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Harvest
Olle Cornéer,
Martin Lübcke
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The vinyl is dead. Good. Now listen to the beautiful noise of the earth.
“Harvest” (2009)—for terrafon, traditional music ensemble and cropland.
The terrafon is a large agricultural version of the horn gramophone, amplifying the audio in the furrow it ploughs.
The first performance was in spring 2009 when Alunda Church Choir—conducted by Cantor Jan Hällgren—played the soil of Uppland in Sweden.
The result was documented and exhibited together with the recorded music—amplified through the actual terrafon—together with a video loop of the performance.
The terrafon is a newly invented instrument that works roughly like an horn gramophone. A contact microphone at the tip of the plough picks up the vibrations created when it is run through the groove. The signal is amplified (and slightly processed by a computer) before being sent to the loudspeaker at the narrow end of the horn. The full audio is recorded by a stereo—both the direct signal and the surrounding sounds.
The terrafon is built from a plough made in 1887, which was originally used for farming in the same area as the first performance.
“Harvest” (2009)—for terrafon, traditional music ensemble and cropland.
The terrafon is a large agricultural version of the horn gramophone, amplifying the audio in the furrow it ploughs.
The first performance was in spring 2009 when Alunda Church Choir—conducted by Cantor Jan Hällgren—played the soil of Uppland in Sweden.
The result was documented and exhibited together with the recorded music—amplified through the actual terrafon—together with a video loop of the performance.
The terrafon is a newly invented instrument that works roughly like an horn gramophone. A contact microphone at the tip of the plough picks up the vibrations created when it is run through the groove. The signal is amplified (and slightly processed by a computer) before being sent to the loudspeaker at the narrow end of the horn. The full audio is recorded by a stereo—both the direct signal and the surrounding sounds.
The terrafon is built from a plough made in 1887, which was originally used for farming in the same area as the first performance.
Olle Corneer (SE) is a musician, working with everything from futuristic pop (Super Viral Brothers) to installations (Bacterial Orchestra) and functional/dumb (but not simple!) electro (Dada Life).
Martin Lübcke (SE) is a programmer with a PhD in theoretical physics—and a thesis about stable formations in plasma and approximation methods for superstring theory. Together they share their love of self-organizing systems and thinking about the fundamentals of music.
Martin Lübcke (SE) is a programmer with a PhD in theoretical physics—and a thesis about stable formations in plasma and approximation methods for superstring theory. Together they share their love of self-organizing systems and thinking about the fundamentals of music.