To hear on Sunday 21 and 28 May, 4 and 11 June 2017, 2pm - 9pm
(Premiere)
by Hans Grusel (USA)
Hans Grusel on 'Distillation for ohrenhoch':'
Distillation for Ohrenhoch (Spring 2017) consist of an offer of three compositions for your listening consideration. One brand new, one from a year past and a third from past years.
Turn to Black (extract composed for Ended Tymes 2017)
Organ Room (sound for animation 2016)
In Tribute (Funeral March from Zukerkerg 2011-13)
Turn to Black:
After consulting a Ouja board, a set of phonemes materialized.
I plugged them into my talk box and title came out “Turn to Black”.
The sections preceding and appending are sounds from a group of metal pipe glue sniffers in a parking garage, pulsed thru a LFO, and sent back thru a spring reverb. Nature is laid in with wind and woodgrain to complete the diorama.
Organ Room:
A distillation that grew out of a collaboration with artist Bonnie Banks and animated by Kasper. The whole piece was flapped to Osaka via Bird Friend wings in an accompaniment to our physical being in 2016.
In Tribute:
Harkens back to the opening section with a “Grundgestalt” seemingly from the larynx, with added trombone orchestra. Piece grew out of Berlin during 2011 (realized in San Francisco 2013).
"Audio Field Report" nos. 1-60 / soundactivism 1-39: Interviews since January 2014 with the individual artists, concept and design by Knut Remond. Limited editions audio cassette, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
is an ever-changing woodgrain diorama of dark forest characters. Using electronics, field recordings, acoustic instruments, props, costumes and scenery, the ensemble explores the lost Teutonic rites of the past, while stumbling into the failure of the future.