Tone 45.7 | Achim Mohné "Accelerated Standstill"
LP - 2 tracks - 46:06 + free bonus track
Track listing / Vinyl: 1. L'Inertie Polaire / 2. Rasender Stillstand / Download: 3. Accelerated Standstill
Cut by Jason at Transition, this release is dedicated to Paul Virilio

Order here (in the TouchShop): "Accelerated Standstill" [LP + download]. (Limited edition)

If you pre-order the album, you can download the a zipped MP3 (320 kpbs) version when you place your order. Item include full downloads of the release, with a 3rd bonus track by Achim Mohné, “Accelerated Standstill”, only available when you buy the vinyl in the TouchShop. [cf TouchRadio episode now broadcasting - Fritz Kiste by amé (a pseudonym for Achim Mohné).

An assembling for locked grooves. Collected and performed since 1997, recorded live in 2013 as part of “Touch presents…” at Café Oto, London; Ausland, Berlin; the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, and the Centre for Arts and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe. This record can be played at all speeds, but the recommended speed is 33 rpm.

Accelerated Standstill is an assembling of locked grooves found on customary vinyl records. The records have been collected and performed live between 1997 and 2013. Locked grooves normally functioning as a ‘barrier’, avoiding the needle coming into contact with the label at the centre of the record. All grooves sound different, depending on how dust has effected and transformed the soft surface of the vinyl.By using a triple vinyl deck set-up this (analytic auditory observations of) ending grooves are mixed live thus composing a “music that lies hidden in the medium itself". The tiny dust particles inside the vinyl groove convert into a ‘sound sculpture’ - an important syntactical parameter (of the apparatus) is formed by the turntables themselves. The speed of their rotation is not limited to 33 or 45 rpm, but expanded between 1 and 150 rounds per minute thus determining the loops and the rhythm.

Achim Mohné started working with record players, cassette recorders and other sound-media-apparatus in the mid 1990s. He experiments with the space and time intervals of sound-media and is especially interested in the "music that lies hidden in the medium itself". His method is to subject the support material to a forensic autopsy. His further work features sound tracks for film and theatre performances (with Yoshie Shibahara) as well as collaboration with classical musicians (such as violinist Ayumi Paul).