Audio CD
Published: 2019

ANTJE VOWINCKEL is a Berlin-based sound artist and radio artist. Her focus is on new ways of combining text and music, for instance in her projects on automatic speaking, simultaneous interpreting or compositions with dialect melodies. She has worked for German public radio stations and festivals such as WDR, SWR, Deutschlandfunk, Ruhrtriennale, Eclat, and  performed in many places, including Issue Project Room, Sophiensäle and ZKM. Her piece ‘Call me yesterday’ has been presented in 16 countries. In recent years she also created video compositions and sound installations, such as in the old town of Bucharest.

For her work she was awarded the Prix Europe, Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis, Prix Ars Acustica RNE Spain and other awards and mentions in Canada, Mexico, France, Austria.

For more see: www.antjevowinckel.de

Tuning Butterflies
by Antje Vowinckel

Dialect melodies are passed since time immemorial and yet are only spontaneously available in the moment. Before caught and preserved  they have to be released. Antje Vowinckel reflects this paradox through a collection of  dialect recordings which are then imitated by humming musicians who try to catch the correct melodic lines. Vowinckel recorded  most of the voices herself in remote areas of Europe and the United States, because there you can find the most sing-songiest accents.  However, it is not so easy to preserve the rich diversity of melodies. The work also deals with the difficulties of recording and the limits of our melodical memory, capturing a poetics of the speaking voice. 

Dialect voices: German from Rhineland (Rhénanie), Nornisk from Hardangerford (Norway),  Lacza from the Black Sea cost (Turkey) ,  Albanes from  Sicily,  Mirandes from Portugal, English from the Appalachian Mountains in the USA. 

Imitating voices: Antje Vowinckel, Marc Sabat, Chico Mello, Fernanda Farah, Serge Baghdassarians

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