Name: Adansonia Branch Three by Knut Kaulke
Duration: 8 min 30 s
Description: I made this track for DAVE Soundwalks 2016 (Location: Festspielhaus Hellerau)

Program Notes in ENG : 

- Who are you ?
- You appeared to me in a place that doesn't exist,
- Were you real ?
- You've never seen me and I I've never seen you
- How did I manage to talk to you ? 
- I don't know...
- Give me a clue !
- I only remember...
- Open the door ! Open the door ! I want to smell, to touch, to feel, to caress her... 
- Why ? You might regret it ! Many others were like you, burning with desire... But ultimately all of them gave up and turned away from her.  
- No, I won't..
- It's too late anyway. Long gone are the days of lightness, love and happiness. Today no one knows, no one wants to remember... where she is gone
- Why ?
- Hope disappeared a long time ago. Since that time, looking for Freedom, looking for that lady is meaningless. Without hope, be free has no sense anymore. 




Liberté Chérie

Nuage Noir, 11” 49’.

FR (ENG below) :
Cette pièce puise dans l'histoire passée pour tendre vers l'avenir, 
Un futur incertain, que l'on espère beau, merveilleux, 
Mais qui au regard du présent, peut nous paraître bien sombre
Nuage Noir fait référence à la peur, à l'inquiétude, à la quête effrénée de repères dans un monde en déshérence.
Cependant, l'espoir est là et le présent peut nous surprendre à chaque instant....
Pour cette pièce, je me suis inspirée de la Route de la Soie, jadis un lien entre l'Asie et l'Europe, son commerce, ses guerres, ses horreurs et ses beautés…

Cette pièce a été composée avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Administration générale de la culture, Service de la musique.
ENG :
This piece draws on past history to move towards the future,
An uncertain future, that one hopes beautiful, wonderful,
But in the eyes of the present, it could appear dark, bleak.
« Nuage Noir » means, «  Dark Cloud » refers to the fear, the anxiety, the frantic quest of points of reference in a world escheat.
However, hope is still there and whenever the present can surprise us...
To compose this piece, I was inspired by the Silk Road (once a link between Asia and Europe), by its trade, its wars, its horrors and its beauties ...

This piece was composed by the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Administration générale de la Culture, Service de la Musique.

Nuage Noir

This is the first take of a live session played with my new productive sequencer and sound design setup.

Kissed Adansonia (live set, excerpt)

Nyx (Νύξ) 
10min 34s – acousmatic music – stereo - 2015
ENG :
This piece is an epic poem. It is a journey through the night, black, dense and mysterious, that ends with the appearance of dawn. It is inspired by the Nyx, Goddess of night of the Greek mythology. The Theogony of Hesiod describes Nyx, daughter of Chaos, as one of the first-born element gods. The myth says that each day at twilight, she leaves the hells to travel in the sky and deposit a veil of dark mist drawn forth from the underworld, which blotted out the light of Aither (shining upper atmosphere) until dawn comes. 
This piece is composed of transparency, slow transformations and strong contrasts in term of sound morphology. Nyx can be perceived as a cubist work, describing an object through different perspectives. This piece also dramatic, expressing the despair of living in a world that refuses to show its reality. I dedicate this piece to those who believe in the impossible… 

Thanks to the performers Audrey Riley, Rick Nance, Brona Martin, Evi Manola and Dimitris Savva for their contribution in this project.

FR : 
Cette piece est un poème, un voyage à travers la nuit, noire, dense qui s’achève à l’aube. Elle s’inspire de la déesse Nyx, incarnation de la nuit dans la mythologie grecque. Le mythe raconte que chaque jour au crépuscule Nyx quitte les enfers pour parcourir le ciel et déposer un voile obscur sur le monde. Nyx se compose de lentes transformations, de transparence et de forts contrastes morphologiques. Cette pièce peut être perçue comme une œuvre cubiste décrivant un objet sous différentes perspectives. 


Nyx - Exerpt

I made this track for DAVE Soundwalks 2016 (Location: Festspielhaus Hellerau)

Adansonia Branch Three

Duration : 10min 21s – acousmatic music – binaural reduction of a 16 channels piece - 2017
 
An Ocean on the moon is an acousmatic piece that explores the maritime theme through the evolution of a soft yet shiny, joyful and destructive instrumental netting texture. 
A particular emphasis is placed on the diversity of sensations that may overwhelm a viewer in front of the sea, between memories of joyful moments, lonely wander and sudden fear. This piece is an evocation of visual and kinetic experiences of the sea. 
Through this project, I have studied the rich expressivity of the instrumental gesture, sometimes methodical, sometimes impulsive. I have also explored the composer’s gesture which at each stage of the creative process works on the fludity of the drawn gesture, curved, voluptuous, and sometimes extrem. This project results from a collaboration with several instrumentalists who performed musical sequences based on visual images and video clips, and with Alex Retsis, a composer who processed some of those instrumental performances.
This piece has been partly composed at the Ionian University, located in Corfu, Greece and has been completed at the Music Technology and Innovation Centre, at De Montfort University, located in Leicester, United Kingdom. I thank very much Theodoros Lotis for his warm welcome at the Ionian University, for his listening and support during the accomplishment of this project. I also thank Andreas Mniestris, Dionissis Batjakis for their help, and I thank the beautiful people and talented musicians who participate to this project : Alex Retsis, Elesa Papakosta-Smyri, Giorgos Stavridis, Rrezarta Krougia, Sevastianos Motorinos, Niki Kokkoli, Ektoras Remsak, Nafsika Karagianaki, Stelios Michas-Eglezos and Sofia Ketentzian.

An Ocean on the moon- excerpt - binaural

Paraboloid-1

Gogo musician Msafiri Zawose rustles up a serving of Afro-futuristic dub in this genre blurring number. Taken from his forthcoming album "Uhamiaji" released next month via @soundway-records

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Msafiri Zawose - Chibitenyi (STW Premiere)

my set from last night on mixlr 
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photo from Chris Rod
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dysthymia/39707181880/in/album-72157665860261367/

Roel - Funcken - On - Mixlr - 220418

Knut Kaulke merges melodic and percussion elements 
into one conglomeration. 
drum sets become more tonal without loosing their specific noise-like sound. 
the aim is to create new sounds driven by beat sequences which can be played via claviature.


Adansonia Branch Three

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