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Marinos KOUTSOMICHALIS – Kasper T. TOEPLITZ
“w piwnicy”
Electronic music by Marinos Koutsomichalis and Kasper T. Toeplitz; the outcome of their 2016 studio sessions in Paris, FR. W piwnicy / στο υπόγειο has been self-released by the artists in an edition of 300 glass-mastered cds in 2022.
“They do their thing pretty good, but I expected nothing less from these two prolific computer musicians”. (Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly)
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ZINC & COPPER – Kasper T. TOEPLITZ
“Vents stellaires”
ZINC & COPPER:
Eelena KAKAGLIOU, French Horn
Hilary JEFFERY, Trombone
Robin HAYWARD, Tuba
Kasper T. TOEPLITZ, Live electronics
Vital weekly :
There is a lot of studying here, music, scores and video. The latter is only for the first release. Zinc & Copper is a trio of wind instruments; Elena Kakaliagou on French horn, Hilary Jeffrey on trombone and Robin Hayward on tuba. Toeplitz is the composer of the piece and plays live electronics. On his website, you can find the score for this piece (fifteen pages) and on YouTube (use the title of the work), a different recording from the premiere of the music in Berlin. It was interesting to view the score while playing the CD and seeing the concert clip. I am sure my review would have been much different had I only heard the CD. Even with the knowledge of wind instruments being part of this, I would have to remark something about the noise element of the music. At times it is piercingly loud; in fact, a lot of times. We no longer recognise any of the instruments, even when, according to the score, I perhaps should hear them. When the noise is trimmed/cut/removed, we hear these instruments playing their long-sustaining sounds. In all its loudness and quietness, this is some intense music. From barely audible breathing to filtered white noise, the music seems to be moving from -40db to 0db, but with a lot of distortion. I recognised it from the CD only when I saw the music being performed. Here we have a more extensive section of wind instruments against a wall of distortion. On the CD, this is not always evidently clear. A very heavy work of modern composition and of a force that I seldom hear in this particular musical area. I wonder what real noise heads would make of this, and, of course, those who go to recitals of modern music. For both, it must be a strange affair.
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Kasper T. TOEPLITZ
“Arche”
Composition & solo bass: Kasper T Toeplitz
Vital weekly:
His other new release is a solo affair, music-wise, as it was commissioned by the dance company Loldanse. The recording on CD was recorded live on November 25, 2021, during one of the performances. This piece is for solo electric bass and, so I assume, electronics. Even when the score is in French, it is easier to follow, as Toeplitz made some notes concerning timing this time.
Much of the piece doesn't sound like electric bass and is more like a piece of processed recordings of whatever kind. I wouldn't know what had I not known this is an electric bass. At seventy-one minutes, this is quite a long piece of music, and because of one heavy noise section (from the twenty-four to thirty-minute mark, not an easy-to-digest release. I admit that I skipped these sections a few times I played this piece. After thirty-five minutes, the high-frequency piece was also loud, but something that I enjoyed all the same. When it is dark, it is dark. Toeplitz once again proves that he is a fine master of radical music. Not that I needed more proof. Just like his disc with Zinc & Copper, the modern music version of Toeplitz is entirely different from many of his peers, and I wonder how such pieces are received. (FdW)
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INERT/E (AKERLUND – TOEPLITZ)
“Congruences Contrariées”
Since "Congruences Contrariées" is the third release of INERT/E, the duo of Lars Akelund and Kasper T. Toeplitz, we can no more talk about a "meeting" or "ocasionnal collaboration" : it seems that , yes, INERT/E is a "real" project, a long term one. And yes what they present there is what is at the core of this project : long waves of electronic sound architecture - "Congruences Contrariées" the only composition on this CD, last for over one hour, one track of electronic waves, sometimes quiet sometimes more agressive, a balance between the beauty of noise and a static calm. This time INERT/E did not use any fancy synths or any instruments nor "real" sounds : all the music and all the sounds were created on computers ; a "pure" electronic music.
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INERT/E (AKERLUND – TOEPLITZ)
“Time Profiles”
Lars Akerlund : electronics. Kasper T. Toeplitz : bass & electronics.
After years of navigating in similar musical idioms - somewhere between noise, contemporary or "experimental" music - using as well traditional instruments that electronic or digital devices (Lars used to be a classical guitarist, Kasper composed many orchestral or ensemble pieces), now both work a lot on their computers - and having worked with the same musicians, such as Dror Feiler or Zbigniew Karkowski, among others, Those two musicians met during the summer of 2013 in Paris, at the GRM studios to create their INERT/E project, made of an organic accumulation of complex structures, an architecture of an electronic nature, made of different temporalities, with apparently no causalities, and in very slow, almost static, evolution - an electronic ecosystem.
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KTT / VOMIR
“Espace”
2 tracks recorded during live collaboration and one track recorded live in Kasper's Studio.
Textured noise, interferences, merged electronics
Mixed by Kasper Toeplitz
Released by a 4-way label collaboration
Decimation Sociale / Zora records / 4iB records / Narcolepsia
300 copies in gatefold card sleeve.
Collaborative work between Vomir, French master of harsh noise wall music, and the composed noise for laptop and bass guitar by Kasper T. Toeplitz.
"It is all in all quite a fine collaboration, heavy as a mountain of course, and not something for early morning digest, yet with some caution and limited dosage this a most enjoyable mighty noise release." (Frans de Waard / Vital Weekly)
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ÉPHÉMÉRIDES
“Éphémérides nocturnes”
Kasper T. Toeplitz, bass and Strom Varx, moving images. Slow and low !
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KERNEL
“The deep”
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.
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MY DAILY NOISE
My Daily Noise is the duo of Buess & Toeplitz, playing loud, aggressive music which sometimes is very peaceful, using symphonic bass drums, giant springs, metal percussions, noise effects, low strings, lots of sub-bass and tons of distortion.
Daniel Buess : percussions & electronics. Daniel plays with Phoenix Ensemble, Basel, but also in different noise units and solo. He likes big drums, metal and heavy sounds.
Kasper T. Toeplitz : bass & computer. Kasper composes music between noise and contemporary and plays in many different set-ups, from orchestra to noise-gigs. He plays his bass through a computer.
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