GRUENREKORDER

understands itself as an organisation with the aim of promoting soundworks and phonography. Phonography considers nature / the environment as an acoustic experience, loaden with musical sounds. It is as a form of art and culture, that Gruenrekorder promotes phonography. We therefore organise events, lectures, publications and exhibitions as well as artistic projects in the fields of phonography and soundwork. Please visit Field Notes our bi-lingual magazine and Tonangel our workshop or take some time to read or listen to Gruenrekorder.

I play blues guitar, dobro and bass guitar, but not here. This site is for my experiments in computer generated music - that is, music entirely created by a computer program without manual intervention. You can read more about how my algorithmic music is created on my website at https://sites.google.com/site/dickpountainspages/home/music/automusic.

eclectroacoustician, creator of unusual music
  
for questions, commissions or other enquiries, say hello@oliverbuck.land !

If you use my music in a non-commercial project p̲l̲e̲a̲s̲e̲ ensure that you g̲i̲v̲e̲ ̲c̲r̲e̲d̲i̲t̲ ̲a̲n̲d̲ ̲l̲i̲n̲k̲ ̲b̲a̲c̲k̲ ̲t̲o̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲s̲o̲u̲r̲c̲e̲.̲ (YT or SC preferred)

For commercial purposes, please get in touch via my email.

Also, don't just re-upload my stuff, let me do that!

Please do not use my music in machine learning training data.

Thank you!

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of material used within my work. I would be pleased to rectify any infringements should they be drawn to my attention.

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1,000 plays - 19/06/13
2,000 plays - 24/09/13
3,000 plays - 18/10/13
4,000 plays - 12/12/13
5,000 plays - 06/01/14
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7,000 plays - 08/01/14
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9,000 plays - 25/01/14
10,000 plays - 27/01/14
20,000 plays - 07/04/15
30,000 plays -  23/02/16
40,000 plays - 08/03/17
50,000 plays - 20/02/18
60,000 plays - 13/12/18
70,000 plays - 25/04/19
80,000 plays - 19/07/19
90,000 plays - 06/11/19
100,000 plays  - 21/02/20
250,000 plays - 18/09/20
500,000 plays - 05/11/20
1,000,000 plays! - 02/03/21
2,000,000 plays!! - 23/11/21
3,000,000 plays!!! - 02/12/22
4,000,000 plays!!!! - 22/06/23
5,000,000 plays!!!!! - 18/04/24

highest number of plays in a day:
44,241 - 28/01/23

most played track: backroom labyrinth

first track to reach 10K plays: 16 - microchip, 16/05/19
first track to reach 100K plays: backroom labyrinth, ??/??/20

100 followers - 11/10/13
200 followers - 06/02/14
300 followers - 14/06/14
400 followers - 24/02/15
500 followers - 30/04/16
600 followers - 11/12/18
700 followers - 11/12/19
800 followers - 31/05/20
900 followers - 11/06/20
1,000 followers - 12/07/20
2,000 followers - 13/11/20
3,000 followers - 22/02/21
4,000 followers - 08/05/21
5,000 followers - 14/11/21
6,000 followers - 17/06/22
7,000 followers - 28/01/23
8,000 followers - 19/03/23
9,000 followers - 16/11/23
10,000 followers - 16/09/24

- thank you SoundCloud for making me soundclouder of the day on the 6th of January 2014.
http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/72466087626

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- thank you Alexandre & Etienne;
https://lapopdalexandreetetienne.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/who-is-it-1-oliver-buckland-english.html
- thanks Velvetune;
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/oliver-buckland/thirty-%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%81

Everything began on a green, short-pile carpet – the kind that gives you rug-burn if you slide on it. There in the living room of my childhood home stood a vinyl record cabinet. And Beethoven, Sibelius, Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding. My parents’ records started me on a trip that is still ongoing. An inner journey – but also a physical one – including concerts, tours and a Master’s Degree in improvisation and composition.

I got the desire to create my own music, became interested in the architectonics of music, and how sound waves have the ability to stir feelings, which in turn can have physical manifestations. There were many instruments at my parents’ house, so I had wonderful opportunities for both playing and composing.

Since then many impressions, encounters, heroes and sources of inspiration have followed. Some have been with me all the way, others have been detours, but together they have built my musical foundation – my backbone. Some say you are what you eat, but for me it’s more like I am what I listen to. I am a product of my continually expanding record collection: Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Stravinsky, Bartók, Debussy, Dylan, NEU!, Mingus, Miles.
My ambition has always been to compose with as little compromise as possible – but to shoot from the hip hasn’t worked for me. Frank Zappa says:
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”
I also need a frame, and for this project I've been inspired by Impressionism. You could see Music from a Room as a homage to the Impressionists who were active in Paris around the year 1900, spiked with my diverse vinyl collection almost a century later. The sound waves from my childhood roll on. In another form. From another room.

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