{"id":10164,"date":"2018-10-03T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10164"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T07:07:45","slug":"tamtams-rheingold-reviewed-by-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10164","title":{"rendered":"Tamtam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rheingold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTamtam is a duo of Sam Auinger on sampler and field recordings and Hannes Strobl on electric upright bass and here they have a piece that deals with the old German saga, called Die Nibelungen, as immortalized by Richard Wagner in his opera cycle Die Ring Des Nibelungen. In the Rhine River lies a treasure buried and so for this homage (for the lack of a better word) they use field recordings made at the Rhine. There is also the self-made gong by Robyn Schulkowsky. The piece lasts twenty-eight minutes and on the second side there are remixes by Eosin, Maile Colbert and @C. Very much like the mighty Rhine itself the music moves in very slow waves; apparently there are five parts but that’s not something I heard. It has tranquillity here and the sounds, whatever they are, were played majestically. In Eosin’s remix the tamtam is used to create a fierce rhythm, along with some fine drones and Combo created an excellent piece I must say. In Maile Colbert’s remix it seems as if the water of the Rhine has been replaced by street sounds and @C as usual call out all laptops and amplify the waves and shorten them and thus a mechanical sort of drone is generated. The whole element of nature is gone within this powerful remix, but it resulted in a fine piece of music. (FdW)<\/p>\n

via Vital Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n