Nouvelles Aventures (9 min excerpt) by hanno leichtmann soundart

Nouvelles Aventures (9 min excerpt)

For the 70th anniversary of the Darmstadt International Summer Course and its historage project, seven international artists were offered the chance to use the full archive, digitized in a long process, as a source for their work. Hanno Leichtmann presents his own very
individual approach to the task. As in his previous instllations, he distills in Nouvelles Aventures his sound material exclusively from the thematically fixed (sound) archive, in this case concert recordings, lectures and discussions from 79 years of New Music history.
These subjectively-chosen sounds were sent through his unique machinery of voltagecontrolled (micro-) loopers, recorded, then finally pieced together in the studio to form the present installation/audio drama. Here Hanno Leichtmann concentrates on the pure, original
sound of the (sonic) archive: he primarily applies the traditional parameters of early electronic (tape) music (amplitude, pitch/speed, playback direction, series/cuts) – but most : of repetitions.