SOUNDS OF UP-CYCLING ART PROJECT

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Project participants: OTKYDACMEX (idea, production, also curators of the art residency programme), Perforated Cerebral Party (sound engineering, sound design, FW's event managers ).

*The project started in November 2022 as part of the art residency "Künstler Residenz - ein Ort für den Austausch. Fürstenwalde/Spree", organised with the support of a European foundation. Work on the album continues to this day, with artists and specialists from related fields of contemporary art taking part in the project. 

Keywords: DIY/ up-cycling projects/ architecture/ industrial 

Human industrial activity is represented by machines, machines and tools. In the modern world, industrial objects are filled with other meanings. Humanity has found aesthetics in factory architecture, the noises made in factories have sparked the development of electronic music.

 This is an experimental project to bring the concept of up-cycling into the realm of music. Noises made by diy instruments in up-cycling processes tend to be drowned out or isolated because they have a negative impact on health and psyche. We want to turn this negative by-product into music. 

We, artists of all kinds, see the future of up-cycling as creating harmonious sounds from tools that people will use in their work. We, the art group OTKYDACMEX, in collaboration with the musicians of Perforated Cerebral Party have started to record the sounds of the DIY tools we use, as well as vintage looms we have collected from the Brandenburg area. The sound work takes place in an art residence located right in the industrial area of Fürstenwalde/Spree. Our aim is to bring art into the work processes. Previously, human industrial activity was seen as irrelevant to art and culture. We want to unite these areas of human life. 

Every object stores information about the noise generated by tools used in its manufacture. By recycling old things and the resulting noise through sampling, then transforming them into musical textures, we infuse them with new meanings. The second part of the project: the modification of vintage machines into instruments - industrial 'music boxes'. 

*Our Werkstatt is now in the process of being transformed into an art space, while retaining its original functions.

FW ART SPACE ACTIVITY

We held three performances in residency at Fürstenwalde, and the goal of the project was achieved - listeners hear live that techno and industrial have deep roots in the era of industrialism, when manual labour was replaced by machines. It was at this point that the artists reimagined the soundtrack of production in an environment of abandoned industrial premises, transforming the sounds of machines and tools that once worked into musical content.

These sounds have accompanied a large number of people working with them for a long time. We believe that it is for this reason, in the post-industrial era, that these cyclical mechanical sounds have been registered at a genetic level in people's minds and have become an integral part of modern European mass dance culture.

 In the process of the project we have used sound recordings of the operation of old manual agricultural machines for processing grain and fodder that were found on abandoned farms, as well as the sounds of instruments during recycling operations on the art residence site. During the live performances, we combined the sampled sounds of these machines with their live sound and the sounds of DIY tools. The idea was to create industrial 'music boxes' with manual controls. The overall rhythm has a mechanical feel to it, but the rhythm itself 'floats' live.

For the events were purchased:

Pioneer DJM-800Pioneer

CDJ - 850 (2 units).

JBL speakers - SRX 835P (2 units).

Monitors - M-Audio BX8 (2 units)

Links to realised music tracks and music videos will be published soon