Le Traviate by Sascha Rosemarie Höfer

Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD20
Release date: 12/11/2021
Format: CD, Digital

Höfer uses different sound sources and recording processes. One of his focus points is the collection of sounds and noises, which he predominantly records analogue and very rudimentary on tape, various voice recorders and microphones he holds dear. Höfer is collecting sounds indoors or in the field. Usually en passant.

“I like to listen if something interesting catches my ear, but not obsessively. I collect sounds, when I feel like it, not because a certain sound may be extraordinarily exquisite, making me want to trace it. I would regard that as a disruption of the moment, something I generally want to avoid. All works are related in one way or another. That is a desired and progressive feature that generally runs through my artistic work.“

For „Le Traviate“ he used sound images and single tracks from old recordings partly of former projects that haven’t been finished or (officially) released yet. He cut out instruments, modified and arranged them with material from dictaphone recordings, added noises and did some collages till he had created something new out of the old. The aged recordings and former compositions had given up their carved way, they have lost it if you will say so, and finally found their home years later in a completely different musical environment.

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The label is now located in Sardinia, Italy.

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