Borut Savski – Konkretizacije / Concretizations

Marko Košnik participated with vocal in Violin
Production 1995, old studio of Radio Student

Concretizations are the results of some trial to introduce (again) some experimental sound production in the studios of Radio Student Ljubljana. Initiated by Borut Savski and Marko Košnik, Ex-studio became only an introduction to some of the activities that followed.

With all these radio – and broader: media – projects we tried to rethink the basics of radio (and later also: internet) media. This was not Slovene specialty, but Slovene transitional period was also an era of very lively international interest for practices in other countries, which were until a few years back divided by the Berlin wall. This lively interest for the other lasted to about the 1998 or 1999 – then it vanished. On Concretizations album there are some of the basic/ conceptual/ raw experiments, but some are already veritable compositions. The title is of course allusion at musique concrete, because mostly the raw materials were used, and the rest were instruments – again as materials.

The production was going on in the late and night hours in the old studio of Radio Študent. Then there was not much digital equipment, but I could make use of a number of high quality open-reel tape recorders and microphones.

Long time before – around 1979-80 – in this same studio some of the electroacoustic music experimenters were also working: Bor Turel, Boštjan Perovšek and Slobodan Valentinčič. Their recordings survived in the archives of Radio Student and were a decisive push to re-introduce the experimental music and sound production at Radio Student.

Linked items

  Borut Savski – Midi Conversions – Midi2Happy

  Borut Savski – Turborebop

  Borut Savski – Midi Sinfonietta

  Borut Savski – More Midi Conversions

  Borut Savski – Secret Life of Blobs

  Borut Savski @ guests – Sound Biotope

  Borut Savski – Random Activities