Asmus Tietchens - Glimmen (E(r)ostrate, 1999)

1 Sub-H 4 5:25
2 Lumen 6 5:37
3 Lumen 7 5:50
4 Lumen 9 4:40
5 Sub-H 2 8:09
6 Lumen 15 4:21
7 Lumen 11 3:12
8 Lumen 12 2:32
9 Sub-H 5 3:38
10 Lumen 14 3:07
11 Lumen 10 1:47
12 Sub-H 3 3:09

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Asmus Tietchens / Robert Rutman - Schritt Um Schritt / Buzz Off (Die Stadt, 1999)

1 Asmus Tietchens - Schritt Um Schritt 4:47
2 Robert Rutman - Buzz Off 7:58

Le truc important que j'ai oublié de préciser hier; c'est qu'Asmus Tietchens jouera, avec Le Syndicat, le 25 novembre aux Instants Chavirés....

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Asmus Tietchens & David Lee Myers - 60:00 (Line, 2004)

1 One 10:00
2 Two 10:00
3 Three 10:00
4 Four 10:00
5 Five 10:00
6 Six 10:00

LINE is proud to present 60:00, the fourth collaborative album from influential electronic music pioneers Asmus Tietchens and David Lee Myers. On their first three collaborative projects the working method for this pairing was essentially the same: Myers provided Tietchens with raw feedback sound banks and the later constructed the compositions from this source material using his varied processing and editing techniques. For 60:00 this approach was altered; again beginning from the feedback sources, tracks were repeatedly exchanged between the two composers, transformations and edits by each resulting in several levels of manipulation. In the final pieces, the particular contributions of each composer can no longer be precisely identified.

Asmus Tietchens' first released his unique electronic music in 1980. Since then he has produced about 30 more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and conctrete music. Other collaborationive projects include the ongoing Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his groundbreaking early works on cd in limited edition. His latest critically acclaimed project, a series based strictly on sine tones and white noise is the Mengen series released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux (Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Menge). Tietchens' series in scheduled to continue on LINE in 2005.

David Lee Myers is a sound and visual artist living in New York City. He has created music based on feedback principles since 1987 using his unique "feedback machines." As Arcane Device, and more recently under his own name, Myers has had twenty recordings released on numerous noted international labels. In the Fall of 2003 ReR Megacorp rereleased his classic Engines of Mythalbum on CD. Using the portable feedback apparatus, Myers continues to perform in the US and Europe, and exhibits his paintings and prints based on electronic traces generated by Feedback Music.
Line

Asmus Tietchens has done a lot of collaborations with a lot of people, but I believe the most work was done with David Lee Myers (the guy that used to be Arcane Device, and who is now back under his own name). '60.00' is their fourth collaboration and it's first in which the working principle was changed. Before Myers send raw sound material to Tietchens who transformed and made the compositions. Here blocks of sound were send back and forth all the time and each did his share of processing. In the end, it's not clear who did what. A collaboration as it's supposed to be, I believe. The principle sound source is still feedback, but don't let that scare you off. The feedback sounds here all transformed in such a way that there is no harsh tone to be found. Instead the gentle sounds have only vaguely something in common with feedback sounds. Compared with the previous three collaborations they did, it seems that they have now moved in the areas of computer processed sounds. A track like 'five' seems to be built out of dsp-plug ins treating the feedback on a microscopic level. Tietchens recent album for Ritornell went already in that direction and here it is extended a little bit more. Small loops, going through various computer programms make this into a most delicate work, resulting in the most finest work of the two to date. And this work doesn't sound like their end station, so this fruitfull collaboration will be even more fruitfull in the future.
Vital Weekly

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Asmus Tietchens - Die Nacht Aus Blei (Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 1994)

1 Die Nacht Aus Blei I 15:47
2 Die Nacht Aus Blei II 10:36
3 Die Nacht Aus Blei III 19:38
4 Epilog 15:12

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Asmus Tietchens - Eisgang (Korm Plastics, 1995)

A Rasch Und Mäßig Bewegt 19:43
B Nahezu Unbewegt 17:35

review extract after the 2002 reissue of Eisgang & Dämmerattake :
While the press release describes "Eisgang / Dammerattacke" as "not your everyday ambient music," these two albums fall within the 'classic' definition of ambient as proposed by Brian Eno. Both of these albums use similar tonal palettes with vaguely chilly, but far from ominous electronic washes soaked in blurring reverb, and are slightly more dramatic than Eno's "On Land" or like those darkened Gas albums devoid of their skeletal rhythms.
Aquarius Records

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Asmus Tietchens & Jon Mueller - 7 Stücke (Auf Abwegen, 2003)

1 1 9:37
2 2 5:35
3 3 6:25
4 4 4:54
5 5 18:34
6 6 3:15
7 7 6:57

Fidgeting and burrowing, digging and scraping. At once 7 Stücke reminded me somewhat of the work of jazz drummer Matt Wilson, but with a curious proclivity for not piecing things together after experimenting. And curiously going into finite corners does duo Tietchens and Mueller go. Cologne-based label Aufabwegen has pretty much been Tietchens home label - and on this 500 copy pressing I am proud to purify my live-work space with this latest playful and elemental endeavor. From hollow metallics and very tactile movements the formula here is as if they were taking found objects and transforming them into creatures. There is a level of anticipation
which is articulated in Mueller's prepared’ drum kit. The silences are weighty here as we are purely indulged by the awkwardness of improvised and unexpected happenstance. There are unexpected distances, play with fore and background and muffled, muted dragging and manipulation of materials. The eighteen minute long untitled track five is the centerpiece of this hour long disc, giving proper way to atmosphere and layering it with austere stillness and timing.
To some degree these gentlemen are going where the conceptualists had gone and yet could not possibly have ever ended up. It is in the outcome, which is so patient, that makes a collaboration like this so powerful.
Vital Weekly

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Untitled (Die Stadt, 2002)

A1 Asmus Tietchens Hydrophonie 19A
B1 Thomas Köner Zud
C1 Illusion Of Safety Rolling
D1 Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg Der Morgengnattel Des Kleinen Fritz
E1 Dittel & Tuttel Ausschnitt 1
E2 Dittel & Tuttel Ausschnitt 2
F1 Illusion Of Safety Just

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Asmus Tietchens & Vidna Obmana - The Shifts Recyclings (Soleilmoon Recordings, 2002)

1-1 Asmus Tietchens T3:S1/5 (8:27)
1-2 Asmus Tietchens T1:S1/1 (11:33)
1-3 Asmus Tietchens T5:S1/10 (7:44)
1-4 Asmus Tietchens T4:S1/6 (8:28)
1-5 Asmus Tietchens T2B:S1/3 (6:59)
1-6 Asmus Tietchens T3B:S1/5 (8:23)
2-1 Vidna Obmana I (22:58)
2-2 Vidna Obmana II (8:16)
2-3 Vidna Obmana III (17:42)
2-4 Vidna Obmana IV (7:08)
2-5 Vidna Obmana V (9:14)
2-6 Vidna Obmana III (Reprise) (7:17)

Double CD composé de drones par Asmus Tietchens et Vidna Obmana, utilisant le même matériel de base à savoir des morceaux composés par Shifts, un des pseudo de Frans De Waard (Kapotte Muziek, etc, etc)...

Using the same source material, prolific avant-garde composer Asmus Tietchens and experimental music veteran Vidna Obmana set about reinterpreting the music of Shifts, one of Frans De Waard's many alter egos. As ever, Tietchens comes up with some wonderful sound designs, from the blunt metallic pings of 'T1 : S1/1' to the lurching vibrations of 'T5 : S1/10', generally conjuring a sound world populated by enigmatic, low volume drone nebulae and intense microsonic detail. Obmana's music tends to be less discreet in its approach, taking on a more abrasive droning identity that feels at once connected to industrial music and post-Popol Vuh synthesizer drones. Definitely worth spending some time with - especially for established Tietchens fans.
Boomkat

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