BRAIN MUSIC #2
Hirnmusik #2 is the second part of Simon Grabs art work about musical imagination. This time it’s an attempt to transfer his sonic ideas directly from his brain to vinyl . While cutting the Lacquer (the template which is sent to the pressing plant) Simon Grab stands aside the machine creating compositions on the spot in his imagination. Without knowing if his inner music got captured the vinyl gets produced in a limited edition of 200 copies. Due to the special cut the vinyl gets handpressed in the pressing plant.
The vinyl came back without sound on it. The experiment has greatly failed. Nothing on both sides, leaving the listeners with their own sound environment and their own music in the head. „Considering sonic imagination as a sonic phenomena, silence thus does not exist.“ states Simon Grab, „or at least in my head there’s never silence.“
WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU HEAR!
The empty vinyl gives room for countless inner compositions by the listeners. Just play the record and listen to yourself. Or enjoy the silence! In fact, you actually don’t even need a record player. In case you don’t know how to handle the situation, the Vinyl Box contains 32 cards with suggestions how to listen to the vinyl. It also contains the script to the radioplay from his first work Hirnmusik #1. Read it and try to imagine the radioplay. Download it for free and listen to it in full length.
THE VINYLBOX
The Vinylbox with colorless type embossing on the outside contains a white Vinyl, limited to 200 copies, handpressed, with several loops at the end of both sides, plus a set of 32 cards with suggestions how to listen to the vinyl, a 32 pages script of the radioplay „Hirnmusik #1“ (german, english, french) with notes, reflections and research material. Includes download links to Hirnmusik #1 + Hirnmusik #2.
ART COLLECTION [sold out]
The first 20 copies #1/200 – #20/200 include a MiniGrip Bag with „Anti-Silence“, the leftover material of what came out of the groove from the Laqueer Master.
BUY IT HERE:
BANDCAMP
https://simongrab.bandcamp.com/album/hirnmusik-2
ZURICH
RecRec
OOR Records
direct: simon [at] ganzerplatz.ch
LUZERN
Old Town Record Store
CREDITS
Label: ganzerplatz Records
Graphical Design: Annegreth Schärli
Lacquer Mastering: Flo Kaufmann, Bricolage Universel
Vinylbox: Dimitris Fytas
Release Date: 24.09.2017
Contributions Cards: Nik Schärer, Bernd Schurer, James S. Adams, Dave Phillips, Larry Bang Bang, Stephan Becker, Rudolf E.ber, Patricia Bosshard
Thanks to everybody involved in the research, production and contribution of Hirnmusik #1 and #2. Special thanks to Carine, Daara and Alika.
With the support of: Fachstelle Kultur Zürich, Crowdfunding contributors
THE EXHIBITION
24.09.2017 at Kunstraum Walcheturm Zürich
THE BRAINMUSIC PERFORMANCE
Posted by Stefan Laurens Müller on Sonntag, 24. September 2017
VINYL VS. DIGITAL ALBUM
On the Digital Album you’ll find the recordings of both sides of the Vinyl on a rather ridiculous level, including some of the endless loops. It’s taken from the first and the last of the limited series, Vinyl #1/200 and #200/200. Also included are two files of digital silence. You won’t hear anything on it, but it gives you a good timeframe to take a break and listen to your own music in the head.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Hirnmusik an der Literaare, Literaturfestival Thun, 18. Nov. 2017
„Nach dem rhythmischen, schlagzeugähnlichen Stampfen eines Stahlwerkes und dem unangenehmen Quietschen von Maschinen spielte Simon Grab eine komplett leere Platte ab und forderte die Zuhörer dazu auf, sich Zeit zu nehmen, um «nichts zu hören». Er ist sich sicher, dass die Stille jedem persönlich die Möglichkeit gibt, alles zu hören: «Hört die Stille an, und füllt sie selbst.»“ Berner Zeitung
Radio Stadtfilter. MusikMosaik, eine Sendung über Hirnmusik von Christian Fürholz.
Radio Stadtfilter. Dominik Dusek hat mit Simon Grab über die lustigen und die beunruhigenden Seiten seines Projekts «Hirnmusik» gesprochen.
Radio RaBe. Ein Beitrag von Michael Spahr.
CROWDFUNDING PROPAGANDA