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Sounds Of Iceland
This recording takes you on a round trip of Iceland. The aural journey starts westward from the island’s south in the cold early spring. After a side trip into the West Fjords, our route traverses the north of the country at the height of summer, fol…
Cicada Dream
2013 marked the arrival of millions of periodical cicadas to the new york metropolitan area. these musical insects appear only once every seventeen years. on the occasion of this auspicious event, david rothenberg performed a series of concerts toget…
Der Michel und der DOM
Sound art project that connects the city of Hamburg’s church St. Michaelis and the funfair "Hamburger DOM" :: soundcompositions, soundscapes and remix: Gregory Büttner, Roland Etzin, Stefan Funck, Costa Gröhn, Christoph Korn, Martin Moritz, Lasse-Mar…
AudioArt Compilation 02
Costa Gröhn “Zwergohreulen in der Vikos-Schlucht”, Martin Moritz “No Input Output”, Thomas M. Siefert “No I, Improvisation gong”, Lasse-Marc Riek “Fahnenstange”, Suspicion Breeds Confidence “Ein Abenteuer ist zumeist nur eine verpaßte Mahlzeit”, Dirk…
Rhythm
Peter Cusack “Through the Robots", Eric La Casa "Clisson: Moulin de Gervaux", Roland Etzin "Premium 900", Jez Riley "Boat Ropes & Lake Hollow Pole", Takahiro Kawaguchi "for example #01", Dale Lloyd "1928 Australian Streetcar", Takefumi Naoshima "self…
Neuklang Kirchenlied
German bands and solo artists bring old hymns into contemporary music. The spectrum ranges from jazz to pop, from rock and metal to acoustic art. An essential part of the concept is that text and melody are preserved. The tradition of hymns is a livi…
The fauna and flora of the Vatican City
The "fauna and flora of the Vatican City" is the 6th release of Tobias Schmitt’s pet project Suspicion Breeds Confidence. The record is a continuation and development of the eclectic and complex music presented on its predecessors: polyrhythmic beats…
Some memories of Bamboo
Kami-Katsura is a small suburban district in Kyoto, Japan. Bounded to the east by residential and light industrial areas that run up to the Hozu River, to the west it is held in check by wooded slopes and valleys where the population falls away as th…
Sonic Antarctica
Sonic Antarctica features natural and industrial field recordings, sonifications and audifications of science data and interviews with weather and climate scientists. The areas recorded include: the “Dry Valleys“ (77°30′S 163°00′E) on the shore of Mc…
Marine mammals and fish of Lofoten and Vesteralen
Marine Mammals and fish of Lofoten and Vesterålen’ is a collection that fits perfectly within the Gruenrekorder field recording series. The driving force behind this publication was Heike Vester, a marine biologist who in 2005 founded the organisatio…
Playing with Words: Live
Kulturnetz Frankfurt e.V. presents: International SoundArtFestival.
Gallus-Theater, Frankfurt am Main 2009 / A film by Bernhard Bauser Joerg Piringer (A), Ansuman Biswas (GB), Dirk Huelstrunk (G), Sianed Jones (GB), Nye Parry (GB), Jaap Blonk (NL).…
Playing with Words: an audio compilation
The work on this audio compilation is part of an intermittent ongoing tradition of artistic investigation of spoken language. The pieces included here negotiate potential oppositions such as semantic play and abstraction, musical and narrative struct…
The Slaughterhouse
In rural Alabama, about an hour outside of Birmingham is a slaughterhouse. It’s a family operation where meat is processed one animal at a time by hand. Mostly custom jobs. A man and his son run the place. They handle most aspects of the daily operat…
Series Invisible - Collection 2
The book contains a detailed list of recordings and a detailed list of date and location of the erasure of these recodings! The sound of selected locations or specific sound phenomena have been recorded using a digital audio recording device. Later o…
Helgoland
Germany’s only ocean island is a singular place in various ways. Situated 70 kilometers from the coast line, it belonged to the UK for 90 years during the 19th century. During World War II, the first facilities for a huge naval base were erected. The…
Terra Subfonica
As a composer and sound artist often working closely at the nexus of radiophonic art, environmental sound and electroacoustic music, one of my primary interests is in the exploration of relationships between people and the incredibly rich sonorous en…
Bug Music
There has been rhythm on this planet for millions of years longer than humans have opened their mouths to sing. Long before birds, long before whales, insects have been thrumming, scraping, and drumming complex beats out into the world.
David Rothe…
East Music for Wax Cylinders
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel was an „armchair ethnologist“. Due to his bad health the musicologist was unable to travel to faraway countries. Instead he sat at his desk in the Dorotheenstraße in Berlin and received the world through his phonograph. On…
Morne diablotins
What did the Caribbean islands – acoustically- look like before the arrival of Columbus? With this question in mind I took a short trip to the National Park of Guadeloupe and to Dominica, one of the most preserved island of the Lesser Antilles, which…
Burmese Days
Over the past several years, Vienna-based composer / producer Peter Kutin has been working intensely at the little-explored junction between sound art and journalism / documentation. Focusing on sonic experiences in extreme or exceptional conditions,…