MARGOLIS I FIEBIG I EMERGE – tripolar exercises
factory-pressed CD in Digisleeve, ltd.ed. 200 copies
https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/tripolar-exercises
this is a joint-release by
Pogus Productions ° 21095-2
pogus.com ° pogal@pogus.com
gebrauchtemusik ° gm040
gebrauchtemusik.de ° geraldfiebig.net
attenuation circuit ° ACU 1064 ° 2024
attenuationcircuit.de ° attenuation-circuit@web.de
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Al Margolis: strange instruments
Gerald Fiebig: objects, Auki the dachshund, chickens
EMERGE: sound recycling, photo, design, mastering
The first collaboration of Al Margolis (aka If,Bwana), Gerald Fiebig, and EMERGE dates back to the early days of attenuation circuit: In 2012, Fiebig and EMERGE (along with local colleague elektrojudas) supported If,Bwana at his first ever live show at attenuation circuit’s homebase in Augsburg, and joined him for a collective improvisation which was subsequently released as the double-album ‚crossgrained‘. This beginning of a great friendship was followed by a split LP by Margolis and Fiebig, another collective live set in 2015 including elektrojudas, and EMERGE joining If,Bwana on tour across Europe. Ten years after their first meeting, Margolis, Fiebig, and EMERGE set about composing a collaborative album in a completely different manner – and this is the result.
Anyone familiar with the work of the three collaborators would argue that the common denominator of their practices is the drone, and in fact this idiom is present in the interludes of this album, for which EMERGE supplied sounds that were processed, or ‚recycled‘, by Margolis and then joined by other lifeforms via field recordings supplied by Fiebig. The three main pieces of the album, however, tend to exploit other approaches. They were composed over distance, with one participant recording a track, the second one adding another, and the third one adding the final track and mixing the piece. For each of the three pieces, the sequence of the contributors changed as indicated. The challenge of contributing relevant parts to a piece ‚emerging‘ without a preconceived plan, while at the same time leaving enough room for subsequent contributions, along with the choice of obscure sound sources, gives this album its particular texture, in which ‚chance meetings‘ play a rather significant part. The track titles reflect this quasi-surrealist approach, while the first letters of the words in the titles are related to the sequence of the contributors in these ‚tripolar exercises‘.
File under: drone, electroacoustic, musique concrète
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