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7th June 2009
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International Dawn Chorus Day
3rd May 2009
Bristol UK
The Cube Microplex · Depth of Field

An evening of experimental audio-visual performance to focus your ears and eyes. Prepare to be mesmerised by the intricately woven sonic world of Berlin based Sabine Vogel’s flutes and electronics where the barely audible becomes audible, and London based Jo Thomas’s rich and diverse textures constructed from audio glitches, intense bass sounds and human voice. A new collaboration between local sonic adventurer Tom Bugs, with his own hand-built modular synth, and Mexican Theremin player Nahum Mantra - both experimenters within the fertile border between arts and science. Visuals from Bristol artist Kathy Hinde, and new sounds works in collaboration with i am the mighty jungulator’s new and improved generative music software. A lone, self-playing toy piano performing Erik Satie’s durational composition ‘Vexations’ will be found sheltering in the Cube’s garden. Explore further to discover a mechanised sound sculpture with wine glasses constructed by Greek sound artist Efthymios Chatzigiannis to investigate the behaviour of sonic feedback.
To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, Bristol based artist Matt Davies and Marcus Kürten from Rhineland will simultaneously record the dawn chorus in the UK and Germany to be re-played at Depth Of Field that same evening.


International Dawn Chorus Day is organised by the Wildlife Trust of Birmingham and the Black Country and is supported by the BBC Breathing Places campaign.

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Field Recordings of livestock production places.

Artists Luís Antero and Marcus Kürten
Title Stall
Label bypass · Beijing, China
Cat.-Nr. BP024
Date 10 March 2009
Format zip · 44 MB

Stall is the first collaboration of Luís Antero and Marcus Kürten and consists of two twelve-minute tracks recorded on location in the Coimbra region in Portugal and the German Rhineland. The pieces present the unadulterated sounds of agronomical livestock production places.

The changes in sound of the Stall recording by Antero are more punctuated and less textured. It captures, based on species noises, the group dynamics of sheep and forms a contrast to the atmosphere recording of the cow stable. Kürten’s Stall is dominated by the eerie sounds of a claustrophobic setting with ambient noises mainly, but it is also an extensive audible pleasure to listen to the astonishing amount of information.

The final track is an additional remix by the Chinese musician and producer Zhang JW from Beijing. His complex structured piece of music draws a line under a highly recommended work. Enjoy yourself and listen attentive.

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