Artist : Dirac
Title : Emphasis
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : Spekk
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 44:36 min
Size : 57,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.This Is Your 4 AM Wake-Up Call 12:27
02.Augarten 08:24
03.Bantu 12:13
04.A Rest In Tension 11:32
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44:36 min
our way to create a record is based on
the simple principle of direct-recording
û which means the shape and form of our
music is basically created within one
moment. It is not only about meeting in
a studio to do the recordings, but to
stay together at one place with a focus
on creating music and concentrated
listening each day. The isolation from
other musical inputs and the reduced
input in general, being far off from
bigger cities, far off an everyday-live
takes you to the point when you donÆt
want to sound like something you know,
you just want to search, experiment and
play. John Cage said, that experimental
music is where the outcome canÆt be
foreseen. These things happen through
passion and not ambition.
For æemphasisÆ, we again went to
Salzburg, where we could set up our gear
in the basement of FlorianÆs parents
house for one week û the same place we
recorded our first album ædiracÆ. We
recorded about 4 hours everyday ,
experimenting with different materials
and instruments. We later listened to
the results at the studio garnison7 in
Vienna and did more editing work in a
small hut up in the snowy austrian
mountains in February 2008 û it was
cold, electricity was short, but it was
silent.
The record contains many details that
have personal aural connections to us.
The bell which reappears on emphasis is
an old-cuckoo-clock from the hut. The
crows that fly away are a field-
recording from vienna┤s augarten park û
we went in there during the night and
triggered the birds with a short
lightimpuls from a flash light. The kids
playing were recorded in a village in
northern India were Daniel and Peter
spent some time doing field-recordings.
The trumpet appearing in Bantu was
recorded by Peter on a frozen mountain
lake in Austria û thereby the natural
reverb of the valley is transferred onto
the record. The cover-picture shows the
roof of an old abandoned farming-house,
close to the mountain hut where we
worked on the record.
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