Name: Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio
Brand: Marcus Schmickler

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

EMEGO 296LP

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5050580760653

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Artist

Marcus Schmickler

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Editions Mego

 Marcus Schmickler's music is designed for multi-channel sound projections and references German electronic music tradition, spectral music, experimentalism as well as 1990s club music. His artistic practice explores avant-garde trajectories in electronic music composition, formal systems, sonification and psychoacoustics. This release features two new major works from this audacious sound explorer. <i>Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio</i> premiered at Donaueschinger Tage fur Neue Musik 10.20.2018 having being commissioned by SWR and realized at the Experimentalstudio (EXP) in Freiburg. This is a work for ARP 2500, Publison DHM89B, Publison Infernal Machine and Computer. Taking cues from Bruce Nauman's <i>Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)</i> (2001) the piece draws a fragmented acoustic map of the SWR facility itself; the studio serves as a source-model for the sonic display of historical signal flow graphs. Various acoustic and psychoacoustic effects come into play including the Larsen effect, as well as Style Transfer and Topological Sonification. The result is a daring and dizzying display of disorientating audio. Sound moves in most unusual ways, rising and falling simultaneously, appearing and disappearing like apparitions, nothing here behaves in expected ways. To paraphrase Albert Einstein's now famous quote regarding quantum mechanics, this is spooky audio at a distance. "Fortuna Ribbon" is a selection of sonic material that emerged from a research based on how DPOAEs (Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission) can be designed in the context of musical frameworks, augmenting the compositional pallets in regard to spatial hearing. In this manifestation, the materials are presented without context. The resulting emissions from the ear that are excited in varying ways from the six examples on display here. Playback in undisturbed acoustic environments is recommended at &gt;82 dB/A. Schmickler's ongoing investigation of sound matter conjures impossible audio that delights in the extremity of form and resulting effects on the listener. Schmickler's audio invocations explore the capabilities of contemporary technology resulting in dizzying new worlds of sound. Cut 01/2021 by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin. Artwork by Neo-Metabolism. 

Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio

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