SONUS - v2
Nachtschatten (2008), 00:12:00Alexander Schubert http://www.alexanderschubert.net
Nationality:
Residence: Germany
Biography: Alexander Schubert, born in 1979 in Bremen, tries to explore cross-genre interfaces between acoustic and electronic music. He has written tape music, electroacoustic music and mixed media works. He’s interested in the design of software setups and manipulation / design of instruments for an intuitive handling in an improvised context (see Weapon of Choice). A permanent focus of his work is the combination of notated and improvised music — both in æsthetics and structure. He plays in the group Ember (saxophone, drums, piano, electronics) which mainly realises minimal, poly-rhythmic pieces that are a mix of free jazz and contemporary chamber music. But he also tries to combine the liveliness and energy of the improvised music with the structures of composed music. Alexander Schubert curates the music festival contemporary electronic music in Leipzig and runs the publishing company Ahornfelder-Verlag for experimental audio and book releases. In 2009 he was awarded a Bourges residency prize.
Program Notes: Nachtschatten is a tape piece based on instrumental and electronic sound material. It’s part of a cycle of narrative pieces describing a fictional space or line of events. It uses remains of romantic phrases distorted and replaced by microtonal, noise-based and frequency-altering effects. The idea was on the one hand to create an orchestral acousmatic machinery in contrast to well-known tape music stylistics and on the other hand to break with the common slowly upbuilding of density patterns.
Nachtschatten was produced during a residency at the ZKM, Karlsruhe in late 2008. In 2009, the composer won a residency prize in the Bourges competition for this piece.
Studio of Composition: ZKM
Hardware Used: Computer
Software Used: Zirkonium
Performer(s):
Appeared In:
CEC: Sonus
CEC: JTTP 2009
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