Drei Hotels by ml
Some say, the music i do is "electronic" - I don't think so.
But what is "electronic music" anyway?
Ask Wikipedia (or chat gpt) and you'll immediately see that it's complicated. "Electronic music" can also be used for Techno as for IRCAM; Karlheinz Stockhausen, Merzbow, Kali Malone, Billx - they all make electronic music in their own way. This seems not to be helpful and leads to the question: who actually does NOT make electronic music?
My very subjective answer to this question is an extreme reduction to the musical perception of my youth: Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk (we better draw a veil over Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis and others, but of course...). A strictly harmonic music, made by synthesizers, predominantly tonal, with (mostly) simple rhythms and very repetitive.
All attributes, which I don't like that much (although I still like the early Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk).
I like (among others) oscillating sounds with a tipping point, heavy drones, deep distorted feedbacks; nature and mechanical sounds, field recs if they have a metaphysical aura.
But for this album I left it all behind and tried to do some "real electronic music" - no field recordings, no formal concept, no "Überbau", no external material etc.
All material is played "live" - in a fictive live-situation of course, there was no audience. Right from the start it was not clear where this would all lead, with the constant danger of uncontrollable feedbacks or noisy volume fluctuations. An adventure - as all good music should be, yah? Well,... maybe :-) There we're no subsequent corrections - only for duo and trio the existing parts we're mixed together the way it sounded best to me.
These are the three hotels where the sounds we're created:
Ruby Marie Hotel & Bar, Vienna (RM)
Is a very cool and relaxed place to stay just a few steps from Westbahnhof. They have their own radiostation, but the funny clou is: Standard equipment in each room includes a Fender amplifier. And you can lend electric guitars at the reception. I had an adapter with me, connected my mobile to the Fender and recorded some sounds with the Function Generator (a free-app sine wave generator).
Abion Spreebogen Waterside-Hotel, Berlin (AS)
The nice big room on the 6th floor with river view on the Spree was an ideal room for making music. I connected a zoom-multieffectboard to a 4-channel-mixer and - so as not to disturb my neighbors - put headphones on the recorder.
Hotel & Wirtshaus Post, St. Johann in Tyrol (HP)
Same procedure as in Berlin - but with some more electronic devices as seen on the photo.
Cover artwork is by Andreas Fischer - if you like it, you'll find more drawings on his Instagram Account an_dreas_fischer.
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making experimental music, non-music, fake-music since the mid-80s. most of the time in improvisers-lifetime-project kdg (kdg-magamat.bandcamp.com). additional electronic (solo-)works since 2004 with no-budget-free-software only.