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the sublime and the profane

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alberto braida - piano - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 1 03:06
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joachim zoepf - bassclarinet, sopranosaxophone - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 2 03:39
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john russell - guitar - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 3 03:05
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elke schipper - voice - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 4 02:21
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mats gustafsson - tenorsaxophone - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 5 02:38
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günter christmann - cello, trombone - adhesive tapes. radio(s) and more 6 02:18
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michael griener - percussion - ´Küchenkoller´ kitchenturbulences 1 04:40
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joachim zoepf - bassclarinet - ´Küchenkoller´ kitchenturbulences 2 04:48
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alberto braida - piano - ´Küchenkoller´ kitchenturbulences 3 04:48
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elke schipper - voice - Kaffekantate 1 04:14
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joachim zoepf - bassclarinet - Kaffekantate 2 04:26
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günter christmann - trombone - Kaffekantate 3 04:21
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alexander frangenheim - doublebass - cracks, beats, cuts, folds 1 03:17
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john russell - guitar - cracks, beats, cuts, folds 2 01:50
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mats gustafsson - sopranosaxophone - cracks, beats, cuts, folds 3 02:19
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günter christmann - cello - cracks, beats, cuts, folds 4 04:39
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joachim zoepf - bassclarinet - take a shower 1 03:08
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michael griener - percussion - take a shower 2 04:51
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günter christmann -cello / jörg hufschmidt - drawing on snaredrum - dialog(ue)s 1 02:35
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günter christmann -cello / jörg hufschmidt - drawing on snaredrum - dialog(ue)s 2 03:07
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joachim zoepf - soprano saxophone - candance 1 - foxtrott 02:24
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günter christmann - cello - candance 2 - freestyle 03:03
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mats gustafsson - tenorsaxophone - bottlebattle 1 - dry 03:07
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elke schipper - voice - bottlebattle 2 - wet and dry 03:54
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joachim zoepf - bassclarinett - chasing the dust 1 02:23
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günter christmann - trombone - chasing the dust 2 02:14
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mats gustafsson - sopranosaxophone - Ornothology 88 - s(w)inging 1 02:30
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günter christmann - cello - Ornothology 88 - s(w)inging 2 02:42
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about

Howling factory whistles, screeching buzz-saws, chattering railway-cars – the acoustic overflow that hit life when machines and motors gained their mastery, inspired artists of italian and russian futurism in the early 20th century to give the energy of these noises a place in their symphonies. Enriches by less sensational sounds of daily tasks and nature, composers oft he musique concrète gathered them - scince the forties – into a catalogue of acoustic materials for their radio pieces.
Contemporary music takes them as a source for electronic sound production.
The music recorded on these two cds work on a similiar approach to our profane accoustic environment. But the method of performance is different and unusual.
We listen to the brute operatimg noise of a machine. Playbacks – fitting together sound so trivial activities – prepare a kind of the panel for t he musicians´quarrel. However, in most of the 28 „duos“ the manual and technical roar is transformed into a musical instrument.
The sublimation of these surrounding noises, the receptivity for their inherent colours, dynamic and rhythmic structures, the empathy with, for example, the stertorous breathing of a coffeee maker, all this internalisation as emotional and imaginary substance occours in the musician´s ear
Searching for the „unheard“ that may accord a voice to his inner singing, he may extract from this acoustic ambience impulses for new self expression.

The specific methods and results of „the sublime and the profane“ accrue from the musicians´attitude and experience as improvisers.
Because of their individual instrument playing, mostly far away from tonal tunes, they take it as a matter of course to let these trivial sounds become music, not merely effects. Their alertness in parsing, reacting and setting, based on the devotion to what happens in the here and now, makes it possible for these musicians to communicate duirectly with bottles, water, sticky tapes, vacuum cleaners and clacking dishes.
These co-occurences provoked, and the evidence is here, many moments of a more intensive and open playing..

It ist o be hoped that, among all the screens, mobile devices and earphones, human senses stay attuned tot he perception of this poetical energy resting in the neighborhood. – Elke Schipper
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credits

released February 19, 2023

Concepts, titles, informations : Günter Christmann
recorded by: Alexander Frangenheim, Günter Chritsmann, Elke Schipper, Jörg Hufschmidt,
mixed by: Alexander Frangenheim. Jörg Hufschmidt, Elke Schipper, Günter Christmann,
final mix and mastered by: Joachim Zoepf

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Joachim Zoepf Erftstadt, Germany

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