{"title":"Christina Kubisch","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stromsanger","title":"Stromsanger","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor six voices, electromagnetic waves and electronics Commissioned by nyMusikk Trondheim 2022 “The general theme of the composition is the idea of sounds which travel. During a tram ride from the city up to the hills with an old tram I discovered not only stunning views of the surrounding landscape but as well a special soundscape. Wearing a custom made induction headphones, I could hear the normally hidden electromagnetic fields of the tram, which were so impressive and musical to me that I immediately decided to base my piece for Trondheim Voices on this discovery. As a start, a series of pure vocal recordings were produced by Trondheim Voices while listening to a choice of electromagnetic tram sounds and following score instructions. This material was mixed in my Berlin studio and afterward was played back through a multi-loudspeaker setup into the room of the Elisabeth Church in Berlin and was instantaneously recorded. The emerged recording was played back and recorded again. The process of playing back the previous recording was repeated numerous times, generating numerous “re-recordings”, until the voices sounded aethereal and abstract. The last one of these recordings became the very beginning of the Stromsänger piece. Part A is based on the electromagnetic sounds of the waiting tram and previously recorded voices. The singers come on stage and start to sing together with their recorded part which slowly fades out while the live singing takes over: a kind of choral for electrical tram waves and voices. Part B is based on the actual tram ride with strong and intense electromagnetic sounds. The single recordings were treated electronically and were divided into six channels. Each singer has chosen one of these files and improvises with the magnetic sounds as a soloist or in duos or trios. Part C is based on the itinerary of the tram ride to Lian, where a pilgrim's path starts. The names of the single stops, which have very beautiful and poetic names, are performed together as a kind of \"sound poetry\". The singers walk around on stage and\/or can choose special positions for their performance. The recording of the word \"Lian\", the final stop, was recorded beforehand and played back and re-recorded several times in the open Norwegian landscape near the final tram stop. The voices slowly disappear and fade out.”- Christina Kubisch, 2024Trondheim Voices: Sissel Vera Pettersen, Ingrid Lode, Siri Gjære, Anita Kaasbøll, Heidi Skjerve, Natali Abrahamsen Garner. Voice recordings: Daniel Formo, Eckehard Güther, Lars Ove Fossheim. Electromagnetic recordings: Christina Kubisch. Electronic editing of electromagnetic recordings: Tom Thiel. Sound design and mixing in Berlin, sound director concert in Trondheim: Ecki Güther\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50427372372299,"sku":"2191718","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/christina_kubisch_stromsanger_cb56d840_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726824548"},{"product_id":"magnetic-flights","title":"Magnetic Flights","description":"\u003cp\u003etwo brand new pieces from one of the most exciting, active \u0026amp; relevant members of the first generation sound artists. 'magnetic flights' is a perfect follow up to five electrical walks (imprec167) and it is being released at the same time as a collection of two of kubisch's unreleased archival pieces, also on important. magnetic flights is entirely made of electromagnetic field recordings of international airports and inside airplanes - the recordings of this piece were made by christina kubisch on her travels in 2007 from and to the airports of bukarest, manchester, chicago, seoul, munich, amsterdam, zurich, frankfort, paris, lisbon, berlin, pisa, milan and london. 'the sounds were not altered electronically nor changed in any other way. the only tool ,which was used for a part of it, was a filtering program (dinr). all recordings were made with the help of special sensitive wireless headphones, by which the aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields are detected, amplified and made audible. the headphones are custom made and have been develeoped by myself and constructed by the engineer manfred fox, berlin. the sounds are much more musical than one could expect. there are complex layers of high and low frequencies, loops of rhythmic sequences, groups of tiny signals, long drones and many things which change constantly and are hard to describe..magnetic flights consists of three parts with a short special sound at the beginning and another one at the end.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491019297099,"sku":"338391","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/christina-kubisch.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}