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GAL - Relisten

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Intransitive Reordings INT018

Release Year: 2001

Note: lim. 500

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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“ dedicated to the memory of Norbert Schilling” (der Plate Lunch – Macher, der letzes Jahr verstarb)..
Neues Werk des Österreichers, 6 Stücke mit bearbeiteten field recordings, Sprachbearbeitungen und Verfremdungen allerlei Soundquellen, z.B. werden betörende „insektenhafte“ Drones aus Aufnahmen der Brooklyn Bridge herausgeholt, slot machines in einem Casino in Las Vegas benutzt, etc..."
[Drone Rec. info 2001]

The work of Austrian sound artist Bernhard Gal is concerned with the discovery (as opposed to the imposition) of musical structures within the nuances of everyday life. The stammering in the spaces of spoken language, the ubiquitous noise of urban environments, the steady stream of buzzes and whirrs that are a byproduct of mass transportation, all become subjects examined under Gal's extraordinarily precise microscope. He explores ideas about time and language, extrapolating and enlarging and repeating the often overlooked details and minutiae until their inherent sonic beauty supersedes their typical mundane habitat. Following last year's critically acclaimed ‘Defragmentation/Blue' CD (Plate Lunch), 'Relisten' is Gal's first
domestic US album. Each of the six tracks is its own self-contained piece, spurred by some personal association to the composer. However, taken all together, one can travel by sound from New York City (where Gal spent a year's residency at the Leo Baeck Institute) to the subways of Vienna and beyond. The
piece 'lv, nv' uses adaptive filters to uncover hidden musical elements always present at a Vegas casino. Another, 'Tong-hua yie-shi' could be described as real-time musique concrete, created by walking through a Taiwanese night market equipped with a stereo microphone, DAT, and headphones. 'Relisten operates
between the world's soundscapes and their detachment from context', says Gal. 'The personal discovery of music within nature as well as within the routines of everyday life keeps fascinating me. Sometimes I return to a certain place only to record its sound.' Edition of 500 copies." [label press release].

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