{"id":8407,"date":"2012-09-16T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=8407"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:23:26","slug":"transmongolian-roland-etzin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=8407","title":{"rendered":"TransMongolian | Roland Etzin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TransMongolian\u00a0| Roland Etzin<\/a>
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6 acoustic portraits of Russia, Mongolia, China, South Korea and Japan<\/p>\n

Gruen 103\u00a0| Audio CD > [order<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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TransMongolian is a composition of unprocessed field recordings composed in soundscapes. I recorded these acoustic phenomena on my journey through Russia, along Lake Baikal, through Mongolia, China and South Korea to Japan. These countries do not only have very different landscapes and ways of life, they also differ in their sounds, a dimension which more often than not goes unnoticed. The 6 acoustic portraits reflect what I found to be representative of or very special about the countries.<\/p>\n

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Portrait 1 (Recorded in Russia, 08\/2010)
\nPortrait 2 (Recorded in China, 08\/2010)
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\nPortrait 3 (Recorded at Lake Baikal, 08\/2010)
\nPortrait 4 (Recorded in Mongolia, 08\/2010)
\nPortrait 5 (Recorded in South Korea, 09\/2010)
\nPortrait 6 (Recorded in Japan, 10\/2010)
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6 Tracks (52\u203254\u2033)
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This CD is part of the \u201eVia Mongolia\u201c project, an exhibition which took place at B105, Apres-Midi and MV Agusta in Seoul \/ South Korea from 19th \u2013 31st August, 2010. The project presented sound recordings by Roland Etzin and pictures by Katrin Hoedemacker and Roland Etzin. \u201eVia Mongolia\u201c was curated by Mary Song, coordinated by Jina Nam and supported by Gruenrekorder. Thanks to all, especially Jiyeon Kim at Sound@Media, Lasse-Marc Riek and Young Kyun Ryoo for their friendly support. TransMongolian was broadcasted on Deutschlandradio Kultur in March 2012. The Audio Track \u201cPortrait 6 (Japan)\u201d was on \u201cThe Wire Tapper 29\u201d CD with The Wire magazine in July 2012.<\/p>\n

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Design and drawings by Ren\u00e9 Seifert \/ Flatlab<\/p>\n

Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder
\nGermany \/ 2012 \/ Gruen 103 \/ LC 09488 \/ GEMA \/ EAN: 4050486051788<\/p>\n

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Roger Batty | Musique Machine<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cTransMongolian\u201d offers up six unprocessed field recording portraits of a journey along Trans Mongolian railway,which runs four thousand five hundred miles between Russian & Japan.
\nRoland Etzin is a German based sound artists\/ field recordist who has been working in the sound art genre since the early 2000\u2019s. He\u2019s also the co-founder of the Gruenrekorder label with fellow sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek. \u201cTransMongolian\u201d is Etzins\u2019 first full length recording in six or so years, through his work has featured on several sound art compilations inbetween releases. The album features field recordings made by Etzin in the late summer to early autumn of 2010.
\nOur journey starts off in Russian with the near on twelve and a half minutes of \u201cPortrait one\u201d. This track starts off been built around what sounds like a recording a large enclosed area( a main train hall\/ ticket hall?); with bangng & clunking of work men going on, distant grinding & drillings , and the odd echoing footsteps. At around the five minute mark the hallway recordings thin out, and it now sounds like we\u2019re on the train as we hear a growing mixture of train type sounds: such as electric type droning, rumbling carriage sound, slicing rail sounds, and perhaps the sound of automated doors or stream.<\/p>\n

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Onto \u201cPortrait two\u201d and we\u2019ve now moved in China, and this dead on seven minute track starts with a weird looped & growing mass of chipping textures(which sounds like mechanical birds) & building people chatter. Before dropping into the series of weird vibrating & juddering textures that sound like either someone sliding a squeaking door or someone getting in\/out of a boat- these sounds are broken up by brief silences, or distant mechanical tumbling sounds that seem to have almost water-like-rocking-in-a-boat edges to them. The track ends with fading rail scraping sounds.
\n\u201cPortrait three\u201d finds us at Lake Baikal; which runs between the Russian region of Siberia to the south, between the Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast- it\u2019s also the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world. The just under ten minute track starts off been built around this weird sizzling\/ splashing element that could either originate from water or heated up-then-splashed boiling liquid\u2026or maybe a mixture of both of these-what ever the recording is of it\u2019s one of the most captivating & appealing moments here. At around the mid-way point the track switches to the soothing and detailed sound of water lapping against the shore.
\nOnto \u201cPortrait Four\u201d, and this just under six minute track finds us in Mongolian. The track starts with a fairly muffled a vague mixture of running footsteps, bug buzzing, distant human sounds & dog barking. Fairly soon the high up whoosh of an airplane, closer people chatter, and more bug buzzing can be heard, before we moving into a series of appealing wooden step like creaking\u2019s & bowings.
\n\u201cPortrait Five\u201d was recording in South Korea, and comes in at just shy of the eight minute mark. This track starts off with a mixture of carriage creaking, steaming hissing & weird treading water\/wood type sounds. Around the two minute twenty mark we move into this mixture of weird panning hissing sound & amassed sound of chattering birds. Then latter on we move onto more station like sounds with ringing bells, creaking trains, and almost harmonic amassed tumbling\u2019s- which I\u2019m guess is some large glass or metal recycling skip been empted.
\nLastly we have the just under ten minutes of \u201cPortrait Six\u201d,which finds us in Japan. And this starts with a amassed sound of arcade game machine melodies, cheesy lift music & darts of dance music ect\u2026 I guess Etzin was making his way through a large gaming arcade. Around the three minute mark these sounds fade, and a churning\/ buffeting texture grows- it sounds like it could be recorded in the back of a small boat that\u2019s chugging along a quiet waterway. By the 5th minute distant bird type chatter has been added along with the sound of a passing train, before we move into the slowly growing sound of approaching footsteps.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTransMongolian\u201d is a most satisfying & appealing field recording album which finds Etzin keeping your attention through-out as you follow him on his sonic journey. He has a great ear for intriguing and interesting sound, and quite often you can\u2019t quite figure out exactly what it is he\u2019s recorded which adds another rewarding layer to the release.<\/p>\n

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Idwal Fisher |\u00a0IDWAL FISHER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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The defining pleasure to be had from this release is the way in which it captures the slow process of travel itself. The enclosed booklet contains pictures drawn by Etzin\u2019s traveling companion Ren\u00e9 Seifert and none of them show planes or airports so I\u2019m guessing this was an over land and sea trip? Water, rail and feet feature heavily: the crunch of gravel underfoot, the clank and groan of a train carriage, the lapping of the water against the side of a boat and then there\u2019s the weather, hard to capture sunshine on sound but rain and wind make their ever fateful appearance, all of it adding to the ambience and the feeling of actually slowly moving from one place to another.<\/p>\n

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Deep down I was jealous of Etzin and Seifert and the fact that they had the time to make this trip. I doubt my more humble travels would return such rewarding material but you never know. I\u2019m taking my digital recorder to Northumberland next year just in case.<\/p>\n

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Wonderful Wooden Reasons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Subtitled, ‚6 acoustic portraits of Russia, Mongolia, China, South Korea and Japan‘, this set of atmospheric recordings represents field-recordings made between August & October of 2010.\u00a0 The 6 provide a documentation of life on the rail journey both through the sound of the transportation itself (on tracks 1 & 5), the stops along the way, the liquidity of the lake visited on ‚Portrait 3‘ and the ambiences of the travel itself; the amorphous clatters and clangs and the Frankenstein musicality of machinery in use.
\nIt must be said here that this isn’t the most effective of Gruenrekorder releases.\u00a0 For the most part the sounds are just too ambiguous.\u00a0 They have no real sense of place.\u00a0 The trains could easily be the 2:30 from here to London, the tides of Lake Baikal could be the beach at the bottom of the hill from my house.\u00a0 The insect life of ‚Portrait 5‘ though brings a definite sense of the exotic.
\nAs a whole it’s an interesting set of sounds but only in the sense of it’s musicality.\u00a0 As an examination of a journey or an exploration of place it is, for me at least, slightly less successful.<\/p>\n

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Pierre C\u00e9cile\u00a0| Le son du grisli<\/a><\/strong>
\nRussie, Mongolie, Chine, Cor\u00e9e du Sud et Japon : voil\u00e0 o\u00f9 nous emm\u00e8ne ce TransMongolian, une oeuvre de field recordings que l\u2019Allemand Roland Etzin a \u00e9crite pour la manifestation \u00ab Via Mongolia \u00bb en 2010. Dans l\u2019ordre des pays cit\u00e9s, la musique du r\u00e9el recompose le voyage au point de brouiller les cartes. En effet : le r\u00e9seau ferroviaire russe sort-il vraiment du grand hangar dans lequel, au d\u00e9but du CD, r\u00e9sonnent des voix et de la ferraille ? Qu\u2019importe ! En train, en marche, en route !<\/p>\n

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A la fen\u00eatre, on verra passer des insectes g\u00e9ants et des enfants s\u2019amusant en Chine, des plongeurs et des hommes en barque sur le Lac Ba\u00efkal, des femmes tranquilles qui attendent la fin du monde en se balan\u00e7ant en Mongolie, des oiseaux cam\u00e9l\u00e9ons en Cor\u00e9e du Sud et des personnages de jeux vid\u00e9o qui ont pris formes humaines au Japon. D\u2019impressionnantes d\u00e9couvertes \u00e0 faire entre ses quatre murs avec \u00e0 port\u00e9e de main deux livres de chevet : Voyage autour de ma chambre et Un barbare en Asie.<\/p>\n

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\u0442\u0438\u0448\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0439, \u0441\u043b\u0443\u0448\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u0448\u044c \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043a\u043e\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043c\u044b\u0445, \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0448\u0438\u0439 \u0442\u0430\u043a\u0438\u043c \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u044b\u0447\u043d\u044b\u043c \u043c\u0435\u0442\u0430\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0433\u0443\u043b \u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0432\u0448\u0438\u0445\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u043e\u0447\u0435\u0432\u043a\u0443 \u043b\u043e\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0432, \u0434\u0430 \u0441\u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f \u0433\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u044b\u043f\u0438 \u0432\u043e\u0437\u043b\u0435 \u0436\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0437\u043d\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0436\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043f\u0443\u0442\u0435\u0439.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Tipp | The Field Reporter<\/a><\/strong>
\nRoland Etzin\u2019s \u2018TransMongolian\u2019 is a series of acoustic portraits recorded during a three month journey across Russia, China, Mongolia, South Korea and Japan. Given the sheer distance covered by Etzin during the summer-autumn of 2010 and his encounters with such a diverse range of cultures and associated ways of life, I imagine he would have ended his travels with a recorder brimming with field recordings. For \u2018TransMongolian\u2019 however, Etzin decided to bring together just six recordings that, to his ear, represented the countries through which he had travelled and, most importantly, listened to.<\/p>\n

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Each portrait includes some element of movement and travel, and given that much of this journey seems to have been carried out on the famous Trans-Mongolian Railway, mechanical sounds become a regular occurrence. The first portrait, recorded in Russia, is the most mechanical in nature, with the whole track appearing to take place in a station and then onboard the train. Aside from a few footsteps, muffled coughs and distant voices, Portrait 1 dedicates itself to the sounds of the chosen mode of transport which is a great way to start.<\/p>\n

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As we progress through the remaining portraits, other sound types begin to emerge. Portrait 4, for example, was recorded at Russia\u2019s historical Lake Baikal and is dominated by the sound of water, taken from both above and beneath the surface. Over the course of 10 minutes, this piece moves from a gentle hydrophone recording to a vigorous example of breaking waves on the lake\u2019s shoreline. In contrast Portrait 5, recorded in South Korea, finds its voice in both the natural and the industrial world, with heavy metallic movements sitting comfortably alongside an intense cicada chorus.<\/p>\n

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The Mongolian portrait (track 4) is perhaps the most striking. From a gentle, rural atmosphere comes the sound of approaching hoofbeats; a reminder to us that traditional methods of transport still exist in some parts of the world. This seemingly idyllic setting is then invaded by what sounds like a plane passing overhead.<\/p>\n

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Our journey comes to an end in Japan where Etzin throws us into the noisy, in your face world of amusement arcades. This was completely unexpected and in stark contrast to the other portraits. A final train journey is undertaken until all that is left is the sound of solitary footsteps walking on a rough path, returning us to the oldest and most traditional form of transport for our species.<\/p>\n

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\u2018TransMongolian\u2019 is a personal snapshot of the sonic experiences of one individual during the course of a journey that took three months to complete and crossed five different countries. Should you or I have completed the same journey, our interpretation of the signature sounds of these places would of course have been quite different. Some sounds are so striking and naturally cause the ears of field recordists to prick up, that I\u2019m sure certain elements of Etzin\u2019s portraits would continue to surface again and again.<\/p>\n

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La chronique musicale
\n„Roland Etzin est un artiste allemand qui, comme de nombreux musiciens, \u00e9crivains, po\u00e8tes, cin\u00e9astes et grands voyageurs devant l\u2019\u00c9ternel se sont embarqu\u00e9s sur le l\u00e9gendaire Transib\u00e9rien. Plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, en ce qui concerne Roland Etzin, sur le Transmongolien. Car si le Transib\u00e9rien, qui traverse l’ancien union sovi\u00e9tique de Moscou \u00e0 Vladivostock, est un train de l\u00e9gende, deux autres lignes ferronni\u00e8res empruntent une partie son parcours mais bifurquent apr\u00e8s le lac Ba\u00efkal pour rejoindre P\u00e9kin, l’une traverse la Manchourie (Le Transmanchourien), l’autre la Mongolie. C’est ce dernier itin\u00e9raire que Roland Etzin \u00e0 choisi d’emprunter en poussant un peu plus l’aventure, puisqu’il est all\u00e9 ensuite en Cor\u00e9e du sud puis au Japon. Je n’aurais pas de raisons de vous parler de ce voyage si cet artiste n’avait pas emport\u00e9 avec lui un enregistreur num\u00e9rique, quelques micros (dont un hydrophone) pour revenir avec des heures et des heures de field recordings qu’il a ensuite tri\u00e9s, manipul\u00e9s, coup\u00e9s, coll\u00e9s pour constituer six paysages sonores russe, mongol, bouriate, chinois, cor\u00e9en et japonais enfin disponibles au catalogue du petit label GruenRekorder. Plut\u00f4t que de constituer un document sonore, Roland Etzin a pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 ne retenir que des ambiances, des rythmes et des textures, brouillant ainsi d’\u00e9ventuelles pistes trop explicites pour cr\u00e9er une \u0153uvre abstraite faisant plus appel \u00e0 notre imaginaire qu’a notre m\u00e9moire. Les pi\u00e8ges sonores y sont nombreux puisqu’il est souvent bien difficile de diff\u00e9rencier un son industriel de c\u00e2ble ou de machine de celui de chevaux ou d’insectes. Peu importe, ce voyage sur le Transmongolien reste intact et passionnant“ (Eric Serva pour France Musique – octobre 2012)<\/p>\n

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\n[…] By comparison, Roland Etzin’s TransMongolian is rather straightforward in its presentation of six acoustic portraits of Russia, Mongolia, China, South Korea, and Japan. Little textual detail accompanies the release, making it one to experience almost solely on sonic grounds alone. Also issued as part of Gruenrekorder’s Field Recording Series, the fifty-three-minute release, which originally was broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur in March of 2012, comes with a lovely little booklet that displays illustrative renderings of landscapes by Katrin Hoedemacker. Etzin, an audio artist and Gruenrekorder co-founder, collected unprocessed field recordings for the project as he made his way through Russia, along Lake Baikal, through Mongolia, China, and South Korea to Japan.<\/p>\n

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What results is a highly personalized series of contrasting portraits that capture what Etzin deemed to be representative of the locales. A given piece involves many episodes, with each flowing seamlessly into the next. Identifiable sounds, such as hammering and the clatter of a moving train in the Russia portrait, appear alongside parts containing sounds of a more indeterminate nature. The smears and crackle that introduce the Lake Baikal setting appear to be water-derived, though without the clarification provided by the title detail one might be harder pressed to identify the originating sound material, even if the subsequent passages of gurgling and crashing waves make the water connection explicit. The China setting teems with activity both natural and industrial, as voices and engine sounds intermingle, whereas the Mongolia one, dotted with buzzing flies, creaks, and a barking dog, is more sedate and less busy. The South Korea portrait alternates between the violent clatter of machinery and natural sounds of exotic birds and insects; the Japan piece begins with a dizzying swirl of fragmented melodies and voices before moving onto a less frenzied episode of engine thrum, insect chirp, and trudging footsteps. One might best think of TransMongolian as an evocative documentary film for the ears.<\/p>\n

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\nSix sonic portraits composed of recordings during Etzin\u2019s travels between Russia and Japan.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve not been to any of the places that feature on Roland Etzin\u2019s TransMongolian. Nonetheless, hearing or reading the words \u201cChina\u201d, \u201cRussia\u201d or \u201cJapan\u201d instantly conjures a wealth of mental visual, derived largely from photographs and documentaries seen in magazines, on the Internet or on television \u2013 all of these amount to what I\u2019d consider to be rather generic (perhaps stereotypical) depictions of these places, momentarily diluting China into swooping, intricate architecture and the tottering stone ribbon of The Great Wall. Yet despite their potent visual provocation, to consider these places in terms of their soundscapes draws a blank \u2013 why am I so instinctively aware of what these places look like, yet na\u00efve as to what they may sound like?<\/p>\n

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What Etzin points out on the inlay of TransMongolian is that these places are as distinctive sonically as they are visually. The album is a collection of what he \u201cfound to be representative of or very special about these countries\u201d during a spell of travelling from Russia to Japan (via Lake Baikal, Mongolia, China and South Korea). There\u2019s a wonderful contradiction within this that, arguably, is evoked more prominently through sound than image. Etzin\u2019s quest to capture the \u201cspecial\u201d or \u201crepresentative\u201d essence of an entire nation is haunted by skew of subjective experience; while the track titles evade referring to particular experiences in favour of stating their country of apprehension, the pieces themselves place the listener very much within the context of Etzin\u2019s personal perspective. On one hand, the listener is plonked within the context of \u201cJapan\u201d or \u201cChina\u201d, with entire countries brought into aural existence in the culmination of sounds captured. On the other, the listener is transported into a past instance of Etzin\u2019s head, assigned to very specific points in time and location rather than facing an immortalised, sweeping depiction of a nation\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n

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What TransMongolian captures so beautifully is the sense of interaction Etzin has with his surrounding geography. Where a photograph of a landscape may often feel communicatively dislocated from its subject, existing in ignorance of its photographer, here Etzin finds himself in a very active dialogue with his locations, venturing outward into them just as much as they impose themselves upon him. Old wooden floors rattle and creak beneath him during \u201cChina\u201d, while the water of \u201cLake Baikal\u201d feels as though it\u2019s lapping up gently against his waist; I am Etzin during these moments, crawling up into the same cramped spaces and eavesdropping on the same distant conversations. And then there are the mysterious narratives that tumble out of time\u2019s unfolding, initiated either by the landscapes themselves or seemingly through Etzin\u2019s own physical movements through them. \u201cSouth Korea\u201d begins with a giddy boat journey into a stiflingly humid rainforest clouded by crickets, before emerging into a factory space of cyclical machinery and an endless downpour of broken glass and clattering objects; meanwhile, \u201cJapan\u201d stumbles exasperated out of a bustling fairground arcade into a small, sweaty train compartment, plagued with the incessant hum of the air con system and occasionally decorated with the distant huff of the train itself. Without any accompanying notes to confirm the sources of these sounds, the listener is left to stagger blindfolded through these experiences and speculate as to the events and objects they encounter \u2013 just as I have \u2013 and discover these places through sound alone, liberated from the constraints of fixed context while guided gently by any existing preconceptions of these countries we may have.
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[…] On ‚TransMongolian‘ we follow the journey of Etzin through Russia, China, Lake Baikal, Mongolia, South Korea and Japan. He was accompanied by Katrin Hoedemacker who did the drawings in the booklet. As the title suggest, all of these pieces seem to be dealing with the sound of transport, the means thereof. Trains mostly, but also a boat in Lake Baikal. Long pieces here, always around seven to twelve minutes of what seems to me a single sound event lifted from the journey, and also quite an abstract one. It’s not easy to grasp from which point things are recorded and in some piece it takes a while before you realize there is a train in there, such in South Korea piece. That makes this into quite a nice release actually, maybe overstepping some of the other pure field recording\/sound scaping works that this label also releases. It’s of course not musical in the sense of a fine piece of music, but the whole things is truly captivating. I am not sure if I agree, however, with ‚these countries do not only have very different landscapes and ways of life, they also differ in their sounds, a dimension which more often that not goes unnoticed‘. I am not sure if this is really true, based upon what I heard. Let’s say it’s not something I heard or noticed. […]<\/p>\n

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Brian Olewnick | Just outside<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And we’re off once again, this time on a six-part journey undertaken in 2010 across Russia, China, Mongolia, South Korea and Japan, Etzin making the sound recordings, Hoedemaker contributing drawings in what seems to be colored pencil or pastels.<\/p>\n

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In this case, the recordings (as near as I can tell–I could be wrong) are untreated. They’re not travelog-ish, no train engines or whooshing winds, more moments that happened along and\/or were chosen afterwards by Etzin (though the one from Lake Baikal is…watery). So you’re more than usually cognizant of the choice factor: why this and not that. And, by and large, Etzin’s choices are reasonably engaging, often obscurely sourced, bearing textures that are sharply drawn, the sonic equivalent of a silver gel print form the Adams (Ansel) school). Still, things quickly begin to pall–Baikal’s waves become somewhat numbing, the nighttime in Mongolia is replete with insects and train sounds (nice contrast of the shrill and deeply rumbling), a festival here, air rushing in Japan. As is often the case, there’s nothing „bad“ here; how could there be? But also nothing that seizes the ears, that makes me wish I’d been there, that, essentially, I can’t reproduce for myself at any given moment, with the materials close at hand.<\/p>\n

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Apologies for the griping nature of this post….listeners with a bent in this direction will surely find much of value here.<\/p>\n

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TransMongolian @ A Duck in a Tree<\/a> | Dust at Dusk<\/strong>
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TransMongolian @ framework radio | #404<\/a><\/strong>
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TransMongolian @ Deutschlandradio Kultur<\/a><\/strong>
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TransMongolian @ The Field Reporter Radio #13<\/a><\/strong>
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„Roland Etzin’s new record on Gruenrekorder is subtle and intriguing“ \u2014Ernst Karel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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