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Anton Bruhin - Speech Poems/Fruity Music
Anton Bruhin - Speech Poems/Fruity Music
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Genre: Experimental
Format: LP
Catalogue No.: BLACKTRUFFLE073
B/C: 4250101423567
Release Date: 7th May 2021
Black Truffle is delighted to offer up a rare serving of unheard works by legendary Swiss artist Anton Bruhin. Active as a visual artist, poet, and musician since the 1960s, Bruhin has created important work in forms as varied as concrete poetry and landscape painting, imbuing everything he does with wit, humility, and absurdist humour. A recognised master of the jew’s harp (or Trümpi, as this ancient folk instrument is known in Swiss German), Bruhin’s sound work also encompasses tape collage, sound poetry, and manipulated bird song.
On Speech Poems/Fruity Music we are treated to 26 short pieces made between 2006 and 2008 using the audio software Fruity Loops. These pieces carry on Bruhin’s long-running project of exploring the creative use and misuse of cheap, accessible technologies. In many of his analogue works, Bruhin explored the possibilities of simple cassette equipment. He invented DIY approaches to layering sounds by using multiple tape machines, experimented with distortion and tape speed, or, in his classic Inout (1981) created a maniacally single-minded audio monument to the pause button. Like the computer pixel drawings the artist produced around the same time as these recordings, Speech Poems/Fruity Music extends this approach to consumer software, presenting two parallel sequences of works that make use of Fruity Loops’ inbuilt synthetic instruments and its speech synthesis function. The instrumental works play like a twisted take on the aesthetics of 1980s video game soundtracks, using synthetic accordion and harpsichord sounds to realise jaunty little ditties that exploit their machine-realisation by making use of improbable pitch-bends and humanly impossible tempos and articulations.
Between these samples of Fruity Music, we are treated to the Speech Poems, a series of recitations by a lone computer-generated voice. Many of them are in fact songs, as the synthetic voice crudely and hilariously changes pitch as it moves through its fragmented syllables and odes to cream in coffee. Carrying on Bruhin’s interest in the creative misuse of technology, many of the Speech Poems attempt to force Fruity Loops’ voice synthesis, designed only to speak English, to speak German. By entering phonetic text into the program, Bruhin gets it to produce a passable German alphabet and a series of approximations to a proper pronunciation of his name.
Hilarious while strangely austere, entertaining but bizarre, Speech Poems/Fruity Music is classic Anton Bruhin, arriving in a beautiful mosaic cover by the artist, with the text of the ‘abc für anglophone’ on the back cover.
1 - 1 Anton Bruhin fruity loops music 1 00:01:06
1 - 2 Anton Bruhin abc für anglophone 00:00:17
1 - 3 Anton Bruhin aughntone brooheene 00:00:13
1 - 4 Anton Bruhin 1st poem 00:01:10
1 - 5 Anton Bruhin 2nd poem 00:01:06
1 - 6 Anton Bruhin 3rd poem 00:00:50
1 - 7 Anton Bruhin 4th poem 00:01:31
1 - 8 Anton Bruhin 5th poem 00:01:11
1 - 9 Anton Bruhin bastei mit strohdach 00:02:50
1 - 10 Anton Bruhin 99neeneenee99 00:00:59
1 - 11 Anton Bruhin a a a a oo oo 00:00:59
1 - 12 Anton Bruhin go plus coda 00:01:20
1 - 13 Anton Bruhin troll 00:01:08
1 - 14 Anton Bruhin coffee kremkream 00:01:27
1 - 15 Anton Bruhin lieber markus 00:02:24
1 - 16 Anton Bruhin guete rutsch und guets nüüs 00:01:20
1 - 17 Anton Bruhin muy knew poem 00:00:37
1 - 18 Anton Bruhin voo poo poo pott f m z 00:01:24
1 - 19 Anton Bruhin tchakk 00:01:31
1 - 20 Anton Bruhin nadder nodder nooder 00:00:59
1 - 21 Anton Bruhin thrupht 00:00:59
1 - 22 Anton Bruhin furanda 00:03:55
1 - 23 Anton Bruhin mahwquabba 00:01:27
1 - 24 Anton Bruhin poolpoolpoolpool 00:01:43
1 - 25 Anton Bruhin down the river 00:02:52
1 -26 Anton Bruhin sonntagsgruft 00:03:21
Format: LP
Catalogue No.: BLACKTRUFFLE073
B/C: 4250101423567
Release Date: 7th May 2021
Black Truffle is delighted to offer up a rare serving of unheard works by legendary Swiss artist Anton Bruhin. Active as a visual artist, poet, and musician since the 1960s, Bruhin has created important work in forms as varied as concrete poetry and landscape painting, imbuing everything he does with wit, humility, and absurdist humour. A recognised master of the jew’s harp (or Trümpi, as this ancient folk instrument is known in Swiss German), Bruhin’s sound work also encompasses tape collage, sound poetry, and manipulated bird song.
On Speech Poems/Fruity Music we are treated to 26 short pieces made between 2006 and 2008 using the audio software Fruity Loops. These pieces carry on Bruhin’s long-running project of exploring the creative use and misuse of cheap, accessible technologies. In many of his analogue works, Bruhin explored the possibilities of simple cassette equipment. He invented DIY approaches to layering sounds by using multiple tape machines, experimented with distortion and tape speed, or, in his classic Inout (1981) created a maniacally single-minded audio monument to the pause button. Like the computer pixel drawings the artist produced around the same time as these recordings, Speech Poems/Fruity Music extends this approach to consumer software, presenting two parallel sequences of works that make use of Fruity Loops’ inbuilt synthetic instruments and its speech synthesis function. The instrumental works play like a twisted take on the aesthetics of 1980s video game soundtracks, using synthetic accordion and harpsichord sounds to realise jaunty little ditties that exploit their machine-realisation by making use of improbable pitch-bends and humanly impossible tempos and articulations.
Between these samples of Fruity Music, we are treated to the Speech Poems, a series of recitations by a lone computer-generated voice. Many of them are in fact songs, as the synthetic voice crudely and hilariously changes pitch as it moves through its fragmented syllables and odes to cream in coffee. Carrying on Bruhin’s interest in the creative misuse of technology, many of the Speech Poems attempt to force Fruity Loops’ voice synthesis, designed only to speak English, to speak German. By entering phonetic text into the program, Bruhin gets it to produce a passable German alphabet and a series of approximations to a proper pronunciation of his name.
Hilarious while strangely austere, entertaining but bizarre, Speech Poems/Fruity Music is classic Anton Bruhin, arriving in a beautiful mosaic cover by the artist, with the text of the ‘abc für anglophone’ on the back cover.
1 - 1 Anton Bruhin fruity loops music 1 00:01:06
1 - 2 Anton Bruhin abc für anglophone 00:00:17
1 - 3 Anton Bruhin aughntone brooheene 00:00:13
1 - 4 Anton Bruhin 1st poem 00:01:10
1 - 5 Anton Bruhin 2nd poem 00:01:06
1 - 6 Anton Bruhin 3rd poem 00:00:50
1 - 7 Anton Bruhin 4th poem 00:01:31
1 - 8 Anton Bruhin 5th poem 00:01:11
1 - 9 Anton Bruhin bastei mit strohdach 00:02:50
1 - 10 Anton Bruhin 99neeneenee99 00:00:59
1 - 11 Anton Bruhin a a a a oo oo 00:00:59
1 - 12 Anton Bruhin go plus coda 00:01:20
1 - 13 Anton Bruhin troll 00:01:08
1 - 14 Anton Bruhin coffee kremkream 00:01:27
1 - 15 Anton Bruhin lieber markus 00:02:24
1 - 16 Anton Bruhin guete rutsch und guets nüüs 00:01:20
1 - 17 Anton Bruhin muy knew poem 00:00:37
1 - 18 Anton Bruhin voo poo poo pott f m z 00:01:24
1 - 19 Anton Bruhin tchakk 00:01:31
1 - 20 Anton Bruhin nadder nodder nooder 00:00:59
1 - 21 Anton Bruhin thrupht 00:00:59
1 - 22 Anton Bruhin furanda 00:03:55
1 - 23 Anton Bruhin mahwquabba 00:01:27
1 - 24 Anton Bruhin poolpoolpoolpool 00:01:43
1 - 25 Anton Bruhin down the river 00:02:52
1 -26 Anton Bruhin sonntagsgruft 00:03:21
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