auf diverse Art und Weise zu fördern.
Etzin und Riek brachten seither über 140 Veröffentlichungen aus der internationalen Phonography und Field Recording Szene heraus.
Mit Vorträgen, Workshops, Ausstellungen und dem Herausgeben des zweisprachigen Online Magazines „Field Notes“ begleiteten die Labelmacher die Publikationen.
Phonophon | 07 March 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Cyls (D/CH)
www.cyls.ch
* Dirk Huelstrunk (D)
www.dirkhuelstrunk.de
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
‚Sempervirent‘ (2012) of Rodolphe Alexis was reviewed on loop and consist ina research in Costa Rica doing multichannel field recordings in different ecosystems of Central America. Rodolphe Alexis is a French field recordist artist and designer who lives and works in Paris. His work is based on field recording, electroacoustic composition, radio parts and specific sites for installations or performances. What did the Caribbean islands – acoustically- look like before the arrival of Columbus? […]
Review | By Hal Harmon / Musique Machine
Robin Parmar & David Colohan | “…between…”
[…] The former track incorporates strings with a harmonium-like sound, while the latter presents a droning instrument not unlike a Tibetan singing bowl. It goes without saying, as with all Gruenrekorder release, the recordling quality is excellent. I’ve had a really good history with Gruenrekorder and always look forward to their releases with delight. “…between…” is no exception. Parmar & Colohan have created ten skillfully crafted pieces to accompany you through life’s mundanities and then transport you to the ethereal realms.
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Review | By Cheryl Tipp / The Field Reporter
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
‘The Hebrides Suite’ is a multi-layered collection of composed works that reflect Cathy Lane’s ongoing fascination with the Outer Hebrides. A mixture of field recordings, audio diaries, conversations, interviews and oral histories drawn from archives across Scotland, these six pieces explore the history, traditions and ways of life of these ancient islands. How does history – past lives and past events – leave sonic traces and how do we hear them? […]
Review | By Aurelio Cianciotta / Neural
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
Operating since 2002 as Merzouga, Eva Pöpplein and Janko Hanushevsky are two musicians familiar with performing laptop and instrumental improvisation – but their repertoire is not limited only to this: they have composed music for radio, cinema and theatre, mixing audio captures and materials of different origins. This is the case in their latest work, a project based on the recordings on wax cylinders at the Berlin Phonogram-Archive. The digitalized recordings of the last 15 years of the institution’s archive are free to use. […]
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
Sebastiane Hegarty | Four walks around a year: winter
Four walks around a year: spring
Four walks around a year: summer
Four walks around a year: autumn
How well do you know the soundscape of your own neighborhood? Are you in tune with the seasonal changes, the cries of different birds, the direction in which they migrate, the flow of local river banks and drainage systems? Do you know when the neighbors come home from work and when their children leave for school? Do you know their names, or the names of the trees in your yard, or the thickets that grow behind them? What creatures live on your property, and what sort of sounds do they make? Where do they go in the winter ~ do they migrate, burrow, or die? […]
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
Berlin’s Erich Moritz von Hornbostel was one lucky musicologist. Unable to travel, he was aided by a Prussian emperor’s edict that required all wax cylinder music passing through the country to be brought to him. During the early 20th century, he accumulated over 16,000 of these treasures. One can only imagine what he might make of the modern era, in which one might accumulate 16,000 albums by clicking a simple button ~ no camels, tariffs or passports involved. […]
Review | By Cheryl Tipp / The Field Reporter
Peter Caeldries | Jhirna Jali
Fancy transporting yourself to the jungles of northern India? Then look no further than ‘Jhirna Jali’, the latest digital release from Gruenrekorder. This compilation of 9 beautiful recordings, made during a field recording trip to the Corbett Tiger Reserve, is just superb. Recordist Peter Caeldries uses his recordings to take us through a day in the life of the Corbett jungle and the experience is one that I would recommend to everyone with a passion for natural soundscapes. […]
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Sound Art
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Reviews | By Holger Adam / testcard #23
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
Mark Lorenz Kysela | Eins +
Drei Veröffentlichungen vom Frankfurter Gruenrekorder-Label, jede versehen mit höheren akademischen Weihen und ebenso konzeptuell aufgeladen. Kopf-Hörer-Musik. An begleitenden Texten zu den Veröffentlichungen mangelt es folglich nicht, und es ist in der Tat gut zu wissen, was sich jeweils hinter dem, was man zu hören glaubt, verbirgt. Dabei sind, zumindest im Falle von David Rothenberg und Budhaditya Chattopa dhyay, bereits die Titel sehr sprechend: Rothenberg hat buchstäblich live im Feld mit allerlei Insekten Musik gemacht. Begleitend zur CD ist auch ein Buch erschienen: »How Insects Gave Us Rhythm And Noise« – und die Erfahrung einer beeindruckend mikrotonalen Klangumgebung hat vielleicht der eine oder die andere selbst schon gemacht: in der Wiese liegend, Grillen lauschend. Rothenberg hat die Klänge dieser und anderer Insekten eingefangen, sie als Musik hörbar kontextualisiert und um eigene Töne dazu ergänzt. Das Zusammenspiel der entomologischen Orchester mit den menschlichen Gastmusikern klingt zumeist abwechslungsreich und beein druckend, an der einen oder an deren Stelle spielen die Menschen etwas zu gefällig zum feingliedrigen Noise der Insekten – an den Tieren liegt es nicht! Budhaditya Chattopadhyays Eye Contact With The City ist das Pendant zu einer Video-/Klanginstallation, die Bilder und Sounds aus den Straßen Bangalores ausstellt. Nachbearbeitet erinnern die sphärisch verwehten Klänge allerdings nur noch entfernt, wie durch Fensterglas wahrgenommen, an die Geräusche einer Zehn-Millionen-Metropole. Ich nehme an, dass die Bilder zu den Klängen der Installation hier und da nicht zueinander passend präsentiert wurden, was den Verfremdungsefekt verstärken würde. Die Recordings auf Eye Contact With The City lassen zumindest keine eindeutige Zuordnung der Geräuschquellen mehr zu. Die Stadt als Klangkörper verschmilzt zu einer Industrial-Noise-Klangfläche, die dazu einlädt mit den Ohren erkundet zu werden. Wenn die Ohren nach den Insekten und der Stadt noch nicht müde sind, dann gibt es mit Mark Lorenz Kyse las Eins+ u. a. noch zu hören, wie der Musiker klingt, wenn er Musik macht. Mikrofone rücken Kysela, der auf diese Weise ein kompositorisches Konzept des Komponisten Christoph Ogiermann realisiert, so sehr auf die Pelle, dass nicht nur das Instrument und die Klänge die es erzeugt, gehört werden können, sondern auch der sich mit dem Instrument bewegende Körper des Musikers. Insgesamt steht der physische Akt des Musikmachens im Zentrum, nicht so sehr das damit einhergehende klang liche Ergebnis. Dieser Logik, nach Klängen diszipliniert unter verschiedenen Bedingungen und nach Maßgabe aller vorhandenen Möglichkeiten der Instrumente zu forschen, ohne ein Klangerlebnis im Sinne einer »schönen Musik« zu beabsichtigen, folgt Eins+ über 70 Minuten lang, in denen Kysela noch fünf weitere Kompositionen von Alvin Lucier, Uwe Rasch und drei weiteren Vertretern Neuer Musik realisiert. Eine Herausforderung, Meta-Musik zu der man das beiliegende Textbuch studieren muss, um eine erweiterte Vorstellung davon zu erhalten, was es jeweils zu hören gibt. Keine Musik für jeden Tag, aber das ist auch sicher mit keiner der drei Veröffentlichungen beabsichtigt.
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Eastern sounds are unfamiliar to most Western ears, and vice versa. What seems innocuous in one territory may be misinterpreted in another. Never is this more apparent than on the opening selection of Mosaïque Mosaic, as what seems at first to be a militant speaker turns out to be the voice of a church evangelist at a Sunday service. The difference between expected and apparent timbre would be a wonderful subject for study in international relations. Do we really understand each other? If not, what would it take? […]
Review | By Nathan Thomas / Fluid Radio
Sebastiane Hegarty | Four walks around a year: winter
Sebastiane Hegarty’s year-long project “Four Walks Around A Year” draws to a close with the final winter instalment, which takes its place alongside the previously released spring, summer, and autumn episodes. Each documents in audio form a season in the life of Hampshire’s Winnall Moors, including both human and non-human activities. At the beginning of “Winter” we hear an archival recording, seemingly made not long after the Second World War, in which elders recount memories of ice hockey matches on the frozen moors. […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / Nowamuzyka.pl
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Wyobraźcie sobie jakie dźwięki moglibyśmy usłyszeć w lasach Wysp Karaibskich, gdyby Kolumba pożarły morskie stwory i nigdy tam nie trafił. Francuski artysta Radolphe Alexis wybrał się do Parku Narodowego Gwadelupy i Dominiki zadając sobie podstawowe pytanie. Jak mogły wyglądać Wyspy Karaibskie – w kwestii dźwięków przyrody – przed przybyciem Krzysztofa Kolumba? Dominika to jedna z najlepiej zachowanych wysp w archipelagu Małych Antyli, a na niej znajdziemy spore połacie pierwotnych lasów, które porastają stoki wulkanicznych szczytów. […]
Review | By Richard Allen / a closer listen
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
Forty miles off the coast of Scotland lie the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of islands whose populace have seen some harsh times yet still endure. Over the past three decades, Cathy Lane has enjoyed a love affair with the archipelago. The Hebrides Suite is her sonic love letter to the land and people.
As a mixture of field recordings and interviews, the album has the feel of a television show without the sound. Soon one begins to realize that the images are conjured in the mind, and perhaps appreciates the old radio shows a bit better. Those shows captured the imagination and inspired generations to picture their own images. […]
Review | By Kari Nevalainen / Inner-Audio
There has been rhythm on this planet for millions of years longer than humans have opened their mouths to sing. Long before birds, long before whales, insects have been thrumming, scraping, and drumming complex beats out into the world.
ECM recording artist David Rothenberg, who’ve performed and recorded on clarinet with Jan Bang, Scanner, Glen Velez, Karl Berger, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, and the Karnataka College of Percussion, decided to investigate the resounding beats of cicadas, crickets, katydids, leafhoppers and water bugs in his unusual third foray into music made with and out of the animal world. […]
Review | By Cheryl Tipp / The Field Reporter
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
[…] I find myself leaning more and more towards these longer field recordings which, when well done, give the listener plenty of time to ease themselves into the sound and all the nuances that come with recordings of this nature. ‘Morne Diablotins’ is a worthy addition to Rodolphe Alexis’ growing discography. The recordings have an eternal quality that, though contemporary creations, speak of a time before colonisation. Together they offer a window into the past and an opportunity to appreciate the natural wonders of these island nations.
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
The sound artist, composer, lecturer and researcher Cathy Lane, lives and works in London. She’s Professor of Sound Arts, University of Arts London and co-directs the Sounds Creative Arts Research Practice (CRiSAP).
Cathy Lane is interested in how sound relates to the past, our stories, the environment and our collective and individual memories. In this context, she wonders how history, past lives and past events leave traces of sound and how we hear them. […]
Review | By Martin P / Musique Machine
Flavien Gillié | Disparitions
This is a download release, on the ever interesting Gruenrekorder label. Its a short collection of field recordings made by Flavien Gillié on a trip to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau – a place most of you will know better as simply “Auschwitz”. Frankly, this set off all kinds of alarm bells in my head; namely, that making field recordings at an extermination camp was somewhat “cheap” – with the “exoticness” or historical resonance of the site over-riding the content of the recordings themselves. […]
16.2.2014 | Sonicwalk Altkönig – Konzert im Freien
11 Uhr Endhaltestelle U3 Hohemark
Unkostenbeitrag: Um eine Spende wird gebeten.
Das Duo Waldlust (Tobias Schmitt und Lasse-Marc Riek) lädt zu einem auditiven Spaziergang auf den Altkönig ein!
Die TeilnehmerInnen erhalten die Möglichkeit während der ca. 4km langen Wanderung jeweils 1minütige Aufnahmen via portablen Handheld-Rekordern zu tätigen, welche dann von dem Duo live im Anschluss an die Wanderung in einem Konzert weiterverarbeitet werden.
Die Rekorder werden innerhalb der Gruppe während des Aufstiegs weitergereicht und liefern einen Grossteil an akustischen Material für die Live-Performance an der Weissen Mauer!
Bitte warme, leichte und regenfeste Kleidung sowie festes Schuhzeug tragen!
Das Projekt Waldlust arbeitet seit dem Jahre 2003 an unterschiedlichen, improvisatorischen Aufführungskonzepten und war seither in Museen, Galerien und Off-Spaces in Europa zu hören.
7.2.2014 | Hörsaal#04 – Mit den Ohren sehen
Unsere akustische Umwelt bewusster erleben
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Konzeption: Lasse-Marc Riek und Eckhard Kuchenbecker
In Zusammenarbeit mit Radio Klangbrett und dem Bildungsbüro der Stadt Aschaffenburg
Vom Sehen zum Hören. Zum 4. Mal widmet sich die Themenveranstaltung Hörsaal einer Reihe interessanter Hör-Themen: KLANGBILDER – STADTKLANG – HÖRSPAZIERGANG – KLANGKUNST
Eckhard Kuchenbecker und Lasse-Marc Riek laden ein, unsere akustische Umwelt bewusster zu erleben. Dabei wird folgenden Fragen nachgespürt: Wie enstehen Klangbilder? Wie nehmen Geburtsblinde und Sehbehinderte die Welt der Geräusche wahr? Warum schließen Menschen beim konzentrierten Zuhören oft die Augen?
Hörsaal#04 bietet an, Aschaffenburger Klanglandschaften aus verschiedenen Hörperspektiven zu entdecken. Matthias Schäfer vom Dialogmuseum in Frankfurt moderiert den Dialog zwischen Blinden und Sehenden über Hör-Wahrnehmungen und Klang-Eindrücke. Das Klangkunst-Duo David Rothenberg (Klarinette) und Lasse-Marc Riek (Laptop) bilden zudem aus geschaffenen und gefundenen Klängen live eine Hörlandschaft zwischen Musik und Geräusch.
David Rothenberg (USA) ist Musiker, Schriftsteller und Professor der Philosophie und Musik am New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in den USA. Rothenberg hat zahlreiche Bücher über Musik und Natur geschrieben. Zu diesen gehört das Werk „Why Birds Sing“ (Warum Vögel singen: Eine musikalische Spurensuche), welches in sieben Sprachen übersetzt wurde. www.davidrothenberg.wordpress.com
Lasse-Marc Riek (D) arbeitet als freischaffender Klangkünstler mit den Geräuschen unserer Umwelt. Er ist mit Ausstellungen, Konzerten, Vorträgen, Lehraufträgen und Projekten international tätig. Radiophone Kompositionen zum Beispiel für Deutschlandradio, den Hessischen Rundfunk, den Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg und den Österreichischen Rundfunk. Stipendien, Auszeichnungen und Artist-in-Residence-Programme hat er in Europa, Asien und Afrika wahrgenommen.
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phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
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Flavien Gillié | Disparitions
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Review | By NEHA MUJUMDAR / The Hindu
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
The album ‘Elegy To Bangalore’ captures the contemporary clatter of the city.
There’s a lot more to Bengaluru’s Metro train route than breezy commuting; it could well be the perfect symbol of the city’s irrevocable change, as the sounds of sparrows become scarcer and traffic gets louder. In ‘Elegy To Bangalore’, a recently released album of experimental sound by artist Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, the seemingly banal, often annoying sounds of Metro rail construction are transformed into an hour-long exploration of the city. […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / Nowamuzyka.pl
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
Jak wykopaliska muzyczne, to tylko z Merzouga.
Wszystko zaczęło się na początku XX wieku, dokładnie w 1900 roku, kiedy niemiecki etnomuzykolog Erich Moritz von Hornbostel założył w Berlinie pierwsze Archiwum Fonograficznej. Stało się ono zaczątkiem współczesnej etnografii muzycznej. Tego wybitnego badacza nazywano niegdyś „fotelowym etnologiem” ze względu na jego zły stan zdrowia, który uniemożliwiał mu podróżowanie do dalekich krajów. Poznawał odległe kultury za sprawą nagrań jakie otrzymywał z całego świata. […]
Review | By Łukasz Komła / Nowamuzyka.pl
Ptasia symfonia pod batutą wiatru i szumu morza.
Coraz więcej powstaje płyt i wytwórni, specjalizujących się w wydawaniu całych serii poświęconych nagraniom terenowym. Jednak niewielu jest artystów, którym udaje się wciągnąć słuchacza w ich świat dźwięków natury. Zawsze pojawia się ten sam problem, bo co innego być w danym miejscu i poczuć zapach oraz podziwiać widoki, a co innego słuchać różnych odgłosów przyrody pośród szarych blokowisk. Ale jak okazuje się w przypadku produkcji z field recordingiem w czystej postaci, najważniejszy jest pomysł i sposób jego podania. […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
The location mentioned in the title, 52 degrees 46′ North and 13 desgrees 29′ East is where you find the Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem, where they keep 16000 wax cylinders, recorded a century ago. The German emperor at the time wanted every trading and scientific mission to carry a machine to do recordings and send them to Berlin. A true source of early field recordings, so perhaps it’s not strange that these ended up in the hands the people at Gruenrekorder. Or rather, the musical duo of Merzouga, Eva Pöpplein (composition, electronics) and Janko Hanushevsky (composition and prepared electric bass). […]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek | Series Invisible – Collection 2
The other release by Gruenrekorder is an odd ball. It’s a small booklet, roughly CD sized and it contains a list of recordings made by Christoph Korn and Gruenrekorder boss Lasse-Marc Riek and a list when these recordings were erased. Yes, exactly, I was thinking the same thing. „The sound of selected locations or specific sound phenomena have been recorded using a digital audio recording device. Later on these recordings were deleted. This process of finding a location, recording and deleting is then captured textually. […]
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Gerald Fiebig & Alexander Möckl | Private Transport
A new release of the Field Recording Series, this time with Gerald Fiebig, sound artist and Alexander Möckl, producer, composer and guitarist, both based in Augsburg, Germany. They worked together on the installation ‚Private Transport‘ consisting of traffic recordings which was released by the German Gruenrekorder label in a digital edition with the same title which consists of seven tracks. ‚Private Transport‘ is a sound installation which opened in November 2012 in a street underpass called Kunsttunnel in Augsburg. Before this installation Motzart’s music it was broadcast through the same sound system. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek | Series Invisible – Collection 2
Track 31 – Location- Grave of Franz Kafka; Record- 28.03.11, 3.54 PM, New Jewish Cemetery, Prague (CZ) Delete- 01.04.11, 12.21 PM, Duration- 2’15“
One of fifty entries in this collection, made up of similarly formatted descriptions of site recordings realized by Korn and Riek from 2005 to 2012, subsequently erased. The CD-sized book devotes two pages to the procedure and some of the ideas behind it (notes by Georg Imdahl), then lists each recording, in blue text, one per page, in chronological order. The reader (the would-be listener) forms a mental image, visual certainly, perhaps aural, even olfactory of the place and time and imagines what the pair experienced. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Merzouga | 52°46’ North 13°29’ East – Music for Wax-Cylinders
In addition to being a small village in southern Morocco, Merzouga is the duo of Eva Pöpplein (composition, electronics) and Janko Hanushevsky (composition and prepared electric bass). I’d previously heard their „Mekong Morning Glory“ a couple of years ago, which I liked pretty well though thought it was a little too picturesque. Here, they’ve conducted excavations into the wax cylinder collection of the Berlin Phonograph Archive, unearthing eleven samples recorded from 1906 to 1931in Hungary, Egypt, Tierra del Fuego, Yemen, Abyssinia, Bali, Samoa, Switzerland, Mexico and China, weaving them into a kind of variegated rug augmented by subtle additions of their own. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
[…] We walk through metalwork shops, take trams, eavesdrop on a choir practice, listen to announcements from a mosque PA, wander the streets and countryside. Their choices happily de-emphsize the overtly (to Western ears) exotic, giving as fine a sense of place, though different, as they might have done on the streets of Berlin. Beautiful, lengthy conclusion with rain in the distance, irregular drops on nearby metal surfaces, even mixtures of faraway traffic, insects, birds, roosters. Excellent job, one of the best works in this area I’ve heard in a while. Still so hard to quantify.
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Helgoland is a German island in the North Sea, used largely as a naval base but also home to cliffs serving as nesting areas for a large variety of marine birds. Tobias Fischer’s notes on the album deal both with Riek’s personal connection to this island and others in the Baltic Sea as well as raising questions, not unlike some of my own, about eh very subject of field recordings, particularly those which document “nature”: “How much passion can possibly go into an animal recording? […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
A documentation of avian, insectile and amphibious life in Guadeloupe and Dominica as well as surrounding, non-aniumal sounds. As with many similar releases I’ve encountered, it’s tough to make any sort of value judgment except to say how well or poorly the environment seems to have been captured, in this instance, very well. Choices of what to include seem based on which particular fauna have been caught on tape, lending a kind of “nature study” feeling to the endeavor. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
Not Don Byron (just wanted to get that out of the way).
Reed player Rothenberg accompanied by a cast of thousands, if not millions. 16 shortish tracks wherein Rothenberg (plus the odd human accomplice) is heard amidst cicadas, katydids, leafhoppers, crickets and the famed Lesser Water Boatman and its (loudly) vibrating penis. The pieces are more or less “songs” and easily digestible ones at that, loping along in comfortable grooves. Rothenberg is a good player, has an especially nice sound on the clarinets, but treads a musically very safe pathway here. […]
Review | By Brian Olewnick / Just outside
Six compositions by different composers performed by Kysela on clarinets and saxophones with electronic and tape accompaniment. […] An enjoyable recording, extremely well played, covering a wide range of contemporary composers. What more could you want?
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite & Daniel Blinkhorn | Terra Subfónica
@ 2013: The year in retrospective – The Field Reporter
Hörsaal#04 | 07 February 2013 | 7:30 PM | 7 Euro
Sehen mit den Ohren
Unsere akustische Umwelt bewusster erleben
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Phonophon | 09 January 2014 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
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Review | By Le Son du Grisli
Cathy Lane | The Hebrides Suite
Cathy Lane est partie à la recherche des traces sonores (je cite) que l’histoire a laissées sur les îles Hébrides, au large de l’Ecosse. Au milieu des bêlements, des bruits de pas et de moteurs, on découvre sur le CD de nombreux témoignages d’habitants qui peuvent parler en même temps ou que Lane peut transformer en les copiant et collant pour en faire de drôles de loops (là on est à la frontière de la « réalité augmentée »). Impossible de suivre toutes les nuances de la langue et de l’accent… il faut alors se raccrocher aux rythmes de ce document qui en devient poétique. (pc)
Review | By Le Son du Grisli
Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther | Mosaïque Mosaic
Pour qui voyage (et non pas « fait »), chaque pays traversé sera de couleurs et de sons changeants. Invités par le Goethe-Institut de Yaoundé, Christina Kubisch et Eckehard Güther ont, en 2010, tendu leurs micros au Cameroun tout entier. La distance entre le pays d’origine et le pays d’accueil certifiait-elle que la chose enregistrée serait d’un quelconque intérêt ? Or, écoutons : les bruits (de marchés, ateliers, rues, transports, cultes…) défilent simplement, que notre duo capte en ravis : musicalement, presque rien ; quant à la chose documentaire, presque nulle. (gb)
Review | By METAMKINE
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
À quoi les îles des Caraïbes pouvaient-elles ressembler avant l’arrivée de Christophe Colomb ? C’est avec cette question à l’esprit, que Rodolphe Alexis a pris le chemin du parc national de la Guadeloupe et de Dominique, un pays et une île de l’archipel des Caraïbes, qui conserve encore une partie de sa forêt primaire sur les pentes de ses pics volcaniques. Perroquets, insectes, grenouilles, végétation, pluie de jour comme de nuit, une traversée de paysages encore protégés de l’activité humaine et une plongée dans un monde sonoire tellement actif et restitué grâce à la précision des enregistrements réalisés en janvier 2013.“
Review | By Le Son du Grisli
Rodolphe ALEXIS | MORNE DIABLOTINS
Après s’être demandé à quoi pouvaient ressembler les îles des Caraïbes avant l’arrivée de Christophe Colomb, Rodolphe Alexis a pris l’avion en début d’année pour la Dominique. La faune de l’île, assez préservée, lui a offert des concerts d’oiseaux, de grenouilles des arbres, d’insectes et de pluie qui tombe comme nulle part ailleurs. A écouter la nuit, pour respecter le décalage horaire, comme en signe de respect pour ce beau documentaire sonore. (pc)