I am delighted to announce receiving the European Media Art Platform / European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2020 grant with 2 months production residency at Antre Peaux (ex-Bandits-Mages), France.
The new European Media Art Platform offers residencies for media artists in the fields of digital media including Internet and computer-based artists, filmmakers, and those working in media based performance, sound or video as well as robotics or bio-art.
EMARE includes a grant of 3.000 Euros, a project budget of 4.000 Euros, free accommodation, travel expenses up to 500,- Euros, free access to the technical facilities and media labs within the host institution, consulting by production and market experts and a professional presentation as well as the option to participate in exhibition tours at our members’ festivals in 2020-2021.

All selected artists for 2020 will be invited for a networking kick-off conference from 19 to 22nd of March in Liverpool. All selected artists will be invited to participate in the final exhibition in Halle (Saale) Germany during June 2021.

More info: http://emare.eu/artist/konrad-korabiewski

Supported by:

The whole of Bodø is put to use as Nordic Music Days draws north of the Arctic Circle for the first time. From 13th to 16th of November Bodø is hosting the Nordic Music Days 2019, one of the world’s oldest music festivals, founded in 1888.
The festival serves as platform for international exchange between ensembles, musicians and repertoires in order to spread the music of Nordic composers. Nordic Music Days 2019 is arranged by The Norwegian Society of Composers, with the theme TRUTH?
I am honoured to be invited to Nordic Music Days 2019 having the Norwegian premiere of the multi-channel sound and video installation and book presentation NS-12, which was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, in collaboration with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music earlier this spring of 2019.

This 8 audio channel installation configuration, referring to the 8 cylinders of the trawler’s engine, aims at conveying the physical presence of the trawler’s space. The book presentation will include an artist talk. The installation continues in the gallery until end of December. Looking forward!

More info: https://nordicmusicdays.org/composer/konrad-korabiewski/
https://nordicmusicdays.org/events/venissage/

Next is my group exhibition at Art Fair Suomi 2019, taking place from 19-26 of May.
Art Fair Suomi is an international contemporary art festival, organized in May 2019 for the 12th time. The festival gathers altogether works of contemporary art from performance and photography to installations and sound art.

At the fair the curator Tulle Ruth have designed two tents and hope they will work well as Walk In of Sound Art both in- and out-door.

Tent 1:
Nordiske WALK In of Sound Art:
Maia Urstad, Anna Hedberg, Signe Lidén, Joonas Siren, Trine Hylander Friis, Flopper, Thurid Jónsdóttir, Ane Østergaard, Tine Surel Lange, Luca Forcucci, Konrad Korabiewski, Hafdís Bjarnadóttir

Tent 2:
Østfoldske WALK In of Sound Art:
Linn Halvorsrød , Charlotte Piene, Joakim Blattmann, Johnny Herbert, Kristine Marie Aasvang, Ingvild Langgaard, Sigurd Gurvin og Katarina Skjønsberg, Jonas Qvale, Håvard Øieroset, Søssa Jørgensen.

Supported by OCA, http://artfairsuomi.fi

The bilingual (German-English) book of the audiovisual collaboration NS-12 with the filmmaker Kristján Loðmfjörð came out from Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, earlier this spring of 2019. This visual meditation on life on a fishing boat includes Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s “It Took So Long to Invent the Woman,” her essay and extensive, playfully serious interview with Mrs.Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland’s fourth president and Europe’s first female president. Other texts include Anna Friz’s “The Ruminations and Reveries of an Icelandic Trawler” and Daniel Canty’s “Gold Maker.” The black-and-white photographs, sketch, and wonderful cover designed by John and Evelyn Grzinich give a sense of the video installation that the book is born from.

English: https://www.hatjecantz.de/ns-12-7325-1.html

German: https://www.hatjecantz.de/ns-12-7325-0.html

You’ll find more information in the official press release. High-res press images can be downloaded from publisher website.

The New York Times Magazine recent “Sonic Voyages Issue” focusing on travel to parts of the world based on sonic attractions or properties featured soundscapes from 11 sites around the world, including Iceland with my field recordings with Anna Friz. We recorded the field audio for all the sites in Iceland.

Listen to the special fall “Sonic Voyages Issue” of the New York Times Magazine from 22nd of September: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/21/magazine/voyages-travel-sounds-from-the-world.html
Press release: https://www.nytco.com/nyt-mag-takes-its-audience-on-a-sonic-journey-for-voyages-issue/

Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, in collaboration with LungA Art festival 2018 presents the Icelandic premiere of ‘Fjarðarheiði’, an installation by Anna Friz (ca) and Konrad Korabiewski (dk/is/pl). An audiovisual installation which contemplates physical and signal landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over the year in the far north.

Fjarðarheiði is taken from the name of the mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to Egilsstaðir, East Iceland, a road constantly transformed by dense fog, wind, rain, and snow storms. If afterglow refers to the light or luminance left in the sky after sundown, “aftergrain” is the sonic and visual grit that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted. This installation explores such expressive low-fidelity landscapes and infrastructures through field recordings and feedback systems, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photomontage.
Fjarðarheiði had world premiere as audiovisual performance in 2015 at 44th Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Québec/Canada, and was since also presented in Germany, Chile, and Austria.

More info: http://www.skalar.is/fjardarheidi/

Walk ‘n’ Bike-In sound gallery outside the Nordic House, Reykjavík opens on the 20th of June at 17:00 and the outdoors installation continues until 31 July 2018. The Norwegian Ambassador Cecilie Landsverk will open the exhibition.

Walk ‘n’ Bike-In is a new version of Tulle Ruth’s project Drive-In of Sound Art which was first launched in 2013 in a rural district in Råde, Østfold in Norway, where plenty of cars pass by during the summer. At first, Tulle Ruth started a minor contemporary art gallery there and thought she would get plenty of visitors. However, the car drivers wouldn’t bother to stop and have a look. The idea occurred to develop the very first Drive-In of Sound Art next to the road. The driver could easily access the gallery by placing the car along the Drive-In, open the window and listen to some of the most profiled sound artists and in this way experience the trip, sounds and landscape in new ways. The project now celebrates a 5-year anniversary and has undergone several developments. At each new location the Drive-In appears in a new sculptural form relating to local context and history, and new artists are invited in each time. Since its start in 2013 the project has so far presented 50 Nordic and international contemporary sound artists. Thanks to the fruitful collaboration with the Nordic House, the concept was transformed to a Walk ‘n’ Bike-In sound gallery.

The artists featuring are Maia Urstad, Siri Austeen, Tine Surel Lange and Luca Forcucci (NO), Trine Hylander Friis, Flopper, and Ane Østergaard (DK), Joonas Siren (FI), Anna Hedberg and Signe Liden (SE), Thurid Jonsdottir, Hafdís Bjarnadóttir and Konrad Korabiewski (IS).

More info: http://nordichouse.is/en/event/sound-art-walk-n-bike-in/ and www.galleriruth.com Supported by:

‘ULTIMA THULE – Island als Narration’. Current group exhibition at Schloss Wolkersdorf, Galerie 2, in Austria with new installation version of the piece ‘Fjarðarheiði’ with Anna Friz. Curated by Karin Mack for Fluss – NÖ Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst.

The term ULTIMA THULE in ancient geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the borders of the known world. The Greek explorer Pytheas is the first to have written of Thule after his travels between 330–320 BC. In the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Thule was often identified as Iceland. The exhibition presents works by artists from Iceland and Austria as different kinds of narration about this special island.

More info: http://www.fotofluss.at/content.php?id=72&ausstellung=382&details=1&jahr=2018 and http://www.skalar.is/fjardarheidi/

Today is the 10 year anniversary (!) of my debut CD album ‘Stateless’ (2008, d’Oorhinge l’Orange Recordings | BSBTA)The record including remix by Schneider ™ & animated video by Aga Wilk was well received by international critics for its original, honest and experimental signature. The music critic and journalist Ralf Christensen wrote (in Danish) for the Danish national newspaper Dagbladet Information: ‘Sig goddag til mellemøstlige/arabiske strygere, østeuropæisk melankoli og er det soundtrack-råb helt ovre fra Bollywood eller fra en Bruce Lee-videokassette? Tag for dig af retterne, når mono bliver til stereo, når et bævende orgel sukker en ode til mor, når der serveres gullasch på fremmedsprog. Gør dig postmoderne erfaringer, når støjen maler den sidste etnicitet til enkeltbits – eller når violinens tynde skind får blå mærker af militante legetøjs-hardcore-beats’

Read whole review here: https://www.information.dk/kultur/anmeldelse/2008/03/hjemvendt-afrejst-electronica
Read the official press release (in English) here: http://www.korabiewski.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Stateless_pressrelease.pdf
Listen to audio here: http://www.korabiewski.com/works/stateless/
Watch the video here: http://www.korabiewski.com/works/slowloop/
CD cover design and photos by Aga Wilk

In October 2016 in Halle (Saale), Germany, I was honoured to perform as part of Radio Revolten, the largest ever international festival of contemporary radio art, hosted by the free radio station CORAX. Radio Revolten is about to publish a book about the event entitled ‘Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art’ documenting the transmissions, artworks, events, and performances of 2016 festival. To realize the last printing costs, the project needs your support, so please pre-order the book through their fundraising effort until 5. March 2018 here: http://startnext.com/radiorevolten
The book includes a review by Gabi Schaffner of my performance piece ‘Citizens Band 19’

New group FM exhibition of sound and radio art open at Institute For Contemporary Arts Processing in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Broadcast until Sunday 18th February 2018 on FM 88.8 MHz dial and worldwide live stream: http://www.radiocona.si/ every day exactly at nautical twilight, from 6:28 PM.
For more about FM programming and art works visit: http//www.radiocona.si/radioconaicebreakerfm/

I am delighted to reveal my next album collaboration with multi-instrumentalist/composer/improviser Zeena Parkins. Zeena is a pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance utilizing her one-of-a-kind electric harp, and she has extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of electronic processing. She is a highly sought after collaborator; among many others she has worked with Bjørk (2000-2005).

Recordings for our new album with the working title “States of Emergence”, will begin in New York City this fall and continue into 2018 in California and at Skálar’s base in East Iceland. The title is both a reflection of an emotional state of mind as well as an increasingly urgent  condition of the global environment. Our work together will evolve from a conversation between Zeena’s live instruments (primarily electric harp) and my live electronic manipulation and processing of sounds into the final composition(s).

The new project album is (so far) supported by Danish Composer Society, Danish Arts Foundation, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

“The production utilises the natural acoustics of the space and with light use of reverb creates the impression of a complex interplay between distance and nearness, as if a quartet of players were secreted around what might be an ancient sacred space (…)”

Read the whole review of the internationally acclaimed Komplex LP (Skálar001/Gruen126) by Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski: https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=6323

“Quite surprisingly, Korabiewski has a soft touch, letting the saxophone breath—using his role more to provide an atmospheric contextualization. I haven’t heard such subtle manipulation since Brian Eno and Harold Budd’s collaborations (…)”

Read the whole review of the internationally acclaimed Komplex LP (Skálar001/Gruen126) by Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski: http://illustratedamateur.com/home/2017/1/7/komplex

This December I am looking very much forward to return to one of the magical places on earth and perform FJARÐARHEIÐI with Anna Friz at Tsonami Arte Sonoro Festival 2016 in both in Valparaíso and Santiago, Chile. Performing dates are:
8th December Teatro Parque Cultural de Valparaíso
14th December Centro Cultural de España, Santiago

An evening of experimental audiovisual works created by sound and multi-media artist Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK/IS) over the past fourteen years together with collaborators from Poland, Denmark, Iceland and Canada. Ten works exploring and deconstructing culture, consumption, labour and landscape.

More info: http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/konrad-korabiewski-friends-221.html https://www.facebook.com/events/212939452460366/

Bending The Waves #2
– a series about radio as Instrument

live Radio show by Sissi FM
live stream at rebootFM
Funded by Initiative Neue Musik e.V.

Anna Friz (CA/US) & Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK/IS) performing: FJARÐARHEIÐI
Using field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape and feedback systems, Friz and Korabiewski perform live, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photo-montage. Together, they craft pensive audiovisual landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over a year on the mountainous coast just below the Arctic Circle. Fjarðarheiði is taken from the name of the 25 km mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to the nearest town of Egilsstaðir in eastern Iceland. On this sometimes treacherous road, the visual and acoustic environments are transformed by dense fog and snow storms, effecting a perceptual flux between white-out and black-out which leaves only an aftergrain. If afterglow refers to the light or luminescence left in the sky after sundown, after-grain is the sonic and visual noise that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted.

+ mobile radio: Knut Aufermann (DE) + Sarah Washington (UK)

Following on from the success of the Resonance venture and the numerous radio experiments we were able to carry out there, we have since been invited as guest ‘radio experts’ by projects tapping into a renewed interest in experimental radio and ‘radio art’. Now based in Germany, we continue the work of Mobile Radio with those who want to develop concepts through the medium of radio. More than that, Mobile Radio remains a personal artistic journey to create radio work which arises from our encounters and surroundings. Our mission remains the same as it was the first day we first set off on our epic airwave adventure: to seek out new forms of radio by taking radio production out of the studio environment. http://mobile-radio.net

+ radio essay by Tisha Mukarji (JP)

http://ausland-berlin.de/washington-aufermannfriz-korabiewski
https://www.facebook.com/events/1137151826380231/

I am pleased to announce my performance at Lab30 Media Art Festival 2016 in Augsburg, Germany.

FJARÐARHEIÐI is taken from the name of the 25 km mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to the nearest town of Egilsstaðir, East Iceland. On this often treacherous road, the visual and acoustic environments are transformed by dense fog, wind, rain, and snow storms, effecting a perceptual state of white-out or black-out leaving only an aftergrain. If afterglow refers to the light or luminance left in the sky after sundown, aftergrain is the sonic and visual grit that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted. Created together with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music member Anna Friz, FJARÐARHEIÐI reflects the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over the year in the far north. Korabiewski performs with field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape, and feedback systems, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photomontage.

More info: http://www.lab30.de/programm/fjararheii

Radio art is a multi-faceted form of art. To illustrate this by way of celebration, the festival Radio Revolten (translation: Radio Revolts) invites more than 70 artists from 17 countries to Halle (Saale), Germany to present 30 days of contemporary radio art at 15 locations around the city in the form of performances, installations, concerts and live radio broadcasts. Daily events take place in the Radio Revolten Club, located close to the city market square. Next door at Radio Revolten Central, visitors will experience art installations in the exhibit dealing with transmission in all its guises. This is also the home of Radio Revolten Radio, transmitting 24/7 on the FM frequency 99.3 MHz in Halle, reaching further afield on the MW frequency 1575 kHz, and serving a worldwide audience via the festival livestream. 35 radio stations around the world will integrate parts of Radio Revolten Radio into their own programming. Remarkable events will surprise Halle throughout the month of October 2016: from towers to castles to gardens, radio will blossom into art.

Radio Revolten Artistic Director: Knut Aufermann. Curators: Anna Friz, Sarah Washington, Ralf Wendt and Elisabeth Zimmermann.

Featured international artists include luminaries of transmission art: Andrea-Jane Cornell, Peter Courtemanche, Fernando Godoy M and Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, Joyce Hinterding, Tetsuo Kogawa, Jeff Kolar, Emmanuel Madan, Aki Onda, Anna Raimondo, The Resonance Radio Orchestra, Maia Urstad, Gregory Whitehead and many many more. My own performance is scheduled to 27th of October 2016.  The largest ever festival of contemporary radio art: http://radiorevolten.net

“It would be a cliche to recourse to the idea that Iceland’s treeless environment impacts on any music made by artists living there. But the plaintive baritone saxophone on Kremmerstrasse vividly suggests it does, as it plays out over voices that alternate between agitated talk and half-singing. These tracks could be brief extracts from films, their mood and tempo changing as the flicker from one to the next. The clarinet melody closing Zeit Heilt Alle Wunden is an almost direct reference to the vocal melody ending Warszawa on Bowie’s Low” (…)”

 
Read the whole review of the internationally acclaimed Komplex LP (Skálar001/Gruen126) by Roger Döring | Konrad Korabiewski – in the legendary The Wire – Adventures in Sound and Music Magazine (UK). Current July 2016 issue The Wire Magazine#389

I am thrilled to announce, I have been chosen as a composer for Nordic Music Days 2016 with the new audiovisual installation Ascención. Reykjavik is hosting the Nordic Music Days 2016, one of the world’s oldest music festivals, founded in 1888. The festival will showcase pioneering contemporary music performances by Nordic composers performed by leading ensembles and soloists from the Nordic region. Nordic Music Days 2016 is organized by the Icelandic Composers Society, and takes place in Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík on 29 September to 1 October 2016. http://www.nordicmusicdays.org

Exclusive contribution for The Wire Tapper 40 compilation CD. Composition Hof by Roger Döring and Konrad Korabiewski from the internationally acclaimed vinyl album Komplex (Skálar001/Gruen126).

All copies of the May 2016 issue of The Wire – Adventures in Sound and Music will come complete with an exclusive free CD attached to the cover, The Wire Tapper 40, the latest volume in the acclaimed series of new music compilations.As with previous volumes this CD, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, is packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire’s art director Ben Weaver, and contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in The Wire.

Exclusive contribution for the Polish SOUNDPLAY 2014 compilation CD. Flucht by Roger Döring and Konrad Korabiewski from the internationally acclaimed vinyl album Komplex ( Skálar001/Gruen 126). Soundplay 2014 album contains a collection of recordings by artists who visited Gdańsk within the framework of Soundplay Festival which took place on 24-29 June 2014. Some of the compositions were created during the festival and can be treated as a sound documentation of the events.

Among other artists contributing are also: Anna Friz (CA/US), Christina Kubish (DE), BJ Nilsen (SE), Jana Winderen (NO), John Grzinich (EE/US), Kacper Ziemianin (PL), Martyna Poznańska & Jacob Eriksen (PL), Porcje Rosołowe (PL), Rudy Decelière (PL)                                                                                               More info: http://artandsciencemeeting.pl/?p=2478&lang=en | http://www.skalar.is/soundplay2014-2015/  Review by Łukasz Komła for Nowa Muzyka: http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2016/02/12/soundplay-2014/

Supported by:

Using field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape and feedback systems, Friz and Korabiewski perform live with this new piece, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photo-montage. Together, Friz and Korabiewski craft pensive audiovisual landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over a year on the mountainous coast just below the Arctic Circle. FJARÐARHEIÐI is taken from the name of the 25 km mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to the nearest town of Egilsstaðir in eastern Iceland. On this sometimes treacherous road, the visual and acoustic environments are transformed by dense fog and snow storms, effecting a perceptual flux between white-out and black-out which leaves only an aftergrain. If afterglow refers to the light or luminescence left in the sky after sundown, after-grain is the sonic and visual noise that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted.

FJARÐARHEIÐI will have world premiere 10.10.2015 during the 44th Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Québec/Canada. Supported by:

During the 44th edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montréal the audio visual collaboration with Kristjan Loðmfjorð (is), NS-12 (2014) will have its North American premiere being screened twice in the FCN’s experimental | avantgarde LAB-program (an exploration of experimental and multidisciplinary forms of cinema). By means of sound and image, NS-12 poetically portrays the fishing trawler Gulliver, docked in Seyðisfjorður, East Iceland. The trawler is a self-contained world; a space which functions both as workplace and collective living arrangement, which is also personally and physically affective. To the people working on board, the ship might be seen as a tool, but artistically it is perceived as a living organism, as a musical instrument triggering the senses and as a visual landscape impressing with textures and colors. The constant sensation of motion from the heaviness and roughness of the rolling trawler conveys a state of confusion or reverie, like that triggered by seasickness. The ship itself is always in the foreground, with the life on board as the background. Thus NS-12 captures the moment of an everyday situation, applying an  expressionistic approach for an experimental outcome. It communicates the human spirit, essential for the experience of the trawler at sea with the ceaseless sound and vibrations of the engine.

With the support of: Cultural Council of East Iceland, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, Danish Composers Society, Danish Arts Foundation, ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,  Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, Lortur Productions.

Saturday October 10, 2015 Program #75 13:00 Salle J.A. De Sève (Concordia)
Wednesday October 14, 2015, Program #200 19:00 Cinémathèque – Salle Fernan Seguin

More info and trailer: http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/en/films/ns-12

Exclusive contribution for the Dutch Gonzo Circus Muziek.Kunst.Meer Magazine (#129) on the compilation CD Mind the Gap (#116). Flucht by Roger Döring and Konrad Korabiewski from the internationally acclaimed vinyl album Komplex (Skálar001/Gruen 126)

I am excited announcing the new vinyl album Komplex with Roger Döring (Dictaphone/Moser/Meyer/Döring) released by the German sound art label Gruenrekorder in collaboration with Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music , East Iceland

The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition with Döring’s sounds. A third compositional element is contributed by the particular ambiences of the spaces in which the recordings took place, as Korabiewski and Döring came together to record at sites with personal and acoustic resonance, from Döring’s apartment in Berlin to an abandoned herring factory by the sea in East Iceland. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt, honest album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy sagas from the north. Icelandic fimartist Kristján Loðmfjörð created a promotional video work for the album track Flucht.

Flucht | Komplex from Konrad Korabiewski on Vimeo.

Komplex Vinyl LP – 8 Tracks (36:29) Limited edition 300
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=11903
Komplex – Press-release
www.gruenrekorder.de/pdf/Komplex__pressrelease.pdf
Cover picture
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/Photos/Komplex.jpg

Direct order                                                                                                                                                                         http://shop.gruenrekorder.de/?full#Gruen_126

Reviews:

Musique Machine (UK)
“The production utilises the natural acoustics of the space and with light use of reverb creates the impression of a complex interplay between distance and nearness, as if a quartet of players were secreted around what might be an ancient sacred space (…)”

illustrated Amateur (Canada)
“Quite surprisingly, Korabiewski has a soft touch, letting the saxophone breath—using his role more to provide an atmospheric contextualization. I haven’t heard such subtle manipulation since Brian Eno and Harold Budd’s collaborations (…)”

The Wire – Adventures in Sound and Music (UK)
“It would be a cliche to recourse to the idea that Iceland’s treeless environment impacts on any music made by artists living there. But the plaintive baritone saxophone on Kremmerstrasse vividly suggests it does, as it plays out over voices that alternate between agitated talk and half-singing. These tracks could be brief extracts from films, their mood and tempo changing as the flicker from one to the next. The clarinet melody closing Zeit Heilt Alle Wunden is an almost direct reference to the vocal melody ending Warszawa on Bowie’s Low (…)”

The Sound Projector (UK)
“Emotional conflict. I’ll say that the recordings here are exceptionally clear and vivid, and I’ll admit the overall sound of the record does have a certain weight and authority, which may be partially due to the mixing skills of Schneider TM (…)”

Vital Weekly (The Netherlands)
“So their musical dialogues are overall of a meditative and reflective nature. It like their improvisations most all because of the physicality and concreteness of the sounds produced. Very pure and with an emotional content. Very impressive is also the picture on the cover of this album. Two people in the front seats of an automobile, photographed from the back. Just seeing the silhouettes of both persons. Intriguing (…)”

Loop (Chile)
“Las notas melódicas del saxo barítono aparecen solitarias en un paraje desolado y frío que denotan cierta melancolía que se ve interrumpida a veces por ruidos. No obstante la característica es que el saxo se esparce en un ambient plácido en el que tenues tratamientos electrónicos apenas emergen a la superficie como el drone en ‘Zeit heilt alle wunden’ (…)”

Feardrop (France)
“Une musique ambiante, véritablement ambiante et habitée s’illustre alors en réminiscence d’un expressionnisme primitif, dans quoi les formes les plus simples exacerbent le rythme intime pour refaçonner la respiration et la cadence cardiaque sur le modèle du chantonnement crépusculaire. Alors, hantés par le miroitement du cuivre et le vrombissement infra, les souffles maîtrisés de l’instrument, dans leur circulaire obscurité romantique finissent par rappeler la grâce d’une œuvre aussi essentielle que The Radio de Steve Roden (…)”

Freistil Magazin für Musik und Umgebung (Austria)
“Nicht unwesentlich bei der Entstehung der vorliegenden Soundscapes ist die Berücksichtigung verschiedener Aufnahmesituationen. Die reichen von einer Wohnung in Berlin bis hinaus zu einer aufgelassenen Fabrikshalle auf Island. Entsprechend unterschiedlich ausdifferenziert findet dieser Komplex klanglich statt. Von smart bis hart reicht die Ausdruckspalette. Manchmal herrscht mildes Klima vor, dann wieder wilde Verzerrung. So kommt diese ambitionierte. Ambientmusik daher: roh und ausgekocht zugleich (…)”

Le son du grisli (France)
“Les instruments de Döring & Korabiewski sont d’un naturel époustouflant et leur jeu est pétri de mélancolie (pas de cette mélancolie fastoche post-ECM, … , mais d’un vrai truc qui vous prend là). Et les huit petites pièces qu’ils lâchent sur ce vinyle sont autant de bouteilles à la mer lancées contre un glacier (…)”

Dagbladet Information (Denmark)
“Der er en vemodig berlinermodernisme over de melankolske og blødt beboelige klangrum, som duoen fremmaner. Her foregår mødet mellem mennesket og maskinen for en gangs skyld glat og uproblematisk, ja nærmest smukt (…)”

Seismograf / DMT  (Denmark)
“Urovækkende og dragende bekendtskab, der fremstår simpelt i sit udtryk men gemmer på et umage samspil mellem forskellige klanguniverser. Det er en uhyre stemningsfuld plade, som konstant leger med opfattelsen af akustiske rum, og hvilke følelser det ene fremkalder frem for det andet. Det er interessant lytning såvel som et spændende studium i grænselandet mellem akustisk og syntetisk tonedannelse (…)”

Nowa Muzyka (Poland)
“Płyta „Komplex” mogłaby być ścieżką dźwiękową do jakiegoś dokumentu Wernera Herzoga, lecz póki co istnieje jako autonomiczne dzieło pełne osobistego uroku. Ciężko jest się oderwać od tego winyla, mam nadzieję, że i was on zachwyci (…)”

Textura (Canada)
“Pieces range from sombre funereal meditations (kremmenerstraße) to brooding nightscapes redolent of mysterious European cityscapes (flucht), with many of the duo’s plaintive reveries unfolding at a slow and measured pace. Though Komplex would be short by CD standards, its eight evocative settings fit the vinyl format perfectly (…)”

Spring in Europe generates energy and I am pleased to announce two exclusive concerts in Vienna in collaboration with legendary ORF Kunstradio, Austrian public national radio.

April 12th, 2015, 23:03 CET
Ö1 Kunstradio LIVE on air and on line
Telefunken Twins by Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski
Podcast of the program is available here: http://kunstradio.at/2015A/12_04_15.html

Telefunken Twins is a suite of pieces departing from a duet between two vintage Telefunken Bajazzo radio/cassette decks. Using radio as instrument and as system exciter, the pieces also utilize micro-FM transmission, low fidelity electronic instruments, analogue tape, dictaphones, walkie talkies, spectral monitoring, and intricate feedback systems to craft and expressive and intimate world from the sensuality of signal and noise. By working with small circuits of transmission live in the radio studio of Ö1 Kunstradio, Telefunken Twins seeks to transform radio away from its everyday role as an apparatus of entertainment or information diffusion, instead proposing radio as instrument, as landscape, and as a poetic space of reverie.
Telefunken Twins is commissioned by Kunstradio and supported by Danish Arts Foundation.

April 14th, 21:00 CET
BRUTTO meets Ö1 Kunstradio
Featuring live Anna Friz & Konrad Korabiewski + Broken Heart Collector
on site: Brut Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Entrance 3.-/5.- Euro

A get-together: brut’s cooperation with the Ö1-Kunstradio evokes a spring fever of its very own kind in the audience. Anna Friz & Konrad Korabiewski create an audio-visual performance with electronic and acoustic instruments, field recordings and analogous music cassettes.