LOVE – 64 mating calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed

A composition for cello solo, learned from a nightingale that was recorded on March 3rd 2011 around 2am @ Kleylehof / Nickelsdorf.

The original recording has ~6min, it was slowed down to 10% of the original speed, cut into single calls, and transcribed for cello call by call.

The deceleration works like a magnifying glass, revealing details that stay unnoticed by the human ear at the original bird-speed.

Every minute one call is played, lasting 15-40 seconds, followed by a pause until the next call starts. Like an hour bell telling the time the nightingale tells the minutes.

The calls of a nightingale are playing with repetition and variation, following strange hidden rules. Obviously they are a chant rather than a language.
An unusual music - no recognisable stable rhythm - featuring a multitude of sounds, melodies that follow unusual rules.

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Entfernte Erkundungen 1 - Klang(raum)forschung

Sat August 28, 2021

symposion lindabrunn, lindabrunn, Austria

Symposion Lindabrunn
14:00 Eröffnung
„LOVE – 64 mating calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed“ – noid
Ausstellung Rundgang
kammerwellenmusik – filip / Hausch / Mayer / Stotz
Annäherungen – Christine Schörkhuber
Factory Study – your instruments – Hui Ye
LOVE – 64 mating calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed, recorded & pitched back to the original bird-speed – noid
T. E. – Elisabeth Falkinger
Versuchsanordnung zur Überwindung mittlerer Entfernungen – noid
WURMLOCH entfernte Erkundungen <-> Annäherungen
Talk – Ulrike Truger & Elisabeth Schimana
ca. 19:00 dinner
Monolith – Elisabeth Schimana
Kurzfilmprogramm pt I

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