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01. Moritz Von Oswald - Silencio
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02. Moritz Von Oswald - Luminoso
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ARTIST
VON OSWALD, MORITZ
TITLE
Silencio
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
TRESOR
CATALOG #
TRESOR 339LP
TRESOR 339LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/1/2023
Double-LP version. What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On
Silencio
,
Moritz von Oswald
works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept. Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations
Edgard Varèse
,
György Ligeti
, and
Iannis Xenakis
, von Oswald and
Vocalconsort Berlin
delve into the space between sounds, creating a deeply textured collection that shifts between light and ethereal and dark and dissonant. As masterfully demonstrated in the early work of von Oswald and
Mark Ernestus
's influential
Basic Channel
project, repetition and reduction are key elements here, much in the tradition of techno and minimalism. The vast dynamism of the human voice adds to the profound weight of electronics while offering up a rhythmic source and sonic noise palette unexplored in von Oswald's repertoire. In
Silencio
, von Oswald dredges a dank murk, pulling clouds over a distant pulse. It hangs, ready to take on new forms. The compositions were written in von Oswald's Berlin studio on classic synthesizers, such as the EMS VCS3 & AKS, Prophet V, Oberheim 4-Voice and the Moog Model 15. These abstract recordings were transcribed to sheet music for choir by Berlin-based Finnish composer and pianist,
Jarkko Riihimäki
and performed by Vocalconsort Berlin in Ölberg church in the city's Kreuzberg district, only few meters down the road from where Dubplates & Mastering and Hard Wax opened their doors for music enthusiasts for many years so long. The recordings of the choral versions were then incorporated into the synthesized parts of the album and brought into a new electronic context; in
Silencio
, the focus is not on using one means to imitate the other, but to sonically discuss the tensions and harmonies between the two worlds and create a dialogue between them. The relationship between von Oswald and Tresor Records goes back thirty years, all the way to Blake Baxter's Dream Sequence in 1991 -- which von Oswald engineered alongside
Thomas Fehlmann
. The collaboration with Fehlmann lived on, seeing the duo team up as
3MB
with
Eddie Fowlkes
or
Juan Atkins
. More recently, the Detroit-Berlin connection continued as Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present
Borderland
(TRESOR 262CD, 2013).
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