Echohaus
Felix Kubin, Ensemble Intégrales
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 15 tracks | £5.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 15 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 15 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Felix Kubin, Ensemble Intégrales - Echohaus
This latest project by the Hamburg-based musician, composer, and futurist, Felix Kubin, (his second release on Dekorder) is a collaboration with the contemporary music chamber group, ensemble Intégrales, and the reknowned German underground pop producer and sound engineer, Tobias Levin.
Echohaus was recorded in and around Levin's Electric Avenue studio in the basement of WESTWERK, a former squat and cultural centre for non-commercial art and music in Hamburg. A special recording technique was developed for the project whereby the musicians played simultaneously in separate rooms, connected to one and other only by headphones. This was done in order to achieve a lively,“cinematic" sound that made use of the particular dynamics of the rooms and amplified mechanical details. The rooms, each of which had a different acoustic character, were used as natural echo chambers. Kubin and the composer Burkhard Friedrich, former member of ensemble Intégrales, provided the musicians with simple graphic scores or basic descriptions of the compositions; all subsequent material was developed on the fly. Kubin was in the mixing room giving instructions and suggestions, while the musicians played and improvised, adding their own ideas to the project.
No artificial reverb or effects were added to the recordings. The different types of rooms and microphones, noises inside and outside of the studio, as well as the unusual interrelationship between the physically isolated players became part of the process. All the tracks were recorded in one take without any additional layers or track-by-track recordings. After a five-day recording session Kubin and Levin created various mixes which Kubin then edited over a period of several months.
The final results mark yet another radical departure from Kubin's trademark Sci-Fi Pop sound, blending the aesthetics of academic contemporary music, film soundtracks and improvised music with a strong focus on room-specific natural acoustics.
Tracklisting
Download Album (DEKORDER049DD)
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Kugeln
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Uncanny valley
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Die sanfte Welt der Ruhestörung
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Nachtschicht für Russolo
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Zerschlage mein Herz, dreifaltiger Gott
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Die Besucher
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Schwarzer Fluss
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Nahtlos glücklich
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Fluchtweg
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Bande vierge
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Obelisk
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Smiling Buddha
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Vögel ohne Specht
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Dusty corners
- Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Freundliche Zukunft
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