fibonacci (reverse engineering)

Contribution to a project by Maria Norefors. Maria asked participants to interpret the digits of the golden ratio musically written on common music paper.
The symbols on the paper resemble some sort of sheet music. However,in place of the common musical notation there is a constant stream of digits running throughout the pages. The digit's positions on the staves seem to indicate the note pitch but there seems to be no information about the note duration.
Instead of picturing a process the notation represents but one point in time of the calculation of the golden ratio which is associated with the idea of harmony. The basic idea of this piece is to reconstruct the process that had actually led to this result employing the fibonacci algorithm.
You will hear two short continous loops, one on the left channel and one on the right and over the course of this recording they will slowly tune into the golden ratio.

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Also appeared featured on "Språka. Tidskrift på CD för ljud & litteratur, No. 5", which featured two works of art by Maria Norefors.

Asexualität in einer Stadt mit Weltruf

(Nach Motiven eines Romans von Karl P. Gaul)


Karl P. Gaul's novel "kielromanzwo" ("the Kiel novel no. 2") revolves around the haunting omnipresence of the absent sexuality of its protagonist Peter Ratzke, a former bestselling author.

The piece transforms a one minute audio snippet from a public reading by Karl P. Gaul, Mama Bär and Kommissar Hjuler aboard the MS Stubnitz into a rhythmic one hour ambient/drone/minimal/whatever track avoiding any recognizable sounds from the original performance.

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Heart of Darkness


A trip through the area where I live with ambivalent feelings; bearing Conrad resp. Coppola in mind.

Recorded on micro-cassette.

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HANATARASHI



This is kind of a tribute to japanoise pioneer hanatarashi. To capture the spirit of his music, this set-up takes at least the English translation of hanatarashi, i.e. snotnosed as literally as possible. The track is played on a nose flute with moderate processing.
snotnosed - nose flute - snot & nose, got it?

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Still Not Playing That Guitar

This conceptual recording documents two performances of the following ‘score’:

Put a guitar on a table,
But don’t play the guitar,
Focus on the guitar on the table,
Don’t play the guitar,
Stay focused on the guitar on the table,
Still, do not play the guitar.

During these specific performances, the output of an ovation guitar goes through a bunch of stomp boxes and is then fed back into the guitar using piezo transducers. Thus the guitar’s body substitutes for a speaker. As the piezo transducers are attached to its saddle and bridge as well as to the strings, the guitar in a way plays ‘itself’. The performer is obliged just to watch and to concentrate but not to judge or to interact.

In "Rule #11: Don’t drink and solder", Nicolas Collins’ eleventh rule of hardware hacking (www.nicolascollins.com) serves as the score for sort of a musical performance, or: preparing the piezo transducers for "Still Not Playing That Guitar".

Still Not Playing That Guitar I (7 minute excerpt)
Still Not Playing That Guitar II (7 minute excerpt)
Rule #11: Don’t drink and solder

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"Fake Guitar Hero"

a prepared ovation guitar.

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