I was invited to record some time documents of Upper Austrian folk music – a CD for the Goethestraßler Hausmusik and the folk poet Hermann Filsegger both from Attnang-Puchheim.
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Gustl Zemsauer – flute, recorder
Traudi Platzer – violin
Ursula Haab – dulcimer
Christine Büscher – harp
Eva Kurz – guitar, alto flute
Ernst Köttl – Bass Fritz Kurz – diatonic harmonica, dulcimer
Fritz Kurz – composition, arrangement
Hermann Filsegger – poem writer and speaker
Helmut Gutleder – producer
Matthias Kronlachner – recording, mix, mastering
recorded April 2012 @ Landesmusikschule Attnang-Puchheim
Is it natural, is it artificial? What is “real”, what is synthetic?
This questions apply for sound as well as sweets.
This piece is based on field recordings taken near Fethiye, in the south of Turkey. From the numerous bee yards a whirling sound surrounds you when tracking the Lycian way along the cost.
Chalva is a sweet made with honey. But depending on the recipe, the natural origin might not be clear.
The composition plays with a transition from natural to super synthetic. From pure noise to white tones.
Listen to my tape piece “Chalva” done for the Eikkk Electronic and Computer Music Competition (Elektroninių ir kompiuterinių kūrinių konkursas) in April 2013 in Vilnius. Quadrophonic piece rendered to Binaural Stereo.
table top is a live performance by Matthias Kronlachner created for the loudspeaker sphere in the Astronomical Observatory tower of Vilnius University.
The performance was recorded on November 22nd, 2013 and December 3rd, 2013.
The original format of the piece is 5th order 3D Ambisonics, but you can listen to a binaural mixdown here: (please listen with high quality headphones!)
table-top-4 (November 22nd, 2013)
table-top-6 (December 3rd, 2013)
The binaural mixdown was done with the ambix Ambisonics Plug-Ins and the 24 binaural loudspeaker impulse responses are taken from the IEM Cube. Therefore you are virtually placed in the IEM Cube during listening to this piece with headphones. Continue reading →