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TIETCHENS, ASMUS + ACHIM WOLLSCHEID - Fundstück September 02

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Klanggalerie gg501 Release Year: 2025 Note: archive found in ASMUS TIETCHENs flat in Hamburg - a more than 20 year old collab with ACHIM WOLLSCHEID, originally made for the Ritornell label... "concerning the original ideas of recycling, this is a fine example of how these things can endlessly take new shapes. (FdW) Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info Recently, when Asmus Tietchens needed space in his Hamburg flat, he went through boxes in his cupboard and found a recording credited to himself and Achim Wollscheid. It turned out to be an album originally recorded 20 years ago for the Ritornell label (Mille Plateaux) that was, for reasons unknown now, shelved and forgotten. Over twenty years later, we are now happy to finally share this album with you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "As far as I know, there's no English one-word translation for the German 'Fundstück', which means 'found piece'. If Asmus Tietchens is a new name for you, you haven't been paying attention in the last 30 years, reading Vital Weekly. It's also no news that I am a fan and have met him on many occasions. His work has been of significant influence. The same can be said for Achim Wollscheid. His name might not be as familiar, but that's because he's a lot less active these days. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as SBOTHI (Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant), and also as a visual artist, creating installations with light and objects. His name came up recently when someone asked me privately about my love for recycling sounds and images, and I realised I owed much to both German musicians in my formative years. Tietchens and Wollscheid released a CD together, 'Repetetive [sic] Movement', for Staalplaat in 1998, in which Asmus worked with sounds from his installations and which can be heard between the regular tracks - hence not a standard red book CD. After that, they were on the same label, Ritornell, and they created cutting-edge music with computers. There was to be another collaborative release for this label, and sounds were exchanged, Asmus doing his thing, but the project got lost. Recently, Asmus found a CDR that said 'Radio X, September 02', named after Wollscheid's radio program from those days called 'Radio X'. It turned out this was the Asmus reworking of Achim's sounds (using software called Pure Data). What he uses on the input side isn't mentioned, but my best guess is some of Ritornell's releases, because I recognise one I know pretty well: Freiband's 'Microbes' release, which is a dominant sound source in the second half. In that respect, I think the basic material is Wollscheid's '60x' CD for Ritornell from 2000. These sound sources are a rather loosely orchestrated hotchpotch of sounds that is software running wild, with ever-changing parameters, no doubt run by some clever randomisation process. I assume that's all Achim's doing. What Asmus brings to the table is less obvious. I think there's a colouring of sound effects here, editing and cutting, maybe some additional treatments, and Asmus ties the whole work together, brings some quietness at times, but all the same, it still is a vastly noisy work at times. Also, concerning the original ideas of recycling, this is a fine example of how these things can endlessly take new shapes." (FdW)