SOLO Album: 'look with thine ears' 
CF324 www.cleanfeed-records.com March 2015 
Pascal Niggenkemper - bass, preparations http://pascalniggenkemper.com
cover pic art by Natasha Lébedeva: http://natashalebedeva.com

'look with thine ears'

FMR records: CD 383 http://fmr-records.com
album: Miner's Pick
tracks 79 & diabolite
Thomas Heberer - cornet http://thomasheberer.de
Pascal Niggenkemper - bass, preparations http://pascalniggenkemper.com
cover art by Mike Joyce: http://stereotype-nyc.com

Miner's Pick

'le 7ème continent'
talking trash
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Ruehl - clarinets, amplification
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets, amplification
Eve Risser - prepared piano
Philip Zoubek - prepared piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent" or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent' talking_trash

upcoming hurricane
pascal niggenkemper - bass 
simon nabatov - piano 
gerald cleaver - drums 
CD&LP ‘upcoming hurricane’ nobusiness records

upcoming hurricane

baloni
frantz loriot - viola 
joachim badenhorst - clarinets&sax
pascal niggenkemper - bass 
CD ‘Fremdenzimmer’ Nov 2011 clean feed

baloni: Lokomotive

PNTrio
pascal niggenkemper - bass,comp 
robin verheyen - sax 
tyshawn sorey - drums & piano 
CD: ‘urban creatures’ JHM 2010

PNTrio Brothers

PNTrio: poème dans l'obscurité

let me kiss your hand

at fortune's alms

this shall not be revoked

LE FAUX MIROIR

Pascal Niggenkemper, contrebasse et contrebasse augmentée
Louis Laurain, trompette et cabane sonore
Toma Gouband, batterie arrangée  

11/11/2023 La Menuiserie à Rodez (FR)

*création Jazzdor 2023

le faux miroir

beat the odds
music for 2 cellos, 2 contrabasses, amplifiers and motors
The strings of the instruments are hit by a lever.

Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass
Elisabeth Coudoux - cello
Ricardo Jacinto - cello
Félicie Bazelaire - double bass

get the CD via Bandcamp : https://subran.bandcamp.com/album/beat-the-odds 
'beat the odds' is part of the 6CD boxset limited edition of 120 blòc subran.bandcamp.com/merch/bl-c-6cd-…-edition-of-120


released February 22, 2023

reorded by Pavel Borodin at Dialograum Kreuzung St. Helena, Bonn (DE)

Photo Jože Balas - FOTO NOTE mix PN, master Giuseppe Ielasi

thx to trinamic, Laszlo and Natasha, GMEA et Didier Aschour, Pavel Borodin, Hannes Schneider et Benjamin Mammus

St Helena

beat the odds - St Helena

juchés -  have you ever wondered

musique pour carillon, trompette, voix, électronique et contrebasse

Corinne Salles - carillon
Ben LaMar Gay - trumpet, voice and electronics
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass and composition

get CD with booklet : https://subran.bandcamp.com/album/have-you-ever-wondered

'have you ever wondered' is part of the 6CD boxset limited edition of 120 blòc https://subran.bandcamp.com/merch/bl-c-6cd-boxset-limited-edition-of-120


July 17, 2022 44°C in the shade
an ascending spiral staircase
of 100 steps
20m high - 360° view
37 bells from 22 to 111.5cm Ø,
4.420 tons of bronze
a cramped place perched & barded with large beams
a baton keyboard with 57 keys
a multitude of rods
and then...
4 low strings
3 brass pistons
some potentiometers
15 microphones placed & moved...
is there anything...  more
credits
released February 22, 2023

recorded in July and October 2022 in the bell tower of Notre-Dame de la Drèche in France by François Bessac. mix PN, master Giuseppe Ielasi, photos Claude Foulquier

have you ever wondered

have you ever wondered - Juchés

'la vallée de l'étrange'
a face to face between a double bassist and an autonomous augmented double bass in octophonic setting

Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass

+ get CD here : https://subran.bandcamp.com/album/la-vall-e-de-l-trange
+'la vallée de l'étrange' is part of the 6CD boxset limited edition of 120 blòc subran.bandcamp.com/merch/bl-c-6cd-…-edition-of-120
musique pour contrebasse acoustique et contrebasse augmentée en octophonie


Intro
For several years now, the search for new double bass techniques and sounds has been at the center of my artistic practice.

From the experimentation with motors on an augmented double bass came the idea to create ‘la vallée de l’étrange’:
By juxtaposing my double bass with an autonomous augmented double bass (see scenography).

Inspired by the theory of the roboticist Masahiro Mori’s ‘The Uncanny Valley’, ‘la vallée de l’étrange’ is a sound installation in which the double bass is at the heart of my reflection:
- to revisit the relation with my instrument
- to find other viewpoints and instrumental practices to broaden the instrumental possibilities

A face to face is installed between me (acoustic bass) and the augmented double bass whose amplified sound is spatialized in Octophonic sound.

‘La vallée de l’étrange’, a game of opposition and encounter between the human and the imaginary.


Scenography

A circular stage, eight speakers on the periphery, I am playing in the center while turning with my acoustic double bass. For pieces 2, 3 and 6 the double bass lies on my lap which I call basso horizontale. Next to me, an augmented double bass equipped with eight motors in eight zones, each with a piezo.
These zones of the augmented double bass (strings, action, bridge, tailpiece, etc.) are animated by the levers of the motors and projected onto one or several loudspeakers.

The mapping of these zones in the loud speakers varies according to the piece.

The audience is seated in circles between the double bassist and the eight speakers.

The octophonic setup gives the sensation of being inside the augmented double bass.

la vallée de l’étrange

The double bass is lying on my knees (basso horizontale), I play the instrument with my mouth: breaths and whispers are projected towards the f-hole and the endpin entrance. The motors of the augmented double bass are equipped with wheels that, at different speeds and rhythms, operate the strings. A time related interaction is established between the two entities: action or fast reaction versus restrain.

released February 22, 2023

recorded in July and October 2022 at la Grange de Floyrac (France) mix PN, master Giuseppe Ielasi

Merci à Henri Laurens, Claude Foulquier, François Bessac, JJ Triby, Pascal Roux & Nicolas Marmin et Willi de Diastrad

la vallée de l'étrange

Pascal Niggenkemper - le 7ème continent - .Kipppunkt
track : undercurrent

+get the record here : https://subran.bandcamp.com/album/kipppunkt
+'le 7ème continent - .Kipppunkt. - undercurrent' is part of the 6CD boxset limited edition of 120 blòc subran.bandcamp.com/merch/bl-c-6cd-…-edition-of-120 
Pascal Niggenkemper - comp. et contrebasse
Julián Elvira - flutes & amp
Liz Kosack & Philip Zoubek - clavichord et synthé
Joris Rühl & Joachim Badenhorst - clarinettes et amp
credits
released February 22, 2023

rec on 8 novembre 2017 au Festival Alternativa à Prague
par Premysl Vodehnal

master Christophe Albertijn
Merci à Stephane Treilhou de menucordion pour les magnifiques clavichords et à Sarah

.Kipppunkt

undercurrent

le 7ème continent - .Kipppunkt. - undercurrent

amar e blos

vèrs - revèrs
suite pour 8 voix et contrebasse sur des textes de Jaumes Privat

Voix en Rhizome
Danièle Sales
Klaus Niggenkemper
Marie-Françoise Delzons
Jean-Jacques Triby
Marie-Cécile Triby
Alain Druilhe
Marie Quet
Alain Salabert
+Pascal Niggenkemper - contrebasse et composition

+get record here : https://subran.bandcamp.com/album/v-rs-rev-rs
+'vèrs-revèrs' is part of the 6CD boxset limited edition of 120 blòc subran.bandcamp.com/merch/bl-c-6cd-…-edition-of-120 
////

amar e blos - Jaumes Privat dans 'Tahls' édition Jorn

amar e blos
de mar aimar l’anar
d'aquesta tèrra vesi
los aures me sònan
recaptats a l'espèra de
las parets causidas
miègterranas e de mar granda

---(FR)
amer et pur
de mer aimer le destin
de cette terre je vois
les arbres m’appellent
rassemblés à l'affut (l'attente)
des murs choisis (préférés)
méditerranéens et de grande mer

---(DE)
bitter und rein
vom Meer lieben das Gehen
dieser Erde ich sehe
die Bäume rufen mich
versammelt in Erwartung
der ausgewählten Mauern
Mediterran und fürs grosse Meer
////

released February 22, 2023

recorded on October 8, 2021 at Poujol, Aveyron (FR)
by Nicolas Marmin master by Christophe Albertijn

amar e blos

vèrs-revèrs - amar e blos

Jaumes Privat - voice
François Bessac - turntables
Igor Boyer - bag pipes
Pascal Niggenkemper - augmented double bass

De Thals

baloni Fremdenzimmer

gyres océaniques
'le 7ème continent'
talking trash

Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Rühl - clarinets
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets
Eve Risser - piano
Philip Zoubek - piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent', gyres océaniques

track nine: 79 & diabolite
album: Miner's Pick
FMR records: CD 383 http://fmr-records.com
Thomas Heberer - cornet http://thomasheberer.de
Pascal Niggenkemper - bass, preparations http://pascalniggenkemper.com
cover art by Mike Joyce: http://stereotype-nyc.com

Diabolite

'le 7ème continent'
TalkingTrash
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Rühl - clarinets
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets
Eve Risser - piano
Philip Zoubek - piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent', plastisphere

'le 7ème continent'
talking trash
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Rühl - clarinets
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets
Eve Risser - piano
Philip Zoubek - piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ...

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music.

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise.

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent', talking trash

Duo-Pluta-Niggenkemper

PascAli 
'suspicious activity' 
creative sources records
Sean Ali & Pascal Niggenkemper prep. basses

chinese mask

britpop

chicken talk

baloni belleke
Joachim Badenhorst-cl
Frantz Loriot-viola
PN-bass
clean feed records 2014
www.pascalniggenkemper.com/baloni.html

baloni belleke

speaking tube
emilie lesbros - voice, perc
pascal niggenkemper - double bass
frantz loriot - viola

mais pourquoi tu fait tout ca john

vision7
CD Lucky Prime (clean feed records)
Pascal Niggenkemper, bass & comp
Emilie Lesbros, voice
Frank Gratkowski, sax & cl
Eve Risser, piano 
Christian Lillinger, drums 
Frantz Loriot, viola 
Els Vandeweyer, vibraphone

ke belle

vision7 
CD Lucky Prime (clean feed records)
Pascal Niggenkemper, bass & comp
Emilie Lesbros, voice
Frank Gratkowski, sax & cl
Eve Risser, piano 
Christian Lillinger, drums 
Frantz Loriot, viola 
Els Vandeweyer, vibraphone

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