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Repressed; Double LP version. Following 2019's New Atlantis album under his experimental techno alias Efdemin, Phillip Sollmann's Monophonie is a project dedicated to uniting different strands of utopian music. His approach: combining and recontextualizing rare historical instruments of sonic research of Hermann von Helmholtz (19th century) with the self-designed, microtonal instruments of Harry Partch and metal sound sculptures of Harry Bertoia. The result is a psychedelic investigation into just intonation -- alternative tuning systems that create unique sets of harmonics not found in conventional scales. Monophonie recasts these sounds into new rhythmic environments where epic kosmische, polyrhythms, acoustic techno, and microtonal glow are interwoven into a rare music. Over nine tracks, the album explores multiple forms of minimalism, from unwavering repetition to pared-down chords and sparse sonic environments. But it also seeks to expand the sound spectrum of Partch's custom built organs and melodic percussion instruments as well as Bertoia's sonambient singing metal rods into an atmospheric otherworldliness. Monophonie was first composed in 2016 and premiered at Berlin's Volksbühne theatre in 2017, before it went on to the renowned Ruhrtriennale and Kampnagel in Hamburg. It was performed by one of Germany's premier neue musik collectives Ensemble Musikfabrik together with Sollmann himself on von Helmholtz's original double siren, with set design by Michael Kleine and wardrobe by Peter Kisur of Honeysuckle Company.
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Following 2019's New Atlantis album under his experimental techno alias Efdemin, Phillip Sollmann's Monophonie is a project dedicated to uniting different strands of utopian music. His approach: combining and recontextualizing rare historical instruments of sonic research of Hermann von Helmholtz (19th century) with the self-designed, microtonal instruments of Harry Partch and metal sound sculptures of Harry Bertoia. The result is a psychedelic investigation into just intonation -- alternative tuning systems that create unique sets of harmonics not found in conventional scales. Monophonie recasts these sounds into new rhythmic environments where epic kosmische, polyrhythms, acoustic techno, and microtonal glow are interwoven into a rare music. Over nine tracks, the album explores multiple forms of minimalism, from unwavering repetition to pared-down chords and sparse sonic environments. But it also seeks to expand the sound spectrum of Partch's custom built organs and melodic percussion instruments as well as Bertoia's sonambient singing metal rods into an atmospheric otherworldliness. Monophonie was first composed in 2016 and premiered at Berlin's Volksbühne theatre in 2017, before it went on to the renowned Ruhrtriennale and Kampnagel in Hamburg. It was performed by one of Germany's premier neue musik collectives Ensemble Musikfabrik together with Sollmann himself on von Helmholtz's original double siren, with set design by Michael Kleine and wardrobe by Peter Kisur of Honeysuckle Company.
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DIAL 008CD
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"This is a short introduction to the artist Phillip Sollmann, who just finished his first conceptual album Something Is Missing for Dial-Records Hamburg. In times of relatively random digital number crunching this is a portion of drones dry as a desert, static as a lake, soft as the wind and close as a whisper. Produced during the last two years, this piece of work is the result of a thinking on theory of sound in space. While studying computer music at a Viennese university, Phillip Sollmann got less and less interested in the possibilities of real-time processing with it's glitches and grains -- and started to re-explore the work of people like La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, C.M. Von Hausswolff, Yoko Ono or Phil Niblock, to name a few -- not to forget This Heat's influence. Listening closely will make you hear the artist raise his voice ('Room Five') on a specially intonated version of Jane's 'It's a Fine Day' (originally on Cherry Records, 1983). Also known as Efdemin for producing Detroit influenced slow and noisy minimal techno (which was released on Dial Rec and his own imprint Tobin), Phillip Sollmann concentrated more and more on ideas of sound related to space -- which lead to his idea of static music presented in two site specific installations, one in Vienna in 2004 and another one in 'Die Blaue Kugel' Hamburg, 2005. All pieces on Something Is Missing were done in a graphical programming environment and will be performed live in 2006, presenting his cyclical & shimmering tones to the audience."
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