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framework radio | #420
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
Ross Adams – The Compass Series | Nord Rute
Sonic Vigil LP Launch Event at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Sun 19th May 3 – 4.45pm
Admission is free and everyone is welcome
Cork Artists Collective, The Guesthouse and Farpoint Recordings are pleased to announce a launch event for the new Sonic Vigil vinyl LP at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. There will be a unique live performance featuring many of the artists who appear on the LP. These include The Quiet Club, Katie O’Looney, John Godfrey, Harry Moore, Mersk, Karen Power, Anthony Kelly and David Stalling, Kevin Tuohy, Jeff Weeter, Ed Devane with more to be announced. Admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.
Special guest Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten
The Sonic Vigil LP itself is also something rather special…
Fourteen tracks recorded during Sonic Vigil 6 at Triskel Christchurch, it features contributions by national and international artists such as Andreas Bick, Karen Power and Jeff Weeter, Merzouga, Robin Parmar, The Mersk Collective, Gunter Berkus, Liam Slevin, John Godfrey, Francis Heery, Harry Moore, and Tom Lawrence amongst others.
The Sonic Vigil LP is presented in a full colour gatefold sleeve, printed on uncoated board. The edition is limited to just 250 copies, each one pressed on seductive blue vinyl. The LP also comes with a digital download token included inside each copy.
The LP will be on sale at the special price of 12 euros at the event!
This launch event and LP are dedicated to the memory of Tom Lawrence.
With thanks to the Lewis Glucksman Gallery for their kind support.
For more information please visit:
www.theguesthouse.ie
www.farpointrecordings.com
Review | By Roger Batty / Musique Machine
Tom Lawrence | Water Beetles of Pollardstown Fen
“Water Beetles of Pollardstown Pound” is a field recording based release that journeys into the alien & mostly unheard world of aquatic insects. Tom Lawrence was a wildlife sound recordist, musician and educator, who lived in Dublin Island- sadly he passed away in late 2011, but this release is a fitting tribute to his ability to capture the strange & unique sounds of wildlife, and in particular here insects. Pollardstown Pound, or Pollardstown Fen as it’s known locally is situated on the northern margin of the Curragh, approximately 3km from Newbridge, County Kildare in Ireland. [...]
Review | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
[...] Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s ‘elegy to Bangalore’ is a single 55 minute composition thats a monotonous ride mixing the dull roar of building work, city traffic, pneumatic drills [them again] the agitated chatter of site foremen, grinders at work, traditional Indian classical music, [that’ll be the sounds culled from reel-to-reel tapes found in the city’s flea market] … you get the idea … in an attempt to convey the rapid urban growth of Bangalore. [...]
Review | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
[...] David Rothenburg likes to blow his Sax too. And his bass clarinet and a Norwegian flute that has no holes. He likes to play along to insects sounds as captured on several tracks here. Rothenburg wanders into the great outdoors to blow improv and play along with the Katydids. The idea being that the insects provide a natural rhythm to Rothenburg’s improvisations. On a number of tracks he’s helped out by friends, most effectively on ‘Glynwood Nights’ where the overtone singing of Timothy Hill compliments the found sounds of nocturnal insects. [...]
Review | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
I’ve been looking at Dave Foster Wallace’s book Infinite Jest for some years now. Since it was published in 1996 in fact. I used to pick it up in the Bradford branch of Waterstones and marvel at its sheer size [all 1,067 pages of it] and wonder if one day I’d find the time, or the courage, to read it. Seeing as how I’ve now managed to club Pynchon into a corner with a knotty stick I decided the time was right and finally bought a copy. Imagine my surprise then, dear reader, to find Wallace’s voice on the Mark Lorenz Kysela’s release ‘Eins+’. [...]
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Mark Lorenz Kysela born in Stuttgart, Germany studied classical saxophone, chamber music and contemporary music in Frankfurt and the CNR Bordeaux in France.
Kysela works in the field of modern composition, electroacoustic and computer music improvisation and play different types of saxophone and clarinet that combines with electronic devices and tapes.
On ‘Eins +’ Kysela plays six pieces of composers Christoph Ogiermann, Thomas Stiegler, Martin Schuettler, Michael Maierhof, Uwe Rasch and Alvin Lucier. In the six piece Kysela add tapes, sine waves and electronics. [...]
Phonophon @ Nacht der Museen 2013
04 May 2013 | 21:00 – 00.30 – Free Entry
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Theo Goodman
www.myspace.com/buckettovsissors
* Abschnitt_55
www.soundcloud.com/abschnitt_55
* Stefan Militzer & Roland Etzin
www.tonangel.org
www.gruenrekorder.de
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By textura
Mark Lorenz Kysela | Eins +
Let’s not mince words: Mark Lorenz Kysela’s Eins + is challenging music, to say the least. Yes, the Stuttgart-born Kysela does play soprano sax (and clarinet), but he’s no Kenny G or Grover Washington. Attractively packaged in a steel case and supplemented by a full-colour booklet containing background information (in both English and German), Eins + features contemporary works by Alvin Lucier, Christoph Ogiermann, Martin Schüttler, Thomas Stiegler, Michael Maierhof, and Uwe Rasch, all of them experimental settings that pair Kysela with electronic or analogue enhancements and tapes. [...]
Review | By textura
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
On Bug Music, clarinet and soprano saxophone player David Rothenberg communes with all manner of insect creatures, from cicadas and crickets to katydids and engraver beetles. It’s not the first time the ECM recording artist has turned his attention to the natural world: he’s the author of the book-CD project Why Birds Sing and the book Thousand Mile Song, which concerns music-making with whales, and now brings us the seventy-minute Gruenrekorder CD, released concurrently with the book Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise (St Martins Press). [...]
Review | By textura
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
A ten-minute sound/video installation-project that was the recipient of an Honourary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s Eye Contact with the City is newly represented by the much longer piece that evolved out of it called “Elegy for Bangalore.” For the fifty-six-minute work, Chattopadhyay gathered source material during six months of extensive fieldwork in 2010 and 2011 at various locations in Bangalore, India as well as from old reel-to-reel tapes found at the city’s flea markets. The result, two years in the making, is no bucolic portrait, but rather a piece that largely concentrates on the industrial sounds of urban development—the myriad noises generated by machines, vehicles, grinding saws, workers, and the like at enormous metro-rail construction sites—resulting in a sound portrait of a “city undergoing dynamic metamorphosis.” [...]
Review | By Jay-Dea Lopez / The Field Reporter
sebastiane hegarty | Four walks around a year: spring
It is often said that a place cannot be known until each of its seasons have been observed. The transitions in temperature and light, the migration of wildlife and the changes in human activities each signal the way in which a particular site is in a permanent state of flux. In the past landscape painters have depicted visual changes characterised by each season; in classical music such as Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” sought to interpret the temperament of each season. So it would seem field recording is a perfect medium to follow in this tradition, capturing local sounds as they ebb and flow with the seasons. This is precisely the aim of Sebastiane Hegarty’s latest work “Four walks around a year: spring” released through Gruenrekorder. [...]
Review | By Jack Chuter / ATTN:Magazine
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
The result of an artist’s residency in Bangalore, and an accompaniment piece to the audio-visual installation work, Eye Contact With The City.
While Elegy For Bangalore centres on an unmistakable drone of petrol combustion, bustling people and building site whirr, Chattopadhyay’s sonic representation of India’s emerging urban developments sounds warped. Somehow the environment is both distant and enveloping, manifesting a both a 360-degree immersion and an intangible snow globe of sound; claustrophobia jeers from the horizon, as buildings and vehicles refract into disorientating overlaps of past and present tense, folding over themselves as shadows of reverb and delay. [...]
Review | By The Wire
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
Little Machines for Singing: David Rothenberg takes on the swarm
We praise thee auspicious Cicada, enthroned like a king
On the tree’s summit, thou cheer’st us with exquisite song…
Free from suffering, though hast neither blood nor flesh –
What is there prevents thee from being a god?
Written in the first century BC, these lines by the Greek poet Anacreon are the earliest recorded example of insect praise. Attributing god-like status to his singing friend, Anacreon recognises its difference from other life on Earth. In a later age he may have asked “what prevents thee from being a machine?” [...]
Review | By Josh Landry / Musique Machine
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE | ULTREALITH
“Ultrealith” is a very lengthy album of field recordings, featuring pleasing color-coded artwork featuring an orange and black winged insect contrasting with a peculiar arrangement of sewing buttons in primary colors. Artificial Memory Trace apparently have a vast back catalogue of releases, dating back to 1994, but I have never heard, nor heard of any of their recordings prior to now. Over the years, their productivity has, if anything, increased: this album is one of at least 8 releases they have put out in 2012. [...]
Phonophon | 27 April 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK)
* ATMO TAPES 98 (D)
www.soundcloud.com/atmo-tapes-98
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
sebastiane hegarty: “Four walks around a year: spring” (GrDl 128/13)
Field Recordings
1 Track (25′01″)
MP3/FLAC
Phonophon | 13 April 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Sudden Infant (CH/D)
* LDX#40 (D)
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
An Interest In Sound- Gruenrekorder Label Interview | Roger Batty – Musique Machine
Gruenrekorder is a German based field recording, sound art & soundscape label. The label was formed in 2003 by university friends Lasse-Marc Riek & Roland Etzin, and over the last ten years the pair have released a wide range of quality bound field recordings & sound art releases from all over the world, making Gruenrekorder one of the most known & respected names with-in this field. Lasse & Roland kindly agreed to give M[m] an email interview about the labels past & future. [...]
framework radio | #414
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity presented by patrick mcginley
Adrian Dziewanski | Island Terminus
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Iain Armstrong | Sacred & Profane
Iain Armstrong is a composer and sound artist based in Birmingham, UK. His interest is focused on environmental sound recordings expressing themselves a particular music that Armstrong exposed for interpretation through listening, digital processing , composition and performance. His work includes soundscape, acousmatic and radiophonic composition, sound design for theatre and visual media, multichannel sound installation and electroacoustic performance. On ‘Sacred & Profane’ the recordings span several years and several countries that were visited between 2000 and 2012 in sacred places of Italy, Turkey, Nepal, Germany, England, Indonesia and Thailand. [...]
Review | By Julien Héraud / improv sphere
David Rothenberg | Bug Music
Je n’avais déjà pas franchement apprécié le dernier duo Rothenberg/Scanner paru chez Monotype, alors autant le dire de suite, c’est pas avec ce solo que je vais commencer à aimer son travail. La démarche est intéressante, David Rothenberg a voulu ici produire un duo entre les insectes et sa musique, un duo censé mettre en avant les liens entre la production sonore des insectes et les productions sonores humaines, qu’elles soient rythmiques, mélodiques, ou noise. On en tend donc pas mal de samples d’insectes, d’oiseaux et du monde naturel de manière général, ainsi que ses habituelles clarinettes. [...]
Review | By Julien Héraud / improv sphere
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
Avec Eye contact with the city, le label Gruenrekorder revient à une forme musicale plus habituelle, le field-recordings et les installations sonores et/ou musicales qui s’en revendiquent. C’est le deuxième album que Budhaditya Chattapadhyay publie pour ce label, un album tiré d’une d’une installation sonore et vidéo. L’artiste sonore indien propose ici une version longue d’une pièce basée sur des enregistrements effectués sur des sites de construction en milieu métropolitain (à Bangalore, dans le sud de l’Inde), à l’intérieur d’une ligne de métro en travaux, ainsi que sur des cassettes trouvées sur les marchés attenants. [...]
Review | By Julien Héraud / improv sphere
Mark Lorenz Kysela | Eins +
Alors là, voici une étrange suite de pièces interprétées aux saxophones alto, ténor et soprano ainsi qu’à la clarinette par Mark Lorenz Kysela. Autant de bois systématiquement accompagnés d’électronique, d’ondes sinusoïdales et de bandes légeres et discrètes la plupart du temps. Au moins sur deux pistes, on croirait entendre de l’improvisation électroacoustique (surtout les pistes 1 et 3), mais il s’agit pourtant bien de musique écrite – peut-être pas mal à partir de partition graphique ou d’indications sommaires. Quant aux compositeurs, ils me sont tous – hormis Alvin Lucier – complètement inconnus: Christoph Ogiermann, Thomas Stiegler, Martin Schüttler, Michael Maierhof, Uwe Rasch. [...]
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Review | By Ed Pinsent / The Sound Projector
Pietro Riparbelli | Three days of silence
La Verna is a lovely place in Tuscany where I have visited some years ago as part of a tour to see the paintings of Piero della Francesca. It’s famous as the area where St Francis received the stigmata and there’s a shrine built where the incident took place. Sound artist Pietro Riparbelli has surpassed my one-day tourist trip with a three-day sojourn at the Sanctuary in La Verna. It looks like he really got “into” the place and its sounds in a big way and turned the experience into the art statement that is Three Days of Silence (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 102). [...]
Review | By Curt Cuisine / skug – Journal für Musik
David Michael | The Slaughterhouse
This is field recordings pur. Wobei … wenn wir das jetzt verraten, müsste es beim Titel der CD eigentlich »Klick« machen, oder? Der Amerikaner David Michael exerziert auf »The Slaughterhouse« in gewisser Weise den Einserschmäh des Genres durch. Er ist mit seinem Mikro in ein, richtig, Schlachthaus gegangen. Ein Schlachthaus in Birmingham, Alabama. Und wir hören eine knappe Stunde lang, was sich da rein akustisch so tut. Der Witz an der Sache wird klarer, wenn Michael im Booklet davon schreibt, dass eigentlich nur das Geräusch des Schlachtschussapparates auf die Tötung hinweist, ansonsten geht es in diesem Schlachthaus erstaunlich vielgestaltig und dementsprechend interpretationsoffen zu. [...]
Review | By Curt Cuisine / skug – Journal für Musik
Various Artists | SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE – Cage/4’33″/Stille – 1912–1952–2012
Das Gruenrekorder-Label, schön langsam wächst es mir ans Herz mit seinem radikalen Faible für field recordings. Unvergessen die CD, auf der man verschiedenen Schweizer Bergbahnen zuhören konnte. Unpackbar irgendwie, andererseits auch ganz schön kultig. Aber wie sagte John Cage einst: »Sie müssen es nicht für Musik halten, wenn dieser Ausdruck sie schockiert.« Und damit sind wir auch gleich beim Thema. »Sounds like Silence« präsentiert eigentlich ein Radiofeature, das anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Cage und des 60. Jahrestages der Aufführung seines legendären Stückes 4’33” ausgestrahlt wurde. 4’33” ist eigentlich als Aufführungsskandal in die Musikhistorie eingegangen. [...]
Review | By Curt Cuisine / skug – Journal für Musik
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE | ULTREALITH
Die Zikade, Teil 7, Kapitel 1: Merke! Wo Gruenrekorder drauf steht, sind field recordings drin. Kapitel 2: Hinter dem Namen Artificial Memory Trace verbirgt sich der nach Irland ausgewanderte Tscheche Slavek Kwi. Kwi begann als visual artist, interessierte sich aber mehr und mehr die Elektroakustik und natürliche Sounds. Kapitel 3: »Ultrealith« vereint beide Prinzipien. Naturgeräusche, aufgenommen amAmazonas, in Australien, in Kanada etc., wurden teilweise pur verwendet, teilweise mit naturfremden Soundsamples gemischt (man sagt »assembled« dazu), und natürlich entsprechend arrangiert (man sagt »komponieren« dazu). [...]
“Dry, Wet, Evergreen” in quadraphonic setup is invited for 7 months for the exhibition “2013 Natures Tropicales”
with Luc Jacquet, Rodolphe Alexis, Alain Thomas, Yves Thonnérieux – Parc des Oiseaux, Villars les Dombes.
Conférence-rencontre le 19 avril à 18H.
www.parcdesoiseaux.com
Phonophon | 29 March 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Antez (F)
* Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Mark Lorenz Kysela | Eins +
Gruenrekorder may be best known as a label to release lots of music that deals with any sort of field recording, they also release music that is well… just more music related. Improvised, electronic or modern classical, such as in the case of Mark Lorenz Kysela. He plays saxophones and clarinet, solo but also in combination with live electronics, ‘analogue enhancements’ and tapes. Here he plays six pieces, by composers such as Christoph Ogiermann, Thomas Stiegler, Martin Schüttler, Michael Maierhof, Uwe Rasch and Alvin Lucier. [...]
Review | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore
If I understood things correctly, then this fifty-five minute audio work is some sort of off-shoot of a ten minute sound/video installation of the same name. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay uses recordings from ‘various underground construction sites’ in Bangalore (India) in that piece, but also ‘retrieved audio from old reel-to-reel tapes found at the city’s flea market’. These sounds are now also extended to a fifty-five minute sound piece which is to be found on this CD. Apparently there is a lot of building going on in Bangalore, a new quite extended metro rail construction, which changes the city. [...]
Review | By Hal Harmon / Musique Machine
Adrian Dziewanski | Island Terminus
“Island Terminus” is a 2 track album by Adrian Dziewanski. Recorded over the the span of 6 weeks, the album is Mr. Dziewanski’s attempt at capturing Tinnitus as songs. Yes, Tinnitus, the equivalent of an aural hangover after a long night of live music. Working with the musical hallucination, as he put it, he wanted to achieve the sensation of having a song stuck in the listeners head to the extreme. Does he succeed? Maybe….maybe not. What he does deliver is over 40 minutes of well-crafted and engaging field recordings taken over a series of ferry rides. [...]
Sonic Vigil vinyl LP Launch Concert | Sun 19th May, 3 – 4.45pm
Cork Artists Collective, The Guesthouse and Farpoint Recordings are pleased to announce a launch event at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery for the new Sonic Vigil vinyl LP. There will be a special live performance featuring many of the artists who appear on the LP. These include The Quiet Club, John Godfrey, Karen Power, Anthony Kelly and David Stalling, Kevin Tuohy plus others
The LP itself is also something rather special…14 tracks recorded during Sonic Vigil 6 at Triskel Christchurch, it features contributions by artists such as Andreas Bick, Karen Power and Jeff Weeter, Merzouga, Robin Parmar, The Mersk Collective, Gunter Berkus, John Godfrey and Tom Lawrence amongst others. The Sonic Vigil LP is presented in a full colour gatefold sleeve as an individually hand numbered edition of just 250, all copies pressed on seductive blue vinyl…
This performance and LP are dedicated to the memory of Tom Lawrence.
New Release:
David Rothenberg: “Bug Music” (Gruen 122/13)
Sound Art
16 Tracks (69′00″)
CD (1000 copies)
New Release:
Mark Lorenz Kysela: “Eins +” (Gruen 120/13)
Sound Art
6 Tracks (70′18″)
CD (500 copies)
New Release:
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: “elegy for Bangalore” (Gruen 108/13)
Field Recordings
1 Track (55′49″)
CD (500 copies)
Phonophon | 19 March 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Christoph Heemann (D)
* Celer (JP)
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE @ Leipziger Buchmesse
Im Rahmen der Buchmesse Leipzig liest wird am 16. März um 21:00 Uhr das Hörbuch “Sounds like Silence. Cage / 4’33” / Stille. 1912 – 1952 – 2012” von Inke Arns und Dieter Daniels in der Alten Handelsbörse in Leipzig vorgestellt. Moderation: Marcus Gammel
2012 stand neben dem 100. Geburtstag von John Cage noch ein weiteres Jubiläum an: Vor 60 Jahren wurde sein “stilles Stück” mit dem Titel 4′ 33” uraufgeführt – am 29. August 1952. Die Komposition in drei Sätzen ohne intentionale Sounds ist heute das prominenteste Stück von Cage.
“Sounds like Silence. Cage / 4’33” / Stille. 1912 – 1952 – 2012″ ist eine “Anthologie der Stille” mit einem Spektrum von historischen und aktuellen künstlerischen Arbeiten. Die Ausschnitte belegen, dass Stille nie gleich Stille klingt. Einige der Stücke sind wirklich sehr still, andere relativ “laut”. Dem aufmerksamen Hörer erschließen sich dabei subtile, aber weit reichende Unterschiede in der Klangatmosphäre.
Wann: 16. März | 21:00 Uhr
Wo: Alte Handelsbörse
Naschmarkt 1
04109 Leipzig
Tickets: www.leipziger-buchmesse.de
Reviews | By Darby Mullins / DARBY’S CHRONICS
Gruenrekorder Special Focus…
A special focus about the great job of Gruenrekorder. Thanks to artists to doing this.
The sound speaks better than words; but ….
One : the sound design was removed of our living space, and we know so well how each new manufactured objects sounds like shit. Is there any escape from the noise ?
Two : the living sounds are removed from the earth, and we also know how each new products of intensive productivity killing life. Is this the sound of silence ?
ANGUS CARYLE & RUPERT COX | AIR PRESSURE
Recorded in Japan, “air pressure” it’s a tearing sky by airplane reactors. This project is conducted with great intelligence, and technique quality, put the relationships between sounds scales or how articulate gurgling and air traffic.
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE | ULTREALITH
Is the sounds that men don’t hear, don’t exist ? From the deaf vibrations taken with some very special microphones (infra/ultra) Artificial Memory Trace (aka Slavek Kwi) forges a new environment where micro-sounds become the center of the listening.
DAVID MICHAEL | THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
High fidelity ! A sound environment very tiring, where liquids and electricity stand alongside noise of machines, roar of animals…. “Everything have soul, everything” said the man…..We have the knowledge; and lost the application.
IAIN ARMSTRONG | SACRED & PROFANE
For closed this short selection, the last release (that I received this morning) seems really appropriate….With the injection of sacred, the sound design is bring at the high level. A point out of what humanity can create and thinking for communicate with itself (dead and alive), gods, and nature. How the sound is thinking for pass through a country, space, or matter. How it can drive different kind of informations (like bells for example).
Another idea could be the thinking of survives and the modifactions of things in time ; like the evolution of the manufacture of the coin : shape, sound, light, and weight.
framework radio | #410
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity presented by patrick mcginley
Rodolphe ALEXIS | Sempervirent
Filmtheater Casino and Radio Klangbrett presents:
Aschaffenburger Klangtage 2013 – Hörsaal #01
Curated by Lasse-Marc Riek and Eckhard Kuchenbecker
16 March 2013, 10:45 am
Filmtheater Casino, Ohmbachsgasse 1, Aschaffenburg | Admission €7
New Release:
Exclusive download edition
Iain Armstrong: “Sacred & Profane” (GrDl 123/13)
Field Recordings
15 Tracks (66′49″)
MP3/FLAC
Phonophon | 15 March 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Alan Courtis (RA)
* Goodman / Schmitt (USA/D)
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
Adrian Dziewanski | Island Terminus
Adrian Dziewanski is a sound artist who lives in Vancouver, Canada and works under his own name besides side-projects and he has released in several imprints. In his production he uses analog tapes, small motors, found objects, and field recordings. This is also combined with poetry reading, highlighting its sound recording. On the other hand, Dziewanski write reviews for the American online Dusted Magazine and runs the Scrapyard Forecast blog in order to spreads minimalism, field recording, electroacoustics, noise, ambient, and/or musique-concrete, ‘Island Terminus’ became his first attempt to work with the musical hallucination on a conscious level, rather than in the subconscious one. [...]
Gruenrekorder @ webSYNradio
www.droitdecites.org
Yes ! A concentric playlist, a subjective snapshot, kind of ‘audio-portrait’ through a series of invitations only motivated by my sensibilities, current projects, friends and desires. 2:40 of sound, not so heterogeneous. Thanks for listening. (Rodolphe Alexis)
Unmenschliche Musik
Compositions by machines, by animals and by accident
21.02.2013 – 24.02.2013 @ The Haus der Kulturen der Welt
For some time now, the Western musical canon has been expanded by an interest in non-European music. But it is now time to go a step further: in the age of humanity, with “Unmenschliche Musik” (Inhuman Music) HKW will take a look at compositions by machines, animals, and chance.
Can only people make music? Do not birds and whales also sing? What remains of the most holy and intimate art form when software can create compositions that cannot be distinguished from the works of the great masters? Inhuman Music allows for innovative approaches to current issues, for example creativity and intellectual property, artificial intelligence and aleatorics, the chance technique in art, brutism as the art of noise, and other forms of the European avant-garde.
With Nicholas Bussmann, David Cope, Jerry Dammers` Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra, Ebba Durstewitz, Tamer Fahri, Alexander Hacke, Lillevan and Artyom Kim, Andrew Pekler, David Rothenberg, Nobukazu Takemura and others.
Curated by Detlef Diederichsen, and Holger Schulze (Sound-Studies-Professor, Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Coming soon - David Rothenberg: “Bug Music” (Gruen 122/13)
Review | By Roger Batty / Musique Machine
“TransMongolian” offers up six unprocessed field recording portraits of a journey along Trans Mongolian railway,which runs four thousand five hundred miles between Russian & Japan. Roland Etzin is a German based sound artists/ field recordist who has been working in the sound art genre since the early 2000’s. He’s also the co-founder of the Gruenrekorder label with fellow sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek. “TransMongolian” is Etzins’ first full length recording in six or so years, through his work has featured on several sound art compilations inbetween releases. [...]
Review | By Jack Chuter / ATTN:Magazine
Sebastiane Hegarty | Southerlies
The Winchester-based sound artists navigates through old ships and beautiful cathedrals, in a new work on Gruenrekorder.
“My walking, like my listening, has a tendency to wander”.
This quote from Hegarty is made incredibly apparently during his sonic exploration of Winchester Cathedral: the gorgeous lull of choir song wafting warmly around the building’s large interior is cut off abruptly by the slam of a metal gate, marking his departure and subsequent “wandering off” into the outdoors. [...]
Review | By Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
[...] From beginning to end it presents a fascinating portrait of life within this acoustically formidable environment. These recordings are at their most profound when featuring the inhabitants of the farm – either people or livestock – and displays how their lives are accompanied by the constant presence of the planes.
Gruenrekorder have, for a while now, been building up a profound collection of aural documents and this should take its place at the very forefront of that collection.
Harsh Environments by Lasse-Marc Riek – Banned Production
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Phonophon | 17 February 2013 | 8:00 PM | 5 Euro
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
* Paul Hegarty (IRL) & Dan Guiney (IRL)
Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music (e.V.)
www.phonographie.org
www.inm.de
www.gruenrekorder.de
16 February 2013 | HR 2 | 23:05 – 24:00 Uhr | The Artist´s Corner
10 years of Gruenrekorder
Presented by Michael Rüsenberg
Review | By Russell Cuzner / Musique Machine
Merzouga | Mekong Morning Glory
Increasingly musicians are incorporating field recordings into their compositions, where the more traditional, instrument-based rules can be eschewed in favour of exploring the musical properties of the world’s rich, natural timbres and irregular rhythms. So it’s interesting to find artists coming from the opposite direction to this trend. Eva Pöpplein and Janko Hanushevsky primarily produce plays and documentaries together for German radio, but on Mekong Morning Glory they took a range of field recordings from their travels down the Mekong River, selected mainly for their musical properties, and placed them conveniently along a path laid by Hanushevsky’s prepared electric bass guitar. [...]
Review | By Héctor Cabrero / Le son du grisli
Various Artists | SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE – Cage/4’33″/Stille – 1912–1952–2012
Sounds Like Silence est un hommage à la composition silencieuse de Cage, 4’33’’, rendu par des noms comme Nam June Paik, Brandon LaBelle, Ulrich Krieger, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jacob Kierkegaard, Lasse-Marc Riek, Stephen Vitiello ou People Like Us. Sur les lèvres des artistes & musiciens (de documents en captations) on peut lire que si le silence n’existe pas, rien ne vaut pourtant le silence. A méditer ?
Review | By Curt Cuisine / skug
Rodolphe ALEXIS | Sempervirent
Alles wie gehabt auf dem Gruenrekorder-Label. Auf »Sempervirent« ging Fieldrecordings-Artist Rodolphe Alexis nach Costa Rica, um zwei Monate lang Klangsamples aus dem Regenwald aufzunehmen, überwiegend Tiergeräusche. Die Klangqualität ist hervorragend, die Auswahl stimmig (ich mag den »olive tree frog« und den »laughing falcon«) – und mehr gibt es dazu eigentlich nicht zu sagen. Für nicht genreaffine HörerInnen vielleicht zwei Einsteigertipps: Man kann »Sempervirent« alleine in der Finsternis (möglichst ohne störenden Lärm) anhören. [...]
Review | By Pierre Cécile / Le son du grisli
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE | ULTREALITH
Un plaidoyer en faveur de la musique tchèque ? Faut dire : Slavek Kwi nous y invite en expédiant d’un coup d’un seul deux récents enregistrements de son Artificial Memory Trace. Une trentaine d’années qu’il travaille à ses enregistrements sur sites – le temps donc de collaborer avec un autre grand nom du genre, Eric La Casa –, c’est dire si ses efforts méritent d’être récompensés… par quatre clefs, un diapason d’or ou dix perches tendues et qui forment une étoile ! [...]
Review | By Pierre Cécile / Le son du grisli
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
C’est sans doute en avion qu’Angus Carlyle et Rupert Cox se sont rendus au Japon. Pourtant, ce qui les y amenait était un travail d’enregistrement à faire dans une ferme familiale des environs de l’aéroport international de Tokyo. Un Notre-Dame-des-Landes à l’envers, en quelque sorte, puisque les fermiers (Shimamura et Fujiko & fils) se battent depuis 1978 pour faire pousser des légumes auprès des plateformes de béton. [...]
Phonophon | 10 February 2013 | 8:00 PM | Free admission
Institut für neue Medien (INM)
Schmickstraße 18
60314 Frankfurt am Main
Phonokino is a quarterly event presenting videos with a focus on sound, experimental music and/or phonography. The event will take place at the Institut für neue Medien (institue for new media) in Frankfurt/ Germany.
Submissions are highly appreciated. If you feel your work should be presented at Phonokino please send a pm or an email to info@phonographie.org
The works should fit the above mentioned subject and not extend 40 minutes. The format should be VLC playable and not have a resolution lower than 720*576 pixels. If possible insert credits at the beginning and end of your work.
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
Adrian Dziewanski: “Island Terminus” (GrDl 119/13)
Field Recordings
2 Tracks (44′32″)
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Roland Etzin | TransMongolian
New Distribution:
Peter Cusack: “Sounds from Dangerous Places” (GrD 25/13)
Field Recordings
76 Tracks (150′42″)
Book + 2 CDs
Nord Rute on Radio Campus France Network
As part of the Phonurgia Nova and Pierre Schaeffer awards 2012 retrospective, the Radio Campus France Network will broadcast Nord Rute in Paris from 15th to 19th January and the rest of France, Belgium and Switzerland from 19th to 27th of January.
www.lasemaineduson.org
www.phonurgianova.blog.lemonde.fr
Nord Rute, created and produced by the Compass Series and Pikene på Broen, was nominated for the Phonurgia Nova Award. Among the prizes awarded for radio and acoustic art, the Phonurgia Nova competition has, since 1986, occupied a special place by virtue of its recognition of artists whose work exploits sound as a medium for expressing the real and the imaginary.
Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Sebastiane Hegarty | Southerlies
This a new release of the ‘Field Recordings’ series of this German label. Sebastiane Hegarty is an artist, writer and lecturer who has an interesting statement: ‘walking and listening have become partners in the process of composition. Yet my walk, as my listening tends to wander’. And of course, an artist whose creative process is based in nature and time and his interest in doing research about time, place and the sensations they produce, develops a keen listening associating to certain emotions. Another interesting issue is Hagarty’s on acoustic ecology and the perceptual geographies of sound and audition, through field recordings and soundscape composition. [...]
Review | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox | AIR PRESSURE
If you’ve ever bemoaned the fact that you live in a noisy part of town spare a thought for the Shimamura family. Since the late sixties the Shimamura’s have farmed the same few fertile acres of land right at the end of Narita airports runway B. That’s Narita in Tokyo in case you don’t know. 300,000 flights a year passing over the Shimamura’s heads at a height of 80 meters. The airport wants to expand its runway, the farmers want to stay put, protest groups make their voices heard. Over the deafening roar of those 300,000 planes a year vegetables grow, hens cluck and pigs squeal. Life, somehow, goes on. [...]
Review | By Idwal Fisher / IDWAL FISHER
TransMongolian meanwhile is a far more listener friendly release. Traversing the 4,500 miles between Moscow [I think?] and Japan, Etzin captures the sound of wheeltappers at work in train sheds, noisy Pachinko parlors, sleepy train carriage rumbles, the creaking of leather straps on boats, the smooth whoosh of the Shinkansen, the chirp of nocturnal insects and cheery fairgrounds … I could go on, the variety of sounds recorded by Etzin seem almost without end. [...]
Kurzstrecke 9 | Deutschlandradio Kultur
Feature, Hörspiel, Klangkunst (Ursendung)
Rheinstrom – Lasse-Marc Riek
Museum der bedrohten Geräusche | ARTE/NDR
Metropolis begleitet den Klangkünstler Lasse-Marc Riek auf der Suche nach gefährdeten Geräuschen in Hamburger Trödelläden.
Gruenrekorder @ The Field Reporter / Retrospective Post from 2012 (Part I)
Noteworthy sounds and works from 2012
Featuring editorial notes, quotes, sounds, recordings and anything that the editorial staff and guests believed deserved to be highlighted.
Gruenrekorder releases: Three Days of Silence. PIETRO RIPARBELLI, Sempervirent. RODOLPHE ALEXIS, Jhirna Jali. PETER CAELDRIES, TransMongolian. ROLAND ETZIN, Ultrealith. AMT -Slavek Kwi, Estonian string. JEZ RILEY FRENCH, Edgelands. MICHAEL TROMMER, Slaughterhouse. DAVID MICHAEL, Somewhere on the edge. VA.
Review | By Patrick Farmer / The Field Reporter
Sebastiane Hegarty | Southerlies
[...] Listening with microphones changes a person, and I am speaking from experience. Here Sebstiane Hegarty has decided to ground us inside the din of an excitable audience expectant of the spiritual tonality emanating from Haydn’s oratorio, Creation. As these familiar sounds come through my speakers, I hear the squeaking of a child’s, or even a dog’s, toy. And now I understand, I remember. If I were an audience member at this event, though I realise that here I am the sole audience, experiencing a composition in which I can’t imagine anything was left to chance in the meticulous post production process, I doubt I would have thought twice about such playful colour sneaking out above the white noise that surrounded me. [...]