trafo, by Roel Meelkop & Reinhold Bogaard

trafo

by Roel Meelkop & Reinhold Bogaard

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	1.	trafo 1 20:21
	2.	trafo 2 08:46
	3.	trafo 3 08:47
	4.	trafo 4 04:34

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Trafo consists of four pieces that emerged from recordings made by Reinhold Bogaard in and around a monumental transformer house in the Ooijpolder near Nijmegen. The recordings were made with different (contact) microphones, which means that the palette of sounds is quite varied, from unclear stuttering and sounds from the environment to the noise and pulsation of radio waves. For Roel Meelkop these recordings were the starting point, he transformed them and supplemented them with sounds from similar spectra and molded them together into sound images. These images provide a (distorted) image, an impression of the transformer house and its surroundings and of possible actions that have been carried out there. In the pieces, some sounds return repeatedly, as a kind of theme or chorus, but each time in a different form and context and therefore transformed. This emphasizes the complexity and richness of the recordings and gives an idea of the possibilities inherent within them. Of course, there is also the possibility of an aesthetic experience for the listener, that's also fine.

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released January 19, 2024

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