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Fröhlicher Fernseh-Chillout mit Wurzeln im utopischen Trance-Pop

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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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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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New Track with Myself & Eye

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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"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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"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

"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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"Grey and other goos"



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

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