Frank Rowenta, Raumstudien #03 (2 CD Gruenrekorder)

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Prank? Dadaist commentary on other recordings of empty spaces? Two wasted hours of my life I will never get back?

Punctuated by the regular "click" of an outmoded cassette tape recorder going round and round - whose tape hiss is all that is actually "recorded" - there is as good as nothing going on, and I mean that in every acoustic sense.

Around the thirty-five minute mark of the first disc, some movement and conversation is heard in the murky background, and a tambourine is picked up and tested. Similar through-the-wall sounds can be heard around the forty-five minute mark of the second. Yes, it´s a two-CD set! The third of three two-CD sets which all sound the same.

The next best thing to not being there.

Luckily, I was proof-reading while listening, so the two hours were not entirely wasted.

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