NOETINGER, JEROME / ERIK M. — What a wonderful world
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Musik bestehend aus puren Geräuschfragmenten und –fetzen, scharf und unstrukturiert und konkret wie irgendwas (radiophone Sounds, field recordings und Vinyl dienten als Soundquellen)... uneasy listening for uneasy people? Schwere, aber lohnenswerte aurale Kost hier vom Metamkine-Betreiber in Zusammenarbeit mit dem turntable-Spezialisten Erik M, die definitive Absage an jegliche Populärmusik.
The antithesis to popular music, this is a difficult, but absolutely rewarding collaboration, consisting of pure noise- & sound-fragments, very concrete and unstructured.
"Jerome Noetinger and ErikM have been focal points of France's experimental-music underground since the early '90s. They've explored concepts of context and copyright along
parallel paths, converging only rarely. What a Wonderful World documents their initial meetings as a duo. Noetinger founded his
seminal label Metamkine in 1989, intent on keeping the musique concrete tradition alive and vital. As a musician, he has worked in
such varied contexts as MIMEO, an ongoing duo with Lionel Marchetti, and in the pioneering multimedia performance group Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine. The latter ensemble typically attains a level of sensory overload that must be experienced, rather than described, for full effect, combining as it does Noetinger's electro-acoustic improvisations with live film-processing by
Christophe Auger and Xavier Querel. ErikM burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s as a virtuoso turntablist. Since then, he has gradually shifted his output into a more abstract vein, often abandoning the
turntables entirely. What a Wonderful World marks a rare return to the turntables for this unpredictable musician, whose previous
recordings include the superb Les Sculpteurs de Vinyl, three CDs as part of the supergroup poire_z (along with Voice Crack and Gunter
Muller), and the solo recordings Zygosis, Frame, and Monofacemirror. In October 2001, then again in April 2002, Noetinger travelled to Marseille to record with ErikM, the first time they'd ever worked as a duo (the only previous meeting of any kind was a large grouping at the end of a festival in 1996 in London, which brought together all the separate participants). Over the following months, Noetinger and ErikM painstakingly edited and shaped the material into a coherent whole, flavoring their complex, abstract electronics with insistent repetitions and field recordings, creating instant concrete – each individual idea as carefully constructed as the impeccably chosen first and last sounds." [label description].
The antithesis to popular music, this is a difficult, but absolutely rewarding collaboration, consisting of pure noise- & sound-fragments, very concrete and unstructured.
"Jerome Noetinger and ErikM have been focal points of France's experimental-music underground since the early '90s. They've explored concepts of context and copyright along
parallel paths, converging only rarely. What a Wonderful World documents their initial meetings as a duo. Noetinger founded his
seminal label Metamkine in 1989, intent on keeping the musique concrete tradition alive and vital. As a musician, he has worked in
such varied contexts as MIMEO, an ongoing duo with Lionel Marchetti, and in the pioneering multimedia performance group Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine. The latter ensemble typically attains a level of sensory overload that must be experienced, rather than described, for full effect, combining as it does Noetinger's electro-acoustic improvisations with live film-processing by
Christophe Auger and Xavier Querel. ErikM burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s as a virtuoso turntablist. Since then, he has gradually shifted his output into a more abstract vein, often abandoning the
turntables entirely. What a Wonderful World marks a rare return to the turntables for this unpredictable musician, whose previous
recordings include the superb Les Sculpteurs de Vinyl, three CDs as part of the supergroup poire_z (along with Voice Crack and Gunter
Muller), and the solo recordings Zygosis, Frame, and Monofacemirror. In October 2001, then again in April 2002, Noetinger travelled to Marseille to record with ErikM, the first time they'd ever worked as a duo (the only previous meeting of any kind was a large grouping at the end of a festival in 1996 in London, which brought together all the separate participants). Over the following months, Noetinger and ErikM painstakingly edited and shaped the material into a coherent whole, flavoring their complex, abstract electronics with insistent repetitions and field recordings, creating instant concrete – each individual idea as carefully constructed as the impeccably chosen first and last sounds." [label description].