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artista : Reinhold Friedl - Bernhard Günter - Michael Vorfeld | |
| titolo : Message Urgent | ||
| etichetta : Trente Oiseaux | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custodia di plastica - jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. toc042 | ||
 | 2004 | |
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For this release the respected improvisation duo of Reinhold Friedl, inside piano and Michael Vorfeld, percussion and stringed instruments is joined by Bernhard Günter, electric cellotar. Reinhold, Michael, and me first got together to play concert at the Podewil in Berlin in November 2003. After the soundcheck as our sole rehearsal we played a really intense set, and were astonished by how well our playing as a trio functioned. We then spent the next day recording in the same space at the Podewil, a recording session that was both mentally and physically so intense it left us exhausted (I still distinctly remember our hands trembling). MESSAGE URGENT now presents these recordings. This trio music is quite different from that of my trio +minus, it is quite dense (at times almost orchestral) and intense, although of very low volume (please resist the temptation to turn the volume up), constantly changing atmospheres and moods. The intensity of our session is well captured by the recording (as well as a bit of background noise that becomes noticeable during the most silent moments), and so the CD provides a listening experience you should not miss. We have played a concert in Strasbourg in the meantime, and I hope we will be performing together again in the future. |
| Prezzo : € 12,00 offerta! |
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artista : +minus | |
| titolo : [first meeting] | ||
| etichetta : Trente Oiseaux | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custodia di plastica - slim jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. toc041 | ||
| 2004 | |
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As the title implies, +minus [first meeting] is the result of the first meeting of bernhard günter with Graham Halliwell, and Mark Wastell. It also implies that what was intended to be a recording project has become a group, my first group since fifteen years, and named +minus: bernhard günter: electric cellotar and composed basis tracks Graham Halliwell: saxophone feedback Mark Wastell: amplified textures, nepalese prayer bowls and gong +minus' music is improvised, but not purely so: two of the four tracks on our first artist use some of my older, noise oriented pieces as their structural basis, while the two others are indeed improvised. We understand improvisation as 'instant composition', and the result is an intuitively played cross-over between electroacoustic and improvised music of generally quiet and comtemplative character. Our group name alludes to our playing 'plus' and 'minus' pre-recorded composed basis tracks. Our first meeting led to the virtually immediate creation of a new musical vocabulary and language specific to this particular group of musicians - something I have never experienced to happen in such a short time in the past. |
| Prezzo : € 9,00 offerta! |
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artista : Richard Chartier - Bernhard Günter - Steve Roden | |
| titolo : (for Morton Feldman) | ||
| etichetta : Trente Oiseaux | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custodia di plastica - slim jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. toc024 | ||
| 2002 | |
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Presents one piece each in homage to Morton Feldman by Richard Chartier, Steve Roden, and me on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of his death in September 1987. I am amazed how well these pieces, in spite of being quite different in style, work together to constitute a whole. They also express the influence Morton Feldman's sublime works have had (and still have) on us in our personal ways of creating music. Richard's HOW THINGS CHANGE is a rather intimate, pensive piece made of abstract electronic sounds and long streches of silence, while Steve's STASIS is probably the most hypnotic and atmosperic set of slowly orbiting loops he has ever created. I, who like to say that the safest to expect from me is the unexpected, have composed a piece for winter rain, small brook, and sho, titled FUYU NO AME (FOR MORTON FELDMAN), a piece that belongs to what I have called my 'musique concrète, enhanced' strain of work, but sounds like else nothing I have done. I have mastered the CD to form a unit with the silences between the works in proportion with the silences they contain. When the master was finished I noticed that the cover I had designed beforehand actually did not fit in with the music presented, and so designed an entirely new one. This cover will be the first full color cover for Trente Oiseaux, anticipating the switch to full color covers I had planned for 2003. I believe that this release is one of Trente Oiseaux's finest, in both the music it presents, and it's attractive packaging. (bernard günter) |
| Prezzo: € 16,50 |
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artista : Bernhard Günter | |
| titolo : Monochrome Rust - Differential | ||
| etichetta : L-ne | ||
| formato : 2xCD | ||
| packaging : copertina apribile - foldout cover | ||
| cod. nr. line_009 | ||
| 2002 | |
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Monochrome Rust, the third piece in a triptychon, initiated with the works Monochrome White and Polychrome w/Neon Nails, presents what a shiny new, digitally clean piece like Polychrome might become after fifty years of degradation and corrosion - the neon nails have become rusted, and lost their shine. Nevertheless, this study of transience is not negative - it rather contains some of the calm of handling memories of long gone events, seen in a new perspective created by the passing of time. Differential is, in a way, the epilogue, the final touch added to the triptychon of Monochrome White, Polychrome w/Neon Nails, and Monochrome Rust that completes this cycle based on the work In Audio by British duo, Immedia. The title Differential refers to the way I have derived its basic material: Digidesign's Sound Designer II software has a function called 'compare files' this process compares two sound files, and writes the difference between them (i.e., the frequencies they do not have in common) into a new sound file. For Differential, I had Sound Designer first calculate the difference between Monochrome White and Polychrome w/Neon Nails, then the difference between Monochrome White and Monochrome Rust, and finally, the difference between the two difference files. I listened to the resulting difference between differences, and decided that the 'drama' of the piece would be better if I reversed the whole, which I did. I then developed the appropriate panorama and equalization settings to make the entire process of the piece more apparent, and more perceptible. The final step was turning the volume down, until the piece was about half as loud as the three others in the work cycle. Differential is a very subtle, very filigree piece, maybe even more abstract and minimalist than the three pieces it was derived from, much like a translucent version of Monochrome White. I'm quite fond of the piece, and believe it will turn this work cycle into a complete whole. It also adds to the use of the whole cycle for an eight channel sound installation. I dedicate Differential to the people who have made it all possible: Darren & Vicky, Richard, and Taylor. bernhard günter, august 2001 |
| Prezzo : € 19,80 |
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artista : Bernhard Günter | |
| titolo : Monochrome White - Polychrome w/Neon Nails | ||
| etichetta : L-ne | ||
| formato : 2xcd | ||
| packaging : cartoncino apribile - foldout cover | ||
| cod. nr. line_005 | ||
| 2001 | |
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Originally begun in 1999, this new series of compositions by German composer Bernhard Günter utilizes Immedia's in audio work, available on the collection 2 | 1 (LINE_002), as source material, for which the release was originally intended - an origin for new sound works. The idea for Monochrome White originated while viewing a Bill Voila retrospective in Frankfurt, Germany. Inspired, Günter conceived that "the piece would only use high frequency spectra to lift it off the ground, so to speak, and it would only use 'empty' intervals (4ths and 9ths) to not have it rest on a root note, but to keep it harmonically floating/suspended." The second piece Polychrome w/Neon Nails is a transformation of the Monochrome White, lower in pitch and doubling the rate of change, it results in a sound world that might be likened to a swarm of digital insects.. |
| Price: € 19,80 |
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artista : Bernhard Günter | |
| titolo : Impossible Grey | ||
| etichetta : Metamkine | ||
| formato : miniCD | ||
| packaging : bustina di cartone | ||
| cod. nr. mkcd023 | ||
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| 1997 piece from bernhard günter (using sound material from marc behrens) much in the style of "details agrandis" from a few years prior... |
| Prezzo : € 6,90 |
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