‘Grannittin’ is originally a live performance by Robert Witt, in collaboration with ‘Mevrouw de Vries’, an art project initiated by visual artist Anne Reijse, in which all kinds of every day objects are knitted in real size, mostly by elderly women. The live performance consists out of the live manipulation of sounds emited from contact microphones attached to the knitting needles of the knitting ladies present at the opening of a ‘Mevrouw de Vries’ exhibition.
Esc.rec. has now released ‘Grannittin’, a double cd-r in a unique package, handmade with recycled knitted fabrics. The two discs contain a registration of the Grannittin live performance in art gallery Het Langhuis in Zwolle (NL), plus a broad variety of remixes by different artists, made with the original raw audio samples of knitting needles, as recorded by Robert Witt.
‘Grannittin’ features remixes by: Staplerfahrer, Goem, Xaf, Marius, Robert Witt, Radboud Mens, Gluid, Toxic Chicken, Phako, Transfolmer, Lukas Simonis, Maga, Jos Smolders, slo-fi, Timvankessel, Igor Krutogolov. Many thanks to all the artists who participated in this remix project with their excellent re-knitted contributions!
‘Grannittin’ was first presented during a live performance by Robert Witt at the opening of expo ‘Fröbel’ in Kunstenlab, Deventer.
Cover design (and production of the handmade package) by me. You can listen to some tracks and order ‘Grannittin’ through esc.rec.
