STEFAN VOGLSINGER – TRANSCEIVER
MAM07 (2024)
Transceiver is a quadraphonic composition, an instrument and an artwork.
The album encourages gathering, experimentation and collective listening. It reflects the evolution of communication over distance and highlights invisible glitches in miscommunication. Using a mobile recording rig, diverse reverberation spaces were explored, replayed and mixed with on-site improvisations in various places and non-places in Vienna and the surrounding area.
Transceiver Quadraphony
The four-channel composition becomes audible when the needles of two opposing turntables are simultaneously placed on the records and played through two pairs of speakers in the space. Each record can be played separately in stereo, but their spatial potential is fully realized in quadraphonic sound.
Transceiver Instrument
You are invited to experiment with the records and listen together, for example by combining different speeds, lifting and repositioning the needles, playing backwards and using diverse playback devices.
Transceiver Artwork
Each cover is hand-printed, cut and bound individually using various printing and transfer techniques. The gate-fold cover graphic shows the resonator drum and outlines of transparent monochromatic circuit boards.Morse codes describe the titles of each side in the telegraph alphabet and can be used for synchronization.
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TRACKLIST:
Black Vinyl – Playback direction → Outside In
TxRx I – -..- .-. -..- .—-
TxRx III – -..- .-. -..- ..—
Clear Vinyl – Playback direction → Inside Out
TxRx II – -..- .-. -..- …–
TxRx IIII – -..- .-. -..- ….-
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Places
Danube Island bridges, old pianos, caves in Lower Austria, canal systems, metal sculptures, drainage pipes and Viennese corridors
No additional digital reverb was used.
→ Article on Sounding Future Platform
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LIMITED EDITION: 50 DBL LP
Artwork material: gate fold covers made from hard cardboard, bound with shirting, lino print, acetone print and other transfer techniques
Concept, composition, recording / Stefan Voglsinger
Sound production, recording, mixing / Aras Levni Seyhan
Mastering / Rashad Becker
Vinyl cut / Kassian Troyer (Dubplates & Mastering)
Coversujet – circuit board collage / Benjamin Wiemann
Gatefold design, cover artwork, Lino print, production / Maja Osojnik
Inlay acetone print, production / Stefan Voglsinger
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https://voglsinger.klingt.org
https://setzkastenwien.at
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this project is friendly supported by SKE-FONDS and Stadt Wien Kultur