Atom - Muster CD [RI065] $16.50
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"Muster", the German word for both "example/sample" or "pattern", welcomes us with an artwork that shows baroque garden ornaments, photographed from orbit. This 50 minute piece of permanently evolving structure and sound is a complex, well-thought and thoroughly crafted composition which is in fact inspired by the pheno- menon of the ornament itself. "Muster" in this sense can be understood as a large, meandering ornamental pattern or rhythmical figure that, most of all, does not refer to, or reproduce any musical structure heard so far. On "muster" you won't find melodies, harmonies, words, a message or reference to existing musical styles, since the accent was laid upon the deve- lopment of the musical particle (one may call it "atom" :) ) itself: rhythm and its sonic elements, being in permanent flow. At the same time this complex block of sonic information may sound "orbital" to us - a musical structure as conceived by a being not from this planet: an alien observer. While this work can be considered as a leap forward in atomtm's creation, it may resemble some of his earlier works, such as "schnittstelle", "the disk orchestra", "bund deutscher programmierer" or "cmyk", just to name a few, while it certainly shows that those works where just a step towards a far larger picture, which atomtm has begun to paint now. Matured as a composer, atomtm may indeed quote himself on this masterpiece, while he stands fairly alone in a vast desert called "electronic music". Need more info? Try an
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