Monat: Juni 2019

---

 

Gruenrekorder @ Phonophon meets SCHIRN: Konzert
Auf Gitarre, Bass, Xylophon und Panflöte des Künstlern Pedro Reyes sowie auf einem Schlagzeug der Künstlerin Caroline Mesquita spielen sechs Mitglieder von Phonophon ein Klangkonzert der besonderen Art: Die Instrumente wurden von Reyes aus konfizierten Waffen der mexikanischen Drogenmafia geschweißt.

 

Das Konzert bildet einen Beitrag des Eröffnungsfestivals, in dessen Rahmen am 22. und 23. Juni viele Instrumente der Ausstellung BIG ORCHESTRA von MusikerInnen bespielt werden.

 

23.06.2019 | SCHIRN KUNST­HALLE FRANK­FURT am Main, 60311 Frankfurt
Beginn: 14:00 – Eintritt: 10 Euro (für beide Festivaltage)
www.schirn.de

---

 

framework radio | #673
phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley
CLUBbleu | DARK~asian~ENERGY [singa~core album]

---

 

Review | By textura
David Rothenberg | Nightingale Cities
On Nightingale Cities, clarinetist David Rothenberg expands on the duet approach of his earlier ‘interspecies‘ recordings by including others. To that end, he and like-minded musicians collaborated with nightingales in Berlin and Helsinki over a five-year period, the results documented in this double-CD release (a companion to the recording is Rothenberg’s 2019 book Nightingales in Berlin). One of the best things about this unusual project is that it’s not field recordings-based in the usual sense: a recording of that kind typically sees the artist collecting sounds from the environment and merging them with material, musical or otherwise, generated at a different place and time; in Rothenberg’s case, interactions with nature, in this case nightingales, happen live and are recorded in real-time. (His music projects involving non-human species haven’t centered on birds exclusively, by the way, but also have included ones with whales and bugs.) […]

---

 

Review | By textura
Gerald Fiebig feat. EMERGE & Christian Z. Müller | Gasworks
Issued in a 500-copy CD edition, Gasworks collects five works Gerald Fiebig (b. 1973) created at the former gasworks in Augsburg-Oberhausen, two of them respective collaborations with EMERGE and Christian Z. Müller. With the site the focus of Fiebig’s artistic practice for more than a decade, it’s a space he’s come to know intimately, and the pieces, created between 2010 and 2016, reflect a broad range of explorations, including a live improvisation performed in the echo chamber of the large gas tank, processed recordings of the sounds of gas and industrial equipment, and a sound installation piece built around a 2007 interview with the late Johann Artner, a gasworks employee from 1947 to 1989. Its large metal tank, eighty-four metres high and forty-five in diameter, has afforded the Augsburg-based sound artist a wealth of reverberative sound possibilities to work with. […]