With 'Echoes from the Club', Anna Hjalmarsson explores the sonics of the resting club space. The otherwise vibrant and noisy places where people gather to let off steam for a few hours now lie idle during the pandemic.
But what does a club sound like when there is no music, no background noise, no loud conversations? Anna Hjalmarsson has collected various sounds that capture the soundscape of an empty club. Compiled in a sample pack, the release comprises three types of sounds: field recordings that echo the space as an acoustic environment, tracing its walls, hangers, rails, or bar utensils; drum samples played through the club's sound system and recorded on-site; and processed sound loops based on the recordings.
'Echoes from the Club' is a homage to the club as a collective space for music and shared experience. The project tracks down the inverted intensity of its idleness while temporarily emptied of its purpose.
The pack contains 63 one-shot drum samples, 33 field-recorded samples, and 31 loops. All sounds were recorded in stereo at the Robert Johnson Club in Offenbach.
Design: Bureau Sandra Doeller
Text: Gergana Todorova
This project was supported by Hessische Kulturstiftung
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