tiles teils Cassette

releases October 10, 2024 / shipping out around October 15, 2024

Happy to announce. This thing is out soon! With just a small delay of one year. Get it from bandcamp or get in contact here direktly via e-mail (contact @ peterstrickmann . info)

https://peterstrickmann.bandcamp.com/album/tiles-teils

Peter Strickmann – tiles teils

C-26 ferro-tape cassette
Kraftpaper slipcase
Stamp-printed cover
Hand-numbered edition of 100

Ceramophone, recordings and mix: Peter Strickmann
Text to speech: NaturalReader
Mastering: Leo Kwandt
Dubbing: Shell Tapes
Graphics and Layout: Peter Strickmann
Font: Silka, by atipo

Comissioned by SaarART 2023
Presented as 6-channel sound installation at Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig in June – September 2023
Most of the tiles used for the Ceramophone were kindly provided by Villeroy & Boch Fliesen GmbH.

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This cassette is published as part of the same titled 6-channel sound installation that was presented earlier in 2023 at Museum Schloss Fellenberg Merzig.

It features the sound of broken and cut tiles from the Merzig based tile factory Villeroy & Boch Fliesen GmbH. The factory, wich was directly opposite the Museum, has now, in 2024, moved its tile production entirely to Turkey.

However, the fossilized sounds of a few selected V&B tiles remain somewhere here… in Merzig, in Berlin, on magnetic tape, digitally, www, memorized.

In the former sound installation and now on this cassette, you can hear them assambled to a three-storey ceramophone… humming a farewell song to their origins with the voices and sounds that might be very well known to the 200 former V&B workers.

[ Find here: Ceramophone percussion, tiles scratching, performance documents, analogue synths, text to speech poems, exploratory handling of ceramics and mics, etc. ]