a r t i s t : VA
t i t l e : Noise Of Cologne 1
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : reihe m
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2010
t r a c k s : 17
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 79,6 MB
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"Noise of Cologne 1" presents 17 pieces and sound miniatures
by artists living in or around Cologne, including a piece by
me. It's not adding another "school" to the existing list -
the participating artists actually are very different and
independent from each other. See Joachim Ody's booklet liner
notes for more on that topic.
The project came to life when Hermann-Christoph Mⁿller, then
freshly installed new head of the music department in the
Cultural Office, the "Kulturamt", of Cologne, invited sound
artists to a round table. His goal, I suppose, was get to know
the electronic musicians at his new place of work and to make
sure, that the Kulturamt's funding money is distributed in a
useful way.
One of the results of these meetings was the concert series
Reihe M and the idea to collect a CD of works by this
disparate bunch of musicians showing up at the table - the
Noise of Cologne. These included both "academic" musicians,
composers like Michael Beil working and teching at the
Hochschule fⁿr Musik und Tanz K÷ln, alumni of the Academy of
Media Arts Cologne, or internationally reknowned sound artists
like Hans W. Koch or Marcus Schmickler. Frank Dommert of
a-Musik/Sonig selected the content for Noise of Cologne and
oversaw the production process. (He also shot the nice booklet
pictures of discplaced places in Cologne, perfectly
illustrating the often disparate sounds digitized on the CD.)
Actually I have no real clue how I found my way onto this CD
or even to the round table that started it some years ago. I
am not really that active in the Cologne music scene directly.
Of course I know a lot of the participants, but in general my
musical collaborations happen through the internets and are
not specifically located in a physical town. My work at RjDj
is just the latest example, but as can be seen in my working
with GOTO10 or inside the global Pure Data network, virtual
cities have always been more important.
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01-harald muenz - orelob 80 [02:04]
02-volker hennes - arsen [04:38]
03-frank barknecht - beauty [04:48]
04-siegfried koepf - square [04:08]
05-pirx - high noon [03:38]
06-michael beil - und sechs (exzerpt) [04:44]
07-maenner mit motoren - blasenwerfer + phrasendrescher [05:18]
08-peter behrendsen - atem des windes (exzerpt) [04:04]
09-c-schulz & f.x.randomiz - das ohr am gleis-part 2 [03:11]
(edit)
10-frank schulte - durchmessung [04:55]
11-schmickler - Ueberschreitungen des pragmatismus [04:36]
(exzerpt)
12-bernd haerpfer - mazwi [03:48]
13-robert vater - Uegueg [00:52]
14-roland schappert - ausgeludert [04:29]
15-matthias mainz - quiet noise (edit) [04:20]
16-hans w. koch - [x. = op(x )]▓ [05:14]
17-joker nies - suite for modified q-chord [05:03]
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