EMERGE plays Gerald Fiebig

Konzert beginnt bei / concert starts at 1:20:50

attenuation circuit präsentiert/presents:
EMERGE plays Gerald Fiebig
[musique concrète – experimental – drone / Augsburg]
Samstag/Saturday, 13.02.21
start 21:00 (cet)

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(english version below)
Das Augsburger Kulturzentrum „villa“ startet am 13. Februar 2021 eine neue Reihe mit Livestream-Konzerten. Den Auftakt bildet ein Konzert von EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier. Der Augsburger Musiker, Betreiber des Labels attenuation circuit und Veranstalter des „re:flexions sound-art festivals“ im Kulturhaus abraxas kuratiert auch in der „villa“ seit Jahren eine Konzertreihe, Augsburgs einziges ganzjähriges Forum für experimentelle Musik.
Seit einem Jahrzehnt ist EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier eines von Augsburgs internationalen Aushängeschildern in Sachen experimenteller elektronischer Musik und Klangkunst. Seine Tourneen führten ihn bereits durch fast alle Länder Kontinentaleuropas und Skandinaviens. Bei seinen Konzerten entstehen immer wieder gemeinsame Improvisationen zusammen mit anderen Künstler*innen. Zwei davon sind soeben auf der CD „Fiebig / EMERGE / LLS“ erschienen.
Die beiden Stücke der CD sind Konzertmitschnitte von EMERGE und dem polnischen Projekt Limited Liability Sounds aus Paris sowie von EMERGE und seinem Augsburger Kollegen Gerald Fiebig aus Bochum. Das Livestream-Konzert macht die gemeinsame CD-Veröffentlichung zum Anlass eines neuartigen Experiments unter dem Motto „EMERGE plays Gerald Fiebig“. Stadlmeier spielt solo, verwendet dabei jedoch ausschließlich Geräuschsamples und Klangsequenzen, die Fiebig für ihn vorbereitet hat. Fiebigs Material zitiert die Klangsprache der gemeinsamen CD, doch durch Stadlmeiers Zusammenstellung und Veränderung des vorgegebenen Klangmaterials entsteht im Livekonzert ein neues Musikstück, das über die CD hinausgeht – „ein musikalischer Prozess, dessen Ausgang noch unbekannt ist“, ganz im Sinne von John Cage‘ Definition von experimenteller Musik.
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/fiebig-emerge-lls
https://emergeac.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/emerge.dependenz
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On 13 February 2021, the cultural centre „villa“ in Augsburg, Germany, launches a new series of live streaming concerts. The opening night is a concert by EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier. The Augsburg-based musician, who also runs the attenuation circuit label and organises the local „re:flexions sound-art festival,“ has been curating a series of experimental music concerts at „villa“ for years.
For a decade, EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier has been putting Augsburg on the map of the international experimental music and sound art scene, not least by touring in almost every country in continental Europe and Scandinavia. His concerts regularly feature collaborative improvisations with other artists. Two of them have just been documented on the CD „Fiebig / EMERGE / LLS“.
The two pieces on the CD are, respectively, a recording of a concert in Paris by EMERGE and Polish project Limited Liability Sounds, and of a concert in Bochum, Germany, by EMERGE and his Augsburg-based colleague Gerald Fiebig. The live streaming concert takes the collaborative CD release as the starting point for a new kind of experiment: „EMERGE plays Gerald Fiebig“. Stadlmeier plays solo, using only sampled noises and sound sequences prepared for him by Fiebig. Fiebig’s material references the sonic idiom of the collaborative CD, but thanks to Stadlmeier’s way of combining and processing the given elements, the live concert will produce an new piece of music that goes beyond the CD – „a musical process the outcome of which is unknown,“ as John Cage once defined experimental music.
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/fiebig-emerge-lls
https://emergeac.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/emerge.dependenz
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www.attenuationcircuit.de
www.emerge.bandcamp.com
https://reflexionsac.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/reflexionsac/

Zander/Fiebig: Modul 1

„Kennzeichnung von Zusatzstoffen“ was the first collaboration of Gerhard Zander and Gerald Fiebig. The piece was conceived specifically for the festival Experimentelle Musik in Munich, which back then was held annually in the refectory of the Technical University Munich.

The sound material of the piece consists exclusively of sound recordings made during the everyday business of the refectory. The sounds were collected using various recording devices (minidisc and MP3 recorder, analogue dictaphone). There was no processing of the sounds other than that effected by the technical properties of the respective recording media. The compositional principles of the piece are editing and montage.

For the performance, selected parts of the field recordings were distributed among several playback devices. These were assembled into a musical structure through the live interplay of the two performers. The construction of the piece arises from the specific qualities of the found sound materials.

„Kennzeichnung von Zusatzstoffen“ makes use of the everyday sounds of the TU-Mensa, especially its characteristally reverberant spatial acoustics (including parts of the building not usually accessible to the public), and integrates these in a transformed, but still recognisable form into the special situation of a musical performance in the same place. The title, too, is a found object from an information placard in the foyer of the refectory.

The piece is based on an idea by „die grenzlandreiter“ (Mathias Huber and Gerald Fiebig) and was realised with the kind support of Thomas Pliatsikas.

After the performance, Simone Rist – a soprano who had had pieces dedicated to her by John Cage and who during her formative years had worked as an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer at GRM in Paris – came up to us and said how much she had enjoyed the way it had reminded her of the 1960s musique concrète style. In 2007, the now-defunct Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges gave the piece a honorary mention at their annual awards.

We had fallen in love with electroacoustic music, and with this piece, the world of electroacoustic music started loving us back. The confidence gained from this initial collaboration launched us on our way as a duo, which produced numerous live performances and a series of releases between 2007 and 2012. As you will note in the list below, the first release was called Modul 2, but – not unlike the Annual Reports of Throbbing Gristle 🙂 – the first module remained missing until today. Well, now, here goes.

Zander/Fiebig, September 2020

Further releases by Zander/Fiebig:
Modul 2 – brainhall.net/popups/zehn.htm
Modul 3 – emerge.bandcamp.com/album/modul-3
SoundCycle – emerge.bandcamp.com/album/soundcycle
Raumpunkte – emerge.bandcamp.com/album/raumpunkte
Elektroakustisches Picknick (Mischtechnik) – www.youtube.com/watch

Recorded live in performance at the festival Experimentelle Musik at TU-Mensa, Munich, 9 December 2006

Composed and performed by Gerhard Zander and Gerald Fiebig
Recorded and mastered by Gerhard Zander

Commissioned by Stephan Wunderlich and Edith Rom

Original festival programme note in German:

Das Klangmaterial des Stücks besteht ausschließlich aus Originalton-Aufnahmen aus dem alltäglichen Betrieb der TU-Mensa. Diese wurden mittels unterschiedlicher Aufnahmegeräte (Minidisc- und MP3-Recorder, analoges Diktiergerät) „gesammelt“. Über die jeweiligen technischen Besonderheiten der Aufnahmemedien hinaus wurde das Material keiner Verfremdung unterworfen. Die einzigen Kompositionsprinzipien des Stücks sind Schnitt und Montage.

Für die Aufführung werden ausgewählte Teile des O-Ton-Materials auf verschiedene Wiedergabegeräte verteilt. Die Elemente werden im Zusammenspiel zwischen den beiden Aufführenden live zu einer musikalischen Struktur montiert. Der Aufbau des Stücks ergibt sich aus den spezifischen Qualitäten des vorgefundenen Klangmaterials.

„Kennzeichnung von Zusatzstoffen“ greift die alltäglichen Geräusche und insbesondere auch den charakteristischen Raumklang der TU-Mensa auf (auch aus Teilen des Gebäudes, die normalerweise nicht öffentlich zugänglich sind) und integriert diese in transformierter, aber noch erkennbarer Form in die besondere Situation einer Musikaufführung am selben Ort. Auch der Titel ist ein Fundstück
aus einem Aushang im Foyer der TU-Mensa.

Das Stück basiert auf einer Idee der Gruppe „die grenzlandreiter“ (Gerald Fiebig und Mathias Huber) und wurde realisiert mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Thomas Pliatsikas.

fiction circuit (LP)

by ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE / GERALD FIEBIG / EMERGE / PBK

Artificial Memory Trace aka Slavek Kwi and PBK aka Phillip B. Klingler have been pillars of the global DIY experimental music culture for decades. Both of them have released work on attenuation circuit before. Here, they team up with label owner EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier and his colleague Gerald Fiebig. Each one of the four artists contributes one track of about 10 minutes to the album. But while the four-way split LP is a common format in the global sound culture scene, “fiction circuit” is more than just a compilation.

All of the artists on this album share a love of creating electroacoustic music from field recordings or found sounds. Therefore, label manager Stadlmeier invited Artificial Memory Trace (AMT) and PBK to supply source sounds from their archives. These were then used as the basis for the compositions. Leaving the source material identifiable was not the task – it was to be used as raw material to be sculpted, very much in the spirit of acousmatic musique concrète. On the AMT side, we find the tracks by PBK and Gerald Fiebig. They both used AMT’s source material to create their tracks. PBK delivers a dense, rather rhythmic track with a decidedly “industrial” feel. Fiebig’s track, on the contrary, uses the front cover artwork – a digital collage by EMERGE of visual works by Kwi and Klingler, with other works by them reproduced on the lavishly printed LP insert – as a graphic score for realising a rather harmonic ambient piece. On the PBK side, Artificial Memory Trace and EMERGE “play” the source sounds supplied by PBK. The piece by Artificial Memory Trace qualifies as exuberant rhythm noise, while EMERGE goes all the way into rather meditative laminar lower-case drone minimalism. Therefore, regardless of which side of the record one plays first (“AMT” and “PBK” are engraved on the vinyl itself to guide the listener), one will experience, thoroughout the whole album, a change between very different sonic textures and temperaments that showcase the wide range of expressive possibilities of electroacoustic music. This is not the product of good luck, but of planned collective composition: AMT and PBK, as the “guests” on the label, were invited to create whatever they liked without any formal restrictions. As it turned out, both of their works were rather intense and direct in character. Therefore, EMERGE and Fiebig both made an effort to complement each side with a more subdued, quiet piece.

File under: Electroacoustic music, musique concrète

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