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"This album features sound recordings of the low-level vibrations pulsing through the megastructure that is the Coventry Ring Road. Built between the 1950s and 70s, it was a key part of the plan to rebuild Coventry after the devastation of World war II. The Ring Road ...
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GR195 | GRUENREKORDER
"This work represents a further step into my on-going research on the Venetian Lagoon. I was interested to keep an ecological perspective while focussing on a precise aesthetic. In fact, I considered field-recording practice as a tool for critically investigating the ...
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GR188 | GRUENREKORDER
"As part of the 20th KAMUNA (Karlsruhe Museum Night), so-called "in-situ performances" took place at three locations in Karlsruhe on August 4, 2018: The project room ßpace, the artist-run space Halo ARS and the pedestrian zone Kaiserstraße were connected to the ZKM ...
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GR192 | GRUENREKORDER
"The research project "A soft hiss of this world" is focused on the loss in many aspects such as the loss of language as a result of the Anthropocene through the absence of certain states and processes that occur naturally in the environment like different states of ...
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GR191 | GRUENREKORDER
"Seoul based duo 11min is an instrumental unit, 11(Jiyeon Kim) - pianist/composer/sound artist and min(Sangyong Min) - drummer/sound engineer/producer. Their music has been described as minimalistic-acoustica but they draw equally on jazz, ambient, and ...
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GRD31 | GRUENREKORDER
"Plein Air the album presents recordings from a plant-driven synthesizer. A custom built instrument that uses scientific sensors and software programming to generate real-time tree leaf data. Light, photosynthesis and transpiration modifies sound: the rhythm, melody, ...
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GR187 | GRUENREKORDER
"Five years in the making, David Rothenberg's Nightingales in Berlin project includes a book, a film, many live concerts, and this double CD, including a 20 page color booklet of stills from the film and music not available in any form online." (label info) "I used to ...
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GRUEN189 | GRUENREKORDER
""Gasworks" by sonic artist Gerald Fiebig collects his sound installations, radiophonic compositions, and live performances relating to the former gasworks in Augsburg-Oberhausen. They were created between 2010 and 2016, some in collaboration with colleagues EMERGE and ...
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GR179 | GRUENREKORDER
"In his poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) the Roman poet/philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 - c. 55 BCE) explores Epicurean physics and philosophy through richly poetic language and metaphors, as he presents an entire cosmology: based on the principles of ...
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GR185 | GRUENREKORDER
"The "Kuhzunft-slotmachine" is a website-project, based on a picture of a crayon-painted slot machine. Clicking the start button activates the machine to randomly combine pre-produced recordings (of 45 seconds length) within three slots. Instead of typical fruits in the ...
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GR186 | GRUENREKORDER
"These recordings, made in 2016 and 2017, document the shifting sonic texture of the cinema projection box, as it changes from 35mm to digital projection. By 2014, the majority of UK cinemas had already converted to digital, making many projectionists redundant, and ...
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GR177 | GRUENREKORDER
"The Aeolian Harp (also called Wind Harp) is a string instrument that is played by natural wind. It sounds like layered feedback or drones with rich harmonic textures that will change continuously according to the wind direction, strength and consistency. One day, I ...
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GR182 | GRUENREKORDER
""Voll.Halb.Langsam.Halt" is based on contact mic recordings, which I recorded on an old steamboat, an ice-breaker from the 1930. I had the chance to take a trip on the ship from Rostock to Rügen over the Baltic Sea in 2010. The body of the ship is completely built ...
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GR181 | GRUENREKORDER
"The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become ...
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"Annea and I first met in New York in 1975. I was writing an article about the experimental music scene in New York for an Italian magazine. We soon found out that we had a lot of common interests and ideas. In 1979 she came to Italy and together we performed her piece ...
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GR180 | GRUENREKORDER
"Double Negative follows the path that Robert Schwarz has pursued with The Scale of Things. Field recordings render the core and compositional starting points around which modular synthesizers are built to complex structures that resemble nature's contingency as their ...
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GRUEN176 | GRUENREKORDER
"Parvenu is a work about authoritarian structures and developments. The narrative is abstract, all sounds are concrete. Every single sound on this recording is based on recordings from three bee hives." (label info)
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GR178 | GRUENREKORDER
"The field recordings of "F.Guyana" have been realized in the forests and the costal regions of French Guiana between the dry season and the "little rainy season" (November/December 2014, 2015 and 2016)." (label info)
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GR175 | GRUENREKORDER
"Mali, situated in the heart of West Africa, is the cradle of today's Blues and Jazz. It is believed that slaves brought their traditional African rhythms and sounds to the North American cotton fields. For centuries music has strengthened Mali's cultural identity, with ...
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GRUEN174 | GRUENREKORDER
"In 2014, I spent nine weeks in Belgrade, focusing on the questions, "What does this city sound like? Is it possible to portray it using sounds?" In numerous excursions to different areas of the city, I collected sounds and noises. In addition, I conducted several ...
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GRUEN173 | GRUENREKORDER
"I work very slowly, hence songs for forgetting has been in development for a very long time. The first element, a large sand timer, was recorded in Cologne, Germany in August, 2007. Further field recordings were made of rain dripping through Soviet-era gutter spouts in ...
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GR172 | GRUENREKORDER
"while field recording in autumn 2014, CLUBbleu dived into the pulsating multi-cultural metropolis of Singapore, trying to catch the most characteristic urban sound scapes. CLUBbleu translated their overwhelming impressions of this city into 10 compositions at the ...
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GRUEN165 | GRUENREKORDER
"The sounds that comprise this album were recorded in the Picentini mountain range in Southern Italy from 2012 to 2015, mostly during the early spring of each of those years. The compositions from these fieldtrips work in parallel to fifty 100-word texts and a number of ...
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GR162 | GRUENREKORDER
"The artist group Augenstern (Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer) have lived and worked on the ship Anuschka for many years. In July 2014 the MS Anuschka left Berlin in the direction of Paris before reaching their final destination in the south of France in November ...
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GR170 | GRUENREKORDER
"The book contains Ecopolitik, an introduction as an epilogue by Jose´ Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of several texts with ...
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