dorninger - looped nature and machines

[fm.m09] cold blue digital 3" mini CDr

Austrian soundartist Wolfgang „Fadi“ Dorninger split up the reality of pure field recording into digital grains or leave them as is.

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CatNr: fm.m09

tracklisting

SS13 – near Pordenone
car, nature & car wash – Italy 2006 & 2007, car wash
birds
swamps & sewage plan
moving stones

Recordings: Soundman OKM (track 1, 2, 5) and AKM 414 MKII (track 3, 4) on DAT
Track 1, 3, 5: untreated material
Track 2, 4: material reprocessed and treated with digital software

Track 1: recorded near Pordenone, Italy 2007
Track 2: recorded in Italy 2006 & 2007, car wash in Linz, Steg 2007
Track 3: recorded in the swamps of Asten, Austria 1999
Track 4: recorded in Asten, Austria 1999
Track 5: recorded in Tenerife near Puerto de la Cruz 2007

Used microphons: AKG C 414 B-ULS (track 3* & 4*), Soundman OKM (track 1*, 2*, 5*)
Recorded uncompressed on DAT
Music constructed summer/autumn 2007
Performed & recorded live at Sonic Sound Studio autumn 2007
Mixed and mastered at Sonic Sound Studio Linz, Austria 12-2007

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about

I mainly place my microphone in spaces delineasting the polarity between technology and nature. It is right here, at their intersection, that two different discourses about the act of listening start to evolve. On the one hand, there’s a private discourse, which bases on subjective perceptional development. And on the other, there’s a public one, which tries to gauge the admissibility of noises of different loudness and varying frequency.

In my work „Asten” (1999, base records), I’ve created a sonic portrait of the small town of Asten, which is being abused as a dump for the waste and dirt from a much larger neighbouring city. This marked the first time I arranged and reworked concrete sounds within a digital medium according to compositional criteria, thereby freeing them from their contexts.

On the tracks “Car, nature & car wash” and “Swamps & sewage plant” from “Looped nature and machines”, I again made use of this technique. However, I „pacified” these works by sandwiching them in between prior and posterior „Nature-Technology-Compositions”. There are no manipulations of any kind to be found on “SS13 – near Pordenone”, “Birds” and “Moving stones” and the processes they are describing are actually taking place at these sites almost exactly the way you’re hearing them.

You’ve got the digital loop here and the chain of life, cycle and organisation over there, always looped slightly asynchronously. This is why I recorded the digitally manipulated and composed pieces while performing them live: I wanted to attain a similar degree of fuzziness as with recordings of nature as well as creating a space for chaos and renewal

Picture by Max Bauer (2008)

about dorninger

It is really difficult not to call Wolfgang "Fadi" Dorninger, the electronic music man from Linz, a "workaholic". In the last 16 years over 70 recordings were released with him contributing as either musician, producer, remixer or publisher. He has also been an active partner - true to the spirit of 80s "Cassette Culture" - of the legendary Die Ind cassette-only network label, presenting yearly updates (Fadi Sampier, Tape Report), and in the 1991 singles-only project 7inch12.
In addition he has turned out a large number of works for multimedia performances, films, videos, theatre productions, exhibitions, advertising trailers and commercial video clips. With bands like Monochrome Bleu (active since 1982), Josef K Noyce (terminated in 1992), Wipe Out, Aural Screenshots and The Smiling Buddhas he has been involved, and still is, in a wide range of live activities in Austria and abroad. As if this were not enough, Fadi was also in charge of technical management for the Ars Electronica in Linz from 1988 to 1992. From 1996 his own programming for the festival (Sub'tronic, Ars Electronica Quarter Presents, @vent, Ridin' A Train) has been attracting steady attention.

reviews

Vital Weekly 648

Wolfgang ‘Fadi’ Dorninger has been active since the early nineties, starting out with a cassette label called Die Ind. He has also produced videos for Austrian bands like Monochrome Bleu, Josef K Noyce, Wipe Out and others. For this release he uses just field recordings, placing his microphone on such a place where it captures nature and technology – bird and cars passing, electrical currents and rain – that sort of thing. of the five tracks, four were recorded in one place and in one tracks two recordings are played at the same time. Sometimes he uses some processing, although its a bit unclear what this actually is. The outcome however is quite nice. The slight electric current (processing?) in some of this and the choice of sounds show that Dorninger is a man with some fine ears to the ground and offering some highly interesting field recordings.
FdW

Elektrische Zone Ox#81

ach nee, wat is dat schön… Da bekommt man eine 3”-CD des Künstlers Wolfgang Dorninger aus Linz / Österreich und was muß ich auf dem Cover entdecken? – Ein Foto der Zeche Zollverein in Essen… Der Herr ist ja auch nicht erst seit Gestern in der experimentellen Musik unterwegs und weiß ganze genau was und wie er es macht. Entsprechend sauber und schön sind die Field-Recordingarbeiten aufbereitet, die sich mit dem Themenkomplex Natur und Maschinen beschäftigen. Teilweise wurden die Aufnahmen extrem bearbeitet und dekomponiert, bei anderen Tracks hört man den ursprünglichen Sounds noch genau heraus. Konzeptionell aber werden die Klänge immer nur in ein neues Verhältnis zueinander gesetzt oder feinfühlig durch spontane Liverecordings ergänzt um die Unwiederholbarkeit und Natürlichkeit des Ausgangsmateriales nicht zu zerstören. Choas ist eben die Normalität der Natur – Ordnung braucht nur die Menschmaschine! (7)
CV

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