Home Street home

 

 

Die Platte „HOME STREET HOME“ von Marja Marlene Lechner wird unterstützt von der künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit mit Joram Schön. MML und J.S. tauschen sich seit Jahren über ihre Arbeiten aus und verstehen und vertrauen sich künstlerisch ohne viele Worte. Schon einmal (2016) fertigte J.S. die Cover für das Album „Home“ von MML an und diesmal bei dem Label Flipping the Coin bekommt jede Plattenhülle ihre eigene Originalzeichnung, die alle zusammen gelegt 32 Puzzleteile eines großen Bildes sind. Außerdem finden sich auf einigen Covern analoge Fotos, die die beiden KünstlerInnen passend zur Materie herstellten.

 

 

Nach dem Album HOME wagt sich MML nun heraus aus ihrem Haus, wo u.a. hervorragend und kraftvoll Zähne geputzt und abgespült wurde. Nun geht es nicht nur um Home, sondern auch um die Straße auf Englisch STREET (hört sich schneidiger an).

 

 

Lachen, lieben, weinen, schreien, Hunde, Kinder, Autos, arbeiten, Demonstrationen, Angst, laufen, rennen, das Meer. Street meint das Leben außerhalb der eigenen Wohnung, obwohl das  Album in einer Wohnung hergestellt wurde. Aber nicht nur – wie unzählige Audioaufnahmen (field recordings) bezeugen. Die Klangcollagen nehmen Bezug auf Natur, Tiergeräusche und Weltraumnachrichten. Man hört Herzschlag und Atmen einer Person, man hört einen Autounfall, Geräusche, Stimmen und Gespräche, sowie Gesang, den man nicht zuordnen kann, sowie rückwärts gesprochene Textstellen. Pflanzen sollen nicht ausgeschlossen werden, sie sind die liebsten Freunde, doch sind sie sehr leise, meist auf jeglicher Aufnahme verwechselbar mit einem defekten oder falsch eingestellten Aufnahmegerät. Andere Lieder sind songartig angelegt mit einfachen eingängigen Text. Mit MMLs Liedern werdet ihr durch den Haushalt getragen auf die Straße, mit Geschrei in den Himmel, durch Feuer und Wasser an einen Strand gespült und müsst dann am Ende doch noch eure Steuererklärung machen. Auch wenn die Straßen voll von Handys sind, kommen diese erschreckend wenig in den Liedern vor. Ab und zu lässt sich ein Klingeln hören. Auf dem Festnetz geht keiner ran.

 

Marja Marlene Lechner & Joram Schön, Home Sweet Home, 2022, 12 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 3AP ‘s

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side A

HEAT

MASS

LIGHT

REST

 

 

side B

COLLAPSE

WAVE

TRIGGER

ZERO SPEED

 

 

Composition: Zora Kreuzer und Robert Lippok

Voice: Zora Kreuzer

Mastering and lacquer cut by Ruy Mariné

at Dubplates & Mastering

Technique record: 12‘ inch Dubplate

Technique cover: Acrylic, PVC, laser engraving, laser cut, screen printing

Length: 25 min.

 

 

Re:Bunker

 

In the summer of 2021, as part of the multi-piece audio project ‘Sonic City’, Ed Davenport and Mischa Leinkauf explored an underground level of urban space for their auditory extension of the ordering system we call ‘City’. In Berlin‘s Humboldthain park, not far from the massive over-and-underground bunker, they developed a remote-controlled audio system that, hidden in the depths of a manhole, opened up a technoid space of possibility and imagination for random passers-by.

 

 

From that public sphere practice, ‘Re:Bunker’ emerged and describes in abstract parts the chronology of the Berlin bunkers, from its concrete foundations and underground systems, to the huge derelict overground architecture which now transmit a certain beton-brut aesthetic, closely aligned to the resonant illegal locations used for early techno raves.

 

 

Re-appropriated concrete structures are the sound carriers of a now 30+ year-old social sonic movement. The soundtrack tracks the bunker’s pre-war construction, to the later (failed) demolition and subsequent neglect. After the fall of the Wall, 90s rave culture took over abandoned and derelict spaces, celebrating Berlin’s unification, and giving a home to thrilling new forms of expression.

 

 

Re:Bunker combines field recordings captured on building sites and construction projects in and around the Humboldthain park. These raw materials were then processed and embellished with the tools and instruments of the techno-electronic musical language: filters, equalizers, frequency shifters, lfos, saturators and perhaps most importantly, sequencers, loopers and delay units. Stacking, layering, giving structure, then tearing those structures apart.

 

 

The narrative created with these tools draws parallels to the dramatic ebb and flow of the bunker‘s timeline. Mechanical power tools spin, resonate and transmit noises of their own, gyrating and vibrating the users limbs and the bones in their ears. Concrete fuses ancient water, sand and rock with the modern man-made binding agent cement to create a hard wearing structure to house a million happenings. Footsteps on reinforced concrete floors boom and echo through the structures, vibrating to nearby passing freight trains, or the insistent kinetic throb of Berlin’s electronic music scene.

 

 

Ed Davenport & Mischa Leinkauf, Re:Bunker, 2022, 12 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 3AP ‘s

The Rain Dancer / Esel

 

Die Platte von Moritz Stumm basiert auf der intensiven künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit mit Cyrill Lachauer für die filmischen Arbeiten “Esel” und “The Rain Dancer”. Die 12“ Dubplate erscheint in einem von Tran Duc Trung individuell genähten Cover in einer Edition von 30 Stück.

 

Moritz Stumm, Esel / The Rain Dancer, 2021, 12 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 5AP ‘s

The Sound of the Fairytale Recordings

 

Flipping the Coin is proud to announce the label´s second release with Saâdane Afif.

Saâdane Afif´s The Sound of the Fairytale Recordings is, as the title implies, a recording of the sound from the performance series The Fairytale Recordings, which was shown at the Schinkel Pavillon 2011 in Berlin and at Raebervon-Stenglin 2011 in Zurich. The Fairytale Recordings are performed by the opera singer Katharina Schrade and composed by Ari Benjamin Meyers. The Lyri

cs are writen by Tom Morton, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Mick Peter, Ina Blom and Tacita Dean. This edition includes a music sheet and song booklet „The Fairytale Recordings (A Mime)“ which was published in the occasion of a lecture during „What Would Thomas Bernhard Do?“ at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, in 2013.

The Sound of the Fairytake Recordings, 2013, 12“ Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 5AP´s, 470.- €

Subsonic

 

Shortly after the publication of Jules Verne’s novel Paris in the 20th Century, in 1994, Bert Wrede and Peter Lang decided to transform this wild subject into a sound composition. In 1996 they produced an installation of eight channels with voices and sounds for an exhibition in the Technical Collections of the Museum of Dresden,The Thing Between.The sounds were derived from a 12-cylinder emergency power system, a so-called submarine diesel motor from Charité Hospital in Berlin.The voices were those of Bert Wrede’s daughter, twelve years old at the time, and of professional actresses.

 

Subsonic, 2014, 10 inch Dubplate, Edition of 30 + 5AP ́s, 470.- Euros

Kontakt Sappho

 

12‘ inch Dubplate

22 min.

vocals by

Sonja Cvitkovic, Birgit Megerle, Michaela Meise

composed by

Sonja Cvitkovic and Marine Drouan

recorded and produced by

Marine Drouan

all lyrics based on quotes from translated Sappho fragments, printed in following books: Sappho Liebesgedichte, The Complete poems of Sappho

photo by

Sonja Cvitkovic

layout by

Marine Drouan

mastered at Phlexton Studios by

Kraans De Lutin

Edition of 30 + 4AP´s, 470.- €

Touch the Sun

 

My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips‘ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

 

12‘ inch Dubplate 14:54 min.

Side A

Touch the Sun part 1

Side B

Touch the Sun part2

Composition: Martin Eder
Cello: Michael Rauter
Artwork: Moritz Stumm

Special Thanks to NASA,
Natinal Aeronautics and Space Administartion

Studies of an Alien Skin

 

As the boundaries of human research approach penetration of the quantum veil, the surfaces of biological machinery begin to reveal mysterious shapes and motions. Beyond the reach of our naked eyes, skin is a pulsating alien landscape in a state of continuous geological formation, where death is an apocalypse in slow motion. Inside the abstraction of closeness, the extra-terrestrial engulfs. ‘Studies of an Alien Skin’ is visual exploration of this terrain and a speculative sonic realization of its transmissions. Scanning across different sections of pulsating bodies of one of the earth’s very own alien organisms, the installation swirls through the visual instability of matter, the empathetic projection of emotion onto non-human life, the electricity of organicity, and the psychedelia of biology.

 

12″ inch Dubplate

Gestaltung Cover etc:

Raphael Jacobs & SinU Ko

Side A

Study I: mouth 

Study II: skin 

Side B

Study III: pulse 

Study IV: sight 

Study V: electricity

concept by Andreas Greiner & Tyler Friedman

composed by Tyler Friedman