Werner Urban

https://wernerurban.bandcamp.com

Werner UrbanArmed with a field recorder and a pair of headphones, Werner Urban hits the street to create and capture sonic structures to compose music with. He uses the acoustics of abandoned buildings and desolate places, while designing and recording sounds out of scrap material found on the spot.Dworzec Towarowy, An Audio Expedition by Werner Urban, released 07 February 20171. Broken Wine Bottle (Intro)2. Fluorescent Tube3. TL Buis En Een Vibrerende Plank4. Flat Tire And A Rain Puddle5. Odometer Rollback6. Bricks And Holes7. Glass Shards And A Polish Newspaper8. Empty Tin Of Opaque Stain9. Raindrops On A Plastic Tray10. Crushed Can Of Piast Wrocławski11. Falling Nail Styrofoam Bottle Rack12. Broken Wine Bottle (Outro)During a roadtrip to Poland, composer Werner Urban and his long-time girlfriend photographer Lilian van Rooij discover an abandoned freight station just outside Wrocław's city center. Tracks and warehouses, covered and filled with rusty material, are all part of ‘Dworzec Towarowy’, the popular name used by locals to describe the scene. Urban decides to ‘record the location’ and use sounds he extracts from the place to compose music with. By collecting sounds that are almost extinct, Werner Urban not only archives time, he recycles place and object. A certain machine, once a proud producer for the masses, reincarnates to play a role it was never cut out for. Listen to a big blow of a falling brickstone, the scratching of broken glass on a train track or an old tire, slowly rolling through a puddle before it tips over and causes a big splash. Werner Urban preserves the scenery with sound in a way a photographer produces images or an author turns words into novelles. On the spot, he creates protagonists out of a rusty nail or a broken fluorescent tube, while reinstating their functionality beyond the present time.Dennis L’Ami

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