FUNGALphonic Records
2024 – ongoing
7-10 ” record sculptures / mycelium, hemp
The mycelium-grown discs undergo processes of de-composition and re-composition. They are an invitation for fungal microstructures to explore and resculpt the topographical grooves of record discs. The wood-rotting fungus with its thread-like cells of hyphae – the mycelium – follows the engravings of sound waves on a record rather than spreading through cracks in wood. The mycelium thereby imprints itself into disc form – leaving behind its velvet-like skin and patterns of its mycomorphic journey as a travel memory. This project is part of an ongoing research interest that directs its focus to alternative biomaterials for media objects instead of the established preshaped materials as a product of extractivist practices in the face of climate change and collapsing ecosystems. The project was partly realised thanks to Top e.V., Berlin.
FUNGALphonic records at Metempsychosis, Project Interim, Berlin, November 2024, Photo © Karin Weissenbrunner
Som Desorganizado 2023 – collaborative project
record release by Sonoscopia, Porto (Portugal)
2024
Sonos#039
Zinc engravings by Ana Torrie
5 ” Beeswax records by Karin Weissenbrunner
Audio by Gustavo Costa
Assembled by Vicente Mateus
Bandcamp: https://sonoscopia.bandcamp.com/album/som-desorganizado-2023
Photo © Vicente Mateus
Wax & Wane – duo project with JD Zazie
2022/2023
8 x 12‘‘ and 3 x 5‘‘ beeswax records, wax combs, 6 turntables
participative live performance, exhibition, workshop
Presented at Errant Sound, Berlin, 27-29. Apr, 2023
Workshop presented at Heroines of Sound Festival 2023, Radialsystem, Berlin
Supported by Akademie der Künste (Special grants INITIAL 1 & 2 | Neustart Kultur, Germany), inm – initiative neue musik Berlin and Errant Sound, Berlin
Info at Errant Sound, Berlin
Video Live Performance at Errant Sound, Berlin 27. Apr, 2023
Pictures »Bee_ts ‘n’ hums« – wax material studies
Video – first experiments
Wax & Wane explores the sculptural and sonic link between local culture and urban nature by using custom-made records from regional beeswax. The duo project unites the honeybees’ ›voices‹ as equal co-creators with their own wax, while recycling recordings of Berlin’s sound archives through the wax material.
Photo 1 & 2 © Allegra Solitude, Photo3 © Wax & Wane
Turntable performances
Sage Thrashers (duo with Stefanie Loveday)
— Soundcloud
— Video of live performance excerpt: https://youtu.be/2hr-H4GJtYw
— Tape Release: »to simply survive is not enough«, an Obsidian Order Records Compilation
DECCAdent (duo with Wouter Jaspers)