Metamkine Artist: Zbigniew Karkowski Title: Consciously Unconscious Unconsciously Conscious Label: Metamkine Format: miniCD Cod. nr. MKCD033 Collection Cinéma pour l'oreille 2002. "It's good to see that this series has new life, after the two recent ones, here are two more issues, in what is now a 30 some mini CD's of electro-acoustic and musique concrete. Zbigniew Karkowski is of course well-known, at least in these virtual pages. His music is violent, loud and harsh, and is already released on many labels around the world. This piece, on the cover noted as musique concrete, is mostly a long, low range frequency piece. Musique concrete... what's the concrete part of it? Hard to recognize the original, concrete source here, as it seems to me that Karkowski is working with sine waves that have been treated in the studio. But this aside, it's a nice piece of low end hum that has a strong presence in the space you're in. The walls vibrate and seem to collapse under this set of sounds. It's harshness for sure, but one that is different from the usual harshness. Zen like austerity is what we are dealing with here." [Vital Weekly 344 - Frans de Waard] Zbigniew Karkowski is a Polish-Swedish composer/musician presently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked professionaly in the areas of written contemporary music, industrial music, pop music and experimental performance for the last 15 years. Karkowski has presented his work in more then 30 countries on nearly all continents. He is conviced that it is a responsibility of an artist in present time to travel and move and work around the World in order to learn and understand different cultures and traditions and discover truth about us and our planet. He is not interested in traditional definition of what is music, in his opinion all theory and systems of music as a cultural concepts have to be destroyed. So in his latest work his main concern is on realizing drama with sound electronic and acoustic walls with scores based on architectures of ruins. Price: € 3,00  !!  offer     disponibilità immediata - in stock artista : Bernhard Günter titolo : Impossible Grey etichetta : Metamkine formato : miniCD packaging : bustina di cartone cod. nr.  mkcd023 1997 _________________ 1997 piece from bernhard günter (using sound material from marc behrens) much in the style of "details agrandis" from a few years prior... Prezzo : € 6,90     disponibilità immediata - in stock Artist : Philippe Mion Title : Confidence Label : Metamkine Format : miniCD Cod. nr. MKCD017 1995 Collection Cinéma pour l'oreille. Distort space and time. Now that your ear is a pond and it is early morning, we can go further. Listen to the surface tension and the tiny silences that briefly punctuate it after it has been disturbed and it hastily reassembles itself into a tight meniscus once more. Imagine dewdrops as packages of sound. They slowly roll off the overarching foliage and splash into the pond which is your ear. As they break through the surface, sound bursts out of their skinshellshapes and spreads like ink through the water. The day warms and the dewdrops roll and fall more rapidly eager to free the delicate contents which they have been nurturing in the cool dark before they are vaporized by the increasing heat. Occasionally several drops coalesce and plummet down, falling into the pond with greater force creating minute vortices which swirl and spin and suck sounds from beyond this immediate environment. Evidence of activity in a waking world. Care to join...? (The Square Root Of Sub - Vital Weekly 34) Price: € 3,00  !!  offer     disponibilità immediata - in stock Artist: Walter Ruttmann Title: Weekend Label: Metamkine Format: miniCD Cod. nr. MKCD010 possibly the crown jewel in the metamkine catalogue is this volume, documenting arguably the first piece of musique concrète, composed as a movie without images on the optical track of 35mm film in 1930 (ruttman is also known as the director of ‘berlin: symphony of a city’). only johanna m. beyer’s ‘music of the spheres’ (supposedly composed in 1938) even comes close... utterly essential for any fan or student of experimental film and/or early electronic music. Price: € 3,00 offerta!     disponibilità immediata - in stock artista : Jim O'Rourke titolo : Rules Of Reduction etichetta : Metamkine formato : miniCD packaging : bustina di cartone - cardboard sleeve cod. nr.  mkcd009 1993 _________________ early piece (1993) from jim o'rourke, then obsessed with all things tape-music. i've heard this is an hommage to luc ferrari, quite possible given the flowing nature of the piece involving mainly field recordings & octave-layered ensemble playing. one of the stronger blips in his early discography... Prezzo : € 6,90     disponibilità immediata - in stock