2009|File|The Sound Genetic|none [Abstract, Noise, Experimental, Ambient]
Composer - PBK (tracks: All) Mix - Asmus Tietchens (tracks: 11)
PBK:
"Asmus Tietchens' first album was released on the French label, Egg, in 1980. His music had evolved out of a sort of quirky electro-pop style to later become these really deep, dark soundscapes, rather frightening at times. I loved his mid-80's work: 'Formen Letzter Hausmusik' (United Dairies), 'Aus Freude Am Elend' (DOM America), and 'Notturno', on Esplendor Geometrico's record label, were all in my record collection. Tietchens' music was both old-school and new, his work correlated to the proto-electronicists of the 50's, but he brought it forward into the post-modern through his fascination with complex electronic processes that re-imagined the source material, creating an extremely abstracted composite of the original.
He and I were in contact as early as 1988, we did some trading back and forth, corresponding by mail, and we decided to collaborate. Late in 1989 I began preparing source material for our collaboration. The resulting CD, 'Five Manifestoes', was released on Realization Recordings in 1992.
'Asmus Sources' compiles many of the textures I created for 'Five Manifestoes'. My sound sources, manipulated and re-processed by Tietchens, were the ONLY sounds used to create the final compositions. This, to my knowledge, was the way he always worked on collaborations.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about 'Asmus Sources' are the textures I created in 1996. I have included here three sources I sent to Tietchens for a proposed second collaboration. At the time we agreed to work together again and I sent this source material to him, but he later wrote to say that he could NOT work with the sources, that he couldn't achieve satisfactory results with them. He sent one short audio track he had worked on, it's never been released before now, and I've included it here as the last track on the album."
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