Felix KUBIN & Asmus TIETCHENS
“Senderkennungen”
35,00€
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Senderkennungen marks the first ever collaboration between Hamburg veterans of sound art Asmus Tietchens and Felix Kubin, whose friendship began in the early 1990ies. The double album collects 25 original „Senderkennungen“ and their artistic deformation and further processing.
Long wave, mid wave, short wave and ultra short wave – long since disappeared radio waves in forgotten ethers, where lost souls linger on a quest for a music that so far did not exist and essentially cannot exist. They don’t search for cosmic harmony – this is old news – but long for sounds beyond the spheres. Felix Kubin and Asmus Tietchens, corner stones of sound art, are united in the decades long fight for a music of the after tomorrow. With this album they have tried to help those lost souls.
In order to make radio stations acoustically recognizable they need a so called station ID. This audible signal is synonimous to a visible logo. Both logo and station ID create identities. The German word for station ID is „Senderkennung“. For the album Felix Kubin composed a series of unique Senderkennungen – each ca. 5 seconds long – which have been commissioned by various radio stations, who where in need of a station ID or were looking to relaunch their existing acoustic branding. Most of these miniature compositions are tonal but some verge towards an atonal or noisy character. Time and again Kubin and I discussed the possibility of creating pieces out of these ultra compressed and short Senderkennungen. This was realized for the album in applying the rule of keeping Kubin’s original musical material recognizable while at the same time using any form of manipulation, modification, stretching, shortening or expanding in the development of the new pieces. One limitation: Those new pieces should not be longer than three minutes each. From these new works Kubin and Tietchens chose a selection which can now be heard on their album “Senderkennungen“.
Asmus Tietchens
Senderkennungen marque la toute première collaboration entre deux figures majeures de l’art sonore hambourgeois, Asmus Tietchens et Felix Kubin, amis depuis le début des années 1990. Ce double album rassemble 25 indicatifs radiophoniques originaux composés par Kubin et leurs transformations réalisées avec Tietchens.
Conçues à l’origine pour identifier une station de radio en quelques secondes — équivalent sonore d’un logo — ces miniatures deviennent ici la matière première de nouvelles compositions. Étirements, compressions, déformations et manipulations multiples métamorphosent ces fragments tout en préservant quelque chose de leur identité initiale.
Entre mémoire des ondes disparues, abstraction électronique et imaginaire rétrofuturiste, Tietchens et Kubin explorent un étrange éther peuplé de signaux fantômes. Une musique venue non pas de demain, mais, selon leurs propres termes, de « l’après-demain ».
