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Approved: Conrad Schnitzler & Schneider TM

By | Published on Thursday 15 September 2016

Conrad Schnitzler & Schneider TM

Prior to his death in 2011, German avant-garde musician Conrad Schnitzler built up a vast archive of sounds from his daily experiments with synthesisers. Granted access to this library in 2010, producer Jens Strüver came up with the idea for the ‘Con-Struct’, providing other electronic experimentalists with the opportunity to take these sounds and work them into new compositions.

For the latest instalment of this project, Schneider TM, aka musician Dirk Dresselhaus, takes a turn. Of the project, he says: “I wanted to get as close to [Schnitzler’s] spirit as possible, so I created a musical situation as if we were actually collaborating together in the same room, with Conrad playing his pre-recorded sound-files or modular system and me dubbing and processing it live on the fly… almost as if it was a live-concert situation”.

“Next to many other aspects of Schnitzler’s vast oeuvre, I am fond of the noisy, polyharmonic, polyrhythmic and sometimes quite humorous minimalism of his music, as well as his way of using chance, which often leads to magical and raw beauty”, he continues. “There are no other sounds on this record except for ones created by Schnitzler, sent through my system and processed live”.

Listen to snippets of the whole record, released on 18 Nov, here, and hear the track ‘Doozer’ in full here:

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