Attempting to breathe some life into medieval ghosts.

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In as part of the Avantwhatever festival July 2016 I performed at a bend in Merri Creek, Brusnwick. This recording is prep to that performance. For three days I played, recorded and built myself a bower. Foto - Joel Stern.

Merri Creek July 2016

Still

Recorded at Fraser's Hill in Malaysia in 2016.  Insect close but I couldn't see it despite my best efforts.

Highland Malaysian Cicada

Recorded at the Panti Forest reserve in Malaysia in 2016.  Sounds synthetic.

Lowland Malaysian Insects

made for Moriah Evans choreography  "Social Dances 1-12"  2015

Watson Drone Extract for "Social Dance"

Initial recordings of a new duo project by Jim Denley and Matthias Schack-Arnott. These two contributions to Soundcloud, Alloy and Weather were recorded 6th Dec 2017 at Tempe Jets, Sydney. Recorded and mixed by the artists.

Alloy

Weather

I Just Can’t Avoid the Void in Avoid is a multichannel composition based on intro feedbacks ripped from punk and hardcore recordings released between 1981 and 2018.

While feedback had been a common feature of live electronic music performance since John Cage, in hardcore and punk (and associated genres) it became a harbinger of unrelenting rawness and abrupt energy outbursts. Heralding the onslaught of the rhythm section and a transition to exuberant acceleration, feedback in hardcore punk unfolds like a fractal in endless variations and is more a sound signature than a material choice.

For I Just Can’t Avoid the Void in Avoid I collected and recomposed around 1500 snippets of feedback – with John Oswald and the acousmatic listening experience in mind. The material is released from its original context and turned into something it never wanted to be: a free-floating abstract sound, stripped of band, player and composer, and referring to nothing but itself.



Tim Tetzner, September 2018



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Performed live as multichannel piece at:

- CTM Festival 2019 | 30 January 2019 | Berghain | Berlin
- Instabil / REM Festival | 4 October 2019 | Schwankhalle | Bremen



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I just can’t Avoid the Void in Avoid (excerpt)

One afternoon I set up my dremel to play the membrane on the end of my bass flute

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