"Corridor of Compliments / Korridor der Komplimente" is the audio to a sound installation commissioned for the Klangkorridor ("Sound Corridor") at Kulturhof Villach in Austria. It runs July 1st to September 14th, 2023.
An international community was asked to record voice messages containing a compliment to a stranger, or any kind of encouraging words they would like to send out into the world, just as if they were talking to a friend. How much affection, love, support and affirmation are we willing to send out if we have no idea whose ears will listen?
"Corridor of Compliments" invites anybody who passes through the corridor, which leads from the street to the café and music venue inside Kulturhof, to stop and bathe in compliments and encouragement however long they want. The piece is about half an hour long and runs in a continuous loop.

With voices by:
Abby, Alexandra, Alina, Anastasiia, Ángela, Anna-Lena, Anni, Ardamus, Bala, Christina, Christina H., Christine, David, Eiven, Erik, Eszter, Fee, Felix, Hattie, Hubert, Ida, Ilona, Ines, Jake, Janet, Jeep, Judith, Julia, Junis, Karen, Katherine, Kathleen, Katja, Kevin, Levi, Lucy, Marc, Maria, Marilyn, Mariya, Marlene, Matt, Matt H., Michaela S., Michaela T., Monika, Niki, Sara, Simone, Stephan, Sylvia, Vera, Wade, Wendy, Yan.

Corridor of Compliments / Korridor der Komplimente

https://vimeo.com/115758934
i sat down with aaron between christmas and new year's and recorded this lo-fi cover version of "Exeter" for The Great Park's birthday with a zoom h2n in my parents' house. happy new year!

Aaron Dall & Squalloscope - Exeter (The Great Park cover)

"Library Card" from a radio fm4 studio2 acoustic session recorded in may 2015.

Library Card (radio fm4 acoustic session)

a collaboration between Anna Kohlweis and Aaron Dall, this is Knowses with their song "00011" about being or not being a robot.

- I am a robot I am 10% magic and 90% wires and screws
Last night I tried sending 20000 TB of data packets to you
- I started to download it, my hard drive was bloated, I am not what I used to be
Now i need to wear sweaters in this sweater weather
I am hungry and i I think I need to pee.

Call me on the robot phone
my number is 00011
then i won't be so alone
you gotta gotta call me on my robot phone.

-I am a robot i am robot
how 'bout you?
-Not anymore
-I am a robot I am a robot, how are you?
-I think I'm sad
-That's bad
How are you gonna get through life like that?
You can't even perform a breadth/first search!
- but I can have a drink when I get thristy!
- but that algorithm will never save your life
- fuck it, i am going out, it's saturday night!
- but don't spill your boozy drinks on your precious hard drive
- i traded it for a soft human heart and a dangerous life!

- I'm still a robot and you're moving on to human things
like boiling eggs on the stove for nine minutes and 
having coffee and dreams
- But i still carry you around in my pocket
a squeaky beepy vibrating touch screen love locket
but i wanna go to college, you got to acknowledge
i'm into sleeping and crying and eating solids.

Call me on the robot phone
my number is 00011
you will have to pay your student loans
you gotta gotta call me on my robot phone.

Call me on the robot phone
my number is 00011
we can go eat and ice cream cone
you gotta gotta call me on my robot phone.

Call me on the robot phone
my number is 00011
you're gonna hurt your funny bone
you gotta gotta call me on my robot phone.


Knowses - 00011

"Nocturnal" is a song about a departure, a death and a new beginning.
Squalloscope performs an alternate version of "Nocturnal", off "Exoskeletons for Children" in the studio on a November afternoon in Vienna.

Squalloscope - Nocturnal (Camp Frienemy Live Sessions)

Pieter Gabriel Remix of "Domino" off the "Soft Invasions" album.

Domino (Pieter Gabriel Remix)

Phobophob Remix of "Bloodbaths for Birds" off the "Soft Invasions" album.
Phobophob is Alexander Martinz (http://www.youtube.com/phobophob)
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: https://vimeo.com/45542997



Bloodbaths For Birds (Phobophob Remix)

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PRAYER IS THE BELL JAR YOU PUT OVER THIS GOODBYE. I’D RATHER LEAVE THIS EMBRACE BETWEEN YOU AND I. LET’S LOCK OUT THE BEARDED OLD MAN IN THE NIGHT GOWN. HE CAN TAP AGAINST THE GLASS BUT I’M NOT COMING OUT. I BUILD BRIDGES WITH THESE ARMS, I WILL NOT BUILD A FORTRESS. IN THE CIRCLE AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE I SAY MY “AMEN” BECAUSE I FEEL BLESSED. SECRETLY HOPING WHILE JOINING HANDS THAT YOU CAN’T FEEL MY TREMBLING FINGERTIPS. IF I SIGN THIS PIECE OF PAPER DO I SELL MY SOUL ALONG WITH MY DUTIES? WE WON’T PUT OUR MONEY WHERE YOUR CATHOLIC MOUTH IS. EVEN THOUGH THE TEETH ARE LONG GONE THERE’S STILL BONE BENEATH THE GUMS AND THERE’S A LOT OF POTENTIAL IN A MIGHTY ORGAN. AND THEY TOLD US NOT TO CLAP SO WE CLAP AS LOUD AS WE CAN BECAUSE THE REVERB IN THOSE HOLY HALLS IS LIKE A LONG LOST FRIEND. HE KEEPS HITTING THE WALLS AND COMES ALL THE WAY BACK AGAIN. I WANT TREES INSTEAD OF GRAVESTONES AND NOTHING TO CONFESS. I GOT A SOFT SPOT FOR YOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF HORROR STORIES. I GOT A MUSIC IN MY EARS FROM LONG LONG AGO AND FAR FAR AWAY AND I STILL HUM ITS TUNE BUT HOW COULD I EVER BELIEVE EVERY WORD IT SAYS TO ME? WE FOLLOW OUR OWN STEPS WHILE OUR SHADOWS KEEP WATCHING US. THE WRONG STEP WOULD BE NOT TO START THIS EXODUS.

"Big Houses" is the tenth track from the Squalloscope album "Soft Invasions". It features Toph Taylor on piano and Plaided on additional vocals.

http://seayou.bandcamp.com/album/squalloscope-soft-invasions

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Big Houses

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commissioned by Burg Hülshoff Center for Literature in Münster, Germany, for Droste Festival 2019. inspired by compositions and writings of writer and composer Annette Droste Hülshoff (1797-1848). 
 Lyrics by Annette Droste Hülshoff ("Am Turme" 1842, translated into English by Ruth Klüger)
vocal samples taken from "Wenn ich träume...' Droste-Musik aus dem Fürstenhäusle in Meersburg" and "Auf den Spuren der Droste", both contemporary recordings of Droste's music and poems. 

Thank you to Burg Hülshoff Center for Literature, Jörg Albrecht, Kerstin Mertenskötter, and Institut für chauvinistische Weiterbildung (Ivna Žic, Katja Brunner, Daniela Janjic, Gerhild Steinbuch and Darja Stocker)
credits
released March 13, 2020 

Written, recorded and mixed by Anna Kohlweis at Camp Frienemy Headquarters in Vienna, Austria and Annette Droste Hülshoff's former residency Haus Rüschhaus in Münster, Germany. 
Mastered by Michael J Collins. 
Artwork by Anna Kohlweis.

Annette EP

Tower

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UMA remix of "Bloodbaths For Birds" off the "Soft Invasions" album.
https://soundcloud.com/oh_uma

Bloodbaths For Birds (UMA remix)

Squalloscope is Anna Kohlweis, who exists as an interdisciplinary artist based primarily in Vienna. Anna Kohlweis has been releasing records since 2006 - first as Paper Bird, and since 2012 as Squalloscope. She is also one half of the band Twin Tooth and one half of songwriting duo Squalloscope & Andy the Doorbum. This soundcloud account is a place to store mostly oddities - one-off tracks recorded with others, sound pieces for exhibitions, covers, radio sessions, and remixes. Find the regular stuff elsewhere.

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