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UNFAIR NOISES
Cassette
A compilation dedicated to the question of what „Unfair Noise“ could be. Disturbing neighbours / Voices in the head / Low-flying police helicopters as a result of gun violence in the neighborhood / Songs from the Working Class, sung drunk deep at night in front of the windows of workers.
Arranged by HERMIT, FEAR OF A PLANET (Polly E. Sinclair & Robert Schalinski), ANNA SCHIMKAT, MICHAEL BARTHEL.
Liner notes and graphic showing on six panel fold-out cover. Limited to 50
/ 10 Euro
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Harnregentraufe
Cassette
Ten miniatures of FULL BLADDER POETRY.
In 2017, some pieces of that collection were first performed on a meadow near Zernikow Mill in Brandenburg, where homemade toilets and bushes were available for relieving oneself.
Duncan Harrison from Brighton once asked about the meaning of "Harn", appeared in several texts over the last decade.
A place of closeness, warmth and trust. A wet and fragrant place of poetry and desire. A conceit and an assertion.
"Harnregentraufe" is played on a sweaty organ and called through old, rotten drain pipes.
In one of the pieces, ALICE KEMP performs a "Physical Poem": Recite Barthel as slowly as possible, with a full bladder.
Cover showing layout and poems on six panel fold-out cover. Limited to 50
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ALICE KEMP >>
/ 10 Euro
MERZEDES ŠTURM-LIE
Twice in Once
Cassette
TWICE IN ONCE is a performance and installation inspired by a table visualising and explaining variations of the human voice,
found in the 1823 book 'An Essay on the History and Theory of Music; and on the qualities, capabilities, and management of
the human voice' by musicologist Isaac Nathan. In the performance an auditory landscape is created by layering, looping and
reflecting on the power of song, transcendence and mythical sirens.
The Cassette features live recordings from two performances in Helsingborg (SE) and Brussels (BE) in 2022.
Merzedes Šturm-Lie is a multimedia artist. She uses voice and sound as a temporary passage between worlds, poking at and playing
with the blurred lines between emotional affect and reason.
Limited to 50
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CONCERT >>
/ 10 Euro
JOKE LANZ
UK Field
Cassette
All sounds recorded on tour in UK, 2023.
Ten unique cassette cover using headlines, texts and photos of British community newspaper from the 1970s,
"that was informing of what was happening in the neighbourhood and encourage the people to become involved
in improving local conditions, protecting local jobs and arguing for more and better housing and services
for local people."
Now, this historical material is set together with Lanz’s field recordings in today's UK.
Limited to 50
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TEN COVER >>
/ 10 Euro
HANS ESSEL
Forward / Backward
2x Cassette
The raw sound material is the recording of a network monitor of a Digital Equiment Corporation
workstation (1992). The sound is similar to the old analogue fax machines, a noisy twitter. Specific
patterns could be generated by moving the mouse, popup windows etc. The idea of the composition
Forward / Backward for music cassette is a piece of music on a MC which is played backwards
(reversed) when the cassette is turned over to play the B side (…) Four different compositions were
made in that way of concept.
The Edition includes two separate cassette in snap case with two different fold-out and double-sided cover. Limited to 30
Hans Essel (*1948) is a Darmstadt-based physicist and composer, focussed on new playing techniques
with violin/viola, as well as on live performances with reel-to-reel tape machines. After two solo LP’s on
Edition Telemark (Saitensack and Zeitfalten), Forward / Backward is his third solo release.
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/ 15 Euro
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Two im Teer
CD
TWO IM TEER (two in the tar) contains five cycles of poems spread over fourteen tracks, always implemented differently in terms of sound. Poetry and sound poetry turn into fragile and lonely noises. An excessive collage of voices, piano, and increasingly distorted and destroyed tape recorders. Solo and in duet with the voices of ALICE KEMP, MARA GENSCHEL, ANNA SCHIMKAT, and the violins of HANS ESSEL and INGE SALCHER.
Perhaps the nakedest, embarrassing and most indeterminable recordings until now.
In contrast to the previous poems, which used the topic of relationships as a symbol to describe social and political togetherness, the poems and pieces on TWO IM TEER are exclusively focused on the relationship between two people. Nevertheless, this "we" end up in an individual position. What remains is desire and failure.
For the first time, four English poems are released here, next to the German ones.
All poems and scores are printed to the six-panel cover.
A bacon rind inside.
Concept, Poems, Collages by Michael Barthel. Recorded in 2020.
Released on Recordings for the Summer, Edition of 300
PODCAST ABOUT THE CD, by YAN JUN.
Tracks starting at 17:25 Min. >>
/ 12 Euro
MICHAEL BARTHEL, RORO PERROT, ULRIKE UHLIG
Talg-Barrikade (Chansons de Sébum)
Cassette
Five poems by Michael Barthel, translated into French by Ulrike Uhlig and spoken by Michael Barthel, Roro Perrot and Ulrike Uhlig.
On building barricades made of sebum, the sebum of our skins, the pimples, whatever our body can offer!
It’s not a metaphor but a question of how much we are really able to give. To things, to ideas, to each other.
Edition of 50
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TWO LEFT! / 10 Euro
HERMIT
Lot 8
Cassette
Documentation of a rare and recent Hermit performance in Victoria, BC.
A crescendo of gesticulation, voice, and minimal electronics.
Featuring cover art depicting a tattered mobile phone case, in reference to the recording medium and Hermit’s former Garbage Society label.
Side B repeats Side A. Edition of 30
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MICHAEL PLEISSNER
The Gagosian Papers - Audiocollage
CDR
Working on paper collages since the late 1970s, Fine Artist Michael
Pleißner, uses a lot of different art-, architecture- and other
cultural magazines, like "Kunstforum" or "Vogue".
For this Spoken Word Recording, Pleißner is using thirty text-fragments
from the art-magazine "Gagosian", randomly picking them at first sight;
in one take, within twenty minutes. The Audiocollage needs to be listened
to by random play on a CD-Player. So each listening creates a new collage.
Born in 1951, Michael Pleißner lives in Leipzig, Germany. This CD is his
third audio release.
8-pages booklet with an individually numbered CD. Edition of 30
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ONE LEFT! / 10 Euro
ERIC BOROS
Snow Moon
CDR
This is the second part of this collaborative work between Eric Boros &
Michael Barthel. For the first part, "Hell's Hollow", Barthel composed
imaginary textile landscapes to Boros' field recordings of locations of
which neither the exact coordinates nor the nature of were divulged.
For "Snow Moon", the recordings are influenced by three of Barthel's
photo objects, and have shifted their range of focus from the source
to the action. These landscapes represent a built environment, and one
in ruin; frustrated, lonely, and jagged. And yet in this space one can
find liberation; a landscape of exploration, of acceptance, and of departure.
The three landscapes/photo objects are printed on the accompanying 8-page booklet. Edition of 30
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/ 10 Euro
FRANZISKA KLOSE
HUY
CDR
Huy is the name of a range of hills that was created in the Triassic period, more than 240 million years ago.
The CD presents 8 recordings in today's landscape such as old farms, small villages, plain fields or beech woods.
Recorded in 2014, during an Artist Residency at Kunstverein Röderhof in Germany.
The cover is a folded poster (43x31 cm to 14,5x15,5 cm) and is printed on both sides. Numbered by Franziska Klose. Edition of 50
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/ 10 Euro
JEFF REHNLUND
Anthropophagus
Cassette
Private found sounds, recorded in 2008 on a trip through the Southeast of Asia. Transformed into ten quite different sound-collages.
Two paper collages by the artist include into the cover.
Released in 2012. Remaining stock of three copies. Edition of 30
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MICHAEL PLEIßNER
Wie ein Funken im All
Cassette
"A dialogue between two radios and two people" was played by Michael Pleißner, a fine artist based in Leipzig. Apart from a cassette produced in the 1990s which is now lost, this is the only recording he ever made since then.
Born 1951 in Leipzig, Michael Pleißner started to paint in the 1970's and later moved on to produce a large pile of paper collages as well as his "Dream Houses"-objects. Since 2010 he has solely been working on his artist books, using different art-, architecture- and other magazines concerning cultural issues, like "Vogue", in addition to nature-mags, like "Geo". Pleißner's books consist of collages dealing with the development of culture and the permanent change of human environment, while constantly producing relicts of itself. In this recording fragments of cultural information, which at the same time exists but has already passed, can be heard, "Like a Spark in Outer Space".
Released in 2017. Remaining stock of three copies. Edition of 30
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/ 10 Euro
MICHAEL BARTHEL
One Year
Cassette
Inspired by George Marcunias' installation, ONE YEAR. "The cassette contains two recordings. The only one i have made in 2008." Random Tapeplayer-Feedback, microcassette manipulation, microphone, dictaphone, four tracker.
Released in 2013. Remaining stock of three copies. Edition of 21
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/ 10 Euro
THE OVAL LANGUAGE
Cassette
The Oval Language is the long time project by Leipzig artist Klaus-Peter John.
Released in 1987 as a free sound and performance project, nowadays output is using
the human voice as the main source and interest to its recordings.
Quote, Klaus-Peter John:
"The voice is the first and oldest human instrument. Communication and articulation becomes
most intense and direct when being used as an individual expression of pure phonetic language
beyond spoken words. The Oval Language forms a kind of voice-biotope which points out the
actual sound of the voice as such. Beyond the rational logic of our language it becomes an
instrument in a world full of sound. It`s tonal immediateness is being emphasized instead
of it`s ability to form word in order to communicate rationally."
"Stimme ist das erste und älteste Instrumentarium des Menschen. Die Verständigung und Artikulation
in Form der Lautsprache existiert außerhalb der geformten Worte als individueller Ausdruck
am intensivsten, ja am unmittelbarsten. The Oval Language verdeutlicht durch die Schaffung einer Art
von Stimmbiotop den Stimmklang außerhalb der rational funktionierenden Wortgebilde. Die Stimme als
Instrumentarium in der Welt der Geräusche. Hierbei geht es immer um die tonale Unmittelbarkeit außerhalb
der rationalen Vermittelbarkeit."
8 pieces for voice, recorded in 2012, with a cover layout and artwork by Michael Barthel.
Released in 2015. Remaining stock of two copies. Edition of 30, numbered by Klaus-Peter John.
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