A thrill to speak with legendary artist Frank Pahl from his studio in Wyandotte, Michigan.  Pahl discusses the influence of Eugene Chadbourne, Trimpin and many more.  A prolific tinkerer, sound artists, recording artist, educator and much more.  Hope you find great inspiration in this talk!

EP. 120 - FRANK PAHL

Source: Universal Cleaner FLUXUS DELUXUS. 
Exposure time: 42 min. 
Preparation: Mar—Nov 2022. Berlin, Fajslawice, Lausanne. 
Production: Renoise. 
Best before: 16.02.2023. 

Jakub Tywoniuk

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1. Neo—Dada

“BlackHoudini” is a remix by blackhole-factory (Martin Slawig & Elke Utermöhlen) of my track “Houdini Mushrooms pt. 1”

Artwork is provided by blackhole-factory 
https://www.blackhole-factory.com/

Germany’s blackhole-factory are among the handful of people that I approached in the last year or so with the idea of doing a remix. 

It has been a fun experiment and has helped me creatively in many ways that I didn’t even anticipate. 

The music I recorded at the height of the pandemic in 2020 was very much soaked in isolation and frustration, so getting these tunes and their constituent parts in the hands of other creators that I admire feels feels very refreshing and inspiring.

Some notes from Martin Slawig about the recordings.

- we used the 5 5 3 rhythm of the guitar as the basic rhythm for the whole track, played it on an Udu drum as a 2 bar pattern, rhythm is   3 2 3 2 3 - 2 3 3 2 3

- your field recording + an ultra sonic recording of insects from our garden, pitched down 2 octaves so we can hear it

- the decay part of your piano notes, granular synth


- the decay part of your acoustic guitar notes, granular synth

- your electric guitars L + R

- your acoustic guitar pitched down and processed a bit

- Elke' s voice in the beginning and 2nd half inspired by the piano phrase, it is sometimes hard to hear the difference between voice and the granular piano/ guitar

BlackHoudini (remix by blackhole-factory)

Giedi Prime

"...hyperobjects describe objects that are so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend spatiotemporal specificity, such as global warming, styrofoam, and radioactive plutonium."

renoise halloween 2023

Hyperobject

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Pattern Editor ......... 5h 20m 24s
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Mixer .................. 1h 18m 43s
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Phrase Editor .......... 59s
Sampler: Recording ..... -
Sampler: Keyzones ...... -
Sampler: Waveform ...... 8m 3s
Sampler: Modulation .... 6m 30s
Sampler: Effects ....... 1m 12s
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Plugin Editor .......... 36s
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MIDI Editor ............ -
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Other .................. -
Background Playback .... -
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     TOTAL EDITING TIME: 6h 56m 27s

Universal Grammar

Photo by Lee Friedlander, 1966
Track by Universal Cleaner, 2023

Liquidation Of Opium

Festival Of The Falling Hammers

I tried to soundtrack this nice photo of the Kobe Forest Garden by https://www.flickr.com/photos/74914875@N05/

Petrichor

A 33 minute audio collage composed of scraps and sketches. the perfect soundtrack for sitting in a creaky old canoe while watching smoke billow over the horizon. april 2024.

BlackHoudini (remix by blackhole-factory)

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