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Miniat​ü​re

by nobuka

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    The album on pro-dubbed cassette, with a 32-page photobook and 1 of 22 exclusive high quality art-prints.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Miniatüre via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

Small pieces eroding
Of memories
Of images
Of thoughts
Of sounds

22 tracks, none more than 2.59 minutes long and often a lot shorter than that. Purposefully brief to create something that resembles a fleeting memory of something else, something more elaborate. And when combined, they became a cohesive narrative.

A lot of these songs were sketched out during a stay in Berlin in December 2021. Taking long walks on cold, often abandoned streets during the day and working at night. Musically inspired by musique concrete and other experimental compositions, especially the works of Bernard Parmegiani, Steve Reich, Okkyung Lee and Jonny Greenwood.

For the booklet, snippets of Nick Cave lyrics written during his years in Kreuzberg, were fed into an AI text generator. Often times not more than a short phrase of a word of three or four. The current day algorithms spewing out random word associations. Verbal echoes of a time spent wandering the streets of Berlin. Parts of these computer-generated texts were assembled, or sampled if you will, to create a new narrative.

Starting out as short poems of about 6 to 10 lines, these ended up working unexpectedly well as a complete story. Photographs made in Berlin, were selected to illustrate the texts. Photocopying these gave them an eroded look that again underlines the idea of fleeting memories, or visual afterthoughts.

credits

released June 6, 2022

limited run of 50 cassettes
32 page photo booklet
high quality printed artwork

much love to Difficult Art And Music for their support and encouragement

Miniatüre 19 features two samples by Bernard Parmegiani

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nobuka Nijmegen, Netherlands

Maker of lo-fi electronica. Lucky Wanderer. Half bohemian, all abstract. He/they. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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