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Arthur Sauer - AIR

We may consider Arthur Sauer a typical “Rotterdam composer”. He has lived and worked most of his life in the rougher areas of the city, near ports, in deserted buildings, directly drawing inspiration from the environments disregarded or even unknown by others.
Sauer, composer and performer of electronic and instrumental music, instrument builder and field recorder, for this album used recordings of electromagnetic frequencies, as well as ultra-high frequency recordings of bats, the weather..

“A Chinese wind gong was recorded with a very close Blumlein pair so the positions where the sounds were made on the gong are magnified between the left and right speakers. My voice was recorded as well as a mouth harp: airy instruments. The notes of the melodies are spaced far apart, so there is a lot of space between them. The melodies follow chaotic curves, curves that are related to the chaotic behavior of wind. Sometimes they sound like stars in the sky.
The metal sounds are reminiscent of the sounds I hear here in the harbour where ships and constructions are built for work on the sea. Sometimes you hear voices through speakers, but you don’t know where they come from.
That’s the kind of universe where I live!” (Arthur Sauer)

All this, in the end, was processed with self-written Max MSP software.
The CD contains one long track, 1 hour and five and a half minutes long. Published in 2023. See also the album “Fluid” which was part of the same series.

Label: Own / ASMZ10002
Artist: Arthur Sauer
Medium: CD
Category: .

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