This is a recording of a concert I did in October 27th, in the church St.Ruprecht in Vienna.  (Neue Musik in St.Ruprecht)
For two days I did recordings in and around the church and created a piece for 6 vibration speakers - sitting on the church benches-, 1 normal speaker on the gallery and me walking through the whole space and playing.
Unfortunately on the concert, my recording machine didn't record, but luckily someone in the audience did a recording as well. This is a mix of this live recording and the recordings, that were played through the speakers.

St.Ruprecht LIVE Mix

First playing of the Trio: Lucio Capece, Andrea Neumann, Sabine Vogel in October 2013 at Andrea's place in Berlin.

photo by Ausland November 2nd 2013

Trio: Andrea Neumann Lucio Capece Sabine Vogel

February 2015, a 2 weeks residency at Bogong Center for Sound Art in the victorian Alps. 
The material for this installation is recordings of "played" bark from two gum trees at Bogong Village, combined with improvised flute playing on site and a wind harp between the two trees. Two composed  tracks out of this material were played through two speakers attached to the trees. I played live to it on a piccolo flute, later switching to a bansuri flute. 
recorded on february 13th  2015 in Bogong Village  - with some interventions of a fly. (you'll hear it)

Excerpts from the Blogof Bogong center for Sound Culture
http://bogongsound.com.au/sabine-vogel-2/)
"Nearly every day I have revisited the two gum trees I found on my first walk. I spend the days exploring different possibilities to let them sound, to create sound, to „play“ them. In one of my past works with Bennett Hogg (from „Landscape Quartet“) and Deniz Peters, I used fishing line to connect trees. Through threading the fishing line through on of the holes of some of the Bansuris (Indian bamboo flute), the Bansuris was played by the wind, but at the same time they amplified the wind harp. I captured this with a contact microphone on the Bansuris, but it was already audible acoustically. The flutes worked as a resonator and amplifier for the wind harp.
Connecting trees refers to a scientific study about the communication of trees: It works through a complex system of roots and some fungus — an underground network. This is the link to the video:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/10/mycorrhizae-plant-communication.aspx

Suzanne Simards explains in this video, that there is always a „mother tree“ — the biggest, most dominant tree in an area — that is connected to all the other trees around it and they are exchanging informations.
One of the trees I’m working with, is perhaps one of those „mother trees“. It is a very huge Gum tree, I have no idea what kind. Maybe a Manna gum tree? Both trees have obviously survived many fires. You still see the burn wounds, but nevertheless they are still strong and alive.
I connected these two trees through a fishing line as well, but instead of putting my flutes on it, I used strips of dry bark, that were lying around. Some of the bark strips have bizarre forms. Obvious, they cannot amplify the wind, but I  played them, and through the fishing line and with a contact microphone their sound became amplified. Additonally I responded to it through improvising with my flute. The fishing line and hanging bark is the visualization of the communication. It is also source material for the composition and installation I’m going to set up at the AiR Intervention."

Bogong Gum Trees

Frédéric Blondy: Piano
Alex Nowitz: Voice
Sabine Vogel: Flutes

recorded at l'église Saint Merri, Paris in May 2014

L'église Saint Merri numero 1

written 2005 for the exhibition "RESONANCE - Echoing Throughout Stockholm",
available on the CD"Aus dem Fotoalbum eines Pinguins - part 1&2"

Wax and Wane

a mix out of two pieces: Selkie- O and Sealskin. Created for the SONIC ART exhibition at Blank gallery, Brighton in May 2009

SelkieSEAL

Sabine Vogel (flutes, live-electronics)
Ignaz Schick (turntable, objects, electronics)


recorded September 13th & 14th 2008 at P4C by Ignaz Schick
mixed February 21st 2009 by Ignaz Schick & Sabine Vogel

Ignaz Schick & Sabine Vogel have known each other for quite a while and started collaborating on a frequent basis as a duo roughly around 2005 and 2006 in parallel to their meetings within the Berlin COBRA sessions. They instantly set up a unique language of abstracted sounds: acoustic electronics  and vice versa electronic acoustics. They developed a dense musique concrète which could be also described as a performative and spontaneous approach to acousmatic music. Vogel processes flute, mouth and breathsounds via customized controllers & LISA software while Schick runs his rotation animated object sounds through a pedal sampler/looper and pitch shifter – both together creating a dense landscape of personal and unique sounds.
The duo has worked on and off since its foundation and has given legendary concerts at clubs and festivals like ausland, Stralau 68, Jazzfestival Mannheim, Bend & Break Festival Berlin and released a track on the recent Echtzeitmusik compilation. A full album waits to be mixed and mastered and will be released within 2012.


Inner Mongolia - tape1

Inner Mongolia tape 4

The material for this piece was recorded on September 22nd and 23rd 2012 at Howick, Northumberland in the UK for the LANDSCAPE QUARTET project. 

LANDSCAPE QUARTET is a team of four sound artists working on a sequence of projects with two principal aims: to investigate the creative possibilities afforded by working in direct dialogue with the natural environment; and to consider the philosophical implications arising from this, reflecting on these from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including cognitive science, phenomenology, environmental science, aesthetics, and local history.

With a small microphone inside a bansuri - an indian bamboo flute -  I recorded the enviroment while listening back to it and respond to and interact with it. I was mainly sitting in a "field" of horsetail while playing the flute and  I also the dry horsetail leaves played onto the flute. I kind of created a new instrument - kind of a a horsetail flute, that reacted on blowing and fingering.


catch the horsetail

Easter sunday in front of my kitchen window

L'église Saint Merri numero 1

Sabine Vogel

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