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Six dense, mysterious and abstract electronic compositions created over a decade by German sound sculpture artist and composer Rolf Julius. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 2.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: B004886II8 Label: Edition Rz Catalog ID: ed. Rz 4001 Squidco Product Code: 14207 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2001 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardstock gatefold foldover Personnel: Rolf Julius-compositions Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() 1. Für Die Erde 6:36 2. Fast Schwarz 9:03 3. Vier Schwarze Rechtecke Pt. 1 10:29 4. Vier Schwarze Rechtecke Pt. 2 11:45 5. Seestück 6:23 6. Musik Für Den Blick Nach Oben 14:39 7. Tanz Auf Takashima Island 1 9:42 |
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![]() "German composer Rolf Julius is also known as a sound sculpture artist and listening to this excellent disc, one could easily imagine being immersed in a fluctuating, electronically humming space, filled with mysterious and evocative whistles, twitterings, and thrums. Julius' pieces have a denseness and corporeality that imbues them, despite their mechanical origins, with a complicatedly organic quality. He apparently uses a great deal of "low-grade," non-state-of-the-art components, in the manner of improvisers like Voice Crack. But it's just this approach that gives his music a patina of rough, fascinating textures rather than gloss. There are rhythms generated by loops but nothing in a regular pattern; there are subtle fragments that come this close to being melodies but shy away at the last instant. If anything, one might compare (Halb) Schwarz sonically to David Tudor's Rainforest, with an equal sense of enormous activity in an enclosed space. The performances, created over a decade, are similar enough to form a solid corpus, though each has its own character, from the underlying threatening tones of "Für die Erde" to the glistening, darkly ethereal shards of "Musik für den Blick Nach Oben." This is engrossing, abstract electronic music and is highly recommended."-Brian Olewnick, All Music Get additional information at All Music ![]() Compositional Forms |