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Fire and Frost Pattern | Andreas Bick<\/a> Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe cold ice burns like the hot fire,\u201d wrote Max Beckmann in 1948 in his letter to an imaginary female painter. The extremes of fire and ice have always been a popular metaphor for the opposites of ardent passion and unfeeling frigidity, of flux and torpor \u2013 extremes which, for all our polarizing way of perceiving them, are very similar. This is also true, especially so in fact, in the acoustic field: in terms of their behaviour and dynamics, the sounds we associate with fire and ice \u2013 as created by volcanoes, glaciers, embers, snowfall and many others \u2013 seem to be related and are sometimes almost indistinguishable. The loudest natural sounds on Earth are linked with volcanic eruptions and colliding icebergs. The sounds involved range from the infrasound of volcanic tremors and the so-called \u201csinging icebergs\u201d through to the near-inaudible high-frequency crackling and whistling of falling snowflakes and glowing coals. These extremes of hot and cold lie to either side of the moderate temperatures where life is possible. Nonetheless, a magical attraction is exerted on humankind by these outer reaches of the world it inhabits, as shown by our unbroken fascination with the polar regions and with volcanoes. The twin works Fire Pattern and Frost Pattern examine the sound worlds of extreme temperatures: beginning with the loudest sound event in each case \u2013 volcanic eruption, iceberg collision \u2013 the various intermediate states of hot and cold are explored in acoustic terms, embedded in two similar compositional sequences. For both pieces, the field recordings of natural phenomena were subjected to subtle modifications and sonic transformations, and woven into an abstract sound structure that offers a sensory experience of the forces exerted by fire and ice. (Andreas Bick)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fire Pattern <\/p>\n Frost Pattern<\/p>\n MP3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 Tracks (52\u203250″) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n G\u00f6tz Naleppa about Fire and Frost Pattern<\/em> <\/p>\n Related material<\/strong><\/p>\n Free download of Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets<\/a> by Andreas Bick \u2013 one of the recordings which were used in the composition Frost Pattern.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andreas Bick (andreasbick.de<\/a>) is grateful to the following for their kind support: Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the company of Fielax, Hanna Hartman, Kain Karawahn, Bastiaan Maris and Andreas Old\u00f6rp.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Produced by Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2006\u20132007. First broadcast of Frost Pattern on 3 November 2006 and of Fire Pattern on 8 November 2007. Audio CD and surround-sound version (download only) released by Gruenrekorder (gruenrekorder.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Awarded the Phonurgia Nova Prize for 2008.<\/p>\n Frost Pattern received an honorary mention at the 35th Bourges International Competition for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, 2008.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photos of Lake Eyre are part of Murray Frederick\u2019s (murrayfredericks.com.au<\/a>) Salt series. Pictures on disc and behind tray are based on an ice photo by Heinz Peter Kapteinat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Design by Daniel Knef (knef.code23.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n Translations by Nicholas Grindell (grindell.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n Audio CD released by Gruenrekorder (gruenrekorder.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder<\/p>\n Germany \/ 2010 \/ Gruen 074 \/ LC 09488 \/ GEMA \/ EAN: 4050486023242<\/p>\n With kind support of Deutschlandradio Kultur<\/a>, Fielax<\/a> & Alfred Wegener Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Russell Cuzner\u00a0|\u00a0Musique Machine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n When he’s not composing music for German film, TV and radio, Berlin-based artist Andreas Bick can be found out and about recording the natural environment. Fire and Frost Pattern collects together two distinctly related works of his field recordings first composed (in 2006 and 2007 respectively) for Klangkunst, a weekly show on Deutschlandradio Kultur dedicated to sound art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fire Pattern works very much as an exhibition exploiting the sound-producing properties of flames of different sizes found in active volcanoes, on training grounds for airport fireworkers and in small glass tubes and bottles. It begins with the eruptions and thunderous wake of volcanic activity before entering less easily defined territories as dual layers of a grainy drone imitate an aeroplanes engine. This leads on to several vignettes, often preceded by whooshes of ignition that zoom in on the ensuing smaller sounds. Here we find impressions of waves breaking, followed by growing clusters of spit and hiss forming restless complaints, and a giants footsteps perhaps wandering from volcano to volcano to light them like candles. Midway through, tubular putters introduce a gurgling geyser as things get apocalyptic once more before quelling down into the rhythmic interplay of the crackle and hiss of hot embers. The piece ends most remarkably with long, low notes not unlike those of a didgeridoo building into a kind of druidic raga.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frost Pattern also displays the dynamic ranges of a collection of recordings, this time from various bodies of ice. Starting again with the loudest: an iceberg colliding with the Antarctic shelf, the piece plots a path through frozen lakes that mix underwater ambience with surface noise, glacial ice effervescing as it melts in a bathtub, different types of snow falling on aluminium foil and an ice floes thirst-quenching clinks. Once again, these sounds hurtle their blind audience through contrasts of scale, tone and timbre not to describe the corresponding object or event, but to reveal their sonic qualities. In this way, open air destruction on a gargantuan scale builds into climactic cannon fire followed by deep, rich extended tones suggesting an oversize bowed string instrument, before shrinking down to delicate small rustling movements like a series of tiny insects hatching. Later, rising rumbles and thunderous movements introduce what could be sci-fi laser gun shots only to be replaced by more earthly sounds of ripping cracks and low end groans that set in relief the trickle of rivulets or the tap dance of needle-fine dripping.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While the sounds presented here are exquisitely preserved and save any listener the danger of braving a volcanos eruptions or an icebergs flow to bathe in their respective soundworlds, the most intriguing aspect is their similarities and differences. Bick has clearly sequenced both pieces to carefully highlight any coincidences: they both begin with the most thunderous events and conclude with smaller, rhythmic passages across an almost identical timeline. However, the clear labelling of each piece combined with amount of detail in the booklet accompanying the disk mean that one is likely to come to these pieces primed as to their significance, perhaps obscuring further similarities from revealing themselves. But this does nothing to stop both pieces from being fine examples of the sensual pleasure that can be drawn from non-musical documentaries of the living world when handled as expertly as Bick does here. I wonder what they sound like when played together?<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Axel Ganz | Jahrgangsger\u00e4usche<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Die Naturgewalten der extremen Temperaturen. Hitze und K\u00e4lte. In unseren kulturgeformten Bildern und Begriffen sind sie die Symboltr\u00e4ger des Gegens\u00e4tzlichen schlechthin. Selten sind wir jedoch in ihrer N\u00e4he. Was w\u00e4re, wenn man die Pole einmal nicht nur als Klimawaagschalenhalter des Planeten betrachten w\u00fcrde? Dazu Vulkanismus und Plattentektonik als Voraussetzung f\u00fcr die Entstehung von Leben auf der Erde einfach mal hinter ihren akustischen Eigenschaften zur\u00fccktreten lassen k\u00f6nnte?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andreas Bick erarbeitete mit \u201eFire And Frost Pattern\u201c im Jahre 2006 im Auftrag des Deutschlandradios Kultur eine klangk\u00fcnstlerische Arbeit auf der Basis von Natur-Fieldrecordings und anderen Ger\u00e4uschaufnahmen. Es entstand fast so etwas eine Naturbetrachtung der Extreme unter dem Aspekt der Laute, eine akustische Natur-Ph\u00e4nomenologie als Ergebnis einer klangk\u00fcnstlerischen Arbeit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beachtlich sind zwei Aspekte, die \u201eFire And Frost Pattern\u201c aus der Vielzahl anderer Fieldrecording-Interessengebiete und -Sammlungen hervorheben. Bick ist sich der besonderen Bedeutung des Parameters der Dynamik bewusst und arbeitet sich an diesem mit den extremsten Lautst\u00e4rkengegens\u00e4tzen beginnend (Vulkanausbruch, singende Eisberge) innerhalb der zwei St\u00fccke von ca. 26 Minuten sukzessiv zu den Durchschnitten, mithin in unsere Klang- und Klimat\u00e4lern hinab. Dabei rekonstruiert und restrukturiert er das Ausgangsmaterial der Feldaufnahmen auf eine ebenso behutsame wie durch und durch musikalische Art und Weise mit den Mitteln der Konfrontation, Staffelung und \u00dcberlagerung. Eine von Anfang bis Ende brilliante Arbeit, die in ihren Ergebnissen an manchen Stellen \u00fcberraschenderweise gar nicht so weit entfernt zu sein scheint von den zumindest teilsynthetischen Welten eines Asmus Tietchens.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ed Pinsent | The Sound Projector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Andreas Bick offers the furthest extremes of heat and cold which the natural world can throw at him on Fire and Frost Pattern (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 074), two suites composed from sound events created by geysers, volcanoes, colliding icebergs, ice buckling, snow falling on foil, and so forth. Both works are structured to begin with the loudest sonic element in his hard drive (the volcanic eruption wins hands down for the Fire piece), and then proceed to direct the listener through an astonishing journey, where we experience these wild and raw forms of nature from a comparatively safe and privileged vantage point. The listening experience still conveys some sense of danger even so, and also tells us how little we still understand or really know about the planet.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROGRESS REPORT<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n In this continued search, Bick almost creates a master\u2019s thesis, based on a lot of field work. And imagining how that field work must have looked like, an underwater laboratory comes into mind, with specialized instruments able to register micro-tectonic rumblings, that are normally impossible to hear by human beings. Most of the things that are going on are hardly above normal audible levels as these are microtonal structures, found on a journey through fire and ice, with much patience and a greatly developed sense for details. Most of the sound phenomena on the two tracks (one is called Fire Pattern and the other is Frost Pattern) find their basis in ordinary physics, like air vibrating inside glass tubes heated by a gas flame, the sound of alcohol igniting inside flasks or field recordings in the vicinity of a volcano creating contrast with sound waves moving through ice and the sound of snowflakes as they fall and touch the ground. The effect that these patterns have, are similar with experiences in late night mist, when things can unexpectedly show up, more nearby than assumed, disturbing an isolationist feeling. Fire and Frost Pattern should be played only at very high levels to have those droning sonic sculptures appearing as if they were hidden and their latent present shape sublimates as soon as we hear them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yet, with all its details, patience and academic approach there is a analogy with all alchemists attempts up to now at least; Bick is not able to transform simple matter into gold. PvdG. <\/p>\n IAN HOLLOWAY | WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Two long tracks of re-contextualised field recordings of heat and of cold. link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hannis Brown | tokafi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Blasting volcanoes and colliding icebergs: Relating sounds to temperature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fire and Frost Pattern, by German composer and sound artist Andreas Bick, is an exploration of sounds generated by heat and cold temperatures. The album consists of two pieces of nearly identical length, each constructed entirely of natural sounds related to temperature.\u00a0 Field recordings of geysers, volcanoes, icebergs, snow, fire, and cracking ice are used to create shifting rhythms and held tones that coalesce from seemingly random sounds to coherent \u201cmusical\u201d ideas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both \u201cFire Pattern\u201d and \u201cFrost Pattern\u201d begin with the loudest sonic event related to that temperature extreme (a volcanic eruption; an iceberg collision) before documenting movement to a more moderate temperature. Sounds generated by such events as a smoldering fire, water droplets evaporating, and ice melting create fascinating rhythmic regularities and irregularities. Long, glissing bass tones are the result of sound waves dispersed through ice sheets. The dripping of water and crackling of ice make for a meditative soundfield transformed by \u201cactive listening\u201d to soothing rhythmic grids.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The other intriguing conceptual realization inspired by Fire and Frost Pattern is the uncanny similarity of sounds generated by extreme heat and extreme cold. Bick uses a nearly identical form in both pieces to illuminate this point. The blasting volcanic eruption that opens \u201cFire Pattern\u201d\u2014the loudest \u201cheat-based\u201d sound on earth\u2014sounds remarkably similar to the iceberg collision that opens \u201cFrost Pattern.\u201d In each piece, the opening sound is immediately contrasted with an extremely quiet temperature-based sonic event (evaporation of water, falling snow). From there the pieces move through the rhythmic resonances of what sound like flames flaring, snow crunching, wood crackling, water sizzling on a pan, steam, and countless other indistinguishable sounds. Bick manipulates the sonic textures into churning, inconsistent rhythms broken by textural changes and barely audible \u201cdrones\u201d of found sounds. The compositions move through their respective \u201cheating\u201d and \u201ccooling\u201d processes, illustrating a decrease of kinetic energy, before settling on long tones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Throughout, Fire and Frost Pattern is a fascinating work that magnifies and illuminates the intricacies of sonic events largely unexamined by human ears. At moments the pieces truly transcend the concept of \u201cfield recordings\u201d and \u201csound art\u201d to make a truly unique sensory experience.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zipo | aufabwegen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Klangkunst die sich mit Naturph\u00e4nomenen befasst hat oft die gleiche Wirkung auf uns wie seinerzeit fr\u00fche Tierfilme im TV. Man taucht ein in unbekannte Welten, erh\u00e4lt pl\u00f6tzlich Zugang zu bisher verschlossenem Terrain. Wenn dieses \u201cAufdecken\u201d und \u201cHineinf\u00fchren\u201d mit einer eigenen \u00e4sthetischen Qualit\u00e4t, die \u00fcber das blo\u00dfe Entdeckertum hinausreicht, vollzogen wird, dann entsteht tolle akustische Kunst. Andreas Bick ist dies mit seinen beiden f\u00fcr das DeutschlandRadio Kultur produzierten St\u00fccken Fire Pattern und Frost Pattern bestens gelungen. Ein St\u00fcck erforscht die Eigenschaften von Vulkanen und hei\u00dfen Quellen, der Gegenpart geht den Eisbergen und Frostblumen auf den Grund. Bick geht im Text auf einige Aspekte der Klangforschung ein, die ihn besonders aus kompositorischer Sicht reizten. Und da geht mir ein Sto\u00dfseufzer auf: denn auch wenn das Grummeln der Hitze brutal harsch klingt, das Bewegen des Eisbergs wie ein r\u00f6hrender L\u00f6we oder das langsame Schmelzen wie ein Glitch-Remix von Autechre, so sollen diese Kl\u00e4nge mich bittesch\u00f6n um ihrer selbst Willen fesseln. \u201cBoah!\u201d will ich nicht sagen m\u00fcssen, weil mich Bick \u00fcberrascht, wie toll ein Eisberg klingt, z.T. erst mit technischen Hilfsmitteln h\u00f6rbar gemacht. Hier ziehe ich die naiv-emphatisch Geste eines Rolf Julius vor, der eine Membran auf einen Stein legt. \u201cBoah!\u201d sage ich, weil Andreas Bick mit abenteuerlichen Kl\u00e4ngen wie selbstverst\u00e4ndlich operiert und sie miteinander als \u201cMusik\u201d wirken l\u00e4sst. Gegen alle lackaffigen Tendenzen so mancher Klangkunst l\u00e4sst sich Andreas Bick immer von der Faszination f\u00fcr den Sound leiten. Daf\u00fcr bin ich ihm dankbar und ich meine, diese Faszination h\u00f6rt man seinen beiden Kompositionen auch an.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aurelio Cianciotta | Neural<\/a><\/strong> link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nessuna metafora – anche nel mondo dell’arte e alle sue latitudini maggiormente sperimentali e avanguardiste – supera per le immediate suggestioni che riesce ad evocare, quella dettata dall’opposizione caldo-freddo. Gli estremi – come ci insegna anche la filosofia orientale – sono per\u00f2 in qualche misura complementari, si trasformano l’uno nell’altro, sono interdipendenti e hanno origine reciproca. In ambito acustico soprattutto, i fenomeni auditivi che \u00e8 possibile associare con il fuoco e con il ghiaccio, hanno stranamente un comportamento e dinamiche di frequenze molto simili: le field recording che ne scaturiscono risultano infine quasi indistinguibili per provenienza. Vulcani in eruzione e iceberg che collidono – pur nei loro differenti processi – sembrano far riferimento ad un medesimo universo sonoro, limiti che stanno poi a demarcare quella che \u00e8 la „zona intermedia“ dell’udibile. In entrambe le due lunghe suite di questo progetto di Andreas Bick, i materiali estratti sul campo sono stati sottoposti solo a sottili modifiche e trasformazioni, intrecciati in una struttura astratta che offre davvero un’intensa esperienza sensoriale delle forze esercitate.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richard Pinnell | The Watchful Ear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Home very late tonight, midnight in fact after spending the evening eating a rather nice meal cooked by my better half. I have committed to writing a review every day for a little while though, so I will do just that. I spent the day listening at various times to Fire and Frost pattern, a CD by Andreas Bick released quite recently on the Gruenrekorder label. This is one of those CDs which I don\u2019t get my hopes up too high for before listening, for probably quite irrational reasons. Firstly, I really don\u2019t like the sleeve design one little bit, but that\u2019s a taste thing. Then I note from the back sleeve that the music has been entered, and subsequently won several \u201csound art\u201d prizes. This is certainly not a good sign! Then, reading the extensive liner notes, the music is made to sound as much like an audio equivalent of a National Geographic article than simply some interesting music. Details are given about where each sound on the two pieces here were found and how they were recorded. probably a little too many details really.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are two pieces here then, each lasting around the twenty-six minute mark. Named Fire Pattern and Frost Pattern, the two are derived from sounds involving the two extremes of temperature. The Fire track utilises recordings of volcanoes, geyser activity, and ignited alcohol vapour alongside some kind of \u2018gas burning in a test-tube\u2019 activity. The sounds are then collaged together to create the piece. Similarly, Frost Pattern uses seismic recordings of iceberg induced earthquakes, cracking ice, \u201csizzling\u201d ice and apparently the sound of snowflakes falling onto a sheet of aluminium foil hooked up to contact mics. The question then, given that we have a wild array of unusual and nicely recorded sounds here, is does all of this come together to make convincing music or are these sounds best considered as some kind of science experiment?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well its patchy, but often it is possible to forget the origin of the sounds and let the musicality of the compositions work. The Frost track, the second here is decidedly more interesting than Fire Pattern, perhaps because the sound of cracking, straining and hissing ice is that much more detailed and a wider range of sounds appear than in the rushing, heaving explosions that exist in the Fire track. They are also somehow more musical sounds. Although the semi-regular explosive elements of the volcanic eruptions in the first piece form a kind of structure and rhythm that the groans and hisses of the other fiery elements work well with, the Frost track feels more like the music I normally listen to, more textural and grainy, a mix of little shards of prickly sound and larger, booming groans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This isn\u2019t a bad CD at all then, its listenable and in places the detail and sheer incredibility of the sounds made by nature and man\u2019s intervention with it are fantastic. There is an air of art establishment to it all though that comes through in the music here and there as the composition does feel a little tame, sounds placed almost politely beside each other rather than really brought together with a bang to see what occurs. Beyond the probable dangers of trying to record gas flames trapped in glass bottles etc, It doesn\u2019t feel all that risky music, and its origins as a presentation on a German cultural radio station, together with all those sound art awards do seem to get in the way of my enjoyment as the music feels more like a series of neatly arranged science experiments presented as music rather than anything more raw and sensual. Still, an interesting and on occasion quite awe-inspiring set of recordings that will be of interest to those interested in the documentation of natural phenomena as much as anyone into experimental music.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guillermo Escudero | LOOP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This German composer and sound artist based in Berlin has been working in a wide range of fields like rock, hip-hop, music for films, TV series, radio play soundtracks, dance theatre and writings, among others. <\/p>\n Este compositor y artista sonoro alem\u00e1n reside en Berl\u00edn en donde ha estado trabajando en distintos campos como el rock, hip-hop, m\u00fasica de pel\u00edculas, series de TV, bandas sonoras para radio, danza teatral y ensayos entre otros. link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n innerversitysound | Cyclic Defrost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Andreas Bick is a German composer and sound recording artist for radio, theatre, film and television.Fire and Frost Pattern is released as a stereo recorded CD or as a surround sound download. It was awarded the Phonurgia-Nova-Prize in 2008 and a mention at the 35th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art in Bourges 2008.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fire and Frost Pattern negotiates the ground between environmental sound recording art and composition. It is never at any time either explicitly and compositions of recordings are directed at questions such as: how do you record falling snow? How do you make flames sing? The techniques for such recordings are documented by Bick in the accompanying booklet and the experimental compositions are arranged with sound recordings from active volcanoes Mt. Yasur in Vanuatu, Vulcano Arenal in Costa Rica, and Mount Etna in Sicily. Similarly geyser sounds from Iceland are combined with \u2018singing icebergs\u2019, \u2018dispersion of sound waves in Ice sheets\u2019, \u2018Ice sizzle\u2019, \u2018Creaking and Cracking Ice\u2019 and \u2018Ice Buckles\u2019. Bick points to the technical difficulties in transposing sounds of ice from infrasound to an audible range and the difficulties associated with such transposition. Among other technical issues explored include the loud 205db source sound of the collision of icebergs, the incidental sounds of seals, the whoosh bottle effect of the ignition of alcohol and gas flames creating vibrating columns of air..<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An important aspect of the release is the attempt to convey an unromantic depiction of nature, to steer clear of the passionate, metaphoric or allegoric renderings of nature. The difficulty in creating a piece where construction of sound merges with recording of sound encounters the problem of how constructions can covey objective information. That it could be objectively related to the listener outside frames that had no conditioning is no longer really a serious proposition, but to steer clear of overt entanglements with concepts associated with the perception of nature in the construction is more the goal of the recording. While it is impossible to avoid the sense of the compositional Bick notes that a good deal of such activity happens at the micro level imperceptible to the listener. In a more direct sense they are two tracks that are specifically renderings of fire and ice, renderings into patterns. They are collated into two tracks that mix constructed sounds of these natural phenomena with recorded sounds, in no sense is to be conceived as a scientific rendering but more product of scientific investigation and documentation into a descriptive work forged from numerous source inputs.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ron Schepper | textura<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the polarities associated with fire and ice, the sounds that emerge during this recording’s two pieces are such that at times they could as easily respresent one as much as the other (a trudging rhythm that emerges in \u201cFire Pattern\u201d could pass for someone trudging through snow, for example). In accompanying liner notes, Andreas Bick makes the same point in acknowledging that the sounds associated with the two elements\u2014the loudest ones linked to volcanic eruptions and colliding icebergs\u2014are sometimes indistinguishable. In the recording’s two twenty-six-minute pieces, the Marl, Germany-born sound artist, known for writing music for films and radio plays, explores the full spectrum of sounds associated with the elements, from the loudest (eruptions and tremors) to the softest (the almost inaudible noises made by snowflakes and coals). Though some degree of modification was applied to the raw material, the integrity of the originating sounds is preserved in the recordings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cFire Pattern\u201d opens with the repeated sound of a volcanic eruption that’s as fierce as a granite structure collapsing or an amplified wave crashing. That initial episode is followed by skittering figures that suggest fire igniting, and as the piece continues, convulsions and crackling appear, often woven together so that alternating contrasts of loud and soft emerge. Near the end, a deep, guttural drone appears that, strangely enough, sounds as much like Tuvan throat singing as it does anything fire-related. Like the first piece, \u201cFrost Pattern\u201d opens with violent sounds, in this case stemming from an iceberg collision, after which oscillating pitches of creaks, crackles, and groans surface. At certain moments, dribbling sounds identify the source material as water-related, but at other times the sounds assume a more elusive quality that makes them sound less associative though still elemental.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What’s especially impressive is how Bick takes such natural sounds and sequences them into field recording compositions, as opposed to merely presenting them as unrelated streams of varying sounds. As a result, one hears the two pieces as compositions of an unusual sort that are in some strange way suggestive of classical form in their structural design. Equally fascinating are Bick’s detailed descriptions (in the booklet that comes with the recording) where he writes about \u201csinging flames\u201d (within glass tubes, gas flames are tuned to specific notes), \u201cice sizzle\u201d (as glacial ice melts in the sea, bubbles of air create an explosive popping noise that becomes a multi-voiced sizzle), and the crackle of snowflakes and the creak of cracking ice. Ultimately, the two pieces on this fascinating recording unlock some of the sonic mysteries of the earth’s primal elements by granting such an up-close perspective, and they also serve as a reminder of their indomitable status.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brian Olewnick | Just outside<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n hmmm…that cover image looks oddly familiar……<\/p>\n As advertised, two compositions, one based in flames, one in ice. A variety of sound sources are employed, from field recordings (volcanoes, cracking lake ice, iceberg „sizzles“) to what might be thought of as science lab phenomena (gas flame sin glass tubes, ignited alcohol in a bottle, snow falling on aluminum foil). The pieces are clearly assembled and strike me as having something of the character of your standard magnetic tape works of the 60s, i.e., more concerned with contrast between blocks of sound, timbre and texture than structure (I’m certainly being unfair both to those older composers and, likely, Bick). This can make for intriguing listening on one level but I come away, ultimately, unsated. 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\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0445\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043a\u0430\u0447\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0438, \u0441\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0435 \u043f\u043e-\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u043e\u044f\u0449\u0435\u043c\u0443 \u043e\u0431\u044a\u0435\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u044d\u0444\u0444\u0435\u043a\u0442. 5\/5<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tina Manske | CULTurMAG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Singende Flammen und Eisberge<\/p>\n Es ist wieder soweit: Der Winter hat Deutschland fest im Griff, drau\u00dfen herrschen wenig einladende Minusgrade. Genau die richtige Zeit also, um es sich vor der heimischen Anlage mit field recordings von extremen Temperaturen gem\u00fctlich zu machen \u2013 so wie Tina Manske.<\/p>\n Der Komponist und Klangk\u00fcnstler Andreas Bick hat sich in den letzten Jahren unter anderem als Komponist von Fernsehmusiken (\u201cBerlin Berlin\u201d, \u201cDer Dicke\u201d et al.) hervorgetan. Mit seiner neuesten Ver\u00f6ffentlichung wagt er sich an die Grenzen der bewohnbaren Welt. Die Temperaturen, die man hier \u2018h\u00f6rt\u2019, sind zu extrem, um darin leben zu k\u00f6nnen, und dennoch (oder gerade deswegen) strahlen sie eine ungeheure Kraft aus.<\/p>\n \u2018Patterns\u2019, Muster kennen wir im Fall von Hitze und K\u00e4lte insbesondere auf der visuellen Ebene (das Muster, das sich auf der schlecht isolierten Fensterscheibe nach einer kalten Nacht zeigt oder das Flirren der Luft \u00fcber einer hei\u00dfen Stra\u00dfe). Muster gibt es aber auch auf der auditiven Ebene. In den Liner Notes macht Andreas Bick auf den ewigen Dualismus zwischen brennendem Feuer und klirrender K\u00e4lte aufmerksam. Interessanterweise aber sind sich beide Ph\u00e4nomene in der Form ihres Klanges sehr \u00e4hnlich, manchmal sogar \u00fcberhaupt nicht zu unterscheiden. Der Ausbruch eines Vulkans und das Zusammenst\u00fcrzen eines Eisbergs haben eine identische Soundstruktur, das Knirschen von gefrorenem Wasser unter leichtem Druck \u00e4hnelt pl\u00f6tzlich dem Knistern eines Holzscheits im Kamin.<\/p>\n Die beiden zusammengeh\u00f6renden Kompositionen aus Feldaufnahmen entstanden f\u00fcr das Deutschlandradio Kultur und wurden dort zum ersten Mal 2006 und 2007 ausgestrahlt. Im Jahr 2008 erhielten sie den Prix Phonurgia Nova, eine Auszeichnung f\u00fcr herausragende Klanginstallationen und -projekte. Jetzt sind \u201cFire Pattern\u201d und \u201cFrost Pattern\u201d beim auf Feldaufnahmen spezialisierten Label Gruenrekorder auch auf CD erschienen.<\/p>\n F\u00fcr die Kompositionen wurden Feldaufnahmen mit elektronischen Hilfsmitteln leichten Transformationen unterzogen. Bick gelingt es, auf k\u00fcnstlerischem Weg die in Feuer und Eis enthaltene \u2018Musik\u2019 h\u00f6rbar zu machen. Unter den Ph\u00e4nomenen, die man hier zu Geh\u00f6r bekommt, finden sich singende Eisberge (eingeschlossenes Wasser, das mit Hochdruck durch Hohlr\u00e4ume gedr\u00fcckt wird, erzeugt Oszillation und damit die singenden T\u00f6ne), singende Flammen (ein Ph\u00e4nomen, das bereits im 19. Jahrhundert von Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Kastner entdeckt wurde), die Ger\u00e4usche, die Berliner Seen w\u00e4hrend Temperaturver\u00e4nderungen in den fr\u00fchen Morgen- und sp\u00e4ten Abendstunden von sich geben und das Entz\u00fcnden von Alkohol in Flakons.<\/p>\n Den Fall von Schnee h\u00f6rbar zu machen, d\u00fcrfte zum Schwersten geh\u00f6ren, dessen man sich als Klangk\u00fcnstler annehmen kann. Bick gelingt das Kunstwerk, indem er die Kristalle auf Alufolie fallen l\u00e4sst, die wiederum direkt an ein Mikrofon angeschlossen ist.<\/p>\n Der einzige Sound auf der CD, der nicht von den Elementen selbst herr\u00fchrt, ist der leise Ruf einer Robbe von unter dem Eis. Romantisch.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark Wharton | IDWAL FISHER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The worst thing about the relapse [or the \u2018Istanbul Goat Virus Round Two\u2019 as its known round these parts] is that it robbed me of my powers of concentration. During the first phase of its manifestation two weeks ago all I needed was the strength to pull a CD from its sleeve and insert it into the stereo. During the more virulent second phase all I could manage was staring out of the window whilst listening to the cricket updates on Five Live Sports Extra.\u00a0 As I slipped between coma and semi coma news of wickets falling in Somerset and Warickshire entered my head only to leave again moments later.\u00a0 As a means of whiling away the days it was as good as it was going to get. For some strange reason the sound of any kind of music drove me to absolute torment. I decided it was best left alone.\u00a0 These last few days then have given me some idea of what my retirement days might be like and if I ever make there in such lousy shape I may as well take up alcohol as a distraction.<\/p>\n Thankfully I\u2019d become familiar with this batch of Gruenrekorder releases the first time around so it was a just a matter of working my way back in.<\/p>\n Gruenrekorder is a two man label stroke organisation dedicated to the promotion of experimental music and phonography. Phonography meaning \u2018an acoustic experience loaden with musical sounds\u2019.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve always been a bit of a passenger when its come to Field Recordings [a term that Gruenrekorder also use], I do have some of Chris Watson\u2019s work, some Touch releases that cover the same ground and the odd bit by various Schimpfluch members where they\u2019ve stuck microphones hither and thither and recorded whatever\u2019s emerged, but this is my first serious chance to get to grips with a label dedicated to such material and to give it a serious appraisal.<\/p>\n […<\/a>]<\/p>\n My big problem with For \u2018Fire And Frost Pattern\u2019 is that it skates dangerously near to\u00a0 \u2018new age\u2019. Its two compositions of \u2018fire\u2019 and \u2018frost\u2019 remind me of the days when doped up hippies used to sit and listen to whale sounds going yeah man and wheres the bean casserole.\u00a0 Andreas Bick creates two almost thirty minute pieces, one representing heat and the other cold. As you can probably guess Fire Pattern contains the sounds of volcanoes but after that struggles a bit so includes the man made sounds of \u2018singing flames\u2019 [a kind of late 19th century flame organ] and alcohol burning in bottles. Its OK but not a patch on Frost Pattern which has far more depth to it. […<\/a>]<\/p>\n Gruenrekorder don\u2019t just release Field Recordings and Sound Art though, you\u2019ll find them investigating Soundscapes as well as running a workshop and an intermittent dual language downloadable PDF magazine called Field Notes. Its archived and worthy of your attention. Theres also a few more free downloadable albums beside the one I mentioned. Having never heard of Gruenrekorder a month ago I know find myself a fervant fan.<\/p>\n What interests me now is has anyone done any true \u2018Industrial\u2019 field recordings? I mean in actual working factories? I\u2019ve been musing this for the last few days. I wonder if there are too many obstacles involved? Its not like you can just turn up at a factory with your equipment and say \u2018I\u2019d to record your machines please\u2019. First you\u2019d have to find out which machines makes the most interesting noises and that in itself would take months of ground work. Then you\u2019d have to get the companies permission. The company involved would no doubt have to give you assistance as I\u2019d doubt whether they\u2019d just let you wander around their premises until you found what you wanted. The results could be interesting, just hard to collate.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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\nReading Andreas Bick\u2019s fascinating technical descriptions of his twin compositions Frost Pattern and Fire Pattern, one could be forgiven for believing these were sound recordings made as part of a scientific research project. In an earlier piece entitled Windscapes (Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2001), he used the natural phenomenon of \u201csinging dunes\u201d \u2013 recorded in the Namibian desert. But Klangkunst, the weekly hour-long programme on Deutschlandradio Kultur for which all these pieces were produced, is not about science. It offers plenty to listen to, but there is little talk or explanation.
\nPeople often ask who is served by scientific research. In this (rare) case, since the composer Andreas Bick uses the results of scientific research, as well as produces recordings under essentially scientific conditions himself, one may answer that science serves art, the art of sound composition. A curious listener scanning Bick\u2019s pieces for the sounds of natural phenomena like \u201csinging flames,\u201d \u201csinging icebergs,\u201d \u201cice sizzle\u201d or the eruption of volcanoes and geysers, will certainly be fascinated. But such a listener will only hear the skeleton of the composition, not the composition itself (like someone using Messiaen\u2019s Oiseaux exotiques to identify bird calls). Although Bick is sparing in his use of sound-processing techniques, the composition is an \u201calchemical\u201d process of transformation. As a result, the mighty bass sounds of calving icebergs or volcanic eruptions take on a mythical quality fitting for a work on the primal elements (and primal fears) of humanity. The artistic process here is concerned primarily with making audible the \u201csecret\u201d sounds hidden in nature, liberating the music held in fire and ice.<\/p>\n
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\nSomewhere in the liner notes one can read that the \u2018artistic process is primarily concerned with making audible the \u2018secret\u2019 sounds hidden in nature\u2019 and that very well can be read as the mission of Germany\u2019s Gruenrekorder label in general. Fire, water, earth and air were the 4 elements identified by the ancient Greeks as a first attempt to describe and explain matter surrounding us. As this could not explain everything, alchemists added aether as a fifth element to help their quest for wealth.<\/p>\n
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\nBick has amassed a collection of sounds that represent the many variations on each of these themes and created two long selections of harsh yet immersive soundscapes.
\nIn terms of vision and execution Bick’s work puts me most in mind of the later period works of Japanese sound ‚designer‘ (his term) Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) who’s single sound-source compositions tread similar ground to Bick.\u00a0 The discordant sound sources melding to provide an anomalously restful and multi-hued whole.
\nBick’s choice of sources is an inspired choice. Adapting them from a range of sources from both the sciences and the arts he has created an alchemical fusion of the two into something new and rather special.<\/p>\n
\nNo metaphor – even in the art world, with its more experimental and avant-garde latitudes – exceeds the immediate fascination that the hot-cold dualism manages to evoke. The extremes – as Eastern philosophy teaches us – are to some extent complementary; they transform into each other, are interdependent and have a mutual origin. Especially in the field of acoustics, the auditory phenomena associated with fire and ice exhibit strange behaviors and very similar frequency dynamics: the field recordings that stem from them are almost indistinguishable. Erupting volcanoes and colliding icebergs – even though vastly different processes – seem to refer to the same world of sounds. These limits demarcate the „middle zone“ of the audible. In both of the two long suites in this project by Andreas Bick, the materials extracted in the field have undergone only subtle changes and transformations, woven into an abstract structure that offers a truly intense sensory experience of the forces exerted.<\/p>\n
\nThis record belongs to the field recording series of German Gruenrekorder label which is run by German sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek.
\nThe CD consist in two pieces: \u201cFire Pattern\u201d and \u201cFrost Pattern\u201d recorded in 2006 and 2007, respectively and is accompanied by a booklet with Bick\u2019s descriptions of the sound sources which are warm phenomenons like natural sounds from volcanoes, geysers and man-made sounds that can be listen on \u201cSinging Flames\u201d (gas flames into a glass tubes produce a specific notes) and \u201cIgnition of Burning Alcohol in a Bottle\u201d (sound produce when it ignites the alcohol into a glass of water which is similar to the one volcanic eruptions and geysers make).
\nThe cold sounds phenomenons were recorded on \u201cSinging Icebergs\u201d which is about ice collisions, \u201cDispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets\u201d register the sound of the ice expanding and contracting by the fluctuations in temperature that finally produce cracks; \u201cIce Sizzle\u201d that records how the ice melts in the sea; \u201cbubbles of air create an explosive popping noise, adding up to a many-voices sizzling\u201d. \u201cSnow on Aluminium Foil\u201d is the sound of falling snow that can show different sonorities. \u201cCreaking and Cracking Ice\u201d and \u201cIce Buckles\u201d are the last two recordings about ice in different conditions.
\nI would say that most of the sounds I heard make me feel scare and maybe this is because I do a parallel to the sounds of shakings and earthwakes that unfortunately in Chile we are used to them.<\/p>\n
\nEste disco pertenece a la serie de grabaciones de campo del sello alem\u00e1n Gruenrekorder dirigido por el artista sonoro alem\u00e1n Lasse-Marc Riek.
\nEl CD consiste en dos temas: \u201cFire Pattern\u201d and \u201cFrost Pattern\u201d grabados en 2006 y 2007, respectivamente y que contiene un folleto con las descripciones que Bick hace de las fuentes sonoras que son fen\u00f3menos naturales que emiten mucho calor como volcanes y g\u00e9iseres, adem\u00e1s de sonidos hechos por el hombre que pueden ser escuchados en los temas \u201cSinging Flames\u201d (llamas de fuego que dentro de un tubo de gas producen notas espec\u00edficas) e \u201cIgnition of Burning Alcohol in a Bottle\u201d (sonidos que se producen cuando se enciende fuego al alcohol dentro de una botella de vidrio, que son similares a los que realizan las erupciones de volcanes y g\u00e9iseres).
\nLos sonidos del fr\u00edo extremo fueron grabados en \u201cSinging Icebergs\u201d y se trata de colisiones de hielos; \u201cDispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets\u201d registra el sonido del hielo cuando se expande y contrae producto de los cambios de temperatura y que finalmente producen grietas; \u201cIce Sizzle\u201d graba el hielo cuando se derrite en el mar y \u201cburbujas de aire crean un estruendo, agregando muchos chirridos. \u201cSnow on Aluminium Foil\u201d es el sonido de la nieve cayendo sobre el agua que puede mostrar varias sonoridades. \u201cCreaking and Cracking Ice\u201d y \u201cIce Buckles\u201d son las \u00faltimas dos grabaciones acerca del hielo en sus distintas condiciones.
\nDir\u00eda que la mayor parte de sonidos me producen miedo y quiz\u00e1s esto se deba a que hago un paralelo a los ruidos que producen los temblores y terremotos, a los que desafortunadamente aqu\u00ed en Chile no estamos ausentes.<\/p>\n
\nI was lucky enough a few years back to experience one of the sounds included here; whilst walking around the edge of a lake in Sweden one morning I heard a high pitched sound followed by a low rumbling one. It turned out to be the air escaping from beneath the ice. The entire lake was frozen over, but was slowly melting. Maybe a mile in diameter and the entire piece of ice was floating, air escaping to its edges in small spurts. On a cold, still morning with no one around it was an experience I\u2019ll never forget and one I\u2019m grateful to Bick to be able experience again.
\nIce, snow, frost, cleaving icebergs, Bick uses them all to good effect and incredible sounds they make too. Capturing the sound of falling snow flakes by attaching contact mics to sheets of tin foil also works.\u00a0 If only I could shake off this new age thing maybe I could like it just that little bit more. I\u2019d have been quite happy to have listened to all of these sounds as individual tracks. Collaging them into \u2018suites\u2019 or \u2018symphonies\u2019 or \u2018patterns\u2019 leaves me um \u2026 cold.<\/p>\n