Electronic Valley
In electronic music, limitless sound territories seem available for those who are ready to step down deep into the caves where heavy sound processing takes places. But how do we meet there? By the way, many of these caves can be found in Israel's "Silicon Wadi".
01
Clung Symphony
This electronic symphony seems to drive an Odyssey through the world of instrumental sound memories.
02
Pitch Symphony
Just raw oscillators of pure electronic origin create a vast landscape of neon-like sound fields. My favorite piece of this electronic symphony is "Relaxation Oscillation".
03
Noise Symphony
Can music be made just out of noises? I'm quite sure, even so it seems almost impossible to ban certain tones of colored noise completely from this rather extreme sound territory.
04
Electric Symphony
Sounds of the first of my electronic symphonies series are continuously complaining (and rightfully so) about limiting their free speech by rather fixed talking points. However, their job of exploring a chiming clock may still worth to be noticed.
05
Portraits of a Woman
Credits go to Ursula Gsella, which whom I created our Passage project, and who also lend me her voice to create the portraits you can find here. Is there any sound territory more beautiful and exciting than the human voice?
06
Black Bird's Garden
One and a half seconds of one single phrase of one single black bird in this one single world were enough to blow me away due to its creativity and richness. Are 17 variations of this phrase enough to comment on this amazement? I'm honestly not sure.
07
Letters
Hebrew letters seem to reside between Western symbolic meaning and Eastern iconic sense. What does it mean then to write such a 'letter'?
08
Music Minus One
"Music Minus One" is known as a label presenting orchestral accompaniment without a solo voice (remember www.musicminusone.com). However, in this piece, we hear the 'minus' too: The soloist (credit: Matthias Höfer) is playing a concerto by Mozart, but without a voice.
09
The Bell Drama
A metal workshop of hundreds of bells was created out of one single sound of a little bell purchased at the Jaffa flea market. With this 'bell drama' you can pass through a bell sound territory with bird's-eye view, and then from the inside – before waking up again... Ah, and yes, there was also Alexander Bell.
10
Passage
Shadows are evolving from a flowing conveyor belt – stories are passing by. This maybe music for the eyes – and for the ears.
11
Piano Games
In German, 'Spiele' means both 'games' and 'playing' the piano (='Klavier', which is then 'Klavierspiele'). Which other games may come to your mind when thinking about playing the piano (with a computer in this case)?
12
ExSamples Mechanique
These pieces are a 'colored' version of the 'Piano Games'. Does this work in music? Can a piano piece serve as a kind of black&white outline for a piece colored with multiple sound timbres - here from sounds of mechanical instruments located in a museum in Prague?
13
Take Five Takes
The spoken German phrase 'langerhutmitkordelanstelledesbandes' ('a long hat with a cord instead of a ribbon' by Raymond Queneneau, 'Excercises in Style') has been taken into a permanent tape loop to be translated into five different sound fields ('styles'?). Voice: Markus Bongartz.
14
Play Fair and Light
This piece is very personal to me. It is the first one I did after my escape from Communist East Germany in 1988 and it was presented as a completely live solo the same year in West-Berlin, where I got a chance to play with the astonishing "Fairlight" system.
15
Freesound Stories
The Freesound project of the Spanish Pompeu Fabra University was very inspiring to me as it gave a chance to interlink sounds from very different people all over the world and let them meet – well – just as people...
16
Recital
Musical collaboration over the Internet is still a hot topic, I believe, and we are probably supposed to see this huge potential bearing real fruits – hopefully in the not so far future.
17
Hypersound Tours
If there is Hypertext where you find your own way through a network of links to satisfy your curiosity at will, why shouldn't there be a collection of musical "articles" and "statements" in which you could do something alike?
18
RedPoint Sound Tours
I found traveling through the world of Igal Myrtenbaum's electronic sounds always fascinating. However, I believe these tours should not less serve to wake your interest for his original compositions.
