Compositions

Here you find compositions, that users made out of soundscape recordings.

  • Portal

    Constantine Katsiris

    Eine Komposition von:
    Constantine Katsiris is a sound artist, phonographer, and composer of electroacoustic music. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada.
    field recording aboard the port patrol boat in Vancouver Harbour
    All sounds recorded aboard the port patrol boat in Vancouver Harbour
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    Eine Komposition von:
    Constantine Katsiris is a sound artist, phonographer, and composer of electroacoustic music. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada.
    Uploaded: 11.09.2013
  • Wide Open Windows

    Risto Holopainen

    Eine Komposition von:
    Risto Holopainen studied composition at the Norwegian State Academy in 1994-1998 and completed a PhD in music technology at the University of Oslo in 2012. The dissertation, Self-organised Sound with Autonomous Instruments: Aesthetics and experiments, investigates sound synthesis with so-called feature-feedback systems and addresses the question of how far automated approaches to composition may be taken. His compositions include chamber music and electroacoustic music for concert, dance and radiophonic works, in addition to computer animations and video. In 2008 his first solo CD Garbage Collection was released on MERE Records.
    window
    Summer in Oslo: people get drunk and try to sing. Construction workers are doing their job. Children play and magpies chatter. Most recordings were made in my apartment with open windows, but people passing by outside are often so noisy that they can be recorded with closed windows just as well. A brief segment was recorded in the botanical garden which is within walking distance from home. The domestic sounds of cooking and playing with a modular analog synthesizer blend with the city's buzzing soundscape.
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    Eine Komposition von:
    Risto Holopainen studied composition at the Norwegian State Academy in 1994-1998 and completed a PhD in music technology at the University of Oslo in 2012. The dissertation, Self-organised Sound with Autonomous Instruments: Aesthetics and experiments, investigates sound synthesis with so-called feature-feedback systems and addresses the question of how far automated approaches to composition may be taken. His compositions include chamber music and electroacoustic music for concert, dance and radiophonic works, in addition to computer animations and video. In 2008 his first solo CD Garbage Collection was released on MERE Records.
    Uploaded: 05.09.2013
  • Dioramas from Caparo

    Dalis Crespo

    Eine Komposition von:
    Dalis Crespo, Venezuela. Sound artist, researcher and experimental luthier. Experimental Creator formed on Integral Design and Sound Art carrers, which has an individual and collective work that consists of variety of sound pieces geared towards soundscape, installation, performance and radio-art through hybrid creations that assume the reinterpretation and interdisciplinary experimentation in various media and expressive formats. So far, he has developed several individual and collective exhibitions presented in Venezuela. Among his work on individual presentations Postludio2010, Imaginarios de Aldea, 2011. He has also had guest appearance at festivals such as: Muestra Expositiva de Instalaciones y Esculturas Sonoras ARS SONORUS, Segundo y Tercer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Arte Sonoro PARLANTE. As for his collective work, he directed the Primer Encuentro Experimental de Paisajes Sonoros RESONANCIAS and is the co-director of CONTICINIO, sound installation. At this time, he is studying Integral Design and work as director of ECOUS, project about researching, documentation, design and experimental development on acoustic ecology and sound art.
    Whistles, Whispers. Incessant tiny sounds gradually fill up this piece. Overlapping harmonic acoustic images make from biofonic sources as main sound mark. Leaving a sense of infinity, the composition is finally a collage of brief dynamic snapshots. Fleeting dioramas about Caparo Forest, Pica 8 zone, EEC - Venezuela.
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    Eine Komposition von:
    Dalis Crespo, Venezuela. Sound artist, researcher and experimental luthier. Experimental Creator formed on Integral Design and Sound Art carrers, which has an individual and collective work that consists of variety of sound pieces geared towards soundscape, installation, performance and radio-art through hybrid creations that assume the reinterpretation and interdisciplinary experimentation in various media and expressive formats. So far, he has developed several individual and collective exhibitions presented in Venezuela. Among his work on individual presentations Postludio2010, Imaginarios de Aldea, 2011. He has also had guest appearance at festivals such as: Muestra Expositiva de Instalaciones y Esculturas Sonoras ARS SONORUS, Segundo y Tercer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Arte Sonoro PARLANTE. As for his collective work, he directed the Primer Encuentro Experimental de Paisajes Sonoros RESONANCIAS and is the co-director of CONTICINIO, sound installation. At this time, he is studying Integral Design and work as director of ECOUS, project about researching, documentation, design and experimental development on acoustic ecology and sound art.
    Uploaded: 04.09.2013
  • The sheep from the end of the world

    Felix BLUME

    Eine Komposition von:
    Felix BLUME Born in the South of France in 1984, Felix BLUME studied sound in Toulouse and in the famous cinema school INSAS in Bruxelles.  He mainly works as a sound man for independent documentaries and sometimes with video- artists. He spends his time between Europe and Mexico and travels around the world for his shootings. He records soundscapes during his trips and shares them on the internet. Only recently did he start making sound creations, turning his soundscapes into “sound postcards” produced and broadcasted by ARTE Radio.
    In the land of fire, at the south-end of America. Plain and forest everywhere. Some farms where thousand of sheep are raised for their wool. Every year, during the mowing, the shepherd go through the fields to push the sheep to the central farm. On horses, walking, with their dogs, they're going on an invisible line, identifying the yelling from the others. In the barn, the motors and the gears move the blades to mow the sheep. Sounds recorded by Felix BLUME http://www.felixblume.com Mix by Charlie Marcelet Produced by ARTE RADIO http://www.arteradio.com/son/616152/terre_de_feu/ Sounds recorded during the shooting of EL PUESTO (documentary film by Aurélien Leveque)
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    Eine Komposition von:
    Felix BLUME Born in the South of France in 1984, Felix BLUME studied sound in Toulouse and in the famous cinema school INSAS in Bruxelles.  He mainly works as a sound man for independent documentaries and sometimes with video- artists. He spends his time between Europe and Mexico and travels around the world for his shootings. He records soundscapes during his trips and shares them on the internet. Only recently did he start making sound creations, turning his soundscapes into “sound postcards” produced and broadcasted by ARTE Radio.
    Uploaded: 30.08.2013
  • Soundscape with amphibian vocalizations of Physalaemus fischeri

    Dalis Crespo

    Eine Komposition von:
    Venezuelan Sound artist, researcher and experimental luthier. Experimental Creator formed on Integral Design and Sound Art carrers, which has an individual and collective work that consists of variety of sound pieces geared towards soundscape, installation, performance and radio-art through hybrid creations that assume the reinterpretation and interdisciplinary experimentation in various media and expressive formats. So far, he has developed several individual and collective exhibitions presented in Venezuela. Among his work on individual presentations Postludio2010, Imaginarios de Aldea, 2011. He has also had guest appearance at festivals such as: Muestra Expositiva de Instalaciones y Esculturas Sonoras ARS SONORUS, Segundo y Tercer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Arte Sonoro PARLANTE. As for his collective work, he directed the Primer Encuentro Experimental de Paisajes Sonoros RESONANCIAS and is the co-director of CONTICINIO, sound installation. At this time, he is studying Integral Design and work as director of ECOUS, project about researching, documentation, design and experimental development on acoustic ecology and sound art.
    The melancholy song of frogs Physalaemus fischeri, is the main mark in this hybrid composition that playfully combines two elements: a night soundscape estuary at Caparo Forest Reserve, at Barinas State, along with poems interpreted as sound poetry. The resulting sound image shows an interpretation of a peaceful, cadent plunged night soundscape immersed into the swing of these almost human vocalizations of amphibious species original to some areas in Venezuela.
    Read more about: Dalis Crespo

    Eine Komposition von:
    Venezuelan Sound artist, researcher and experimental luthier. Experimental Creator formed on Integral Design and Sound Art carrers, which has an individual and collective work that consists of variety of sound pieces geared towards soundscape, installation, performance and radio-art through hybrid creations that assume the reinterpretation and interdisciplinary experimentation in various media and expressive formats. So far, he has developed several individual and collective exhibitions presented in Venezuela. Among his work on individual presentations Postludio2010, Imaginarios de Aldea, 2011. He has also had guest appearance at festivals such as: Muestra Expositiva de Instalaciones y Esculturas Sonoras ARS SONORUS, Segundo y Tercer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Arte Sonoro PARLANTE. As for his collective work, he directed the Primer Encuentro Experimental de Paisajes Sonoros RESONANCIAS and is the co-director of CONTICINIO, sound installation. At this time, he is studying Integral Design and work as director of ECOUS, project about researching, documentation, design and experimental development on acoustic ecology and sound art.
    Uploaded: 29.08.2013
  • Präludien

    Thomas Taxus Beck

    Eine Komposition von:
    Komposition bei Bojidar Dimov an der RMS Köln; Studium der Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Germanistik an der Universität zu Köln; Studium der Komposition/Elektronische Komposition bei Hans Ulrich Humpert an der Hochschule für Musik Köln; Cursus de composition et d‘informatique musicale, IRCAM, Paris. Leiter des Fachbereichs Komposition, Musiktheorie und Improvisation an der RMS Köln. Seit 2007 kompositorischer Leiter der Response-Projekte der Philharmonie Köln. Preise, Auszeichnungen und Stipendien, u.a. -Honorable Mention Citation Award 2010, National Academy of Music Thessaloniki, Griechenland; -Deutscher Klangkunst-Produktionspreis 2008 des Westdeutschen Rundfunks und des Skulpturenmuseums Glaskasten, Marl; -1. Preis Mobius Award 2007 (gemeinsam mit zinnobergruen), New York, USA; -1. Preis Prix Ars Acustica 2003, internationaler Wettbewerb des Westdeutschen Rundfunks; -Preis des 9. Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerbs des Wiener Sommer-Seminars für Neue Musik 2003, Wien, Österreich; -Stipendium des Visby International Centre for Composers, Gotland, Schweden; Stipendium des ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Stipendium des Internationalen Musikinstituts Darmstadt imd und der Fachhochschule Medien, Darmstadt; Arbeitsstipendium der STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen; Förderstipendium des Landes NRW; Reisestipendium Paris; Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin; Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop; Arbeitstipendium des Künstlervereins onomato und der Stadt Düsseldorf.
    Thomas Taxus Beck
    Die Aufnahmen von Menschen, die gemeinsam warten, unterscheiden sich akustisch je nach Warte-Ort. Das Klangmaterial besteht aus dem halblauten Stimmengewirr der wartenden Opernbesucher im Saal unmittelbar vor Beginn, dem gedämpften Warten der Kirchenbesucher, der aufgekratzten Stimmung wartender Rockkonzertbesucher, dem angespannten Warten der Reisenden am Hauptbahnhof, der nervösen Atmosphäre wartender Besucher eines Amtes sowie der Wartesituation in einer Musikschule. Ausschließlich diese Klänge wurden elektronisch bearbeitet und zu einer Komposition weiterentwickelt. Der Titel Präludien bezieht sich auf die Eigenheit des Wartens: eine gebundene Zeit in Erwartung des Eigentlichen. Während einer Wartesituation wird die Komposition in einer stereophonen oder quadrophonen Version ohne Ankündigung gestartet. Die Lautsprecher befinden sich dabei im Raum, z.B. als Quadrat. Die Komposition beginnt mit dem Stimmengewirr, mischt sich mit den Geräuschen der Besucher, entwickelt sich, tritt zurück. Die Grenzen zwischen aufführen und zuhören verschwimmen zunächst, bis sich die Komposition als eindeutig gestaltetes Gebilde zu erkennen gibt. Es entsteht ein akustisches Zusammenwirken und eine klangliche Durchmischung von Hörern und Komposition. Der Gesamtaufbau von Präludien ist so konzipiert, dass einige Abschnitte miteinander getauscht werden können, ohne dass dadurch der innere Zusammenhang verlorengeht. Je nach Aufführungssituation bzw. Wartesituation erhält die Komposition einen anderen Beginn und eine andere Reihenfolge der Abschnitte. Eine Komposition durch die Geräusche zufällig Anwesender akustisch verändern zu lassen, öffnet das fixierte und durchstrukturierte Werk und führt es in die unmittelbare Lebenswirklichkeit der Wartenden zurück: Eine gegenseitige Beeinflussung der klanglichen Wirklichkeiten. Die akustische Erweiterung, welche sich in der jeweiligen Aufführungssituation durch die Aktionen der Anwesenden ergibt, findet ihre klangliche Entsprechung in der gestalteten Komposition.
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    Eine Komposition von:
    Komposition bei Bojidar Dimov an der RMS Köln; Studium der Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Germanistik an der Universität zu Köln; Studium der Komposition/Elektronische Komposition bei Hans Ulrich Humpert an der Hochschule für Musik Köln; Cursus de composition et d‘informatique musicale, IRCAM, Paris. Leiter des Fachbereichs Komposition, Musiktheorie und Improvisation an der RMS Köln. Seit 2007 kompositorischer Leiter der Response-Projekte der Philharmonie Köln. Preise, Auszeichnungen und Stipendien, u.a. -Honorable Mention Citation Award 2010, National Academy of Music Thessaloniki, Griechenland; -Deutscher Klangkunst-Produktionspreis 2008 des Westdeutschen Rundfunks und des Skulpturenmuseums Glaskasten, Marl; -1. Preis Mobius Award 2007 (gemeinsam mit zinnobergruen), New York, USA; -1. Preis Prix Ars Acustica 2003, internationaler Wettbewerb des Westdeutschen Rundfunks; -Preis des 9. Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerbs des Wiener Sommer-Seminars für Neue Musik 2003, Wien, Österreich; -Stipendium des Visby International Centre for Composers, Gotland, Schweden; Stipendium des ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Stipendium des Internationalen Musikinstituts Darmstadt imd und der Fachhochschule Medien, Darmstadt; Arbeitsstipendium der STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Denkmalschmiede Höfgen; Förderstipendium des Landes NRW; Reisestipendium Paris; Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin; Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop; Arbeitstipendium des Künstlervereins onomato und der Stadt Düsseldorf.
    Uploaded: 27.08.2013

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