Schneider Tm
Construction Sounds
It happened like this: While improvising at home with his electronic equipment, Dresselhaus at some point noticed that
his music was increasingly beginning to imitate the sounds and structures of the construction site noise that surrounded
him daily for up to 15 hours at a time and periodically brought him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Perhaps as a
kind of defense mechanism, he began to record the sounds and patterns produced by the construction workers and their
machines, and even began to have fun in doing so. Gradually he had the feeling that the workers, whether consciously or
unconsciously, were using their tools much like musical instruments, even interacting, as if they were producing
improvised music. "Construction Sounds" combines these moments with the electronic recordings that Dresselhaus made
during this period. He only minimally processed the recordings, as he wanted to make "those beautiful moments, generated
by unknown construction workers, which I sometimes even heard as cosmic music" available to a wider audience as
faithfully as possible.
Under no circumstances should one confuse "Construction Sounds" with industrial music, which either uses conventional
instruments to sound like factory noise (like Kluster in 1970) or uses industrial noises as mere atmospheric or rhythmic
additions to music made using instruments, as Einsturzende Neubauten did in the early 80s. For Dresselhaus, the sounds
of construction are the music itself. Important: This album is not a statement, it's just beautiful music. Anyone
delving into these sounds will experience it much like Dresselhaus: From the cacophony, a symphony.
Price
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
28-09-2012
Label
Item-nr
429793
EAN
4047179673921
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
CONSTRUCTION SOUNDS (13:06)
2
CONTAINER (6:15)
3
PNEUMANISCH (1:40)
4
GRINDER IN THE SKY (8:24)
5
CONTAINER REDUX (1:25)
6
BIMANUAL COMPLEXITY (10:42)