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01. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Annotations 1
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02. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Annotations 2
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01. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Annotations 3
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02. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt - Annotations 4
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ARTIST
GERTH & CARL OESTERHELT, ANDREAS
TITLE
The Aporias Of Futurism
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
UMOR REX
CATALOG #
UR 133LP
UR 133LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/22/2022
This double album is a new collaboration between long-time Umor Rex artists
Andreas Gerth
(one half of
Driftmachine
) and
Carl Oesterhelt
(
11 Pieces for Synthesizer
). Both developed their shared musical cosmos during their time with the now defunct
Tied +Tickled Trio
. Oesterhelt is also known for his solo compositions for orchestras and for collaborations with
Johannes Enders
and
Hans-Joachim Irmler
of
Faust
. As futurism seems inherent to electronic music, the backward-looking view is alien to its nature -- consequently, a dialectical struggle between these principles is rarely expressed with the means of electronics. Especially today, its essence as a medium of progress stands in opposition to a skeptical position.
The Aporias Of Futurism
seeks to define a critical location, that stands in opposition to the postmodern concept of interpretation, deconstruction and reformulation and the belief in progress that goes with it. The working method for the album Andreas and Carl followed was the usual musique-concrète-technique -- cut/assemble/edit/process pre-recorded sounds -- but instead of deconstructing the concrete noises into an abstract sound entity, they followed a different path: the organic interweaving of orchestral structures with the electronically processed noise layers into a composition in the sense of classical modernism at the beginning of the 20th century. Carl started with sketches recorded via a broken CD player, processed through a ring modulator, which sounded like old electronic music from the 1950s. To interact with these fragments Andreas recorded and processed a plethora of everyday noises, atmospheres, tonal fragments from the modular, industrial and shortwave radio noise, percussion in the form of door slamming, falling metal sheets, ball tracks, and so on. So, while they still played within the futuristic discipline, the reference to the past is actually unmistakable. One can hear it in the tonality of the contrasting orchestral passages, in the sound character of the processed samples and the sonic electronic layers. Free associations of concepts, books and authors from a wide period of time, such as
Milton
's
Paradise Lost
,
William Blake
,
Robert Graves
, ancient Rome, as well as
Borges
and
Juan Rulfo
. This flood of images is also incorporated on the album cover as a "free interpretation" of cultural objects and their relations in time. The overarching motif of a skeptical rejection of the idea of Futurism is illustrated by a quote from
Emile M. Cioran
, the writer who most closely embodies the common spirit of the work presented here. Gatefold sleeve; includes download code; edition of 300.
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