Institut Fur Feinmotorik – Öd on Faitiche

Out on Faitiche, Institut Fur Feinmotorik‘s “Öd” offers 6 tracks of deep, pocketed bass / club ready for prime time. Spanning 82–136 BPM across its 6 tracks, this release gives DJs flexible tempo options for different set moments.

Öd – Bass / Club Release Details

Behind the Bass / Club : Release Notes

„Öd” marks the long-awaited return of Institut für Feinmotorik – the Black Forest collective known for using eight prepared turntables to investigate acoustic micro-phenomena generated by everyday objects – with a new album and their first full-length release on Faitiche. It is also the return of their almost comical understatement as personal artistic principle: „making almost nothing out of almost nothing,” compressed into the dots on an umlaut. The Öd-nis, the wasteland, is a field that the collective has been ploughing in sound since their first release in 1997. Eight prepared turntables, four mixers, no records, six hands (give or take) merge into what they call the „Octogrammoticum”. A rotating organism of surfaces in friction, fed with the clutter from a drawer: rubber bands or tin foil, CDs, a discarded socket board. Under IFF’s scrutinizing stylus, mundane almost-nothings get scratched open to reveal the acoustic density of negative space itself. Last year’s „Adhesive Tape” drew IFF closer together after an almost ten-year hiatus. An eponymous event series at Berlin’s silent green set in motion what would become their most twistedly funky release since „Penetrans” on Staubgold in 2002. The only thing öd about „Öd” (meaning „barren” or „boring” in German) may well be its title: layers of improvised play and randomized loops convolve around porous, dubby groove locks, tugging at each other in a call-and-response with howling static that cuts through bulbous ambient techno into a scrap-metal Dixieland phantasm. Stratified yet spacious, these sonic double exposures always hover on the verge of collapsing. What you think you hear might not be what you actually hear. The album’s track titles resemble Conceptual Poetry, extending this psycho-phenomenological gesture into the realm of spoken language. Conceived by renowned poet Dagmara Kraus, they become word molecules – „stern,” „dies,” „lose” – tilting delicately between German and English, constantly changing depending on the ear’s perspective and pointing back to the deeply unstable fabric connecting meaning and sound. Which also makes „Öd” an unusual cross-disciplinary collaboration – at least in the field of electronic music. PS: Since its beginnings in Bad Säckingen, IFF has always been more than the sum of its rotating parts, moving tirelessly between multimedia art, theory, solo projects and collaborations. With IFF Expanded, the collective now opens its eight-doored apparatus, inviting artists working with CDJs or samplers to join – an ambitious live format that loosens its former purity law while carrying forward a long-standing curatorial practice. The same thread also runs into the related event series Acephalic Headspace. Institut für Feinmotorik (*1997), artist-group originating from Black Forest working in various fields. In musical context known for transforming turntables into instruments by removing the records and instead applying rubber bands, paper scraps, household materials – resulting in a vivid laboratory for the productive misuse of everyday objects. This approach is documented in record releases and performed live.

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Release Tracklist

1. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – red lose log dies Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 100 BPM | D Major | 5:34

2. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – ruder also in den Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 90 BPM | G Major | 6:47

3. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – stern an angel moll Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 136 BPM | Db Minor | 6:10

4. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – bald rose sags fast Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 134 BPM | Db Minor | 6:20

5. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – her taut flatter tut Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 133 BPM | C Minor | 5:27

6. Institut Fur Feinmotorik – fuss tags in reuse Original Mix

   Ambient / Experimental | 82 BPM | Gb Minor | 5:34