Somehow this sounded like a familiar name, but I couldn’t find anything about him that I had written earlier. Morten Riis is from Denmark, where he works as a composer, sound artist and researcher. Amongst the things he does are large scale sound installations. He recorded the music on the cassette using homemade synthesizers and …
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The man has many releases to his name, and it is tough to put his music into one particular genre. There are times when I would have said that his music fits the world of ambient music, with a penchant for the lo-fo approach, but this work is something different altogether. There is no evidence …
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Le nouvel album de Morten Riis s’apparente à une oeuvre fantôme, objet sonore construit autour de sensations auditives et de variations émotionnelles échappées d’un au-delà déconstruit, traversé de granit éclaté et de poussière concentrée. Lad enhver lyd minde os om flotte au dessus de surfaces disloquées prêtes à s’évaporer, formes chancelantes à l’abstraction corrosive. Morten Riis travaille la matière …
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Der in Dänemark lebende und als Klangkünstler, Komponist und Wissenschaftler tätige Morten Riis bringt sein erstes Solo-Release seit 2009 heraus. “Lad enhver lyd minde os om” wurde auf selbstgebauten Synthies produziert und mit modifizierten 4-Spur-Rekordern aufgenommen. Es erscheint digital und – mit Bonusmaterial – auf Tape bei Crónica, das Artwork basiert auf der Fotografie “Interior …
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L’artiste sonore et compositeur lithuanien Gintas K sort, seize ans après son premier disque chez Crónica, l’excellent label portugais consacré aux musiques électroniques et expérimentales, Lèti, « Lent » en lithuanien. Onze titres de musique électronique à la fine granulation : regardez bien la pochette ! Clochettes, touches de synthétiseur : un clapotis, un tintinnabulement enchanteur, c’est “Bells”, …
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Med kun synths og kassettebåndoptagere har Morten Riis skabt et album, der med sine selvpålagte begrænsninger opnår en fascinerende dybde. Et album, der med meget få virkemidler siger virkelig lidt og på samme tid virkelig meget. Små musikalske bidder driver ind og ud af det hørbare felt. Ringer ind, brummer, hviner, hvisler og ringer ud …
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David Lee Myers, the composer of Reduced To A Geometrical Point, is quick to point out that he is not really a fan of “music for meditation”, although he has noticed that some audio constructions seem to encourage a position of staying in the moment. It is the simple truth of being “reduced to a …
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Øyvind Brandtsegg søler på kjøkkenet. Han tar mjøl, krydder og en del andre kjøkkenprodukter, drysser dem utover en glassplate og setter på strøm. Slikt blir det bråk av. Brandtsegg er professor i musikkteknologi ved NTNU og en nestor i den punkete DIY-glade musikk-avantgarden i Trondheim. Han spiller på «instrumentet» sitt med å bikke fatet i ulike …
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«Persistent Disequilibrium» is a new sound art project of Norwegian experimental composer-scholar-educator Øyvind Brandtsegg. Brandtsegg devised a set of new musical instruments where finger-mounted piezo contact pickups are used with transducers on vibrating plate-like objects (metals, plastics, wood, ceramics, concrete, glass, bioplastics and even human bones in a living body) to explore intimate resonances by …
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Having seen various videos of Gintas K’s improvisations, involving a keyboard and a dusty old Lenovo ThinkPad running some custom software, it’s apparent that his approach to composition is nothing if not unusual, and it’s matched by the results. His Crónica debut, Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound was sixteen years ago, …
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