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thrill jockey (usa) #thrill 092 cd

microstoriamodel 3, step 2” compact disc

  • me-too-modula (4:48)
  • glocky bit (4:25)
  • kontra (4:28)
  • fakeshift (5:13)
  • flexen (3:28)
  • mem.brand (4:01)
  • artic (2:41)
  • soso sound (4:57)
  • paro fadeout (3:45)
thrill jockey press release...
model 3, step 2
by microstoria
thrill jockey
thrill 092 • 2000

model 3, step 2 is a new studio album from digital specialists microstoria, markus popp (oval- innovator of augmented digital audio realities) and jan st werner (mouse on mars-the world's leading electronic structuralist pop group, and lithops-the silent power plant of hybrid music arts).

model 3, step 2 is their most accessible collaboration so far. still it is utterly impossible to trace their extremely manipulated sounds and compare them to anything else. did anyone hear the guitar?

considerable time has passed since their critically acclaimed initial releases init ding (1995), _snd (1996) and their collaborative cd reprovisers, in which tracks were rearranged and appropriated by a diverse group of musicians (stereolab, fx randomiz, jim o'rourke, c-schulz & hajsch and others). popp has been busy writing new oval music and working with oval process software and installations such as skotodesk and public beta. werner has toured extensively with mouse on mars and released several records on his sonig label. the time apart has allowed them to diversify the source material and compose tracks individually in a much more deliberate way than previously.

model 3, step 2 consists of nine excursions into the world of downtempo speedcore. on all tracks source material was selected and created by popp and werner together. the duo gives to these abstract but always physical bodies of sound by shaping them into a song structure. it is an entirely individual way of understanding and presenting music. even though their songs are precisely edited and arranged, microstoria finds empathy among musicians whom play free music or jazz because of the broad tonal range and the shared desire to explore and exploit possibilities.

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thrill jockey (usa) #thrill 031 cd

microstoriainit ding” compact disc

  • 16:9 (4:46)
  • slap top (4:03)
  • file care (4:43)
  • ecclectrig (4:42)
  • fund (3:00)
  • zuhause (4:29)
  • edu (4:27)
  • pokus (6:04)
  • communerism (5:31)
  • dokumint (3:51)
debut album by microstoria; aka mouse on mars’ jan werner and oval’s markus popp. theoretical musing (below) aside; one of the best “digital music” records from the 90s - essential.
thrill jockey press release...
init ding
by microstoria
thrill jockeythrill 031 • 1995

microstoria is a collaboration between markus popp (oval) and jan st. werner (mouse on mars). the resulting music is an electronic soundtrack, not without structure, not without melody. the "instruments " used are what could be seen as their successors - machines and digital technology. where oval excudes authorship of music, microstoria explores authorship, especially in relation to improvisation. the tones used in composition are mechanized,yet paradoxically rich. the resulting pieces are organic in feel, a striking result when viewed in context with their origins.

once instruments were physical entities connecting the creative individual through tuition and technical skill to the almost metaphysical world of music. the distinction between computing device and a "musical instrument" was increasingly blurred since the 1950's; however, it left the composer in charge of his/her machinery. more recently in the 1990's things have merged into one computer-based (formerly "programmable" or "computer controlled") authoring environment-still fully capable of hosting the residual "old" music media as well as its terminology. the transition from the 50's perspective to the 90's put an already well introduced component of music production newly into focus: software-rendering the composer the designer. atavistic concepts like an instrument end up as a tutorial vocabulary, or in other words a helpful software metaphor. microstoria has goals and tasks for the near future: music as organized acoustic and music as software.

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