G*PARK — One hour as Bernel and Hofmann
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Tolles Comeback von G*PARK nach über 10 Jahren, ein 60-Minuten One-Tracker der auf Sounds von zwei Klavieren basiert, die er bearbeitet hat. Rumpelnd, dröhnend, grummelnd, collagenhaft, spannende Details, ins Innere der Mechanik hinein, wir sind begeistert !
“Ten years after 'Geopod', published by Zabriskie Point in 1995, the first release by G*Park / Marc Zeier (apart from the limited and privately issued 'Monode' in 2003). Marc Zeier is a Schimpfluch-Gruppe member of the very first hour (as early as 1986 performance 'Kohlkopf'), and an installation & video artist. For a profession he is a Plankton-fisher in the lakes around Zurich. "I had two old pianos - a pianola (Bernel) from 1820, and a grand piano (Hofmann) from the 1930's - which I decided to sell. The night before their removal I recorded the raw material for this last piece. I processed the recording during the following weeks by reducing it more and more. Finally I added some Pink Noise (whose frequencies are equally distributed on the whole frequency spectrum, it wipes out everything around). Towards the end of the piece it increases, and when it stops abruptly, the room seems to implode. The piece has to do with our memory: bits of earlier impressions, from sequences in the first part, rise to the surface later again and start to turn around, loop-like - overlapped by snatches of white noise - moving to the foreground and then fading away. Concentrating on the material all these weeks I felt more and more on with the huge resonance bodies of the two pianos..." "Im Grunde wollen wir Klavier sein, sagte er, nicht Menschen sein, sondern Klavier sein, zeitlebens wolln wir Klavier und nicht Mensch sein, entfliehen dem Menschen, der wir sind, um ganz Klavier zu werden, was aber misslingen muss (...)" - from: Thomas Bernhard, Der Untergeher. Black disc in black Digipak with fullcolour artwork & fold-out inlay. Edition of 170 copies. “ [label info]
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“Ten years after 'Geopod', published by Zabriskie Point in 1995, the first release by G*Park / Marc Zeier (apart from the limited and privately issued 'Monode' in 2003). Marc Zeier is a Schimpfluch-Gruppe member of the very first hour (as early as 1986 performance 'Kohlkopf'), and an installation & video artist. For a profession he is a Plankton-fisher in the lakes around Zurich. "I had two old pianos - a pianola (Bernel) from 1820, and a grand piano (Hofmann) from the 1930's - which I decided to sell. The night before their removal I recorded the raw material for this last piece. I processed the recording during the following weeks by reducing it more and more. Finally I added some Pink Noise (whose frequencies are equally distributed on the whole frequency spectrum, it wipes out everything around). Towards the end of the piece it increases, and when it stops abruptly, the room seems to implode. The piece has to do with our memory: bits of earlier impressions, from sequences in the first part, rise to the surface later again and start to turn around, loop-like - overlapped by snatches of white noise - moving to the foreground and then fading away. Concentrating on the material all these weeks I felt more and more on with the huge resonance bodies of the two pianos..." "Im Grunde wollen wir Klavier sein, sagte er, nicht Menschen sein, sondern Klavier sein, zeitlebens wolln wir Klavier und nicht Mensch sein, entfliehen dem Menschen, der wir sind, um ganz Klavier zu werden, was aber misslingen muss (...)" - from: Thomas Bernhard, Der Untergeher. Black disc in black Digipak with fullcolour artwork & fold-out inlay. Edition of 170 copies. “ [label info]
www.tochnit-aleph.com