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Anton Bruhin (b. 1949) Back to Anton Bruhin on UbuWeb Sound InOut (1976-1981) 1. InOut (Zürich, May 17-22, 1981) INOUT was recorded on a Sanyo M7300L stereo radio cassette recorder with both an integrated and external microphone. The recorder is in the recording standby position, both RECORD and PAUSE buttons are pushed. Then I sing or play a tone into the microphone. During this tone, I release the PAUSE button by pushing it. Subsequently, I press the PAUSE button again within a fraction of a second. Now the first short note is recorded. In InOut I added this way thousands of very short notes like a patchwork, like an acoustic quilt with geometric irregularities and varied patterns. The percussive effect was produced by the clicking noise of the PAUSE button. Recorded with the integrated microphone, those clickings appear with pretty high amplitude, depending on the vehemence by which I pushed the button. Recorded with the external microphone, the clicking will not be recorded and remain silent on tape. For InOut I alternated both possibilities; for a longer passage I recorded solely clicking noises to obtain a percussion solo. 2. Musik, vielleicht fur Sie Ch-Phon: PVC pipe. One end of the pipe is shped to a kind of clarinet mouthpiece. The reed is fixed on it with a rubber band. The instrument has 7 finger holdes and a hole for the thumb. Mouthharp. Quackie: gag instrument with a plastic air pump with two lamellas and a horn, voice. Recorded on a cassette recorder with endless loop cassette. 3. Wochenwende Ch-Phon, tuning whistle, mouthharp, bell, piano, voice I do not recall how many layers the wochenwende recording is made of, it's difficult to make it out by listening,. Ch-Phon: PVC pipe. One end of the pipe is shped to a kind of clarinet mouthpiece. The reed is fixed on it with a rubber band. The instrument has 7 finger holdes and a hole for the thumb. Mouthharp. Quackie: gag instrument with a plastic air pump with two lamellas and a horn, voice. Recorded on a cassette recorder with endless loop cassette. 4. Die Welt Poem by Christian von Hofmannswaldau (1617-1679) Music by Anton Bruhin (b. 1949) Zürich, July 14, 1976 Tuning fork, piano and voice. Recorded on a cassette recorder equiped with almost used up batteries. The tape speed while recording was unsteady and generally too slow. At replay with standard speed the music sounds faster and in a higher pitch. Recording sounds with a highter amplitude (louder) needs more electric power, softer sounds need less power. That's why the tape speed is not only slow but also unsteady. The piece starts with a reference note (tone), generated by a 440 hertz frequency tuning fork, which is in the concert pitch "a." This way the degree of pitch and speed deviation can be compared. The percussive attack of the stroken tuning fork produced maximum amplitude, then it diminished gradually. In this case the pitch of the starting reference not moves from b' to c', c' sharp, d' and d' sharp. The audible fading out time of the tuning fork lasts about 22 seconds.