EMERGE & Remetemen & XFnX – no!zer room series part ’n‘ 2CD

EMERGE & Remetemen & XFnX – no!zer room series part ’n‘ 2CD
factory-pressed 2CD in Digipack

https://immerge.bandcamp.com/album/no-zer-room-series-part-n

live @ tinta social – Miskolc 06/24/2018

immerge.bandcamp.com

soundcloud.com/rmtmn
remetemen.bandcamp.com

soundcloud.com/chris-xfnx
xfnx.bandcamp.com

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Gerald Fiebig / Emerge – crossing rivers tour 2019

tour flyer

https://www.facebook.com/events/256825021915869/

GERALD FIEBIG – EMERGE
crossing rivers tour 2019
29.05. – 04.06.

29.05. D-Münster: cuba – black box
with Anja Kreysing
https://www.facebook.com/events/2311049095783653/
01.06. D-Düsseldorf: Galerie Stolte
https://www.facebook.com/events/2279001415693085/
02.06.D-Hamburg: Das Archipel: Matineé release show
https://www.facebook.com/events/396643307847634/
02.06. D-Hamburg: blurred edges @ Albphilharmonie
with PAAK & THE OVAL LANGUAGE
https://www.facebook.com/events/2162050053882026/
https://www.vamh.de/index.php?what=blurred_edges&year=2019&gig=3767
03.06. D-Bremen: Hulsberg Crowd
with Mattia Bonafini
https://www.facebook.com/events/409000793275514/

Münster Kopie Düsseldorf Archipel-neu Hamburg Bremen

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE / GERALD FIEBIG / EMERGE / PBK – fiction circuit

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE / GERALD FIEBIG / EMERGE / PBK – fiction circuit
limited hand-numbered edition of 300 copies on slightly marbled green vinyl

https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/fiction-circuit

AMT Side

played by PBK
played by GERALD FIEBIG

PBK Side

played by ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE
played by EMERGE

untitled collage by Phillip B. Klingler

REALITY SCAN 14-17.2.2009 by Slavek Kwi

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE
artificialmemorytrace.com

GERALD FIEBIG
geraldfiebig.net

EMERGE
immerge.bandcamp.com

PBK
pbksound.bandcamp.com

cover artwork by Phillip B. Klingler and Slavek Kwi
design by EMERGE

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Artificial Memory Trace aka Slavek Kwi and PBK aka Phillip B. Klingler have been pillars of the global DIY experimental music culture for decades. Both of them have released work on attenuation circuit before. Here, they team up with label owner EMERGE aka Sascha Stadlmeier and his colleague Gerald Fiebig. Each one of the four artists contributes one track of about 10 minutes to the album. But while the four-way split LP is a common format in the global sound culture scene, “fiction circuit” is more than just a compilation.

All of the artists on this album share a love of creating electroacoustic music from field recordings or found sounds. Therefore, label manager Stadlmeier invited Artificial Memory Trace (AMT) and PBK to supply source sounds from their archives. These were then used as the basis for the compositions. Leaving the source material identifiable was not the task – it was to be used as raw material to be sculpted, very much in the spirit of acousmatic musique concrète. On the AMT side, we find the tracks by PBK and Gerald Fiebig. They both used AMT’s source material to create their tracks. PBK delivers a dense, rather rhythmic track with a decidedly “industrial” feel. Fiebig’s track, on the contrary, uses the front cover artwork – a digital collage by EMERGE of visual works by Kwi and Klingler, with other works by them reproduced on the lavishly printed LP insert – as a graphic score for realising a rather harmonic ambient piece. On the PBK side, Artificial Memory Trace and EMERGE “play” the source sounds supplied by PBK. The piece by Artificial Memory Trace qualifies as exuberant rhythm noise, while EMERGE goes all the way into rather meditative laminar lower-case drone minimalism. Therefore, regardless of which side of the record one plays first (“AMT” and “PBK” are engraved on the vinyl itself to guide the listener), one will experience, thoroughout the whole album, a change between very different sonic textures and temperaments that showcase the wide range of expressive possibilities of electroacoustic music. This is not the product of good luck, but of planned collective composition: AMT and PBK, as the “guests” on the label, were invited to create whatever they liked without any formal restrictions. As it turned out, both of their works were rather intense and direct in character. Therefore, EMERGE and Fiebig both made an effort to complement each side with a more subdued, quiet piece.
File under: Electroacoustic music, musique concrète

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FALL INTO DRY LUNGS – EMERGE: ear purification tour 2019

tour flyer

https://www.facebook.com/events/537495810064631/

13.04. D-Karlsruhe: AKK
with TRRMÀ & BOOLVAR
https://www.facebook.com/events/444229529477490/
14.04. D-Frankfurt: private event
15.04. D-Duisburg: private event
with VADERS ORCHESTRA
16.04. NL-Winterswijk: white noise studio
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteNoiseStudioWinterswijk/
17.04. NL-Den Haag: Villa K – Stichting Centrum
with Ash/Everywhere
https://www.facebook.com/events/660345254408948/
18.04. D-Aachen: AZ Aachen
with SISTO ROSSI
https://www.facebook.com/events/677230449359057/
19.04. BE-Brugge: Koersepeerd
with ONEIRICH
https://www.facebook.com/events/385230712296545/
20.04. BE-Bruxelles: private event

EMERGE – materia

factory-pressed CD in cardboard sleeve, ltd.ed. 100 copies

live @ Schron, Poznań, 09.01.18
recording by Tomasz Wróblewski
mastering, photography and design by EMERGE
thanks to Dawid, Krystyna, Kazehito

https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/materia

Attention, folks, you’re in for a paradigm shift. EMERGE has become a household name in the international experimental music community as a composer mainly associated with drone and musique concrète. This album is bound to change your perception of EMERGE quite a bit. This is probably the most rhythmic release by Sascha Stadlmeier since he shelved his early project Dependenz and started to record and perform as EMERGE. And with its transparent sound and very direct compositional approach, it is both accessible and challenging at the same time.

The album, which manages to pack a variety of ideas and dramatic tension into its crisp 31 minutes, was recorded live in Poznan, Poland, in January 2018. EMERGE improvised with prepared samples and amplified objects made of various materials – hence the title – , namely wood, stone, and plastic. While the use of such basic, scratchy, even harsh sound sources is nothing new in EMERGE’s work, the way in which he uses them here certainly is. They are often used to generate rhythmic loops that create downright beats, moving the piece to the brink of IDM or minimal music structures, but then collapsing such expectations by falling silent and moving into another direction altogether. While on the one hand silence is often used as a structuring medium, the drones so familiar in EMERGE only come into play as sound-effects that add colour to an otherwise monochrome palette. But this sparseness makes the compositional structure easy to hear and understand and certainly makes this album a perfect introduction for interested, yet inexperienced listeners who want to get into electroacoustic improvisation. More surprising than the rhythms, perhaps, is the direct, almost in-your-face way in which distorted voice like samples are used as a counterpoint to the live-generated sounds. They are used in dramatic gestures that almost resemble pop or rock dramaturgy, yet still are used sparingly enough so as not to become clichéd. This masterfully balanced mix of stylistic elements makes “materia” an important addition to EMERGE’s large body of work, if not a milestone.

File under: Free improvisation, Real-time composition, electroacoustic music

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