Abandon all idioms! For the inauguration of Bagatellen's listen series, Swiss craftsman Tomas Korber shows his range as sound stylist and engineer. The music here is not as gentle as one might expect; Korber is known for his attention to texture and, in collaboration, for an acute sense of timing. This ten minutes of music fills all corners and all space between. A talent for "listening" is perhaps what is most evident in Korber's discography, and here in "Silkworms"'s expanding rings and meshing layers of feedback, that most basic of senses is enlightened. The Feldmanesque scale at the piece's end resolves the congruent noise rows, guitar faking dissonance.
The piece was composed specifically for the bagatellen 'listen series', and that custom will follow. "Silkworms" was mastered early last month. We thank Tomas for the music.
Posted by al on December 8, 2005 12:06 PMExcellent idea. Will check out the music on the way to work. Look forward to future instalments!
Posted by: Dan Warburton at December 8, 2005 9:35 PMYeah, mighty fine idea young chap!
Posted by: alex at December 10, 2005 2:18 AMExcellent idea and a first class choice to begin the series!
Posted by: Ricardo at December 10, 2005 7:45 AMI think that's a strikingly beautiful piece, Tomas. Thanks to all involved in making it available here.
Posted by: walto at December 27, 2005 11:25 AMListening to this again, I kind of like it. The shift, about 4 minutes in, from a full drone to an emptier one is kind of like hitting an air pocket on an airplane. And the guitar notes at the end are quite nice.
Posted by: mwanji at January 8, 2006 3:23 PMam i idiotically unable to find the link to the music or has it been disabled?
Posted by: unwrinkled at January 25, 2006 9:17 PMhmm, yeah, that's a good question, actually. al?
Posted by: tomas at January 26, 2006 12:06 AMI think the original idea was to leave each piece up for something like one month only. Tomas, yours led me to "Effacement"--for which many thanks.
Posted by: walto at January 26, 2006 3:39 AMah, ok, i didn't know that (or forgot about it). maybe you can find it on slsk, unwrinkled.
walt, thank you.
Yep, shelf life on Listen pieces = one month, get 'em while ye can.
Posted by: derek at January 26, 2006 6:38 AMhttp://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/001086.html
this way keeps bandwidth in check, so far
Posted by: al at January 26, 2006 7:16 AMI've just been letting everything happen without me lately
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