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| | | alga marghen (italy) #alga tes06 cd anton bruhin “rotormotor” compact disc - orax [ 03’23” ]
- lange töne [ 10’35” ]
- versuchpilz 6 [10’13” ]
- paul is 35 [ 09’44” ]
- rotormotor [28’17” ]
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| 3 excerpts from the mc-10 zyklus
lange töne october 27, 1976 10'35"
versuchpllz 6 april 16, 1977 10'13"
paul is 35 april 4, 1977 . 09' 44"
ch-phon, tuning whistle, mouthharp, bell, piano, voice and other instruments.
recorded on 2 cassette recorders with loudspeakers.
1st layer: record music on cassette 1
2nd + 1st loyer: replay cassette 1 over loudspeaker, record simultaneously new music plus the music of cassette 1 on cassette 2 in recorder 2.
3rd + 2nd + 1st loyer: replay cassette 2, record simultaneously new music and the music of cassette 2 on cassette 1 in recorder 1.
4th + 3,d + 2nd + 1st layer: same procedure reversed, ping-pong recording.
the loudspeaker of the cassette-player has a narrow frequency range. the replay develops a loss of sound quality. the replay and the re-recorded layer sounds more muffled. than the new additional recorded music. the latest recorded layer sounds the most clear and present. i do not recall how many layers these recordings ares made of, it's difficult to make it out by listening, but there may be easily 6 or more layers.
a plane, seen from its side shows the shape of a line. the frontal view of a line shows the shape of a spot. the spatial impression (illusion) of a stereo replay is produced by the leftright panorama.
the spatial illusion while listening to a monoaural replay results of this line which moves away from the listener's position into the depth of space. the listener percieves it as a spot moving fore and back from his ears (that means brain).
another excerpt from the mc-i0 zyklus titled wochenwende, zurich, march 8, 1977, has been issued on anton bruhin's inout cd (alga morghen, plana-b 3tes.015, 1998)
rotomotor ein motorisches idiotikon
zurich, written in 1976/77 28'17"
reading
recorded at etienne conod's sunrise studio. first issued in 1978 (sunrise lp 078-1962)
rotomotor is a poetic idiotikon of the swiss-german dialect.
(idiotikon = dictionary of dialect, idiom)
instead of the straight alphabetical order the words are here organised according to the similarity of their sound or rather their letters.
each word differs from the previous one by just one letter.
three possibilities result:
- one letter is added.
- one letter in cancelled.
- one letter is replaced by a different letter.
(sch, ch and a few other legatures = 1 letter)
the choice of the word which follows the previous one was intuitively made.
rotomotor draws a winding path if compared to the straight alphabetical order. this path may ocasionally cross itself. if possible each word appears only one time; in a few cases a word may appear two or even three times.
in 1977 i read a 10 minutes excerpt of rotomotor during the radio program titled dichte® lesung 77. for this reading i used a delay equipment which repeated the signal after more or less 0.6 seconds. each new word is superimposed to the echo of the preceding word. on one hand this echo generates the rhythm of the performance, on the other it supports the acoustic metamorphosis of the words. |
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