The Cologne Study

Field records around “Everyone Is an Artist” Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, K20, Düsseldorf, Germany, some crickets (North Sea), ... Guitar, Viola (August 2021)

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Rain (Dedicated To The Three Unknown Women, Sitting On A Bench, In Halberstadt)

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This track was produced with samples from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) from 1957 until the '80s only. It was part of the Saturday challenge at the loop at home festival.

Loop At Home

contemporary serious music

The inspiration for this challenge comes from the avant-garde FLUXUS movement. Artists including Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles and George Brecht, pioneered what they called event scores – simple instructions that could be performed by anyone. The second movement of Knowles’ “Bean Piece” instructed the performer to “deliberately spill the beans”, while another by La Monte Young called for the player to “draw a straight line and follow it”. The point of these “little illuminations”, as Young called them, was to blur the barrier between art and everyday life, to demonstrate that the world – and your apartment – is already making music. Let’s call it … ‘house music’.


While my fridge did not make any sounds, instead it was having some lazy time during this Sunday morning, the only consistent sound came from my grandma’s-clock … tick-tock … … which became the tempo of this track. 

Finally, while recording me, pretending being a clock … the fridge started to make some noise. A repeatedly, humming sound with scratchy-like peaks. To imitate this sound, I used a deep tuned viola, scratching the C-String with the back of the bow in a rotating manner. … to complete this challenge, I added the fridge’s door opening sound, recorded the air pressure thing of the deep freezer while closing this door, a down cooling kettle, and of course that clock’s bells. I used EQ, Pitch, Warp and Panning

Loop at home

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Hiking Tour, Muttental, Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany

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Grimes - You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around (shift away remix by Moves & Specifics)

Guitar, Programming, Field Records Malte Hermsen
Bass Moritz Anthes
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Hiking Trip through the Eifel (Hillesheim to Himmerod Abbey). Interview was taken in Himmerod, Sept 2020. Pater Stephan Reimund Senge talks about the history of Himmerod Abbey and about his life and work(Sudan, ...).

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