Sonntag, 05. April 2020, 23:03 - 0:00, Ö1

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RADIOKUNST - KUNSTRADIO





“A100 – Der Klang der Berliner Stadtautobahn“

by TAMTAM (Sam Auinger und Hannes Strobl)

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The Austrian composers Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl, who live in Berlin, have been working together under the name TAMTAM for over ten years now. In their projects, they intensively investigate urban spaces and, above all, explore how they are perceived auditively.

"The sound environment becomes an instrument and the instrument becomes a sound environment". TAMTAM also followed this principle in their latest project "A 100: The Sound of the Berlin City Autobahn".

Over a period of two years, TAMTAM collected about 50 hours of audio recordings. They were recorded along the tonal, dynamic and rhythmic structures of the 21-kilometer long city highway running through the middle of Berlin. These recordings formed an important source for an installative art project by TAMTAM together with Georg Spehr at CLB Berlin. And they are the basis for TAMTAM's new radio art composition, which was developed in cooperation with the "stromschiene" of the Alte Schmiede Wien.

The artists have arranged the numerous recordings according to different timbres. Their new radio art piece is not a noise study, as the artists emphasize, but a musical radio project. It is divided into four sections Flow, Stand-By, Spectral and Pulse. In the first part, mainly recordings made further away from the A100 can be heard, while in Stand-By mainly rhythmic structures can be heard, as well as the distinctive voice of the US vocal artist David Moss. The third part works with intermediate tones, while TAMTAM uses machine sounds in the last part and transforms them into music.

Links:
A100 – Movie by TAMTAM
TAMTAM A100 Release auf Crónica
CLB Berlin
stromschiene