Finding common ground between the acoustic past and the electronic present, the duo of Christoph Schiller on spinet and Eric Ruffing on analogue synthesizer present two extended improvisations of tempered interaction, exploring periods of extended sound, timbre and decay, scrabbling inside playing, restrained electronic whines, and active pointillistic playing.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Atleier Klingenstrasse, in Basel, Switzerland, on June 24th, 2017, by Eric Ruffing.
Finding common ground between the acoustic past and the electronic present, the duo of Christoph Schiller on spinet and Eric Ruffing on analogue synthesizer present two extended improvisations of tempered interaction, exploring periods of extended sound, timbre and decay, scrabbling inside playing, restrained electronic whines, and active pointillistic playing. Their dialog is perfectly paced, never frenetic yet interesting in the level of activity each brings to the conversation, entrancing the listener not through repetition but through constant change at a maintained momentum.
Schiller's background is in both active free improv on labels like Matchless and Red Toucan, and in avant minimalism on labels like Another Timbre and Creative Sources. Ruffing is part of the magnificently restrained Insub Meta Orchestra, a large scale improvising ensemble with work on Another Timbre. Together the listener gets the best of both worlds, with the sense of minimalism balanced by active sections of curious and inexplicable sound. Really fine work.