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Untertagemusik Nr.1

Untertagemusik Nr.1" ("undergound mining music no.1") was honoured in June 2002 at the 29th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art in Bourges (France) in the category "works for electroacoustic and sonic art".
Documentation of the 29th International Competition in Bourges 2002:
[ http://www.niehusmann.org/bourges2002.html ]

The sounds of "Untertagemusik Nr.1" were recorded underground in the depth of 1000 meters. Frank Niehusmann was there with a very special recording-equipment. His interest in this sound-world comes from his place of birth: the Ruhr area in Germany, an old industrial area which is changing into newer economies. But some of these underground mining places are still working: the very last of them. In a few years there will be absolute silence in the "holes" 1000 meters under the streets.

The method of composing and performing this music:
1) digital preparation of the recorded sounds with audio-software and computer;
2) organizing a set of selected sounds into one line on an analogue stereo tape;
3) playing these sounds from the analogue 2-track-tape "live" into selected tracks of a rotating 8-track tape-loop.
This way of composing and performing "Untertagemusik Nr.1" is the same like used for the work "Schnitt!".
More about this 8-track tape-loops:
[ http://www.niehusmann.org/schnitt.html ]

The special point in "Untertagemusik Nr.1" is the special collection of the underground mining sounds.
There are single moments in "Untertagemusik Nr.1" when you hear additional sounds programmed by Frank Niehusmann himself on a synthesizer: his personal waving "good-bye" to this underground sound world.
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