Matthias Francisco Koole

The project REC-DISORDER explores the use of recorded sound in live performance. It proposes the creation and performance of four solo pieces to be composed and performed by Peter Cusack, Hanna Hartman, Felicity Mangan and Matthias Koole.

The project questions the role of recorded sound in relation to the physicality of the sound sources, the devices responsible for their transformation and reproduction, and the performers who record and perform.

Each solo piece will take a different perspective on recorded sound as a sonic, subjective, informative and imaginative tool in a performative environment.

In Cusack's approach, sound offers the possibility of perceiving other, unfamiliar places through a sensibility different from the visual and logocentric. In Hartman's work, the abstraction of sound gives way to the free association of disparate objects. In Mangan’s work, the recordings are transformed into “a quasi-bioacoustic music” with lots of attention to the rhythmic qualities. In Koole's work, the physical presence and performance of the performer merges with the spatiality of the recording.

With these four different approaches, the project proposes a multi-layered concert with different sensitive approaches to recorded sound in performance, reflecting on how disembodied and reembodied sound and performance can make us perceive materiality differently.
   

18. October, 19:00
In Situ Art Society: A Decade of Dissonance
Dialograum Kreuzung an Sankt Helena
Bornheimer Str. 130,
53119 Bonn

19. October, 20:00
KunstRaum Dorissa Lem,
Geisselstr. 56, Hofgebäude,
50823 Cologne

25. October, 20:30
Ausland
Lychener str. 60
10437 Berlin



About the Artists:

Hanna Hartman is a Swedish composer, sound artist and performer based in Berlin. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants includes the Karl-Sczuka-Prize, the Phonurgia Nova Prize, a Villa Aurora grant and the Rome Prize (Villa Massimo). During 2007 and 2008 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Swedish Radio and in 2019 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Hanna Hartman is a member of the German Academy of the Arts.

Her work has been presented in numerous concerts and festivals. Such as Darmstädter Ferienkurse , Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival , Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival , el nicho aural Mexico City, Akousma Montreal, London Contemporary Music Festival, Eclat Festival Stuttgart, Cut & Splice Festival Manchester, Rainy Days Luxemburg and Roma Europa, Rome.

http://hannahartman.de/
https://soundcloud.com/hannahartman

Peter Cusack is a field recordist and sound artist/musician with a long interest in the sound environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project, which started in London and has since taken place in Beijing, Prague, Manchester, Taranto, Hull, Berlin, Braunschweig. His project ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ (sonic journalism) has investigated the soundscapes of sites 

of major environmental damage like the Caspian oil fields, the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the Aral Sea, Central Asia, and asks the question, “What can be learnt about dangerous places by listening to their sounds?”. He is a member of Crisap (Creative Research into Sounds Arts Practice) at the University of the Arts, London and during 2011/12 was a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. His current work – field recording, audio streaming, soundwalks, guitar playing on location – often concerns environmental crises as they are heard close to home, particularly in Berlin where he lives.


https://petercusack2.bandcamp.com/
https://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/


Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany.  In different situations such as solo performances and collaborative projects. Felicity samples and plays her field recordings and found sounds to create quasi-bioacoustic music.

Felicity has released several solo publications, one on Longform Editions titled Stereo’frog’ic, a play on the word stereophonic –  presenting a sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects and o

ther ‘vocal’ animals wavering about in a stereo field. As well as Creepy Crawly (Mappa Editions) and Bell Metal Reeds (One Instrument). More recently Wet on Wet (Klangklamm/Warm Winters Ltd.), Train Tracks Recorded and Editing by Felicity Mangan (Possible Motive) and a single Körner Park (Care of Editions). As well as a former duo project release with Stine Janvin Native Instrument - Camo (Shelter Press). Felicity has presented projects in many different settings including Technosphärenklänge CTM/HKW, Sonic Act Academy and Sound design for 100 Climate Conversation for the Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia.

http://www.felicitymangan.org


Matthias Francisco Koole's practice shifts between improvisation and various forms of collaboration in written music and multidisciplinary projects.

His groups include ICNISP - Institute for Certified Nomadic Illicit Sonic Practices, with Marina Cyrino; the guitar duo Oh Mensch with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, the experimental music trio Infinito Menos with Henrique Iwao and Mário Del Nunzio; the quartet Hiccup, with JD Zazie, Tony Elieh and Marina Cyrino; Matter Kori with Teresa Riemann.

In the past, he was a founding member of the guitar quartet ZWERM. He has played or is playing as a freelance musician in ensembles such as the Ictus Ensemble, Champ d'Action, United Instruments of Lucilin, Brussels Philharmonic, BIT20 Ensemble, Opera Lab Berlin.