26 окт. 2014 г.

Goem



Goem* originated with Frans de Waard in September 1996 when he got hold of a Student Stimulator (a measuring device used in hospitals). After exploring the machine for some time, Roel Meelkop joined him and together they recorded the album 'Stud Stim'. In May 1997 Peter Duimelinks also joined their ranks and they have since recorded and performed extensively in numerous venues, including Barcelona, Berlin and Amsterdam, and while they still exist as a trio, there have been several solo and duo releases by the various members under the name of Goem, the latest being a solo work by Roel Meelkop.

* Goem = A Russian term for shops whose products were available only to Communist Party members. Now abolished.




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15 окт. 2014 г.

Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan



Cathedral Scan translates the architectural plans of Gothic cathedrals into open-ended musical scores via custom software. Treating the plans as a kind of map, in the live performance Carrington navigates through them to create diverse rhythms, drones and textures. The album is edited from a live concert in a large church space, and combines the direct signal created in software with the immense natural reverberation of the performance space.



 Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan (2011) - 320 Kbps



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13 окт. 2014 г.

And Now for Something Completely Different








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Asmus Tietchens



Synthesizer experimentalist and musique concrète producer Asmus Tietchens began recording in the mid-'60s and continued to record three decades after that. Born in 1947 and based in Hamburg, Tietchens listened to German radio as a child and heard pioneering electric transmissions by the likes of Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig. He began recording his own home experiments in 1965 with crude reverb devices and picked up a MiniMoog several years later. Also influenced by atonal Kraut-rockers like Cluster and Faust, Tietchens met Okko Bekker and began a partnership that lasted for decades (Bekker has produced most of Tietchens' work). After Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann heard a tape of his work, he produced Tietchens' debut album Nachtstücke, released in 1980 on Sky Records. His four albums for Sky during the early '80s focused on surprisingly accessible electronic pop, though 1984's Formen Letzter Hausmusik (recorded for Nurse with Wound's United Dairies label) began a period of more abstract, concrète recordings that often use tape experiments as well as synthesizers. During the '90s, Tietchens recorded for experimental labels Barooni, Staalplaat and Syrenia, the latter a 1996 collaboration with Vidna Obmana. Since 1990, he has also taught sound at a Hamburg university.






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