Emphasis (kk021) by Dirac

オーストリアのトリオによる、まるで「光」と「影」のみで構築したかのような荘厳で清々しい室内楽集。本作は集中力や気分を高めるために都会から離れ、サルツブルグにある メンバーのベーストメントに１週間合宿、彼らが信条とする１発録りの 手法により毎日４時間録音しながら制作。さらに細かな編集を施すために冬のとてつもなく寒く静かなオーストリアの山小屋にこもり完成させ る。 ジャケの元となっているのは、その山小屋の近くにあった 廃墟の写真で、そこで録音された各種のフィールド・レコーディングや メンバーが北インドを旅した時に録音した子供の声など、あらゆる場所の自然な反響音も含む。

Text by Peter Kutin

our way to create a record is based on the simple principle of direct-recording – which means the shape and form of our music is basically created within one moment. It is not only about meeting in a studio to do the recordings, but to stay together at one place with a focus on creating music and concentrated listening each day. The isolation from other musical inputs and the reduced input in general, being far off from bigger cities, far off an everyday-live takes you to the point when you don’t want to sound like something you know, you just want to search, experiment and play. John Cage said, that experimental music is where the outcome can’t be foreseen. These things happen through passion and not ambition.

For ‘emphasis’, we again went to Salzburg, where we could set up our gear in the basement of Florian’s parents house for one week – the same place we recorded our first album ‘dirac’. We recorded about 4 hours everyday , experimenting with different materials and instruments. We later listened to the results at the studio garnison7 in Vienna and did more editing work in a small hut up in the snowy austrian mountains in February 2008 – it was cold, electricity was short, but it was silent.

The record contains many details that have personal aural connections to us. The bell which reappears on emphasis is an old-cuckoo-clock from the hut. The crows that fly away are a field-recording from vienna´s augarten park – we went in there during the night and triggered the birds with a short lightimpuls from a flash light. The kids playing were recorded in a village in northern India were Daniel and Peter spent some time doing field-recordings. The trumpet appearing in Bantu was recorded by Peter on a frozen mountain lake in Austria – thereby the natural reverb of the valley is transferred onto the record. The cover-picture shows the roof of an old abandoned farming-house, close to the mountain hut where we worked on the record.

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音楽の都ウィーンを拠点とするPeter Kutin、Daniel Lercher、Florian Kindlingerによるトリオ。 自らの音楽を「２ １世紀の室内楽」と称し、ラップトップと様々なアコースティック楽器 を組み合わせ、音色／響き／振動に焦点をあて制作。３人とも大学でエ レクトロ・アコースティックを 学び、それぞれウィーンのインプロ・ シーンで活動。ウィーンの実験音楽団体Velakの中心チーム でも ある。現在までに自主とベルギーのU-COVERから２枚のアルバム を発表。またダンサーや 映像作家とのコラボレーションも行っている。

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