This first release contains two pieces, composed in june 2006 and july 2007. Both of them move in minimal electro-acoustic way, influenced by the mysterious worlds of musique acousmatique and field recordings. Subtle raw recordings hold a discourse with proccessed ones, resulting in two strange electro-acoustic compositions. 

thanks to kat for the artwork.    
      

  a place that I said goodbye to  (sample)    

This is my last composition, before leaving Corfu, my homeplace for one year. It is dedicated to all the nice sound and visual moments I had there and to dionissis for his support and all those disussions, which reveal that there are still some modest people among us.

 

 beyond movement an animal, beyond an animal the sound  (sample)
                                     
The second piece is the composition that resulted from an interactive dance performance, having the same title, programmed and performed by me on 18th of June 2007 at the Ionian Academy in Corfu. In this project, experiments were made with the control and adjustment of musical parameters through movement. The dancer was making decisions during the performance that directly influenced the sound mixing and processing in real-time via a miniDV camera as well as SuperCollider and EyesWeb software.

 

philp halke - the two edges  / 3"cdr, private release in december 2008
  
    total time: 20:23
philp halke - above the din  / 3"cdr, private release in december 2008

    total time: 21:07

This second release consists of one long piece, which was composed for the 1st Symposium for Acoustic Ecology, which took place at Corfu in December 2007. Unprocessed recordings from several fields narrate a sonic story about the dominance of artificial sounds to natural ones.  (sample)

thanks to eri for the foto and foto development.

The gradual masking of physical sounds by ongoing noise, as a result of the civilization of machines and contemporary societies, is the starting point for the idea and structure of this piece. The piece devotes its first half to physical sounds from several sound environments. In the second part machine sounds appear, setting up a discourse with the physical ones. The human activity is the key for the transition between these two different worlds (the “epitaph” band works like a lament for a smothered nature). The sound mixing was realized in such a way as to demonstrate the continuous existence and intrusion of artificial sounds into the natural soundscape. The used sounds were recorded at Kayiafas beach (one year before its destruction by fire), at the area of Kipriadou of Patissia, at the city of Corfu, and at Axaravi of Corfu by friends and me. 

 

 

 

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