Autor: ■davidwallraf

The Commune of Nightmares

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My new tape/album The Commune of Nightmares is due to be released on Karlrecords on January 26 and is up for preorder here.

The Commune of Nightmares stems from the idea that nightmares are the logical reverse of ‘capitalist realism’: an uncanny undercurrent of daily experiences and an algorithmic haunting of dreams that at the same time is a shared – communal – experience of everybody. All songs are based on tapeloops that were cut arbitrarily from a stash of cassettes, some of which found on the street, others from a stockpile of 4 track tapes recorded in the late 90s and early 2000s – a musical game of cadavre exquis played with random strangers and former versions of the self.

The C40 tape comes with a download card and an eight page booklet containing some theoretical background on the songs.

On January 19 there will be a release concert at West Germany in Berlin.

December 7 – performance w/ Elena Victoria Pastor

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Improvised noise performance with Elena Victoria Pastor at Frappant Hamburg, December 7 at 8 pm

Opening of Implantations exhibition.

Implantations takes root in the memory of trees, engaging the arboreal as mnemonic, method, and mode of relation. Featuring video, paper-based, poetic, and performance works by Elena Victoria Pastor and ruïns collective (Elias Parvulesco and Teta Tsybulnyk) this project reflects upon the incorporation of trees into anthropocentric remembrance structures, while also engaging with the subjectivity of trees as deeply reciprocal entities that are not just in the world, but of it. 

Trees, among other plants, are indistinguishable from their environs, consistently reacting to and changing what surrounds them. They participate in what Emanuele Coccia calls a “mutual compenetration between subject and environment, body and space, life and medium.” This compenetration extends to memory itself, which is shared by bark and brain, leaf and limb, bough and body. As the works in Implantations suggest, if we turn our attention to the arboreal and speak with its embodied articulations of the past, present, and future, we can learn how to better enact modes of mutuality with a dynamic and vibrant network of entities and forces. 

Join us between 19 hrs –21 hrs for the opening on December 7, featuring a performance activation and sonic improvisations by Elena Victoria Pastor in collaboration with David Wallraf at 20hrs.

Curated by Maya Hayda from Collective Rewilding. 

Poster: Lia DiBitonto

Kunsthaus again

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Kunsthaus Hamburg is celebrating its 60th birthday with a symposium. I was invited to do something with sound on the occasion: „interactive live sampling“. I’ll be recording the different panels/speakers and use that as source material for two improvisations. At the least it will be „discourse on art turned into art“, maybe even a comment on something.

At Kunsthaus Hamburg, Klosterwall 15 / 20095 Hamburg. November 4, from 10 am to 6 pm. My performances at 1 pm and 6 pm.

Compilations

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There’s a new compilation out on IN:EX from Chemnitz: Anthroprocene Tresholds (how much space waits between those noises). A C90 tape in interesting packaging containing tracks by Chemiefaserwerk, Mattin, Philippe Petit, Monad Node and many more.

My contribution is titled Inertia and Rust.

It is the sister track to Darkness and Mold, released earlier this year on the Stanislav Lem tribute compilation by Machina ad Noctem.

Listening Biennial Documentation

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From July 11 to August 5 I stayed in South East Asia to participate in the Listening Biennial as a speaker and workshop facilitator.

July 12 I contributed to the Listening Tambayan (Tagalog for hangout, informal gathering) at the University of the Philippines together with Hasan Hujairi and Kevin Murray with an annotated playlist on noise and silence:

The playlist is also available on Mixcloud:

July 14 to 16 I facilitated a workshop in Alitaptap artist village in the Cavite region of the Philippines, themed on soundscapes in the Anthropocene: a close reading of Bernie Krause’s text Anatomy of the Soundscape with it’s division of soundscapes into geophony, biophony and anthropophony contrasted with McKenzie Wark’s theory of the Anthropocene from Molecular Red. The question of how Krause’s division of the soundscape can be upheld under the conditions of the Anthropocene guided us through a soundwalk and a field recording expedition in the surrounding area that resulted in a collaborative playlist (soon to be published).

From July 21 to 23 I travelled to Bagkok with Nguyen TrinH Ti, Yang Yeung and Dayang Yraola travelled for giving workshops and to participate in a Symposium at Silpakorn University. My talk Noise as Sonic Experience touched on the conflicting definitions that can be given to noise and the ambiguous role it plays in political situations. The script for this presentation will hopefully be published later this year.

A more streamlined version of the talk was also presented at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia on July 29.

During the stay in Manila I also participated in the „Neverending Gig“ on World Listening Day (July 18, audio will be posted soon). I’m still overwhelmed by the generosity and hospitality of the people I encountered. The discussions and informal talks will resonate for a long time. Special thanks to Dayang Yraola for inviting me to the Listening Biennial.

From left to right: Brandon LaBelle, Dayang Yraola, Jett Illgan, DW, Ian Carlo Jaucian, Yang Yeung, Teresa Barrozo