Reviews Zarek 13
SNAKE FIGURES ARKESTRA – COOKS & DEVILS
Das SNAKE FIGURES ARKESTRA in Gestalt von Ignaz Schick & Marcel Türkowski bereitet auf Cooks & Devils (Zarek 13, mCD) mit Kram, Plattenspieler, Walkman und Looper einen diabolischen Elektroakustiksud. Die dröhnende Brühe ist angerührt mit klackernder und schleifender Handarbeit, schrillen Pfiffen, Vinylknacksern und -hängern, kindsköpfischen Trillern, Gefurzel. Es ist, wie man so sagt, die Hölle los, und das Wörtchen ‚weird‘, ansonsten so verschwenderisch im Umlauf, ist hier einmal wirklich ebenso am Platz wie das Wort ‚Spiel‘, in der Urbedeutung von Freispiel, von Selbstzweck, von ‚teuflischem Vergnügen‘.
Rigobert Dittmann – Bad Alchemy 62
Highly unusual, even for this maverick…Schick can also be heard alongside Marcel Türkowsky for some 20 minutes on Cooks & Devils (ZAREK 13), which they performed live in Göttingen last June as Snake Figures Arkestra. Using a large number of amplified objects, tapes, turntables (pretty much any solid object that isn’t a conventional music instrument), the pair produce some unearthly and slightly obsessive examples of delirious low-key noise that isn’t a million miles away from James Ferraro and Skaters in the US. There are so many changes across this short disk, you can only wonder out loud what this performance must have looked like to the puzzled audience.
Ed Pinsent – The Sound Projector
Schick is also a member of Snake Figure Arkestra, along with Marcel Turkowsky, who creates his own devices such modified walkmen, memory box, realia objects, tapes and looper. Schick here too uses mainly ‘small instruments’. A highly condensed and concentrated affair this mini CD, of some interesting somewhat loud(er) improvised music for small objects. Think Cage’s own ‘Cartridge Music’, in the sixties version, but then with the speed of the new millennium. Objects fall, electric wires are touched, filtering and cymbals are crashed, all picked up with cheap microphones and contact microphones scratching the surface, and it makes a solid work. Not too long, but a concentrated explosion.
Frans De Waard – Vital Weekly 672