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FELIX KUBIN & ENSEMBLE INTEGRALES - Echohaus

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Dekorder 049 Release Year: 2010 Note: highly experimental collaboration by FELIX KUBIN (ex KLANGKRIEG) with ENSEMBLE INTEGRALES, a contemporary music chamber group, who work together based on a special recording technique .... the result are 15 pieces of really daring & unusual miniatures Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 More Info "this latest project by the musician, composer and futurist felix kubin is a collaboration with the contemporary music chamber group, ensemble intégrales, 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 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,"cinematic" 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 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. 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." [label info] www.dekorder.com