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INKAN is a composition for concerts with keyboard and laptop-computer - a composition with originally recorded machine sounds, recordings from underground mining machines, sounds of nature, sounds of social life and sounds from musical instruments including synthesizers and drum-computers - samples from the whole range of Frank Niehusmann's archive of sounds. |
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INKAN is a keyboard-controlled noise-symphony, it looks like a solo piano concert, but it sounds like "musique concrete", "noise music", "industrial", "sonic art" or "ars acustica". |
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INKAN is composed for performances with keyboard, computer and Max/MSP-software: inside the computer are several Max/MSP loop-machines running. Playing the keyboard like a piano player Frank Niehusmann leads his sound files into the circular course of the digital loop-tracks - creating thereby a dense, rhythmic network of sound-cuts and noise-combinations. |
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Performing INKAN 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. |
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An INKAN designates in the Japanese language an artful stamp, which can be used in place of the own signature. An INKAN is therefor in each case a unique personal piece, which represents the name of its owner in representative characters. The title INKAN for this musical work means that this work is like a musical INKAN of Frank Niehusmann's composing, his musical handwriting in the form a representative sign and his signature in sound. |
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