Friday, 10 February 2012

It Was There All the Time

Here I was, longing for mindless noise on the radio, and all the time those cunning Germans have been giving me what I want, only I wasn't listening. Until this morning that is, when I switched on Deutschlandradio Kultur - why, you ask, well someone has to - and heard this (I've only put up two minutes, but I've loads and loads more, [it's sound art apparently]):

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8 comments:

  1. Gadjo Dilo10 February 2012 at 07:26

    Good heavens, makes Einstürzende Neubauten sound like a dance band.

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    1. zmkc10 February 2012 at 11:28

      Thank you for pointing me in that direction. In a perverse way, I think I love them. Given that the clip was filmed in 1983, they are probably all as old - or even older - than I am now. And I bet most of them suffer from tinnitus, something you can be fairly sure of avoiding if you spend much of your life in peaceful, leafy Canberra.

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  2. Anonymous11 February 2012 at 02:39

    My friend Peter is a sound artist. He also creates beautiful images. you can see and listen to some of his work here

    http://www.scribbletronics.com/

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    1. zmkc12 February 2012 at 00:09

      When I've tired of Einsturzende Neubaten, I will give it a try

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  3. Steerforth11 February 2012 at 10:12

    And I thought 'squeaky door music' was a metaphor.

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    1. zmkc12 February 2012 at 00:08

      All I can say is that it is strangely addictive the more you hear of it - possibly some form of Stockholm syndrome at work

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  4. Umbagollah11 February 2012 at 18:09

    One of the best pieces of sound art, musique concrète, whatever you want to call it, that I heard last year, was Chris Watson's El Tren Fantasma, all made of sounds he recorded on a train trip across Mexico. And looking on his website I see that he's made a series of recordings in a forest. "Light snow cover/light breeze/cold/clear and dry/high pressure ... Ancient oak woodland ... birds recorded included robin, wren, blue tit, great tit, tree creeper, chaffinch, tawny owl, pheasant, crossbill, coal tit etc." He has MP3s: http://www.chriswatson.net/holystone/

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    1. zmkc12 February 2012 at 00:10

      When I've finished with Einsturzende Neubaten and Nurse Myra's suggestion, I will turn to Chris Watson. That train trip sounds great - I think a big part of the charm of trains is the rattling

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