Steinbrüchel - Granulat Live Series: 00sieben/contacT8 (Synchron, 2000)

Number 4 in a 6 singles series featuring sections of the granulat concerts, which took place in ug (> katakombe) in zurich, switzerland.

Side A recorded: 01.19.2000
Side B recorded: 02.09.2000

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May 6, 2001 (and/OAR, 2006)

1 Steinbrüchel - Bank 15:41
2 Aaron Ximm - Negative Architectures 5:23
3 Kenneth Kirschner - May 6, 2001 (Abridged) 14:20
4 Tomas Korber - Financial District 22:04
5 Taylor Deupree - Dust 4:15

On the night of Sunday, May 6, 2001, composer Kenneth Kirschner, as part of a series of pieces documenting the sounds of different New York City neighborhoods, took his tape recorder to the Financial District of Lower Manhattan to begin field recordings for a new piece. The resulting
low-resolution portrait captured the sounds of a deserted urban landscape: the empty, winding streets of old Dutch New Amsterdam, its modern, towering skyscrapers -- and a region of the city that, several months later, would be renamed Ground Zero.

and/OAR is proud to present "May 6, 2001", a collection of five interpretations by five renowned contemporary composers of the aforementioned field recording portrait.

With excerpts from Kirschner's original 2001 composition based on the field recording, the CD also includes pieces by Taylor Deupree (USA), Tomas Korber (Switzerland), Ralph Steinbrüchel (Switzerland), and Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American; USA), all utilizing the 2001 Financial District field recording as their sole source material. The result is a project that obliquely and subtly evokes the source recording and its subsequent meanings, while also standing on its
own as an estimable example of each artist's mastery of his craft.

In conjunction with the release of the CD, and/OAR is pleased to present two MP3s of related recordings. The first is the raw field recording itself, which is the source material for the entire project. This 46-minute, low-resolution soundscape of the New York City of early 2001 is presented here both for interested listeners, and for fellow artists who may wish to make use of it: http://www.kennethkirschner.com/field050601.mp3

In addition, here is the unedited, 36-minute version of Kirschner's composition based on the field recording is available here: http://www.kennethkirschner.com/kirschner050601.mp3
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Steinbrüchel - Basis (Room40, 2007)

1 Interlude 1 (5:25)
2 These 1 (17:20)
3 Interlude 2 (5:17)
4 These 2 (8:40)
5 Interlude 3 (5:06)
6 Falter (20:00)
7 Interlude 4 (5:06)

Cet album de Steinbrüchel est un travail de remixes, les Interlude 1 à 4 sont des samples de guitare tirés de l'album Happiness Will Befall de Lawrence English, les These sont des samples de guitare tirés du Theory of Machines de Ben Frost tandis que Falter est un sample de piano de Bernd Schurer, issu d'une installation réalisée pour Lerraum en novembre 2005. Steinbrüchel en retravaillant ces morceaux réussit à en tirer de nouvelles atmosphères et à leur donner encore plus de profondeur harmonique...

This latest from Ralph Steinbruchel is a remix project of sorts, in which the Swiss microsound composer creates a number of works from recordings by other artists, namely Lawrence English, Ben Frost and Bernd Schurer. It's a mark of Steinbruchel's skill and sure hand that he's able to impose his own voice onto the source material, with guitar recordings (from both English and Frost, taken from their Happiness Will Befall and Theory of Machines albums, respectively) and piano recordings (taken from a Bernd Schurer 5.1 surround installation) all somehow morphing into that distinctively warm tangle of digital tones. Those already familiar with Steinbruchel's work will, to some extent, know what to expect from this release, although the presence of instrumental material provides a greater depth than in previous outings. 'These 2' serves as an especially successful example of this: you can't actually make out Ben Frost's guitar as such, though there's a harmonic richness that transcends the more staunchly digital compositions in Steinbruchel's catalogue. The Schurer piece, 'Falter' even lets a little air into the thick tonal jumble, resulting in a more spacious sound. This gives a three dimensional, roomy feel to the music, breathing new life into the potentially very dry world of lowercase laptop music. All in all, Basis gets the balance of the new and the familiar just right, making for one of the most satisfying room40 releases for some time. Highly recommended.
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