sound.
New Album: Blodgett I & II
Out December 6th
Blodgett
is a 7:06 minute piece using a text-based score for six to eight performers. This release features a performance of the piece by the EOC (Electronic Orchestra Charlottenburg) and an arrangement by six individual musicians that I mixed during the pandemic lockdown.
Enjoy!
New Albums: Concrete I, II, III
Out December 6th
concrete - I
concrete - II
concrete - III
Concrete
is a radically reductive composition entirely created from the sound of paper. this work is an artefact of a site-specific sound installation that i created in 2016. since it was impossible to document the listening experience of this project true to its nature, i decided to (re)use the sonic material of my installation for a related, but new and concertante variation of concrete. both, the installation and this composition can be understood as abstract sonic objects with cubistic qualities.
there is a bunker called k101 on koernerstraße in my hometown of cologne, germany. the building was erected by the nazis on the property of a synagogue that they burned down. now the bunker is used as a cultural center to inform oneself, remember and culturally engage with cologne’s past during the third reich. i reached out to the k101 team and proposed an installation as part of my structures [...] series in which i work in/from/with specific environments through phenomenological practices. these practices focus on contextual experiences through all possible modes of listening to an environment.
since there is a permanent installation in the entry room of the bunker that depicts its history, i was interested in what and especially how this build is today. i spent several weeks visiting the space to listen, make notes, think, take pictures and make sound recordings. the more time i spent in the bunker the more i became aware how sound, water and air permeated this massive structure. that shifted the focus to the aesthetic and sensory possibilities to experience the bunker. after letting my experiences and notes sediment and condense into a score for this installation, i searched for sounds that I could place within this structure to highlight and expose those characteristic that (re)present how the bunker is.
i ended up using paper of different textures, densities and material to create all sounds in this composition because paper, played in the manner i did, created the sonic and aesthetic qualities that were need for an installation in that place. the installation consisted of an eight-channel composition played through 46 small speakers intentionally placed within the bunker’s 400 square meter space.
thanks to:
k101, electronic music studio at tu berlin, alex arteaga, hans peter kuhn, sangwon nam, volker streabel, andrew miller and ursula moffitt.
all recordings, editing, mixing and mastering - robert stokowy
recorded and edited at the electronic music studio at tu berlin, germany. mixed and mastered in chicago, usa.
New Album: Lake Eerie
Out August 4th
Greetings!
It’s been a while. On August 4th I’ll release a new album called Lake Eerie. It’s a about 95 minutes of conceptual sound I recorded and arranged for for the exhibition "The Horror in Printmaking”
At KGW, Cologne, Germany
August 4th - September 1st 2023
About the installation:
The crises of our time seem to follow one another ever more closely. But they are not new: our fight against nature, against other people or against imaginary monsters has occupied mankind for thousands of years. And just as long artists have been dealing with the horror, the creepy and the uncanny.
Printmaking in particular has always played an important role in dealing with people's fears in wars, hardship and misery and creating an image of their time that enables a new perspective on said fears and their causes.
The KGW (Cologne Printmaking Workshop) has therefore brought together artists from all over Germany who, armed with a keen eye, cutting humor and sharpened tools, face the monsters of our time. Current crises, age-old human fears and personal demons are the inspiration for the works that can be seen from August 4th in Cologne.
The exhibition "The Horror in Printmaking" and its supporting program are also a journey through the history of artistic printmaking, from Dürer to artificial intelligence. It shows how artists of different generations have dealt with the fears that still haunt us all today.
Cheers,
r
Robert Stokowy - CONCRETE I
Out Now on Veinte 33 Records
RES - II - CYRENE
Out Now on TOTAL DISSONANCE WORSHIP
REYES|STOKOWY DUO - Northern: Ashroud Is My Country
Out Now on American Dreams Records
RES - automatic fruit
out now pan y rosas discos
recorded sounds stripped to their bare bones arranged in a brittle sonic construct. a 23 min headphone piece.
coming in april on pan y rosas discos! like all PYR releases, it’s free - panyrosasdiscos.org
STRIFE OF PERMANENCE
out on
American Dreams Records
latest releases
hosts
is a radically reductive, text-based composition in two parts. having mainly created sound installations this work tries to strike a balance between the installed, sculptural sound and a con- certante composition.
aside from the framework the only premise was to keep it simple - to take away rather than add. that is, to predominantely use found sounds gathered in chicago, to use as few plugins as possible and rather manipulate sound in the moment of recording. and last not least, to strive for a haptic and organic characteristic of sound layers, shifting and moving ever so slightly.
released by fallen moon recordings.
more? listen here