Gruenrekorder is a German record label for field recording, soundscapes and sound art. It was founded in 2003 by the sound artists Lasse-Marc Riek and Roland Etzin in

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. The releases are mainly published on CD and

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, but they are also distributed on Tape as well as in digital formats (

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-Card USB flash drives,

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). Although the focus lies on field recordings and soundscapes, the spectrum of the label also includes compilations and crossover projects up to the genre of New Music. The label’s work output is not limited to the publication of sounds and music. It expands towards the field of working with and understanding of sound and phonography in general. Roland Etzin and Lasse-Marc Riek also operate as activists and artists in an international network and collaborate with different communities, organisations, scientists, authors and artists in various contexts. The label is also involved in other projects and cooperations and hosts various events and mediation formats including concerts, workshops and lectures. Gruenrekorder publishes a free bi-lingual online magazine called "Field notes", which contains essays, interviews and other texts which deal with the phenomenon of sound from scientific, philosophical and ecological perspectives. In 2009, the Gruenrekorder compilation "Autumn Leaves" won the

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Artists

* Rodolphe Alexis (FR) * Gilles Aubry (CH) * Andreas Bick (GER) * Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (IS) * Daniel Blinkhorn (AUS) * Angus Carlyle (UK) * Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IND) * Peter Cusack (UK) * Yannick Dauby (FR) *

Korhan Erel Korhan Erel (1973, Istanbul) is a musician, improviser, sound designer based in Berlin. Korhan plays instruments they design on a computer or other electronic instruments by employing various controllers. They are a founding member of Islak Köpe ...

(TR) * Ernst Karel (US) *

Christina Kubisch Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from he ...

(GER) * Christoph Korn (GER) * Peter Kutin (A) * Tom Lawrence (IRL) * Mark Lorenz Kysela (GER) * David Michael (US) * Olivier Nijs (NL) *

Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...

(US) * Andrea Polli (US) * Cédric Peyronnet (FR) * Pietro Riparbelli (I) *

David Rothenberg David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a long ...

(US) *

Louis Sarno Louis Sarno (July 3, 1954 – April 1, 2017) was an American-Central African adventurer, recorder of folk music and author. In the mid-1980s until about 2016 he made field recordings of the music of a Bayaka (BaAka) pygmy forest people while l ...

(US) * Suspicion Breeds Confidence (GER) * Walter Tilgner (GER) * Mirko Uhlig (GER) * Heike Vester (GER) *

Antje Vowinckel Antje Vowinckel (born December 14, 1964) is a Berlin-based German sound artist, radio artist, and musician. Early life Vowinckel was born in Hagen Hagen () is a city in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germ ...

(GER) * Manfred Waffender (GER) * Eisuke Yanagisawa (JP) * Achim Zepezauer (GER) *

Annea Lockwood Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939, in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her range is vast and often includes microtonal, electro-acoustic soun ...

(US / NZ) * Arturas Bumšteinas (LT)

External links

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Homepage of Lasse-Marc Riek

Field Notes
- Online-magazine(German/English)
Sonic Field
- Communicating and Living Sound: An Interview with Lasse-Marc Riek and Roland Etzin of Gruenrekorder (2015)
Musique Machine
– An Interest In Sound- Gruenrekorder Label Interview (2013)
The Wire (UK)
- Stream a mix by the Gruenrekorder label (Audio) 2011

References

* http://www.gruenrekorder.de * :de:Gruenrekorder * http://www.gruenrekorder.de/fieldnotes/ * http://www.lasse-marc-riek.de/articles/Interview_soucek.pdf {{Authority control German record labels