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| Mikroton Recordings new albums mikroton cd 61 The Pitch & Splitter Orchester Frozen Orchestra (Splitter) CD The third release of the 24-piece Splitter Orchester is, like its predecessors, a collaboration. This time they team up with the The Pitch, a quartet consisting to 3/4 out of Splitter Orchester-members. "Frozen Orchestra (Splitter)" is their latest compositional effort in translating the quartet's language to a large format ensemble utilizing the sensibilites and possibilites of Splitter Orchester's electro-acoustic instrumentation. "Frozen" thereby indicates a very slowly moving field of harmonic relationships consisting of so-called pitch sets, which are augmented by noise sets, that is, non-periodic sounds organized in equivalent relationships. The score guides the group through various defined states of frozen surfaces where each player makes individual choices from a set of intervals or noises and thus constantly shifts harmonic weight and textural quality. In the multicoloured sound of Splitter Orchester, the planar drones receive an iridescent depth. Monochromatic fields of sound grow out of the continuum, its steady flow letting them vary almost unnoticeably. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-61 (€12, worldwide shipping included) mikroton cd 62 Chesterfield Consuelo CD The "score" or inspiration for this CD was a solo concert of Burkhard Stangl at the Reheat festival at Kleylehof in 2014. The theme of the performance was the song Bésame Mucho by the Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez. Chesterfield then took the recording and recomposed it, and composed new pieces mixing everything with old and new recordings, home recordings, accidental recordings, live performances ... all Chesterfield from 2013 till now ... a Chesterfield diary of songs, of noise, of longing and dreaming. "When I wrote the song in 1941, I had never kissed anyone; it was all a product of my imagination, " the Mexican composer of Bésame mucho, Consuelo Velázquez, commented on the making of her ballad. With her musical kissing fantasies Velázquez electrified those pathways of desire and longing that – even though impossible – take us back to the paradise of the first kiss; and she inspired hundreds if not thousands of interpretations of her song. To understand the phenomenon of Bésame mucho properly, if at all, it helps to see things through the eyes of Joseph Conrad, who thought of kisses as being what is left from the language of Paradise. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-62 (€12, worldwide shipping included) mikroton cd 63 Angélica Castelló & Jérôme Noetinger Disturbio CD Angélica Castelló is a Mexican and Austrian composer, sound artist, performer, curator and teacher. Her sound work and compositions concentrate on fragility, dreamworld and the subconscious. Performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Numerous compositions for ensembles, radio works as well as installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts. Several releases on labels like Mikroton Recordings, Interstellar records, Mosz and others. Jérôme Noetinger founded Cellule D'Intervention Metamkine in 1987, with French cinematographer and performer Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel. They have performed with Nachtluft, Voice Crack, Tom Cora, Keith Rowe… He has collaborated with longtime partner Lionel Marchetti since 1993 and is a member of avant-improv orchestra MIMEO. He founded and runs the record label and distributor Metamkine (curating its "Cinéma Pour L'Oreille" collection) which has been our partner since the date of foundation of Mikroton. He mostly plays the tape recorder Revox B77. "Disturbio" is the debut album by duo Angélica Castelló and Jérôme Noetinger. This dense masse of noise and sonic rites is the result of a 3 day recording session in Vienna in 2016. Sometimes it's impossible to figure out who's playing, as if they were two on the same tool and instrument: They both use tapes and Castelló's breathy playing on the Paetzold flute mimics the rotation of Noetinger's Revox and vice versa, there is a a big collection of samples and loops, radios and field recordings on their cassettes and tapes, with which they create cinematic atmospheres with magic and hidden diaphanous voices. "Disturbio" is also a study on vibrating surface tremors, earthquakes, strong tectonic movements, shakes. Somehow apocalyptic and reflecting on the beauty of a world where the human is no more than a memory and just a distant sound. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-63 (€12, worldwide shipping included) mikroton cd 64 Yui Onodera & Stephen Vitiello Quiver CD "Quiver" continues our subseries of cerebral abstract electronic minimalism after Triac's "In A Room" and Hanno Leichtmann's "Minimal Studies". Yui Onodera is a musician and composer based in Tokyo, Japan. After studying music and architecture, he founded the Critical Path. In terms of environmental functions and spacial relationships of sound, he employs materials from various sources ranging from field recordings, electronics, and voices, to various musical instruments, for process-based, restrained electro-acoustic, experimental and ambient pieces. Electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment. He has composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art installations, collaborating with such artists as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler and Dara Birnbaum. In 1999 he was awarded a studio for six months on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center's Tower One, where he recorded the cracking noises of the building swaying under the stress of the winds after Hurricane Floyd. As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment. The word Quiver can speak to an emotional state - "a slight trembling movement or sound". A quiver is also the word for a kind of container, used for holding arrows, bolts, or darts. They employed a vast array of sound sources for meticulous processing on their computers from electric violins, acoustic and electric guitars, modular synthesizer to toy piano and field recordings. They built music rich with textures, loops, strange structures blurring the lines between foreground and background sounds thus making a complex and mysterious, generous and surprising music. These compositions by Onodera and Vitiello are layered with possibility and will mean something different to each listener. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-64 (€12, worldwide shipping included) mikroton cd 65 Günter Müller x Kurt Liedwart x Norbert Möslang Ground CD Norbert Möslang had been playing in Voice Crack duo with Andy Guhl in 1972-2002, they've been working with "cracked everyday-electronics", modifying and recontextualising the use of home electronics. After the split he continued working solo and in different musical combinations using "cracked everyday-electronics", among them a duo with eRikm with whom he played in duo from time to time since 2002. He released numerous solo albums as well as collaborations with Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Ralf Wehowsky, Tomas Korber, Aube, Christian Weber, Katsura Yamauchi. He is part of Signal Quintet and MKM. "Ground" is his fifth album on Mikroton after "Stodgy" with eRikm, "Five Lines" with Casey Anderson, Jason Kahn, Günter Müller and Mark Trayle, "sale_interiora" with Kurt Liedwart and Ilia Belorukov, and "Instants // Paris" with MKM. Kurt Liedwart, a Moscow-based musician and curator of Mikroton Recordings, developed his own art and sound that cross genres, mixing music practices such as electroacoustic and improvised music, noise and glitch, and art movements such as actionism and Fluxus. He plays a wide-ranging array of instruments such as analog synthesizers, electronics, light-controlled electronics, electromagnetic devices, laptop, sinewaves, field recordings, percussion processed electronically in real time. “Punkt” is a debut album of the new duo of explorers of free electronic music with each track built upon a permutating sonic foundation, muscular and expertly paced compositions that effortlessly transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-69 (€12, worldwide shipping included) mikroton cd 71 Jérôme Noetinger & SEC_ La Cave Des Étendards CD Jérôme Noetinger founded Cellule D'Intervention Metamkine in 1987, with French cinematographer and performer Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel. They have performed with Nachtluft, Voice Crack, Tom Cora, Keith Rowe… He has collaborated with longtime partner Lionel Marchetti since 1993 and is a member of avant-improv orchestra MIMEO. He founded and runs the record label and distributor Metamkine (curating its “Cinéma Pour L'Oreille” collection). He mostly plays the tape recorder Revox B77. This is his second album on Mikroton following “Disturbio” with Angélica Castelló. SEC_ is the moniker of Mimmo Napolitano, electronic musician and composer from Naples, Italy. With his tape recorder Revox, that he uses in a very physical and unconventional way, SEC_ has brought new nourishment to the Italian experimental panorama, pushing the musique concrete and the acousmatic sound outside the academic boundries, mixing them with more spontaneous musical practices (power electronics, no-input feedback, electroacoustic improvisation). He plays in solo or in collaboration with Aspec(t), Jerome Noetinger, Andy Guhl, Dave Phillips, Valerio Tricoli, Olivier Di Placido, Ken Vandermark, Dario Sanfilippo. “La Cave Des Étendards” or “The Cave Of Standards” is a wordplay between Cave12 and Standards, two venues where they recorded the concerts which became the foundation for the tracks of the album. "L'orecchio Di Dionigi" is a cave in Siracusa with a special echo that allows to hear from the entrance any sound from the inside; in the past it was probably used as a prison because of its aural properties, very useful to control what the prisoners said. "Le chateau Est Une Oreille" is inspired by Italo Calvino's text "Un Re In Ascolto", written for Lucian Berio, where he describes sound narrative of a castle from the position of a paranoid king. You can use these references as a way to enter the cinematic world both musicians created with multiplicity of tape sampling and the use of extra tools to make the music as complex and inter-refential as possible. BUY — http://mikroton.net/recordings/mikroton-cd-71 (€12, worldwide shipping included) write your comments about the article :: © 2018 Jazz News :: home page |