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switchbox - a switched hour

by Frank Schulte

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switchbox - part 1 11:17
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switchbox - part 2 10:43
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switchbox - part 3 11:21
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switchbox - part 4 12:23
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switchbox - part 5 14:10
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about

The concept behind SWITCHBOX, is the network of various musical „households" based on electronic circuits in different times and places. Therefore Frank Schulte has explored the functions of high voltage networks in big cities, leading to field recordings done at high voltage transformer stations. Moreover, he’s also interested in traffic as a point of intersection of different speeds as well as daily sources of disturbance and interruption: phones, door bells, faxes - things that suddenly lead to new dimensions in time and place. This has led to a network of diverse musical ideas as well as stylistical characters, which Schulte likes to define in it’s highest quality as a household.

Switchbox concept and production by Frank Schulte in coproduction with WDR Cologne

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"... is an exception in the contempory stagnant free-jazz pond. A possibility to rise above the boundaries of clicheed improvisation through improvisation itself. With a tremendous number of sound sources (samplers,tapes,turntables,toys) and instruments Schulte slips out of the jazz coat into a free zone (with chunks of Industrial, Musique Concrete or Electro-Acoustic), and a radio-play type of assemblage which takes pleasure in sound and the superimposing of sounds is created." (Martin Büsser, Testcard 1)

"Those at the 24th Moers Festival know roughly what to expect: the positive to euphoric response that Frank Schulte and his growing number of musicians got underlines the excitement created by this unusual project. Not an ad hoc free improvising combo, but a successful attempt to pursue a musical dialogue away from the common clichees and pigeon-holes."

you can watch a live performance of Switchbox here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKig7zs3GV4&t=0s&list=PLURmPG4qTegeQxnIy0N0BZ_8ig0yH_LYO&index=2

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released March 1, 1994

Anna Homler: vocals, toyinstruments
Frank Gratowski : reeds
Thomas Heberer: trumpets
Axel Otto: soundtable, toys, tapes
David Moss: drums, vocals, electronics
Jon Rose: vocals, electronics
Andres Bosshard: tapemachinery, computer, matrix soundediting
Frank Samba: drums
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, electric guitar
Dieter Manderscheid: double bass
Frank Schulte: synths, sampler, tapes, records, vocals, conductor

sound engineer: Hans Ulrich Werner
big thanks to Dr. Ulrich Kurth

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Frank Schulte Cologne, Germany

German sound creator Frank Schulte works in the fields of improvised music, new music, ambient, experimental electronics, develops expanded media performances and composes sound and music for theatre plays, movies and contemporary dance choreographies and develops intermedia installation for public spaces. ... more

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