Manuel Chittka
EIGENMODEN

A1 – A (16:10)
B1 – B (19:40)

Music by Manuel Chittka. Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi. Photo by Cheyna Carr. Design by Konstantin Bessonov. Produced in 2021.

STOFFE 004
2 Tracks
Length 00:35:50
Cat. Nr. 004
Pro-dubbed Ferro Tapes 
Limited Edition of 50 
Stereo

Solo debut by multi-instrumentalist Manuel Chittka. The Love-Songs, Jungstötter and Pantha du Prince associated drummer creates two compositions of intimate beauty. EIGENMODEN is both, rhythm-based, and at the same time softly swayed by modular electronics. Making this release a personal and contrasting accentuation of contemporary Minimalism, Ambient and Jazz. The music was recorded in Hamburg-Altona and Berlin-Marzahn and mastered by Italian film composer Giuseppe Ielasi.

„A layered electro-percussive music that is supposed to flow in a tangible pulse and combines moving textures with detailed events. Mostly tuned metal percussion instruments like gongs, cymbals, or metallophones ring and sizzle together and unfold both meditative and noisy.“ Manuel Chittka

Released Oct. 19th, 2021

Manuel Chittka 'EIGENMODEN' (Album Preview)

Telephone / Georgia - Iceland Sound Connection

Rati to Agusta

Agusta to Gvantsa

Gvantsa to Mio

Mio to Khriantel

Khriantel to Brak

Brak to Archil

Archil to Vilhjalmur

Vilhjalmur to Mariam

The project is based on tighter audio connections between several artists living in different places (Georgia, Iceland). Being inspired by the whispering game Telephone, we are creating a chain of author's audio-works, which responds to each other. We have selected 9 young artists from both countries, who are interested in radio art or sound art. The first artist from the chain produced a sound work that will be shared with the second artist from another country. The following produced work will be like a response to the work and will be shared with the third artist from the chain etc. The artists are having a week to produce the responsive content / audio gesture. The works are part of a weekly program of Community Radio Tbilisi and Seyðisfjörður Community Radio.

The aim of the project was to connect the individual artists through the radio works, shift the passivity of the listeners to more active roles, create and interesting radio content based on experimental approach and support exchange and collaboration between artists and radio stations.

Credits:

Participants:
Rati Eradze – 
Ágústa Björnsdóttir – 
Gvantsa Jgushia – 
Mio Storåsen – 
Khriantel – 
Brák Jónsdóttir – 
Archil Tsereteli – 
Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson – 
Mariam Abashidze,

Concept, curator : Bara Gallo
Coordinator, producer: Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir

Community Radio Tbilisi 
@communityradiotbilisi
www.publicartplatform.org/
www.common-waves.com/

Seyðisfjörður Community Radio
@seydisfjordur
mixlr.com/seydisfjordur-community-radio/

Partners:

KAKTUS, art gallery 
www.kaktusdidsomeart.com/kaktus-info/

Menningarmiðstöð Fljótsdalshéraðs, Cultural Center
slaturhusid.is/index.php/is/

Ertkhel

T E L E P H O N E  - Georgia - Iceland - Sound Connection - Rati Eradze - Ertkhel

liminal memories

In Stillness We Return

The dark: the recent passing of friend Paul Schreiber, owner of Synthesis Technology. Along with fellow rocket scientists Eric Brombaugh and Robert Rich, he engineered the E370 Quad Morphing VCO which I use everyday. He was a true genius, a snarky story-teller, a good hearted guy. I felt honored just to know him, occasionally helping with some demos and testing on various modules.

The light: the new addition to the family, as pictured

The Light & the Dark

Vegyn - The Path Less Traveled
Akon - Don't Matter

i got u babe

ISLE008 (https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle)

Purlo

This record is the documentation of Andrés Saenz de Sicilia's performance in the car garage of Villa Lontana on 21 September 2018. A Roman necropolis of more than 160 tombs dating back to the first half of the 1st century BC was recently rediscovered under the concrete garage. The sounds for ’21-9-18’ were built upon a quadrophonic sound system, designed to respond to the physical environment of Villa Lontana’s garage, later rendered to stereo by the artist for the production of this record. The sounds produced consider different senses of weight, density, and time and include a text-sound collaboration between Andrés Saenz de Sicilia and Adam Green, writer, artist and editor of ‘The Public Domain Review’.

'21-9-18' is the first LP to be released by Villa Lontana Records. Andrés Saenz de Sicilia is a founding member of London-based trio Pataphysical who released their debut LP ‘Periphera’ with Glasgow based record label 12th Isle earlier this year.

ANDRÉS SAENZ DE SICILIA - '21-9-18' (excerpt)

Cathedral Ranges

Every winter I dive into exploration of my inner self, with no reasons. I find interest in my consciousness, my inner world, I feel delighted as if I’m watching the sky through telescope or wild animals in the woods. When it happened for the first time, I felt like a new person afterwards, but summer’s energy brought me back to who I was. And in winter it repeated. Going through this made me see the bigger picture. It’s like I’m watching some complex mechanism function. And if I just were a bird, I would find out all the tiny details of such a simple process like bird migration. 

Last winter it was exactly like that. January brought the longing for tranquility at first. Then the world became a fuss and the time stood still. I dived deeper and deeper inside as if I were on the other side of the space. And being on that adventures plateau, I created this composition, with no rush, no notice, naturally. 

It is divided into 3 parts, doesn’t ask you for anything, adapts to the atmosphere and loves it, but if you listen attentively, It takes you to the never-land.

Sounds

Contemporary and vintage sounds...

1)Oskar Sala - Musique Stéréo Pour Orchestre Électronique En Cinq Parties - Trois
2)Jan Jelinek - Forest Weaver
3)Kai Harster -Night Drive
4)Mads Emil Nielsen - Sway
5)Daniel Palkowski - First Fall
6)Roméo Poirier - Longe-côte
7)Tomoko Sauvage - Flying Vessels
8)Lou Harrison - Gending Pak Chokro
9)Tony Oxley - Brushes
10)Perila and Ulla - Box of Dust
11)William Strickland - Insistence
12)Cleve Pozar - Changes
13)Andrew Pekler - Sunshower at Sandy Island
14)Peter Mumme - Veronica Takes a Bath
15)Matchess - For Lise
16)Horaflora - Lunacy In The Garden Of Forking Paths
17)Atte Elias Kantonen - Form 1
18)Kai Harster - Bells in Rain
19)Robert Irving - Popornot

liminal memories

highland spokesman