In The Air Tonight (Industrial Mix)

Listen back to the audio catalogue release of OBSCURE AMBIENCE at Radio 80000, 22 Oct 2021.
The mix consists of audio works, performances and soundtracks related to the works presented in the artist book.
The book is available via https://editionmetzel.de/buecher/obscure-ambience.html

OBSCURE AMBIENCE, 2021, 144 pages, 24 x 29,7 cm, 106 col. illustrations, softcover with flaps, German/English
The publication is complemented by a graphic print.

Designed by Alexander Scharf with type faces by Fabian Maier-Bode
Text contributions by Stefanie Peter and Mareike Schwarz
Conversation between Stephanie Weber and Kalas Liebfried
Published by Edition Metzel

There is something very strange happening in our skies when we're asleep. We're surrounded by an obscure ambience.

Kalas Liebfried collects thoughts and sounds – echoing references and rhetorical figures as sculptural material that condenses into narrative sonic layers in installative arrangements: Auditory spaces, moods and situations that blur the here and make us forget the now. The potentials of these atmospheres are mobilized, dynamic fields of action are marked out and released as catalysts of performative interactions.
Aesthetic and discursive formations, critical approaches under the sign of ambient: background, environment, spatialization, objectification and superimposition – Liebfried appropriates musical methods and processes to let immersive (sound)spaces emerge and to negotiate imaginary places that form their own zones and send omnidirectional signals. The framing is driven by findings of intensive artistic research between archive and apparatus, acoustics and philosophy, media archaeology and cultural technology.

Obscure Ambience - audio catalogue release show at Radio 80000, 22.10.2021

A Surround Sound Installation and Performance in Resonance to Joseph Beuys

Flute: Gosya Goya Szewcyk
Production: Lobo

17 September 2019
at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 
Curated by Corinna Thierolf and Tatjana Schäfer
Sound piece co-produced and performed by Lobo and Kalas Liebfried 
In context of Various Others 2019

Ambient For A Silent Forest, 2018 (prelude)

DOOM POKE takes the sound of a single needle hitting the skin of a human body and the sound around the ritual of tattooing as points of departure. The piece creates a brutal soundscape around doom, industrial and drone approaches.
It was shown as a soundscape for a performative ritual at Rosa Stern Space Munich as part of the exhibition "Kalas Liebfried: Leather Coated Drones". While the sound has been played, Aleksandra Georgieva tattooed "DOOM" on Liebfrieds fist, taking references from rock star tattoos, heavy existential breakdowns and the current state of the worlds intersubjective mind. 

Created by Kalas Liebfried (production, composition, arrangement, mixing), Aleksandra Georgieva (needle, performance, design) and Nicolay Nikolov (recording).  Samples from "LEATHER COATED DRONES" by Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Sam Karugu, Rozenn le Trionnaire and Robin Jermer. 
Recorded and produced in Sofia and Munich. 
© 2023 Kalas Liebfried / Aleksandra Georgieva

Photo by Enid Valu.

DOOM POKE - soundscape

Fragments of Sonic Extinction - Second Edition
1- 12 May: ONLINE, release via www.sonicextinction.net
13 May, 4pm - 12am: LIVE, showcase at ZIRKA (Dachauer Str. 110c), Munich

feat. DUMA (Kampala), Aloïs Yang (Prague), Beni Brachtel (Munich), Jol Thoms (London), Auclair & Heloise Tunstall-Behrens (London), DAWN PHASE (Toronto/Munich), Tomer Baruch (Tel Aviv), Mishka Henner (Manchester). 

The second edition of Fragments of Sonic Extinction (FOSE), centers itself on the dire—and political—interdependency of the Earth’s biospheres. This edition does not distance itself from the invaluable nature of individual species, but focuses on communicating the tensions between discourses of complexity, highlighting the links between environments, economies, cultures and the narratives that they embody and employ to understand—and accelerate—their development.
Founded in 2022, In the form of a website, the project intends to shift the focus on ephemeral extinction and the complexity of the rapid changes within the sonic spheres of our world. Employing interpretation, immersion and interaction as central characteristics, FOSE presents contributions by artists dedicated to the perilous or extinct nature of specific species and their sonic perspectives and environments.
The eight new commissions will be shared on the re-designed website between May 1 and 12, and presented live in Munich on May 13, 2023, at ZIRKA, facilitating an intersectional dialogue centered on multidisciplinary practices and tactile experiences. The one-day festival will feature performances, workshops, concerts and multimedia installations, accompanied by a day-long takeover of Munich based Radio 80000.

Art direction, Curation: Kalas Liebfried 
Co-Curation: L. M. Ramsey
Cohabitation: PARA 
All pieces mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space 
Technical Implementation (website): Maximilian Rauh 
Graphic Design: Alexander Scharf 
Editing: Daniel Melfi

DUMA, Black Rhinos (shot to extinction for their horns), edit, 10:50, Kampala/Nairobi, 2023

Gaida Drone (Uneven Air)

This is an excerpt from my live set at Klein und Haarig festival 2023

Gore Drone (EDM Screams) live at Klein und Haarig festival, 2023

Variations for Juno II

"Not One Less" versteht sich als atmosphärische Annäherung und musikalische Überführung von Orten. Ausgangspunkt für das Stück sind Sound-Aufnahmen aus dem Entstehungskontext der Fünf-Kanal-Videoinstallation von Timo Herbst und Gregor Peschko in der Ausstellung "False Ground Carrier" im IDEAL, Leipzig: Protestrufe und Straßenszenen aus Hong Kong, Field Recordings aus der Produktion der Installation auf einem Paintball-Feld. 
Die Klänge verschränken den Kontext der Orte (Hong Kong, Paintball-Feld, Ausstellungsraum) und erzeugen eine dynamische und narrative Komposition, die zwischen symphonischen Filmsoundtrack und Soundscape oszilliert.“

Konzeption, Komposition und Produktion: Kalas Liebfried
Saxophon: Ralph Heidel
Mastering: Konrad Wehrmeister und Jakob Braito

Kalas Liebfried

Popular tracks