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This improvisation was recorded live in one afternoon with a one-track recorder in the order of the tracklist. Nothing was cut or added.
GAUNERZINKEN
For us humans, the world consists of signs that we continually create and interpret ourselves. As cultural beings, we work partly consciously and more often unconsciously every day to produce signs of meaning. Through language, ritual, habit or deliberate planning. In this way we
appropriate the world. The so-called GAUNERZINKEN have the same function. Signs painted on houses that give clues to their material value and inhabitants. The signs are planned. The inhabitants do not know their meaning. They are excluded from their interpretation.
Thus, GAUNERZINKEN form signs of meaning, created by marginalised groups who desire, in secret language, a double act of appropriation: The creation of a secret, self-concealing sign, for the appropriation of a part of the material world, the property. Through the production of signs, those excluded from material privileges gain a first access, a first symbolic occupation, a small boundary shift of the exclusionary in the world. Crime is therefore necessarily immoderate, immoderateness necessarily criminal. The music of N and Baltzer is in this immoderate, alluding to signs / playing signs, that remain ambiguous. The signs are diffuse, blurred, diffuse into atmosphere, no meaning is given, the implications are to be filled individually, subjective crooks are to emerge while listening. But no one gets excluded.
This is how we can appropriate the world. This world, flooded with signs, brushed over and dressed up, the world obscured by property. Through the production of secret meaning, through our signs, which first form in us as emotion and which we then paint on the facades of the world when we have located ourselves anew, which we should always covet, so that it may someday be ours again.
| Live music improvisations in the limbo of drone, noise and dark ambient soundscapes with guitars, amps & effects by experimental guitarists N & Baltzer |
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