Through recording, contortion and transformation of heard sounds - (such as very short ones or not actively noticed background/environmental sounds, which are covered/faded out by routine of our ears and brain)
Dr.Nojoke makes you realize the sounds from everyday life.
The selective process of all the noises is decisive, to differentiate between just noise and the individuality of a single noise.
Well-known or established things are fragmented and put together in wrong or just different orders.
Dr.Nojoke loves those small
noises. His sound archive is full of poppy, clicky, glitchy,
scratchy, smacky and quirky sounds he finds with his
microphone.
He searches for the things, which are inbetween and behind the
things and pays attention to the unpredictable and incidental.
Like a surgeon he dissects his recorded noises and
instruments, selects, edits and processes them, weaves a new
structure and combines them with some electronic sounds and
effects.
For each project Dr.Nojoke uses a specific working process and
sound material. Each track uses new sets of sound.
Inspirational sources are perceptions and observations from
all medias (internet, TV, radio, film, photo, print…) and real
surroundings (appartment, architecture, street art,
exhibitions, people…),
not to mention favourite artists, labels and movements like
Dada, Fluxus, Mille Plateaux, Raster Noton, Jan Jelinek,
Murcof, Ricardo Villalobos, Burnt Friedman, Cluster, Neu ...
He strives for a synthesis of club, arts, moods and spaces
between process and presentation, improvisation and
composition, intuition and intention, between man and machine,
hi-sci and lo-fi, that is transformed into a lively and
playful performance!
As a musician Dr.Nojoke attaches great importance to a
permanent re-definition - re-inventing himself and reflecting
his work - while avoiding/discarding clichees.
His concerts, performances and DJ-sets in galleries, cafés,
clubs and parties provide evidence of this.