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untitled
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noli
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carlos
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| The Beautiful Schizophonic
| Musicamorosa | Crónica | CD
The image of a sleepless solitary writer confined to a Parisian soundproof room, has everything to do with the experience of a modern laptop composer, alone in the dark of a room, in a sort of headphone ecstasy with his acoustic fragments of reality. Both experience loneliness. Both are melancholic dreamers creating from an imaginary memory of the world.
Whether this music is truly related with some of the delicate emotions depicted in Á la recherche du temps perdu or not, it’s up to the listener to decide. Could this be a possible sound equivalent to the literary images of affection written by Proust in the early 20th century? Is the sound atmosphere of each piece loaded with some kind of sensual aura? Would ever be possible to express a sadness full of joy in the same moment of music? Probably we’ll never know. But perhaps we think about it next time we’ll listen to musicamorosa.
STEPHAN MATHIEU & JANEK SCHAEFER: Hidden Name (Cronica)
"Stephan
and Janek met each other for the first time at MUTEK in
2002, where they performed on the same night, and shared
bills at several festivals around the world in the following
years. They discovered a mutual respect for each others work, being interested
in the opposite ways they both approach the manipulation
of sound, while sharing similar ambitions. Their first
joint performance took place at theMusica Genera Festival
in Szczecin, Poland in Spring 2005 which led to them wanting
to produce a project together.
A little later that year, midsummer
had arrived. They spent a week in the beautifully calm,
pastoral setting of Manor Farm House, the home of a classical
composer in a small village in the South of England.
Stephan and Janek made recordings using the large collection
of classical and exotic instruments, a box of records
found in the attic, and made location recordings in and around the house.
Finally, they took this material to the York Music Research
Center, a building specifically constructed for the presentation
of loudspeaker music. It is considered one of the best electronic music
auditoriums in the UK. They spent a week working there
during the winter of 2005, composing and editing their
favourite moments which then became the album Hidden Name.
