Speech Poems / Fruity Music, by Anton Bruhin

Speech Poems / Fruity Music

by Anton Bruhin

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1.	fruity loops music 1 01:05	info
2.	abc für anglophone 00:16	info
3.	aughntone brooheene 00:13	info
4.	1st poem 01:09	info
5.	2nd poem 01:05	info
6.	3rd poem 00:50	info
7.	4th poem 01:31	info
8.	5th poem 01:10	info
9.	bastei mit strohdach 02:49	info
10.	99neeneenee99 00:58	info
11.	a a a a oo oo 00:59	info
12.	go plus coda 01:20	info
13.	troll 01:08	info
14.	coffee kremkream 01:27	info
15.	lieber markus 02:23	info
16.	guete rutsch und guets nüüs 01:19	info
17.	muy knew poem 00:37	info
18.	voo poo poo pott f m z 01:23	info
19.	tchakk 01:30	info
20.	nadder nodder nooder 00:59	info
21.	thrupht 00:59	info
22.	furanda 03:55	info
23.	mahwquabba 01:27	info
24.	poolpoolpoolpool 01:42	info
25.	down the river 02:51	info
26.	sonntagsgruft 03:20	info

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Black Truffle is delighted to offer up a rare serving of unheard works by legendary Swiss artist Anton Bruhin. Active as a visual artist, poet, and musician since the 1960s, Bruhin has created important work in forms as varied as concrete poetry and landscape painting, imbuing everything he does with wit, humility, and absurdist humour. A recognised master of the jew’s harp (or Trümpi, as this ancient folk instrument is known in Swiss German), Bruhin’s sound work also encompasses tape collage, sound poetry, and manipulated bird song.

On Speech Poems/Fruity Music we are treated to 26 short pieces made between 2006 and 2008 using the audio software Fruity Loops. These pieces carry on Bruhin’s long-running project of exploring the creative use and misuse of cheap, accessible technologies. In many of his analogue works, Bruhin explored the possibilities of simple cassette equipment. He invented DIY approaches to layering sounds by using multiple tape machines, experimented with distortion and tape speed, or, in his classic Inout (1981) created a maniacally single-minded audio monument to the pause button. Like the computer pixel drawings the artist produced around the same time as these recordings, Speech Poems/Fruity Music extends this approach to consumer software, presenting two parallel sequences of works that make use of Fruity Loops’ inbuilt synthetic instruments and its speech synthesis function. The instrumental works play like a twisted take on the aesthetics of 1980s video game soundtracks, using synthetic accordion and harpsichord sounds to realise jaunty little ditties that exploit their machine-realisation by making use of improbable pitch-bends and humanly impossible tempos and articulations.

Between these samples of Fruity Music, we are treated to the Speech Poems, a series of recitations by a lone computer-generated voice. Many of them are in fact songs, as the synthetic voice crudely and hilariously changes pitch as it moves through its fragmented syllables and odes to cream in coffee. Carrying on Bruhin’s interest in the creative misuse of technology, many of the Speech Poems attempt to force Fruity Loops’ voice synthesis, designed only to speak English, to speak German. By entering phonetic text into the program, Bruhin gets it to produce a passable German alphabet and a series of approximations to a proper pronunciation of his name.

Hilarious while strangely austere, entertaining but bizarre, Speech Poems/Fruity Music is classic Anton Bruhin, arriving in a beautiful mosaic cover by the artist, with the text of the ‘abc für anglophone’ on the back cover.

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released May 7, 2021

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