Listen | Lasse-Marc Riek
Gr 009 | Gruen CD-R > [Sold Out]
41 field recordings 1999-2003
The earwitness with the microphone searching for music in daily routine. For "Listen" Riek collected small daily life compositions out of the world of animals and people. Randomly synchronized sounds turn into abstract acoustic events. The field recordings were caught in the cities of Hamburg,Frankfurt/M. and Wahlstedt, on the coast of the Ostsee and in the forests of Schleswig-Holstein and Hessen as well as in the french Pyrenees, in Perpignan/France and Palau de Vidre/France. In terms of an acoustic ecology the listener is encouraged to ask himself: what sort of sounds do we want and which ones do we not want? Is silence death? Should one pay entrance fee to the forest if one wants to listen to the songs of birds? What`s the meaning of silence in our days? What impact had the philosophy of "moozak", the exposure to an endless flow of music, on people and their way of listening?
Among the field recordings one can find soundscape-compositions, noise and sounds of the environment compositionally and technically arranged. After the end of the CD there is silence … or not?
01 Der Fahrstuhl
02 Die S-Bahn 01
03 Das Skateboard 01
04 Die Ratte
05 Das Flugzeug 01
06 Das Wildschwein
07 Die Stadt
08 Der Turm
09 Die Haltestelle
10 Die Landungsbrücke 01
11 Die Heizung
12 Die S-Bahn 02
13 Das Cafe 01
14 Das Auto
15 Das Skateboard 02
16 Das Dach
17 Das Spiel
18 Die Vögel 01
19 Die Glocke
20 Der Hirsch
21 Die S-Bahn 03
22 Die Landungsbrücke 02
23 Die Übung
24 Die Brandbombe
25 Die Destille
26 Das St. Pauli
27 Das Feuer
28 Das Cafe 02
29 Das Grass
30 Die Vögel
31 Das Essen
32 Der Hafen
33 Die Säge
34 Die Tropfen
35 Das Gerät 01
36 Das Feuerwerk
37 Das Gerät 02
38 Die Rinne
39 Die S-Bahn 04
40 Die Mädchen
41 Der Stumme
41 Tracks (52’34“)
CD-R (50 copies)
Gruenrekorder / Germany / 2004 / Gr 009 / LC 09488
Review
by Vital Weekly/Frans de Waard LASSE-MARC RIEK – HÖREN (CDR by Gruenrekorder) The likewise new name Lasse-Marc Riek presents ‚Hören‘, meaning: ‚listening‘. He has forty-one small field recordings from 1999 up to 2003. He presents them as they are: a skateboard, a plane, the metro, the car etc. He does not add anything such as processing or anything else. It’s a likewise fascinating journey. The recordings are quite nice to listen too, even when it’s not always clear: in the piece ‚Das Flugzeug 01‘, there is indeed a plane, but the birds sound much clearer through. And, although I’m not sure if you would run into trouble with the composer, these raw, unprocessed sounds could easily serve for the more adventurous remixers.