Day Tracks (2005-2007)

"Day Tracks" is a series of compositions in the context of musique concrète, industrial and noise music, Elektronische Musik, sonic art, Klangkunst, Hörspiel and ars acustica: compositions with originally recorded machine sounds, sounds of nature, sounds of social life and sounds from musical instruments including synthesizers and drum-computers and all kinds of edited samples from the whole range of Frank Niehusmann's archive of sounds. The original compositions have a duration of more or less 3 minutes; they were composed in special "ritualized" procedures: each in one single day (and always only one per day). Frank started exercising this special "ritual" when he came back from his concerts in Japan in Summer 2005.
The concert performances of the "Day Tracks" consist of longer pieces with varying durations: "Day Tracks Remixes" (around 20 minutes).
These "concert versions" are always remixes or recombinations of several original "Day Tracks";
the [ BLOG ] presents examples of these remixes.
In the framework of his individual Max/MSP-based software solution Frank Niehusmann plays the keyboard like a piano player thereby leading his sound files into the circular course of digital loop-tracks to create dense, rhythmic networks of sound-cuts and noise-combinations. Playing the keyboard in this way the progress of the pieces is a play with adding, erasing, cutting, manipulating and overdubbing sounds in realtime in several parallel loop-tracks. The black and white "piano"-keys are used to control the functions of the software and the handling of the sound samples via midi data.