Waterkil

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Axel Dörner (D)
trumpet, electronics

Jassem Hindi (F)
diverted machines, amplified broken objects, contact microphones, magnetic tapes, no-fi field recordings, no-input mixing board, feedback

caol: 19:17
recorded october 6, 2011 at EMS Stockholm

able: 19:20
recorded june 11, 2011 live at -able Gallery Berlin

– play on 45 rpm! –
limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies on clear Vinyl

“The lavish three page gatefold cover is based on drawings by Matthias Reinhold. The outer side shows a panoramic pencil drawing of something that could be a river looming through an entanglement of spiny rank growth. Inside is a agglomerate of small particles, each one a kind of a representative of the miniatures audible on the crystal clear Vinyl. Like undecipherable magic characters or unknown species of insects dispersed on the cardboard and specifically invented by Matthias Reinhold for the record.

After meeting for the first time in Beirut during the Irtijal Festival 2006, Axel Dörner and Jassem Hindi had their first musical collaboration in Switzerland two years later in 2008. From that time on they have regularly performed as a duo on different occasions. The music of the duo is electroacoustic music with trumpet and electronics, both musicians using their musical equipment and systems in an unusual way, developing their own techniques of sound creation. They are interested in exploring different possibilities of combinations of all musical parameters in a new way, so that the shape of their music can, for example, lead into unstable electric fields, frozen sound columns, and unexpected cuts in a surprising order. Both musicians try to push a sound texture or a series of sounds to their threshold and to drive those sound materials to where they show they’re constraints, saturation, inner necessity and physical laws. These are shown to matter as much as parts of a musical gesture.

The recordings for their album „waterkil“ were made during a three week residency at EMS in Stockholm and during a live show at -able gallery in Berlin. Audible snapshots of a river course, maybe a kind of freaked out Smetana „The Moldau River“ transform itself into liquid oil paint on a defibrated canvas of a landscape painting, the surface scratched by a rusty palette knife. From reductionistic hisses and crackles the range goes to distorted family-life field recordings and confronts these elements with a noisy and voluminous climax of electronic drone layers. The miniatures are frequently interrupted by parts of silence, giving the whole piece a very dynamic structure.

Axel Dörner plays a so-called “firebird” trumpet which is extended with a mixing board, microphones and an interface constructed by Sukandar Katardinata. With this equipment he is generating electro-acoustic music defined through his own extended-technique trumpet sounds, feedback and a special self-developed kind of live-sampling of his trumpet.

Jassem Hindi uses lo-fi electro-acoustic material: diverted machines, amplified small broken objects, metal and wood scraps, contact microphones, tapes, no-fi field recordings, no input mixing board, and feedback.”