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Soundexplosion.
SONIC KITCHEN is research in sound with the focus on the deconstruction, dismantling and decomposition of analogue and digital, sampled and live recorded material. Balancing on the edge where tone and sound divide, SONIC KITCHEN create a steady flux of miniature innovations and sharply cut sound sculptures.
As with other naiv super artists like dis.playce and Stephane Leonard who mix genres, overcome boundaries and white noise transitions the perusing on arrangements, structures and textures comes to your ears.
SONIC KITCHEN take a look at the world of sounds through the musical microscope. They make audible what usually would disollute without a trace. Crackings and crunches on top of layered atmospheres, clatterings, microphones attached to forks and table tennis balls. Field recordings and synthesizer citations... Everything can become a source of sound with SONIC KITCHEN. Often just one step away from utter chaos they never loose contact. They are constantly reshaping what comes to their ears for the pleasure of the interested listener who enjoys being confronted with even the most abstract structures. Disturbing wallowings, crunchy vibrations, strong potions, energetic bashes, then again solemn wanderings, totterings and almost collisions - that's how the pieces progress like little fire works which freeze abruptly moments away from their climax just to be cropped down from the heavens with even greater playfulness and attention.
When it is like this one is highly intrigued to play along and maybe one does - just like that - info@sonic-kitchen.com

artist: Sonic Kitchen

titel: s/t

tracklist:

1. Walnut Blues - 7' 53" // 2. Storm - 5' 41" // 3. Part One - Live at Atonic Cafe * - 15' 17" // 4. Part Two - Live at Atonic Cafe* - 8' 37"
full-lenght: 36:48 min

general:

naivsuper CDR 006 / created by SONIC KITCHEN between 2004 - 2005 / mastered at Cook Ook / cover art: Stephane Leonard / silk screen print: naivsuper Team / www.naivsuper.de / www.sonic-kitchen.com / p + c 2005 naiv super & sonic kitchen / all rights reserved

format: CDR

price: 8 euro **

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When I read the name Sonic Kitchen and hear their release, then I can't help to think that Dennis Tan and Marc Pira turned over the kitchen into a sonic workplace, even when it is nowhere mentioned in the press text. 'Amplified Objects On Table, guitar' is what Pira plays whilst Tan plays 'field recordings, sine, laptop live sampling'. Two tracks here are studio tracks and two are live recordings. To a large extent Sonic Kitchen are a somewhat raw musique concrete group, taking electro-acoustic sounds as their basic materials, and feed them freely into the laptop to make all sorts of alterations and processing. In the studio cuts this is done rather nicely, in a more subtle and softer, a bit microsounding way, whereas the live pieces are more chaotic, disturbed and sometimes less concentrated. Sounds bounce around, collide against each-other and sometimes are shot away into the deep far end. I'd say it's all together lesser in the areas of micro-sound, and more on a cross-road where improvisation, composition and electro-acoustics meet up. Quite intense at times, sometimes they miss the point, but with original intentions. (Frans de Waard)