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paradox of paradox / interception I

by ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE

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Uschi A master of field recordings and EA micro-sounds is back with a double album. Buy physical copies, you don't wanna spoil your listening experience with a computer hum. Favorite track: psychetal 3.
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1.
psychetal 3 30:36
2.
alytes 04:46
3.
trainbow 21:06
4.
paradox 15:26
5.
Kristmax 03:57
6.
piano 01:58
7.
interception 57:50

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released July 31, 2014

Over the course of more than two decades, Slavek Kwi aka Artificial Memory Trace has developed a body of work that encompasses live performance, sound installations, music and sound workshops with autistic children, and of course a large number of recordings published by small labels around the globe. This double CD in Attenuation Circuit’s Reissues series makes available again two albums originally published in 2004 that are characteristic for Artificial Memory Trace’s style of electroacoustic music that is characterised by a very elegant use of field recordings.

As the project name says, Artificial Memory Trace is always conscious of the fact that field recordings from nature are never natural in themselves, but become artificial in the very process of recording. Thus, even the toads that can be heard on “Paradox of Paradox” are not simply left to speak for themselves or “nature” per se, as in many pieces of “acoustic ecology” recordings. Instead, the recordings are subtly arranged to make an abstract compositional statement. Other sound sources include Christmas carols, a dysfunctional piano, and, on “Interception”, a dialogue of whistles between Kwi and an autistic child. One theme of both albums then seems to be an investigation into the ways that communities of different species, from amphibians to humans, make sense of their condition through sound. Philosophical considerations apart, the musical attractiveness of these works is based on the treatment of the field recordings which always retain just enough crispness to be recognisable as ambient noises, keeping the listener’s ears pricked up trying to find out their possible origins, while at the same time constantly being on the verge of vanishing into singing oceans of frequencies at times reminiscent of the later phases of Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room”.

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BAD ALCHEMY

Paradox Of Paradox / Interception (ACR 1019, 2 x CD-R) fasst Arbeiten zusammen, die ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE ursprünglich 2004 auf Planktone Unlimited Editions publiziert hatte. So wie die Titel 'Trainbow' und 'Kristmax' mit Worten spielen, spielt Slavek Kwi mit Naturklängen, Wahrnehmungen und den Irritationen der Schizophonie. 'Psychetal 3' lässt einem im Trockenen im Regenwald sitzen. Während es ringsum tröpfelt, nähen unwahrscheinliche Grillen schon weiter am Sommerkleid, während Gekrächze, Gezwitscher und Gemaunze 'Dschungel' suggerieren, wo vielleicht nur ein Zoo ist, wo ein Blechdeckel eiert, eine Kuckucksuhr ruft, die Türklingel schellt und die Phantasie einen Hut fressen muss, der groß genug ist, damit das alles drunter passt. Geburtshelferkröten und Rotbauchunken werden tiefgefroren als Eiszapfenklingklang aneinander geschlagen. Aber ein Drone ist ein Drone ist ein Drone, und selbst eine Shepard-Tonleiter bringt einen nicht auf einen Regenbogen. Unter dem Hut, der paradoxerweise zugleich groß und hohl ist wie ein Container und fein wie eine Stimmgabel, landen anschließend auch noch bulgarische Weihnachtslieder, die zu feinem Klingklang zischend verbrennen. Und ein verhackstücktes Klavier. Wenn im Container dann Regentropfen wie Schiffstaue knarren, der Wald aufs Meer hinaus fährt, Kwi sich zusammen mit einem autistischen Kind in Enten verwandelt, und aus dem Urwald wilde Trommeln zu sprechen beginnen, kann man nur seufzen: Waldung, sie schwankt heran... Um nicht die Orientierung zu verlieren, sollte man sich immer wieder bewusst machen: I am sitting in a room... Ceci n'est pas une Piepmatz...

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