Artist : Thomas Koner
Title : Novaya Zemlya
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2012
Date : 06/2012
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 03
Catalog : TO:85
Label : Touch
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 36:34 min
Size : 56,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Novaya Zemlya 1 11:22
02.Novaya Zemlya 2 12:51
03.Novaya Zemlya 3 12:21
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36:34 min
The artwork includes an essay by Thierry
Charollais, "Thomas K÷ner's Novaya
Zemlya: towards a metaphysical
geography"... "Of course we find the
unique Koneresque glowing drones that we
know from his previous works. But we
will also be touched by an unrevealed,
barely perceptible sense of melody and
harmony that K÷ner gradually developed
since Kaamos (1998) and Nuuk (2004)."
Novaya Zemlya (Russian: ?????? ??????;
IPA: [?nov?j? z^(j)?m?l^(j)µ], lit. New
Land), also known in Dutch as Nova
Zembla and in Norwegian as Gσselandet
(lit. the Goose Land), is an archipelago
in the Arctic Ocean in the north of
Russia and the extreme northeast of
Europe, the easternmost point of Europe,
lying at Cape Flissingsky on the
northern island.
About Thomas K÷ner:
Thomas K÷ner (b. 1965) is a pioneering
multimedia artist whose main interest
lies in combining visual and auditory
experiences. Over his long, much
celebrated career, he has worked between
installation works, sound art, minimal
soundscapes, and as one half of Porter
Ricks. He attended music college in
Dortmund and studied electronic music at
the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he
worked in the film industry as editor
and sound engineer. Thomas has extended
his concept of time and sound colour to
images, resulting in video
installations, photography and net art.
His point of departure was composition
of sound in which aspects of a
performance and visual language were
gradually integrated. At first in the
collaboration with film artist Jⁿrgen
Reble and the live performance Alchemie
(1992). Following this, he started to
compose film soundtracks and music to
accompany historic silent films for the
Louvre Museum and the MusΘe d'Orsay,
Paris, who called him a major innovator
in the contemporary music scene, as well
as noted his collaborative practice
which has led to his working with
musicians, filmmakers and visual artists
on installations and sound performances,
and to his creation of six video works
produced in two cycles, starting in
2003.
His extensive discography, including his
four classic albums ("Drone/Isolationist
Ambient") released on Barooni between
1990 and 1995, Nunatak Gongamur, Teimo,
Permafrost and Aubrite, can be found
here: www.koener.de/cd.htm
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/