German Stephan Mathieu may work with computers and instruments while Englishman Janek Schaefer uses turntables and field recordings, but the two men hold common values that no doubt contributed to the seamless quality of this collaboration. Each man shows a respect and appreciation for the sound sources they transform, and each has crafted music whose …
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Difficile quand on est un musicien électro-acoustique, qu’on traîne en permanence dans un environnement de feuilles de métal polies(ou dépolies), de bouts de bois, de papier, de plastique, à guetter l’interaction sonore impromptue qui dériverait de l’expérience, difficile donc de ne pas susciter la curiosité de sa petite fille de 5 ans, irrémédiablement tentée par …
The seeming incongruity between the child-like drawings adorning Leise and its abstract contents is reconciled when one learns that all of the release’s raw sound material was produced by Frans de Waard’s daughter Elise (her name an anagram of the recording title) when she was three years old. “Knippers†initiates the disc, de Waard’s third …
Hinter FREIBANDs Leise (Crónica 026) vermutet man erst mal einen weiteren Segeltörn über den Stillen Ozean of Sound. Aber der Titel entpuppt sich als Anagramm von Elise, Frans de Waards Töchterchen. Der Künstler-Vater begegnet, ähnlich wie die in gleicher Lage befindlichen RLW, Rafael Toral oder Ekkehard Ehlers, der mütterlichen Alternative ’Kapotte Muziek oder kaputte Beziehung. …
I prefer to listen to this CD with the windows wide open, fresh air streaming in and the noises of the outside world mixing with the soundscapes and noises on the CD. Somehow “Hidden Name†invites the wide open space of life and living nature or cities into its soundworld to fuse into a invisible …
“Leise” verarbeitet Klänge, die Frans De Waards dreijährige Tochter mit seinem Kapotte Muziek-Instrumentarium erzeugt hat: Blech, Papier, Stöcken und Plastikmüll. Mithilfe von Computersoftware entstanden daraus elektro-akustische Tracks, die nur selten die Originalsounds erkennen lassen. De Waard lässt den einzelnen Sounds und unregelmäßigen Loops Zeit, sich zu entwickeln und hält seine Musik trotz aller Einfachheit immer …
Piccole etichette crescono: la portoghese Cronica, con base a Porto, sfoggia nel suo catalogo il nuovo lavoro del sodalizio tra Stephan Mathieu e Janek Shaefer, una collaborazione navigata da anni di porformance (si ricorda la loro prima a Mutek 2002) e che ora si cristallizza in una produzione elegante e preziosa. ‘Hidden Name’ è stato …
Ulteriore progetto collaborativo di Stephan Mathieu & Janek Shaefer, dopo l’esperienza al Mutek in Canada, nel 2002, prima occasione nella quale i due artisti hanno avuto modo d’incontrarsi, presto seguita l’anno successivo dalle registrazioni con Radboud Mens e Timeblind e dalla performance del 2005 in Polonia al Musica Genera Festival. Produzione ideata e messa a …
Inizia così, alle frontiere dello spazio uditivo, in una intensità pervasiva che in qualsiasi modalità di ascolto interferisce e penetra lo spazio acustico che ci circonda, caratterizzando il paesaggio sonoro nella trasfigurazione semantico-strutturale ricalcata dalle suggestive atmosfere della campagna inglese. É senz’altro il field recording la matrice da cui Mathieu e Schaefer prendono il largo …
Simple, yet effective idea by Frans De Waard, who let his daughter Elise (note the title’s anagram of her name) play with “sheets of metal, paper, sticks, plastic and other junk” on which he placed contact microphones, then elaborated the resulting sounds via computer translating them into a 10-part electroacoustic performance. Elise’s voice opens and …
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