currant 93

minimal, yet dense music, sort of dance music actually.

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Billion Year Old Carbon (floppy disk)

Remix of "Billion Year Old Carbon" for release on 3.5" floppy disk. Explores the artifacts that accompany low-quality mp3-conversion. Approx. 21 minutes of music on a 3.5" floppy disk.

In case you do not have a floppy drive to call your own download file here.

bare-handed

"Es mangelte ihm nicht an Geld. Vielleicht war er sogar wohlhabend. Aber er wusste nicht, was zum Kuckuck er sich kaufen sollte. Die Dinge, die er in seiner Wohnung hatte, reichten ihm. Er warf nie etwas weg, es sei denn, es funktionierte nicht mehr. Er lebte nicht bewusst spartanisch was Gegenstände anging. Er konnte nur nichts damit anfangen.
Nein, Kolk war auf Umgebung angewiesen. Er - Kind eines allgemeinen Wohlstands - hatte nichts gegen frühzeitige Vergreisung, wenn es um Wohlbefinden ging. Gar nicht mal, weil er wollte, sondern weil er nicht anders konnte."

(Frank Schulz, Kolks blonde Bräute)

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Endlos Plattitüden Etüden

This piece uses an analogue tape recorder and a single endless tape to create a virtually infinite series of musical miniatures (< 2 minutes each).

Each miniature "recycles" the material of its predecessor by partially manipulating and/or overwriting the sounds already recorded on the tape.

Any sounds may be introduced into the series, although old records (Platten) and banalities (Plattitüden) are highly recommended sources. Hence, choose carefully.

Recording / mixing does not have to be done in real-time or by a single person but on analogue recording gear exlusively. So, whatever happened actually happened.

listen to "Etüde no. 2"

sombre

Rather minimal music.
Only loosely related to the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (above).

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71 fragmente

When performing 71 fragmente:

1. Use source material collected at youtube.com only.
   Start with the notorious ping pong scene from Haneke's
   71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls.
2. Determine the next clip by picking from the related videos
   list the one you deem the least related. Repeat this step
   and consider the distance you have travelled.
3. Keep in mind that from a certain angle everything may
   seem connected to everything else. However, from
   another perspective, the same things can appear isolated
   and the relations merely superficial.

The performance featured here utilises:
youtube.com, fostex multitracker, endless tape, canon x.07

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concussions

ambient music. mono.

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