Nothing Comes Back the Same
Published on 1. July 2025
Audio
Audio cassette
978-3-03947-238-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Nothing Comes Back the Same // Ben Kaczor //
SEE SIGNALS SEA NOISE
What happens if a sound archive consisting of around 50,000 hours of underwater audio material collected over the past 10 years is opened up for sound experiments, live sessions and installations? «Nothing Comes Back the Same» is a 15-minute sound piece resulting from Ben Kaczor's engagement with the archive of the project «Computersignale». Original archive samples were processed using the upcoming sssn MAX plugin by artist & educator N EV, further manipulated with Hainbach's Tape Station at the SMEM Museum in Fribourg, and expanded through synthesizers into new harmonic atmospheres. The work is a sonic reflection on impermanence, texture, and time.
The B side of the tape contains extracts from the original archive files. The sonic archive follows an underwater observatory for climate impact research off spitsbergen in the arctic sea through multiple angles: via the immediate acoustic environment with a high-resolution hydrophone, via the electrical power drain of the observatory summing up all its involved components, as well as the fluctuating electromagnetic fields within the underwater box and right next to a picture-taking camera.
The audio archive is an offspring of Hannes Rickli's artistic research project «Computersignale». The beginnings of the archive date back to 2012; it continues to expand as long as the recording equipment lasts.
The archive and its artistic processing as part of the «See Signals Sea Noise» mediation program is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Zurich University of the Arts.
seesignals.art
tkbks038
doi: 10.17436/etk.t.038
Download includes "SEE SIGNALS SEA NOISE.txt " (PDF)
tkbks035, doi: 10.17436/etk.t.035
SEE SIGNALS SEA NOISE
What happens if a sound archive consisting of around 50,000 hours of underwater audio material collected over the past 10 years is opened up for sound experiments, live sessions and installations? «Nothing Comes Back the Same» is a 15-minute sound piece resulting from Ben Kaczor's engagement with the archive of the project «Computersignale». Original archive samples were processed using the upcoming sssn MAX plugin by artist & educator N EV, further manipulated with Hainbach's Tape Station at the SMEM Museum in Fribourg, and expanded through synthesizers into new harmonic atmospheres. The work is a sonic reflection on impermanence, texture, and time.
The B side of the tape contains extracts from the original archive files. The sonic archive follows an underwater observatory for climate impact research off spitsbergen in the arctic sea through multiple angles: via the immediate acoustic environment with a high-resolution hydrophone, via the electrical power drain of the observatory summing up all its involved components, as well as the fluctuating electromagnetic fields within the underwater box and right next to a picture-taking camera.
The audio archive is an offspring of Hannes Rickli's artistic research project «Computersignale». The beginnings of the archive date back to 2012; it continues to expand as long as the recording equipment lasts.
The archive and its artistic processing as part of the «See Signals Sea Noise» mediation program is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Zurich University of the Arts.
seesignals.art
tkbks038
doi: 10.17436/etk.t.038
Download includes "SEE SIGNALS SEA NOISE.txt " (PDF)
tkbks035, doi: 10.17436/etk.t.035