[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":38},["ShallowReactive",2],{"projectforeigner-the-album-2020":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"year":6,"content":7,"image":8,"categories":10,"featured":30,"audio":31,"video":32,"media":33},"foreigner-the-album-2020","foreigner,  the album ",2020,"\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fkaffe.bandcamp.com\u002Falbum\u002Fforeigner\">\u003Cstrong> l i s t e n \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – on good speakers, not a laptop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F02\u002FSLEEVE_Kaffe-Matthews-e1613045034664.jpeg\" data-project-media-index=\"0\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fblog\u002Fitem\u002Fforeigner-is-reviewed-in-the-wire\">\u003Cstrong>Review : THE WIRE magazine\u003C\u002Fstrong> \u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>\u003Cstrong>foreigner\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fem> is a growing body of work made with with the ELKA 400 Italian made electric accordion organ I found 2nd hand in Ghent some years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one of those random finds on a miserable wet afternoon in a 2nd hand shop that I bought because I adored how it sounded. When the accommodating guy there plugged it into a guitar amp, I could hear even more of what it could do. Being a violinist and maker of music exploiting all kinds of sound, apart from the theremin and inbuilt sine tone of an AKAI sampler, I’d always laboured (with pleasure!) to create sound material that interests. So, when there was suddenly this peculiar looking beast of a keyboard with buttons instead of keys, buttons that you simply pressed that produced beautiful tones of different pitches, we fell in love.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it’s when you get down to working with it you really discover its potential. All I have to do is stretch my fingers and sit and listen to the different combinations which produce astonishing varieties in beatings and rhythms. Tiny variations of pitch and duration and exactly when the notes are played against each other produces more. I quickly realised I can’t recreate these precisions live so I began constructing pieces to play from laptop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s detailed, arduous and fascinating work and I’m reminded of Sonic Bed music making with a theremin. This technique, however, enables surgeon like precision. Much potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>foreigner A and B\u003C\u002Fstrong> are made from a sonification of the word \u003Cstrong>F O R E I G N E R.\u003C\u002Fstrong> I was born British and even though I’ve had the privilege of living and working all over the world, I’ve never lived in another country for more than a few months. In 2017 I discovered by chance that Berlin offered me something I couldn’t find in London and so I moved. At the same time I realised that even though this is still Europe, it was about time I became a foreigner. That I learnt a little of what it’s like living in another culture with another language I didn’t understand and that I struggled with the details of borders and different governmental laws to be able to live in another land. So I moved here. On the one hand it’s very easy, on the other its strangely and horribly difficult. Plus, it takes up so much time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since 2015 I’d also been working with issues of freedom of movement, identity and privilege given by birthright through \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fproject\u002Ffinding-song-home-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003Cem>Finding Song Home\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fproject\u002Flean-to-go-up-slow-to-go-loud-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003Cem>Lean to go up slow to go loud\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa> sonic bike operas as well as \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fproject\u002Fborderless-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003Cem>borderless\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa> with The Lappetites.  Now in Berlin, suddenly with the space to explore the ELKA whilst struggling with the practicalities of moving here, I decided to create the idea of a line, a random line drawn in space that clusters of sounds gather at and attempt to cross. What happens? Shivering bodies of ELKA notes do this well as each one is changed in presence and outcome due to what else is with them and when and where they are. This process also makes its own music that morphs into rolling landscapes and sculpture, shifting from movement to moments of stasis if you can but sit down to listen. ( full range speakers advised)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sonified line is in effect random, across or through notes move alongside, merge, sometimes cross. For some its an easy ride. For others a struggle. Time helps. foreigners takes shape. One of them (A) then one year later (B) appears on our foreigner album here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very good thing is that we are now ending 2019 and I realise that the ELKA foreigner series has only just begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: right;\">kaffe matthews. 19.12.19 Berlin\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n",{"url":9},"\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F02\u002FSLEEVE_Kaffe-Matthews-e1613045034664.jpeg",[11,15,19,23,27],{"slug":12,"name":12,"ID":13,"count":14},"album",25,14,{"slug":16,"name":16,"ID":17,"count":18},"compositions",7,360,{"slug":20,"name":20,"ID":21,"count":22},"solo",16,108,{"slug":24,"name":24,"ID":25,"count":26},"sonification",20,37,{"slug":28,"name":28,"ID":29,"count":25},"writings",13,false,[],[],[34],{"type":35,"src":9,"original":36,"large":37},"image",{"url":9},{"url":9},1794140174939]