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Ffroggssichorddd
| Label | Staalplaat – SP-alpha |
| Format | 2 x Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition |
| Barcode | 0753907372823 |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Released | 2020 |
| Genre | Classical |
| Style | Contemporary |
A famous English conductor said that the harpsichord sounded like "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof". An instrument that was once the basis of every orchestra and chamber ensemble was long ago replaced by the stronger and, for some, sweeter sounding piano. Now the harpsichord is very much the preserve of specialists and early-music supporters and has seen very little progress in design. Enter architect and musical philosopher John K�rmeling. In addition to designing utopian public spaces like the 'Happy Street' which served as the Dutch pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, and the 'Straight Road' artwork which played with the mismatch between the curvature of the earth and our need to see life in two dimensions, K�rmeling has devised a system of music that sets aside familiar western tuning and is based instead on square roots, areas and volumes.In order to realise this music, he turned back to the harpsichord and adapted its jangling sound to an intonationthat literally plays Pythagorean ratios. Remember Pythagoras from high school? Take a right angled triangle: a�+b�=c�... or play with the square roots of 1, 2, 3. K�rmeling made it possible to hear ratios and proportions that we usually only encounter on the pages of a math book. They don't sound... normal, but being mathematical they very quickly sound logical.K�rmeling now had his instrument, but who would have the imagination and vision to play it. He turned to the veteran rule-breaker Charlemagne Palestine, pioneer of long-form improvisations on harpsichord, harmonium and other neglected keyboard instruments. The idea of "playing a triangle" immediately appealed. Responding to the invitation from K�rmeling, he said that "thiss Pythagoriann harpsichordd was just upp myy alley..." (he writes like he plays: his own way). Palestine saw the new instrument and named it the Frogsichord after its colour. This double LP documents performances on the Frogsichord made in Brussels, Rotterdam and in Cappadocia, Turkey. The sound is strange, perhaps even es...
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| A2 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 8 | |
| A3 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 3 | |
| A4 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 4 | |
| B | Vvibbrratttio Forr Ppyytthaggorreann Ffroggssichorddd | |
| C1 | Vvibbrratttio Forr Ppyytthaggorreann Ffroggssichorddd | |
| C2 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 1 | |
| C3 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 5 | |
| C4 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 9 | |
| C5 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 10 | |
| C6 | Creatingggg Newwww Sonoritiessssz Andd Techniquessszz Parttt 5 | |
| D | Vvibbrratttio Forr Ppyytthaggorreann Ffroggssichorddd |
Artwork By, Cover – Staalplaat
Concept By – John Körmeling
Harpsichord – Charlemagne Palestine
Illustration – Jeroen Erosie
Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Radboud Mens
Concept By – John Körmeling
Harpsichord – Charlemagne Palestine
Illustration – Jeroen Erosie
Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Radboud Mens
Side A recorded 22 & 23 December 2015 at the CharleWorld Studio Brussels.
Side B recorded 16 April 2015 at the Lantaren Venster Rotterdam.
Track C1 recorded 5 April 2019 at "De Tempel", Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen.
Tracks C2 to C6 recorded 22 & 23 December 2015 at the CharleWorld Studio Brussels.
Side D recorded 17 May 2015 at the Cappadox Festival in Cappadocia Turkey. ** Due to a faulty microphone this track is presented in mono
The Frogsichord is the name Charlemagne Palestine gave a green harpsichord in which the tones are based on the relationship between lengths that pass through similar spaces. Such a space can have any shape. Choose a shape, draw a line through it and choose a length somewhere on this line. Name this length 1. If the space changes in size, the selected length, surface area and volume of that space change. When the length becomes 2 times as long as length 1, the surface becomes 4 times as large and the volume 8 times as large. When the surface area becomes twice as large, the length becomes √2 times as long as length 1 and the volume becomes 2√2 times as large. When the volume becomes 2 times as large, the length becomes ∛2 times as long as length 1 and the surface area ∛4 times as large. To show this, I chose a potato and cut out a fries. This fries has length 1, the unit of measurement. If the potato has a surface area that is twice as large, the fries is √2 times as long. The potato with a 3 times larger surface area has a fries that is √3 times as long as the first fries. And if the area is twice as small the fries is 1/√2 times as short. If the potato is twice as large in volume the fries is ∛2 times as long. And with a volume that is 3 times larger ∛3 times as long. With a volume that is twice as small 1/∛2 times as short. The length ratios ...1/√4 1/2), 1/√3, 1/√2, 1, √2, √3, √4 2), √5, √6, √7, √8 2√2), √9 3) √10…. with respect to length 1, develop loosely in space. I call this method of measurement minimal measurement. I apply it in my buildings. For example, a diagonal through a space can be the width of something elsewhere in the building. Frogsichord has 2 keyboards, each with 55 tones. The tones of the upper keyboard originate from area related length series 1, √2, √3 ... up to √40 2√10) and 1/√2, 1/√3 ... up to 1/√16 1/4). The tones of the lower keyboard originate from volume related length series 1, ∛2, ∛3… up to ∛40 2∛5) and 1/∛2, 1/∛3… up to 1/∛16 1/2∛2). The string corresponding to length 1 can have any tone. For convenience, string 1 is tuned at 440Hz. Both on the upper keyboard and the lower keyboard. The √2 string is tuned at 440Hz : √2 ≈ 311,12698Hz. The √3 string at 440Hz : √3 ≈ 254,03412Hz. The √4 string at 440Hz : 2 = 220Hz. The 1/√2 string at 440Hz x √2 ≈ 622,25396Hz. The ∛2 string on the lower keyboard is tuned at 440Hz : ∛2 ≈ 349,22823Hz. The 1/∛2 string at 440Hz x ∛2 ≈ 554,36526Hz. And so on. The tones sound different than you are used to. You do hear that there is a connection between the tones. The next tone is predictable. Frogsichord was built during 2010 and 2011 by Martin Bezemer. John Körmeling, Eindhoven 2019.
Harpsichord, idea by John Körmeling, build by Martin Bezemer.
John Körmeling (b.1951, Amsterdam) studied architecture and is, like Le Corbusier, Melnikov and Rietveld, a free-thinker. He designs architecture at whose heart lies mobility and individual freedom. As a young artist seeking a foundation for his artistic choices, John Körmeling was inspired by numerical proportions such as the Golden Section. Fixed proportions of length and number became his fundamental aid when sketching and drawing up building plans. Like a contemporary, postmodern Pythagoras, he designed his own music (based on square roots) in accordance with this mathematical axiom, which he called ‘minimal measurement’. With a characteristic irony, this paradigm has run like a thread through all his architectural designs and installations.
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Side B recorded 16 April 2015 at the Lantaren Venster Rotterdam.
Track C1 recorded 5 April 2019 at "De Tempel", Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen.
Tracks C2 to C6 recorded 22 & 23 December 2015 at the CharleWorld Studio Brussels.
Side D recorded 17 May 2015 at the Cappadox Festival in Cappadocia Turkey. ** Due to a faulty microphone this track is presented in mono
The Frogsichord is the name Charlemagne Palestine gave a green harpsichord in which the tones are based on the relationship between lengths that pass through similar spaces. Such a space can have any shape. Choose a shape, draw a line through it and choose a length somewhere on this line. Name this length 1. If the space changes in size, the selected length, surface area and volume of that space change. When the length becomes 2 times as long as length 1, the surface becomes 4 times as large and the volume 8 times as large. When the surface area becomes twice as large, the length becomes √2 times as long as length 1 and the volume becomes 2√2 times as large. When the volume becomes 2 times as large, the length becomes ∛2 times as long as length 1 and the surface area ∛4 times as large. To show this, I chose a potato and cut out a fries. This fries has length 1, the unit of measurement. If the potato has a surface area that is twice as large, the fries is √2 times as long. The potato with a 3 times larger surface area has a fries that is √3 times as long as the first fries. And if the area is twice as small the fries is 1/√2 times as short. If the potato is twice as large in volume the fries is ∛2 times as long. And with a volume that is 3 times larger ∛3 times as long. With a volume that is twice as small 1/∛2 times as short. The length ratios ...1/√4 1/2), 1/√3, 1/√2, 1, √2, √3, √4 2), √5, √6, √7, √8 2√2), √9 3) √10…. with respect to length 1, develop loosely in space. I call this method of measurement minimal measurement. I apply it in my buildings. For example, a diagonal through a space can be the width of something elsewhere in the building. Frogsichord has 2 keyboards, each with 55 tones. The tones of the upper keyboard originate from area related length series 1, √2, √3 ... up to √40 2√10) and 1/√2, 1/√3 ... up to 1/√16 1/4). The tones of the lower keyboard originate from volume related length series 1, ∛2, ∛3… up to ∛40 2∛5) and 1/∛2, 1/∛3… up to 1/∛16 1/2∛2). The string corresponding to length 1 can have any tone. For convenience, string 1 is tuned at 440Hz. Both on the upper keyboard and the lower keyboard. The √2 string is tuned at 440Hz : √2 ≈ 311,12698Hz. The √3 string at 440Hz : √3 ≈ 254,03412Hz. The √4 string at 440Hz : 2 = 220Hz. The 1/√2 string at 440Hz x √2 ≈ 622,25396Hz. The ∛2 string on the lower keyboard is tuned at 440Hz : ∛2 ≈ 349,22823Hz. The 1/∛2 string at 440Hz x ∛2 ≈ 554,36526Hz. And so on. The tones sound different than you are used to. You do hear that there is a connection between the tones. The next tone is predictable. Frogsichord was built during 2010 and 2011 by Martin Bezemer. John Körmeling, Eindhoven 2019.
Harpsichord, idea by John Körmeling, build by Martin Bezemer.
John Körmeling (b.1951, Amsterdam) studied architecture and is, like Le Corbusier, Melnikov and Rietveld, a free-thinker. He designs architecture at whose heart lies mobility and individual freedom. As a young artist seeking a foundation for his artistic choices, John Körmeling was inspired by numerical proportions such as the Golden Section. Fixed proportions of length and number became his fundamental aid when sketching and drawing up building plans. Like a contemporary, postmodern Pythagoras, he designed his own music (based on square roots) in accordance with this mathematical axiom, which he called ‘minimal measurement’. With a characteristic irony, this paradigm has run like a thread through all his architectural designs and installations.
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Barcode – 753907372823