Thomas Köner | Novaya Zemlya | live | Skálar Sound Art Festival 2012
More info: http://www.skalar.is/skalar-sound-art-festival-2012/

Thomas Köner | Novaya Zemlya | live | Skálar Sound Art Festival 2012

‘Wenn Es Gehen Will Laß Es Gehen’ from the limited edition (300 copies) vinyl album ‘Komplex’.         
Recorded and composed by Konrad Korabiewski with Roger Döring in Berlin and Seyðisfjörður, November 2011 - December 2013
Mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) at ZONE, Berlin, 2014 
Mastered by Christoph Grote-Beverborg at Dubplates 
Cover photo by Laurent Ambroggiani taken in East Iceland  Artwork by Martina Knittel

Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Composers Society's Production Pool and KODA's Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes. Sound Art Series by Gruenrekorder.

Komplex is a new vinyl album by multi-instrumentalist Roger Döring (Dictaphone/Moser/Meyer/Döring) and the awardwinning Polish | Danish | Icelandic artist Konrad Korabiewski, released by the German sound art label Gruenrekorder in collaboration with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, East Iceland. 
Release date: 15th of May, 2015

The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition with Döring’s sounds. A third compositional element is contributed by the particular ambiences of the spaces in which the recordings took place, as Korabiewski and Döring came together to record at sites with personal and acoustic resonance, from Döring's apartment in Berlin to an abandoned herring factory by the sea in east Iceland.

Musically Komplex moves seamlessly between ethereal ambient refrains, to a somber, churning low end, to a hypnotic looping reverie that slowly disintegrates as if under the burr and scratch of a gramophone needle. Melodic elements occasionally distort and peak into noise, lending the simplicity of solo instrumental improvisation an atmospheric density, and revealing the material and spiritual limits of the fragile musical moments around which the album circles. The track titles, made of German expressions and short sentences, refer to the restless transience of creative life, much like that of a journeyman craftsperson centuries ago. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt, honest album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy sagas from the north.

8 Tracks (36′29″)

Side -
06:02 kremmenerstraße [baritonsaxofon ]
03:07 seelischer konflikt [baritonsaxofon ]
06:24 flucht [baritonsaxofon ]
04:03 hof [tenorsaxofon ]

Side + 
04:44 wenn es gehen will laß es gehen [klarinette ] 
02:09 aber langsam gehe ich meinen weg – langsam [klarinette,diktaphon ] 
05:34 wohin des weges, wandersmann? [klarinette ] 
04:24 zeit heilt alle wunden [tenorsaxofon ]

Roger Döring: www.dictaphone-music.de
Konrad Korabiewski: www.korabiewski.com
Gruenrekorder: www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=11903
Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music: www.skalar.is/skalar001/


Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski | Wenn Es Gehen Will Laß Es Gehen | Komplex | Skálar001| excerpt

‘Flucht’ from the limited edition (300 copies) vinyl album ‘Komplex’.         
Recorded and composed by Konrad Korabiewski with Roger Döring in Berlin and Seyðisfjörður, November 2011 - December 2013
Mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) at ZONE, Berlin, 2014 
Mastered by Christoph Grote-Beverborg at Dubplates 
Cover photo by Laurent Ambroggiani taken in East Iceland  Artwork by Martina Knittel

Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Composers Society's Production Pool and KODA's Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes. Sound Art Series by Gruenrekorder.

Komplex is a new vinyl album by multi-instrumentalist Roger Döring (Dictaphone/Moser/Meyer/Döring) and the awardwinning Polish | Danish | Icelandic artist Konrad Korabiewski, released by the German sound art label Gruenrekorder in collaboration with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, East Iceland. 
Release date: 15th of May, 2015

The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition with Döring’s sounds. A third compositional element is contributed by the particular ambiences of the spaces in which the recordings took place, as Korabiewski and Döring came together to record at sites with personal and acoustic resonance, from Döring's apartment in Berlin to an abandoned herring factory by the sea in east Iceland.

Musically Komplex moves seamlessly between ethereal ambient refrains, to a somber, churning low end, to a hypnotic looping reverie that slowly disintegrates as if under the burr and scratch of a gramophone needle. Melodic elements occasionally distort and peak into noise, lending the simplicity of solo instrumental improvisation an atmospheric density, and revealing the material and spiritual limits of the fragile musical moments around which the album circles. The track titles, made of German expressions and short sentences, refer to the restless transience of creative life, much like that of a journeyman craftsperson centuries ago. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt, honest album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy sagas from the north.

8 Tracks (36′29″)

Side -
06:02 kremmenerstraße [baritonsaxofon ]
03:07 seelischer konflikt [baritonsaxofon ]
06:24 flucht [baritonsaxofon ]
04:03 hof [tenorsaxofon ]

Side + 
04:44 wenn es gehen will laß es gehen [klarinette ] 
02:09 aber langsam gehe ich meinen weg – langsam [klarinette,diktaphon ] 
05:34 wohin des weges, wandersmann? [klarinette ] 
04:24 zeit heilt alle wunden [tenorsaxofon ]

Roger Döring: www.dictaphone-music.de
Konrad Korabiewski: www.korabiewski.com
Gruenrekorder: www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=11903
Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music: www.skalar.is/skalar001/


Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski | Flucht | Komplex | Skálar001

‘Seelischer Konflikt’ from the limited edition (300 copies)vinyl album ‘Komplex’.         
Recorded and composed by Konrad Korabiewski with Roger Döring in Berlin and Seyðisfjörður, November 2011 - December 2013
Mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) at ZONE, Berlin, 2014 
Mastered by Christoph Grote-Beverborg at Dubplates 
Cover photo by Laurent Ambroggiani taken in East Iceland  Artwork by Martina Knittel

Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Composers Society's Production Pool and KODA's Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes. Sound Art Series by Gruenrekorder.

Komplex is a new vinyl album by multi-instrumentalist Roger Döring (Dictaphone/Moser/Meyer/Döring) and the awardwinning Polish | Danish | Icelandic artist Konrad Korabiewski, released by the German sound art label Gruenrekorder in collaboration with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, East Iceland. 
Release date: 15th of May, 2015

The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition with Döring’s sounds. A third compositional element is contributed by the particular ambiences of the spaces in which the recordings took place, as Korabiewski and Döring came together to record at sites with personal and acoustic resonance, from Döring's apartment in Berlin to an abandoned herring factory by the sea in east Iceland.

Musically Komplex moves seamlessly between ethereal ambient refrains, to a somber, churning low end, to a hypnotic looping reverie that slowly disintegrates as if under the burr and scratch of a gramophone needle. Melodic elements occasionally distort and peak into noise, lending the simplicity of solo instrumental improvisation an atmospheric density, and revealing the material and spiritual limits of the fragile musical moments around which the album circles. The track titles, made of German expressions and short sentences, refer to the restless transience of creative life, much like that of a journeyman craftsperson centuries ago. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt, honest album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy sagas from the north.

8 Tracks (36′29″)

Side -
06:02 kremmenerstraße [baritonsaxofon ]
03:07 seelischer konflikt [baritonsaxofon ]
06:24 flucht [baritonsaxofon ]
04:03 hof [tenorsaxofon ]

Side + 
04:44 wenn es gehen will laß es gehen [klarinette ] 
02:09 aber langsam gehe ich meinen weg – langsam [klarinette,diktaphon ] 
05:34 wohin des weges, wandersmann? [klarinette ] 
04:24 zeit heilt alle wunden [tenorsaxofon ]

Roger Döring: www.dictaphone-music.de
Konrad Korabiewski: www.korabiewski.com
Gruenrekorder: www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=11903
Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music: www.skalar.is/skalar001/


Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski | Seelischer Konflikt | Komplex | Skálar001 | excerpt

FJARÐARHEIÐI had world premiere at the 44th Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Québec, October 2015. Review by René-Maxime Parent for Les Méconnus:  http://lesmeconnus.net/fjardarheidi-vibration-arctique

Using field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape and feedback systems, Friz and Korabiewski perform live with this new piece, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photo-montage. Together, Friz and Korabiewski craft pensive audiovisual landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over a year on the mountainous coast just below the Arctic Circle. Fjarðarheiði is taken from the name of the 25 km mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to the nearest town of Egilsstaðir in eastern Iceland. On this sometimes treacherous road, the visual and acoustic environments are transformed by dense fog and snow storms, effecting a perceptual flux between white-out and black-out which leaves only an aftergrain. If afterglow refers to the light or luminescence left in the sky after sundown, after-grain is the sonic and visual noise that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted.

Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Danish Arts Foundations, Danish Composers´ Society, matralab and Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music.

Anna Friz | Konrad Korabiewski | FJARÐARHEIÐI | live | Festival Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2015

Created and produced by Anna Friz at Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, Seydisfjördur, East Iceland. Excerpted from “Two Sleeps”, a radio artwork produced for Radio Arts, UK. Recorded in 2015. Taken from the Soundplay 2014 CD compilation by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015.  

Among other artists contributing are also: Christina Kubish (DE), BJ Nilsen (SE), Jana Winderen (NO), John Grzinich (EE/US), Kacper Ziemianin (PL), Roger Döring (DE) & Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK/IS), Martyna Poznańska & Jacob Eriksen (PL), Porcje Rosołowe (PL), Rudy Decelière (PL)                                                                                                      More info: http://artandsciencemeeting.pl/?p=2478&lang=en

Anna Friz | Air Can Break Your Heart | excerpt

Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski live radio performance at KZSC. Santa Cruz, California, April 2016.


Anna Friz | Konrad Korabiewski | live radio performance | KZSC | California

Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski live radio performance at Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival, Halle (Salle), Germany, October 2016.
More info: http://www.skalar.is/radio-revolten2016/
Cover photo from northern Iceland by Anna Friz

Anna Friz | Konrad Korabiewski | live radio performance | Radio Revolten Festival 2016 | Skálar FM

Konrad Korabiewski live performance at Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival 2016 , Halle (Salle), Germany, October 2016.
Review of the concert by Gabi Schaffner: http://radiorevolten.net/en/resounding-sculptures-iceland-cb/
More info: http://www.skalar.is/radio-revolten2016/
http://radiorevolten.net/konrad-korabiewski/
http://marcus-andreas-mohr.de/radio-revolten-konrad-korabiewski/

Cover photo by Marcus-Andreas Mohr.
Sound recording by Claus Störmer.

Konrad Korabiewski | live | Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival 2016

Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski live at Tsonami Arte Sonoro Festival 2016, Teatro Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile, 2016. More info: http://www.tsonami.cl/programa/
http://www.skalar.is/

Anna Friz | Konrad Korabiewski | FJARÐARHEIÐI | live | Tsonami Arte Sonoro Festival 2016 | excerpt

During the Big Concert Night (Große Konzertnacht)at Ars Electronica 2017 Anna Friz performed at Postcity in Linz, Austria. She premiered a new work entitled Radiation Day, an audiovisual concert resulting from recent fieldwork in the industrial continuum of northern Chile, with video by Rodrigo Ríos Zunino (photo credit). The concert was broadcast live on ORF Kunstradio, heard nationally on the cultural channel of Austria's national radio, and internationally at kunstradio.at

Ars Electronica Big Concert Night:
https://www.aec.at/ai/en/bigconcertnight/

Link to the program:
https://www.aec.at/ai/files/2017/08/bigconcertnight.pdf

Anna Friz | Radiation Day | live at Große Konzertnacht | Ars Electronica Festival 2017 | excerpt

Recorded by Wave Farm at Fridman Gallery, New York, October 2017.
This durational celebration of the unique 20 years of artistic quality in radio art by our friends at Wave Farm , New York features live performances by twenty co-conspirators and collaborators who represent the span of Wave Farm, from its earliest days as the free103point9 artist collective through to the present day. Participating artists include: 31 Down, Ed Bear, Lea Bertucci, Olivia Bradley-Skill, Damian Catera, Brian Dewan, Anna Friz, Michael Garofalo, Howardian, Tianna Kennedy, Jeff Kolar, Jen Kutler, C Lavender, LoVid, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Tom Roe, Stick Sellers, Melissa Weaver, Gregory Whitehead, and Bryan Zimmerman. Limited-edition event poster by Maximilian Goldfarb. "Every Radio Station" installation by Jeff Thompson

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/124864604803752/
https://wavefarm.org/

Anna Friz | Jeff Kolar | live | Wave Farm 1997-2017: Twenty Performances for Twenty Years

The New York Times Magazine fall 2018 “Sonic Voyages Issue” focusing on travel to parts of the world based on sonic attractions or properties featured soundscapes from 11 sites around the world including Iceland with field recordings by Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski.
We recorded the field audio for all the sites in Iceland including at Krafla Geothermal Power Plant.
Listen to the special fall issue of the New York Times Magazine from 22nd of September, 2018:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/21/magazine/voyages-travel-sounds-from-the-world.html
Press release: https://www.nytco.com/nyt-mag-takes-its-audience-on-a-sonic-journey-for-voyages-issue/
Podcast: https://art19.com/shows/sonic-voyages/episodes/9be214e3-766c-4b4e-aa77-c423c5c4bf94

© Music by Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski 2018
Part of commission for NYT Magazine, Sonic Voyages Issue 9.22.18

Anna Friz | Konrad Korabiewski | Krafla (New York Times Magazine edit)

Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music is an artist-run and non-profit organization established in 2012 investigating new methods for sound art and experimental music practices. Based in eastern Iceland, it takes the name ‘Skálar’ in honour of the Icelandic pioneer of experimental electronic music Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson. 

Skálar acts as both an artist collective and a mobile curatorial platform, runs an artist residency, produces a nomadic (Skálar Sound Art) festival, international exchanges, and limited edition releases of audio and audio-visual works. Skálar works with related international institutions to form a network of artist interchange and presentation possibilities in Iceland and abroad, with the objective of undertaking sound-based artistic experiments, collaborations, presentations, and studies with artists working across disciplines.

Curatorial, Skálar’s focus is on creating site-specific sonic-based interactions with landscapes, both geographical or built. Skálar is particularly interested to generate and support artistic practices which highlight unstable systems, open spaces to new interpretations and use, and which engage in perceptual feedback and affect between site and subject.

The organization’s activities also include radio with Skálar FM, which promotes both micro-radio and transmission art works as well as interventions into the broadcast domain through commissions and curation developed in concert with various national public radio and independent radio stations.

http://www.skalar.is
https://www.facebook.com/SkalarCenterForSoundArtAndExperimentalMusic

Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music

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