Eine polymorphe Klangbibliothek, audio piece by
Felix Kubin (DE), 2010
// Project Space of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
// 28.01.–05.02. › daily 12–19:00
In the late 50s, the first vinyl audio recordings for home use appeared. They had names like "The Set", "Music to Underlay" and "Sounds in Stereo, with Alignment Grooves and Announcements", and were directed primarily at "the home-movie maker, and friend of audio and slide shows." In the piece presented here, Felix Kubin compiled a polymorphic sound library based on this format, which aims to free sounds from the catalog. A combinatorial game with real and fake names throws modes of listening into ever greater confusion, and cedes to the audio artifacts’ own communication with one another. Alignment grooves begin to flicker. A sound log dissolves into its constituent parts. The previously well-arranged recorded past attains a new anarchic presence of multiple audio fictions.
Produced in collaboration with
Deutschlandradio Kultur – Klangkunst.
Felix Kubin was born in 1969, specializes in electro-acoustic experiments, and futuristic pop music. He runs his own record label, Gagarin Records, and produces radio plays, short films, and lecture performnces, e.g. "Paralektronoia" (2004) and "Wiederhole 1-8" (2008) for WDR, "testest" for Deutschlandradio Berlin and ORF (2011), "Parasol Elektroniczny" for Radio Web Macba.
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felixkubin.com
