{"product_id":"rlw-fading-pictures-cd","title":"RLW — Fading Pictures CD","description":"\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/www.dronerecords.de\/album.view.html?album=22848\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003enewest album by RLW who moves into very strong electroacoustic realms with eerie, powerful soundwalls and his hallmark of surprising sounds and changes with great dynamics.. - *His music is impossible to pigeonhole into one simple bracket. It is neither industrial or musique concrete, nor computer music nor improvisation.* - really challenging + disturbing stuff on 9 tracks, out on BLACK ROSE, the UK label from STEPHEN MEIXNER \/ CONTRASTATE !!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eNew release on Black Rose Recordings. This is a cinematic and inspiring musical journey which combines beautiful ambience interspersed with haunting atmospheres and electro-acoustic soundscapes. \u003cbr\u003eComes with great artwork by Chris Low.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElectroacoustic music and the concept of cinema d'oreilles have always had a close relationship. From Walter Ruttmann’s Weekend (1939) to Jerome Noetinger's series of MCD releases of the same name (Metamkine, 1992 - 2002), right through to the present day. It is important to note that electroacoustic music is not programme music, but autonomous: it does not condition the listener's imagination to a film score (as most film music does) but opens paths for the listener's own ideas and projections. The listener is encouraged to develop their own creativity; it is not about manipulating his ideas in predetermined ways. The compositions on this CD and their sequence offer the opportunity for free associations, their titles can serve as clues or be ignored, and pure musical listening is also possible: ... pictures might be fading. Or not. It's up to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalf Wehowsky is one of the most respected electronic composers of our day and was one of the founder members of the seminal German group P16.D4 and the label Selektion, whose ground-breaking releases influenced many working in today’s experimental music scene. Previous releases have seen him collaborate with such well known and diverse artists such as Merzbow, Bernhard Guenter, Jim O’Rourke, Achim Wollscheid and Lionel Marchetti. His music is impossible to pigeonhole into one simple bracket. It is neither industrial or musique concrete, nor computer music nor improvisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It appears that with Black Rose Recordings, Ralf Wehowsky, better known as RLW, has found a steady home for releasing his music. It seems there aren't as many as there were years ago, for reasons I am unaware of. I believe liner notes for his work are pretty rare, although they have become less uncommon with recent releases. On the cover of 'Fading Pictures', RLW writes about electroacoustic music, describing it as cinema for the ears and explaining how it differs from program music, as understood in the classical sense of the term. You write a symphonic poem, called 'The Moldau', and listeners see the flow of the river from a small creek ending in the black sea. The opposite of this is absolute music, even when RLW doesn't mention this word. Francisco Lopez's 'untitled' compositions are a radical, contemporary example of this. The listener is free to develop any narrative here, any picture and is even encouraged to fiddle with the frequency range and alter the work further. \u003cbr\u003eFurthermore, writes RLW, electronic instruments were once the playground for individual ideas, but these days, for standardisation: autotune, quantisation, and AI to recreate your favourite artists. \"Therefore, common virtual instruments are used for fading pictures. Although the effort required to 'brush against the grain' is considerable, aesthetically it is comparable to the remodelling of conventional electric instruments in post-punk of unusual instrumental playing styles in free and new and therefore worth the effort\". I am unsure what this means, which is a pity as it explains, I think, the title of the CD. Does RLW use virtual electronic instruments? As he says, the listener is free to have any associations, and titles are merely suggestions or clues to be disregarded. We can listen to this as purely musical pleasure. I go for that last option, because, to be honest, that's what I do most of the time. I admit I don't play as much of RLW's back catalogue as I probably should (but the future looks bright in that respect), I always play his releases with much interest, as, regardless of what he's using, it always sounds compelling. There are feedback-like sounds in the opening piece, 'ertraeumtes intro, vorzeitig abgebrochen', a reminder of the early days of musique concrète, but also recordings of stringed instruments, played with bows, played in a somewhat improvised way, but hacked into fine little pieces, edited and served as the next course in this fine dinner. Between these ends, the pure electronic sounds and the improvised recordings, all extensively processed, is where we find RLW at work. Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, with lots of dynamics, and an extreme eye for detail. I am the kind of listener who sees no images with this kind of music, but I enjoy it on a purely musical level. This is a highly diverse and excellent work.\" [FdW \/ Vital Weekly]\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drone Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65686734045533,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0778\/8953\/6349\/files\/RLW-FadingPicturesCd.jpg?v=1787668840","url":"https:\/\/satatuhatta.net\/products\/rlw-fading-pictures-cd","provider":"Satatuhatta","version":"1.0","type":"link"}