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Ik ben altijd al fan geweest van het maÂgisch realisme van een Leo Pleysier. Zoals geen ander zet hij het Kempenland, wat ook mijn kiem is, in bloei in zijn boeken. Onmiskenbaar Kempisch en persoonlijk, niet te verwarren met eender welke exotische kracht. Maar daar tegenover staan natuurlijk ook verkavelingsdadaĂŻsten en dergelijke, of gehuchtpunkers. Neigend naar een zieltogend escapisÂme, de gevaarlijkste raadgever in de kunsten. Het is een wankel evenwicht.
Terug naar Zuid-ItaliĂ« en de muziÂkant in kwestie. Geboren en getogen in een prachtig ontiegelijk klein dorpje beneden in de laars. Omzoomd door olijfbomen en de wonderlijk lekkere Primitivo druif. Ontsloten door lanÂderijen ooit bezongen door literaire zwaargewichten als D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound en andere. Bezocht door de beste mystici, muzikanten en ander creatief volk. Met helaas ook de ecoÂnomische en sociale problemen zich doorgaans aftekenend in een soortelijk achterland, verlaten door hoop en rede.
Als je het een beetje historisch benaderde, was het enige dat die man dreef zowat de wens der groot deel van zijn voorlopende generaties. De wens om te emigreren naar Noord-Italië, of beter nog, het buitenland. En vooral Amerika dan. Al dan niet via schip.
Maar moet je daarom per se je afkomst koesteren al dan niet tonen? Een briesende lul in Het Schoon Verdiep zal alvast âja!â bulderen. Maar afkomst is in zoân klootzak zijn hoofd ontbeerd in een soort van circus van onbestaande hechting. Ik spreek in dit stuk dan ook niet over het zich geforceerd vastklampen aan ingebeelde â dominante â cultuur. Het gaat er meer om of iets al dan niet interessants kan zijn, omdat er achtergronden worden gekoesterd. Invloeden vanuit de omgeving ook. Context. En dat men puur zichzelf is.
Spencer Clark, Francesco Cavaliere, en Leila Hassan zijn niet bepaald millionsellers. Het zijn zelfs niet 5.000 sellers. (alhoewel, als je bijÂvoorbeeld al de projecten van Spencer Clark optelt, zal je wel aan een behoorÂlijk getal komen) Het zijn wel stuk voor stuk personen die reeds jarenlang in alle starheid werken aan een bijzonder persoonlijk project. Starheid niet te verwarren met conservatisme.
Een starheid, ontsproten aan een stel hersencellen, ideeĂ«n en zelfbewustzijn. Geen tafelspringers, wel duidelijkheid. En vooral, doorÂheen de jaren van uitgaves, optreÂdens, installaties etc, iets dat wordt gecommuniceerd. En waarnaar menÂsen luisteren, en kijken. En waarvan mensen leren, en zelfs gebruiken. Een starheid die toch invloeden durft toÂnen. Maar tevens een starheid die het eindproduct niet laat verkneuteren tot tijdelijke onzin.
Een dame en twee heren die niet te beredeneerd te werk gaan. Beredeneerd in de zin van, âmet welke boter lepelen we ons nieuwe broodje op?â Een dame en heren die het belangrijkste instrument onderÂzoeken, de hersenpan. Gestuwd door passie. Soms gedoemd tot relatieve eenzaamheid en onbegrip. Andere keren overladen met complimenten, eervolle vermeldingen en kansen. Die zeker niet altijd met perfect gelukte platen en optredens voor de dag komen. Maar waar de mislukking nooit de reden is tot toegevingen.
Spencer Clark, ontsproten aan een jeugd in San Diego. Een stad als een gestileerde 80âs strandbroek, omgeven door militaire barakken, jaloers loenÂsend naar de massa hysterie geheten Los Angeles. En gevleid doch afkerig tot broederschap gedoemd met de psychedelische wanorde van Tijuana, net over de grens met Mexico. In deze realiteit groeide San Diego uit tot een secundaire hoofdstad van het strand, maar evenzeer tot een hub voor aan PTSS lijdende jonge militaire van over het hele land. Op zoek naar wat branÂdende zon voor hun getormenteerde hersenpan. Of naar wat rust als voorbereiding op een mogelijke PTSS.
Zou het kunnen dat deze uitgeteÂkende gekte zich heeft binnengedronÂgen in Clarks unieke wereld? Een wereld vermeerderd door vele reizen en verblijven hogerop in CaliforniĂ«, aan de Amerikaanse Oostkust, in Berlijn, Antwerpen, etc.
Francesco Cavaliere bracht zijn jeugd door in CalabriĂ«. Terwijl Leila Hassan met haar Egyptische ouders zich nestelden in het provinciale Linz, Oostenrijk. Hun gezamenlijke project Sea Urchin is een schilderij van Mediterrane gronden waarin een Noord-Afrikaanse gelaagdheid comÂmuniceert met een land badend in introversie enerzijds en extraversie en corruptie anderzijds. Perfect verknipt in een bed van liefde. Later uitgediept in Berlijn, een stad badend in cultureÂle rijkheid, artistieke doodsheid, een waanzinnige geschiedenis en zuipenÂde expats. Is hun oeuvre getoucheerd door afkomst? Ik denk het wel. En is dit belangrijk? Misschien wel, misÂschien niet. Muziek is altijd gedreven geweest door het nabootsen. En het is heerlijk voor de kleinburgerlijke collectioneur een soort van gefingeerÂde vrijheid in huis te halen, onder het mom van een dure provo LP. En dat mag allemaal. Maar waarom?
Anders verworden we misschien tot glas in plaats van een spiegel. Puur transparant.
Op de nieuwste langspeelplaat Yaqaza klinkt Hassans stem gewoonÂtegetrouw alsof elke flard tekst je persoonlijk wordt toevertrouwd, met uitdrukkelijk verzoek van geÂheimhouding. Gedrenkt in een bad van klanken die, Cavalieresque, het midden houden tussen de historische radiospellen op de RAI van vroeÂgere jaren, library music, en vooral, een Italiaans landschap, getekend door pijnbomen en zon. Een geluid dat completely dry is, in zijn eigen woorden. Deinend op ritmes die niet zouden misstaan op de soundtrack van El Topo. Een prachtig staaltje van heerlijk Mediteraans magisch realisÂme, zoals het enkel daar verzonnen kan worden, in de tuinen van Calvino en Landolfi. Een ode aan de leegte tussen geluiden. Of de kracht van een aanzet. Een vergeten ambacht.
Jeff Witscher runs the label Salon Records, on which Eric Frye released the sparkling Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. The liner notes are saying that the record investigates new modes of perception and spatial cognition. Interesting words for mathematical beauty a.k.a. far out abstract techno, or the best post-millennial melancholia is currently offering.
â Niels Latomme
NL: Letâs start with your most recent release. It has the very intriguing title Some Consequences of Four Incapacities. What does it mean?
EF The title comes from a text of the same name by Charles Sanders Peirce.
NL It reminds of a book Iâm currently reading which is called Boring Formless Nonsense. The writer establishes an Aesthetics of failure, and points out the imporÂtance of Failure in experimental music and art. Is this concept important to you? It makes sense in a way, because although it has this very serious framing (cfr. The text & the fact you recorded it at the university), it has something very playful, and random.
EF Methodological and intuitive approaches are integral elements in my compositional practice. The seemingly random aspects that you reference are constructed intentionÂally to be perceived precisely in that way, and, in essence, to challenge the common / ingrained modes percepÂtion. This might also be viewed, in certain cases, as a form of antinarraÂtive compositional strategy.
Regarding âFailureâ Iâm not sure I follow you. Perhaps some specific examples would help clarify exactly what youâre referencing. Although this concept is not disinteresting to me, it isnât necessarily something that I would readily apply to my own work. Intentional and focused utiÂlization of âFailureâ in music seems to be linked stylistically to improvÂisation, glitch, and noise, none of which I would self ascribe. âPlayfulâ is a bit easier to sympathize with when connected to my work, howÂever, itâs certainly a slippery slope. In my experience, many visual and auditory links to the brain are perÂceived as âplayfulâ when experienced by the perceiver.
Defining a sound or visual art practice as playful seems to connote a disregard for logic and the abÂsence of a concentrated, considered endeavor. I wonder if this term is applied with equal abandon in other industries. Thaemlitz makes a good case against the ideology of a music practice being shackled to terms like âfunâ âplayfulâ âcarefreeâ and âinspiÂrationalâ. This can have a detrimenÂtal effect on composers and artists. Language of this type that commonly surrounds these practices is very generalizing and assumptive which can be corrosive and debilitating because it creates boundaries which not only limit the scope and impact of sound, but also makes approachÂing sound making or art making in terms of a recognized labor practice nearly impossible.
NL The promotext about Some Consequences states that you are researching new modes of perception and spatial cognition? How so?
EF As I briefly mentioned above, using antinarrative techniques is a very direct way of recalibrating common patterns of perception. When experienced in conjunction with spatial audio, the cognitive streams are interrupted further.
NL It also states that your music is a manifestation of new bodies of new mathematical concepts. First of all, Iâm curious if I understood this well, by asking what does it actually mean? Second, the reason why you do this, seems to create new ways of looking or hearing. Can you explain how it actually does? I also wondered if you are consciously ignoring the concept of emotion in music? It seems now that you are in search of Absolute Music, which exists on itself, without relation to the ârealâ world, without triggerÂing human emotions (which isnât a bad nor good thing).
EF Fernando Zalamea wrote a text for my new LP. This text focuses specifically on the links between my compositional output and abstract and radical mathematÂical concepts such as sheafifiÂcation. There are conceptual links to Grothendiekâs sheafs as a topological representation of electroacoustic diffusions.
It seems that sound cannot help but be linked to emotion is some way. Oftentimes experiÂences of perplexity, anticipation, irritation, surprise, attraction, detraction, dissociation, physical and immaterial interaction, are all connected to my work. No, I am not seeking to consciously ignore emotion, In my experiÂence, the sounds are emotionÂally affecting. These sounds also evoke mental, and physical reactions, absolutely.
As the titles, accompanying texts, compositional palette, and structure would suggest, these pieces are not merely showcases of technical construction but conceptually considered works enabling a multitude of interpreÂtive gazes and evocative personal connections that vary from experiÂence to experience. Whatever links are drawn, be it linguistic, matheÂmatical, philosophical, emotional, the work is evocative and complex in its reflection of its surroundÂings. Absolute Music seems to be an archaic concept without much contemporary bearing.
NL Are you an heir of the historical avantgarde music, and especially of their ideas to create new sounds, new music by means of new technology? Do you see this as still relevant in a postmillenÂnial decade, in which everything seems to be thought, done and created? Do you feel that there is some sort of weariness in Western culture, as if has reached itâs limits in renewing things?
EF When composing with any system over a period of time, new and unexpected events will appear intermittently. Also, the collaboraÂtive effort in working with software designers is always creating new angles, strange specificities, and unexpected diversions. One look into software and hardware design, not to mention contemporary comÂposition, will reveal the unmistakable and continued transitions that are taking place. Curtis Roads menÂtioned to me that he is developing an extremely sophisticated spherical audio system. One major obstacle in this ongoing project is funding. âAvantgardeâ is another archaic term that is historically relevant but not contemporarily viable. As a society, we are still approaching sound and music as a simple stereo reality in day to day life. This is directly linked to the market and what is currently deemed feasible to produce and consume. We have a long way to go to mature from our infancy (letâs not get started on the current state of radicalized sexism and racism in the world). Mutations will always persist and will simultaneously befuddle and obfuscate misplaced attempts at concrete definition.
NL Since when are you making music? And how does music relate to your visual art?
EF I was intently listening to the sound of air conditioning units when I was 5 years old. I was playing abÂstract improvisational pieces on my greatgrandparentsâ baby grand piano when I was around 10 years old.
They are inseparable, one and the same.
NL How was it to work in an anechoic chamber? I heard stories that you cannot stay there for a couple of minutes, otherwise you start to hallucinate due to the lack of visual and auditory input. Does this has something to do with the abstract and absolute nature of your music?
EF The anechoic chamber is a very useful compositional tool. I have heard many stories of people sleepÂing contently in them for several hours. My experience with anechoic chambers is not alienating or antagÂonistic. I have successfully utilized the chamberâs ability to isolate and refine certain characteristics of sounds. Anechoic chambers are extremely viable and should not be confined to academic or industry only practices. At Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, where I have spent much time composing and recordÂing in the anechoic chamber as well as the multichannel studio, there is a specially built echo chamber (the polar opposite of the anechoic chamber) that I plan to work in during the coming months.
NL I like the way you treated voices in the salon cdr. Are they concrete voices, or synthesized? In relation to the mathematical and absoÂlute concepts why did you use the most human of all sounds, the voice, in some tracks?
EF The voices are synthesized. What isnât human?
NL And last but not least, for the reader, who sometimes likes to connect to the person behind the music. Can you describe your room, and the neighborhood where you live in?
EF I live in North Minneapolis not far from the fourth precinct that was occupied by protesters for several weeks following the brutal murder of Jamar Clark who was handcuffed by two police officers and then shot in the head.
Asmus Tietchens â a name that popped up about 40 years ago for the first time on an album of ambient music by Cluster&Eno (1977) and can be found in various fields of electronic and experimental music ever since, mostly on the fringes of certain genres like industrial, synth-pop, acousmatic, reductionist electronic music or krautrock. Itâs hard to fix his position to a specific scene, instead he seems more like a curious and peculiar mind working his way through all the spheres that catch his curiosity. Although he can be classified as a consistent solo-artist, quite a few collaborations have been exercised with people like the percussionist Jon Mueller, the reductionist electronic composer Richard Chartier, Chrysanthemumsâ Terry Burrows or his duo Kon-takt der JĂŒnglinge (a combination of titles of two early Stockhausen pieces) together with media-artist and composer Thomas Koener. He also appears on an album by the ephemeral Krautrock band-project Liliental (one of the few records featuring studio-wizard Conny Plank as a musician), probably the only real band he ever played in, not to mention his general dislike of most Krautrock.
â Marc Matter
But letâs start at the beginning: Asmus Tietchens was born in Hamburg (*1947), has lived there ever since, and works there mostly in the studio of his old friend Okko Bekkerâa composer of filmscores and advertisments who also guest-starred on the Cluster & Eno album, but has also produced whole works together with Asmus, most notably a concept-album called E that conÂtains succesful imitations of modern classical and avantgarde music. His attachment with the city of Hamburg is close: being a key-figure and a close inspiration to a younger generation of experimental electronic musicians such as Felix Kubin, who admired Tietchens as a kind of chinese master, a laughing monch, an existentialist audio-scientist leaning to impressionÂism who produces real science-fiction with his music. He also used to be involved in the infamous Odradek fanzine, has been rumored of being behind the mysterious Werkbund and Mechthild von Leusch projects together with Uli Rehberg aka Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg (Tietchens repeatedly denied his participation) and still co-runs the monthly Hörbar events of experimenÂtal music in a small cinema (B-Movie). Even his dayjobs that he once had to execute for the sake of his parentsâ peace were typical for Hamburg: trained as a tradesman working in the harbour and later being a copywriter in the advertising business.
Confronted with early german electronic avantgarde music and french musique concrete on the night-programs of germanyâs state-radio as a 12-year old kid, because he somewhat felt obliged to follow the development of the arts as a grammar school student due to his vanity, this kind of music caught his curiosity. The idea to make music himself deÂveloped, and after giving it a try with guitar-playing which failed due to his left-handedness, he started tinkering around with splicing prerecorded tapes and doing random collages of found sound and music as a young teenager. In the mid-60s he systemÂatisized his approach and got access to a Revox tape-machine, and his first piece of tape-music dates back to 1965. Making music continued as a hobby for 15 years, before getting the opportunity to make it public. The LP Formen letzter Hausmusik (transl. Last forms of family-music, 1984) that was released by Nurse With Wounds Steven Stapleton for his United Dairies label contained mostly materiÂal dating from the mid-70s. His active entry into the music-scene as a comÂposer was via the industrial scene, not only releasing on the NWW label but also on Esplendor Geometricoâs later on, but he does not call his own music industrial: âlike i have been on the fringes of industrial music in the 80s, i am nowadays working on the fringes of reductionist musicâ he tells me in a telephone interview. A period in his work as a composer that dates back to the early and mid 80s should not be forgottenâback then the german intellectual pop-magazine Spex (in the July 1985 issue) speculated that âatonal veteran Asmus Tietchens will never lose his reputation as a hippie-electronic (musician) because of his releases on the german Krautrock-label Skyâ, although he still respects these records for what they are: synthie-pop.
While also some of his experiÂmental pieces work with rhythms and repetitive patterns, his current compositions however are rather abstract, sparse and stern, a music not easy to access but starring an idiosynÂcratic beauty; they explore very subtle differences in tone, texture and sound while not hesitating to use silence as an element. He is more and more interested in nuances: âan unattentive listener could gain the impression when listening to an eight minute piece that nothing is happening hereâ he remarks. After starting out with tape-collages and going through phasÂes of synthesized music and a long peÂriod of mixing both, he is back to pure electronic sound: ânowadays i hardly work with concrete sound-material like field-recordings anymore, but use synthetic soundsâ. Nevertheless, two of Tietchens relatively recent radiopieces that he composed for the WDR Ars-Acustica broadcast series exclusively use concentrated field-reÂcordings: Trois Dryades is based on microscopic recordings of a tree that is cut, and Sechs Heidelberger Studien on recordings of an old Heidelberger printing-machine. Both were awarded with the Karl-Sczuka Price for Radio- Art in 2003 and 2006. Unlike other artists who start out radical only to become tamed by habit, his musical abstraction and quaintness increased over time and moreover his curiosity lead him into different genres and styles without losing a certain kind of handwriting.
Asmus Tietchens doesnt mind to talk about his music before his perforÂmances, and he is a great talker. He is also a gifted writer of critical essays on experimental music or linernotÂes for records by Cluster, GĂŒnther Schickert or Institut fuer Feinmotorik that contain remarkable literary qualities. However, he considers his music a music without words, a kind of âabsolute musicââa concept dating back to mid-19th centuries hardcore romanticismâa music that is absoÂlutely self-sufficient, that is not âaboutâ or âstands forâ something but for itself, that does not intend to provoke specific thoughts or feelings amongst the listenÂers (he is a diligent listener of his own music by the way)âin that way being as open for interpretation as it can get: âi have no messages to spread, and i dont know to whom i should adress thoseâ. But nevertheless, he canât help but stick to his habit to include a quotaÂtion of the thinker of extreme pessiÂmism EM Cioran on each record since Seuchengebiete (transl. Pestilence Fields, 1985); thats because he really wants to share those aphorismsânot because he wants to entertain the listener, but to show what intellectual influences he bears. Thus he is not reflecting a worldview or philosophical convicÂtions through his art, âthereâs still some philosophical background noise that inspires the musicâ. Therefore it does not surprise that he characterises his music of the last 20 yearsâwithout any evaluationâas âan attempt to establish a maximal âhuman-distanceââ