JdR x Radio80k w/ tōyasee – 09.05.2022

The piece Well-Planned Theft for stolen and synthesised sounds deals with productive piracy and looks for aesthetic potentials in the notation – in this case in itself not necessary – of electronic music. It is a stereo composition consisting mainly of sounds taken from various pop songs. These more or less short sound particles are all chosen in such a way that they do not allow any conclusion to be drawn about a specific song in terms of sound. Instead, they stand for certain sound topoi. The theft is artificial in that it is only revealed in the score – as an assertion, so to speak – but cannot be heard from the sound itself.

The initial sounds were initially described relatively precisely in a production score in the style of a bibliography. Reproducing the piece with some interpretive fuzziness would thus be possible. The temporal organisation of the sounds is then established by means of a traditional rhythm notation. The stolen sounds are augmented by some synthesis sounds.

Well-planned Theft proposes a way of notating complex electronic sounds very accurately and yet very easily by considering the entire corpus of published music as a repository of musical material that can be referenced by means of citation. Here, notation is understood less as a medium of communication and more as a compositional tool.

Well-Planned Theft was premiered at KONTAKTE Festival, Akademy of Arts Berlin, 24.09.2022.

Well-Planned Theft

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Mein Wort dient dem Hass und der Verherrlichung der Fahrmaschine.

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Öl Ins Innere Feuer

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You‘d Be So Nice To Come Home To

Composition by Cole Porter
Arrangement by Nicklas John
Recorded in April 2019 at Folkwang Studio, Essen by Arthur Jogerst

Elisabeth Waanders - voc
Florian Raepke - tp 
Elias Rütten - ts
Jonathan Böbel - tb
Nicklas John - p
Fabian Ostermann - g
Luca Müller - b
Paul Albrecht - dr

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

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Theme and Variations

A (self-playing) piano as a simulation of a (robotic) band.

Tim Pauli (Composition/Midi Programming)
www.timpauli.net

Recording: ICEM
icem.folkwang-uni.de

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Simon Bahr writes music and thereby explores interconnections between digitality, genre and nostalgia. He studied composition with Michael Edwards and Dietrich Hahne as well as musicology and philosophy. In 2022, Simon was awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship by the city of Cologne, where he is currently pursuing a master's degree in composition with Brigitta Muntendorf.

Well-Planned Theft

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