LP / DRIFTMACHINE & AMMER SONIC BEHAVIOR

Sonic Behavior by Driftmachine & Ammer is an album that explores the origins of sound, noise, and various music genres. Alongside lyrical declarations of love for noise ("Song to Noise"), the album delves into sonic reflections on how beauty and emotion emerge from mundane vibrations in the air ¹ ("A Siren Is A Simple Device"). For the first time, the analog sound researchers of Driftmachine (Andreas Gerth, Florian Zimmer) incorporate spoken language and noise into their sound research. They have collaborated with word and sound artist Andreas Ammer, renowned for his radio plays with Acid Pauli, aka Console ("Spaceman 85"), or FM Einheit ("Radio Inferno", "Symphony of Sirens"). ² In "A Siren is a Simple Device", the words are spoken by the legendary musician and poet, 81-year-old Ted Milton (Blurt, Loopspool). Despite its simplicity and obvious ability to produce high volumes, the siren has led a marginal existence as a musical instrument. However, it is capable of evoking the most intense emotional states in the listener in the shortest possible time, like almost no other sound-producing mechanism. "Sonic Behavior" capitalizes on this fact. The familiar hypnotic sounds of Driftmachine are accompanied by a siren organ inspired by the Russian futurist revolutionary Arsenij Avranov and built by Andreas Ammer, while the lyrics speak of the simple physical reasons behind the sonic chaos that has just been unleashed: A siren... cuts the air into sound. The core of the album is "Song to Noise", an electroacoustic mini-symphony about the beauties of noise and all its producers, based on a poem by the British poet Deryn Rees-Jones and recited by the poet herself and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten, Hackedepicciotto). Driftmachine & Ammer develop a soundtrack as powerful as it is noisy and danceable (which is why the LP also includes a version without text of the composition). "Sonic Sculpture" is the zenith of the work: a spoken word/music track by Ted Milton, which creates the possibility of a sound sculpture that encompasses the universe: What if one could imagine the infernal sound that encompasses all conceivable harmonies at the same time? A piano does it when you throw it down an earthly staircase (the epitome of music is a piano falling down the stairs) through the silent space to the next theoretically life-filled planet, similar to Earth, Proxima Centauri B. Radio makes it possible. Driftmachine & Ammer tried it. The result will be heard there in 4.24 light years. On planet Earth, the time has come on May 2, 2024. On this day, Sonic Behavior will be released, a conceptual album by Driftmachine & Ammer that explores sound, its creation, and its power. All music composed by Andreas Ammer, Andreas Gerth, and Florian Zimmer; Berlin and Berg 2022-2023. Andreas Gerth / Florian Zimmer: electronics Andreas Ammer: sirens. "Song to Noise" words by Deryn Rees-Jones, taken from "Signs Round a Dead Body" (Seren) 1998; German translation by Birgit Kreipe; voices: Deryn Rees-Jones and Alexander Hacke "The siren is a Simple Device" and "Sonic sculpture" words by Andreas Ammer; voice: Ted Milton. Cover art by Daniel Castrejón. Mastered by John Tejada.