Aubry / Krebs / Ermke / Schick

Berlin Electronics

Label: Absinth Records Country: Germany

Four 3" CDs, one each from electro-acoustic artists Annette Krebs, Gilles Aubry, Ignaz Schick, and Andrea Ermke, in a limited hand-painted acryl foldover.

"Andrea Ermke plays individual arrangements of so called "field recordings" sounds taken and recorded from a wide range of situations and places - urban space or countryside, noises created by herself as well as such of accidental character.

The 3 pieses by Gilles Aubry (Volutes I-III) are absolutely generative programmed computer pieces. The programming with its imperfections and surprises are presented in a raw gesture.

The pieces of Annette Krebs are mostly variations of a pre-investigated material. This is divided into different shorter parts. A part/module can consist of a pre-determined sequence of sounds, noise. Depending on the context it's possible to vary these modules more or less strong. It is also possible to organize the material to something completely new within a musical context with others. An important aspect at this is surprise and tension.

Frost by Ignaz Schick is made of drones created with a handful of organ pipes (bugled by mouth). The marocan raita (only the mouthpiece) and bowed turntable notes. The material was contrasted by various harsh object sounds and electronic noise. In general the sounds were looped electronically and layered in various voices, often detuned with different micro-cent ratios."-Absinthe