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Marcus SCHMICKLER – John TILBURY
“Timekeepers”
Ten years after their “variety” CD, A-Musik presents the brilliant second release by John Tilbury (piano) and Marcus Schmickler (computer). Recorded in January 2012 at Loft, Köln, mixed in December 2014 at Piethopraxis.
13,00€
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Marcus SCHMICKLER-John TILBURY
“Variety”
Musical events which are more or less alien to each other meet in a wide and harmonically differentiated space, which is explored in different directions. Briefly, they communicate - only to seperate again. Diverse actions form a clearly discernable foreground: the piano provides flageolets and piccicati, slow arpeggi and feldmanesque figures which move through the space supplied by the computer sounds while, at the same time combining with these. From time to time, little events rear their heads as if posing a question. A mutual pulse is an altogether rare occurance. The piano’s harmonic figures meet with computer sounds unexpectedly within a slowly changing acoustic environment. Piano pixies sing and dance serenely in a virtual space while the noises from the instrument insitage dialogues with the computer. The music ist tranquil, never aggressive and is at almost every moment polyphonic in the good old sense of the word. Pretty often, the two musicians play on two different planes so that in spite of the slowness of the whole thing, the resulting complex relationships offer a lot of surprises. Once the listener has become engaged in this process, he/she will remain so and become ever more curious. The sureness and the tranquility which emanats from these musical actions, figures, shapes and processes, acknowledges and asserts the ghost of Morton Feldman, who seems to hover benevolantly over these sounds: stop asking questions.” Johannes Fritsch (2005)7,5010,0012,00
A-MUSIKAllemagneMarcusSCHMICKLER“Wabi sabi”a 3CDVersion CD. “Wabi sabi” (1995) et “Param” (1995), deux pièces de musique électronique réduites à la stéréo du CD où Marcus Schmickler sculpte avec finesse et délicatesse les fréquences dans un flux abstrait et continu sous le regard de quelques êtres sonores.“Wabi Sabi is a staggering sounding, beautifully packaged and simply significant contemporary electronic album by marcus schmickler out of the thriving german underground music scene. schmickler has one release under his own name on the odd size label in france, and was a contributing member of pol and kontakta on the same label. most recently he released the exceptional pluramon pick up canyon album on the mille plateaux label (which featured the guest drumming of jaki liebezeit). this cd consists of two pieces: wabi sabi" -- a devastating 33 minute 2-channel spatial composition that mixes gorgeous flowing electronics ala francois bayle with moments radio-static density and transcending sound waves. "param" is a shorter work of 2-channel, powerfully droning electronics. "the pair of terms wabi and sabi are expressions of an attitude towards life that draw the power of artistic creation from silence and decay.”
12,00€