Curious Casus

Tracklist created to be played in the garden at SMK Fridays - Statens Museum for Kunst: GRØN in connection with the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference(Green)in Copenhagen, 15th of June.
The playlist consists of people creating music with either field recordings, digital or analog synthesis, to modify or mimic natural environments.
 
Andrew Pekler  - Feedback TT (Tristes Tropiques - Faitiche)    
Native Instrument - Waldfest (CAMO - Shelter Press)         
Michael Muennich (Fragment Factory) - Dialog im Sachsenwald  (Unreleased)    
Lag Os (Ruben Patino) -  Track 2 (Pantano Stereomorfico - anomia)
CES vs Mangan (plants and Animalia) - Untitled  (Unreleased)  
Native Instrument - Thud (Unreleased)  
Felicity Mangan - Bird sound in close up vs Monster stickers (Unreleased)  
Native Instrument - Section of Live in Milano  
Till Boverman - fielding - first recording  
Tsembla - Rain cycle  
Giuseppe Islasi - Track 1 (Even when they speak of space - Senufo)
Green Music (Tomoko Savage and Fransesco Cavaliere)- Rain Forest synthesis (Unreleased)     
Dave Philips - Side A  (Insect LP)
CES (Plants and Empire) - untitled

Green mix for SMK Fridays - Statens Museum for Kunst: GRØN / SLSAen Conference(Green)

testing out the more, mmm, mellow? side of the non linear circuits 'digital filter simulator' (DFS)

patch notes: a noodle from sheep caught in the morphagene, which is then multed out to clouds in parasite granular (pitched all the way down) as well as the DFS (which is also being hit with purple + white noise mixed at the second input) + polivoks vcf (bandpass out) combo. this duo is crossfaded between each other and then randomly panned in the stereo field along with a second sheep noodle caught in the modcan cv record, quanta noise  and white noise. modulation spread out across the whole mess via 3 channels of random from batumi and maths ch1 through let's splosh (which is also cross modulating batumi and maths for extra weirdness)

last thing to note i suppose, is the DFS is not receiving a clock at its clock input, but rather using the morphagene loop as its clock due to internal normalization (or so says the panel?) the DFS gets more and more sputtery here the closer the rate knob reaches 0

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Recorded live at Home Studio.

Gear used: Roland Juno-106, Yamaha DX7, ЛМ 1229, DL-301A, Alesis Midiverb 2, Mackie CR-1604, Tascam Portastudio 424 MK3.

Open for release proposals. More records on request.

August 2019.

Abiocoen — Inhale

Radio work for @thelakeradio (honorable mention) and part of 'Enclosed Garden' collective exhibition by Heroine Waves.

Souvenir

Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton - Inventions For Cello And Computer

Call Back Carousel: Voyages en Grèce
 
An audio time-travelogue… A found sound road trip… A vicarious vacation…

The basis of this piece is a found reel-to-reel tape labeled ‘Voyage Grèce en 1972’ bought from a flea market in Brussels 15 years ago. As might be expected it is a document of a Belgian family camping holiday to Greece. One side of the tape is an audio diary of sorts documenting the trip moment by moment, much of the time recorded in the car in between destinations it seems. This side runs to an epic 3 hours on long play. The other side is a recorded slide show commentary over a backdrop of traditional Greek music at a more modest 2 hours. Although it becomes apparent that there is a wife (referred to only as ‘bobonne’) and child in tow we only ever hear the voice of the father. They don’t even appear in the background. Maybe they were mic shy or maybe they were just never given a look-in. Either way their absence on the tape is perplexing.

I had been invited to Brussels this summer to make a new radio piece for Radio Picnic’s ‘Musica per la radio’ series. I was also supposed to be going on a family holiday to Greece but because of obvious circumstances neither trip has happened. Out of necessity the production of this radiophonic excursion has been my way of taking a holiday without travelling anywhere – a sonic souvenir from a vicarious vacation.

In the composition of the piece excerpts from the tape have been combined with my own field recordings from holidays in Greece decades later in 2005 and 2015. Holiday memories of Greece from different times have been transposed on top of one another, intermingle and become confused. In addition, improvisations with a collection of objects selected for their sound making properties that were bought from the flea market at the same time as the tape have also been incorporated.

Special thanks to everyone who helped me with translations: Elina Bry, Selene Mauvis, Jonathan Frigeri, DinahBird, Anne-Louise Kieran, Sonia Dermience, Inès Guffroy and Meryll Hardt.

Extra thanks to Elina Bry for additional Athens field recordings.

A project by Radio Picnic with the kind support of the Swiss Foundation for Radio and Culture and Pro Helvetia. 

First broadcast on Freie Radio Berlin, 18th August, 2020.

Call Back Carousel - Voyages en Grèce

Das "Orchestre du LÖTLÄB" der Galerie Pfund & Dollar performte zum "Festival für selbstgebaute Musik" 2020 in 3 Akten auf dem RAW-Gelände in Berlin zu ihrer Elektroschrott-Sound-Installation "DE-OBSOLESZENZIATOR". Dies ist der dritte Teil.

mit: Ada Grüter | Max Gausepohl | Benjamin Wiemann | Robert Craven | Lukas Kannemann aka "kskefk" | Johannes Hassenstein aka "Acid At The Mall"

Teil 2/3 ist hier: https://soundcloud.com/derkleinefreitag/presents-orchestre-du-lotlab-de-obsoleszenziator-23 bei @derkleinefreitag zu finden.

"Die Obsoleszenz ist allgegenwärtig und doch immer nur versteckt und (zu) selten diskutiert. Als ein treibender Faktor des kapitalistischen Systems und des damit verknüpften Kreislaufs von "Neukauf und Entsorgung" anstelle von "Instandsetzung oder Nutzungsänderung" ist diese Methode der geplanten Begrenzung der Haltbarkeit diverser Produkte als quasi systemerhaltend (wegwerf-)gesellschaftlich akzeptiert bzw. kaum hinterfragt. Die Klang-Installation "De-Obsoleszenziator" führt genau diese Realitäten ad absurdum, indem dem veralteten, kaputten, ungenutzten, am Straßenrand hinterlassenen sogenannten "Elektroschrott" neues Leben in Form einer Stimme eingehaucht wird. Druckermotoren getrieben von Merklin-Trafos, die Zeit ihrer angedachten Tätigkeit kilometerweise Papier umgewalzt haben, dürfen nun an Saiten klingend in die Jahre gekommene, von TFT abgelöste Röhrenmonitorgehäuse zum schallen bringen während weggeworfene Lautsprecherboxen knopfgesteuert in von Hardware leergefegten Computergehäusen schnarren. Ob das hier entstehende Klangerlebnis als ein melodisch Schönes zu verstehen ist, wäre anzuzweifeln. Doch die Idee hinter dem von Benjamin Wiemann und Lukas Kannemann initierten Repurposing-Projekts (welches nun in der Galerie Pfund&Dollar in Hamburg in Form einer regelmäßigen Bastelsession genannt LÖTLÄB ein Zuhause findet) ist auch nicht einen wohltönenden Zusammenklang zu erzeugen sondern eher den Augenmerk auf die oben beschriebene gesellschaftliche Disharmonie und den Umgang mit den uns zur Verfügung stehenden Resourcen zu lenken."

DEOBSOLESZENZIATOR 3 - Festival für selbstgebaute Musik, RAW berlin, 2020

DE-OBSOLESZENZIATOR 3 - Festival für selbstgebaute Musik, RAW Berlin, 2020

taken from "Törnekrona" cs on Trust Collective

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