samartzis müller voice crack
wireless_within CD 1655 Philip Samartzis - environments, elec cover: Alex Hanimann and Norbert Möslang released 25.8.05 
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«Although Voice Crack broke up several years back, sessions featuring the duo continue to find their way to release. This collaboration with Müller and Australian sound artist Philip Samartzis is a particularly fine addition.While Guhl, Möslang, and Müller come to this sort of collaborative effort through their experience as improvisers, Samartzis has taken a different route. His approach to sound form comes from his “research into surround sound and immersive environments for installation art.” From the first strains of bird twitters that open this collective effort, Samartzis makes his mark, providing an underlying tapestry of field recordings over which Guhl, Möslang, and Müller buzz, spark, and hum. For those familiar with these musicians, the pieces rumble and clatter along with the expected shadow pulses, warm analog sputters, and graffiti outbursts. But of course this is never quite as simple a division as foreground/background. Electronic scribbles play call and response to chirping crickets; scumbled electronic fields echo off of the distant chatter of children at a playground. The four shape the magpie scraps and battered shards into three arcing pieces full of captivating tension. There is a sense of considered structure as they flow from quiet pools to agitated rumbles.» «…From this rich moment, we have the present document of three lengthy improvisations featuring Müller, Voice Crack, and Samartzis, and the results are extremely good. Samartzis, who ought to receive far more attention than he does, creates many of this music’s most unexpected moments. Müller and Voice Crack always play well together and, for such a long-standing association, have an impressively varied record. But Samartzis’ tapes and reconstructed sound atmospheres (many of which were inspired by a visit to a South Australian rainforest) provide fascinating curve balls – the sound of flies buzzing, a great “sproing!” or a guttural incantation – which contrast masterfully with the Europeans’ lush beds.» «Four established electronic improvisers have joined forces and crafted a subtle and refined album to add to their collection. If this sounds like your ‘thing’, it should certainly be in yours.» «Samartzis’s computer-generated textures and abstract electronics fit in wonderfully well with the clicks and chirps of Voice Crack’s cracked electronics and Müller’s ever-arcane “selected percussion” work. … this album makes a fine posthumous addition to Voice Crack’s body of work and a logical companion to Oystered.» «A wonderful performance.» «Just excellent. » «This latest release, wireless_within feature Guhl and Möslang in collaboration with Günter Müller and the Australian sound artist, Philip Samartzis, and it is by far the best of the post-mortem VC CDs. The disc is comprised of studio recordings made by Samartzis, Müller, and Voice Crack just as the latter's partnership was coming to an end in the summer of 2002. …It's music that'll make the tiny hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and tingle with joy.»
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