Knizak, Milan / Opening Performance Orchestra - Broken Re/Broken

Knizaks urprüngliches Performance-Klangmaterial von defekten LPs wurde digital in Laptops übertragen und noch einnmal weiterzerstört. Fehler is King.

No melody, no rhythm, no harmony - this is fraction music.



Milan Knizak + Opening Performance Orchestra revisiting Broken Music in Berlin, 2014.

In 2008 / 2009 we transferred the original recording from vinyl records into digital form. As we did so, we weren't interested in the precise, clean fidelity offered by the digital world, which fundamentally causes the fine structure of natural sound to be lost. Instead we were seeking the opposite: the world of errors and distortion, which remains hidden when digital audio is manipulated to be maximally accommodating for the listener. The transferred audio recording was digitally destroyed, shattered and uncompromisingly freed from all its original attributes. No melody, no rhythm, no harmony - this is fraction music.




Tracks:
part one: Broken Music / 45 min. Milan Knizak (with Phaerentz) turntables & broken vinyls, CD players & CDs, cassette players & cassettes, keyboard part two Re:Broken Music / 33 min. Opening Performance Orchestra 5 laptops & fraction music (broken section, re:broken section, fraction section)