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ARTiST....: rechenzentrum
TiTLE.....: silence
LABEL.....: Weiser music
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: dvd
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 63,6 MB
REL.DATE..: sep-19-2007
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01] terra incognita 05:35
02] eden 06:41
03] jeru salem 03:57
04] rublevs refugium 03:51
05] ignis 04:19
06] pantokrator 04:30
07] paradox 02:04
08] in exercitium 04:53
09] free from care 04:42
10] 10 + 5 04:07
11] expedition existenz 02:46
12] on return 04:12
13] eye for an eye 03:43
TOTAL TiME : 55:20 min
10-years after their foundation, and after a
4-year break, berlin audio / video project
RECHENZENTRUM are finally releasing a new DVD with
the programmatic title Silence. RECHENZENTRUM have
been making musical and visual changes: the
electronic surface of the tracks has developed
into a predominantly electro-acoustic world of
sound, receiving its impulse from MARC WEISER'S
long-standing membership of the ZEITKRATZER
international ensemble for contemporary music (who
are currently releasing two DVDs with compositions
of LOU REED and IANNIS XENAKIS on Asphodel). As
well as the purely instrumental tracks, there are
3 vocal tracks by RECHENZENTRUM themselves, which
various critics have rated as being somewhere
between MARVIN GAYE AND DAVID SYLVIAN in terms of
the vocal sound, and which expand the
RECHENZENTRUM universe, giving it a timeless pop
facet. The visual side is also rejuvenated,
currently consisting mainly of manipulated images
of handcrafted black and white drawings by video
artist LILLEVAN that form a symbiotic unity with
the music.
idea: Inspired by Russian icon painter ANDREJ
RJUBLEV, to whom ANDREI TARKOWSKY dedicated his
black and white film of the same name,
RECHENZENTRUM set out on a journey into the
strange worlds of contemplative states of
existence. A meditative, and in the best sense
self-referential musical-visual system of
coordinates between electro-acoustic melancholy
and humoresque sketches of the club landscape. The
icon painters of the Eastern Church did not regard
themselves as artists wanting to express
subjective experience. Instead, they saw
themselves as existing in the tradition of the
medium, through whom the divine experience of
existence could be lived. They worked purposefully
on their icons, sometimes for decades, completely
immersed in their work, which sought to open the
door to another world. Their immutable faith was
the key to the door to the numinous world of
omnipresent silence. It is with this mental
baggage that RECHENZENTRUM sets out on their
expedition
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