Paul Kramer Paul Kramer Berlin I studied art with Rolf Bier and Christian Jankowski at the State Academy of Art in Stuttgart where I began working mainly on video and sound art, and began my process based practice of radically transformed reinterpretations of musical works. In Cync (released in 2009) was recorded with over 100 participants which improvised along to Terry Riley‘s 1960‘s classic In C on about 30 different instruments ranging from cell phone to church organ. Yesterday‘s Variations (recorded in 2009) is the Beatles Yesterday recorded by 19 adults that stopped playing piano as children or teenagers. File No. 1 (2006–2008) is an investigation into a sneezing sound in a favorite chamber music recording. It comprises interviews and correspondence with attendees, music critics and recording engineers involved with the concert in which the sound was recorded. Other sound based work resulted that brought material from other fields to music. In Masks for 4146, 6139 and 7270 medical research (the exact tinnitus frequency of three patients) was material for the composer Marina Khorkova to mask harmonically with her extended instrumental techniques, creating a kind of abient music coming from an assortment of radios and two loudspeakers. Song Cycle (work in progress, begun in 2006) is a collection of my stream of consciousness singing of fragments of music and other memorable utterances like ringtones, sound marks and jingles. Each song or utterance is cataloged in the session‘s track list, which there are currently 147 with a duration of about 130 hours. Song Cycle is part archive, part do-it-yourself musical psychoanalysis, or imaginary museum of musical works, spanning 15 years. My recent sound based work continues my interest in paramusical themes specific to voice. I have been making recordings of livestock auctioneers hypnotic yet hyper-speed vocals as a score for loop based electronic music in which every sound (including cows mooing) is recreated on an instrument. Also, I am currently producing a work created from peoples onomatopoeia (i.e. imitations of sounds) when telling war stories. Inspired by my fathers onomatopoeia in his stories which he sometimes used to help convey his experiences, I set out to record a broad base of sounds from survivors of wars from around the globe. Paul Kramer’s tracks SongCycle41-08 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:49Z SongCycle41-46 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:49Z SongCycle41-63 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:48Z SongCycle42-38 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:48Z SongCycle42-54 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:47Z SongCycle42-61 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:46Z SongCycle42-66 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:46Z SongCycle42-75 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:45Z SongCycle42-78 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:45Z SongCycle42-85 by Paul Kramer published on 2021-08-28T13:17:44Z