Today we present you the second edition in the Potrait Series with the addition of The Four Elements by Staplerfahrer. In the Portrait Series an artist presents a new work wich will be released as 3″ EP coming with a card with a picture of the artist on it (the portrait) send in a small envelope with the address of the customer (which is part of the whole set).
Listen to and buy the EP on Bandcamp for 7 euro (excl. shipping)
The Four Elements that I refer to here, is a cassette that came out on Korm Plastics back in 1990. On its cover it showed a visual score by Frans de Waard and it featured six musical interpretations of the score by acts like THU20, Kapotte Muziek and Massimo Toniutti. That visual score always intrigued me and for years I’ve been carrying it along in my mind with the intent to make a musical piece for it… someday. So finally, you have my 20-minute version in your hands. The original score lasted for 7 and a halve minute but I have taken that “carrying in mind” part to another level: I didn’t look back anymore to the original score but instead started using the score that had been maturing in my head.
Staplerfahrer is the artistic moniker for Steffan de Turck, a Dutch sound artist from Tilburg, The Netherlands, who plays around with crunched and broken sounds, circuit bended gadgetry and electro-magnetic waves…and some weightlifting with powerbooks along the way.
Steffan de Turck has been working in the field of electronic music since the beginning of the nineties and has released a bunch of solo and collaborative works all over the place.
The 3″ CD-R is limited to 50.
This is MFR015
The Portrait Series 002
Read the first review here: http://www.vitalweekly.net/901.html
Upcoming releases in The Portrait Series are by TVO, Matto Frank and Machinist.
Soon more to be added.
A first review in Vital Weekly today:
http://www.vitalweekly.net/901.html
STAPLERFAHRER – THE FOUR ELEMENTS (3″CDR by Moving Furniture Records)
For once I am not assuming the role of “independent” reviewer, but here I look at something that is composed according to a visual score I did in 1988. It was a time when these things were hot to do, as we (?) all heard about musique concrete composer, visual scores and such like. So I thought of doing one myself, which would have four different layers of sound, in total spanning seven minutes and thirty seconds, and ask five other people to do an interpretation of this score, along with the one I did myself. It was one of my first experiences in a real, 8-track studio, but that is of course a different story, for another day. For completists: there was another version released, by Spanish Escupemetralla, but much to my surprise this little thing hasn’t been forgotten and apparently for years was an inspiration for Staplerfahrer.
Quite rightly so he takes the liberty of expanding the seven minutes and thirty seconds into twenty minutes – I mean why not? the score just provide s an idea of what it would sound like, and you can ignore the timing – and Staplerfahrer cleverly builds a piece from field recordings – motor sounds, crackling of leaves, the breaking of glass to mark the end of a section, and with his usual brand of near broken electronic instruments, which hiss, tick and buzz away. A great composition I could say, but perhaps better said, is that no matter what the conceptual background of this piece is, this is a great piece, perhaps one of the best I heard from Staplerfahrer so far. It’s that good! (FdW)
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