Listening to everything and recording. Ears like umbrellas. Silence. Relay the sounds live on tape, fumble with the mechanism, accidents happen, learn to love them.
Målgrupp’s modus operandi is live reel-to-reel tape recorder sound experimenting. Their collages consist of field recordings and pre-recorded sounds that are relayed and manipulated into rhythms and soundscapes heard from the inside of the wallpaper, dancing down the hallway or balancing on the tension of a bridge. Objects and instruments can be heard in a distant echo of punk music, stripping off everything but the silence, soberly listening to every vibration expressing itself in an unlimited space. All through Målgrupp’s music, one can hear the handicraft behind it, their masterful tape manipulating process could be described as electronic sound sculpturing. On “Rotera” they have made the compositions more minimalistic by working with only two sound sources at a time.
Målgrupp started out in 2008 as a collective with rotating members playing free form industrial punk, inspired by Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Since 2016, Julian Murray has been playing solo and their sound has gradually started to include elements of for example art brut and ethnographic recordings, operating… more
released September 28, 2021
Recorded by Julian Murray 2020/2021 at Flugboet, Nibble
Performed on Nagra-E
Mastered by Teemu Korpipää at Popnalli HQ
Listening to everything and recording. Ears like umbrellas. Silence. Relay the sounds live on tape, fumble with the mechanism, accidents happen, learn to love them.
Målgrupp’s modus operandi is live reel-to-reel tape recorder sound experimenting. Their collages consist of field recordings and pre-recorded sounds that are relayed and manipulated into rhythms and soundscapes heard from the inside of the wallpaper, dancing down the hallway or balancing on the tension of a bridge. Objects and instruments can be heard in a distant echo of punk music, stripping off everything but the silence, soberly listening to every vibration expressing itself in an unlimited space. All through Målgrupp’s music, one can hear the handicraft behind it, their masterful tape manipulating process could be described as electronic sound sculpturing. On “Rotera” they have made the compositions more minimalistic by working with only two sound sources at a time.
Målgrupp started out in 2008 as a collective with rotating members playing free form industrial punk, inspired by Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Since 2016, Julian Murray has been playing solo and their sound has gradually started to include elements of for example art brut and ethnographic recordings, operating… more
released September 28, 2021
Recorded by Julian Murray 2020/2021 at Flugboet, Nibble
Performed on Nagra-E
Mastered by Teemu Korpipää at Popnalli HQ
| Weight | 0,1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 10 × 10 × 1 cm |
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