Radiokunst von Andreas Bick

Berliner Ensemble and Ersan Mondtag commissioned four ouvertures for "wagner - der ring des nibelungen (a piece like fresh chopped eschenwood)" recomposed by Thomas Köck - with no audible Wagner involved. Premiere on june 3rd 2021. 

I wrote music for a stellar 12 piece ensemble of classical musicians and improvisers. 

The compositions decontextualize tiny bits of the original Wagner ouvertures. A motive, a tempo, a piece of noise from an original recording... sometimes in the process I just played drums to the original ouvertures and used these drum recordings as a starting point for writing.

The pieces will be released as an album on backlash music on march 4th.

Moritz Ter-Nedden – violin
Grégoire Simon – violin 
Friedemann Slenczka – viola 
Ragnar Jonsson – violoncello 
James Banner - double bass
Laure Mourot - flute
Miguel Perez Inesta - clarinet 
Isaac Shaw – french horn 
Maria Schneider – vibraphone
Arne Braun – guitar 
Jörg Hochapfel - keyboard, piano 
Max Andrzejewski - composition, drumset

MYTHOS II - aüe

From my new one out next week! (July 29).

dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday

overlooking the gardens, rhythms blur - from Dawn, always new, often superb...

Diogo - Muler Layal

Magma

Excerpt from a recent sound composition featuring the sounds of phonems. Singer Almut Kühne interprets those language atoms, the scientific names are introduced by the narrator Gunter Schoß. Premiere was on 13th March 2009 at German radio broadcaster WDR3.

Phonemenon (excerpt)

From the album "Stor, fet og fri" with LuckyLoop

Cirrus - LuckyLoop

An excerpt of the piece "Chronostasis" produced by Studio Akustische Kunst of WDR.
First broadcast: 13 March 2009, on WDR 3.

Awarded a Silver World Medal in the category „Best Sound“ and a finalist certificate in the category „Best Editing“ at New York Festivals Awards for Radio Programming & Promotion 2009

All tracks are available at Bandcamp.

"The clock is one of the most important technical developments of humankind. Few other inventions have had such a shaping influence on our everyday life. The clock’s proverbial ticking is deeply ingrained in our consciousness. It marked time for industrialisation and scientific progress, as well as being the first mechanical musical instrument, preparing our rhythmic understanding for the machinelike precision of modern music. In chronostasis, the sound of time becomes audible via the many-voiced ticking of a whole array of antique clocks. The simplest rhythmic information, the pendular motion of a clock mechanism, gives rise to a complex tangle of overlapping patterns and pulses. For a moment, in the ritual of constant repetition, time seems to stand still. (The term ”chronostasis“ refers to a perceptual illusion that causes the second hand of a clock to appear to stand still for a moment. Apparently, when the gaze moves quickly to a clock face, the mind prolongs its perception of that initial moment beyond what is actually seen.)"


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Chronostasis Excerpt

Draft version of a part of my composition "A Pot Calling the Kettle Black", that I produced for the relaunch of the Silence Radio webpage. You can hear the final piece here: http://bit.ly/aLGICM

Une meme eau

electronics and bells. 
from Song of Extinction (2016)

The Calf (from Song of Extinction)

EA#activ2

Constantin Popp made this beautiful "remix" of my piece "Tagesringe", basically he played around with some granular features and boosted the noisy parts of the piano track without the field recordings of the original composition. For more information and free download of the original version check: http://www.andreas-bick.de/en/music/radiokunst/tagesringe.php Also visit Constantin Popp at http://www.constantinpopp.de

Tagesringe remixed

performed by Crash Ensemble, and recorded for their album 'Crashlands'.

Vultures (for strings and percussion)

A collaboration sound project between composers and performers Frederik Croene (DSP and electronics) and Esther Venrooy (Piano and electronics). A very experimental and also an atmospheric album.

Truncate Retrograde

Soundtrack for the radio play "Flughunde" written by Marcel Beyer. More info:
http://www.andreas-bick.de/flughunde/

"The Karnau Tapes" is a novel by German writer Marcel Beyer. It tells the story of a fanatical sound engineer of the Nazi era who strives to record a map of all possible human utterances and, in his efforts, even doesn't hesitate to experiment with prisoners of concentration camps. His endeavors finally lead him into the Führerbunker where he records the last words of the daughters of Joseph Goebbels. This track is a compilation of sounds I created for the radio play based on Beyer's novel. The "un-musical" score for this radio play consists of the atmospheres of old worn-out tapes and phonograph records, bat sounds, distorted voices and the imagined primal sound of the skull's bone seam.

The Karnau Tapes

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

Composer, sound artist, field recordist. Soundtracks, radio play and podcast music, radioart.

Chronostasis Excerpt

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