i tried this with the Diabelli Variations one time (although without the stretching). unfortunately the quieter ones mostly got lost in the mix.

sieben monate später: gilt mein erstaunen, meine hohe achtung für diesen track (nur: track?) immer noch. beeindruckend, herr muenz.

Wall of Beethoven. I recognised all 2,793 extracts of course. Thirty seconds into the piece I started smiling, and the smile stayed to the end. Why is this?

This is exciting - as an exercise is listening and simply as a piece of music.  It is delightful ride.  My body is a little worn from the ride and I like it. :)  

@lachgas25: Danke, daß Sie mit ihm darüber gesprochen haben.

what a wonderful monster of a piece to hear when first opening someones page, i promise to listen to it again at full volume

I love this! It's really satisfying to listen to somehow.

L'île Rodrigues, au beau milieu de l'océan Indien

I took you on a trip back in time. Back to the origins of Hardstyle. Back to our roots. This was MADNESS XXL #12 @ BOOTSHAUS!

▶️ TRACKLIST
01. Pila - History (Pila & The Scientist Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
02. DJ Arne L II - Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) (ZELECTER Edit)
03. Technoboy - Raver's Techno Noise (ZELECTER Mashup)
04. Warp Brothers & Kai Tracid - 4 Just 1 Time & Space (ZELECTER Edit)
05. Zero Vision - Overdrive (ZELECTER Tanz Elektrik Edit)
06. Mike NRG - Lost in Dreams (Sequenza Remix) (ZELECTER Edit)
07. Sequenza & Guis - Tricky Zombie Nation (ZELECTER Early Mashup)
08. Trance Generators - Do You Wanna Balloon (ZELECTER Edit)
09. Marshall Masters - Stereo Murder (ZELECTER Early Edit)
10. Ard & Jorn - 16 (ZELECTER Edit)
11. Brain Ovulation - Kicks & Bass (Acid Step Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
12. The Beholder & Balistic & Max Enforcer - Bigger Better Louder Decibel (ZELECTER Mashup)
13. Hardheadz - Wreck The RMX (Beholder & Max Enforcer Remix) (ZELECTER Edit)
14. ZELECTER - Start Rocking x Follow Me 2002 (Mashup)
15. ZELECTER - The Prophecy Of Derb Voodoo People (Mashup)
16. The Prophet & Headhunterz - Scar Ur Face (ZELECTER Early Edit)
17. DJ Rob - Boys Interface (The Beholder & Balistic Remix) (ZELECTER Short Edit)
18. Zany - Rock The Thugz (ZELECTER Pillzz Mashup)
19. Builder - Her Voice (Super Bass Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
20. Lowriders - Don't Get Back (ZELECTER Edit)
21. Dark Oscillators - Stereophobia (ZELECTER Edit)
22. ZELECTER - Go Go Get This Little Skyscraper (Early Hardstyle Minimix)
23. Josh Lang - Kracker (ZELECTER Edit)
24. ZELECTER - Early Donkey Rollers Mega Mashup
25. Hardstyle Masterz ft. Max Enforcer - Light of the Dark (The Blackout Mix) (ZELECTER Edit)
26. The Prophet x Isaac - Insane Acid Dream (ZELECTER Mashup)
27. ZELECTER - Early Showtek Mega Mashup
28. Headhunterz - The Saifam Mashup (ZELECTER Edit)
29. Dutch Disorder - Heroine (Pat B Remix) (ZELECTER Early Edit)
30. Josh Lang - Tektic (ZELECTER Deeper Inside Edit)
31. Donkey Rollers - Beauty Cocaine Followers (ZELECTER Mashup)
32. DJ Duro - Cocaine MF (ZELECTER Haben wir noch Pepps? Edit)
33. ZELECTER - Dance on Disco Shit (Early Hardstyle Minimix)
34. Splinta - Early Soundz (ZELECTER Edit)
35. ZELECTER - Respect x Subsonic x Pressure (Mashup)
36. Headhunterz x Brennan Heart - The Sacrifice (ZELECTER Stormwind Edit)

▶️ Do you want to learn more about me?
E-Mail: promo@zelecter.de
Instagram: instagram.com/zelecter.dj

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MADNESS XXL #12 | BOOTSHAUS, COLOGNE 22-05-07

This track was released as part of:
_EXECUTE Vol​.​1 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Algorithmic Music.

https://toplapduesseldorf.bandcamp.com/


"TOPLAP DÜSSELDORF is a group of artists that has existed since 2018 to explore and promote live coding. In order to make this increasingly popular technique of composing and performing electronic music more widely known, the group is releasing with _EXECUTE Vol. 1 the works of Düsseldorf artists together with the works of the international live coding scene as a compilation for the first time.

In their performances, live coders reveal the inner workings of software, manipulate it directly in the source code, and in the process improvise to create music or moving images. The process of programming is made visible to the audience through a projection of the computer screen. Live coding works in all music genres and is shown in many livestreams and all over the world in concert halls, clubs and on so-called algoraves.

What is unique about live coding is the combination of cool computer science, strictly rule-based and merciless in its treatment of errors, with musical improvisation, which is usually free and open to deviations from the usual. In this way, the live coders fill the sobriety of programming with aesthetic life, making the hidden beauty of code audible and visible to connoisseurs and lay listeners and viewers."

Peter Witt, artistic director of the Düsseldorf art festival "Die Digitale", March 2022. die-digitale.net

Karussell 1

DJ ASA FT DJ BRANDON
YANKY TI ZAGA WENNVIBES AXEL LINFLEX

IMMORTEL PLATINUM OFFICIAL AUDIO

TRUTHSPEAKER - INHALE

One of the results of my research into the chorded sounds or multiphonics: more than one sound made by the voice at the same time.

Chorded Sounds 12th May 2023

Wild Ones

Harald Muenz
BeethovEnBloc (2000)
Tape composition with the thirty-seven movements of the nine symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven (EXTRACT only)

Realisation: studio of the author
Duration: 9‘26‘‘ (the SoundCloud track is a 4'41'' extract!)
Live premiere: Dec. 1, 2000, Cologne, Elektronisches Studio der Musikhochschule, Aulakonzert Neue Musik LXV
Broadcasting premiere: DeutschlandRadio Werkstatt, Dec. 29, 2000 (curator: Götz Naleppa)

BeethovEnBloc is my personal response to a monument of German “Leidkultur” [“culture of suffering” – an untranslatable pun on “Leitkultur” (“leading culture”), the political slogan introduced by the conservative party in Germany to encapsulate the idea of German culture as the dominant culture within multicultural Germany].  The composition’s only materials are the sounds of the thirty-seven movements of the nine symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven.

After I had tested as many of the different renditions of the symphonies as possible, the recordings were first of all cleaned, balanced and timed.  For each symphony I calculated an average movement length from the durations of its individual movements. Subsequently I used time-stretching to bring all the movements of the symphony to this duration, but without altering the pitch.  This time-consuming transformation method sometimes caused rather extreme stresses or strains to the originals. Thus for each symphony I achieved a compact overlaid form of all its movements.  These nine blocks can also be performed separately

The next stage was once again to establish an average duration of these nine assemblages (and consequently of all 37 movements), so that – again without altering pitch – each individual complex could be brought to this average length of 9 minutes 26 seconds.  Finally I superimposed these nine structures and thus achieved a compact block of all the Beethoven symphonies.

The sound composition makes possible perceptual insights which “Ludwig van” would have been unlikely to grant  At first the continuous fortissimo can be quite hard for the listener, but then one is astonished by the transparency of the sound. Which of the 37 movements is at any moment the strongest?  Once one has come to terms with the volume, the superimposed dynamic fluctuations of this hallucinatory stream of sounds flood into the ear.  Finally one is able, by further focussing one’s perception, to pursue innumerable individual threads in this shining tapestry. 
(HM, translated by Susanna Eastburn)

BeethovEnBloc

BeethovEnBloc. Tape composition with the 37 movements of Beethoven's 9 symphonies (2000; EXTRACT)

darkvoice is an album and a set of videos reflecting on the role of spoken language in the age of pervasive and permanent electronic surveillance. it is exclusively made from manipulated voice, sinister typography and digital technology. 

for the full release go here:
http://joerg.piringer.net/darkvoice/

el sys

«Mādar» for Double bass

Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Christine Chapman, horn
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Ulrich Löffler, piano
Dirk Wietheger, violoncello

December 2019

„Botanisieren“ for Ensemble | Ensemble Musikfabrik

Harald Muenz (he/him)
is a German-Italian transdisciplinary artist realising instrumental & vocal, peformative and radiophonic works with an artistic focus on phonetic composition & Ars Acustica.

Harald's compositions have been commissioned by Ensembles Mosaik, auditivvokal, hand werk, Apartment House, Modern, musikfabrik; by radio stations such as Hessischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC, Deutschlandfunk, DLF Kultur, among others.
Harald's works have been performed and broadcast internationally and have been documented on several CDs (portrait CD nearly-fast with Ensemble Mosaik at Coviello).
Frequent collaborations with experimental poets (Florian Neuner, Mathias Traxler, Cristian Forte, Christian Filips, Roža Domašcyna, among others)
On the VR platform Second Life, Harald (aka Cuirec d’Erc) has realised several interactive sound installations and has been a member of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (aom) since 2017.
Harald is also active as a multilingual speech performer (trio sprechbohrer), author and lecturer.
Harald's music has been occasionally described by others as ‘worldly,’ ‘non-conformist,’ or ‘provocative.’

https://haraldmuenz.carrd.co/
Work list on http://composers21.com/compdocs/muenzh.htm

Artist residencies
1996 Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf (Brandenburg/Germany)
2000 Villa Aurora (Los Angeles/USA)
2021 Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Niedersachsen/Germany)
2023 Atelier Galata (Istanbul/Turkey)

Studies
Composition at Music Universities in Cologne (J. Fritsch, K. Meyer, C. Barlow) and Stuttgart  (H. Lachenmann)
PhD in Composition from Brunel University London (J. Croft)
Phonetics at Cologne University’s Institute for Linguistics (G. Heike, G. Sachse)
„Cleaning the House“ Workshop by the Marina Abramović Institute

Teaching
2001-2005 Lecturer for Aesthetic Phonetics, Institute for Linguistics, University of Cologne (part-time)
2006-11 Artistic Director of Musikhochschule Lübeck's Studio for Electronic Music (part-time)
2005-16 Lecturer in Composition Brunel University London (full-time permanent)
2016 Decision to work as a full-time freelance composer again
2017-22 current Lecturer at International Ensemble Modern Academy Frankfurt/M. (IEMA; part-time)

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BeethovEnBloc. Tape composition with the 37 movements of Beethoven's 9 symphonies (2000; EXTRACT)

Harald Muenz

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