nullkommajosefh

Fröhlicher Fernseh-Chillout mit Wurzeln im utopischen Trance-Pop

2012-01-08T02:22:00.000-08:00

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currant 93

2011-08-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

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

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Billion Year Old Carbon (floppy disk)

2011-05-11T23:57:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-08T04:57:00.000-07:00

"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

2011-04-07T23:54:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-07T06:39:00.000-07:00

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

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71 fragmente

2011-03-03T08:16:00.001-08:00

When performing 71 fragmente:

Use source material collected at youtube.com only.
Start with the notorious ping pong scene from Haneke's
71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls.
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.
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

downlo ad samp le performance

concussions

2011-03-03T08:07:00.000-08:00

ambient music. mono.

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fibonacci (reverse engineering)

2010-11-26T10:11:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-21T01:18:00.000-08:00

(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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2010-11-01T03:47:00.000-07:00

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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2010-11-01T00:49:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-02T14:03:00.000-07:00

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

New Track

2010-03-14T12:34:00.001-07:00

"Fake Guitar Hero"

a prepared ovation guitar.

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New Track with Myself & Eye

2009-11-30T09:05:00.000-08:00

Myself & Eye and Nullkommajosefh
"Das - ist nun mein Weg, wo ist der eure?"

A freeform ambient improv collaboration by Myself & Eye and Nullkommajosefh.

a) intro

b) Das Reh springt hoch/ das Reh springt weit/ warum auch nicht/ es hat ja Zeit.

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New Track

2009-11-09T09:20:00.000-08:00

"Kommissar Hjulers Autorenlesung"

This recording is a cover-version of a piece by Kommissar Hjuler called "Autorenlesung".
It is a pun on the german word "Autorenlesung" - referring to an event where an author reads out from his own work to an interested public.
Well, hear yourself.

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2009-07-10T23:51:00.000-07:00

"Wiedersehen im Café Porsche"

White noise is uncertainty made hearable, the manifestation of absolute audible contingency. At any time figures may arise from the unstructured sonic fog only to vanish in the very next moment. This track exclusively utilizes white noise and its opposite (in terms of certainty): silence.

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2009-07-10T23:49:00.000-07:00

"Billion years old carbon"

Not much to tell here. Played back chunks of digital data as audio samples. Selection aesthetically motivated.

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Object

2009-07-10T23:47:00.000-07:00

"Rough'n'Ready"

Recorded two longer tracks (Where the rednecks stay up late/Nightfall on Planet Rock) on tape. Removed the magnetic tape from cassette and glued it onto different objects (like the cassette case, books, cds, chocolate bars, and so on).

Play back this tape using a loose magnetic head.

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2009-07-10T23:45:00.000-07:00

"Grey and other goos"

Ecophagous piece for radio, voice recorder, speakers and mic.

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Object

2009-07-10T23:44:00.000-07:00

"Grand Entrances - Grand Escapes"

A self-recording record. Nearly blank in the beginning, it's the record player's needle that carves ever changing grooves into its surface. However, change might simply your illusion - as a result from listening to the same loops over and over again. Also played this at "die wüste lebt" in berlin (August 30th 2008) accompanying the record by circuit-bending a toy tape recorder.

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2009-07-10T23:41:00.000-07:00

"In The Land Of Lounge Lizards"

All samples originate from "the freesound project". Furthermore, the piece's "score" is also derived from that website: starting with a random pick, i selected the least similar sound from the "similar sounds"-list to determine how to continue.

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2009-07-10T23:39:00.000-07:00

"Warum Leute, die ihre Ausführungen mit 'warum' beginnen, in der Regel nichts zu erklären haben"

Fuzzy soundtracks for fuzzy photos. Sounds recorded using my digicam's audio comment function. Only minimal processing applied. This track has also been released as a full-length cdr: a number of these recordings have been individually wrapped and put in public places, accompanied with a note that asks the listener to spread further copies.

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2009-07-10T23:37:00.000-07:00

"Idziemy na grzyby, stary!"

This is my personal interpretation of Reed Ghazala's anti-theory. Admittedly, not that inventive but I really had a blast circuit bending and besides it sounds quite psychedelic.

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2009-07-10T23:34:00.000-07:00

"W nocym z alkoholem sprzedaje wredna jedza"

Here several pictures of a 24/7-shop selling inter alia alcoholic beverages in Warsaw are repeatedly interpreted as musical data resulting in continuous sonic structures of varying density.

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2009-07-10T23:33:00.000-07:00

"In a company of strangers"

The original material is a bunch of 79 pre-recorded, similar sounding short tracks which i put on a single cdr. This cd is then played back by a cd-player in shuffle and repeat mode - creating an endless stream of randomly re-assembled sound snippets.

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2009-07-10T23:25:00.001-07:00

"I've got the hi-fi high and the lights down low"

On one channel you hear a broken cd-player desperately trying to play a Johnny Cash-cd - while on the other one live-feed from vintage videogames is undergoing several treatments.

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Contribution to "Symfoni kkkkkakafoni"

2009-07-08T14:12:00.000-07:00

"No.2 69"

A collaboration with trikband for a project by Maria Norefors. Maria tore apart and re-assembled sheet music. The sheet music was to be interpreted by different musicians.

Apparently, the provided sheet of music is distorted almost beyond recognition. This piece, nonetheless, treats the given material as if it offered a coherent set of musical instructions ready for performance.

A number of robot bugs criss-cross the sheet of music guided by inbuilt photo and collision sensors. The former also serve the purpose of sensing the symbols printed on the paper surface. Photo sensor data is afterwards transformed into audible sound by the bugs.

At the same time, the fragments of lyrics in the lower part of the sheet are interpreted as the musical raw material, while the clutter of stave, notes and other symbols is regarded as the instructions on how to perform the raw material. Reading the sheet of music in the manner applied in this piece not only determines what to “play” at a given position but also how to move over the sheet vertically and horizontally afterwards. The red line indicates the path trodden during the example performance you can hear in the exhibition.

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Contribution "Gamehenge"

2009-07-08T13:59:00.000-07:00

"LittleFuryThings presents Gamehenge 09"

Contribution to a compilation by Litte Fury Things. And that's what Nat says about it:

"A mammoth compilation of 100 sound artists covering Phish's mythic Gamehenge album!! This massive collection of new artists offers a refreshing vantage point from which to consider Phish's psychedelic music tradition and to shed light on possible future avenues. The point of this release is to breath new, forceful vision into this modern piece of Americana mythology. 82 minutes of full color sound!!!"

Every sound artist was asked to record a cover version of a small portion of this album.
My recording is one of the last and was entirely played on a kazoo to imitate vocals, guitars and drums.

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Contribution "Improvisation auf einer Brauseflasche"

2009-07-08T13:38:00.001-07:00

"Improvisation auf einer Brauseflasche" (2009)

A contribution to a cd in honour of Mundkrach's 30th birthday. Musicians were asked to send in 30 sec. sounds they recorded at a specified time.

As I had just finished a bottle of lemonade, I played an improv on this object.

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Release "Die Antizipation des Generalized Other" (SHMF-19+34)

2009-07-07T23:14:00.000-07:00

CDr-release "Die Antizipation des Generalized Other"

My contribution to the ongoing remix-project of the same title by the prolific artist duo Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler. They recorded a cdr on which they read and discuss a text about George Herbert Mead and ask musicians to remix this recording.

I built kind of a musical instrument that works similar to Mead's concept of the generalized other. Two cassette recorders equipped with additional magnetic heads interact with each other. Past output of the one is taken on and modified as expectation by the other in its present output and vice versa.

The first four tracks are the direct output of this musical instrument.

The fifth very short track is intended to be loop, like a lock groove. I recorded the sounds for this last track using a contact mic i placed on the floor while playing the other tracks.

Download "Antizipation des Generalized Other 3"

Download "So etwas wie ein Remix (Lock Groove)"