Andrea Neumann

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Also interested to see what people know/think about this free improviser, who mics the inside of a piano and controls it on a mixing board. I heard some at 3 am on Brave New Waves and it was really good, sparse, with good sonics and mood. She's playing Toronto on Tuesday at 8 at the Music Gallery: (from the Soundlist)

Annette Krebs + Andrea Neumann
German duo Annette Krebs (guitar, mixing desk)
and Andrea Neumann
(inside piano, mixing desk) began collaborating
in the fall of 1996, and
a specific form of playing free improvised music
soon crystallized. Both
musicians are concerned with the use of
well-defined sounds that can
stand by themselves and allow the joint
composition of structures. These
may be radical with regard to the use of silence,
the density of events,
and the dynamic range, which reaches from hardly
audible to jarring
industrial noise. Their disc Rotophormen is
currently available on
Charhizma. www.charhizma.com/rotophormen/.
Opened by Torontonian guests The Draperies (Eric
Chenaux, electric
guitar; Ryan Driver, synth + thumb-reeds; Doug
Tielli, trombone +
trumpet), who play slack-jawed, harmony-laden
improvisations with the
help of psychedelic folk-lounge composer Martin
Arnold (wammied-melodica
+ CD player).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

AK & AN were really great last night. They'd set up a speaker in every corner and were using quadrophonic sound effects. It's amazing the sounds AK gets out the guitar - she uses an acoustic with a pickup, contact mics, and a piezo mic. She gets such crisp, detailed, controlled noise with just a couple volume pedals, preparations, and the mixing deck. There was great dynamic range, from barely perceptible electric buzzing to giant washes of static. I bought CDs of both of them.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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