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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/ 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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TWO LEFT / 10 Euro
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
JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBARDET
The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11
Object
The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11 is a live recording
that doesn't exist, that will never exist, of a concert that never
happened.
The object, as a compilation of incomplete documentation transformed
into an event that everyone missed, represents a concretion of time,
absence of time and words - as well as a modification, a silent gate
between past and future and an empty archive or catalog of lost
material.
Jean-François Robardet uses a large variety of media (drawing, poetry,
digital image, sculpture, perfume) to address memory, war and time,
and to research on the history of conflict and social and political
issues, gender inequalities, cultural norms and discrimination. With
"The Mourning Voice - Leipzig gig, 2017/04/11", Robardet's poetic,
allegorical methods reveal an aspect of his practice, through which
he edits setlists with titles of his visual body of work, to curate
the disappearance of unwritten songs and unheard voices.
Designed by Michael Barthel, the 19 tracks of the concert are printed
on a fold-out cover, placed in a cassette case. Edition of 30
ONE LEFT! / 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
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