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quecksilber (germany) #qs 12 cd

hilda gudnadottir / bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “second childhood” compact disc

  • second childhood
quecksilber press release...
artist: hildur gudnadottir, bj nilsen and stilluppsteypa
title: second childhood
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 12
release date: 15.06.07

hildur ingveldardóttir gudnadóttir:

she has been around in the core of the neu-icelandic music scene for the past years, and is a prominent figure within the group. she has worked with various artists such as múm, skúli sverrisson, pan sonic, jóhann jóhannsson, schneider tm, angel, stilluppsteypa and is also a member of few bands, most noticeable nix noltes big band, which plays a great blend of bulgarian and balkan music, with some 'sonically dirty spices' as one once put it.these spices must be doing her some good, for she's very active on any side; she's composed quite a lot for various instrumental arrangements, made music for film, theatre and dance projects, played around with electronica as well as making sound-installations and sound-related happenings. her first solo album as "lost in hildurness" was released by 12 tónar 2006.

stilluppsteypa:

"foreigners think we're fighting or cursing," once muttered heimir bjorgulfsson, the former spokesman for the icelandic expatriated ensemble stilluppsteypa. since the departure of heimir to the world of fine arts in la the axe was swinged again by sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson, both now living in iceland. stilluppsteypa have unleashed well over a dozen releases in their tumultuous existence of electro-absurdism laced with subversion, black humour, and horror.

bj nilsen:

bj nilsen is a sound and recording artist, who lives and works in stockholm, sweden. for the past 9 years he has been releasing records as hazard on the uk label ash international and also as bjnilsen on touch. his work focusses primarily on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 11 cd

rafael toral “space solo 1” compact disc

  • portable amplifier (21:44)
  • echo-feed (4:34)
  • bender (6:05)
  • electrode oscillator (3:57)
  • portable amplifier 3 (8:00)
quecksilber press release...
artist: rafael toral
title: space solo 1
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 11
release date: 30.03.07

in 2004, rafael toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. with the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous "space" (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of "avantgarde music" even of those who consider themselves well-versed in this field.

in the past, toral's work had been based on the guitar and the myriad possibilities of generating sounds from it. more often than not, his music exhibited a tendency towards the concept of the drone. so many people familiar with his oeuvre were surprised to learn that none of those elements figured in "space" (though he might re-introduce theguitar at a later stage of the "space program" – but that is what is called "artistic license"...).

in the program, toral focuses on "single sound events". the sounds are generated by self-devised electronic equipment set into action by the performance of gestures, by bodily action (take a look at the video samples of the "space study 1" on his website, where he "plays" glove-controlled computer sinewaves). thus, the music is created byindividual decisions in real time – just like in jazz, as toral emphasizes. so basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility. toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacked.

the initial album "space" is like a roadmap. it is a point of departure for recordings in the "space program". it is accompanied by three "diversified" series: the performance series "space studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "space elements" and "solo series". the latter are unaccompanied real-time solo recordings on oneinstrument only (as opposed to "space elements", where toral collaborates with other musicians). the present cd is the first in that series and the second materialisation of the program.

whereas "space" featured an orchestral approach to composition (and thus a diversity of elements), "space solo 1" presents the listener with music which is narrowed down almost to a point. everything is concentrated on a single element. the key feature of this music is that it was performed with a degree of skill, a commitment and a depth of exploration that could not be found on an orchestral record like "space". on this album, toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level.

one cannot help but notice that toral is opening up a new dimension in music – and maybe also in language. when the renowned british music magazine the wire recently ran a large feature on toral's new project, the last sentence read thus: "it seems that mere words are far from able to convey everything a human being may wish to express." toral's new project is just that: a new mode of expression.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 09 cd

beta erko “i’m ok, you’re ok” compact disc

  • otvoren za site (4:46)
  • damn bubbles
  • that hz (1:30)
  • zaspiam (1:46)
  • my headphones are deadtones (2:03)
  • needlemidget (3:26)
  • suppertime (1:37)
  • soul in the back of the net (1:06)
  • shangai loco (5:51)
  • damn bubbles
  • that really hz (1:17)
  • epiglottis (1:48)
  • don't mock the quack (6:35)
  • you might hear me yet (1:22)
  • mekezidek (2:23)
  • sambina (1:22)
  • i'm ok
  • you're ok (12:21)
quecksilber press release...
artist: beta erko
title: i'm ok, you're ok
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 9
release date: 07.03.05

for everybody who is sick of everything else, beta erko is a quartet comprising dsp wizard robin fox (synaesthesia), turntable maestro martin ng (gcttcatt, mego), tri-lingual mc vulk makedonski (curse ov dialect, mush) & prepared piano freak/ producer anthony pateras (synaesthesia, tzadik).

"i’m ok, you’re ok" slices open the hip hop myth and guts it of any stylistic restraints, presenting a kaleidoscopic reconfiguration of familiar elements (beats, rhymes, samples, scratching) that are moulded into fifteen tracks of insane vocal textures, head-splitting sonics and multi-temporal rhythms.

fearless of delving anywhere within the electro-acoustic spectrum, beta erko use gargled scat singing, frenetic scratch-fests, impenetrable digital mashups, overcooked electronics and hyperactive beat boxing to create an unbelievable stylistic anomaly.

"i’m ok, you’re ok" is a rare case where four cracked minds came together to do something completely different and it worked a little too well. file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under: file under.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 08 cd

michael j. schumacher “stories” compact disc

  • still (13:42)
  • two
  • three and four part inventions (13:13)
  • room pieces new york (16:13)
  • pulse (32:01)
quecksilber press release...
artist: michael j. schumacher
title: stories
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 8
release date: 04.10.04

the new album by composer, performer and installation artist michael j. schumacher from new york city after the critically acclaimed "room pieces", on the xi label, which was rated best of 2003 for "modern composition" by the wire magazine. feat. guest musicians tim barnes, charles curtis, donald miller, peter zummo, george bishop and many more.

"stories" refers to the idea of layering, the process of building a structure by stacking things on top of each other. this procedure is particularly evident in "room pieces new york", in which as many as 23 parts play simultaneously. in general, schumacher's interest is to develop a contemporary form of counterpoint, where each voice maintains its integrity while contributing to a total sound. listeners are invited to create their own melodies by letting their ears follow the sounds moment by moment, allowing spontaneous pathways linking the various voices to emerge effortlessly.

michael j. schumacher works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer generated sound environments which evolve continuously for long time periods. his sound installations have been heard at apex art, ps 1, the queens museum and the kitchen in new york city, at the technical university and podewil in berlin, at the museum for applied arts in frankfurt, at the museum of modern art in lyon and many others.

schumacher has composed extensively for traditional instrumentation, including numerous works for solo piano, pieces for a variety of chamber ensembles, song cycles, and two symphonies for full orchestra. he is also a noted guitarist and improviser, having published music for prepared electric guitar, both as soloist and with donald miller. with miller and cellist charles curtis, he has released an lp as the donald miller trio. as a pianist he has given solo piano concerts of his own music, as well as the music of la monte young, terry jennings and morton feldman.

in november 2002 schumacher founded the group strata, with tim barnes, percussion, kato hideki, bass, toshio kajiwara, turntables, and schumacher on piano and electronics. the group's premier concert, at diapason gallery, lasted six hours. the group has continued to evolve and presented four 6 hour concerts at diapason in february 2004. performers included joan la barbara, "blue" gene tyranny and peter zummo.

schumacher has been a close associate of the ground breaking composer la monte young since 1989 and has worked as a producer of events at the dream house, young's and marian zazeela's installation space in tribeca. he has also worked as technical director of the dream house and as a recording engineer at dream house events.

since 1996, schumacher has pioneered, first at his downtown gallery studio five beekman and, since 2000, at diapason gallery located in midtown, sound art in new york city, by giving over 100 artists the opportunity to present, in environments with high quality multi-channel sound systems and free of outside noise, cutting edge installations with sound as their focus. he has produced premieres by david behrman, david first, tetsu inoue, ron kuivila, steve roden, marina rosenfeld and stephen vitiello, to name a few.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 04 cd

paul wirkus “inteletto d’amore” compact disc

  • wlot (5:36)
  • blask (4:11)
  • physikerin (7:11)
  • inteletto d'amore (4:31)
  • fascism (5:04)
  • aldrin (4:19)
  • breakfast dance (7:03)
  • wylot (3:49)
quecksilber press release...
artist: paul wirkus
title: inteletto d'amore
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 4
release date: 12.01.04

paul wirkus is a drummer from poland who has been playing jazz and improvised music for quite some time. during the '80s he played in the well-known polish punk band karcer, by the end of the '90s he participated in a post-rock project by the name of mapa (you might remember the article about them in the wire magazine).

all this information paul wirkus does not judge as important, and indeed, to approach the music on his new solo album, it really isn't. what is important is the fact that this cd – the music on which could broadly be described as "minimal electronica" – is paul's third release under his own name. the first was a cassette by the title of "echo" on gusstaff records (which also saw a release on cd-r, albeit limited to 50 copies). this first solo-outing was followed by the cd "mimikry" on the same label.

this time, he didn't want to be too experimental and just rely on the powers of combination of the work itself. the music on this release was created live with several minidisc-players hooked up to effects instead of, as one might think, by editing processes done with computers. thus the tracks have a warmer, more organic character than most other electro-acoustic music. accidents, coincidences, minute shifts and "aural snap shots" characterise this music. in contrast to earlier solo-outings, not only samples of strings and piano and white noise are to be heard, but also generated analogue sounds, fragmentary melodies and even vocals. one of the tracks on which he sings is called 'blask' which roughly translates to 'shimmer', a word that characterises his music very well. paul is primarily concerned with the sound of the voice itself, his lyrics are more or less "open". searching and finding. sometimes, he says, it takes some time to realise that you've already got what you want.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 03 cd

[#/tau] / boris d. hegenbart “[somethingmovinginsideplasticbox]” compact disc

  • snooze (5:13)
  • makrobe (3:49)
  • ink (2:39)
  • hermetik (4:48)
  • anode (6:53)
  • rosin (1:12)
  • ginger (5:32)
  • crockl (3:22)
  • frh (3:13)
  • smip (2:43)
  • halm (5:09)
  • feld (3:37)
  • gespog (8:01)
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artist: [#/tau] boris d hegenbart
title: [somethingmovinginsideplasticbox]
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 3
release date: 13.10.03

hikuioto, the debut cd of boris d hegenbart, ends with a leap. 500 copies in handmade paper-covers have spread out in ripples across the world. a frog leaps into a pond. what remains is digital silence.

[smip], years later, the reappearance on a marketplace, surrounded by chirping, squeaking sheet metal toys. an orchestra is tuning their instruments a japanese woman wishes they would never stop. the audio head descends onto the tape. hong kong roars and coos. a woman lets the pages of a book glide through her hands. 25 pastilles bang against each other.

[smip], the second solo cd of [#/tau], is a narration about encounters. recorded in cafes, back rooms, in attics and in streets. 13 miniatures, music in little boxes. places to keep minute objects in, crumpled up sketches, handsome things, space junk and the like. 13 encounters, 12 dialogues. everyday poetry, driven, harried and carried by electronic impulses and shimmering planes, anchored in grounding bass sounds, electrified by a whirring current. nothing much is happening ñ the air is tight.

[#/tau], founded in 1996 by berlin-based computer-sound-artist boris d hegenbart, is a project, which from its very beginnings strove to combine electronics with human sounds. initially hailing from dub music, hegenbart is now better known for his filigree sound-poetry. the sound material used is comprised of cut-ups, field-recordings, purely synthetically generated waves, 9 khz atmosphere... live, [#/tau] improvises solo pieces and interacts with instrumentalists.

co-operations: werner dafeldecker, dean roberts, ulrich krieger, reinhold friedl, felix kubin, john butcher, zeitkratzer...

the artwork for this release was created by yumiko pw. yumiko pw is an artist for drawing mainly. yumiko pw from tokyo talked about her work:"a pen is most suitable for me, my speed and rhythm to let my finger express the things coming from the place where i don't really know. i love art which is not really explained by words but just touch you strongly with no reason.

and something you can find the meaning by yourself ... something which let your imagination works. so i don't want to present a clear message or story in my drawings. less hint, and less explanation."

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 02 cd

scott horscroft “8 guitars” compact disc

  • 8 guitars
one of the nicest recordings i’ve heard in some time... an 8-part minimal guitar-proc/prog opus of the finest order... on par with manuel gottsching’s seminal e2-e4 in scope and vision, yet updated for the digital age...
quecksilber press release...
artist: scott horscroft
title: 8 guitars
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 2
release date: 25.08.03

8 guitars is a totally absorbing and trance-inducing work of psychedelic beauty. here eight guitarists are patched to a computer; recorded and manipulated live with no overdubs. each player observes strict, unchanging rhythmic patterns over the course of the recording. however, the dense, shifting rhythms in 8 guitars are derived not from the physical attack of the performers, but through the complex interaction of the overtones and harmonic characteristics of the instruments themselves. this makes for one of the most unique and compelling works for electric guitars in recent memory.

8 guitars is a finely balanced exploration of restraint and delicacy and is at the same time a full-blown raucous electro-catharsis. the sort of work that will satisfy not only the chin-stroking lovers of abstract electronica but also power-chord enthusiasts.

8 guitars is the first release by young composer scott horscroft from sydney/australia.

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quecksilber (germany) #qs 01 cd

oren ambarchi / martin ng “vigil” compact disc

  • vigil i (15:05)
  • vigil ii (20:48)
  • vigil iii (4:49)
  • when love comes back to haunt you (8:06)
second duo album from oren and martin.
quecksilber press release...
artist: oren ambarchi & martin ng
title: vigil
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 1
release date: 26.05.03

"vigil" is the second duo album by australian composers oren ambarchi and martin ng from sydney after 2001's "reconnaissance" on the staubgold label. it's a dreamlike sonic excursion based upon the fluid architectural modulation of harmonics and resonances. recalling the landmark experiments of the sonic arts union (robert ashley, david behrman, alvin lucier and gordon mumma), ambarchi and ng create an enigmatic tapestry of pulsing, shimmering and shifting sound which represents a subtle and compelling realignment of eastern and western minimalist traditions.

austrian designer tina frank of mego has added two short films in mpeg format to this release which in its slow and subtle moves match perfectly with the fragile beauty of ambarchi's and ng's music.

martin ng whose main instrument is the turntable is another outstanding character in sydney's rich experimental music circuit. he released an album for the mego label with farmer's manual's hiaz gmachl, recorded for grob with jim denley and was part of 2002's "turntable hell" tour with among others otomo yoshihide and martin tetrault.

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