Flatwise Huddle

Performing and Expanding Cracked
Everyday Electronics 1968–2016

Flatwise Huddle provides the soundtrack for the monograph of Andy Guhl’s artistic oeuvre, Ear Lights, Eye Sounds (2014). The project subverts the conventional notion of an instrument: it orchestrates an encounter between hot water bottles and transistors, tubes and rooms; it transforms sounds into images and vice versa. Avant-garde (raw) material of the 1970s is the initial point for this series of new experiments. So how do young contemporary musicians react to these old studio recordings? What sound does the dialogue between archive and improvisation actually yield? What becomes audible and what remains mute? Historical set pieces become the source of both the score and the fi eld of research; used and explored, they follow a perpendicular route to unprecedented sounds. Peter Kraut, expert on the interface between contemporary music and the fine arts, complement the concert recordings. Studio recordings of Guhl’s self-built instruments illustrate the music.
Eight concerts performed at the exhibition Resonance Rooms-Laboratory for the Transformation of Traditional Music-Making at Galleria Edizioni Periferia, together with additional material, were the starting point for Flatwise Huddle. For these concerts Andy Guhl invited contemporary musicians to play and perform on the instruments from 1975.

Edited by: Tabea Guhl, Andy Guhl, Edizioni Periferia
Recording: 8 performances at the exhibition Resonance Rooms, Showroom Edizioni Periferia, Luzern, 2016,
4 unreleased songs from Andy Guhl, 1975
Sound editing: Andy Guhl
Mastering: Ernst Thoma – Sound Design
Hardcover, 31,5 × 31cm,
70 p., Booklet / 2 LP-Vinyl, 40'
Essay: Peter Kraut
English
Design: Studio Krispin Heé
ISBN 978-3-906016-92-4
EUR 75.00 / CHF 86.00

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