Burkhard Stangl, “MISCS“ at Acousmonium inauguration.

Burkhard Stangl presenting and projecting his piece MISCS (2015) at Russian ACOUSMONIUM inauguration. New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, , moderator / curator - Patrick . MISCS, fixed tape, 23’00“, 2015. 00:00 - artist-talk, 02:17 - performance. “The title is often the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a new composition (and sometimes it’s the only thing left of it). MISCS is derived from the beautiful English word misc[ellaneou]s, which means as much as different, diverse, mixed and which provoked in me the following idea: different sounds, which had all been already recorded by pre-digital sound recorders and stored on pre-digital media, should be amalgamated via countless cuts to a hectic, nervous noisy soundscape. In fact, it was then the digitization of an empty magnetic tape in a pathetic pitifully state that