Bass clarinet with or without mouthpiece. Recorded December 2022 and January 2024. Microphoned in the clarinet's bell. New sounds, accents, structures can become clear and push for new articulations and playing techniques - with tongue, lips, palate, etc. Perhaps it will become clear, the recordings are arranged chronologically, the first track is the oldest recording.
Label: bandcamp
released February 4, 2024
18 tracks
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Murphy Falls • 20060604
In the performance I used the previously recorded field recordings of various places in and around Hamburg, found according to a concept around the word Murphy, a record player with toasts that fell on the plates. And the digital possibilities of a laptop in 2006, through which the recordings were processed in space. There are frequent pauses in this recording of the performance, a rare case in electronic concerts and one of the reasons why 16 years later it was important to release this recording of a unique performance.
"If something can go wrong, it will go wrong ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/ 10)) - that is Murphy's law, and that is how the American Air Force engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy formulated it in 1949.
Certainty of action is an illusion in the mad complexity of life. Why do inanimate objects behave the way they do? >>> Murphys website
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released December 10, 2022
1 track: 59:29
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dec52 • one, two, three, four mixes
EMN:
Christoph Funabashi: 12 string acoustic guitar, fx,
Kris Kuldkepp: double bass,
Felix Mayer: trombone,
Heiner Metzger: bass clarinet
DEC52’ offers a new version for the Earl Brown’s famous graphical score December 1952. The concept is driven by the current situation, of not being able to rehearse properly with the ensemble ... more info about the 4 mixes: When we started the dec52 records, we decided that each of us will interprete the score in different direction, so, we had four directions in the space of the dec52 notation - but then the mix with only one direction?? I was curious hearing the four tracks together.
It worked and my goal when mixing was to balance the four voices with all the free spaces in between.
Label: bandcamp
released 11. July 2020
4 tracks
all tracks: 21:20
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A project of the Online Musicking Call May / June 2020
of Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg.
Funded by the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg.
huff+puff • six solos • Heiner Metzger: alto clarinet
Eleven solos - Heiner Metzger: alto clarinet
record date: 13.october 2018
record pp.: Heiner Metzger
Label: bandcamp
released 12.November 2018
19 tracks
all tracks: tba
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The study 1 of the long while is a concept piece composed for an ensemble of two clarinet musicians minimum. One sheet with 44 notes between a' flat and the d'' and four bars rest. The score should be read in one direction and then turned and played without a gap. Each player has to start and continue in an individual tempo and not adapt the tempo of one other player. After the two sheets of the score read in both directions only read the score without playing the notes in the same tempo as before, then start again playing the score in the both directions.
Thereafter stop playing and stay until the last of the musicians finished - the piece is over.
For this recording i played 10 different tracks, 4 with alto clarinet and 6 with clarinet.
Label: bandcamp
released 14.November 2016
One Track: 11:35
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foam is an album of my solo work with styrofoam objects and the soundtable.
In some of the tracks i changed the recorded sounds and made new compositions of them, other are nearly as recorded.
the soundtable consists of two thin wood panels. the styrofoam parts i used have different shapes.
the 8 tracks of the album:
push cone 04:31, winks 01:39, rasp 02:34,
Tacts 03:59, mumble 02:28,
prevalent 03:18, budge 00:11, pebbles 09:47
Label: bandcamp
released 8. February 2016
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Proprioce
The ad hoc trio Simon Camatta, Gunnar Lettow and Heiner Metzger. Recorded at the Frequenzgänge #44 concert / 5.09.2014 / Linker Laden
Hamburg / Germany. Gunnar invited me to the trio set with Simon Camatta and himself - he is organizer too. We played after the solo set of SImon and fortunately the set was recorded by Gunnar. Simon Camatta used drums and percussion with special objects, while Gunnar Lettow takes his electric bass with preparations, electronic and objects, Heiner Metzger performed with styropor objects, bow and the soundtable.
Label: bandcamp
released 1.October 2014
One Track: 28:08
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Gregory Büttner - Heiner Metzger
A duo set of the Stark Bewölkt Concert / 03.09.2014 / Hörbar Hamburg / Germany.
Both perform with objects, G.Büttner with a computer as sound generator, unpacked speakers and fans, H.Metzger with the soundtable, a bow and styropor pieces. They are part of the Stark Bewölkt Quartett as musicians and organizer of the concert serie.
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released 14.9.2014
One Track: 17:06
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Goh Lee Kwang: stereo dj-mixer
Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects
records 2010-05-10
Label: bandcamp
released 2.09. 2013
Tracks:
1. 09:17
2. 04:32
3. 04:31
4. 01:38
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Ton Art Ensemble & Ernesto Rodrigues
Ernesto Rodrigues: viola, Georgia Ch Hoppe: clarinet, mandolin
Nicola Kruse: violin, Robert Klammer: zither, electronics, analog synthesizer, Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects,
Helmuth Neuman: trumpet, waldhorn
Thomas Niese: double bass, Thomas Österheld: bass clarinet
Krischa Weber: cello, Hannes Wienert: sopr. sax, trompsax, sheng
Label:Creative Sources | CS 170
released 2010,
Part 1: 38:14 •
Part 2: 17:30
Recorded December 2009 in Hamburg
booklet text R.Klammer >>
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12 € plus postage
or at Creative Sources
infos discogs
Birgit Ulher: trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker, objects
Heiner Metzger: soundtable, soundtable
Tracks:
e b en: 8:48
g l eicht: 4:12
d i esmal: 6:18
n och: 3.08
blin z eln:7:59
j e dem: 2:26
l ose: 7:15
n ach:2:57
Label:Creative Sources | CS 155released 2008
Recorded 2007 in Hamburg
you can order the cd by mail: post|at|heinermetzger.de
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Alt Sax: Heiner Metzger, Bar. Sax: Anne Wiemann, Bass: Bernd v. Ostrowsk, Drums: Björn Lücker, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Moog]: Klemens Kaatz, Guitar: Christian Ribas; Sampler: Guy Saldanha, Tenor Sax: Karsten Glinski, Trumpet, Trombone: Hermann Süß. • Recorded 2001, Hamburg, Germany
The tunes played by the A3XX-bigband are based on samples that Christian Ribas recorded from musicians of the bigband. The compositions and arrangements relate to loops of these samples. Incidental noises created while playing instruments are put in the foreground and layered into grooves. A musician triggers and processes the loops live.
Label:Knistern
KNISTERN #4 • 7"-Vinyl 33 ⅓ RPM
released 2004
A1 Scheppern 4:05
A2 Klickern 2:17
B1 Flattern 2:49
B2 Klappern 2:48
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Evan Parker • Ton Art Ensemble
Tracks:
1. Brot & Honig 36:36 • 2. Syrah & Papidoux 37:04
Evan Parker:sopr.sax, Alexander Dannullis:git.
Heinz E. Goedecke: tb, didj., Michael Haas:banjo,
Ole Hoffmann:bar.sax., Georgia Ch.Hoppe:e-git., bcl, hybrid clar.,
Robert Klammer:perc.,
Nicola Kruse: viol., tenorviol., Ulla Levens:viol.,
Heiner Metzger: cl.,acl., sax.,synth.,
Claudius Molter: fl., altofl.,picc.,
Harry Nitz: vibr.,perc., Hannes Wienert: sopr.sax., saxtrump., Peter N.Wilson-double bass.
Label:truemuze | TrueMuze 0003
released 2000
1. Brot & Honig 36:36
2. Syrah & Papidoux 37:04
booklet text Peter N. Wilson >>
short
parts of:
"Brot& Honig"
"Syrah & Papidoux"
zwar bade ich gerne... (although I bathe like ...)
Concert by graphical notations of Heiner Metzger
January 9, 1999 /
KX Kunst auf Kampnagel
1. wysiwyg 08:00
2. zwar bade ich gerne 28:00
3. lique sense 07:02
musicians:
Ton Art-Ensemble:
Michael Haase: banjo,
Mauretta Heinzelmann: trombone,
Georgia Ch. Hoppe: bassclarinet, clarinet ,
Ole Hoffmann: baritonsaxophon,
John Hughes: contrabass,
Robert Klammer: diverse Geräuscherzeuger,
Nicola Kruse: violin,
Heiner Metzger: clarinet, altsaxophon, synthesizer, composer,
Claudius Molter: flute,
Harry Nitz: percussion, vibraphon
Krischa Weber: cello,
Hannes Wienert: sopransaxophon
Label: bandcamp
released 06/1999
re-released 12/2015
3 Tracks: 43:02
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