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Ernst Karel
12+ albums
Field Recordingambientfield recordingsexperimentallots and lots of trains
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Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s audio work includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition; sonic ethnography; fieldwork-based research in the anthropology of sound; recording, mixing, and sound design for public radio and for nonfiction film and video; solo and collaborative sound installations; etc. Current music-sound collaborative projects include the long-running electroacoustic duo EKG and the New England Phonographers Union. Musicians with whom Karel has performed on trumpet and/or analog electronics include Jason Ajemian, Jim Baker, Matt Bauder, Jeb Bishop, Olivia Block, Blowhole, Alessandro Bosetti, Lucio Capece, Bobby Conn, Tim Daisy, Kevin Drumm, David Grubbs, Boris Hauf, Chris Heenan, Giuseppe Ielasi, Jeph Jerman, Annette Krebs, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Helen Mirra, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jeff Parker, members of Polwechsel, Key Ransone, Vic Rawlings, Gino Robair, Aram Shelton, Aiko Shimada, TV Pow, Ken Vandermark, Sabine Vogel, Weasel Walter, Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Zerang, and others. His often collaborative work in electroacoustic improvisation and composition has been released on Another Timbre, BoxMedia, Cathnor, Dead CEO, Formed, Kuro Neko, Locust, Lucky Kitchen, and Sedimental record labels, among others. Karel has mastered CD releases by Born Heller, Dragons 1976, Josephine Foster, the Fr
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albums
Swiss Mountain Transport Systems
Heard Laboratories
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Maps of parallels 41ºN and 49ºN (At a Scale of Ten Seconds to One Degree)
Dreiländereck
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Hollow Press 2011 Mix 2
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Outside Laboratories at Night
fern room
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Mycological (Stereo version)
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Live on Rare Frequency
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Building A Better Reality : A Benefit Compilation
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47 Gates
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A Simple Procedure