German born sound & concrete electronic artist Marc Behrens offers up here a collection of surreal, strange & at times jarring & noisy tracks built around manipulated field recordings, computer composition & subtle electronic elements that at times brings to mind Nurse With Wounds more field recording based & unhinged work. All the basic field …
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Déjà 20 ans d’activité pour l’artiste allemand dont nous parlons ici pour la première fois alors qu’il apparaît assez régulièrement sur le label portugais Crónica. Behrens est un musicien touche à tout, notamment auteur d’installations sonores. Sleppet a été composé dans le cadre d’un projet d’art sonore qui s’est déroulé en Norvège courant 2007 avec …
A new release in the catalog of Portuguese label Crónica. This time music based solely on field-recordings. Marc Behrens used a mixture of recordings to create an interesting listening. Crónica is known for its diverse catalog with electro-acoustic music, ambient, minimal music, improvised jazz and field-recordings. In their catalog you can find back a clear …
Sleppet consta de dos fases. Por um lado, un ejercicio de composición realizado con sonidos concretos, y una segunda lectura que consiste en la intensidad sónica de los zumbidos, en los que el abstraccionismo nos hace discernir la realidad de los objectos sonoros. Al analizar el proceso de escucha de Sleppet, quizás habrÃa que discrepar …
Registrazioni ambientali più o meno trattate e suoni di sintesi, come a dire realtà e finzione dell’universo acustico, nell’opera del compositore galiziano Durán Vázquez liberamente scaricabile dal sito della Crónica. Esiti non impeccabili dacché l’intervento manipolatorio non riesce a dare definizione ad una ripresa del suono troppo informe ef uniforme, con la sola eccezione dell’attonito …
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La foresta nei pressi di Nerben, i ghiacciai più giù a Nord, il lago di Røsskleivvatnet, la Norvegia come contenitrice di ambienti, l’isolamento umano la cui presenza ambientale amplfica i pensieri irrequieti del dentro, la Norvegia come l’avamposto sul nulla e sull’altrove. È questo Sleppet, l’ultimo materiale della ventennale ricerca di Marc Behrens. Da questi …
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This is a fine work, despite its obviously unpretentious nature. It might belong in the category of favourite listens for undisturbed moments in the early morning (now) or late evening, being mostly made with remote urban echoes – the title and the cover photographs say it all – which were recorded in 2006 by Aubry …
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One for the dissolution and/or enhancement of the intellect, featuring a couple of somewhat involving episodes and a number of scarcely significant ingredients as far as artistic validity is concerned. Pure works with samples, which he transforms and extends endlessly, at times even beyond the limit of what’s aurally tolerable. When the guidelines of telluric …
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Norwegen ist, wenn man Marc Behrens Glauben schenken darf, zumindest klanglich einer Vielzahl tektonischer Änderungen und Verschiebungen unterworfen. »Sleppet« ist gleichzeitig Hörspiel und Dokumentation einer Reise nach Bergen, Utvær und anderen Tummelplätzen naturaler Sehenswürdigkeiten, die neben Behrens auch Mitreisende wie Jana Winderen, Steve Roden und Chris Watson einschloss. Das sich dabei hauptsächlich Fieldrecording-Künstler über den …
Predictability is a very high risk in compositions exclusively based on field recordings, but with Marc Behrens we can always rest assured that the development of any dissertation will introduce numerous factors of interest. Sleppet was recorded between 2007 and 2008 in Norway and Germany to fulfil a commission by Deutschlandradio Kultur. Either via the …
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