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EXTRANJERO : Sounds of the flohmarkt
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A STUDY IN FOUND SOUNDS AND TIME
Multi channel sound project based on the fleamarket as an archaeological site, a place to unearth revealing evidence of societies past whilst simultaneously acting as social space, workplace and dumping gound for that of the present day.

The work also aims to capture the ambiguous nature of the market - temporary yet permanent, static yet with ever changing content, at once a collective and individual entity. A 'here and now place' where the past is revalued, sold and generally given presence.

The installation combined contemporary field recordings of the market space with old 'audio documents' found there
Click the images below to hear extracts

Clips from material presented as part of 'Das kleine field recordings festival', held at cake and coffee records, weserstr. Berlin. 5 july 2008
This pair of answering machines, complete with the 'need repairing' label, was picked up off the ground in the Mauerpark fleamarket in August 2007.

One has a microcassette full of messages to the errant Andrei, onetime resident of Hamburg with a doting mutter in Berlin.  We get a fairly comprehensive glimpse into Andrei's world, and get to know the voices of lots of friends who want to do some 'quatschen'. Also  Silvia , awaiting him at the Strandhotel, poor Uli who is in hospital, Christian who enquires about how the recovery of his driver license went, a sexy female wake up call at 8:37 - and also at 11:05, Gabi who is on the way, a posh English girl calling from south east Asia whilst trekking, crazyOlli having fun in Dusseldorf, Rita who desperately needs his post code, and a rather  tetchy neighbour who wants to problem with the wall resolved as soon as possible. How's that for a metaphor of cold-war Berlin?!
Here we go back to 1974. A tape containing a series of seminars / talks on migrant workers around the world : Hong kong, Uganda, USA, Northern Europe and South Africa.Guest speakers were invited from the aforementioned countries to give their impressions. The talks are in German with ongoing English translation.
This event was held at the Kreuzberg 'Passionsgemeinde' church.
latest additions:

1. 4 ORWO (WOLFEN) cassettes from the 'Friedrich Engels People's Own Cassette Factory'  in Premnitz. content: reform socialist seminars of the FDJ



2. Karl's birthday, 1973. Karl and what would appear to be his wife celebrate his birthday by making a recording and praising God a lot. clips

 

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