Unprocessed Field Recordings 1999-2007, Germany and Finland.

Audio CD, 6 panels digipak
30 minutes+
Release date: July 2010
12 Euros + shipping

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1. Björköby, Finnland
2. Wismar, Germany
3. Hamburg, Germany
4. Hamburg, Germany
5. Hamburg, Germany
6. Hamburg, Germany
7. Hamburg, Germany
8. Österö, Finnland


Imagine an incredibly large hall. Its walls are brick built and covered with
some sort on lichen. Many of its stone have already started to crumble. The
huge space might have witnessed a cotton mill. Anyway, the former industrial
site has disappeared. Instead of an majestic void an empty space like this
would usually create storage racks have been put into the hall almost
touching the cover. Besides, every inch of the solid steel shelves is
occupied by folders. Thick like those files from the law series. Compact as
they wait on their shelves all of them are closed in storeys high as an
apartment block. Impossible to look inside of them, though every single
sheet of paper must be covered with signs and letters, symbols and tables
from either side. Billions and billions of pages and of characters. What
will you hear when you walk the aisles between the storage racks? Between
the steel racks, bricks, folders, pages and a cover that lies so high above
that it is impossible to figure out what it is made of. Will you hear how
the bricks go on crumbling when time passes by? Would the steel groan under
its heavy burden and when the draughty air sucked the humidity from the
documents? Could you listen to what is inside the folders themselves? Their
history, their sad and funny stories, the undoubted truth in and by them?
Now, what do you hear when you walk on a dock? (Stefan Militzer)


From Spring 1999 to Spring 2007 I made location recordings of microsounds
from Harbours in Germany and Finland. A lot of various gangways, tunnels,
bridges, ships, boats, ferries, floating docks and coastal birds are making
abstract sounds. They where modulated from wind, water and machines. This
field reseach was listening to the self-composition in the area "harbour".
(Lasse-Marc Riek) http://www.lasse-marc-riek.de/


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