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"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
"Sounds of Absence collects artistic positions on the notion of absence, shaped by two years of pandemic lockdowns. The compilation is a cooperation project with the research group ARS - art research sound - at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz, led by Peter Kiefer, and ...
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"In the album ZEITFREI the mesmerizing timbre of the classical soprano voice of Maraile Lichdi interweaves with an acoustic and electronic world of sound. The songs are characterized by the concept of the ambivalence of the temporal in music. In the lyrical, sketch-like ...
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GR208 | GRUENREKORDER
"Soundscape Røst-Spaces and Species Vol 1 is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the Røst archipelago - 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO/Sápmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound ...
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GR204 | GRUENREKORDER
"Resonant Dowland represents an individual and contemporary interpretation of the songs of Renaissance composer John Dowland. His songs, flying in from the past, become completely subjective by their full integration into an electronically generated world of sound where ...
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"A radio play on the sound of the city. Bulldozers flatten the desert, neighbourhoods are fenced in, electricity pervades the informal, crowds of people occupy the middle land. What does, what could the city of the future sound like? In "Stadt (Land Fluss)", composer ...
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"Kg Augenstern (Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer) have been exploring the world for many years with their "Tentacles," extendable fiberglass canes that allow them to touch and extract the sounds of the places they are travelling through. These tentacles have become a ...
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GR202 | GRUENREKORDER
"Sound performances in public space - an urban soundtrack for Vienna. Julia Bünnagel creates concrete records from molds of sidewalks and street surfaces in Vienna's urban space. The Cologne artist brings Viennese architecture to life in her DJ set (turntablism). The ...
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GR198 | GRUENREKORDER
"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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"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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""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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"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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