Günther Rabl - Werke 10

€6.00 - €12.00

Günther Rabl - Werke 10

€6.00 - €12.00

ccr 410
computer music (1996)

1 PASSANTEN / people passing by 16:58

2 ROLLER / roller 18:42
3 FOURIER AUF DER REISE NACH PRAG / Fourier on his way to Prague 7:38
total 43:18

original sources : hd 16bit (8/16/32kHz) 2-ch
mastered on analog tape 1/2" 15ips stereo
basic material : frozen spectra of various sounds[1,2]
double bass sounds [2]
recordings of demolition works, water pipes [2,3]
methods : numerical convolution, movement simualtion, algorithmic composition
tools : NMS4, FFTBOX

A commission by the wood carver Gerhard Maier for his exhibition of 1000 handmade wooden combs plus a heap of resulting shavings, or, as he would see it: a heap of handmade wood shavings plus 1000 combs resulting on this occasion. The primary task was, to refer to Gerhard Maier's living and working situation in his atelier in a formar raylway-station for horse-drawn carriages, which nowadays is a museum near a highly frequented cross-country road connecting Linz with Prague. The composition makes use of the advanced methods around the so-called Fourier Transformation. It begins with a parody on the morning-traffic on a cross-country road and ends up with the screaming of two million frequencies evoked by a few roaring glissandi.