Eleven instrumental works with each piece based on and emulating the sound characteristics of blackbirds, such as "whistling", "squealing", or "flutes", captured in a live concert at multi-reedist Udo Schindler's Salon fur Klang+Kunst in Krailling in Berlin, from the duo of Schindler and long-time musical collaborator, violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, also on live electronics.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at Salon fur Klang+Kunst in Krailling, Germany, on March 2nd, 2018, by Udo Schindler.
"The renowned Munich-based architect and sound researcher Udo Schindler together with the Swiss violinist and experimental-electronica-tinker Georges-Emmanuel Schneider in a live recording from March 2018 from the "Salon for Sound + Art" in Krailling near Munich: "Counter-Song" is a conceptual work in free improvisation focused on communication skills and the highly developed musical expressions of blackbirds. Eleven instrumental designs detached from any compositional forms, where individual titles are based on the various Vogelsang characteristics of passerine birds, also known as blackbirds, such as "whistling" , "squealing" , "flutes" or with less familiar verbs describing the animal term such as "birch" or "tixen" .
Udo Schindler with his decades of experience from the varieties of avant-garde jazz and the ad-hoc sound performance on bass clarinet, soprano saxophone and euphonium, and the academically trained solo, orchestral and ensemble musician Georges-Emmanuel Schneider as his duet partner on violin and electronic equipment produce sounds far from harmonic structures, in atonal sequences and spontaneous, supposedly incoherent sound-distortions, with a variety of immediate ideas from the oppressive cockroaches with the violin bow up to disturbing, for several minutes sprawling, dissonant Noise outbreaks and radical exploration of the possibilities of unconventional sounds. Cacophonic fan,music that permanently and thus successfully defies genre-typical categorization and calls into question traditional listening habits: Certainly a challenging experience, enriched by open ears and concentration in any case."-KulturForum (translated by Google & Squidco)