'3 new nurses': Interviews in a sound art style, with 3 non-German nurses who cover the three care sectors (nursing home, hospital, home care) and who come from former or currently devastated war zones (Bosnia, Vietnam and Ukraine) about their professional and personal situation and asked them to name a favourite song and a plant from their homeland.

The sound of the individual voice (German with corresponding accent) is multiplied and splintered analogous to the torn social situation of the protagonists, quasi as a sonic manifestation of a multiple self. In these multiplications, splinter and cancer forms of the voice, an important musical element emerges: the breathing sounds when speaking, which were worked out of the interviews with special contrasting methods and are now projected into the surrounding space. These extremised breathing and swallowing sounds stand for both sides: for the breathing distress of the Corona patients as well as for the overtaxing of the nurses in the nursing emergency. The song in the native language is not spared these processes either, but at the same time forms a conciliatory counterpoint in the linguistically torn sound event.

2022
3 installative interventions in the park 'Schwesternpark Witten'

3 bed gallows with acrylic glass pane / transducer / sensor and 2 satellite speakers
Interview voices, song, plant illustr.

Duration: each 12min.
Wittener Tage für neue
Kammermusik 2021/22
May 6-8 2022

Commissioned by Stadt Witten, supported by
Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

3 neue Schwestern - Excerpt

Collage of jingles of TV-news, announcing the 'reality'. 
By georg klein (2003).
Available on CD '90Sek. Wirklichkeit' DEGEM

Ankündigung der Wirklichkeit | Announcing Reality (2003)

electronic piece by georg klein, orig. duration 12:35
produced at TU Studio Berlin
transformed street noice mixed with electronic sounds (software MaxMSP)

asphalt (2000)

wel-come, bien-venue, will-kommen ...
The wide stereo installation uses 22 fragmentated voices of 22 people of different countries. All of them are saying the same word in their natural language. The splitted word of greeting „wel – come“ says something utopian without telling what it is. Through the fragmentation (granulating) the words are decomposed and come together again as an individual chorus of voices, sounding strange and familiar at the same time. 

Long outdoor-version for garden installations: 22 min., short indoor-version for passage ways: 8 min. With support by TU Studio Berlin

wel-come (2003)

Suite amor fati - Prélude E by georg klein
prepared piano: georg klein
Duration: 7:35. 
Total duration CD amor fati: 66:00
Music for the movie "amor fati" by Sophie Kotanyi (47th Intern. Film Festival Berlin).

Prélude E - Suite amor fati (1996)

Sprich mit mir | Talk to me (2009)
Radio version of the installation by georg klein on a red light district
with interviews of costumers of prostitutes
womens voice imitation: Steffi Weismann
duration interactive installation: 32:00
duration radio version: 29:00

Sprich mit mir (2009)

radio portrait by Stefan Fricke (Hessischer Rundfunk)
on the sound artist georg klein
2 parts of the broadcast on 16th Feb. 2010
Klang-Kunst-Klang (HR2)
orig. duration: 55min.


GK-Radioportrait-Fricke

Radioportrait by Sabine Sanio on Georg Klein's installations in public space. With articles by Marius Babias and Michael Müller.
Broadcasted by DeutschlandRadio on 22th Dec. 2005
Original duration: 55 min.

GK-Radioportrait-Sanio

Ramallah Tours (2009) 
soundpicdoc version: 4 tracks
12min.
for the installation Ramallah Tours by georg klein


RamTours-sounds2

4 bird duets of 12 of my installation GRÜN HÖREN, running at IGA in Berlin-Marzahn, see www.gruenhoeren.info
Stereo mix of original 6-channel sound installation.

GH - Vogelduett09 - OrphZaun

GRÃN HÃREN

GH-Vogelduett08-TiefGraupia

GH-Vogelduett07-KatVogel

GH-Vogelduett04-Oriol

Ausschnitt eines Radioportraits über das kompositorische/klangkünstlerische Schaffen des Berliner Künstlers Georg Klein von Thomas Grötz.
Gesendet auf DeutschlandRadio Kultur am 18.3. 2014

GK-Radioportrait-Groetz

Radio report on the sound walk 'toposonie : : engelbecken' including interview with the artist georg klein

Radio report : toposonie : : engelbecken

3 pieces of the sound walk in the former 'Luisenstädtischer Kanal' in Berlin Kreuzberg/Mitte, with modified historic radio reports on the Wall, the Nazi-time, the house-squatting in the 80ies and other historic sounds and voices. Please use headphones for binaural experience.
www.toposonie.info

Te7 - EBNazis

Te5 - WBunten

Te4 - Mauerbericht

Make me wild - Godwin / tracing Godwin (2011)
Voice out of an art project by georg klein with an installation with Godwin poster and red shining loudspeaker and several site-specific posters in public space.
Participation project, see: http://godwin.georgklein.de/
Voice: Godwin (Nigerian, illegal immigrant, living in Europe)
installation loop: 6min. / poster loop: 3:52

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