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“Lectures†reviewed by Tokafi
Piotr Kurek wrote the music and composed the structure of his work ‚Lectures‘ like a surrealistic novel. And most of the time a novel has a hero. In this case that hero is the late Cornelius Cardew. Being a scholar and gifted contributor to the world famous Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, with whom he collaborated for a …
Vote for Marc Behrens’s “Compilation Works 1996-2005â€
Marc Behrens’s “Compilation Works 1996-2005†has been nominated for the Qwartz 6 Music Award (in the “Anthologies†category). The public voting has already opened and will remain open until March 15. The awards will be announced in April 2, 2010 in Paris. To vote for Marc Behrens, all you need to do is to send …
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“Lectures†reviewed by Fourth Dimension
Ten pieces originally composed by this Warsaw-based artist for a festival in the very same city in 2007, created in honour of Cornelius Cardew. Using previously unreleased sounds culled from performances, lectures and rehearsals by Cardew (and passed onto Piotr by his son, Walter), Kurek has subsequently developed them during the time since to simultaneously …
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New Cronicáster: Mathias Delplanque
“Call Center†is the stereo version of a multichannel sound installation I realised for the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City†in the shape of the “Lille 3000†festival which happened in Lille (France) between October 2006 and January 2007. The work is based on sounds recorded during the summer of 2006 in a call center in …
“Lectures†reviewed by Skug
Der polnische Musiker Piotr Kurek ist Teil des Breakcore-Duos Slepcy. Die vorliegende Aufnahme, fast ausschließlich akustisch, ohne jeden Beat, überrascht angesichts dieses Backgrounds als Klangcollage aus Geige, Saxophon, Akkordeon und Anderen. Ein Haufen Instrumente, der gleichberechtigt vor sich hin klimpert. Das erinnert an ruhige Jazz-Improvisationen, lange, strukturlose Stücke alter Art-Rockhasen und frühe Throbbing-Gristle-Platten. Die Klänge …
“Erotikon†reviewed by Skug
Kaum irritierend ist das Teile einer nackten Frau zeigende 3-Fach-Hartpapierklappcover von The Beautiful Schizophonic. Jorge Mantas ist TBS und versenkt “Eroticon” (Crónica/A-Musik) – die CD steckte in diagonal angebrachten Schlitzen – im schwelgerisch-träumerischen Dronekitsch, kratzt aber noch die Kurve mit einem Sample des populären Chansons “Au Clair de la Lune”. Es stammt aus 1860 und …
“Compilation Works 1996-2005†reviewed by Terz Düsseldorf
Und noch eine temporäre Werkschau: Behrens hat sich als Grenzgänger zwischen Digitalprozessierung, Klangkunst und Elektroakustik profiliert, hat diverse Auftritte und Installationen weltweit absolviert und als Audio-Art-Dozent gewirkt. Das Audio dieser zwei CDs ist hochfaszinierend: äußerst filigran und spezifisch, intensiv, mitunter an der Grenze zur akustischen Wahrnehmung – es braucht Zeit und vor allem auch Raum, …
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“Berlin Backyards†reviewed by Kathodik
Esposizione sonora d’interiora berlinesi. Quelle costituite per capirci, dai piccoli spazi aperti, nel retro delle case, delle botteghe. Luoghi usati di massima, per parcheggiare una bici, gettar rifiuti o per dare asilo al motore di un frigo; di un condizionatore. Esposizione d’interni dunque. Lo svizzero Gilles Aubry, vive a Berlino dal 2002, si occupa di …
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