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@TimPauli is an Essen-based programmer and composer who is active in the fields of sound and video art as well as performance. Tim’s multidisciplinary artistic work reflects his deep interest in computer-generated structures, the aesthetics of failure and remix, the corporeality of electronic music, and the dissolution of the distinction between high and low culture. Currently he is pursuing a degree in electronic composition at the Folkwang University of Arts.

Recorded at SCHALLFRONT [Reverie(s)] on 23.10.21

Tim Pauli - live at SCHALLFRONT

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled 
for amplified ensemble (2021)

November 29, 2021 - Basel, Gare du Nord, mirror///error
kinnect kollektiv
Live recording

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; You xxxx me because I xxxx you; I don’t xxxx you because you don’t xxxx me; You don’t xxxx me because I don’t xxxx you; I am you because you are me; A xxxx B because B xxxx A; I'm small, if you think I'm small; I'm big, if you think I’m big; I'm xxxx, if you think I’m xxxx; You are xxxx, if I think you are xxxx; It is about relation and dynamic; It's not about simple logic but about desire of life.

When I die, everything is lost to me. So I want to be with more desire, even though I know it's all gone when I die.  I don't live with the thought of dying. I think it's someone else's story. I after dying am to me  a stranger. It is about relation, that exists, but doesn’t exist. So things we can think are easy to fool. So things the earnestness can be more sincere. It is about the dynamic the relation creates.

I can not control even my shallow feelings. On the one hand, what can a very weak human  being, bound by memories from a very young age, really control anything? How I think about you affects you is that you become me, and vice versa is of course possible. If something happens to the beings which are very far from each other at the same time for no reason, it is an event that is out of their will, whether material or spiritual, existential or non-existential. It just happens regardless of our will.

Music not music, and music without music are music in the present time. I not me and I without me am me in the present time. I am denied by this time and this space and I resist it. I xxxx you because you xxxx me. You xxxx me because I xxxx you.

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled (2021)

Written for solo 21-string zheng, this is the instrumental version of Manufactured Realities, a work that exists in three versions.
Performed by Jing-Mu Kuo.
Recorded at C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab, August 2021.

Manufactured Realities, ver.3 (2021) for solo 21-string zheng

Program Note:
eidos; qualia oscillates between presence and absence, implying a continuity between being and non-being, appearance and disappearance. It is inspired by Yuk Hui’s discussion of recursivity, a concept that he likens to the mastery of shanshui painting: “when one sees something when there is in fact nothing; when there is nothing where one sees something.” I convey the idea of recursivity musically by rendering the soundless as equally audible as the sounding. By positioning the musicians around the audience and by gradually foregrounding the presence of space, I transform the soundless—the relation of one body to another—into something that is perceived both visually and aurally. In the final section of the piece, silent everyday objects (e.g. cardboard boxes and ceramic pots) emerge from their habitual silence as restless, unrelenting voices demanding to be heard.

Performed by Talea Ensemble at the Annex Theatre in Vancouver on April 23, 2022.
My deepest gratitude to Giorgio Magnanensi and Vancouver New Music.
Thanks also to conductor James Baker for assisting with the initial rehearsals. 

Performers:
Barry Crawford, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, B-flat clarinet
Carrie Frey, viola
Chris Gross, cello
William Kuo, live electronics + guitar pedals

Sound technician: Sam Torres

eidos; qualia | 23.04.2022 | Talea Ensemble

A meditation on unnecessary air travel

Rendered in SuperCollider using the Ctk quark for non-realtime synthesis

Original version is 4-channel, please reach out if interested in hearing it

Contrails (2016)(stereo version)

ensemble unitedberlin * Angela Postweiler * Sergey Neller * Andre Bartetzki

Else Lasker-Schüler
Erkenntnis

Schwere steigt aus allen Erden auf
Und wir ersticken im Bleidunst,
Jedoch die Sehnsucht reckt sich
Und speit wie eine Feuersbrunst.

Es tönt aus allen wilden Flüssen
Das Urgeschrei, Evas Lied.
Wir reißen uns die Hüllen ab,
Vom Schall der Vorwelt hingerissen,
Ich nackt! Du nackt!

– – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Wilder, Eva, bekenne schweifender,
Deine Sehnsucht war die Schlange,
Ihre Stimme wand sich über Deine Lippe,
Und biß in den Saum Deiner Wange.

Wilder, Eva, bekenne reißender,
Den Tag, den Du Gott abrangst,
Da Du zu früh das Licht sahst
Und in den blinden Kelch der Scham sankst.

Riesengroß
Steigt aus Deinem Schoß
Zuerst wie Erfüllung zagend,
Dann sich ungestüm raffend,
Sich selbst schaffend
Gott-Seele ..........

Und sie wächst
Über die Welt hinaus,
Ihren Anfang verlierend,
Über alle Zeit hinaus,
Und zurück um Dein Tausendherz
Ende überragend ...

Singe, Eva, Dein banges Lied einsam,
Einsamer, tropfenschwer wie Dein Herz schlägt,
Löse die düstere Tränenschnur,
Die sich um den Nacken der Welt legt.

Wie das Mondlicht wandele Dein Antlitz ....
Du bist schön ....
Singe, singe, horch, den Rauscheton,
Spielt die Nacht auf Deinem Goldhaar schon:

»Ich trank atmende Süße
Vom schillernden Aste
Aus holden Dunkeldolden.
Ich fürchte mich nun
Vor meinem wachenden Blick –
Verstecke mich, Du –
Denn meine wilde Pein
Wird Scham,
Verstecke mich, Du,
Tief in das Auge der Nacht,
Daß mein Tag Nachtdunkel trage.
Dieses taube Getöse, das mich umwirrt!
Meine Angst rollt die Erdstufen herauf,
Düsterher, zu mir zurück, nachthin,
Kaum rastet eine Spanne zwischen uns.
Brich mir das glühende Eden von der Schulter!
Mit seinen kühlen Armen spielten wir,
Durch seine hellen Wolkenreife sprangen unsere Jubel.
Nun schnellen meine Zehe wie irre Pfeile über die Erde,
Und meine Sehnsucht kriecht in jähen Bogen mir voran.«

Eva, kehre um vor der letzten Hecke noch!
Wirf nicht Schatten mit Dir,
Blühe aus, Verführerin.

Eva Du heiße Lauscherin,
O, Du schaumweiße Traube,
Flüchte um vor der Spitze Deiner schmalsten Wimper noch!

Saturdaymorning

없음 없는 없음 nichts ohne nichts (2023) for percussion trio, amplified objects and live electronics (2023)
premiered by Sori Percussion in Seoul, South Korea on 8. July 2023

언제 어디서나 다시 생명이 깃든다는 건 어쩌면 없음은 없다는 것이다. 이 작품은 그에 대한 개인적인 소록이다. 현 시대의 결핍과 부재에 대한 개인의 인상과 그에 대한 나의 반응이다.

Whenever and wherever, the notion that life can be existed suggest that there may be no such thing as nothing. This work is my personal note about it and a response to the deficiencies and absences of the present era.

없음 없는 없음 nichts ohne nichts (2023)

fascia (2019) for clarinet and electronics

This work situates variable elements within a fixed environment: the clarinet assumes a shapeshifting form, breathing life into the monolithic rigidity of the electronics. 

Borrowing heavily from improvisations by clarinetist and improviser, Juliette Adam, the live-performed clarinet part permits an elasticity that welcomes risk, suspense, and uncertainty. The electronic counterpart recalls malfunction and inhabits a dark, science-fiction-inspired ambience invoked by sub-bass frequencies and heavily processed recordings of machines, mechanisms, and manufactured materials. 

Uncertainty proliferates with each musical unfolding, as the clarinet is subsumed under a chorus of insistent, subterranean rumblings and mechanical stridulations intoned by a network of non-musical objects, consumer electronics, and modified instruments.

Performed by Juliette Adam at Le Centquatre-Paris on 18 June 2019. 

Presented at Festival ManiFeste hosted by the Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM).

fascia | 18.06.2019 | Juliette Adam

Tim Pauli (Electronics)
www.timpauli.net

Photo: Sebastian Wolf
www.sebastianwolf.photo

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