About me:
In 1984 I started asking networking friends to send me recordings for collaboration. From across the globe over the interviening years contributions have arrived & many releases have issued forth from ZH27.
Around the new millenium the "15 x 1 min." series began. I've been asking all my home-recording friends locally & across international networks to send me a series of 15 one minute pieces for future collaborative efforts.
The result has been fantastic & this page documents this ongoing project.
This blog documents 15 x 1 min actively.
Who I'd like to meet: Everyone I've ever collaborated with as I've perhaps met a quarter of the 300+ people I've completed recordings with.
Undecisive God 'A Vinyl Construction' 7" - Recent experiments with multiple turntables and prepared/broken records come to full fruition here with a release that poses questions both to the use of turntables as instruments and vinyl as a format. The music - crunchy multi-layered improvisations/processes that randomly sample small broken chunks from the original vinyl materials - is itself presented on 7" vinyl, in handmade covers reconstructed from old record covers and broken vinyl shards; each cover is different, individually numbered and an interesting one-off creation in itself. Limited edition of fifty copies. Available from Shame File Music, or Missing Link and Sunshine & Grease in Melbourne.
Different layers of stretched sounds are combined exquisitely all together forming a continuous and straight timeline that it's transforming in slow motion.
Hey friend! Just letting you know i have released my new album and its all yours for free!, so why not give it a gander and perhaps download it, crank up the volume and annoy your neighbors! cheers ;0)
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++
Three Antena releases of live recordings, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, may 2007. Muniagurria, Pan&Tone, Cine Victória and editH10Sdat.
028 - Pan&Tone + Muniagurria + editH10Sdat + Cine Victória + Thaís Aragão - Live Impros May 2007
Two days of presentations in Teatro de Arena, Porto Alegre. Cine Victória, Muniagurria, Pan&Tone y editH10Sdat, more Thaís Aragão, in her first association with Antena collective. This release contains the collective ad-lib sessions carried out during these days. Some chosen passages of sound checking, a coda in the end of presentation, and a great bending session.
Guilherme Darisbo - as Cine Victória - assembles his live soundscapes now with cassette tapes, droning electric guitar and synthesis through one of the most possibly beautiful basic manners - sine waves. Rodrigo Avellar de Muniagurria plays an improvisation for electric guitar extended technique and radio, processed real-time with his laptop. Also they have performed together a new version for "Bachiana", 2000 Cine Victória's composition.
We have taped almost all of the live performances by the Antena crew. Usually that's enough for upcoming releases and archive pieces as well as to be used as a documented reference for the upcoming live events. For these two following live performances, the archive has became very special. In the day after the show we have listened to the mixer recording and found out many frequency combinations, details and soundscapes which the low-budget speakers of the little theatre couldn't catch up. A great amount of the sounds wasn't noticed when listened to live. Such beautiful basses and trebles and a torrent of harmonics are all presented here as a surprise to the ones who haven't watched the live concerts. Pan&Tone has assembled his circuit bending equipment of rhythms, noises, modified synthesizers, distorted toys, radio waves and statics with the touch of his hand as an energy conductor. EditH10Sdat has performed a drone-based set with softwares, ambient scapes being slowly generated, sub-basses taking the sound spectrum over and microsound excerpts zigzagging through stereo.
