This is track "close ab" from the tiles teils cassette. 
Released October 10 2024

The cassette was published as part of the same titled 6-channel sound installation that was presented earlier in 2023 at Museum Schloss Fellenberg Merzig.

It features the sound of broken and cut tiles from the Merzig based tile factory Villeroy & Boch Fliesen GmbH. The factory, wich was directly opposite the Museum, has now, in 2024, moved its tile production entirely to Turkey.

However, the fossilized sounds of a few selected V&B tiles remain somewhere here... in Merzig, in Berlin, on magnetic tape, digitally, www, memorized.

In the former sound installation and now on this cassette, you can hear the tiles assambled to a three-storey ceramophone... humming a farewell song to their origins with the voices and sounds that might be very well known to the 200 former V&B workers.

[ Find here: Ceramophone percussion, tiles scratching, performance documents, analogue synths, text to speech poems, exploratory handling of ceramics and mics, etc. ]

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credits
released October 10, 2024

C-26 ferro-tape cassette
Kraftpaper slipcase
Stamp printed cover
Hand numbered

Ceramophone, recordings and mix: Peter Strickmann
Text to speech: NaturalReader
Mastering: Leo Kwandt
Dubbing: Shell Tapes
Graphics and Layout: Peter Strickmann
Font: Silka, by atipo

Comissioned by SaarART 2023
Presented as 6-channel sound installation at Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig in June - September 2023

Most of the tiles used for the Ceramophone were kindly provided by Villeroy & Boch Fliesen GmbH

Peter Strickmann - tiles teils (A4)

movements of all kind / spontaneous acts / sound interventions / group noise / joint listening / manufacture of time / domestic observations / outdoor song / sparse means