We use cookies on our website to provide you with the best experience. Most of these are essential and already present.
We do require your explicit consent to save your cart and browsing history between visits. Read about cookies we use here.
Your cart and preferences will not be saved if you leave the site.
play

Maxwells Dämon

Stille post (mini-CD)

Label: Fringes

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic

In stock

€6.80
VAT exempt
+
-

2004 release ** Oversize card sleeve. Ulrich Böttcher: percussion, electronics. Uwe Buhrdorf: clarinet, electronics. Ulrich Phillipp: bass, electronics. Since 1994 Maxwells Dämon has been playing improvised music with electro-acoustic instruments. The trio works beneath the surface of cleanly structured contexts to explore the molecular structure of music. With the music on 'Stillte post', Maxwells Dämon expands their fragmentary approach extending it to the field of postproduction. The recorded music has been fragmented and re-composed in a multilayered process: The original material - digitally recorded live onto 8 tracks in November 2000 - has been available to each of the three players as a reservoir for fragments. 'Stillte post' emerged in an additive process with many single steps, each step passed on to the next musician by email. As a rule, the working context was always limited to a current window of some 60 seconds. After about 80 steps the material had grown into the new distributed composition. This way, Maxwells Dämon strategically eliminates the possibility of any wholistic plan. The process works against the function of overview and renders absurd the fictitiuos concept of of conscious control. 'Stillte post' can be listened to in the suggested chronology, or - taking it a step further - it may also be played in random mode on the basis of the 47 Ids.

Details
Cat. number: FRINGES 15
Year: 2004
Release notes:
Recorded live at Jelly Mouse-Studio, Wiesbaden, November 2000. One piece divided into 47 track IDs for random shuffle replay. Numbered edition of 500 copies. Folder sleeve.
Tracklist
1Stille Post
2Stille Post
3Stille Post
4Stille Post
5Stille Post
6Stille Post
7Stille Post
8Stille Post
9Stille Post
10Stille Post
11Stille Post
12Stille Post
13Stille Post
14Stille Post
15Stille Post
16Stille Post
17Stille Post
18Stille Post
19Stille Post
20Stille Post
21Stille Post
22Stille Post
23Stille Post
24Stille Post
25Stille Post
26Stille Post
27Stille Post
28Stille Post
29Stille Post
30Stille Post
31Stille Post
32Stille Post
33Stille Post
34Stille Post
35Stille Post
36Stille Post
37Stille Post
38Stille Post
39Stille Post
40Stille Post
41Stille Post
42Stille Post
43Stille Post
44Stille Post
45Stille Post
46Stille Post
47Stille Post
Credits
Ulrich Phillipp
Bass, Electronics
Uwe Buhrdorf
Clarinet, Electronics
Maxwells Dämon
Composed By [Recomposition By]
Axel Schrepfer
Engineer
Ulrich Böttcher
Percussion, Electronics