“The fourth CD of Kernel, september 2009, on R.O.S.A. Kernel
2 (second version) is a re-creation of their first CD, Kernel
2, two years later. Exactly the same score, but a differnet interpretation - a much longer one (53 minutes) and with much more density to it. Actually this CD defines very much what Kernel is about - live interpretation of written scores of electronic music. Comparing the 2 versions is something... !!”
The Deep, a new composition by Kasper T. Toeplitz for the live electronic group Kernel (Abecassis, Toeplitz, Wendling) is an architecture of accumulations of grainy textures, layers of destructured, decomposed and distorted sounds - a long flow of a constant acceleration, freely inspired by the gesture of Pollock’s painting. In its center a fake calm, a slow, sub-bass breathing. As always with Kernel the music is fully pre-composed (and the score can be downloaded from the group’s web page) and is played live - using mostly computers - in real-time synthesis (no samples, sound files nor sequencers) by the three musicians. Between the electronic compositions of Iannis Xenakis or Jean-Claude Eloy and the work of Daniel Menche or Zbigniew Karkowski.
“The third CD of Kernel - with still the same musicians - Eryck Abecassis, KTToeplitz & Wilfried Wendling - released in september 2009 on R.O.S.A. On this CD, two electronic compositions , and the first piece played by Kernel but written by someone else than KTT - which is for sure a “first” but is also the beginning of the “second phase” for Kernel. 1. “Dust reconstruction” (KTToeplitz) 2. “Drowning report” (E Abecassis).”
“KERNEL is an ensemble of purely electronic music (no found sounds, no samples, no sound-files), which plays long, fully written compositions - electronic architectures. The musicians mostly play computers as real-time instruments, but some analog devices are used as well. Kernel 2, a composition by K T Toeplitz is a 40 minutes long "study in noises" as the only sources are electronic noises of different colors - from black to blue - and textures, filtred, granulated and mutated; reaching for the fragile moments between pitch and sound, between light and shadow. Musicians of Kernel are Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T Toeplitz & Wilfried Wendling.”