Fehlberliner U-Wirr, by Jaap Blonk

Fehlberliner U-Wirr

by Jaap Blonk

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Limited edition book with CD. Images, text and music inspired by the Berlin subway (U-Bahn) network.

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1.	U1 03:12	buy track
2.	U2 02:25	buy track
3.	U3 05:48	buy track
4.	U4 02:23	buy track
5.	U5 02:31	buy track
6.	U6 04:20	buy track
7.	U7 03:18	buy track
8.	U8 02:35	buy track
9.	U9 02:35	buy track
10.	UDasGanze 10:02	buy track

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Please note This is not just a CD, but Bandcamp does not give the option to link a book to an album. I chose to make the audio downloadable, but of course that's not the real thing. This limited edition work is about the combination of visuals and music.

About “Fehlberliner U-Wirr”

When I first saw the street sign “Fehrbelliner Straße”, I misread it as “Fehlberliner Straße”, and have never been able to read it in the right way again.
That is the origin of the title of my sound piece (something like “Mistaken Berlin Subway Tangle”), that I made for the audio gallery “ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen” in Berlin-Neukölln, where it could be listened to in October of 2016.
I scrambled the station lists of the Berlin subway lines, U1 till U9, with a random process. This created in part pure sound poetry, performed here with a wide range of different vocal sounds.
For the accompaniments I chose a combination of instrumental sounds and other noises, often machine sounds. The compositions are built according to algorithms, based on mathematical number sequences.
For the announcements “U1” through “U9” a computer voice was used.

The pages “U1” through “U9” present the texts that can be heard on the CD.
Every text has the same number of characters as the respective subway line’s station names combined. Only in “U4” the text is repeated.
Every one of these pages is accompanied by an image that is composed of a map of the Berlin public transport net and photos of the respective line’s trains, stations or surroundings.
The last track is a 'hidden track' on the CD.

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released March 20, 2017

Images, text and music by Jaap Blonk

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