Gruenrekorder @ sound thinking | 30.May. – 01.June.2013

Goethe-University Frankfurt M. / Germany
“what i see is thinking; what i hear is thinking, too” [atom heart]
This project serves two conjunct purposes: on the one hand it wants to develop a sonic philosophy that takes music serious as a ‘form of thinking’ [and that might revise our notion of what ‘thinking’ means]. On the other hand, it aims to bring this approach into a fertile symbiosis with the concepts and practices of ‘artistic research:’ art, philosophy, and science as heterogeneous, yet coequal forms of thinking and researching. [...]

Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay | elegy for Bangalore

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay was born in Birbhum, India where he studied cinema specializing in audiography. In addition to film he workes on field recordings and experimental music.
‘Eye Contact with the City’ is an audiovisual installation which won in 2011 the Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica which is held every year in Austria. This work was the result of a residence in Bangalore, India in the fall of 2010. [...]

Review | By Ed Pinsent / The Sound Projector

Rodolphe ALEXIS | Sempervirent

Excellent recordings of animal wildlife and the forest environs on Sempervirent (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 111), made by the field recordist Rodolphe Alexis. He did it in various nature reserves and protected areas of the Costa Rica forests in Central America. His setup was such that he simply wanted to document whatever passed before his mics, but it so happens a large amount of wildlife was captured onto disk as well, and so a list of species has been provided in the package, along with rich colour photographs of same in the booklet. [...]

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

Mark Lorenz Kysela | Eins +

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 | Eins +

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. [...]