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| third album from the duo of ernst karel and kyle bruckmann following their “object series” entry on locust from last year.
the pair play oboe & english horn (kyle) and trumpet (ernst) through all manner of “analog electronics” (these days ernst uses a doepfer modular), yielding what amounts to a real-time musique concrète... not far from the whole erstwhile universe but retaining its own orbit (i find their music much less “scrabbly” and/or “droning” and more “through-composed” feeling, closer to contemporary classical music than to jazz per se.)
minimal, challenging, and ultimately quite rewarding... an excellent place to begin with the work of either artist. |
| | sedimental press release... |
| kyle bruckmann oboe, english horn, analog electronics
ernst karel trumpet analog electronics
ekg is the duo of kyle bruckmann and ernst karel. ekg's music is situated between acoustic and electronic, improvised and premeditated, disruptive and meditative; it crackles and hums with precariously restrained potential energy. combining traditional and extended wind techniques with anachronistic (non-digital) electronic processing, they carefully sculpt a bizarre yet organic soundworld of shifting tones, sudden and creeping textures, elusive suggestions of possible melody, and microscopic noise.
no sign is their third release, combining sessions from makeshift studios amidst chicago snow and san francisco fog.
“during the late 1990s in chicago, bruckmann and karel found themselves repeatedly performing alongside each other on oboe and trumpet respectively, integral to the "horn section" of olivia block and within gene coleman's ensemble noamnesia. in such environments, they performed semi-improvised, graphic, and fully notated works by composers including guillermo gregorio, werner dafeldecker, cornelius cardew, john cage, and christian wolff. by 2000, they had begun working as an independent unit, processing, complementing, or replacing their wind instruments with extensive analog electronics. their first recording as ekg is shift or latch on crank satori (2001). 2003 saw the release of a full length album on locust music's object series, as well as tours of both the east and west coasts. their work continues despite bruckmann's late 2003 relocation to san francisco; 2005 will see further touring of the u.s. and europe.
as ekg, they have been joined on stage by bhob rainey, chris cooper, nicole bindler, vic rawlings, larry marotta, the jeffrey allport-tim olive duo, kurt johnson, ben bracken, matt ingalls, chris heenan, and david rothbaum. individually, their extensive collaborative credits include jim baker, jeb bishop, olivia block, blowhole, anthony braxton, cheer-accident, bobby conn,ernesto diaz-infante, djalma primordial science, tom djll, kevin drumm, gunda gottschalk, lance grabmiller, philip greenlief, david grubbs, boris hauf, robbie hunsinger, giuseppe ielasi, greg kelley, fred lonberg-holm, bob marsh, helen mirra, my name is rar-rar, toshimaru nakamura, tatsuya nakatani, negativland, dan plonsey, polwechsel, gino robair, scott rosenberg, aiko shimada, john shiurba, jason soliday, karen stackpole, tv pow, ken vandermark, weasel walter, jack wright, otomo yoshihide, and michael zerang.
bruckmann's ongoing projects also include wrack, his quintet with jeb bishop, tim daisy, kurt johnson and jen clare paulson; oakland air, a trio with aurora josephson and jacob lindsay; sfsound group, bay area new music specialists with whom he has so far performed his own compositions as well as those of berio, braxton, ingalls, stockhausen, webern, and xenakis; and long-standing experimental punk monstrosity lozenge.
karel's other ongoing projects include unclocked, his quartet with tim daisy, jason ajemian, and aram shelton; flockterkit, a quintet with fred lonberg-holm, aram shelton, jason roebke, and frank rosaly; television power electric, an occasional extension of tv pow; a collaboration with helen mirra; and solo performing and recording.” |
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