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[fm.m02] blue 3" mini CDr with relaxing streetnoise

This psychoactive acoustical survey sets out to explore, under which circumstances sounds and noises from the street cease to annoy.

»Like a sky-coloured Sunday-morning version of Kraftwerk’s "Autobahn".« Tocafi

1 piece of relaxing street noises on a blue 3" mini CDr with photocover.

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  1. trafic tonalité
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...These recordings took place at the IRCAM Paris in October of 2005. I drove there in a Citroen CX. For whatever reason, the Plugins of my Sequencer Software started to melt. This slowed down the recording process in such a way, that I embarked on my journey home empty-handed. Just like in a dream.

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about marcus obst

Marcus Obst has released a lot of records as dronæment. This is the first release under his real name, because it\’s sounds more academic. His »solowork« ranges from pure field recordings to electronic processed sounds, analog beatboxing freeform audiowork to rework the music history.

reviews

sonomu

…Perhaps that album´s title was a secretive wink in the direction he subsequently chose to take, for recently he established a limited edition run (a mere fifty copies each) of 3” CDRs for his Field Muzick label, indicating a more concentrated interest in not-quite-pure field recording.
Trafic Tonalite, one of the two releases launching the label, is described as a “mini CDr with relaxing street noise”. On it, Obst integrates the sound of automobiles speeding by, maybe on wet pavement, with a slowly evolving synth line and subtle, erratic beat. His Cageian goal has been to take an everyday source of what we might otherwise simply dismiss as noise and place it in a context whereby we “re-hear” it as pleasing music which softly drifts its way into our consciousness. Seamlessly constructed!…“
Stephen Fruitman

Vital Weekly 512

Marcus Obst runs the Field Muzick label. In October 2005 he recorded this piece (plus the two you can find online) but on the way the \’plugins of my sequencer software started to melt. This slowed down the recording process in such way, that I embarked on my journey home empty-handed\’. So is this the slowed down recording? Perhaps it is. The one piece that lasts twenty minutes uses street sounds, being fed into plugins, is of a slow and relaxing quality. Music to be played at a rather soft volume to create the right atmosphere for it. Slow and peaceful without much real development, but it\’s all together quite a nice release.“
Frans de Waard

tokafi

Marcus Obst, the label’s founder, joins in the fun by releasing the first album under his own name (after several, often sold-out efforts as Dronaement). “Trafic Tonalite” was inspired by a trip to the IRCAM in Paris, which saw Marcus’ equipment melt away and him travelling home without the wished-for results. On this twenty-minute long composition, he sets out to explore, when traffic noise ends being a pain in the ear and starts being agreeable (or the other way round). Well, as long as the street noises are integrated into a hazily floating surrounding like this one, they can stay. “Trafic Tonalite” drifts off on the wings of a happily babbling sequencer line and warm harmonies, with some hardly traceable effects and a steady rhythm providing diversion. Nothing really happens, but suddenly this track reaches a point of total immersion, when you don’t want to let go and keep on driving along for ever. Like a sky-coloured Sunday-morning version of Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn”. Absolutely magnificent – and unfortunately limited to 50 copies only.
Tobias Fischer

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