On that night at Recyclart in Brussels, our neighbour the ACSR blowed out the candles and Radio Panik wished them a “Joyeux Anniversaire”. A tribute to l’Atelier de Création Sonore et Radiophonique, which spent already twenty-five years exploring, creating, mixing and playing with sounds…
And the show must go on…. !
This piece is inspired by recollections and vague remembrances of rock and roll music from my childhood. This childhood was in The Hague (The Netherlands), the city that is the centre of many things. In many aspects it was the centre of European occult sciences (See Fredrick V of the Palatinate who took refuge in The Hague after being ousted as the king of Bohemia, also the influence of huguenots), but also the birthplace of “Indo-rock”, one of the first Dutch rock and roll phenomenon influenced by Indonesian culture combined with Martial sounds from USA military bases.
It is a mental puzzle piece of the idea of rock and roll, not reality, and then performed in stream. To amplify the working class mysticism element of it and the idea of the ritual as pure entertainment. From a love of outsider rnr music. I believe many things that are considered hidden are now actually present, but in a different way. In many ways considered low-culture. Squats and brothels, the afromented rock and roll music, evangelical preachers. They are now the spiritual reality
For this recording we have dedicated ourselves to the Lo-Fi Manifesto, which provided the basis for a live recording and jam session. The LofiDogma was published by a Swiss cultural foundation and is inspired by the Danish film “Dogma95”.
Nine articles severely restrict the use of technology in music recording and create the charme of home-recorded music. We have adapted the manifesto, shortened it to 8 articles and explicitly allowed a synth. The rules are:
The piece must be recorded in one day.
All musicians and instruments must be in the same room.
A maximum of ten mixer channels may be used.
All channels must be mixed together into two channels during the recording.
Only equalisers and compressors may be used to influence the sound, synth is allowed!
Only one effects device may be used in the mix.
Nothing may be cut, added or corrected afterwards.
A result must be published.
What you will hear was recorded on the 31st of October 2021 at the Sendeschluss in Vienna.
Musicians:
Barbara Huber (noseflute, violin, xylophone and flute)
Marian Potocar (Bass and Electric Guitar)
Karl Schönswetter (Drummachine and Synth)
A train station, a place in the middle of the village, a church, a supermarket, an abandoned building, a park, a beach… Both artists Freho and Akamatsu propose an original sound creation to rediscover the areas of our daily lives. Recorders in hands, they capture the atmosphere and what it inspires to them, figuring a very personal and poetic lecture of it. So turn up your headphones and enjoy.
Recordings : Église Sainte-Croix, Nantes, France.
Additional text “La Religion” : Le Prophète – Khalil Gibran
