attenuation circuit ° ACU 1064 ° 2024 attenuationcircuit.de ° attenuation-circuit@web.de
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Al Margolis: strange instruments Gerald Fiebig: objects, Auki the dachshund, chickens EMERGE: sound recycling, photo, design, mastering
The first collaboration of Al Margolis (aka If,Bwana), Gerald Fiebig, and EMERGE dates back to the early days of attenuation circuit: In 2012, Fiebig and EMERGE (along with local colleague elektrojudas) supported If,Bwana at his first ever live show at attenuation circuit’s homebase in Augsburg, and joined him for a collective improvisation which was subsequently released as the double-album ‚crossgrained‘. This beginning of a great friendship was followed by a split LP by Margolis and Fiebig, another collective live set in 2015 including elektrojudas, and EMERGE joining If,Bwana on tour across Europe. Ten years after their first meeting, Margolis, Fiebig, and EMERGE set about composing a collaborative album in a completely different manner – and this is the result.
Anyone familiar with the work of the three collaborators would argue that the common denominator of their practices is the drone, and in fact this idiom is present in the interludes of this album, for which EMERGE supplied sounds that were processed, or ‚recycled‘, by Margolis and then joined by other lifeforms via field recordings supplied by Fiebig. The three main pieces of the album, however, tend to exploit other approaches. They were composed over distance, with one participant recording a track, the second one adding another, and the third one adding the final track and mixing the piece. For each of the three pieces, the sequence of the contributors changed as indicated. The challenge of contributing relevant parts to a piece ‚emerging‘ without a preconceived plan, while at the same time leaving enough room for subsequent contributions, along with the choice of obscure sound sources, gives this album its particular texture, in which ‚chance meetings‘ play a rather significant part. The track titles reflect this quasi-surrealist approach, while the first letters of the words in the titles are related to the sequence of the contributors in these ‚tripolar exercises‘.
File under: drone, electroacoustic, musique concrète
Live recording of the Eardrops concert at the Xerox Exotique event series at INM – Institut für Neue Medien in Frankfurt, Germany on October 25th, 2023.
Polina Kathsenka – Elbe-Labe Sonic Hyperobject 05:28
EMERGE – Ascendancy 05:33
Hostile Flora_Anthropause/Bell Curve 04:18
David Wallraf_Inertia & Rust 07:43
Grodock_Hof bei Nacht 07:01
Eyal Talmor – World within World 07:07
Philippe Petit_Electronical Hazard 07:18
Mattin_Give me the blues 06:45
13 contemporary, variying contributions including the status-quo, following the footprint and paradoxical role we play as human beings in our natural environment.
EMERGE 