Biliana VOUTCHKOVA / Michael THIEKE
“Blurred Music”
28,00€
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The Berlin-based Bulgarian violinist Biliana Voutchkova and German clarinetist Michael Thieke have worked together intensely within both compositional and improvisational duo and group projects in Berlin since 2011.
In their current project “Blurred Music”, the duo works with musical structures that create a blur; improvised parts alternate with fields of pre-structured material in which digital recordings of the duo are duplicated by live performance. Virtually identical fragments of the live performance synchronize simultaneously with the playback, unavoidably giving rise to blur in the temporal dimension, in the rhythmic, timbral, and motivic variations, and in the microtonal interpretation of individual pitches.
The triple CD “Blurred Music” features three of the duo’s live performances, recorded in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York during their USA tour in December 2016. These three live recordings are all very differently structured, factoring in the conditions and the atmosphere of each venue as well as the musicians’ own perspective and mindset. This series of three concerts, all occurring within a nine day period, showcase the very wide range of this duo, so all three recordings combine to form a saga of their peak. Using their highly trained virtuosic skills and intense concentration, the duo carefully deconstructs the conventional tones of instruments into fine particles in an organic flow, to create a completely new world of music on their own, somewhere between tonality and atonality, and will hopefully be recognized as one of the most mature accomplishments of improvisational/compositional works of this era.
Co-produced by David Sylvian and Yuko Zama, artwork by David Sylvian. The three CD set is a limited edition of 500.
Biliana Voutchkova, violon et Michael Thieke, clarinette. Un duo qui a débuté sa collaboration en 2011. Ils ont développé une large palette autant au niveau des sonorités que des modes de jeux. Une certaine austèrité qui se concentre sur le phénomène sonore mais aussi une activité itérative de fabrication d’objets sonores complexes, et une touche de continuum, et tout ça prenant en compte l’espace de production. Ici trois concerts (tous très bien enregistrés – à Chicago, Philadelphie et New York, en 2016) qui documentent ce travail où parfois le duo se dédouble avec des enregistrements de lui-même.
Coproduit par David Sylvian et Yuko Zama, artwork de David Sylvian.
500 copies.
