Promo image for Volker Straebel lecture at Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UCSD
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Boris D. Hegenbart Matsui & Volker Straebel
Originally aired on Monday, August 15th, 2011

A double bill of electronic music from Berlin: Hegenbart presents his "musicforclouds," a live performance utylizing synthetic sound in slowly evolving layered processes of meteorological beauty; Straebel premiers two of his "sound observations," in which soundscape recordings (one from Niblock's fire escape) are superimposed and then spacialised and closely observed by means of sliding filters.

Recorded December 2010 and produced for radio in partnership with Phill Niblock and the Experimetnal Intermedia Foundation.

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