Loudspeaker Orchestra Motus

Sine tones, heartbeats, nature sounds, machine noises – Frank Niehusmann has been collecting sounds and noises of all kinds for many years while travelling and experimenting in the studio. He brings prepared samples from his sound archive to his electroacoustic concert performances, mostly in the form of traditional audio tapes. The centrepiece of his stage equipment is a classic analogue 8-track tape machine with a metre-long tape loop running through it. Frank Niehusmann mixes cuts, fragments and passages from his sound archive into the cycle of the 8-track loop, creating a dense, rhythmic web of sound cuts and noise combinations. The original bass tone of an industrial milling machine stands on equal footing with synthetic frequency modulations, bagpipers, diesel engines and drum beats. Composer Frank Niehusmann uses his entire body in this type of composition; between his tape machines, he tirelessly moves forward, backward, start, scratch, stop, play... a scenario between virtuoso machine control and timeless ritual.