IGNAZ SCHICK – ROTARY PERCEPTIONS

ROTARY PERCEPTIONS II for turntable quartet by Ignaz Schick
with
Sofia Borges (turntables, surfaces, pickups)
Stefan Roigk (turntables, surfaces, pickups)
Ignaz Schick (turntables, surfaces, pickups, composition)
Eliad Wagner (turntables, surfaces, pickups)
Rabih Beaini (sound diffusion)

With the financial support of Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V.

"Rotary Perceptions II is a new composition for 8-12 turntables and 4 performers as well as one person each who takes care of the sound diffusion. With Rotary Perceptions II, Ignaz Schick is now picking up on the thread of "Rotating Surfaces" again, but this time the focus is not so much on the sound-generating objects as in his 2004-2013 set-up, but on the surfaces them- selves. For a while now, Schick has been experimenting again with cut-outs, surface notches and stickers (adhesive tape, furniture stoppers, etc.) that are applied to records or cardboard, wood and metal discs. Rotation and scanning by pickups and (prepared) needles can be used to create cyclical, repetitive patterns and loops through to beats and grooves. Depending on the materiality of the glued-on elements and the type of pick-up or pick-up system, a wide variety of sounds and rhythmic patterns or textures can be created. Any number of rhythmic patterns and grooves can be created through the carefully selected spacing of adhesive strips, stickers or cuts. The geometry of the circle works like an analog generator."