NOTES are field recordings annotated with and sometimes transformed into music. The field recordings have been made over the last few month in two places in Vienna. One place is at home in my bedroom with the window open at night. The other place is the park nearby, also at night. These field recordings are intimate notes taken of my close surroundings, the people I am surrounded by and the sounds and noises they used to make. These noises may be annoying, but listening to them often results in a strong feeling of connectedness with people I don’t even know and don’t even understand. These many languages I don’t understand do sound very beautiful, when I listen to their rhythm, melody and sound. It is such a treasure to have all these diverse languages here in Vienna. My Notes, therefore, try to capture the beauty of diversity I sound and to document my musical reactions to these sounds and noises. I tried to enhance the beauty I experienced recording my diverse environment. In this sense, Notes are also to be understood as a political statement against the xenophobia and the hate of the right.

Recorded, composed and performed by Ausgesuchtestenohren.
Field recordings form Vienna in the first half of 2024.
Composed and performed in August 2024.

Released August 23, 2024.

https://ausgesuchtestenohren.bandcamp.com/album/notes-vol-i

https://ausgesuchtestenohren.bandcamp.com/album/notes-vol-ii