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TIETCHENS, ASMUS - h-Menge (ETA-Menge)

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: LINE line_033 Release Year: 2008 Note: lim. 500, FINAL part in the "Mengen"-series Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Letzter Teil in der MENGEN-Serie! Ruhige, metallische, "röhrende" Sounds aus einem nicht-organischen Multiversum. "Line is proud to present η-Menge (Eta-Menge), the final installment of the critically acclaimed Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. Eta-Menge means eta quantity. Based strictly on sine tones and white noise, the Mengen series was released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux as the CDs Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma-Menge and then continued on LINE as the CDs Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta-Menge. Asmus Tietchens' first released his unique electronic music in 1980, but created works since the late 1960s. Since then, he has produced over 37 full length solo works and more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and concrete music. Some of his over 20 full length collaborative projects include works with Merzbow, Achim Wollscheid, Vidna Obmana, Richard Chartier, and Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his ground-breaking early works on CD in limited edition. In both 2003 and 2006, Tietchens was awarded the Karl-Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst by Südwestrundfunk (SWR)." "... In many of his works, Tietchens explores something, say the sound of paper or voice or here sine tones and white noise, until things are fully explored. It gives us a whole body of works, like his 'Hydrophonien' or his 'Teilmenge', going here from number 43 to number 50. Tietchens feeds his sine waves and white noise through bunches of ring modulators and sound effects, scrapes off the sound of the tape and amplifies the silence. That is at least how I imagine this. 'Eta-Menge' is a beautiful, silent work that works great, again. Perhaps perhaps perhaps there is a bit of fatigue in this series, and we know what it is all about. It's good, it's great but it's also good that this comes to a conclusion. Those who are superficially interested in Tietchens may not need any other portion of 'Menge' (pun intended), but the die hard Tietchens inside this reviewer loves it of course immensely." [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.12k.com