Artist : Felix Kubin & Ensemble Integrales
Title : Echohaus
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2011
Date : 03/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 15
Label : Dekorder
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 52:33 min
Size : 68,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.kugeln 00:58
02.uncanny valley 03:18
03.die sanfte welt der ruhestoerung 01:39
04.nachtschicht in russolo 04:28
05.zerschlage mein herz, dreifaltiger 03:28
gott
06.die besucher 03:21
07.schwarzer fluss 09:19
08.nahtlos gluecklich 03:07
09.fluchtweg 02:46
10.bande vierge 05:51
11.obelisk 02:01
12.smiling buddha 02:56
13.voegel ohne specht 04:42
14.dusty corners 02:45
15.freundliche zukunft 01:54
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52:33 min
This latest project by the Hamburg-based
musician, composer, and futurist, Felix
Kubin, (his second release on Dekorder)
is a collaboration with the contemporary
music chamber group, ensemble
IntΘgrales, and the reknowned German
underground pop producer and sound
engineer, Tobias Levin.
Echohaus was recorded in and around
Levin's Electric Avenue studio in the
basement of WESTWERK, a former squat and
cultural centre for non-commercial art
and music in Hamburg. A special
recording technique was developed for
the project whereby the musicians played
simultaneously in separate rooms,
connected to one and other only by
headphones. This was done in order to
achieve a lively,ôcinematic" sound that
made use of the particular dynamics of
the rooms and amplified mechanical
details. The rooms, each of which had a
different acoustic character, were used
as natural echo chambers. Kubin and the
composer Burkhard Friedrich, former
member of ensemble IntΘgrales, provided
the musicians with simple graphic scores
or basic descriptions of the
compositions; all subsequent material
was developed on the fly. Kubin was in
the mixing room giving instructions and
suggestions, while the musicians played
and improvised, adding their own ideas
to the project.
No artificial reverb or effects were
added to the recordings. The different
types of rooms and microphones, noises
inside and outside of the studio, as
well as the unusual interrelationship
between the physically isolated players
became part of the process. All the
tracks were recorded in one take without
any additional layers or track-by-track
recordings. After a five-day recording
session Kubin and Levin created various
mixes which Kubin then edited over a
period of several months.
The final results mark yet another
radical departure from Kubin's trademark
Sci-Fi Pop sound, blending the
aesthetics of academic contemporary
music, film soundtracks and improvised
music with a strong focus on room-
specific natural acoustics.
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