Thomas Zunk - Amplified Waterphone solo Vol. I "Total Recall"

by Thomas Zunk

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Day 1 24:57
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Day 2 25:04
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Starts with the very last note of my soundcheck, then after a silence of concentration begins with low bowing slowly gettng higher, the doors are opened and the audience enters the hall, you hear them for a sort while moving and talking before the sound engineer mutes them on the recording.
I start in an empty baroque style theatre with balconies and end being given a sign when all were seated. Both days the theatre was packed with 300 people.
Perfect. This is the very best solo Waterphone recording until then (and the only one that was recorded by a professional engieer from his booth) and it was to be followed by only one more Waterphone solo concert at Zwingli-Kirche, Berlin May 2009 – soon to be released as Amplified Waterphone solo II – before I quit the instrument for good because it had become unplayable after 35 years of existence.
I had played it since 1987 in many concerts but only since 2000 I had it amplified which finally made the Waterphone loud enough to compete with other instruments onstage and possible to hear the very low bass frequencies not only in it‘s very proximity.
The cover shows a photograph taken by Elke Postler in the streets of Berlin. We placed the Waterphone in a niche of a 19th century house which formerly had sported a statue and was empty then and nicely tinted with a coloured neon bulb onverhead. The red colour of the upper disc is the reflection of a car parking in behind the photographer (as you know the Waterphone is made of a stainless steel corpus incl. shaft and disc and in daylight looks silverish with brass playing rods in a kind of brownish golden colour).

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released June 23, 2017

Entrance music for Total Recall – Int. Festival of Retold Films
Berlin, Hebbel-Theater (HAU 1 – Hebbel am Ufer) 2007 Nov 16. + 17.
Day 1: 24:57* (24:16) (Bow)
Day 2: 25:06* (24:15)** (Water, Fingers, Mallet, Vibrator, Bow)
Sound and recording by Matthias Kirschke (of Hebbel-Theater)
all music live – no overdubs – no cuts
instrument: 1974 Waterphone-Prototype by Richard Waters
amplified with AKG C411 contact microphone
effect: LEXICON LXP-1 reverb only
*Times indicated are the runtime of the original CD-Rs which do contain a long runout – so the music as such is of shorter duration! (in brackets) check your copy!
**Music ends at 22:22, short silence, 22:32-24:15 Applause and Acknowledgements
Cover photo: Waterphone by Elke Postler

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