UFO KOLLEKTIV SCHIPHORST performs the Opera Heterodyne
THE YODELING VENTRILOQUIST for Theremin, Talking Machine & other instruments
live at the Xth Avantgardefestival Schiphorst 2013
June 23 on the big stage
line-up:
follows...



Thank you for the live mixing and sound: Arthur Swindell
Thank you for the recording: ....
Thank you for this rough mix: Linda Gerdes (UfoKollektiv concert version2)
Thank you for the photo: David Cunliffe
Thank you to our hosts: Carina Varain & Jean-Hervé Peron
Thank you to all musicians 
Thank you to everyone who helped
Thank you to the wonderful audience

UfoKollektiv concert version2

INSP!RED MACHINE live at the Xth Avantgardefestival Schiphorst 2013
June 22 in the Annex

Thomas Zunk - Theremin & devices
Hoshiko Yamane - Violin
Morihide Sawada - Drums

Thank you for the live mixing and sound: Adrian Gilbert
Thank you for the photo: Burkhard Stremmel

recorded by Thomas Zunk via room mike on MD
this copy: 32-bit wave quality

LINKS to a video with an excerpt of this performance:
https://vimeo.com/69683076
http://youtu.be/4Dd-G1NqL08
Thank you for this video by Anthony Donovan

INSP!RED MACHINE live at the Xth Avantgardefestival Schiphorst 2013 Pt2

- THE INHUMAN VOICE -  pt2 Euer Tag heisst HART 

first demo of the second half of my 2014 project
(IV - 1m23s - beginning - demo 20130905)

desired length ~22'

We hear three lines of the five line anagram poem.... read by three different text-to-speech programs: one native English voice and two native German speakers, one female, the other male.
The same text is heard converted into two different edits of the Morse Code as we know it and as well into a midi version of the code in seven layers for seven instruments created with ANVILstudio software sequenzer. All layers play simultaneously. At present the midi code is using two notes to distinguish between the long dah - a low note - and the short dit - a higher note. Presently those two notes are random choice and all the same for all voice which differ in sound colour only. These blocks are then altered into many different tempi and layered in AUDACITY. The longest notes and a lowest tempo of 8bpm cause the complete morse code of the anagram to last 22 minutes approx.
As a basis beat for all different tempi voices serves a sampled and looped Pulse played on the Dholak. 
Mellotron samples and Mellotron-like sounds played on Theremin with Talking 			Machine will follow. 					
	 					
Future soloist: Thomas Zunk – Theremin & devices
Instrumentalists: THE MORSE-CODE PLAYERS

THE INHUMAN VOICE pt2 Euer Tag heisst HART_Demo

- THE INHUMAN VOICE pt1 Ursonate -

first demo of the first half of my 2014 project
(20130914 Combined 7)
2m25s

We hear three voices declaiming the famous Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters (1922-1932): 1. K.S. himself in an original recording; 2. a MAC speech program; 3. a WINDOWS speech program.
Both 2 and 3 are native English "speakers" robots which read this text as if it were English(!)which results in surrealistic effects - just take for instance the letter R and pronounce it in German and then in English...
I have altered the tempo of 1 and 3 to match the speed of the female MAC voice 2 - which was the initial speaker in 2008 when this idea arose -  in order to bring them to a simultaneous end!

The Mellotron samples are issued in a kind of Zwölftonmusik-like compositional style: I use 10 different Mellotron voices (e.g. Choir, Brass, Woodwinds, Flute) with 35 notes each - all 12 half tones over 3 octaves - as on the M's keyboard.
Each voice appears in a block of notes where each note is only played once, randomly. Then the next voice block stars. Some of these voices are overlayering each other to create a more colourful sound.
Fünfunddreißigtonmusic!

The composition will later also include sounds and structures feat.: Theremin & devices - voice-like and Mellotron-like; a real human voice; six to eight soloists (role unclear but most likely circling around the idea of an instrument sounding like a(n)(in)human voice)... and possibly more things like Gongs and Handdrums :))))))))))))))))


THE INHUMAN VOICE pt1 Ursonate_demo

Textedit Kurt Schwitters Ursonate 11m22 2008

Thomas Zunk - 
Thereminist
Multiinstrumentalist
Improviser
Composer

in Berlin

Electronic interpretations of
------------------------------------------------------
VOCALISE
by Sergej Rachmaninoff
------------------------------------------------------
ORAISON
by Olivier Messiaen
arr by Richard Lainhart & Thomas Zunk

this track is 
aka 
L'Eau from Fête des Belles Eaux 
for six Ondes Martenot 1937
aka 
Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus 
from Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps 1942

backing arrangement by 
Richard Lainhart 2010 - BUCHLA 200e modular synthesizer & HAKEN controller

lead voice by 
Thomas Zunk 2012 - MOOG Etherwave Standard Theremin & devices


released 2012 03 04 and 2012 04 23
work in progress

more soundcloud accounts:
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-2
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-3
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-4
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-5
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-6
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-7
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-8
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-9
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-10
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-11
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-12
www.soundcloud.com/thomas-zunk-13
www.soundcloud.com/thereministry
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-2
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-2a
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-3
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-4
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-5
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-6
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-7
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-8
www.soundcloud.com/erich-zann-quintett-9
www.soundcloud.com/no-pussyfooting
www.soundcloud.com/no-pussyfooting-2
www.soundcloud.com/berio-II
www.soundcloud.com/berio-III
www.soundcloud.com/berio-IV
www.soundcloud.com/berio-VI
www.soundcloud.com/berio-VII
www.soundcloud.com/ghetto-raga
www.soundcloud.com/ghetto-raga-2
www.soundcloud.com/ghetto-raga-3

www.myspace.com/thomaszunk
www.myspace.com/ghettoraga
www.myspace.com/erich-zann-quintett
www.myspace.com/_no_pussyfooting_

www.facebook.com/thomaszunk

www.vimeo.com/thomaszunk

Thomas Zunk 13

Popular tracks