[Microsound-announce] cd release on trente oiseaux --- bernhard günter / heribert friedl --- ataraxia

[heribert friedl]

hello to all of you!

just want to announce the result of the collaboration with bernhard günter on 
www.trenteoiseaux.com

all the best,
 heribert friedl

www.nonvisualobjects.com


::newsletter enclosed::

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Dear friends,

trente oiseaux proudly presents:


bernhard günter / heribert friedl ATARAXIA          TOC053

Ataraxia is the result of a through-the-mail collaboration project featuring Bernhard
on electric cellotar, xiao-shakuhachi, and (self-made) traverse shakuhachi, and Heribert
playing the Hackbrett (cymbalon). The music combines improvisation and construction as
well as instrumental playing and the use of sparingly applied digital treatments. Flutes
and cymbalon are played in rather non-conventional ways more often then not, and, as the
title suggests, the overall atmosphere of Ataraxia is quite calm and contemplative while
not missing a some intense moments. A detailed description of its genesis is included in
the pdf liner notes found on the disc, along with some close-up photos of our instruments.

We are both very happy with the outcome of our collaboration, a kind of music neither of
us has played before, and that has grown from our working together. We will soon continue
to work on our second collaboration project 'Transformer'.

Ataraxia, TOC053 is now available.


Other news:

After the release of Ataraxia there will be no further releases on trente oiseaux until I
will have found a new source of income, my financial means not allowing me to further
invest in my label. Trente oiseaux will remain active, and continue to distribute its
releases in the meantime. Transformer, the next CD by Heribert and me will be released on
Heribert's newly founded nvo label ( http://www.novisualobjects.com ) by the end of 2005.
(As a side note: one of nvo's first releases will be a work by Steve Roden, who will give
a bamboo flute I made for him an important role in its creation - this world has become a
small one indeed.) Furthermore, I am still considering the addition of an online download
option to trente oiseaux's web shop, but neither the technical, nor the financial aspects
of this project have been sufficiently clarified for the time being.

+minus will release a CD comprising three re-mixes of +minus material, one by each of the
trio's members, on Esquilo Records, Portugal. My colleagues have already completed their
contributions, and I will begin to work on mine next week using an excerpt of a live re-
cording of our concert in Leeds. I intend to add a couple of tracks to this existing part
that will be part improvised and part composed/constructed. I have also agreed to do a
re-mix of a solo piece by British guitarist Gary Smith that will constitute my first ever
release as a guitarist in spite of my playing the instrument for about 30 years.

Last, but not least I'm looking forward to doing a sound installation and solo concert at 
the Art Museum of Norrköping, Sweden on 27. July.


All the best to all of you,

                           bernhard günter / trente oiseaux
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