In Situ Ens.

Same Place (2022)

Artikelnummer CR377

CD Edition

Veröffentlicht am 05. November 2022

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A soft disturbance in which the quick rustles against the quicker and slow is held in the palm, bird awaiting its fate, its rapid pulse blurred into secondary song, steady as if holding the hand that supports it, emanating as a small sun, punctured, snapped, dusted by urgent hands, tapped by a nervous quiver. Breath exudes in cautious gusts, its steady flow tumbling hard pins, smacked and snorting alarm calls. Steel containers open and shut, steaming slippery thick with hot oil, another moment held in suspension then slipping away as blades cut across the foreground of a tight space opening out into vast and dark unknowns. In the reed bed of crying, a low deep weather spreads silence, stones clacking out their shocks into its calm settlement of all that was animated by agitation. A curious gait, the creature that walks in sideways steps, its song a seepage of other voices once exchanged, its sparsely feathered wings raised and lowered in quiet menace, the mud sucking viscous and sleepy marked with footprints of a thing only half-familiar. Others listen and throw. Sharp missiles fall from hiding or from empty skies, plunging into softness muck, swallowed so soon as to be forgotten. Dull clouds, then serration. A box rattles, moving itself, worked from all sides by blackest blue aromas of oiled springs, leaves composting into heavy mulch, trembling life singing a song only recently acquired and instantly discarded. The walls close in to a clear space, all of it close by, shape and dimensions tested by the cracking of dry paper, bursting seeds, sharp exhalation, taut wire. A nozzle spits its fluid, hands sweep and slap, from a thick tube slow balls of gum slide and spread. What happens is now and gone. Only the faint hum of dying skin cells and thin hairs remains.

Little patience in this time with the enclosures of human music. Only materials, objects, forces, movements, surfaces, touching, resonance, relations, fields, microcosms of time, small songs that sing alone but together, in spaces of imagined airs, untouchable dimensions that invite exploration by listening.

David Toop  

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Same Place
Total Time: 58min 59s

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Same Place is a delicate, five-part suite that demands deep listening not only from the musicians but also from the listener in order to fully explore its subtle, captivating beauty and countless sonic secrets. The impressive array of personal, innovative extended techniques blur the timbral distinction between the acoustic instruments and the electronics, and often it is impossible to know who produced the arresting, elusive sounds – the quiet breaths and suggestive voices, almost transparent percussive touches, scratching of resonating strings, or the mysterious electronic drones. But the music flows with free imagination and impressive depth. Gently and patiently the music colors the wide and spacious canvas of this suite with intriguing colors and enigmatic sounds and develops toward a powerful emotional conclusion in its final part.

Eyal Hareuveni (salt peanuts)

In Situ Ens.

Liz Allbee - trompete
Rhodri Davies - harfe, elektronische harfe
Christian Kobi - saxophone
Enrico Malatesta - perkussion
Magda Mayas - piano
Christian Müller - elektronik

In Situ Ens. ist ein international besetztes elektroakustisches Ensemble, welches Musik aus dem Moment heraus entwickelt. Die dynamischen Texturlandschaften entwickeln sich, während In Situ Ens. ihren Reichtum an unorthodoxen, erweiterten Spieltechniken ausschöpft.
Ein filigraner Vielzeller, dessen Klang ebenso viel Sprengkraft wie Tiefe und Schönheit beinhaltet.