herbst.klingt.org

February 24th – March 4th, 2023 @ A-GRAZ @ Rhizom

Bordun, Italian bordone, means “humming bass” and refers to the sustained bass tone accompanying a melody. It forms the elementary component of drone music, to which the Bordone Ensemble, founded in Graz in 2019, has dedicated itself.
In the form of an installation, the space is occupied by interwoven pieces by the individual musicians of the ensemble, in which elements of acoustic and digital sound generators, field recordings, and tape manipulations intertwine.
Related building blocks are found on a visual level in the projections of the film and projection artist collective OchoReSotto – photographs, found footage and manipulations of the material. The loops used by the collective also represent a central element in Drone Music.
The installation opens with a concert by the Bordone ensemble, and closes with Nadeshda, who creates dense soundscapes from tapeloops and tape manipulations.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an overview of the current projects of the musicians involved.

Curated / Concept: Richie Herbst
Audio Contributions: Helmut Kaplan, Michael Eisl, Richie Herbst, Thomas Neulinger
Projections: OchoReSotto (Volker Sernetz & Stefan Sobotka-Grünewald & Lia Rädler)
Graphics: Thomas Neulinger
Bordone Ensemble: Edda Strobl & Helmut Kaplan & Michael Eisl & Thomas Neulinger & Richie Herbst
Nadeshda: Andreas Haslauer

Opening/Einklang /w Bordone Ensemble (Graz)
Thursday, February 23rd 2023 – 7pm

Finish/Ausklang /w Nadeshda (Vienna)
Saturday, March 4th, 2023 – 7pm

Exhibition duration:
February 24th – March 4th, 2023
Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 7pm – 10pm

RHIZOM
A-8020 Graz, Annenstraße 52
http://rhizom.mur.at

The album „God Is A Dancer“ is the first release of the band now sports who were founded in 2014 and have been around the block with a changing line-up ever since.
While classic drumming provided the beat in their early days, they now utilize electronic loops instead of a live drumkit. With tracks mostly written in 2021 and 2022, the EP was produced almost exclusively with a home studio set-up.

Though the first track sports trap-adjacent samples and hi-hat figures, the EP soon shifts away from clichés, showcasing their unique handwriting full of trippy melodic arcs over sluggish beats mix with noise. There is no pigeon-holing the guitar; the vocals ‒ partly rapped, partly sung ‒ also come with their own unique touch, resulting in distinctly unconventional song structures. Richie Herbst’s modular synthesizer and the vocals by Alexandra Steßl and Michl Laab embark on a journey towards something resembling musical experimentation and suggest that improvisation ‒ especially during live shows ‒ is a defining factor for their sound.

part with the track “stopover” on the Anniversary compilation of the net label Bromtol Largesse. recorded and mixed at sisi top studio / graz. over 50 artists contribute the “Bromtol Largesse – Anniversary” compilation and it’s released on february 1st, 2022 via bandcamp.

https://bromtollargesse.bandcamp.com/album/anniversary

wonderful release of field recordings of vanished architectur in austria. recorded with Anatol Bogendorfer in the same area of my old studio “the orbit” at the taggerwerke / graz / austria. one mix of the recordings are released on vinyl. involved artists next to me are Katharina Klement, Dino Spiluttini, Electric Indigo, CHRA, Ulla Rau­ter, Anatol Bogendorfer, Peter Kutin, Peter Androsch feat. Pe­tra Wurz, Wolfgang Dorninger feat. Nebojša Krulanović, Violet­ta Wakolbinger

from december9th, 2020 to december 19th 2020 – Richie Herbst is part of the exhibition “resurrexit” at AFO – Architekturforum Oberösterreich in Linz / Austria.

https://hoerstadt.at/projekte/resurrexit/ausstellung/

part with the track ‘low velocity zone’ on the new release on Epileptic Media . the recording of the sounds at the azores / caldeiras vulcanicas in spring 2019 and mixing of the track at the sisi top studio / graz was done by me, Bernd Heinrauch did the mastering.

https://epilepticmedia.bandcamp.com/album/10way-split-2020

on march 27th, 2020 – 8pm, i will be playing a short solo concert at http://echoraeume.klingt.org/ / Klangmanifeste 2020, Wien I Graz . followed by the premiere of the live video of my band MRM TRIO feat. Marina Džukljev & Jomi Ajjomi , from october 24th, 2019 in Zagreb @ Sine Linea Festival. join us at the echoräume stream! Thank you and Stay Safe.

http://echoraume.klingt.org

27/03/20 A-VIENNA @ echo raum
http://klangmanifeste.at/
28/03/20 A-OTTENSHEIM @ koma
http://koma.ottensheim.at

playlist of the final issue of the “final transmission radio show”, after 16 years the radio show ends with the number 208, on air on september 17th, 2019 via Radio Helsinki / Graz / Austria.

MARTIN BRANDLMAYR, WERNER DAFELDECKER, CHRISTIAN FENNESZ “me son” from “till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created” (mosz)
STEFAN FRAUNBERGER “elegie” from “quellgeister #3 ‘bussd’” (morphine records)
MARINA DŽUKLJEV & NOID “protestant church / nickelsdorf 2019” (klingt.org)
KALI MALONE “glory canon III” from “the sacrificial code” (ideal)
SSMKOSK “trsatskim stubama” from “preslišano – kompilacija/compilation” (zvočni prepihi)
RED MOON “astral winds of perdition” from “preslišano – kompilacija/compilation” (zvočni prepihi)
MINI SCARVES “greetings from the honeymoog” from “preslišano – kompilacija/compilation” (zvočni prepihi)
OPCION “3-” from “NRVAXIX” (natal rec.)
STROBLAK “abc zwischenstück” from “NRVAXIX” (natal rec.)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “lynx” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “november air” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “birds cannot enter the poem” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “taming a deer” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “from the distance” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “her presence and tides” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “gravity” from “lynx” (interstellar records)
JOANNA JOHN / BURKHARD STANGL “x” from “lynx” (interstellar records)

video of the grand finale of the italy tour 2019 with gigi gratt at stiegenhaus / innsbruck “worksation goes [stiegenhaus], march 9th, 2019
video by KG21GA