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«mkm_msa»
For4Ears
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Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics

»mkm_msa« documents Günter Müller, Jason Kahn and Norbert Möslang's twelve-concert tour through Mexico and South America in the spring of 2007. Taken from concerts in Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and Chile, these six pieces bear the stamp of travelling through unknown terrain and playing for new audiences, inspiring the group to take their unmistakeable sound of pulsating rhythms and rich textures to new heights of collective improvisational investigation. The group's strongest recording yet.

The work on Vista began in the summer of 2006 with recordings made by Asher in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Walking through the alleys and side streets he recorded the various mechanical rooms, generators, ventilation systems and idling motors which were to be found there. These recordings were processed and sent to Kahn.
Later that fall, Kahn sent Asher several pre-dawn recordings he had made on the shores of Zürich Lake. Asher processed these in keeping with the methods he had used with his own location recordings so as to create continuity among the amassing material. Unprocessed wind recordings made by Kahn in the Swiss Alps in the summer of 2007 comprised the final batch of material used on Vista. Asher and Kahn spent the remainder of that year working on a final mix.
Addressing the idea of hearing and seeing out and beyond spatial planes, the title Vista references both the aural expanses of Asher's home on a hill in the town of Somerville and Kahn's trips to the Alps and Zürich Lake.
In processing and mixing the discrete details of a landscape, we hear them from a real physical distance. Through the incidental combinations of processed local sounds and sound materials which are entirely foreign to us, an imaginative aural view is created which obscures any relationship to a documentary account of the original locations recorded for Vista..

Jason Kahn // composition, live mix
Tomas Korber // guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics
Christian Weber // contrabass
Tim Barnes // percussion

Recorded May 15, 2007 at Issue Project Room,
Brooklyn, New York.
Duration: 120 minutes

“Timelines_NY” is a graphical score for five musicians composed for a concert in New York. Like the first version of this work, simply entitled “Timelines” (released in 2005 on Cut as CD), “Timelines_NY” was composed with this group of musicians in mind. These graphical works of mine are therefore not interchangeable: they are conceived within the context of the particular instrumentation and, even more importantly, for the personalities of the original participating musicians. In this sense, I see these works as more than just groupings of instruments but social situations, bringing together a particular group dynamic within the parameters of a graphical score.
The musicians are free to interpret the score as they wish. I only ask them to adhere to the dynamic ranges indicated and the timing of when to start and stop playing.
The duration of “Timelines_NY” serves to move these works towards more the idea of an environment than a performance. I would like both the performers and audience alike to enter a place where the idea of time passing recedes into the background; where the focus lies with the sound, on a continuum without beginning or end.

Jason Kahn: analog synthesizer
Gabriel Paiuk: prepared piano

Recorded April 2, 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Upcoming Events

4.12.08
Concert
Jason Kahn // percussion, analog synthesizer
New Departures Concert Series
London, UK
Cafe OTO
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7.12.08
Concert
MKM
Norbert Möslang// cracked everyday electronics
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics
Werkstatt Improvisierte Musik
Bern
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12.12.08
Concert
MKM
Norbert Möslang// cracked everyday electronics
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics
Moods
Zürich
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14.12.08
Concert
Christian Wolfarth // percussion
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer
Günter Müller // ipod's, electronics
Werkstatt Improvisierte Musik
Bern
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18.12.08
Concert
Bo Wiget // cello
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer, percussion, composition
Christian Weber // contrabass
Vincent Millioud // violin Moods
Zürich
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last updated 19.11.2008

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