Thuistezien 149 — 15.01.2021

No View, The Radio XXX
Black to Comm
Selten gehörte Hausmusik


BLACK TO COMM is a German music/sound artist and composer renowned for his emotionally abrasive instrumental music. Due to the range of technologies, instrumentation and styles he employs, his pieces often feel rather nostalgic, hinting to undefined periods in time both far behind and very recent.
Where his vast back catalog has consisted of meticulously layered and sonically rich mixes of field recordings, musical composition and the manipulation of both analog and digital recording methods, His piece ‘Selten gehörte Hausmusik’, developed and completed over the 2020/2021 winter lockdown, could be seen as a rather revealing proof of his current experience.

Three modest pieces seemingly performed on harp, piano and organ, serve either as personal chamber music, or the documentation of ideas for future creations, reflecting being stripped of outside stimulation. In reality though, these pieces were created through the manipulation and transformation of MIDI-data, thus simultaneously questioning the notion of authenticity and intimacy. In combination with the stark imagery of the video, there is proof of one being stripped of outside stimulation, and that, although caught unprepared and with limited resources at hand, this is a period of hibernation.


About the series: No View, The Radio
The arts are taking a break. Theaters, museums, concert halls and galleries are closed. To a large extent, the art that is so desperately needed right now is inaccessible. Imagine being quarantined at home without films, without books, without music. Though we may not access the art, we can still think about it. The enforced rupture of this isolation can also be an opportune moment to reflect on and from, the arts. Every Friday for the upcoming weeks we will showcase original musical works by different artists, selected by Alex Andropoulos.


Overview episodes No No View, The Radio

I. House Flood — Sholto Dobie
II. Heaps — Saber Rider
III. Detached [ but Interconnected ? ) — Alexandropoulos–McEwan & Sasha Zalivako
IV. Salon Gout — Wanda Group
V. West jam — Goze
VI. Your Feeling — Genevieve Murphy
VII. Katilluik and the Warp — Bill Orcutt
VIII. YSTERA — Tzitzifriki[a]
IX. The Moon, the Bear and the Princes — Orphan Fairytale & Katja Louisa Stonewood
X. Look in all directions — Yeah You
XI. Uileboombox — Lyckle de Jong
XII. Pane, Both Sides — Edgars Rubenis
XIII. Touching a Mountain — Katherina Heil & Rik Möhlmann
XIV. On the Platform — Booker Stardrum + Chris Williams
XV. Stalingrad 1917 — The Rebel
XVI. Rainbow Bits — City Dragon
XVII. You Would Sound Much More Convincing If You Spoke As If You Cared — Horse Whisperer & Anna Danielewicz
XVIII. Rehearsal 06.08.2020 — Kurws
XIX. Planetary Synchronicity 2 — Alexander Johannes Heil
XX. Leaks — Soft Tissue
XXI. Realistik Soap — Cindy Lee
XXII. Stand Your Ground and Hold Water — ch
XXIII. 00 03 58 23 — Farida Amadou
XXIV. Western Front — Sarah Davachi
XXV. Protection from City Planning — Wendy Eisenberg
XXVI. Tone Cloud — Tsev
XXVII. This Could Be Any Day — Comfort
XXVIII. Hypocrisies of Improv — Kevin Shea
XXVIV. Number One — Sasha Zalivako
XXX. Selten gehörte Hausmusik — Black to Comm
XXXI. Improvisation on ‘An Air Swept Clean of All Distance’ — Rhodri Davies
XXXII. Paradoxes — Mariam Rezaei
XXXIII. Untitled —  Tongue Depressor
XXXIV. Tara Clerkin Trio —  Tara Clerkin Trio
XXXV. Wrens sing all the winter through, frost excepted —  Ernest Vilsons
XXXVI. Sticky —  Still House Plants
XXXVII. For West Den Haag —  David Fenech + Klimperei
XXXVIII. Summer Of Love —  Watkins/Peacock
XXXVIV. The Turn Things Take — John Butcher
XXXX. Unsound Body — Emile Van Helleputte
XXXXI. Non Human Logic — Helena Celle
XXXXII. Lost in Deep Taiga — Abiboss
XXXXIII. Ultramix — Skrot Centralen
XXXXIV. Sonic Cartographies for Plotters #1 — Sébastien Robert
XXXXV. Measuring your Metaphysics & Removing our Aesthetics — The Modern Institute
XXXXVI. Sinisen Ruusun Tapaus — Cucina Povera
XXXXVII. Another One of Those Human-Type Situations (Parts 1 & 2) — Chris Corsano
XXXXVIII. Bedroom Jam-Type Situations — Manos Plitsis