Breaking the Elephant's Legs

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City So Lover

Taken from the album «Eyephone – Reductive+».
The Eyephone project started in 1994 and stopped in 1997.
Eyephone released one 12" and four CD albums (one together with Atom™ – as Atom Heart) between 1995 and 2001. Some live-performances (with Atom Heart and Clifford Gilberto) and DJ appearances took place in the same period.

«Reductive+» is Eyephone’s original debut album, re-released by Availabel, and including nine previously unreleased tracks that were not featured in the original CD version. This is the third of three albums featuring the entire Eyephone catalogue remastered by Atom™.

Get the album at http://marcbehrens.bandcamp.com/album/reductive

Eyephone – Ford

Nachtsprache

Voiks for Worce

The Vhhce (feat. Maile Colbert)

The Unfant Terrible Forzato

The Unfant Terrible

Fever (Ten Degrees More)

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nterpretation of a Reinterpretation of a Rei

Recorded at the Thaipusam festival, February 7, 2012, at Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur while working on field recordings for my upcoming radio piece “Crowd.” Please note that this is not a part of my piece, but a documentary recording of some of the trance music played there. I tried to implement Hugh Tracey’s technique of following the sound action, using a stereo pair of shotgun mics slightly above the heads of the crowd. This is an excerpt of a longer recording.

In this recording, pilgrims and devotees enter from left to right and stop under an arched gate to the stairs that lead up to the actual caves. The dance performed here is called Kavadi Attam. The dancer carries a cage-like structure, often connected to hooks in the skin (depth bondage) and bells (which you will hear clearly). This was recorded at the gate, standing right next to the band and dancer, having to duck repeatedly to not get hit by the Kavadi. This music is VERY loud, so the singer’s voice, despite using a megaphone, is ‘drowned’ by the drums.

some trance music at Thaipusam 2012, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Excerpt of a CD released in 2012 on and/OAR.

A journey to the Chinese Qinghai province (Tibetan culture region of Amdo) was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut China. Its purpose was to experience the province and to produce art works to be presented at The Third Guangzhou Triennial, subtitled «Farewell to Post-Colonialism» in the same year. The sound installation Unit and a series of photographs called Cutting Qinghai resulted from this journey, during which I took photographs and made audio recordings. The installation was presented from September 6, 2008 to November 18, 2008.

Unit consists of five pairs of floor-mounted frame drums and hanging loud speakers. The frame drums resonate, depending on the sound pressure level from the speakers, which hover a few centimeters above them. There are four sound elements (stones, crickets, cymbals and drums used in the 5-channel audio composition for this set-up, which were auto-selected and projected onto the frame drums according to an aleatoric script on a multi-channel DVD.)

50 copies of this release come with a (6.75" x 6.75") 40 page book entitled Cutting Qinghai. The regular edition of the CD is limited to 250 copies.

Unit (excerpt)

Marc Behrens works with electronic and concrete music, installation, performance, photography, text and video. He exhibited artworks or performed in many European countries, in South Africa, Chile, USA, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Israel and Palestine. Since 1989 Behrens has released more than 30 music albums. 
Selected collaborators: Atom™, Annesley Black, Miguel Carvalhais, Maile Colbert, Steve Van den Bosch, Bernhard Günter, Nikolaus Heyduck (Behrens Heyduck), Yôko Higashi, Francisco López, Julia Mihály, profikollektion, Paulo Raposo, Pedro Tudela, Ho. Turner, Achim Wollscheid

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