integração
marc behrens
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"Slowly the name Marc Behrens becomes a household name. Via releases on 
Trente Oiseaux, Digital Narcis, Intransitive and Edition...,Behrens can be 
placed amongst the more serious underground composers, along with Bernard 
Gunther, Francisco Lopez, Roel Meelkop or MNortham. From these people 
Behrens is the one that puts many references on the cover on what he did (a 
total opposition to people like Lopez (with exceptions) and Meelkop), 
describing when, where and how things were composed. This new CD is the end 
result of his composition 'Intergration' which Behrens performed seven times 
in various forms. In the original form there were just sounds of trees,but 
throughout playing this live various other sound sources were added and the 
piece changed. For the CD he uses the tree recordings plus some sounds from 
the urban environment. To know it is a nice extra, but not more. Behrens 
creates loops of his sounds, sometimes stretches the sound and puts them via 
collage forms together. Other then Lopez or Gunther, who produce long 
stretched out pieces which seem non-sequential, Behrens produces repeating 
events before shifting in the same piece to a new event. However it's quite 
strong (and mind you, more audible, except for 'Intergration Of Silence', 
which is indeed very silent) electro-acoustic computer music, atmospheric, 
intense and evocative." 

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly 306


"One of the great things about projects by Behrens is that they all seem to 
have such rich histories, and you can usually count on him to describe in 
detail the various stages his compositions have undergone. Integração is 
comprised of six pieces, each with a diverse and shifting sound palette. His 
sources are sometimes recognizable and concrete, sometimes stretched and 
sometimes compressed, transformed by his processing tools. They are woven to 
create some incredibly captivating structures. Consider the immaculate 
silences of "integration of silence" for example; I become so drawn into 
this piece that it has me on the edge of my seat, ready to fall headfirst 
into that void of silence and near-silence. A hollow wind, a fine, delicate 
crackling, shuffling concrete sounds, electronic pops and layers of sound in 
turns thin and dense, close and distant, are what constitute these 
phenomenal and complex sound structures. Highly recommended." 

Richard di Santo, Incursion Music 044 


"Integração (integration) is like an audio theater piece filled with layers 
of common sounds and sparse silences - you will notice yourself moving 
closer to the sound system.? M. Behrens has developed intensely intricate, 
and at times, claustrophobic works of eerie brilliance.? His work on the Mac 
is blended with "performance" sounds of Italian forests, collectively 
pairing our natural and digital worlds.? This piece took one year to piece 
together, informed by trips to Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Spain and England.
It is best experienced with ones eyes closed."

http://tjnorris.net/review.htm


Integração est un disque important. Le dispositif sonore dissèque le corps 
d'une prise de son ( dans un forêt) avec une grande acuité. Ici, la mise en 
perspective d'un travail de concert - avec la mise en évidence du geste in 
situ - et de la reserche de studio produit une intensité formelle, une 
certaine apesanteur confirmant le fameaux disque 2 de Transition. Ainsi, que 
ce soit la présence subtile d'un réel "désintégré" ou la finesse 
pointilliste d'un environnement numérique, Marc Behrens parvient à révéler 
l'univers sensoriel d'un present microscopique.

Eric La Casa, Revue et Corrigée